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Lazy Reading for 2025/07/20

Justin Sherrill — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 12:03:51 +0000

I preassembled this list of links over time, so some of them have probably changed. For the “I’m sorry…” link, that just means more material.

Precision Clock Mk IV. Not kidding about the precision part. (via)
Calibre News. An excellent complement to RSS.
TMG, or Transmogrifier, a compiler for PDP-7. Not what I first thought. (via)
Mark V. Shaney, really an early LLM. (via) Plus, this followup.
Single-function devices in the world of the everything machine. I was in the same regional blizzard mentioned.
I’m sorry I’ve written a joke.
tmux cheat sheet. (also via)
The Webcomic List. This re-acquainted me with some comics I haven’t seen in years. (via I lost track, sorry)
Why Some Satellites Use NetBSD? (indirectly via)
can an email go 500 miles in 2025? A nice sequel of sorts to the 500-mile email.
The A2DVI gives the Apple II DVI and HDMI output.
Towards a Complete List of Excellent Medieval/Fantasy Combat Scenes.

Lazy Reading for 2025/05/18

Justin Sherrill — Sun, 18 May 2025 12:12:29 +0000

Dumbness or perhaps stupidity, today’s mini theme.

WebSysctl is Now Live! I like the idea of this, though it would be nicer to have it accessible on the machine where you need it. (via)
The GAFA Stack. Read section 3.
8 Bits & Still Brewin’.
Mute when Locked. (via)
Web Archives and Web Archiving – Introduction for Scholars and Students. You will need this, or at least wish you knew it better at some point. (PDF, via)
At one point, “..” did not exist.
Setting Up Anubis on FreeBSD via Implement Anubis to give the bots a harder time.
The amount of bot traffic has increased significantly, I assume to find content for AI, and ignoring robots.txt – and copyright. I don’t think people realize the scale of this. It’s causing a denial of service attack in server resources and developer time.
Related, see comments here for some mod_security blocking alternatives.
Post-Quantum Cryptography on NetBSD.
Make Stupid Things. (via)
The Wadsworth Constant, learned about in #5 here.
Dumbware, self-hosted solutions. I like this except for the dockering. (via)

Your unrelated audio of the week: Squarepusher’s Ultravisitor, remastered.

In Other BSDs for 2022/10/22

Justin Sherrill — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 03:03:44 +0000

It’s Long Article Title week!

In Other BSDs for 2022/10/15

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 12:53:12 +0000

Accidentally OpenBSD-heavy this week.

In Other BSDs for 2022/09/24

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 12:49:04 +0000

Check the first link; it’s time-dependent.

Happening tomorrow: Peter Hansteen presents to SEMIBUG about pf. It’s online and he’s certainly an authoritative speaker.
Desktop-installer: Use your Cleverness for Creativity. Note there’s multiple tabs within this writeup. (via)
A Quick Look at the History of Package Management on FreeBSD.
Open Source in Enterprise Environments – Where Are We Now and What Is Our Way Forward?
FreeBSD Cope with WiFi Fuckup.
AsiaBSDCon 2023 is happening. (via)
Analyzing BSD Kernels for Uninitialized Memory Disclosures using Binary Ninja. (via)
Your Comprehensive Guide to rc(8): FreeBSD Services and Automation.
How to Setup Apache/FCGID on NetBSD 9.3.
Valuable News – 2022/09/19.
“OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” draft done!

In Other BSDs for 2022/08/27

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 12:49:10 +0000

Catchup since I was on the road last week.

In Other BSDs for 2022/08/13

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 12:55:35 +0000

The last link has some interesting applications to try.

logcheck – egrep: trailing backslash (\).
Meta-programming in Shell. (via)
MGR, a pre-X windowing system that I’ve never knowingly seen before. (via)
The odd return value of the original 4.2 BSD gethostbyname().
NetBSD 9.3 released.
FreeBSD 2022Q2 report.
svnlite(1) removed from FreeBSD base.
Ada development on FreeBSD 13.1. (via)
FreeBSD 13.0 EOL.
Valuable News – 2022/08/08.
/usr/games removed from the default $PATH. (OpenBSD)
What softwares do you recommend to a daily use BSD system?

In Other BSDs for 2022/08/06

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 12:54:22 +0000

Some useful tips hidden in there this week.

How to use two gpus (intel and nvidia) attached to two monitors on FreeBSD.
Freshly installed NetBSD booting on a 80386 DX40 with 8MB of RAM. MB.
OPNSense 22.7 released. (via)
Advocating for FreeBSD in 2022 and Beyond.
Valuable News – 2022/08/01.
Ten Things To Do After Installing FreeBSD. The source link has a good comment about what’s wrong with sudo as currently used. Also, I did not know about .hushlogin.
Even more randomness.
HardenedBSD July 2022 Status Report.
depenguin.me, reminded of this FreeBSD-on-shared-host-install by this Hetzner news.
A brief history of looking up host addresses in Unix. Ugh, NIS.
Run FreeBSD 13.1 for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac with HVF Acceleration. (via)
Microsoft’s Xenix – Microsoft tries their hand at UNIX.

In Other BSDs for 2022/07/23

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 12:53:50 +0000

No mini-theme this week.

An assortment of timestamp formats found in our (Unix) logs.
How efficient can cat(1) be?
NetBSD can also run a Minecraft server.
Related: rjc shows Minecraft running on OpenBSD too.
Also: DragonFly too; I did it.
Valuable News – 2022/07/18.
Game of Trees 0.74 released.
OpenBGPD 7.5 released.
Using BSD make for your (small) project. A mini-tutorial. (via)
NetBSD is using a fork of the tz database. There’s a backstory.
-current has moved to 7.2-beta.
What is the most minimalistic BSD for desktop?

