The i915(4) driver now supports some newer models of Intel GPU, thanks to Francois Tigeot.
The next ChiBUG meeting is tomorrow night, December 10th. Go, if you are near, but also RSVP on the list.
The BSD user’s group in Dusseldorf is also meeting on the 10th. Go there instead, if you are on that side of the ocean.
Accidental theme this week: terminals.
- Teletext’s creative legacy. (via)
- Related: Teletext, the font. (via)
- The Plain Text Project. (Thanks, Benn Collver.)
- TROS: How IBM mainframes stored microcode in transformers.
- IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display. An answer to the recently-linked-here “80×25” post, and perhaps the definitive answer on terminal size. Also: sound delay lines are bonkers.
- The Magical Excel 97 Far East Language Build Screwdriver™.
- 26th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2019) winners. (via)
- New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 2: Hacking Deeper (or, Follies of Graham Nelson’s Youth).
- New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 3: A Renaissance is Nigh.
- Unlocked Recordings, via the recent Music Modernization Act. This is one of the many reasons to donate to the Internet Archive. (via)
- Migrationator: Open source tool to help migrate away from Google. (via)
- Big Pile of Vim-like. (via)
- It was 20 years ago today. 4 years ahead of me.
Your odd pile of GIFs for the week: more Jan Svankmajer animations than I’ve ever seen in one place. (via)
Accidental theme: BUGs BUGs BUGs and also happy birthday me! It’s a bit brief cause like usual I am working extra.
- NetBSD 9.0RC1 is out.
- Next ChiBUG meeting: December 10th. RSVP on the list if you are attending.
- Next Dusseldorf BUG meeting: also December 10th.
- Next NYCBUG meeting: January 8th.
- ZFS sync/async + ZIL/SLOG, explained. (via)
- ryzen build (for openbsd).
- HardenedBSD Infrastructure Goals. (via)
- Authentication vulnerabilities in OpenBSD. (via)
- Related: syscall call-from verification.
- e2k19 Hackathon Report: At e2k19 nobody can hear you scream (Claudio Jeker).
- sysget: A single front end for every unix package manager. (via)
- Writing a daemon using FreeBSD and Python pt.3.
- Valuable News – 2019/12/02.
- PlayOnBSD Shopping Guide now scraping for sales on GOG and Steam.
This week’s BSD Now talks about, among other things, renaming of ZFS On Linux to OpenZFS, and a bonkers story about Sun.
The Holiday Hardware Swap is happening at NYCBUG’s monthly meeting today, at a new location. Go, if you are near.
Synth logs for dports are now located here on a new machine:
https://sting.dragonflybsd.org/dports/logs/Report/
If there’s only a short list, it’s because the most recent build was probably focused on retrying a broken-but-now-possibly-fixed package. I link both because of the utility and also because the interface is pretty.
If you’ve ever been left watching a “press any key…” line at shutdown of your DragonFly system, there’s now a fix. It’s committed to release, too, so it’s available now.
While you’re at it, there’s a HAMMER2 bugfix that will also be brought in by updating.
I’m going with high-concept material this week. If you have time for some thinking today, you’ll enjoy the links.
- Sounds recreated from pictures, a video and an album. Making sounds exist that were never recorded – a sort of time travel. (via)
- Transformative Tools for Thought. (via)
- A primer on hardware security keys, which I recommend. (via)
- SIMjacking, a new term to me. (also via)
- A history of procedural text.
- To Go Green, the Energy Industry Goes Open Source.
- Yes I do want LEDs and Bluetooth in my d20s.
- Various IF crowdfunds.
- The Information is Beautiful Award Winners 2019. (via)
- Don Libes’ Expect: A Surprisingly Underappreciated Unix Automation Tool. (via)
- Understanding and repairing the power supply from a 1969 analog computer. So pretty!
- 64 Bits ought to be enough for anybody. (via)
- Notes on Ambient Privacy. (via)
- Command and Conquer, a retrospective. Part of what defined RTS games. (via)
- Sunless Skies, a review. Not defining a genre, but a mood. (also via)
End of year events are starting to get scheduled; watch for one near you.
- Holiday Hardware Swap plus more at NYCBUG this Wednesday.
