Andre Buskvekster is presenting at NYCBUG about video on OpenBSD, tomorrow. Go, if you are near.
It’s supported, and given how well DragonFly supports SMP and the number of processors Zen 2 supports, it’s a no-brainer if you’re in the market for a new server.
This week’s material filled up fast. It’s vacation season in the northern hemisphere, so let’s see what next week brings…
- “Anyway my point here is that all of crypto should be run entirely by tweens.” Look for the Utility Token section, though it’s all fun.
- How to calculate leap second variation for the year 3000. (via)
- Ooops, I guess we’re full-stack developers now. (via)
- Text size control in st.
- DLX400 typewriter as a Keyboard. Neat but it must be annoying; those aren’t great keyboards.
- Fast Software, the Best Software.
- “Don’t put it on GitHub“, something we all should know. (scroll down to last third)
- Creepy pumpkin. It doesn’t have to be a pumpkin; this could apply to all sorts of things!
- Roguelike Level Design Addendum: Static or Procedural? You’ve played both, I’m sure.
- An xargs lesson. (via)
- The Legacy of the Unix Wars is still around us. (also via)
- What I want out of my window manager.
- Emacs users are like Terry Pratchett’s Igors. (via)
- Slacking on security. I don’t think Slack is a healthy product to use.
- Dwarf Fortress will let dwarves pet animals and I’m sure that won’t backfire.
- Astronauts Falling on the Moon. No achievement so amazing you can’t trip and fall in the middle of it. (via)
- LGP-30 – A Drum Computer of Significance. I think the computer in The Story of Mel, mentioned here before. (via)
A bumper crop this week!
- Video on OpenBSD, a presentation at NYCBUG by Andre Buskvekster, happening on the 7th. I’ll post a reminder on the 6th.
- OpenBSD ttyplot examples.
- Something blogged (on pkgsrcCon 2019).
- NetBSD 9.0 release process has started. Aarch64 support sounds good.
- TrueNAS 11.2 out.
- PHP and OpenBSD talk by Mario Campos on August 12th at ChiPHPUG lightning talks.
- OpenBGPD: The OpenBSD BGP internet routing daemon. The link source comments are the useful part.
- FreeBSD-SA-19:12.telnet: Were these claims even properly investigated, or did Juniper bully an advisory through? This is a spectator sport item, really, if you can’t tell from the title.
- Exploiting a No-Name FreeBSD Kernel Vulnerability. (via)
- Porting wine to amd64 on NetBSD, second evaluation report.
- Adapting TriforceAFL for NetBSD, Part 2.
- Enchancing Syzkaller Support for NetBSD, Part 2. Enhancing, I think it should be.
- Work-in-progress threading support in LLDB.
- Touchpad, Interrupted.
This week’s BSD Now talks about some recent security discussions with telnet and (unrelateD) OpenSSH history, and points to a recent discussion on DragonFly I haven’t even gotten to link yet, cause it’s ongoing.
(telnet is awful but it makes me feel nostalgic, cause of all the times I typed ‘GET HTTP/1.0 /’ into it.)
Nan Xiao needed a taskset tool on DragonFly, so he made one. It’s apparently similar to usched(8).
This slipped in just before the 5.6 release, and I thought I had already noted it: DragonFly now defaults to HAMMER2 for disks during install, instead of HAMMER1.
If you want to see all running threads on your system, grouped by process, with who ran it and how much memory it’s taking, it’s easy: ps -alxRH.
I mention this because it’s easier to remember ‘alxRH’ than it is to find all the right options in the ps man page.
I get indirectly cranky, this week.
- Dungeon Generation in Diablo 1. Roguelike! (via)
- Pressing Forward. “The grassroots mechanical keyboard scene”. I did not know about the Hall Effect, or the X1 keyboard, both of which are interesting.
- sc-im, a terminal spreadsheet. Like Visicalc all over again!
- Design tools are holding us back. I like the note on how toolschains are becoming too ultra-specific. (via)
- The Internet and My 53 Years Online.
- Finally got my Emacs setup just how I like it.
- Secretly Public Domain. This means there’s now a huge amount of books, free to read, that couldn’t be reliably identified before.
- The Builder’s Remorse. “once it was handed over to the corporation, everyone lost control”. Collectively no-one’s fault.
- Size and the Inert Sandbox. About Frontier: Elite.
