Category: BSD

Mini bot/brute force attacks theme.

• The New Control Society.  A very long essay.  (via)
• Do Not Comply With the Terms of Service.  I don’t necessarily agree with the arguments but the links at the end are useful.  (via)
• Dormitorium: The Film Décors of the Quay Brothers.
• A different approach to blocking bad webbots by IP address
• and A deeper dive into mapping web requests via ASN, not by IP address
• and then Notes on blocking spam by filtering on ASN.
• Chunking attacks on Tarsnap (and others).
• A summary of my bot defence systems.
• Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face.
• And that leads to: iocane.  (via)
• Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025.  (via)
• KDE Plasma 6 on FreeBSD on Framework 13.
• FediMeteo.
• Designing A Portable Mac Mini.  A fatmac is what it looks like to me.

A lessons learned week.

• Computer Science the Fun Way, a Humble Bundle.   (via)
• Fight On! issue 16 is out.  (via)
• FreeBSD and KDE Plasma generations.  I think the right answer on versioning there.
• Patrick Collision’s bookshelf.  (via)
• Framework 13 AMD Setup with FreeBSD.  I could use a new laptop; this x220 is getting long in the tooth.
• Silicon Valley’s thing about Great Men, a followup on the previous source.
• Owning your own space and content is important.
• Make yourself less valuable to tech companies.  The sheer number of things you can turn off that are just extractive data about you is a sort of wake-up call. (via)
• BBC Micro emulation directly in the browser.  (via)
• If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling.  And leave extra cable length when you pull; everyone gets to learn this the hard way.

Done early!

• Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook.  For pre-order, and excerpts are available.  I think this is a unique book; catch the limited print while you can.  (via)
• Vim Spellcheck Cheat Sheet.
• NetBSD on Raspberry Pi!
• State of virtualizing the BSDs on Apple Silicon.
• From ACS to Altair: The Rise of the Hobby Computer.
• Walter Bright’s Classic Empire, Empire Deluxe, and original author Walter Bright.  (incidentally, original available as a port/pkg/port)
• Standalone Digital Scratch Instrument.
• Debugging aids for pf firewall rules [on FreeBSD].  For reference.
• Free MWL excerpts/books.  (via)
• If you’re going to GDC, there’s a Roguelike Celebration meetup on the 18th.
• UNIX advertisements.  (via)  From that page:

A bit more… artsy?  this week.

• Coding Together on the Apple II+.  Mostly I just like the site design.  (via)
• Introducing MNT Reform Next.  Might replace my ancient, indestructible X220.
• Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison.
• DOOM on a volumetric display.
• “Run Your Own Mail Server” Auction for BSD Conference AV Team.  Closes today!
• A new BSD made out of old BSDs.  (via)
• Every Single Company’s Website Right Now.  Also 2000s Business Names.  (both via)
• The Moral Economy of the Shire.  (via)
• ‘Images Heard And A Music Seen’: A Conversation With The Brothers Quay.  (via)

Your unrelated music link of the week: DJ Krush – Strictly Turntablized.

Technical reading is the accidental theme.

• Refurb Weekend: Canon Cat.  This is a far more capable machine than I ever knew about.
• Terminal Text Effects.  Much showier than I expected.  (via)
• Losing Sight of Creators.  Ad-blockers aren’t the answer; finding ways to support creators without ads is.
• City in a Bottle.  Via multiple places.
• Replacing my OPNsense gateway hardware by a Protectli appliance.
• Classic Computer Brochures.  (via)
• Clip art.  A higher quality collection than you’d expect.  (also via)
• A UNIX Primer.  (via)
• Mike Karel’s final presentation.
• Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine.  About simulation in general, not just the one game series.  (via)
• Running XVNC through inetd.  Might be useful to you.
• Multiple vi reference charts.  (via multiple posts)

The Kickstarter for Michael W. Lucas’s Run Your Own Mail Server book is ending later today.  It’s been so successful that he’s been adding copies of his other books as rewards for every backer – which means if you buy this book at any tier, you get (at last count) 7 more books.  It’s a good deal, but you have only this afternoon to get it.