In Other BSDs for 2022/07/16

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 12:49:40 +0000

Started with overflow from last week.

Toolchains adventures – Q2 2022.
Your next C compiler is a D compiler: Introducing DMD’s ImportC.
Comparative BSD cheatsheet?
From 0 to Bhyve on FreeBSD 13.1.
/bin/true used to be an empty file. (via)
How we run a Minecraft server.
Self-hosting a static site with OpenBSD, httpd, and relayd.
Looking for a USB WiFi adapter that is compatible with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD.
rpki-client 7.9 released.
Porting OpenBSD pledge() to Linux. (via)
How Unix didn’t used to support ‘#!’, a brief history.
Valuable News – 2022/07/11.
Desktop Environments Resource Usage Comparison. It’s been a long time since E17.
helloSystem version 14-experimental is tagged.

In Other BSDs for 2022/07/09

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 12:53:55 +0000

Lots to read this week.

In Other BSDs for 2022/06/11

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 12:55:24 +0000

A bit short cause I ran out of time.

qorg’s experiences with OpenBSD. (via)
The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system. (via)
Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset. (via)
NetBSD and Friends :MCH2022. (via)
Linux is native to the PC, FreeBSD isn’t?
PiDP-11: RECREATING THE PDP-11/70. Technically proto-BSD? I’ve linked to other stories about this hardware.

In Other BSDs for 2022/05/28

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 28 May 2022 12:44:30 +0000

I had a lot of links built up for this; finished early.

Valuable News – 2022/05/23.
deprecation of ${rcexec} in rc.d scripts.
Announcing Google Summer of Code 2022 projects. (NetBSD)
Welcome FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Participants.
Customizing NetBSD boot banners.
experimental-13.1-RELEASE for helloSystem.
NFS Server Inside FreeBSD VNET Jail.
Using a game engine to write a graphical interface to the OpenBSD package manager.
Blue Systems Farewell.
LibreSSL updated to 3.5.3.
Candlelit Console patch set to the framebuffer console.
Game Dev on (not for) BSD. Some good resource descriptions here.

NETBSD Annual General Meeting today

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 21 May 2022 13:16:37 +0000

The NetBSD Annual General Meeting is today.

In Other BSDs for 2022/05/14

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 14 May 2022 12:57:11 +0000

“BSD” is in almost every line as a title. Maybe not a surprise, but visually noticeable.

Paying a visit to planet BSD. (via)
Branching for NetBSD 10. (via)
Brainstorming Entropy for NetBSD. (via)
How to talk to a local IPMI under OpenBSD.
compiling an openbsd kernel 50% faster.
New FreeBSD How-To: Networking Basics: WiFi and Bluetooth.
where’s all the code?
May 17th 7 PM Detroit, MI time, Jason Tubnor will present on installing and configuring Xfce and KDE on FreeBSD.
May 21: NetBSD Annual General Meeting. That’s 1 week from now.
FreeBSD 13.1-RC6 available.
Valuable News – 2022/05/10.
How to contribute to the OpenBSD project.
VM (VM ( … This is weird/dangerous.

In Other BSDs for 2022/04/30

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 12:54:27 +0000

How-to week rather than updates week.

In Other BSDs for 2022/04/09

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 12:49:46 +0000

Last news item is the saddest.

Does swap still matter? I linked to an earlier iteration of the thread but there’s more.
System with a GNU userland and a BSD kernel.
FreeBSD 13.1-RC2 is out.
Making my pkg.conf configuration version independent.
Valuable News – 2022/04/04.
helloSystem 13.1-RC1.
Multiprocess support for LLDB.
Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS. Part 1 of 4.
Writing a NetBSD kernel module. (via)
TwinCAT/BSD Hypervisor. (via)
Bill Jolitz has passed away. (via)

In Other BSDs for 2022/04/02

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 13:02:42 +0000

Mini-ZFS theme this week.

OpenBSD Webzine #8.
Heap Overflow in OpenBSD’s slaacd via Router Advertisement. (via several places)
pkgsrc-2022Q1 is out.
Nixxers is back!
Need Help installing favorite game Trek73. Followup.
Does swap still matter? A long thread.
Toolchains adventures – Q1 2022.
ZFS Compatibility.
Should I Upgrade to OpenZFS 2.1?
Tuning Recordsize in OpenZFS.
Meet my two heroes from Unix world: Marshal Kirk and Eric Allman! (via)
FreeBSD/EC2: What I’ve been up to.
Valuable News – 2022/03/21 and 2022/03/28.
Keep your OpenBSD system cool with obsdfreqd.
Add support for XBox One gamecontroller.
HardenedBSD March 2022 Status Report.
paprok gets CDE running on NetBSD. Chunky chunky.

In Other BSDs for 2022/03/26

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 12:54:55 +0000

Note the new-to-me book news in there.

The NetBSD Foundation is a mentoring organization at Google Summer of Code 2022.
FreeBSD 13.1 beta2 is out.
Controlling Resource Limits with rctl in FreeBSD.
OpenBSD/arm64 on Apple M1 systems.
Testing parallel forwarding.
NetBSD is in Google Summer of Code 2022.
LibreSSL 3.5.1 development branch as well as 3.4.3 (stable) and 3.3.6 released.
iwx(4) gains 11ac 80MHz channel support.
Yet Another New Book: “Letters to ed(1)”. From the FreeBSD Journal Letters Column.
New Sponsorships Open, and More Crowdfunding. For OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems. There’s some interesting notes on Kickstarter in there too.
EuroBSDCon 2022 CFP is open.
an open source git server written in Elixir that works on OpenBSD. (via)
NetBSD Full system backups with FFS snapshots, ZFS and dump(8). (via)

In Other BSDs for 2022/03/12

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 13:56:38 +0000

No theme, but decent material.