Justin Sherrill – Page 5 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2023/06/252023/06/22

Lazy Reading for 2023/06/25

Half a year til Christmas!

Software written in B. C’s predecessor, revived – follow the whole thread for tools.
History that I didn’t know: at one point the U.S. Department of Defense had its own Unix, supported by Ford, the car company.
BSDNow at BSDCan.
writefreesoftware.org. (via)
Three Challenges to Contribute Back to Open Source. The not-code-but-essential parts. (via)
Netnews, the origin story. (PDF, via)
I asked ChatGPT to write a pf.conf to spec, 2023-06-07 version. “if Skynet ever came into existence for real it would be unreachable”
Operating Systems, Transit and Cultural Influences.
50 Years of Text Games: the games. This is a treat.
You can still buy hardware upgrades for your Mac Portable.
A comparison of text-based browsers. (via)
Related: text-only websites.
When Zeppelins Ruled the Earth.

2023/06/222023/06/20

More offline HAMMER2 options

Tomohiro Kusumi’s offline HAMMER2 support continues, with ‘setcheck’ (check code) and ‘setcomp’ (compression type) support. See the hammer2(8) man page for what those options do.

2023/06/212023/06/15

More HAMMER2 offline support

You can now create, delete, and snapshot PFS on HAMMER2 even when the drive isn’t mounted; Tomohiro has added offline support.

2023/06/202023/06/19

SEMIBUG meeting tonight

It’s a presentation on backups.

2023/06/192023/06/08

ChiBUG meeting tomorrow

ChiBUG’s meeting in person tomorrow at 6, at the usual location. Go, if you are near.

2023/06/182023/06/15

Lazy Reading for 2023/06/18

Whee

General Turtle, Inc. and Educational Machines.
From the previous link, some in-the-know shirts.
Also from that link, Lessons from METAFONT.
Also also, The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories. Far better than I expected.
PNG glitches, one and two. (via)
Miniatua, tiny classic computer reproductions. (via)
Operation Razit: Raze Reddit. The long explainer.
Related: There’s no excuse to add content to Twitter, Facebook, or Reddit right now. The actual title is much longer. (via)
Charlie Bit My Finger should be acquired for the nation.
Browser game: Fallen London. About the game. (via)
20 GOTO 10. (via)

2023/06/14

nvme(4) update you don’t want to see

the nvme(4) driver now prints a detailed message about I/O errors. It’s great that it does that, hope you never see it.

2023/06/142023/06/15

2 lightning talks at NYCBUG tonight

The writeup sounds fun. Go if you are near, 6:45 PM tonight. It may be getting streamed, too.

Update: the recording.

2023/06/13

EuroBSDCon 2023 schedule out

Take a look even if you aren’t going, to see what people are researching. (via)

2023/06/112023/06/09

Lazy Reading for 2023/06/11

Still working through a lot of open tabs.

ChiBUG meets on the 20th. I’ll post a reminder.
What Your Favorite Classic Rock Band Says About You. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). “Jethro Tull: You have a favorite rune.” Odd short story: Ian Anderson called my house looking for someone. (via)
Sprite drawing sheets for Street Fighter 2. (via)
infrastructure that looks like sci fi. (also via)
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD. (via)
Running Apple 1 software on a breadboard computer (Wozmon) (via)
Capacitor reforming.
Tech debt metaphor maximalism.
Manual of Fear and Death. Linked for the images.

Your unrelated music of the week: Buck 65, an “uptempo rewind to the Golden Age of hip hop”. (via)

2023/06/09

HAMMER2 and offline actions

You can now clean up, grow, and destroy HAMMER2 volumes, even when they are not mounted. There’s also an emergency mode, though I’m not clear on when you’d invoke it.

2023/06/042023/06/02

Links for 2023/06/04

A short list this week. I’m heading into the final month(s) of an ERP replacement projects at one of my jobs, so it ain’t going to get better for a while.

Where does my computer get the time from? (via)
Software Modernization Failures. (follow the whole thread)
Bell Labs vs “East Coast” Management style of AT&T. There’s some tangential BSD history in there.
System Shock: The oral history of a forward-thinking PC classic. (via)
cooperative.computer. I am surprised this didn’t exist years ago. (via)
Ctrl-Zine. I like that you can print and fold your own. (via)
Macintosh Emulation and Printing using Mini VMac on a PocketCHIP. (via)
How design is governance. (via)

2023/06/02

Making smbios visible

For some reason smbios device support always gave me trouble on every laptop I worked on for the 2000s. So, this support for smbios identification on EFI-only boots is good news to me.

2023/05/282023/06/04

Links for 2023/05/28

Events and crazy things are the mini themes this week.

Mini Moog Model D. (via)
ChiBUG’s next meeting is May 30th.
NYCBUG has a double lightning talk on June 16th.
Also the July NYCBUG monthly meeting will be on the 12th instead of the 5th.
Internet Histories, Volume 7, Issue 2. “Let’s play something awful: a historical analysis of 14 years of threads” got me as a title. (via)
Hidden Door, roleplaying games via AI using existing genre writing. I don’t know how I feel about this. (via)
SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes. (via)
Niklaus Wirth and Donald Knuth, 1985 interview.
Just take a crowbar to it, glitches as storytelling techique.
Doom modding and assuming everything on the internet is probably fake.
What’s black, white, and red on 20 sides?
Hieroglyphic monkeys holding stuff.
BSDCan 2024 Reorganization. Michael W. Lucas is a fan of achievement/pain.
The Story Of Mel, the actual biography. I never thought this would be explored. (via)

Your unrelated music of the week: rekt.network. (via)

2023/05/26

EuroBSDCon papers due today

If you want to present a paper, or were thinking about presenting at EuroBSDCon, today’s the deadline for getting it in.

2023/05/212023/05/20

Links for 2023/05/21

Smushing BSD and Lazy Reading links together into one, again. Tell me if that’s good or bad from where you’re standing.

How To Survive, computing safely while on the road, from CCC 2019. (via)
Early Computer Art in the 50’s & 60’s. The sorts of images I love. (via)
degreeless.design. Some excellent, excellent books listed. (via)
My Top 10 Favorite D&D Monsters, part one and part two, and Magic Items, part one and part two.
Emulating the Casio Loopy with Phil Bennett. (via)
Rob Pike on the Origin of Unix Dot File Names. “Oops.” (via)
Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio to other devices.
Self-Hosted Bookmarks using DAV and httpd on OpenBSD.
cron(8) now supports random ranges with steps.
Exploring the CBSD virtual environment management framework – part 4: Jails (II).
Michael W Lucas on BSDNow.
Beepberry.
Hand 386 Delivers A “True 386 Processor” in a Handheld. (via)
Christopher Strachey and the Dawn of Interactive Text. Before program storage, even.

Your unrelated music of the week: DRASS – see it, say it, slaughtered. Another band name for Shardcore, which I have linked before. AI generated visuals if you can’t tell.

2023/05/15

SEMI-BUG and CARP tomorrow

SEMIBUG’s having a presentation on CARP tomorrow. It’s being given by Nick Holland who has a long presentation history. It’ll be online through Jitsi, so anyone can see it.