Merry Christmas!  Here is a present.  I haven’t been posting while I fiddle with layouts, or just get too busy from holiday work, but here’s a pile of links, also known as “all my open tabs so that I can now close them”.

• In praise of Plan 9.
• X11 Conservancy Project.
• A brief history of murder in Ultima Online.  (via)
• A2osX.  “Multi Tasking OS for Apple IIe //c IIgs”.
• An objective criteria for deprecating community platforms,
• Mailing List Freebies.  Worth it worth it.  Also recent book plans.
• GoToSocial on OpenBSD, a Fediverse adventure.
• The Art Teacher from Drohobycz.  New Brothers Quay!
• The Foundation and the FreeBSD Desktop.
• Pattern Collider.  (via)
• Weekend Links 650, the source for the previous link, relinked cause of the note on Tom Phillips’ death.  Phillips is responsible for A Humument, one of the more dense and complex books I’ve ever read.  “Read” isn’t the correct term.
• Authentication gateway with SSH on OpenBSD.
• FreeBSD vs. Linux – Where and How To Run OpenZFS.
• The Palmpilot returns, this time in your browser.
• Dwarf Fortress’ Steam version immediately punched me in the gut.  Note to self: buy.
• Best Books of 2022.
• Still Going: A zine on using old technology.  (via)
• New Desktop Synth, Prismatic Spray, Offers Knobby Control Of Bytebeat Synthesis.  Linked for the app name, which I hope you recognize.  (via)
• Magic Cap, from the Magic Link to the DataRover and the stuff in-between.
• XScreenSaver 6.06 out now.  Newest screen hack is related to a pipes game I now can’t find the link for.
• What we can learn from vintage computing.
• How to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg.
• Recently updated blogs on ooh.directory.
• Vintage-Style Map of the Mandelbrot Set.
• feedle.world.  An RSS feed of RSS feeds.
• Blogroll.  Curated.
• Open source is democratizing video game development.
• Speech-to-text with Whisper: How I Use It & Why.
• Sierpi?ski Triangle Interpreted as Musical Notes.
• The Best Buried Treasures Of 2022.
• As (Not) Seen In The Art of Darkness.
• Haiku R1/beta4 has been released.  (via)
• 9th International Workshop on Plan 9.  Important because it’s all BSD licensed now.  (via)

Edited later to add: Mörk Borg?  Mörk Borg! Mörk Borg!