If you delete all your installed packages, you will also lose the certificate used by pkg to verify the connection to download new ones. There’s several workarounds for this problem.
A complete set of new dports binaries have been built, for 5.8 and for -current, so now is a good time to upgrade. Update to 5.8.3 if you haven’t yet, while you are at it.
Roy Marples helped out with the news drought (for me) by committing dhcpcd 9.3.0 to DragonFly. There’s a few user-affecting changes in there.
Hardware is the mini-theme this week, I think.
- Open source job with a cool title: Director Of Product, Disinformation at Wikimedia.
- Boring title but huge impact: Software engineer for BIND 9.
- Elite – the annotated source. Quite readable, even if you don’t know assembly. (via)
- Glitch techniques. (via)
- Hacking a gopher client into the Alpha Micro. I don’t even recognize the computer! (via)
- Built To Last. A story about COBOL. (via)
- ScummVm now runs Colossal Cave Adventure. (via)
- Open@RIT. There’s a name you should recognize on the advisory board.
- David Fletcher’s photogrammetry models of London. (via)
- Playing chess by email. Used to happen by snail mail!
- Guided Tour of the Precursor Motherboard. Followup from last week. It has a self-destruct mode – seriously!
- How to multiply currents: Inside a counterfeit analog multiplier. Linked for the cool analog computer picture.
- Roguelike Celebration T-shirts.
- Admiral Grace Hopper also drew. (via)
No theme, but lots to read.
- Default window manager switched to CTWM in NetBSD-current. (via)
- OpenBSD on Desktop (Part I) and OpenBSD on Desktop (Part II). (via and via)
- FreeBSD Journal 2020/07-08 – Benchmarking/Tuning. I keep missing the new issues; no RSS feed. (via)
- FreeBSD 12.2-BETA3 Available.
- “Even if you’ve never heard of OpenSSH, you’ve also benefited from it.“
- Wayland on NetBSD – trials and tribulations.
- Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] RumpKernel Syscall Fuzzing.
- Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Curses Library Automated Testing.
- About pipelining OpenBSD ports contributions.
- Ingo announces pta (Plain Text Accounting). Only tangentially BSD, but it’s interesting how many text-only accounting programs there are.
- k2k20 hackathon report: Rafael Sadowski on KDE and other packages progress.
- Valuable News – 2020/09/28.
- ESET file server antivirus scanner on MidnightBSD.
This week’s BSD Now has FuryBSD, FreeBSD, and LDAP as topics, and I’m describing it that way because I feel like writing as many capital letters as possible.