Conventions – DragonFly BSD Digest

2023/11/122023/11/09

Lazy Reading for 2023/11/12

No natural theme at all this week. Which is OK!

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Big Data. I would like to see this on a larger scale. (via)
An adorably small Connection Machine. The real thing, if you are unfamiliar.
Also cute: networked tiny TRS-80 model.
Naming things needn’t be hard. (via)
Confusing git terminology. (also via)
EuroBSDCon 2023 report, part 1 and part 2.
“The ports system exists to not only share misery, but to reliably replicate it“
My MNT Reform – almost a year on.
FreeBSD Bhyve Virtualization.
OctOpenBSD. I am a bit late linking that.
Talk about the Basics.
Reading your RSS feed on FreeBSD.
Manipulate PDF files easily with pdftk. An underappreciated program.
Presenting Syncthing, discovery server, relay server on OpenBSD.
A small warning about UDP based protocols.

2023/10/082023/10/05

Lazy Reading for 2023/10/08

I made it through the third major ERP transition I’ve done professionally, and it was successful. I hope I never have to do another. Also, I have a lot of open tabs.

BSDCan has a planning blog.
ChiBUG meets on the 17th.
Get yourself on a PDP-11 right now. Or others. (via)
The origins of the stand directory.
The classic book ‘AWK Programming Language’ is getting an update.
x/y/zmodem history, and you can still use it.
Nine years uptime. (via)
“We need an internet of unmonetisable enthusiasms“. That would be this site right here. (via)
Open charter companies and relicensing. (via)
Why htmx Does Not Have a Build Step.
XScreenSaver 6.07 out now. Skulloop!
tentacular, a new Sharecode film.
HONK, a new Cyriak film.
Kagi smallweb. Endless amounts of things to look at here.
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e.
Thinking Seriously About Halfling Empires.

2023/06/252023/06/22

Lazy Reading for 2023/06/25

Half a year til Christmas!

Software written in B. C’s predecessor, revived – follow the whole thread for tools.
History that I didn’t know: at one point the U.S. Department of Defense had its own Unix, supported by Ford, the car company.
BSDNow at BSDCan.
writefreesoftware.org. (via)
Three Challenges to Contribute Back to Open Source. The not-code-but-essential parts. (via)
Netnews, the origin story. (PDF, via)
I asked ChatGPT to write a pf.conf to spec, 2023-06-07 version. “if Skynet ever came into existence for real it would be unreachable”
Operating Systems, Transit and Cultural Influences.
50 Years of Text Games: the games. This is a treat.
You can still buy hardware upgrades for your Mac Portable.
A comparison of text-based browsers. (via)
Related: text-only websites.
When Zeppelins Ruled the Earth.

2023/06/13

EuroBSDCon 2023 schedule out

Take a look even if you aren’t going, to see what people are researching. (via)

2023/05/26

EuroBSDCon papers due today

If you want to present a paper, or were thinking about presenting at EuroBSDCon, today’s the deadline for getting it in.

2022/12/292023/01/04

BSDCan 2023 call for talks

BSDCan 2023 has a call for talks out.

2022/10/082022/10/07

In Other BSDs for 2022/10/08

No theme this week for the BSD section.

Fiber + Static IP = Self-Hosting Glory! Sounds suspiciously like my ISP.
OpenBSD: Manage DNS, DNSSEC (to automate TLSA records). (via)
Red Hat OpenShift versus FreeBSD Jails. (via)
Netlink Added to FreeBSD – Unmodified Linux ip(8) Correctly Works. (via)
Fun with FreeBSD: Your First Linux Guest. (via)
OpenBSD.app – quick full-text searching of OpenBSD packages for -stable and -current. (via)
bsddialog 0.4 and LGPL-Free bsdinstall.
Meet the 2022 FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Students: Koichi Imai, Christos Margiolis, and Jake Freeland.
SCALE19X Conference Report.
HardenedBSD September 2022 Status Report.
Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS Part 3.
Valuable News – 2022/10/03.

2022/09/29

BSD Now 474: EuroBSDcon 2022

BSD Now this week is titled ‘EuroBSDCon’, but as far as I know they weren’t there – haven’t listened to the episode yet. Any readers here go?

2022/08/02

Unofficial NYCBUG meetup, tomorrow

There’s an unofficial NYCBUG meetup, tomorrow at 6:45PM. Go, if you are near New York City.

2022/07/13

SLUUG tonight: Git

SLUUG, the St. Louis Unix Users Group, has a short presentation tonight from James Conroy: “What You Should Get with GIT” and a longer presentation of “Locking Down Your Web Browser” with Scott Granneman. It’s online so anyone can go. It’s not BSD-specific, but it will all apply. (Thanks to Johnathan Drews for the reminder.)

2022/02/022022/02/01

BSDCan 2022: online and CFP extended

BSDCan 2022 is now going to be online, which also means the CFP has been extended so any last-minute-I’ll-go-now-that-its-virtual people can get their proposals in.

(Posting now because waiting for the normal In Other BSDs post will only give you 48 hours of prep time for a proposal.)

