NYCBUG is having a streaming-only event at 6:45 PM eastern tonight, with Jim Brown presenting on QEMU. Go, if you are near a computer. Also join IRC on #nycbug on Libera, too.
I don’t have a good link for the SDF item; their mailing list doesn’t appear to have a public archive, or I haven’t found it. SSH will get you there faster anyway.
- DragonFly: git: rtld – do not allow both dynamic DTV index and static TLS offset. Useful if p5-DBD-mysql is failing for you.
- inetd and daemons, a 4 part series.
- Moving my FreeBSD laptop to a Thinkpad X1 Carbon G6. Linked cause I just handled a newer X1 recently; might replace my ancient x220. More links in article.
- You can now play WUMPUS and OREGON TRAIL on the sigma-9 instance at sdf.org.
- Technical Marvels, Part 8: Historical Surveying Instruments. (via)
- Next NYC*BUG: 2024-11-06 @ 17:45 EST “Life with a FreeBSD Laptop” by Brian Reynolds. RSVP if you are going, so you can get in the facility.
- What Are The Civilian Applications?
- Building a game with the Real Engine. A heck of a lot of work but the results will be unique. (via)
- revealing the fediverse’s gifts. (via)
- Paper types ranked by likelihood of paper cuts.
- Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old.
- Broughlike.
All over the place this week.
- DragonFly: Replace gnu diff, diff3, and sdiff with BSD versions.
- RSA DSA challenged (again)
- Peripheral Component Interconnect.
- Lillian Schwartz and an early UNIX… mobile?. (via)
- Fall mystery games. Linked for the second game reviewed.
- HTML for People.
- The Conspiracy Capitaliser.
- Periodical 20 — Localized Computing,
- Psychogeographic Review. Indirectly via the last link.
- Trevor Flowers rebuilds: the Memex and Alto. Also via previous.
- The IPv6 Transition. (via)
BSD mini-theme.
- Histories of the Greater West. Charts! Graphs! Excellent use of character encoding!
- Cabinet of curiosities: A bunch of cryptographic protocol oddities. (via)
- Trebuchet for sale. (via)
- The Future Looking Back At Us: Joanne McNeil on Cyberpunk. (via)
- The uConsole, as recommended by you! Specifically this.
- Filtered for time and false memory. Conspiracy theory, but fun.
- Open-AMP: My OpenBSD Alternative to Devilbox/XAMPP.
- EuroBSDcon 2024 in Dublin, Ireland: some notes after the conference.
- OpenBSD Webzine 18.
- Roguelike Celebration 2024 is happening now. See the merch and the Steam sale,
- Plasma6 and FreeBSD 14. Probably applies somewhat to other BSDs.
- Commoning. I opened 7 more tabs following up on what I read in that article, so it must be useful.
- 3rd Annual International Crisp Sandwich Day, this week on the 25th.
Accidental theme: terminal colors.
- What happens to “.io” TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands? (via)
- Aesthetic Command Lines.
- Terminal colours are tricky. (via)
- TerminalTinder. (via)
- Wulfwald Bundle of Holding. OD&D compatible and Anglo-Saxon themed.
- awktober, and 30 days of it. (via)
- Unicode shenanigans: Martine écrit en UTF-8. (via)
- A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase or lowercase.
- Forums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information. (via)
- echo “You’re not in the editor, Bernie.”
- Flyer Screens.
- ipmi.
No theme this week.
- Filtered for home robots, fast and slow. I’d buy many of these if they were commercially available.
- Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea. Breakdown of a breakdown in trust.
- Roguelike Celebration 2024 full schedule.
- Visual guide to SSH tunneling and port forwarding. (via)
- Bell Systems Letters and Memos. (via)
- Bell Systems Technical Journals, 1922-1996. (via)
- Related: units(1) exists because of a 24-hour AT&T library.
- Why “Run Your Own Mail Server” is not in Amazon’s Kindle store. Monopsony described.
- Guided By Vices.
- 30 year anniversary of trip hop. (via)
- When the Mismanagerial Class Destroys Great Companies. I agree about the zombification bit at the end. (via)
- Departure Mono. I can hear the greenbar Tektronix printer running, just looking at this.
Next NYCBUG meeting is Wednesday night, and you need to RSVP if you’re going to be there in person. It sounds like there’s going to be a nice roundup of EuroBSDCon experiences and also the video … team? squad? support.
Tab cleanout!
- How computers remained unpatented. (via)
- 50 years of New Worlds magazine, archived. (via)
- THE CYBERIZER, Mk.2.
- Cyberdelia 2024 – look at the D20 and 2D16 drink menus for fun.
- Small Internet protocol roundup. (via)
- You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks.
- Programming the Convergent WorkSlate’s spreadsheet microcassette future. An 80s spreadsheet tablet.
- ten years ago i let people fuck up my 8-bit art.
