I have been meaning to post this for a while: gridgenerator.com, a painting web app, is running on DragonFly. I was told this on IRC and of course lost all details since then, but that’s fine – go draw something!
Nicely esoteric this week.
- “It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering”*…
- DFaaS (Dumpster Fire as a Service).
- Server names: One of the remaining places where IT managers can be a little silly.
- Platform Studies at 10.
- Books that explain (parts of) how the world really works.
- Tips for using tmux more effectively.
- How did you get it to run on a gameboy? More oddities at the source link.
- Where Vim Came From. (via)
- Related, same source: An incomplete history of the QED Text Editor.
Overflow that I couldn’t catch up to before last weekend’s In Other BSD’s posting time. I try to always have these by 9 AM Eastern time Saturday. (Same for Lazy Reading on Sunday) I mentally imagine everyone sitting down with a drink and nothing else to do but click links, those mornings. At least, I hope that’s what it is.
- Happening later today, at 2 PM Eastern: “OpenBSD ports: the basics” on twitch.tv.
- Valuable News – 2018/08/04.
- Jared McNeill has finished porting #NetBSD to ROCKPro64.
- The third BSD Users Stockholm Meetup, September 5th. (via)
- The Etsh Project. Enhanced Thompson Shell; an updated version of the V6 UNIX shell originally written by Ken Thompson in 1975. (via)
- TrueOS test on ThinkPad T410 notebook.0
- Implementing a clone of OpenBSD pledge into the Linux kernel. (video, via)
- Where are the config for pkg_add and pgkin located?
- Writing Business Cashflow. KPIs for your own business, which in this case is (partially) BSD books.
- Speaking of which, Second Editions versus the Publishing Business.
- OPNSense 18.7 released.
- FreeBSD on ARM64. Hosted service, via.
- Changes to NetBSD release support policy. (via)
- Anyone use netbsd as a desktop, how is it?
- looking for help with freebsd 11.2 install.
- Ask Noah Show 77: Should You Ditch Linux for FreeBSD. (via)
A reminder: you need some loader.conf changes if you are booting with EFI/i915.
(Sort of a repost, but someone may need it.)
BSDNow 258 showed up a bit early this week: Among the normal news articles about technology and BSD conventions are notes about how HardenedBSD is setting up their non-profit board. I like seeing that sort of governance documented as it’s happening; it’s the right way to inform people.
As part of a recent update to OpenPAM, you can now use ed25519 in pam_ssh. My perception is that ed25519 is one of the better options to pick.
The eerielinux site has a followup on Ravenports, which digs into something I’ve covered a bit here: Ravenports is technically excellent and a better choice than dports in many ways – but Ravenports needs more ports. How many more? Probably not very many…
Speaking of which: Ravenports is kept vigorously up to date.
This is a straight dump of open browser tabs. You can tell what motivated me to set up the Mastodon account for the Digest this week, from some of the content.
- Save RSS and Atom! The source link has mention of a number of resources.
- The history of design systems at Clearleft.
- Inside Out. View Source as an important tool.
- The web’s transition from nomadism to feudalism.
- Facebook killed the feed.
- 10 Common Git Problems and How to Fix Them. (via)
- State Sponsored Trolling. (via)
- The Cyberdeck: a homebrew, 3D printed cyberspace deck. (via)
- Two-factor auth and SMS hijacking.
- Amazon sells Bitcoins now! There’s two levels of joke in that link.
- News for the tz database. (via)
- DJ rig with two Amiga 1200 PCs. (via)
- What OpenStreetMap can be. (via)
- Commodore 64 SID replacement using a Teensy 3.6. (via)
- A Brief History of SourceForge, and a Look Towards the Future. I consciously avoid Sourceforge material now, it’s so toxic. (via)
- Freeciv 2.6.0 released. And playable on the web. (via)
- Friday Furnace.
- A Mansion Filled With Hidden Worlds: When the Internet Was Young.
- LambdaMoo. (via)
- Life in System Administration.
- Taskbook: Like Trello but for the Terminal. (via)
Your unrelated video of the week: LOCAL58 – Show for Children.
I have more to post but just plain couldn’t get it all pasted!
