Lazy Reading – Page 3 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2023/05/282023/06/04

Links for 2023/05/28

Events and crazy things are the mini themes this week.

Mini Moog Model D. (via)
ChiBUG’s next meeting is May 30th.
NYCBUG has a double lightning talk on June 16th.
Also the July NYCBUG monthly meeting will be on the 12th instead of the 5th.
Internet Histories, Volume 7, Issue 2. “Let’s play something awful: a historical analysis of 14 years of threads” got me as a title. (via)
Hidden Door, roleplaying games via AI using existing genre writing. I don’t know how I feel about this. (via)
SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes. (via)
Niklaus Wirth and Donald Knuth, 1985 interview.
Just take a crowbar to it, glitches as storytelling techique.
Doom modding and assuming everything on the internet is probably fake.
What’s black, white, and red on 20 sides?
Hieroglyphic monkeys holding stuff.
BSDCan 2024 Reorganization. Michael W. Lucas is a fan of achievement/pain.
The Story Of Mel, the actual biography. I never thought this would be explored. (via)

Your unrelated music of the week: rekt.network. (via)

2023/05/212023/05/20

Links for 2023/05/21

Smushing BSD and Lazy Reading links together into one, again. Tell me if that’s good or bad from where you’re standing.

How To Survive, computing safely while on the road, from CCC 2019. (via)
Early Computer Art in the 50’s & 60’s. The sorts of images I love. (via)
degreeless.design. Some excellent, excellent books listed. (via)
My Top 10 Favorite D&D Monsters, part one and part two, and Magic Items, part one and part two.
Emulating the Casio Loopy with Phil Bennett. (via)
Rob Pike on the Origin of Unix Dot File Names. “Oops.” (via)
Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio to other devices.
Self-Hosted Bookmarks using DAV and httpd on OpenBSD.
cron(8) now supports random ranges with steps.
Exploring the CBSD virtual environment management framework – part 4: Jails (II).
Michael W Lucas on BSDNow.
Beepberry.
Hand 386 Delivers A “True 386 Processor” in a Handheld. (via)
Christopher Strachey and the Dawn of Interactive Text. Before program storage, even.

Your unrelated music of the week: DRASS – see it, say it, slaughtered. Another band name for Shardcore, which I have linked before. AI generated visuals if you can’t tell.

2023/05/142023/05/11

Links for 2023/05/14

Nostalgia / game styling is the inadvertent theme of the week.

1-bit pixel art of Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave off Kanagawa”. The layout of that site is fun. (via)
SpaceTraders: an API based game. (via)
From comments on the previous source: Text Elite.
The seven programming ur-languages. (via)
The Next Generation in Graphics, Part 2: Three Dimensions in Hardware.
The Chonky Pocket computer.
The Flexowriter which was I think the output from a version of the Whirlwind. (via)
Before UNIX daemons, there were gnomes.
AutoHotKey, which I always thought of as compensation for Windows not having a shell.

2023/04/302023/04/29

Links for 2023/04/30

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.

2023/04/21

3d history, GPS history, music you never heard

Some links: The Next Generation in Graphics Part 1, talking about the colossal shift in gaming that was Doom/Quake, and different kinds of differential, explaining how GPS is corrected. And here’s something unusual: Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band tracks with single instruments separated out by AI. You can more easily hear how unique John French’s drumming was/is.

2023/04/20

So many old machines

VCF East photos. Some of these machines are complete mysteries to me.

2023/04/10

LLM CLI

Large language model, via the command line.

2023/04/052023/04/04

Skipping a duopoly

Audiobooks Without Audible. Apple and Google have a financial incentive to make data loading that is on their platforms but outside of their marketplace as crappy as possible. (via)

2023/04/04

Against Innovation

Sometimes updates are bad. (via)

2023/04/03

Age of Average

The Age of Average, which applies to operating system / open source development these days too, I think.

2023/04/022023/03/31

Missing music

I haven’t done this in a while. Your unrelated music link of the week: Drifted Entities Vol. 2 by Healing Force Project. New electronic, but not modern.