- Eadgar of Poe, ‘Þe Hræfn’. þ is pronounced ‘th’ if it helps.
- The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine. (via)
- The agony and the ecstasy of, um, hardware products.
A bit short this week; I’ve been traveling.
- G4 Mac Mini Is A Wolf In Apple IIc Clothing.
- Origin of the ‘more’ command. (via)
- The Doc Web. (via)
- Balance of Power, a game I never heard of.
- Technical Marvels, Part 6: Musical Automatons.
- rc, the paper, and rc, designed and redesigned for UNIX shell. (via)
- SQLite exists because of battleship database failure. And other things. (via)
- POSSE, Publish On your Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. I see this more often now from writers that I would call Serious. (via)
A bit more… artsy? this week.
- Coding Together on the Apple II+. Mostly I just like the site design. (via)
- Introducing MNT Reform Next. Might replace my ancient, indestructible X220.
- Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison.
- DOOM on a volumetric display.
- “Run Your Own Mail Server” Auction for BSD Conference AV Team. Closes today!
- A new BSD made out of old BSDs. (via)
- Every Single Company’s Website Right Now. Also 2000s Business Names. (both via)
- The Moral Economy of the Shire. (via)
- ‘Images Heard And A Music Seen’: A Conversation With The Brothers Quay. (via)
Your unrelated music link of the week: DJ Krush – Strictly Turntablized.
No mini-theme this week.
- nmap in the movies. (via)
- “This is the first image taken from space.”
- “THE HIVEMIND SWARMED, an oral history exploring Gamergate’s aftermath”.
- Roguelike Celebration Preview Event! September 8th, so in a few hours.
- Related: Roguelike Celebration 2024 Speakers. Each individual speaker’s presentation sounds like an article I’d link here.
- Email addresses almost became backwards to what we all know now. (notice the author)
- Dead Media Project. More vanished technology than I’ve ever seen. (via)
- Programming-related rants. (also via)
- BRIEFLY NOTED: Non-Fiction That Could Be RPG Sourcebooks. (via)
- Unraveling character webs. I love the diagrams and don’t know any of the books. (via)
After the initial notes, this is a week to dedicate some time to reading; these are more intense than usual.
- Sept 4 NYC*BUG: GEFS: The Long road to Production Use, Ori Bernstein. Go if you are near, and there are plans to stream if you are not near.
- Speaking of streaming, the NYCBUG group has done a significant amount of work on streaming open-source meetings; now you can contribute (tax-advantaged) to it.
- OK, now for the reading bits.
- The Tic-Tac-Toe Mysteries of Xerloc O’Xolmes.
- In Which Graphic Novels Are Optimized for Portability.
- Dinosaur’s Pen, old tech media images. (via)
- No apps no masters.
- Fight On! Returns.
- The rich history of ham radio culture.
- Steampunk strandbeest.
- SSH has become our universal (Unix) external access protocol.
- Generating Mazes. (via)
- The Dying Computer Museum. A good reason to pay attention to the Computer History Museum, SDF’s Interim Computer Museum, or the not-enough-people-know-it iCHEG.
- Vibing With Some Tunes and a Retro Wave Slideshow on the Apple IIe. Synthwave already has early Apple visual associations; this seems like a perfect match.
Links are all over the map, but I mostly cleared my tab backlog.
- Random sightings of UNIX in odd places. Also Vim. (mostly via)
- Related: the classic not-UNIX page.
- A note to myself about using traceroute to check for port reachability. Includes BSD comparisons.
- Level Titles: Fighters and Thieves. Linked cause I like the title “Filcher”.
- Gotta Block ’em All. AI scrapers are the new port scanners.
- Remote Desktop using RDP and VNC.
- FreeBSD Software Picks July 2024, a video. (via)
- Fictional Brands Archive. (via)
- Diagrams without context. (also via)
- The Cremaster Cycle is on the Internet Archive. Warning: art film, crazy. (via)
Odd hardware week.
- Repository Statistics. That’s way more package repos than I expected. (via)
- The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins. (via)
- A short history of the 909 in 16 songs. (via)
- DMARC Vendors. (via)
- Sign up to support the Interim Computer Museum.
- … because you can actually use the exhibits.
- Technical Marvels, Part 5: Chess Automatons.
- asciiker, a game that is vaguely roguelike but also 3D – right-click and rotate. (via)
- When does The Phantom Tollbooth take place?
- minuteman missile communications.
- Sensorwatch, put a tiny computer in your Casio wristwatch. (via)
- Michael W. Lucas’s next book might be It’s Always DNS.
- Indirectly related, Full-featured email server running OpenBSD
- E-ink digit clock.
- Replacing postfix with dma + auth, easy.
- Betrayal is the Internet’s business model.
