I’m preposting this, so hopefully it is still accurate: SEMIBUG has a menu of lightning talks tonight. It’s online.
Lazy Reading for 2022/08/14
I managed to avoid a dominant theme this week. On purpose! I think it means a better summary.
- Build a tablet out of your Framework motherboard.
- In-browser retro-futuristic tank game, open source. (via)
- Laptoppin’ like 1975.
- The Pong you could program, possibly: the MOS 7600/7601.
- The Comics Journal has been publishing link roundups about comics – all kinds, including good ones – for quite some time. Here’s a recent one.
- The Spriter’s Resource. Sprites sprites sprites. (via)
- Plasma Tweeter.
- What I learned about markdown from interviewing a bunch of people.
- Decisions, decisions: Principles for making important choices in open source.
- Unhinged old newspaper reports lead to interesting ARPANET “first message” question.
- Reassembling a 3.5″ floppy. (via)
- Video Nub Shank.
In Other BSDs for 2022/08/13
The last link has some interesting applications to try.
- logcheck – egrep: trailing backslash (\).
- Meta-programming in Shell. (via)
- MGR, a pre-X windowing system that I’ve never knowingly seen before. (via)
- The odd return value of the original 4.2 BSD
gethostbyname(). - NetBSD 9.3 released.
- FreeBSD 2022Q2 report.
- svnlite(1) removed from FreeBSD base.
- Ada development on FreeBSD 13.1. (via)
- FreeBSD 13.0 EOL.
- Valuable News – 2022/08/08.
- /usr/games removed from the default $PATH. (OpenBSD)
- What softwares do you recommend to a daily use BSD system?
BSD Now 467: Minecraft on NetBSD
This week’s BSD Now has a bunch of how-to-do-this links, as you might guess from the headline.
Cleaning up a HAMMER drive
Predrag Punosevac has some notes on how he cleaned up some HAMMER drives and freed up half his disk space.
Lazy Reading for 2022/08/07
Some cranky links, some fun links.
- Re-reclaimed from nature: Resurrecting a DT80 terminal. I’ve seen hardware worse off than this come back… but rarely.
- Amazon is incentivized to support ripoffs. (via)
- It’s not just books, either.
- The Blessed Valley of Mild Proficiency. (via)
- The Gametank game console.
- rePalm. (via)
- 40 years of AutoCAD. (via)
- Emacs Timeline. (via)
- Mapmaking as a Game within a Game.
- Nam June Paik’s Wobbulator. (indirectly via)
Unrelated game of the week: Hexagonal Pipes.
In Other BSDs for 2022/08/06
Some useful tips hidden in there this week.
- How to use two gpus (intel and nvidia) attached to two monitors on FreeBSD.
- Freshly installed NetBSD booting on a 80386 DX40 with 8MB of RAM. MB.
- OPNSense 22.7 released. (via)
- Advocating for FreeBSD in 2022 and Beyond.
- Valuable News – 2022/08/01.
- Ten Things To Do After Installing FreeBSD. The source link has a good comment about what’s wrong with sudo as currently used. Also, I did not know about .hushlogin.
- Even more randomness.
- HardenedBSD July 2022 Status Report.
- depenguin.me, reminded of this FreeBSD-on-shared-host-install by this Hetzner news.
- A brief history of looking up host addresses in Unix. Ugh, NIS.
- Run FreeBSD 13.1 for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac with HVF Acceleration. (via)
- Microsoft’s Xenix – Microsoft tries their hand at UNIX.
BSD Now 466: cat(1)’s efficiency
This week’s BSD Now takes its title from one of the links talking about how cat(1) works, which reminds me of this article about how the very original implementation of grep was crazy fast.
Unofficial NYCBUG meetup, tomorrow
There’s an unofficial NYCBUG meetup, tomorrow at 6:45PM. Go, if you are near New York City.