I’m writing this on the road, so it’s a bit low on links. Sorry! I will have much more next week.
Here’s a link to a commit for dsynth that gives an idea of how huge a debug build of chromium can be.
This note from James Cook describes how to get Wireguard functioning on DragonFly; his linked patch is not necessary at this point since it’s been committed to dports – though not in the latest binaries.
Tonight, via Zoom: George Rosamond, “Why Privacy/Security (usually) Needs Anonymity”, for NYCBUG. Go, even if you aren’t near.
Nelson H. F. Beebe posted links to two ACM articles; one about SSDs and the other about filesystem resilience. Matthew Dillon chimed in with his thoughts specifically on HAMMER2.
Thanks to yrabbit, there’s a full FPGA toolchain possible on DragonFly. It’s preliminary, but it works.
Mini-theme: music. Or at least, audio.
- A Definitive History of House. (via)
- BBC Micro/Acorn Playback. Audio tracks of cassette tape programs for that platform. (also via)
- Sequencer64. (via)
- d100 reasons your wizard had to drop out of academia.
- A Vim Guide For Veteran Users.
- Revisiting my emacs and Vim/nvi post.
- How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet.
- A Supercut of Supercuts. Long but good.
- RGBFAQ. How computer graphics has developed; recommended.
- Feed Us Weird Things: Artists On Their Favourite Squarepusher Music.
- Gaslighting Your Boss: Creative Experiments in Digital Sabotage.
- Those last 4 links: via.
- Drag and drop bashrc prompt generator. (via)
- Web 1.1: Building The New Old Web. (via)
- Big Blue’s big adventure [origins of the Thinkpad design]. (via)
- AT&T’s ’60s Modem That Won’t Die. (via)
- The parallel universe of FireWire hubs.
I’ll post a reminder for the NYCBUG event.
- July 7th: George Rosamond, “Why Privacy/Security (usually) Needs Anonymity”, for NYCBUG. George has strong opinions; you should hear them.
- The Evolution of the Unix System Architecture. A summary from an author of the IEEE article I linked before.
- Introduction to ZFS Replication.
- Rolling Back OpenBSD PF Changes. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/06/29.
- Any Marathon fans up in here?
- KDE on FreeBSD 2021o4.
- PDF/ePub/Comics readers on BSD, a discussion.
- History of FreeBSD Part 5: Net/1 and Net/2 – A Path to Freedom.
I’m actually some days late in reporting this, but there’s a new full build of packages for DragonFly 6.0; it’s following the quarterly release schedule for ports, so 2021Q2 is the base.
This goes with the recent merges from -current into 6.0. Now is a good time to update your system completely, if you have not already.
This week’s BSD Now is tech-heavy, with rpg-cli to lighten the mood.