- OPNsense 18.1.13 released.
- rtadvd(8) has been replaced by rad(8).
- More mitigations against speculative execution vulnerabilities.
- Theo de Raadt on “unveil(2) usage in base”.
- g2k18 hackathon reports: Kenneth Westerback on dhcpd(8) fixes, disklabel(8) refactoring and more, Ingo Schwarze on sed(1) bugfixing with Martijn van Duren, and about other small userland stuff.
- Visualizing ZFS performance.
- OSCON 2018. With Microsoft as a major participant; odd.
- An Introduction to VerifiedExec in NetBSD. Video from 2012, but recently mentioned here.
- Reflection on one-year usage of OpenBSD. (via)
- Revamp of DiscoverBSD.com.
- Howto: FEMP stack on Amazon EC2. (via)
- ZFS Boot Environments at PBUG.
- Valuable News – 2018/07/27.
BSDNow 257 (which is not as exciting a number as last week but still prime) has no interview but manages to hit all the right notes – every major BSD is mentioned and also links to recent convention reports.
This is way overdue: I’m now posting Digest notes to bsd.network/@dragonflydigest, a BSD-specific Mastodon server.
It’s bothered me for a while that I’m autoposting Digest headlines to Twitter, which is useful for Twitter users but still supporting a walled garden. Mastodon is a better implementation of a similar idea, and bsd.network nicely groups all sorts of BSD people in one place. Right now I’m just posting the Digest headlines here into the Mastodon account there, but there’s added value from the additional BSD-specific conversation around it.
I haven’t (yet) found a way to translate the local timeline on bsd.network into a RSS feed, which would be super-handy…
As part of a larger conversation about HAMMER, Matthew Dillon noted that he is planning to work on master-to-multiple-slave for HAMMER2, which would function similar to HAMMER1 mirror-stream.
Sascha Wildner has brought in the NetBSD version of mtree(8), as groundwork for some other changes. There’s little user effect at this point, but it’s worth being familiar with mtree as a tool. Take a look at the man page, especially the section on trojan horse detection under EXAMPLES.
DragonFly now has a port of the ena(4) driver from FreeBSD. If you aren’t familiar with it, it’s the Elastic Network Adapter used for running on Amazon EC2. That link for the commit message points at several dports tools useful for anyone wanting to try the next logical step.
Short, perhaps, but blame my traveling.
- “Why use OpenStreetMap instead of Google Maps?” Better reasons than I expected. (via)
- Frank’s Compulsive Guide to Postal Addresses. (via)
- Kermit Project. Found via previous link.
- A Global Guide to State-Sponsored Trolling. Trolling is not the right word. (via)
- Tariffs in a Nutshell. Linking because the author knows what he is talking about.
- WebAmp: WinAmp 2 in Your Browser. (via)
A lot of this was early overflow posted ahead; I’ve been on the road.
- NetBSD 8.0 released.
- How to port your OS to EC2.
- Booting Without /usr is Broken. Another step away from history and its lessons. (via)
- “Is there a LibertyBSD community? how big is it?“
- Something blogged (on pkgsrcCon 2018)
- Valuable News – 2018/07/20.
- OPNSense 18.1.12, 18.7-rc2 released.
- A whole bunch of g2k18 hackathon reports.
- “How many desktop BSD users are there?“
- “Will NetBSD play well to being dual booted with Windows (XP)?“
- New Patreon rewards for $1 tier. Michael W. Lucas snark as fortune file, which seems like a good deal to me.
The newest BSDNow episode is number 256 but it’s numbered as a power of 2 which makes me irrationally happy. (Rationally happy? Squarely happy? Trying to add in a combination math and language joke there.)
Aaaaanyway, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, some Linux comparisons, ZFS, and so on. It’s the usual content, though I don’t mean that to sound dismissive. It’s more that I’ve been driving for the past 10 hours and have to go to work in 6, and I’m going directly from this keyboard to bed.
I’ve been remiss in noting new DragonFly mirrors, so here’s the most recent: 4 new locations in Ecuador.
Sascha Wildner’s brought in a new rc mechanism that runs scripts on first boot, and only the first boot. It seems like something for an install process, but it’s also preparation for a new network interface.