September 2022 – DragonFly BSD Digest

BSD Now this week is titled 'EuroBSDCon', but as far as I know they weren't there - haven't listened to the episode yet. Any readers here go?

3 months until Christmas!

Building the future of the command line.
Working Offgrid Efficiently.
Alternatives to Bloatware, found in the previous link.
Ranking Vance's SF and Fantasy Novels.
The VCF East Swap Meet is coming up.
Computing's Woodstock. People in 1976 talking about their projects for the first time, like ENIAC and Colossus, no biggie. (via)
Espresso machine historic gallery. (via)
Atari 2600 joystick port history.
The Prelinger Archives. Hours of ephemeral video.
Running PalmOS without PalmOS. (via)
The phrase "open source" (still) matters.
Because We Still Have Net 1.0.
Authenticated SMTP and IMAP authentication attacks and attempts we see here.
I don’t know how to solve prompt injection and You can’t solve AI security problems with more AI.
The Quintessential Dungeon. (via)

Check the first link; it's time-dependent.

Happening tomorrow: Peter Hansteen presents to SEMIBUG about pf. It's online and he's certainly an authoritative speaker.
Desktop-installer: Use your Cleverness for Creativity. Note there's multiple tabs within this writeup. (via)
A Quick Look at the History of Package Management on FreeBSD.
Open Source in Enterprise Environments - Where Are We Now and What Is Our Way Forward?
FreeBSD Cope with WiFi Fuckup.
AsiaBSDCon 2023 is happening. (via)
Analyzing BSD Kernels for Uninitialized Memory Disclosures using Binary Ninja. (via)
Your Comprehensive Guide to rc(8): FreeBSD Services and Automation.
How to Setup Apache/FCGID on NetBSD 9.3.
Valuable News – 2022/09/19.
“OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” draft done!

This week's BSD Now is the normal roundup of stories. I won't point you at anything specific; it's all good.

In-person. Though it might be canceled; I am preposting this and it hasn't been settled as of right now. Go, if you are near Chicago and it happens.

Oddities this week.

Text-to-image for my inbox. Random subjects into pictures.
How we monitor the temperature of our machine rooms. Linked for the reminder I need to look at that hardware.
Bootstrapping the Old fashioned Way. So... painful!
The Open Source Rotary Cell Phone, 2 years later. Surely I linked it before.
A retro style online SSH client to play Nethack. (via)
Connectix Quickcam, the first webcam. Designed by a studio in Schenectady, NY, which I happened to visit just after the product release.
The Nevada National Security Site. Here's part 2 and part 3 .
Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3.
XScreenSaver 6.05 out now.

I got subscribed to the UNIX Heritage Society mailing list and it's already turned up some good stories.

ps(1) gains support for tree-like display of processes. OpenBSD, though it would be useful everywhere, hint, hint.
rcctl(8) gains a "configtest" action.
Portable OpenSSH commits now SSH-signed.
Sharing Dual-Licensed Drivers between Linux and FreeBSD.
"interesting old-timey UNIXes" - I do not know where these intersect with the more well known branches of the family tree.
Time overflows have always been with us.
A fresh look at FreeBSD. (via)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy. By Rob Pike. Note the timestamp, for 2 reasons.
Valuable News – 2022/09/12.
Installing BSD on an older Dell Laptop: having some issues.
-current has moved to 7.2. OpenBSD.
rpki-client 8.0 released.
ChiBUG is meeting this Tuesday, the 20th.

If you are using urtwn(4) for your USB network connection, it now supports the Edimax EW-7811Un chipset? model?.

This week's BSD Now has two things I want to highlight - articles on Linux ABI and on dma. You'll just have to click through.

No default theme this week.

The Codeless Code, coding koans.
The Black Beast cyberdeck.
The World of TSRan.
THE SYNTHESIZER’S GREATEST HITS - A1 POSTER. (via)
Campaign Cartographer 3. Software for making fake maps. (via)
The Sender Policy Framework. Ranks up there with IPSec as possibly designed to make things worse, not better.
The Things Spammers Believe - A Tale of 300,000 Imaginary Friends.
The Eternal Paradox.
Pope Fibonacci.
Roguelike Celebration 2022 speaker list, plus preview today.
Syntactics Crystalwriter.
Circuit Simulator. (via)
Enlightenment 2.0.

Yay, another week that overflowed with links!

If you're moving your dsynth build to a different machine, there's now a 'list-system' directive that lets you recreate the same setup in a new place.

This week's BSD Now includes a link to depenguin.me, a way to install BSD using a rescue boot environment, which is going to come in handy for someone reading this. I know I've linked to it before.

One of these is a pure nostalgia link for me.

Games from the Trash: The History of the TRS-80. (via)
preventing loss dot jp2.
Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC.
Return to Monkey Island.
SSH Tips and Tricks. (via)
Macintosh Classic II with e-ink display.
Hacker News historical "I predict" statements; sometimes hilarious in hindsight. (via)
The Pitt Rivers Museum. Old school museum; worth seeing in person but there's nice images of the 'Victorian Age of Pilfering' artifacts.
Advent of Computing: Episode 89 - Forth. (via)
The Public Packet Infrastructure.
Large scale Internet SSH brute force attacks seem to have stopped here.
Rotating food gifs.

This is an overflow week.

This is a different than usual episode of BSD Now: an interview of Mateusz Piotrowski.