- MeatBSD reservations are due today. If you will be near SEMIBUG’s Dec 17th event, respond now.
- FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report for 2019Q3.
- Valuable News – 2019/11/25.
- OPNsense 19.7.7 released.
- p2k19 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling on iwm(4) wifi progress, more.
- Writing a daemon using FreeBSD and Python, part 1 and part 2.
- A Look at PureDarwin. (via)
- How to use pkgsrc on Linux. (via)
- FreeBSD Journal for September/October.
- OpenBSD: General web deployment security best practice (httpd, doas, git).
- [How-To] PostgreSQL ascii logo for FreeBSD boot loader.
- unwind(8) gains “Happy Eyeballs”-like flexibility.
- Some notes on userspace routing.
- Debugging FFS Mount Failures.
- samsung ativ book 9. Hardware review, OpenBSD install.
I sorta like seeing these things ricochet back and forth.
This Turkey Day (for U.S. readers) episode of BSD Now talks about the perennial idea of BSD admin certification, along with the usual roundup of recent news.
If you have newer AMD hardware, it’s a little better supported now.
Francois Tigeot has made a number of updates to the ttm and radeon code, bringing it line with the Linux 4.9 kernel version. If you have a radeon(4)-using video card, you may find this useful.
Also, evergreeen and radeonsi chipset users have acceleration disabled. You may not notice depending on your workload.
There’s been a fresh binary build of dports – and then some more updates to cover a variety of security issues in some of those ports. Now is a good time for a ‘pkg upgrade’.
Small computers is the accidental theme this week.
- Remembering the TRS-80.
- 80s Corporate Airbrush-High Tech. Eighties! (via)
- My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be? You could have a website, not just a social media identity, and be much better off for it. (via)
- Beaker Browser, a peer-to-peer browser. (via)
- Good signoffs. (via)
- Open Library book sponsorships. (via)
- ASCIIdent. All-ASCII characters, open world game. (via)
- are.na, a site I am repeatedly stumbling into. A sort of blogging platform/visual recorder? I have only just started to look, but it seems like a good place to record an aesthetic, sort of like ffffound was, once.
- The Teletext Archaeologist – A visual and interactive teletext history. (via)
- Pocket Popcorn Computer. (via)
- Review of Pinebook Pro. The hardware notes are most relevant, not the Linux whateverness. (via)
- Ditching Event Platforms for the IndieWeb. (via)
- The Invention of Forth. (via)
- Falsehoods CS Students (Still) Believe Upon Graduating.
- Neovim and the state of text editor art in 2019. First explanation of “why NeoVim” that I’ve seen. (via)
- Emacs: Fury Road. (via)
Read that last link, if only to make your convention-going safer in the future.
- Maintaining port modifications in FreeBSD. (via)
- The fading out of multi-‘architecture’ Unix environments.
- Followup: In the old days, we didn’t use multiple Unixes by choice (mostly).
- Valuable News – 2019/11/18.
- OpenBSD on SPARC64 (6.0 to 6.5).
- And the followup Running OpenBSD on SPARC64 (HTTPd, packages, patching, X11, …)
- GEOM NOP.
- p2k19 reports: Martin Pieuchot: The Unknown Plan,
Landry Breuil on unveil(2)-ing Mozilla, sqlite3 testing, Jeremy Evans on PostgreSQL and Ruby, krw@ adventures. - Creating new users dedicated to processes. Could work on any BSD except for doas.
- Board of Directors and Officers elected. For NetBSD.
- Support for Realtek RTL8125 2.5Gb Ethernet controller. For OpenBSD. 2.5Gb seems so arbitrary. (via)
- Why is BSD>Linux?
- Lessons Learned from Sendmail. Video. There’s lots of EuroBSDCon videos out there, but this is a good one cause this is one of the prototypical packages. (via)
- BSD Link Roundup 11.18.
- The Six Prequels to “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails”.
- Proof I Am a Monster.
It hasn’t been updated or used for some time, but libc_r was 20+ years old. Now it’s gone. You know someone younger than this code, or maybe even younger than the last time I talked about it.
BSD New 325 has a bunch of release news this week, including FreeBSD 12.1, and as you can guess from the title, rainbow tables.