May 2022 – DragonFly BSD Digest

mlockall(2) in DragonFly has been revamped for compatibility with other implementations. This should have no obvious end user impact, other than a bit easier to port stuff. I want to mention it to note the work done.

You can now set a description for a network interface on DragonFly. Don't use ETH0, please.

No mini-theme emerged this week.

A Web Around the World, Part 9: A Network of Networks and Part 10: A Web of Associations.
Book review: Practical File System Design with the Be File System.
The Central Question. Touches on ARPANET.
Net Losses. Count up how many of these you have used.
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Animated Series. Realistically bad!
The History of Computer Communications. (indirectly via)
Roguelike Celebration 2022 Call for Proposals. Paid.
VCR Virus warnings. (via)
Glitcher - breakcore generator. (via)
mdehling/sun-fb-logos: A collection of Sun framebuffer logos for your viewing pleasure . This will entertain at least one reader I am sure. (via)
Rust: A Critical Retrospective.
Duck Chess. Makes sense. (via)
Rockbox, linked as a reminder after reading this accurate gripe on how iPhone music playing isn't as good as dedicated music hardware.

I had a lot of links built up for this; finished early.

Valuable News - 2022/05/23.
deprecation of ${rcexec} in rc.d scripts.
Announcing Google Summer of Code 2022 projects. (NetBSD)
Welcome FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Participants.
Customizing NetBSD boot banners.
experimental-13.1-RELEASE for helloSystem.
NFS Server Inside FreeBSD VNET Jail.
Using a game engine to write a graphical interface to the OpenBSD package manager.
Blue Systems Farewell.
LibreSSL updated to 3.5.3.
Candlelit Console patch set to the framebuffer console.
Game Dev on (not for) BSD. Some good resource descriptions here.

If you are trying to use both NAT and IPv6 with pf on DragonFly, there was a bug (seen here with FreeBSD) with :0 where it would use link-local addresses. It's now fixed.

This week's BSD Now talks about the newest FreeBSD release, along with the upcoming NetBSD 10 series, among other things.

If you are using 'set skip on ...' in your pf config, it used to match any interface that matched the specified type. It now only matches members of that named group. That may change behavior of your pf rules; check the commit to see what to look for.

There's a new sysctl(8) setting, sysctl.debug, which shows you which sysctl nodes are being requested. I am entertained by the pseudo-recursive style of my explanation.

Oddball multimedia is the mini-theme.

Laws of Identity.
Business Wargames: Early Complex Text Games.
Using Game Design to Make Virtual Events More Social. Talks about the sort of MUD that was Roguelike Celebration 2020. (via)
Wifi/Bluetooth Apple // board. (via)
When will we learn? The 'intentionally left blank' part is ominous.
Destroy All Values: Designing Deinitialization in Programming Languages. (via)
Radio Shack Telephone Answering Machine Outgoing Messages: Music Edition. If you can't stand it for more than a few minutes, well, that's 1985. (via)
Walkies Day. (via)
Panasonic RK-P400C Penwriter typewritter plotter. (via)
History of computing/technology podcast suggestions.
Pie Manufacturing Process. (via)

The NetBSD Annual General Meeting is today.

Releases week.

There's some bugfixes for HAMMER2 and the kernel that will probably mean a point release soon.

This week's BSD Now has a title taken from the last Beastie Bits link - which is worth following.

It rhymes if you say it out loud. Jason Tubnor will present at 7 PM tonight (Detroit local time) on installing and configuring Xfce and KDE on FreeBSD.

Still working on cleaning up RSS backlogs, so this was done early.

Chonky Palmtop is a DIY portable Linux computer with a split keyboard and 7 inch display. I've linked to this before. (via)
r/ErgoMobileComputers/, from comments at the previous link. The e-ink setups are interesting.
Porting Zelda Classic to the Web. Interesting for the game and the method. (via)
MVC — Xerox PARC 1978—79. (via)
Emulating the Space Invaders look and feel. Recreating analog issues. (via)
Gopher on the Palm Pilot and the pitfalls of PalmOS connectivity.
Pendragon, an RPG I never ever encountered.
Triple Entry Blogging.
Increasing the surface area of blogging.
VCF East XIII -- David Walden -- Remembering the BBN ARPANET Project. (Youtube, via)
Signs of Life, art show and technology experiment.
Korg MS-20. (via)
The failure of the idea of X resources, and What goes into an X resource and its name.
Termtris on a terminal.

Your unrelated noise music of the week: GROAR by Juanjosé Rivas. (via)

"BSD" is in almost every line as a title. Maybe not a surprise, but visually noticeable.

Paying a visit to planet BSD. (via)
Branching for NetBSD 10. (via)
Brainstorming Entropy for NetBSD. (via)
How to talk to a local IPMI under OpenBSD.
compiling an openbsd kernel 50% faster.
New FreeBSD How-To: Networking Basics: WiFi and Bluetooth.
where's all the code?
May 17th 7 PM Detroit, MI time, Jason Tubnor will present on installing and configuring Xfce and KDE on FreeBSD.
May 21: NetBSD Annual General Meeting. That's 1 week from now.
FreeBSD 13.1-RC6 available.
Valuable News – 2022/05/10.
How to contribute to the OpenBSD project.
VM (VM ( ... This is weird/dangerous.

I can't help but think of this as the 1# episode of BSD Now; tell me if you get why. Anyway, there's lots of OpenBSD in this week's BSD Now.

Headlines from this here Digest show up on dragonflybsd.org, and have for a long time. They are now joined with reports from the continuous integration builds of DragonFly (i.e. Jenkins) DragonFly is automatically rebuilt to test recent commits, and there's a report for each build on the build machine.

I have a nice weird mix going on today.

Rotary cellphone, now purchasable.
HUDs + GUIs. (via)
Inform 7 open-source release.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, updated and a sequel and a ripoff.
A Web Around the World, Part 8: The Intergalactic Computer Network.
And Part 9: A Network of Networks.
Nineteenth century videos. Back to life. (via)
The "50 Years" Book is coming...
Dirt: The Permadeath Drive.
Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly. (via)
Learning Synths. (also via)
The InterLisp Restoration Project. (via)

Your unrelated video of the week: Frank & Beans - Hugo [official video]. I've linked to other shardcore stuff before, and thought I had previously linked to this video's predecessor, but I can't find it. It's very good though also very Uncanny Valley. (also via)

My BSD RSS feeds are overflowing.

PiKVM using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W. I keep reading that as "pikmin".
switchd(8) removed from OpenBSD.
OpenBSD 7.1: fan noise and high temperature solution.
vuls - Agent-less vulnerability scanner. (via)
FreeBSD 13.1-RC5 available.
HardenedBSD April 2022 Status Report.
Missing Steam Deck Functions. (Terraria, OpenBSD, Steam)
Minecraft 1.16.5(and more) with microsoft accounts on openbsd 7.1.
Video guide to install OpenBSD 7.1 with the GNOME desktop.
Writing my first OpenBSD game using Godot.
Valuable News – 2022/05/02.
syspatch71-001_wifi reissued. "May require manual intervention"
Let’s Talk About [FreeBSD] Foundation Funding.
I ported the new Hare compiler to OpenBSD.