March 2025 – DragonFly BSD Digest

Lazy Reading for 2025/03/30

No overriding theme this week, though several trends did start to crystallize.

FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands. I like the low-resources aspect. (via)
The HTML Review issue 3 and The HTML Review issue 4. Linked for the rotating table of contents / doorways table of contents; it’s neat. (via)
this page is under construction. Read to the end for more links. (via)
The Graphing Calculator Story, (via)
“A calculator app? Anyone could make that.” (via)
Manage UPS on FreeBSD. Linked cause it mentions how to turn off the beep.
BSDCan 2025 registration is open.
NarraScope registration is open too.
The cleanest VAX you’ll ever see,
Bolt Action, WWII minature gaming I’ve not seen before.
A USB interface to the “Mother of All Demos” keyset. Borrowing one of Englebart’s original chorded keysets is the startling thing here.

Lazy Reading for 2025/03/23

A lessons learned week.

Computer Science the Fun Way, a Humble Bundle. (via)
Fight On! issue 16 is out. (via)
FreeBSD and KDE Plasma generations. I think the right answer on versioning there.
Patrick Collision’s bookshelf. (via)
Framework 13 AMD Setup with FreeBSD. I could use a new laptop; this x220 is getting long in the tooth.
Silicon Valley’s thing about Great Men, a followup on the previous source.
Owning your own space and content is important.
Make yourself less valuable to tech companies. The sheer number of things you can turn off that are just extractive data about you is a sort of wake-up call. (via)
BBC Micro emulation directly in the browser. (via)
If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling. And leave extra cable length when you pull; everyone gets to learn this the hard way.

Lazy Reading for 2025/03/16

Done early!

Lazy Reading for 2025/03/09

The remainder of my tab cleanout from last week.

Lazy Reading for 2025/03/02

I had to get some of my tabs closed, so here’s a dump of some of them. Still have 30 to get through.

Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of ProVUE at MacWorld Expo! Rare to see software that started on a FatMac, still going. (via)
Auto-Download Your Kindle Books Before February 26th Deadline. Makes the alternatives look better.
The Perfect Pi Pico Portable Computer which led me to the more accessible DevTerm.
Related: the Ink Console. Read all the way through for more story.
The hardest working font in Manhattan. If you think that article’s in-depth, you should read the author’s book, Shift Happens – which I am halfway through.
Post-Quantum Cryptography in February 2025. Short version: start preferring AES now and deprecate ECDSA.
The Pocket Computer Museum. (via)
Analog vs. Digital? Nah. PC vs. Hardware. (via)