- New Brothers Quay film on the way. No trailer, darnit. (via)
- “Weird Al” Yankovic – Polkamania! I am pretty sure it starts with a Cyriak animation. (via)
Oddities this week.
- Join the Interim Computer Museum. (via)
- containerization moves the learning period from “before deployment” to “during outages” I’m quoting a quote of a quote there.
- public.work, visually search public domain images. (via)
- And if you like that, read The mining of the public domain, an excellent analysis of public.work.
- A (Very) Brief Pictorial History of Beholders. Avery D&D-specific monster.
- defrag98.com. Never a good screen to see. (via)
- EuroBSDCon 2024 will be September 19-22 in Dublin.
- Leap smears, a proposal. “My back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that this scheme would work for about half a millennium”
- Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple. (via)
- Visualizing Sound and Graphic Traces, both are.na channels. (via)
- What the Microsoft Outage Reveals. Read it for the software engineering joke. (via)
- Back to BASIC. (also via)
- The Adler Archive of Underground Comix. (via)
- Putting your phone to sleep with a pillow. (via)
Your unrelated music videos for the day: DRASS – Reaperman. Taking advantage of AI image generation’s inaccuracy, though you bet is more disturbing. (via)
FINALLY cleaned out my inbox.
- NYCBUG Aug 7: Brian Callahan “Once again, I’ve done something no one asked for”
- (added after I published this) “Constructing Your Own Linux and FreeBSD Packages” at GoLUG August 7. Watch both.
- Beyond All Reason on OpenBSD, a video. (via)
- Hypercard Simulator. (via)
- Stephen King’s The Mist, 80’s text adventure.
- OpenBSD Workstation for the People.
- the contemporary carphone.
- Pretty pictures, bootable floppy disks, and the first Canon Cat demo. I find the Canon Cat interesting in a “what if…” sort of way.
- Barbarian Prince – Ultimate Edition. Solitaire D&D.
- How MetaFilter works.
- Unigram-X newsletters, early commercial UNIX history. (Scroll down)
- “in BLISS we don’t solve problems, we ELUDOM.“
- What’s neater than e-ink? Ferrofluid.
- Lamentations of the Flame Princess, free version. (via)
I am attempting to clear my link backlog but not succeeding.
- Deconstructing the Role-Playing Video Game. (via)
- From boiling lead and black art. Veers into UNIX history at the end. (via)
- A Look Back at StripWare.
- Escaping the software tar pit: model clashes and how to avoid them. (via)
- The Programmer Productivity Myth.
- Plan 9 ported to SPARC over a few days.
- More engineering case studies to dive into.
- You can see when Great Britain changed from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar by typing ‘cal 9 1752’. Just cause time is messy, it’s different for other countries.
- Also, time goes faster on the moon. That’s not a figure of speech.
- Video of Michael W. Lucas’s recent presentation on Run Your Own Mail Server at NYCBUG.
- State of Text Rendering 2024. (via)
- Esquire’s 75 best sci-fi books of all time. Feels clickbaity, but a good list for finding books you may not have read yet. (via)
I wanted to clear all the newsletters items I’ve saved, so you are getting links until my inbox no longer paginates.
- Just Use Postgres for Everything. (via)
- When web search failed me for Postgres.
- The Future of MySQL is Postgres. (target from previous link)
- From Cloud Chaos to FreeBSD Efficiency. Or any BSD. (via)
- Layers and Gateways, a historical view. Railways vs networks.
- The workstation you wanted in 1990, in your pocket.
- Paul Ceruzzi has a Substack.
- pkgsrc-2024Q2 is out.
- X Window System at 40. (via)
- Some TENEX history.
- Why shitty robots are the antidote of perfectionism, a video. Her store has neat stuff.
- Scifiinterfaces.com. I linked to this in 2013 but it’s still going. (reminded via)
- Largest old computer I’ve seen a person keep yet. (via)
- Tiny TV 2. (via)
- UNLICENSED: Bootlegging As Creative Practice, a book. (via)
- One Page Dungeon Reviews. (via)
Almost all links from saved emails instead of RSS, for once.
- The history of Alt+number sequences, and why Alt+9731 sometimes gives you a heart and sometimes a snowman.
- Geomys, a blueprint for a sustainable open source maintenance firm. (via)
- Entering text in the terminal is complicated. (via)
- PySkyWiFi: completely free, unbelievably stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights. (via)
- A Mini Monitor for a Pi. (via)
- July 19th: Will Wright interviews Chaim Gingold, author of “Building
SimCity”. Note the reversal. - It’s Easy. But Is It Easy Enough? Not necessarily advocating this.
- What You Get After Running an SSH Honeypot for 30 Days. (via)
- Culinary Bibliographic Metadata. The standards for library info look to me like a good example of a standard that evolved based on users, not commercial influence. (via)
- Related: Working with ACSM Files on Linux.
- BSDCan 2024 on video. Set aside time for watching these. (via)