DragonFly BSD Digest

No theme this week.

• Distributed Cooperation
• Copilot lawsuit.  Happening with images too but not as obvious yet.
• Barilla’s open source tool for perfect pasta.  Is the app open source?  Couldn’t tell.
• Pimping my Casio with Oddly Specific Objects’ alternate motherboard and firmware   (via)
• In praise of ffmpeg
• More Thoughts About Dongles.  2FA TOTP mechanisms are sorta The New Dongle, arguably.
• The wonderful tee(1) command
• One more MOS 7600 Pong: Coleco Telstar Gemini

Your unrelated music link of the week: Death In Vegas – Zugaga.  I heard it on the radio and thought it was a remix of something eighties – Vangelis?

No theme this week.

• Going where BeOS NetPositive hasn’t gone before: NetPositive+.
• Haiku Activity & Contract Report, September 2022.  (via)
• The most important standard in development today.
• Last chance to preorder the “50 Years” book!
• Bea Wolf, a story.
• ISC DHCP Server has reached EOL.  20 years ago this was the only real reliable DHCP server I could find.  (via)
• Make Things Bigger Part One.
• Exploring the Cutting Edge of Desktop ARM Hardware.  Not there yet.
• Retrospective: Adventure.
• The Floppotron 3.0.  (via)
• Community Governance Outside the Web’s Dictatorships.

“New commandline tools” is the mini-theme.

• UML: My Part in its Downfall.
• BSing at 300 Bits Per Second.
• The top 10 things about blog and IT you should know.  Clever.
• Unix, Plan 9 and the Lurking Smalltalk.  (via)
• VSIG Lecture on the Public Packet Infrastructure.  (via)
• Software engineering practices.
• Open Book Abridged.
• The appeal of small computers.  (via)
• Projecting Parallels in Archi Comics.
• Awesome Terminals.
• Nerd Fonts.  Common terminal fonts with added image glyphs.
• Oh My Posh, prompt configs for any shell.
• Modern UNIX.

Your unrelated video of the week: Bollards.  SheepFilms are fun.  Also: Potato House.

• My Top 10 Favorite Imaginary Settings (Part I) and Part 2.
• On the strange joys of mainframe OSes and legacy tech that has survived into modern times.  (via)
• The MIPS ThinkPad, kind of.  I have one of these.
• the nevada national security site pt 4.
• Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers, follow-up.
• Stupid Shit No One Needs And Terrible Ideas Hackathon Toronto.  MMOPong, for instance.  (via)
• A short history of the drum machine.  (via)
• So when did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?”
• The Best Command-Line-Only Video Games.  Kinda a listicle and no BSD-specific checks, I know.  (via)
• Plan9port, cause of something I read.
• Oral Histories of Museum Computing.  (via)

3 months until Christmas!

• Building the future of the command line.
• Working Offgrid Efficiently.
• Alternatives to Bloatware, found in the previous link.
• Ranking Vance’s SF and Fantasy Novels.
• The VCF East Swap Meet is coming up.
• Computing’s Woodstock.  People in 1976 talking about their projects for the first time, like ENIAC and Colossus, no biggie.  (via)
• Espresso machine historic gallery.  (via)
• Atari 2600 joystick port history.
• The Prelinger Archives.  Hours of ephemeral video.
• Running PalmOS without PalmOS.  (via)
• The phrase “open source” (still) matters.
• Because We Still Have Net 1.0.
• Authenticated SMTP and IMAP authentication attacks and attempts we see here.
• I don’t know how to solve prompt injection and You can’t solve AI security problems with more AI.
• The Quintessential Dungeon.  (via)

Oddities this week.

• Text-to-image for my inbox.  Random subjects into pictures.
• How we monitor the temperature of our machine rooms.  Linked for the reminder I need to look at that hardware.
• Bootstrapping the Old fashioned Way.  So… painful!
• The Open Source Rotary Cell Phone, 2 years later.  Surely I linked it before.
• A retro style online SSH client to play Nethack.  (via)
• Connectix Quickcam, the first webcam.  Designed by a studio in Schenectady, NY, which I happened to visit just after the product release.
• The Nevada National Security Site.  Here’s part 2 and part 3.
• Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3.
• XScreenSaver 6.05 out now.