6.4.1, a bugfix upgrade to 6.4, is ready to download. The commit log from 6.4.0 to 6.4.1 is available if you want the details.
I’ve mentioned it before, but custom live images are possible. Related: mkisofs(8) is no longer needed to build.
This Wednesday, Jim Brown presents on QEMU at NYCBUG’s monthly meeting. Go, if you are near, but RSVP first so you can get in. It should be streamed too.
Unofficial theme: synthesizers!
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- How to Build a Chess Engine and Fail. (via)
- cablesoft. Finally, a ‘computers are bad’ story where I experienced (some of) the history described.
- Jon Makes Beats. Seeing synthesizers and samplers in use. (via)
- More synthesizer stuff: the Orchid. (via)
- Even more: Music Thing Modular Workshop System. (via)
- Using (only) a Linux terminal for my personal computing in 2024.
- more tales of the unscreenshotable.
- AI-powered Self Service Checkouts.
- Why pipes sometimes get “stuck”: buffering. (via)
- Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web. (via)
- Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground. Tabletop RPG history. (via)
- A Margaret Hamilton’s worth of printed code. (via)
- What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen. (also via)
Your video experience of the week: Hundreds of Beavers. This was played in a theater in my town months ago and I missed it. I should have gone to see it on the big screen, but here it is on YouTube. (via)
A ‘first try’ document for DragonFly.
George Rosamond is presenting on the 20th anniversary of I think the longest-lived BUG, NYCBUG, tonight. Go if you are near (and RSVP so they can let you in), but it’s also going to be streamed.
It’s for COBUG, and details are available here.
Yao Ge has created a new DragonFly mirror in Nanjing, China. It’s on the mirrors page too.
ChiBUG is meeting in the normal place tomorrow on the 19th. Go, if you are near. (Plans changed after I posted this.)
SemiBUG is having a meeting tomorrow, the 21st, with a presentation on shell scripting. It’ll be online through Jitsi. Slides from Nick Holland’s last presentation are available, for the curious.
Hardening scripts for BSD. There should be a DragonFly-specific one eventually.
I’m glomming all BSD and not-BSD into these roundup posts. I don’t think they need to be separate.
- The Apple ][ Age, a new book. (via)
- Let’s Make Sure Github Doesn’t Become the only Option. (via)
- The Cocoa Press Chocolate 3D Printer.
- Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop. (via)
- Xterm: It’s better than you thought. (via and via)
- A look at terminal emulators, part 1.
Sensenmann: Code Deletion at Scale. (via) - The NYCBUG presentation on GeFS from a few days ago is now online.
- More NYCBUG in the future!
- Ancient Myths and Open Source.
- intpm(4), the smbus power control I didn’t know existed.
- NetBSD AGM2023: Annual General Meeting, May 13. Nicely open.
- The Museum of Screens. (via)
- The Internet Isn’t Meant To Be So Small. (also via)
- Drass: Shadow of Doubt. Cubism makes a comeback. (also also via)
Back by popular demand.
- 50 Shades of Rust, or emerging Rust GUIs in a WASM world. Everything has its own name and language, and there’s 20 of them! Great! (via)
- Review of Six Text Editors. Fun hot takes on old-school editors. (via)
- Calculators, codes, and hidden messages. (via)
- textart.sh. Copy/paste almost anywhere. (via)
- The Modern WWW.
- WizardKnighting Planescape.
- How an 18th Century Sailing Battleship Works. Ostensibly for an upcoming movie, but I always think of the Aubrey/Maturin books.
- Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH.
- 130 A History Of The World According To Getty Images. Public domain does not mean public. (via)
- The 13 Levels of Complexity of Turntable Scratching.
- Junk Drawer Phone as a Music Streaming Server. (via)
- Of Sun Ray laptops, MIPS and getting root on them.
- Set up your own CalDAV and CardDAV servers on OpenBSD.
A happy thought for the new year: you may not have to rely on the Bernoulli Effect to retrieve data for the entire year!
It’s Long Article Title week!
- If only the kids knew about pipes
- OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop (via)
- FreeBSD Kernel Developer job at Klara
- The feasibility of pledge() on Linux (via)
- FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report – Third Quarter 2022
- How-to Guide: Binary Package Management on FreeBSD
- Avoid Infrastructure Vendor Lock-in by leveraging MinIO and OpenZFS
- Announcing the FreeBSD/Firecracker platform
- Installing and Using Research Unix Version 6 in the Open SIMH PDP-11 Emulator
- Keeping FreeBSD Secure: Learn the Whys and Hows with the FreeBSD Sec Team
- Valuable News – 2022/10/18
- NetBSD Arm on Oracle Cloud
- OpenBSD 7.2 Released
- BSD-XFCE (via)
- Newer NetBSD can still run on a 75 mHz Pentium
If you are using urtwn(4) for your USB network connection, it now supports the Edimax EW-7811Un chipset? model?.
If you’re moving your dsynth build to a different machine, there’s now a ‘list-system’ directive that lets you recreate the same setup in a new place.