There’s some code changes for callout, where the actual lines of code that trigger it are stored in the callout structure. It’s a little thing, but it’s a big thing if you need it.
Some old-school RPG and miniatures links mixed in this week.
- Modder Superior: The many free descendants of Doom.
- Opinion: We Built A Broken Internet. Now We Need To Burn It To The Ground. Complicated systems replicate the social structure of the groups that build them. (via)
- OpenTTD Compiled to WebAssembly. (via)
- Ampere EMAG 64bit Arm Workstation. I don’t know if this is particularly good; I just like the growth in the ecosystem. (via)
- Tinytetris – 80 x 23 Terminal Tetris. (via)
- Archives for IT; UK computer history. (via)
- The National Security Agency technical journal Cryptologs. (via)
- 93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs. (via)
- Rustic Fantasy – With a Hey Nonny No. Linked for the further reading suggestions within the text.
- Rolling Up Some Inspiration: An RPG Conversation with Kieron Gillen & Tim Se.
- Edible Games Book: about to print.
- The wait is over. 28 is here. Minatures modification. (via)
- Darklands.
Your unrelated music of the week: Principleasure: I. Eighties sound, but modernized.
Lots of BUG news this week; thank you all for the leads on groups to watch.
- Talking Jails at Semibug, 9 April 2019. Note the meeting has been moved up a week.
- “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” and a new novella.
- April 9th Meetup. ChiBUG.
- Rusted ravens: Ravenports march 2019 status update. There’s some DragonFly stuff in there I haven’t had a chance to link to.
- How to use NetBSD on a Raspberry Pi. (via)
- Serenity: x86 Unix-like operating system for IBM PC-compatibles. Almost UNIX, almost BSD. (via)
- Before Unix: An Early History of Timesharing Systems. Influences on BSD.(via)
- OpenRA imported – game engine recreation for RTS games of the Command & Conquer family. (via)
- Project Trident 18.12-U8 Available. (via)
- Removing PF. (via)
- Silent Fanless FreeBSD Server – Redundant Backup. (via)
- LLDB/LLVM report for March 2019. NetBSD.
- Continuation of signal semantics improvements. NetBSD.
- iked curve25519 group number change. OpenBSD.
- Valuable News – 2019/04/01.
- Sega Dreamcast Running NetBSD. (via)
- UNIX and BSD Discord/Matrix Servers.
- BSD Router Project 1.92 is now available. (via)
BSD Now 292 has a nice recap from attending AsiaBSDCon 2019, along with the normal news roundup. I advise everyone to go to a BSD convention if possible; they are always fun.
The show subcommand for gpt(8) has had some improvements including a way to connect it to the device UUID; I link to it cause depending on the age of your machine, you may have never even needed to use gpt yet.
“Verification As Code of Infrastructure As Code” is being presented tonight at 6:45 PM at NYCBUG by Raul Cuza. Go, if you are near.
If you are so lucky as to have an ixgbe(4) card, the version 3.3.6 driver (from Intel) are in DragonFly.
Note that I’ve managed to catch up to March commits! There’s been a lot.
Unrelated to BSD: GPS rollover is happening a few days from now. This affects most people very little, and a few people a lot, but I mention it also to make you think about the systems that underpin our technology.
This is a compact list, but there’s plenty to see.
- NSA-B-GONE, a hardware kill switch for audio and video.
- UUCP Manifesto. (via)
- PoC||GTFO Volume 0x19, PDF. I read it for the pictures. (via)
- Endlessh: an SSH Tarpit. (via)
- The Squeal of Data.
- A Map of the Internet from May 1973.
- What does the N in nmake stand for?
- code integrity vs data security.
- honk preview.
- Storing UTC is not a silver bullet. (via)
- <1mW Bluetooth LTE Transmitter. 11 years of broadcasts. (via)
- Textworld. (via)
A reminder: tell me about bugs.
- If you missed the most recent NYCBUG meeting, here’s the video: Maintaining qmail in 2019 by Amitai Schleier. (thanks, bsdtv)
- Next NYCBUG meeting, in a few days: Verification As Code of Infrastructure As Code. I’ll post a reminder.
- Removing PF. NetBSD. (via)
- OpenBSD testing wiki. (via)
- Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service. (via)
- WireGuard for NetBSD. Slides from AsiaBSDCon 2019. (via)
- The tilde.institute of OpenBSD Education. (via)
- AsiaBSDCon 2019 Proceedings. (via)
- nixers newsletter 118.
- FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report – Fourth Quarter 2018.
- SoloBSD 19.03-STABLE.
- Valuable News – 2019/03/25.
- using syncthing between my OSX laptop and my FreeBSD server.
- sysctlview, a sysctl explorer. (via)
- OS108 released. (via)
- a2k19 hackathon report from Ken Westerback.
- “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” ebook escaping!
- Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6, using OpenBSD.
BSD Now 291 is up. The show notes lead with an involved BSD-in-production story that I just realized affected me; some simple hosting I take care of for a non-profit was involved in the move they describe.
GCC 5.0 is no longer needed in DragonFly, so it’s not being built, and can be removed on your next ‘make upgrade’. As a bonus, buildworld is a little faster.
Tonight, for anyone near Knoxville, TN: KnoxBUG’s monthly meeting is tonight. Nick Principe is presenting “So you want to setup a performance test environment“.
Lots of link clustering this week.
- Porting PuTTY to Windows on Arm, related to PuTTY 0.71 released. (via and via)
- Also: Pretty PuTTY – Better PuTTY Settings. (via)
- A Pi-Powered Plan 9 Cluster. I am not sure what this really gets you in practice, but it’s neat to see Plan 9 used like Plan 9 – meaning, across multiple machines. (via)
- A dedicated tablet for running 80s SGI demos! The Alice 4. (via)
- Repacking Social Media Into 1980s Nostalgia. (via)
- Before Adventure, Part 1: Hide and Seek (1972) and Before Adventure, Part 2: Mugwump, Hurkle, Snark (1973). Surely you have heard those words before.
- Also Before Adventure, Part 3: Caves (1973). “Visualize you are living in 1973, where there are almost no computer games at all…” Eeek!
- How I’m able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim. A crash course in using the heck out of Vim snippets. (Thanks, Heiko Kuhrt)
- bpkg is a bash package manager. Everything gets its own package manager now. (via)
- The Chinese ThinkPad rebuilding industry – I’ve mentioned it before. (via)
- Ceci n’est pas une pipe.
- Programmer migration patterns. ‘And I would have had to add a fifth category of programmer specialization, “configuring emacs.”‘
- Timeline of events with the Domain Name System. (via)
- The types of attachments we see in malware email (March 2019 edition) and What sorts of good email attachments our users get (March 2019 edition).
- Do do this at home, home automation evolution.
Heading towards spring, and I have weekend work, so pasting in everything I’ve got handy:
- Setting up RRDtool for OpenBSD.Amsterdam. (via)
- EuroBSDcon CFP is open. (via)
- SPARCbook 3000ST – The coolest 90s laptop. (via)
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 18 – Global Dashboard.
- Fix Broken Dependency on FreeBSD. This seems dangerous.
- Using an OpenBSD Router with AT&T U-Verse.
- openrsync, the site. Apparently becoming another integrated Open* tool. (via)
- [tmux] style syntax changes. Not necessarily BSD-specific.
- pfSense 2.5.0 Development Snapshots Now Available.
- Valuable News – 2019/03/18.
- Installing Snort on OpenBSD 6.4.
- rdist(1) – when Ansible is too much. (via)
- Sync Dropbox with TrueNAS and FreeNAS – Issue #65.
- FreeBSD Journal Jan/Feb 2019 Edition. (via)
- BSD Router Project 1.92. (via)
- A few questions from someone who used Linux.
- Getting ‘FreeBSD-10.2 is vulnerable’ messages on a 12.0 host.
- ZFS Encryption is still under development (as of March 2019).
This week’s BSD Now hops through Free, Net, Open, and Sec for BSDs this week, as the show notes will tell you.
On DragonFly, booting from a USB stick means your boot volume is usually /dev/da8. That’s a rather arbitrary distinction. As a bonus from the recent part-by-label device change, you can now find the boot disk in /dev/part-by-label/, named by the booted kernel rather than a device number. The commit message has a slightly better explanation.
SEMIBUG’s monthly meeting is tonight, with Nick Holland presenting OpenBSD History. Go, if you are near Michigan.
There’s a bounty entry for Aarch64 support for DragonFly, on the bounties page. This is a difficult goal, but I think worth it. Add to it if you agree.