2021/12/112021/12/10

In Other BSDs for 2021/12/11

A little short this week but the holidays are catching up to me.

The Apple Macintosh as a User Interface Agent for Unix Systems. (via)
BSDCan 2022 is going to happen and maybe even in person. The call for papers is out.
ChiBUG is meeting this Tuesday, the 14th.
FreeBSD 12.3 is out.
Valuable News – 2021/12/06.
Using FreeBSD’s pkg audit to Investigate Known Security Issues.
LLDB FreeBSD kernel core dump support.
FreeBSD on Slimbook — 14 months of updates.
TrueNAS 12.0U7 is out.
Cross-platform package building: Pkgsrc vs. Ravenports, parts one and two.
Active Directory not-on-Windows, might be useful.
A bit on what Unix system pre-boot environments used to look like.

2021/12/042021/12/03

In Other BSDs for 2021/12/04

Not just release announcements this week.

NYCBUG is down today for a significant hardware move.
FOSDEM 2022 is going to have a BSD Devroom. It’s online, so you can submit prerecorded talks – submissions due December 31.
Valuable News – 2021/11/29.
GhostBSD 21.11.24 ISO is now available.
mfs: sometimes useful?
Exploring NetBSD’s msgs(1). (via)
Review: Netgate 6100.
FreeBSD article writers needed. I’ve linked to Klara Systems before.
Speaking of which, UNIX Wars – The Battle for Standards.
New Test System. OpenBSD storage book is next apparently.
HardenedBSD November 2021 Status Report.
doas insults. This is a gem. (via)
The previous link led me to 9front’s theo.
Simple network dashboard with vnstat.
The state of Steam on OpenBSD.
Logitech MX Keys and MX Master on OpenBSD using Logi Bolt.
OpenBSD Webzine #5.

2021/10/232021/10/25

In Other BSDs for 2021/10/23

Live in-person meetings are happening, slowly, finally.

Register Today for the November 2021 FreeBSD Vendor Summit.
How BSD Authentication Works. (via)
Valuable News – 2021/10/19.
Other FreeBSD Version in ZFS Boot Environment.
Explaining top(1) on FreeBSD.
Manipulating a Pool from the Rescue System.
Building Your FreeBSD Developer Workstation Setup. Software and hardware.
FreeBSD switches the default root shell from csh to sh. Muscle-memory issues may get you. (via)
Open Source Summit 2021 Conference Recap. Live people?!
FreeBSD Foundation October 2021 Fundraising Update.
The State of Gaming on OpenBSD in 2022. Stick with it.
One step closer to my new FreeBSD tower.
GhostBSD 21.10.16 ISO is now available.
Experimenting with a new OpenBSD development lab.
Story of making the OpenBSD Webzine. (There’s 2 issues so far)

2021/10/18

SEMIBUG and Emacs presentation

SEMIBUG’s monthly meeting is online, and it’s tomorrow the 19th, at 1900 hours (-0400, Eastern) via Jitsi. It’s going to be about “the advantages of Emacs”, given by a group member. Go, see, even if it’s just to shake your fist at the screen and mumble “viiiiiiiiiiii”.

2021/10/022021/09/29

In Other BSDs for 2021/10/02

Why yes I am trying to clear out my backlog of Solène links.

pkgsrc-2021Q3 branched.
SOLVED: FreeBSD nfsv4 client/server protocol prob err=10026.
Porting GNOME to NetBSD by Dan Cirnat. (via)
EuroBSDCon 2021 videos are available.
Initial impressions of Airyx – FreeBSD with a macOS style desktop. (via)
Register multiples wifi networks on OpenBSD.
Faster packages updates with OpenBSD.
Workaround for an OpenBSD boot error on APU boards.
RISC-V: The New Architecture on the Block.

2021/06/24

BSD Now 408: FreeBSD DevSummit 2021

No pun this time; the episode covers the title exactly – plus more recent headlines.

2021/06/132021/06/10

Lazy Reading for 2021/06/13

Lots of analog this week.

The Tactile Beauty of Buttons, Meters, Knobs and Dials. (via)
From the same place, Knobfeel.
Baking Magnetic Recording Tape. (via)
“The purpose of the web software industry is to extract value out of Open-Source Software (OSS).”
The possible return of Connections. (via)
The Computer Mouse Conference 2021 and The Mouse Sees. (also via)
XScreenSaver 6.0.1 is out. No new savers in this release, just bugfixes.
Explaining geometry with pizza. The pull quotes are the point.
Itanium UNIX history.
Some Plain Text Note Taking Tactics.
Playdate Update. The cranking hardware console. (via)
The little details you don’t think about when playing D&D.
50 Years of Text Games: 1993: Curses. Not the terminal software.

2021/04/072021/03/03

HardenedBSD at NYCBUG, tonight

HardenedBSD 2021 “State of the Hardened Union”, presented by Shawn Webb, happening at NYCBUG at 6:45 tonight. See the announcement for how to get the invite.

2021/03/172021/03/17

FreeBSD Office Hours tonight

FreeBSD Office Hours are happening tonight, 18:00 UTC. Go, if you’re online.

Update: rescheduled to sometime in the future.