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2019/08/082019/08/06

A new upgrade method

Remember my post about a new upgrade script? tse, the author, has happily added in a bunch of suggestions. I’m intermittently traveling and can’t do anything to test it for days yet – but I’d love to see others try it out.

The bugs issue tracking versions is here: #3197. Can you, dear reader, try it out? Do an in-place upgrade on your version, or even a test install with a VM? I want to see what happens in the wild.

2019/08/072019/08/05

DragonFly kcollect(8) improvements

DragonFly has a utility called kcollect(8), for gathering about the last day’s worth of kernel statistics. It recently gained some extra flags and details, and should work well if you want to collect stats in a low-impact way.

2019/08/062019/07/29

NYCBUG tomorrow: Video on OpenBSD

Andre Buskvekster is presenting at NYCBUG about video on OpenBSD, tomorrow. Go, if you are near.

2019/08/05

Zen 2 and DragonFly

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.

2019/08/042019/08/02

Lazy Reading for 2019/08/04

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)

2019/08/032019/08/02

In Other BSDs for 2019/08/03

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.

2019/08/022019/08/01

user logging changes for DragonFly

last(1), reboot(8), and sshd(8) now log to /var/log/wtmpx on DragonFly. This change will probably, hopefully, be invisible to most people.

2019/08/01

BSD Now 309: Get Your Telnet Fix

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.)

2019/07/312019/08/01

taskset for DragonFly

Nan Xiao needed a taskset tool on DragonFly, so he made one. It’s apparently similar to usched(8).

2019/07/30

HAMMER2 now default

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.

2019/07/29

A ps tip

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.

2019/07/282019/07/26

Lazy Reading for 2019/07/28

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.

2019/07/272019/07/26

In Other BSDs for 2019/07/27

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)

2019/07/26

Several layers of radeon update

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.

2019/07/25

BSD Now 308: Mumbling with OpenBSD

This week’s BSD Now talks about using a Mumble server on OpenBSD, along with a nice range of other topics.

2019/07/24

Am I in jail?

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.

2019/07/23

A small rconfig update

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.

2019/07/22

First time dbus reminder

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.