August 2024 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2024/08/252024/08/20

Lazy Reading for 2024/08/25

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)

2024/08/182024/08/13

Lazy Reading for 2024/08/18

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)

2024/08/112024/08/07

Lazy Reading for 2024/08/11

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)

2024/08/042024/08/04

Lazy Reading for 2024/08/04

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)