Category: BSD

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.

If you sorta squint and tilt your head, it’s a games theme this week.

• Roguelike vs. Roguelite: What’s the Difference?  (via)
• Awesome-Selfhosted.  (also via)
• rigg 1.0 released – a new way to run indie games on OpenBSD.
• SEthernet: Modern, low-cost 10/100 Ethernet for the Macintosh SE and SE/30.
• Mastodon for Apple II (][+, //c, IIe, and IIgs)
• Hex marks the spot.  (via)
• pkgsrc-2024Q1 branch released, and NetBSD 10.0.
• Further Explorations, the companion volume to 50 Years of Text Games, is available for standalone purchase.  Related: merchandise.
• The Greenwich prime meridian isn’t where it used to be.
• FreeBSD Speedrun.
• Terminal status bar with only stock tools.

Your unrelated music for the week: New Strategies for Modern Crime Vol 1.  (via)

Here’s a weird confluence of things all based on me searching out links and stories for this blog:  Based on the recommendation of Cooking Issues listeners, I visited Hi-Collar last weekend, a Japanese kissaten (which I know of because of Craig Mod’s mailing list /  book) while I stayed at St. Marks’s Hotel, which I know about through NYCBSDCon.  Meal was good, and all these things would not have come together without these years of Lazy Reading posts.

• BSD on Windows.  A product I never heard of.  (via)
• A List of Lists.  I have linked to at least one of them before.
• Children of the Geissler Tube.  Seems like something to buy at United Nuclear.  (via)
• From a comment on last week’s Lazy Reading: CCC is coming up.
• The original UNIX Lab had left-handed lightbulbs.  Note the author of the post.
• History of SMTP.  (Video, via)
• DateTime, an XKCD cartoon.  Painfully accurate.
• Why we at $FAMOUS_COMPANY Switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY.  (via)
• Ctrl+Alt Museum pictures.
• Dungeons & Directories.  (via)
• Umberto Eco Formulates The AI Novel In 2011.
• Apple ][ copy protection affecting how a game plays.  A game world being affected by a physical aspect of a legal status in the real world.
• Finishing Up a FreeBSD Experiment.  I like seeing what people use.  (via)
• “the plural of regex is regrets“.  (via)