April 2024 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2024/04/282024/04/24

Lazy Reading for 2024/04/28

No accidental theme this week.

DVD.yay.boo, found through a comment from last week.
All of yay.boo is fun to explore, really.
humans.txt. (via)
Memory remapping over 15 billion miles and 5 decades. (via)
Lecture as performance art. Or performance art in the form of lecture.
Ballmer Peak has been found. See page 48 – it’s about 0.05BAC. (via)
MS07-052: Code execution results in code execution.
FreeBSD SSDF Attestation. This is either nothing to you or fantastic, depending on where you work.
An IBM slide from 1979. (via)
Some inside details on how complex it can be to run open source orgs. (thanks, Paul Ivanov)
Experimental art tools. (via)
80’s RPG Fringeworthy. I love the charts of course.

2024/04/262024/04/24

Check your signal to noise ratio

Michael Neumann’s recent iwm(4) update fixes signal to noise display in ifconfig. I am linking it to remind you to check your existing ratios now, while your network is fine. You then can tell what has changed weeks, months from now when your network goes haywire and you’re looking for a reason.

2024/04/24

Improved input device support for DragonFly

If you’ve had trouble with the touchpad on your laptop, this recent update may help. Note that the commit lists some config changes needed to take advantage of the new features.

2024/04/212024/04/20

Lazy Reading for 2024/04/21

Accidental ‘old web’ nostalgia theme this week.

BUTTERICK’S PRACTICAL TYPOGRAPHY. A very pretty site to read, unsurprisingly. (via)
SmolBSD: make your own BSD UNIX MicroVM. (via)
Email DNS Records Cheatsheet.
Timeline of the xz open source attack.
“Further Explorations” Now Available! If you missed the 50 Years of Text Games book.
The Mask of the Sun, a playthrough. The first of several articles, posted simply because I remember every screen in it.
The Wi-Fi only works when it’s raining. (via)
Kyrios, a fun blackletter font. (via)
Ways of Seeing, the website. I’ve mentioned that show before. (via)
“read, write, own” web. (via)
Read Me #5. Linked not for any particular segment, but for the writing style.
BSDCan 2024 registration is open.

2024/04/142024/04/11

Lazy Reading for 2024/04/14

If you sorta squint and tilt your head, it’s a games theme this week.

Roguelike vs. Roguelite: What’s the Difference? (via)
Awesome-Selfhosted. (also via)
rigg 1.0 released – a new way to run indie games on OpenBSD.
SEthernet: Modern, low-cost 10/100 Ethernet for the Macintosh SE and SE/30.
Mastodon for Apple II (][+, //c, IIe, and IIgs)
Hex marks the spot. (via)
pkgsrc-2024Q1 branch released, and NetBSD 10.0.
Further Explorations, the companion volume to 50 Years of Text Games, is available for standalone purchase. Related: merchandise.
The Greenwich prime meridian isn’t where it used to be.
FreeBSD Speedrun.
Terminal status bar with only stock tools.

Your unrelated music for the week: New Strategies for Modern Crime Vol 1. (via)

2024/04/09

I’ve said it about regex before

If you don’t know how to use regular expressions, and know it well, you are making your life harder in spectacular ways.

(posting now instead of for Lazy Reading cause it ought to be fixed by then.)

2024/04/072024/04/03

Lazy Reading for 2024/04/07

I’ve got an eclipse happening right over me tomorrow – hope it’s not cloudy!

Playing Piano to Control My Smart Home. MIDI could be considered an instruction set.
Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted. A case study from Harvard, not just an opinion piece.
One hour of the thruster sound from the 1979 video game LUNAR LANDER. Too many bits; sounds too modern. (via)
The Single File Philosophy. (via)
The Lost Worlds of Telnet. Galactic Trader looks fun. (via)
Master of Magic – The Official Rob Hubbard Softography. For C64 music history. (via)
Tiny undervalued hardware companions. Remember this at Christmastime.
The xz hack. I think it does not affect any BSD, going by the structure as described.
The First Appendix N.

2024/04/03

NYCBUG 20 years, tonight

George Rosamond is presenting on the 20th anniversary of I think the longest-lived BUG, NYCBUG, tonight. Go if you are near (and RSVP so they can let you in), but it’s also going to be streamed.

2024/04/032024/04/01

iwm(4) updates

iwm(4) on DragonFly has been updated, mostly with patches from the FreeBSD version of the network driver.

2024/04/022024/04/01

/proc/self/exe on DragonFly

/proc/self/exe now exists on DragonFly. This is probably most useful if you are porting software.