It’s on Jitsi so you can totally attend. The announcement also mentions the next three months of presentations and who’s coming in to present. There’s some good (not necessarily BSD) content on the way.
Guess which link this week is a business decision I am maybe considering…
- Weird: Generative art in Common Lisp. More here from comments at source link.
- Print-your-own chocolate molds.
- All Sound Recordings Prior to 1923 Will Enter the US Public Domain in 2022.
- Related: An advent calendar of works becoming public domain in 2022.
- A list of links about fakery.
- In Praise of Glitches. I feel …nostalgic? about uuencoding errors in rebuilt images.
- 50 years of Text Games: 2018: Weyrwood.
- Parceiro: An Extraordinary Upgrade for Amiga 1000 Users.
- Fixing a Tiny Corner of the Supply Chain.
Again, trying to clean out the Solene links in my RSS feed – and not succeeding!
- Following the Unix philosophy without getting left-pad. Misses the point that the Unix (and BSD) philosophy was that the base system was complete and self-hosting. (via)
- Unix philosophy without left-pad, Part 2: Minimizing dependencies with a utilities package. Here is more. (via)
- NanoPi R4S – ARM64- FreeBSD. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/12/13.
- Secure Containerized Browser. Similar to this on DragonFly.
- OpenZFS Native Encryption.
- BSDDialog. You probably already have this installed. (via)
- Using awk to pretty-display OpenBSD packages update changes.
- Port of the week: cozy.
- What are the VPN available on OpenBSD[?]
You didn’t need it or use it, but the name itself has a certain symbolism.
I feel like it’s perfect that the first article linked in this week’s BSD Now is for GhostBSD, since this is exactly the right date for that pun.
ChiBUG meets tonight, in person. RSVP and go, if you are near.
There’s some gift ideas in here.
- The Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute. Styles and time periods. (via)
- d20 Orbs.
- Robot Arm Clock. Entertainingly dumb. (via)
- postmarketOS, an indirect explanation.
- SerenityOS, an indirect explanation.
- Meet the Self-Hosters, Taking Back the Internet One Server at a Time. (via)
- Related and same source: r/selfhosted.
- Have Vint Cerf tell you about how he and others built the Internet.
- The Ether, an anti-radio. This seems like a good Christmas present to me. (via)
- This can’t work out well. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games: 2015: Lifeline, 2016: The Freshman, and 2017: Universal Paperclips.
- The Analog Thing. (via)
A little short this week but the holidays are catching up to me.
- The Apple Macintosh as a User Interface Agent for Unix Systems. (via)
- BSDCan 2022 is going to happen and maybe even in person. The call for papers is out.
- ChiBUG is meeting this Tuesday, the 14th.
- FreeBSD 12.3 is out.
- Valuable News – 2021/12/06.
- Using FreeBSD’s pkg audit to Investigate Known Security Issues.
- LLDB FreeBSD kernel core dump support.
- FreeBSD on Slimbook — 14 months of updates.
- TrueNAS 12.0U7 is out.
- Cross-platform package building: Pkgsrc vs. Ravenports, parts one and two.
- Active Directory not-on-Windows, might be useful.
- A bit on what Unix system pre-boot environments used to look like.
If you are running bleeding-edge DragonFly _and_ installed the newest dports binary package build _and_ you are using Samba, you may need to update and rebuild.
This week’s BSD Now talks about HAMBUG, the BUG meeting I don’t catch enough, plus ZFS news.
Tomohiro Kusumi has removed the old GNU implementation of ext2fs from DragonFly and added the non-GPL-encumbered FreeBSD implementation of ext2fs.
There are some stealth links here to much more reading, if you look carefully.
- mepo, Open Street Map data app. I didn’t think something like OSM could be built collectively but I am glad to be wrong. (via)
- I will pay you cash to delete your npm module.
- What is not portable.
- IBM 5110 Emulator. IBM’s first “portable”. (also via)
- Orgdown – a New Lightweight Markup Standard for Text Documents. I just like the portmanteau. (via)
- Jumping in at the Deep End – On Starting Reading a Series Halfway Through. I did this for Finder, and I think it was more enjoyable for me.
- Johnny Decimal. Not a bad idea. (via)
- Every business process secretly wants to fail.
- IFComp 2021 Results.
- Human Non-Universals, or: Make Your Own Vancian Culture ™. Makes more sense if you’ve read Jack Vance. Which you should, he’s in Appendix N.
- The History of Command Palettes: How Typing Commands Became The Norm Again. (via)
- A good gift guide. Remember my perpetual suggestions too.
Not just release announcements this week.
- NYCBUG is down today for a significant hardware move.
- FOSDEM 2022 is going to have a BSD Devroom. It’s online, so you can submit prerecorded talks – submissions due December 31.
- Valuable News – 2021/11/29.
- GhostBSD 21.11.24 ISO is now available.
- mfs: sometimes useful?
- Exploring NetBSD’s msgs(1). (via)
- Review: Netgate 6100.
- FreeBSD article writers needed. I’ve linked to Klara Systems before.
- Speaking of which, UNIX Wars – The Battle for Standards.
- New Test System. OpenBSD storage book is next apparently.
- HardenedBSD November 2021 Status Report.
- doas insults. This is a gem. (via)
- The previous link led me to 9front’s theo.
- Simple network dashboard with vnstat.
- The state of Steam on OpenBSD.
- Logitech MX Keys and MX Master on OpenBSD using Logi Bolt.
- OpenBSD Webzine #5.
There’s a new build of binary packages for DragonFly, based off the 2021Q4 quarterly ports release. This will require an upgrade of most if not all packages cause of a switch from LibreSSL to OpenSSL as the default SSL library.
I missed last week’s BSD Now – 430: OpenBSD Onwards – and there’s this week, 431: FreeBSD EC2 Agents.
No mini-theme this week.
- Cracking the Adventure Time Cipher. (via)
- The Tildeverse Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup server is fixed. There’s a tilde DCSS server?
- I Have No TV. Gobs of documentaries. (via)
- Concert Roulette. (also via)
- Building WireGate: A WireGuard front to detect compromised keys. (via)
- T700 Crowdfunding. More Thinkpad life extension. (via)
- Tiny Emus. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games: 2013: A Family Supper and 2014: 80 Days.
- Homebrew Game Characteristics.
- Plain Text Project Tools Roundup November 17, 2021.
- One of these JPEGs is not like the other.
- Pirijan Uses This. A different style UT answer than I’ve seen before.
- Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit. (video, via)
- Cambridge, another falling-blocks game. Check the Other Notable Games links at the end. (via)
Relatively quiet this week for BSD items, but it’s a holiday week in the US.
- Valuable News – 2021/11/22.
- Project Report: Add support for chdir(2) support in posix_spawn(3).
- Why V7 Unix matters so much.
- Wired XBox 360 Controller minor issue.
- Torn between getting a used thinkpad vs a new Chromebook.
- OpenZFS 3.0 Introduced at Developer Summit.
- OctoPkg: A Great GUI Package Manager In FreeBSD. (via)
- How to Access Your Modem’s Web Interface with OPNsense. (via)
- Where in the Stack?
- OpenBSD on the VIA Eden X2 powered HP t510 Thin Client.
Linked here cause maybe it’ll help someone else with synproxy and pf in DragonFly: synproxy state doesn’t work in Packet Filter.