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Month: February 2023

Posted on 2023/02/28
Neat and painful at the same time

Cursed machines.  (via)

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Posted on 2023/02/28
Yet Another Unixlike

Cromix!  I just like the name.  (via)

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Posted on 2023/02/27
Fun to read at least

22 D&D tables of questionable use.  (via)

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Posted on 2023/02/262023/02/25
Chacha with me Doodles

The random number generator method chacha20 has been ported from FreeBSD to DragonFly.

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Posted on 2023/02/25
Next NYCBUG

NYCBUG’s next social: 4/5.

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Posted on 2023/02/25
Off topic

Unrelated: Flour Power is the book to get if you want to bake with sourdoughs and fermented grains.  (I am finally making it through my backlog of books from the holidays.)

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Posted on 2023/02/24
I can relate

Making Toast.

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Posted on 2023/02/24
Two tips

Nixers #183, with useful links on null/union filesystems (nullfs is very useful in DragonFly) and Owl Selectors in CSS.

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Posted on 2023/02/23
I love this

A clock that isn’t wrong, just lying.

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Posted on 2023/02/23
I agree

STOP DOING THREADS.  Don’t repeat a quirk from a previous social network.

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Posted on 2023/02/22
Full loader paths

Kernel modules now report their full, not relative, file path.  A quietly useful idea.

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Posted on 2023/02/22
Net slang

Keith Lynch’s timeline of net related terms and concepts.  (via)

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Posted on 2023/02/20
Two new lights

I didn’t know what Moonlight and Sunshine are, but Moonlight at least is on NetBSD.

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Posted on 2023/02/202023/02/20
SEMIBUG tomorrow

Tomorrow’s SEMIBUG meeting: “Making a FreeBSD Port”  (Whoops, I mean Tuesday’s meeting.  Posted too soon.)

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Posted on 2023/02/19
Oh, for boot

I did not know that /usr/src/stand is where /boot comes from.  Now we both know.

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Posted on 2023/02/18
Read-onlfying

Some tips on creating/booting a read-only DragonFly system.

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Posted on 2023/02/17
Haiku again

Interesting to see Haiku package management, but also to spy a summary of the drama around the major changes.  (via)

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Posted on 2023/02/17
To Do for everyone

Another writeup on running your own server with Nextcloud.  (and OpenBSD)  (via)

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Posted on 2023/02/17
Tiling

Tiling and XFCE.  (and OpenBSD)

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Posted on 2023/02/14
Bendix Bendix

Neat name, neat mechanical computer.

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