- Tabletop Whale. “An original science illustration blog”. (via)
- The Glorious, Profitable, Inescapable Art of Addiction and Make Them Want. Delay. Fulfill. Repeat. Video games, in an experience I bet we all share.
All over the map this week.
- Broken ports? (OpenBSD games)
- Realtime bandwidth terminal graph visualization.
- What’s the point of the Single UNIX Specification?
- Resuming ZFS send.
- A Chapter from the FBI’s History with OpenBSD and an OpenSSH Vuln. (via).
- OpenBSD and NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2019 Nagoya. (via)
- Valuable News – 2019/07/22.
- NetBSD audio – an application perspective. (via)
- Project Trident STABLE-12 Now Available. (via)
- A week of pkgsrc #13.
- OPNsense 19.7.1 released.
- New FreeNAS Mini Entry-Level & High-End Models Unveiled by iXsystems.
- Bill Joy interview, 1984. I once heard him described as a flat-food person. (PDF, via)
Francois Tigeot has updated the radeon driver in DragonFly to match what’s in Linux kernel 3.19.8. No, wait, I took too long to post this cause there’s been so many things, so now it’s up to 4.4.180.
This week’s BSD Now talks about using a Mumble server on OpenBSD, along with a nice range of other topics.
There’s now a read-only sysctl ‘jail.jailed’ that can be checked to see if the current environment is running within a jail; useful for scripts that should not run in that environment, etc. I link to it mostly because it’s an odd sort of meta-signifier of reality, like being awake or in a waking dream, and that entertains me.
Aaron LI’s fixed a bug in rconfig tag names. This is minor, but I think rconfig(8) is a very powerful and underappreciated utility, so I point it out whenever possible.
I’ve mentioned dbus and DragonFly a few times; here’s one of those “you will eventually do this” tidbits: if for some reason you are installing it for the first time, remember to start it with the rc script.
Accidental theme: heavy metal.
- A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database. Found while researching tz formats.
- Buster Keaton: slapstick anarchism. A continuation of an article I linked before.
- An Illustrated history of Easter Eggs. Delightful! (video, via)
- crontab converter for different time zones in unix?
- lowRISC has open source-related job openings.
- History and effective use of Vim. (via)
- Apollo Guidance Computer: Dipstiks and reverse engineering the core rope simulator.
- Elements of Programming is now free. (via)
- deconstruct files. An excellent deep dive, from the deconstruct 2019 conference, for which there’s a summary.
- Our switches can wind up in weird states after a power failure. Linked cause I experienced this over a miles-spanning network, over and underground.
- “This week I was forced to accept that XMPP and IRC are both goners.“
- The history of headbanging: “Heavy Metal.” Not enough music links, but it did lead me to the best version of War Pigs I’ve ever heard. (via)
- You don’t need to know… A familiar screen.
- Local 1Password iOS Vaults No Longer Free. The important part is the last quote. (via)
Your unrelated music link of the week: Grando by OHMYGOD.
And overflow continues! I am secretly pleased.
- Nginx and acme-client on OpenBSD.
- random ip id comments. Linked cause OpenBSD and DragonFly are specially noted for IP ID handling.
- DTracing PostGres. (via).
- What is the overarching philosophy of BSD that defines the OS family?
OpenBSD::Unveil(3p)added to -current. I like this sort of external support.- NeXT Software and Peripherals catalog Fall 1989. (via)
- ZFS on Linux still has annoying issues with ARC size. Will this affect ZFS on BSD? Dunno.
- Valuable News – 2019/07/15.
- A Tale of Two Spellcheckers. A PkgSrcCon 2019 talk. (via)
- GUIX and FreeBSD(AnyBSD) ?
- Want to learn more about BSD.
- FreeBSD.org outgoing mail system changes.
- FreeBSD Journal: FreeBSD for Makers.
- OPNsense 19.7 “Jazzy Jaguar” released.
- Seattle Gelato Meetup, 1 August 2019.
- “Sudo Mastery, 2nd Edition” open for tech review.
Thanks to Aaron LI, st (“suckless terminal” I assume) is supported in termcap in DragonFly.
BSD Now 307 accomplishes another trifecta week, mentioning Free, Net, and Open, and also mentioning that vBSDCon’s call for papers closes tomorrow – I’m mentioning it now cause it’ll be too late to mention for In Other BSDs this weekend.