1. cd /var/hammer
2. cd var/[date of last good snapshot]/db/mysql
3. cpdup -VV -v . /var/db/mysql

I am writing this down in part because I am sure I’ll need it again in a few years.

• The Terminal Demise Of Consumer Electronics Through Subscription Services.
• Why I prefer rST to markdown.  Nobody remembers SGML, but everyone reinvents it.  (via)
• gpart on FreeBSD to partition and format a USB key.
• stylish bugs.
• The Magic Switch.  Surely I’ve mentioned this story before?  This is the actual hardware.
• Box131: You’re a National Security Project, Harry.  Read the first point, about accuracy and how it can be counterproductive.
• Yet Another Roguelike Tutorial, Parts 0 and 1.  (via)
• The current (2025) crawler plague and the fragility of the web.
• Related to the previous: “Bro, ban me at the IP level if you don’t like me!”
• And more followup: A neat idea, but I can see this leading to the Balkanization of the Internet.
• VIC-20 Ultima I.  (via)
• My other email client is a daemon.  (via)

• You’ll have to scroll a bit, but: Hal Foster images.  (via)
• A modern version of the 1968 game Hammurabi.  (via)
• I feel open source has turned into two worlds.
• Classic Computer Replicas.  (via)
• Deep Fishing, a Sinclair game.  (indirectly via)
• FIST, a paranormal A-Team RPG.  (via)
• XScreenSaver 6.11 out – for the Wayland experimenters.
• listfile: help your scripts process a list of things.
• Blink and you’ll miss it! 4096 colours and flashing text on the console!
• KDE Plasma 6.4 has landed in OpenBSD.
• pkgsrc-2025Q2 has been released.
• The Apple Johnathan, new to me.  (via)
• Microscope RPG, a GMless game for building a world.  (via, via)
• my official list of post-glitch.com hosting options.
• How to install FreeBSD on providers that don’t support it with mfsBSD.  I’ve linked to this sort of method before.
• Ghostty is available for FreeBSD, from a comment last week.

Your unrelated music link of the week: Beanbag metal.

• A Retrospective on the Source Code Control System.  SCCS, summarized by the guy who wrote it, 50 years later.  (via)
• Coding font comparison, the game.  (via)
• The new Public Domain Image Archive.
• “/bin/sh: the biggest Unix security loophole“.  A more fun read than the format would lead you to believe.  (via)
• The Visible Zorker.  This is quite a gem.
• Can you complete the Oregon Trail if you wait at a river for 14272 years: A study.  (via)
• What’s involved in getting a “modern” terminal setup?  (via)
• a grep that doesn’t stuck.  Not a typo.
• A tale from the time_t mines:
• Using tcpdump to see only incoming or outgoing traffic.
• What a FreeBSD kernel message about your bridge means.

Your unrelated music of the week: Tenebre Rosso Sangue by KEYGEN CHURCH.

• BUTTERICK’S PRACTICAL TYPOGRAPHY.  A very pretty site to read, unsurprisingly.  (via)
• SmolBSD: make your own BSD UNIX MicroVM.  (via)
• Email DNS Records Cheatsheet.
• Timeline of the xz open source attack.
• “Further Explorations” Now Available!  If you missed the 50 Years of Text Games book.
• The Mask of the Sun, a playthrough.  The first of several articles, posted simply because I remember every screen in it.
• The Wi-Fi only works when it’s raining.  (via)
• Kyrios, a fun blackletter font.  (via)
• Ways of Seeing, the website.  I’ve mentioned that show before.  (via)
• “read, write, own” web.  (via)
• Read Me #5.  Linked not for any particular segment, but for the writing style.
• BSDCan 2024 registration is open.

• The Voyager Keyboard.
• Important efibootmgr(8) Command.
• Shift Happens is a fantastic set of books.  Sold out, but dig around in the companion for gems like this.
• History of the supercomputer, a video.  (via)
• Post-Scarcity Web Mapping.  (via)
• A history of the tty.  In-depth!
• The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set, Math’s Famed Fractal.  (via)
• Player vs. Monster, a video game talk.  (via)
• nixbsd: An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel.  (via)
• RGBtoHDMI, converts old computer RGB outputs to newer video with a Pi.  (via, via)

1. Install VcXsrv (or your X server of choice) on Windows and start it up.
2. Install xauth and xterm on the DragonFly host.
3. On the DragonFly host, set these three options in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.  They are already there but commented out with different arguments.

   X11Forwarding yes
   X11DisplayOffset 0
   X11UseLocalhost yes

4. Reload sshd: ‘service sshd reload’.
5. ‘Enable X11 Forwarding’ under Connection -> SSH -> X11 in the puTTY setup dialog.

Connect to the DragonFly host with puTTY, type ‘xterm’, and a terminal window should appear on your Windows desktop within a few seconds.  This could be turned into a shortcut with puTTY to avoid having redundant terminals, but I’m not writing that out yet.

I had /etc/dma.conf set with MAILNAME shiningsilence.com – so dma kept delivering overnight periodic results to root, which was aliased to justin@shiningsilence.com in /etc/mail/aliases and so it was delivered to ‘justin’ locally on the machine.

Changing MAILNAME to www.shiningsilence.com – the host you are reading right now – fixed the problem.  Now, whether this was an automatically set config or something I misconfigured some years ago… I can’t tell.