I’m preposting this, so hopefully it is still accurate: SEMIBUG has a menu of lightning talks tonight. It’s online.
I managed to avoid a dominant theme this week. On purpose! I think it means a better summary.
- Build a tablet out of your Framework motherboard.
- In-browser retro-futuristic tank game, open source. (via)
- Laptoppin’ like 1975.
- The Pong you could program, possibly: the MOS 7600/7601.
- The Comics Journal has been publishing link roundups about comics – all kinds, including good ones – for quite some time. Here’s a recent one.
- The Spriter’s Resource. Sprites sprites sprites. (via)
- Plasma Tweeter.
- What I learned about markdown from interviewing a bunch of people.
- Decisions, decisions: Principles for making important choices in open source.
- Unhinged old newspaper reports lead to interesting ARPANET “first message” question.
- Reassembling a 3.5″ floppy. (via)
- Video Nub Shank.
The last link has some interesting applications to try.
- logcheck – egrep: trailing backslash (\).
- Meta-programming in Shell. (via)
- MGR, a pre-X windowing system that I’ve never knowingly seen before. (via)
- The odd return value of the original 4.2 BSD
gethostbyname(). - NetBSD 9.3 released.
- FreeBSD 2022Q2 report.
- svnlite(1) removed from FreeBSD base.
- Ada development on FreeBSD 13.1. (via)
- FreeBSD 13.0 EOL.
- Valuable News – 2022/08/08.
- /usr/games removed from the default $PATH. (OpenBSD)
- What softwares do you recommend to a daily use BSD system?
This week’s BSD Now has a bunch of how-to-do-this links, as you might guess from the headline.
Predrag Punosevac has some notes on how he cleaned up some HAMMER drives and freed up half his disk space.
Some cranky links, some fun links.
- Re-reclaimed from nature: Resurrecting a DT80 terminal. I’ve seen hardware worse off than this come back… but rarely.
- Amazon is incentivized to support ripoffs. (via)
- It’s not just books, either.
- The Blessed Valley of Mild Proficiency. (via)
- The Gametank game console.
- rePalm. (via)
- 40 years of AutoCAD. (via)
- Emacs Timeline. (via)
- Mapmaking as a Game within a Game.
- Nam June Paik’s Wobbulator. (indirectly via)
Unrelated game of the week: Hexagonal Pipes.
Some useful tips hidden in there this week.
- How to use two gpus (intel and nvidia) attached to two monitors on FreeBSD.
- Freshly installed NetBSD booting on a 80386 DX40 with 8MB of RAM. MB.
- OPNSense 22.7 released. (via)
- Advocating for FreeBSD in 2022 and Beyond.
- Valuable News – 2022/08/01.
- Ten Things To Do After Installing FreeBSD. The source link has a good comment about what’s wrong with sudo as currently used. Also, I did not know about .hushlogin.
- Even more randomness.
- HardenedBSD July 2022 Status Report.
- depenguin.me, reminded of this FreeBSD-on-shared-host-install by this Hetzner news.
- A brief history of looking up host addresses in Unix. Ugh, NIS.
- Run FreeBSD 13.1 for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac with HVF Acceleration. (via)
- Microsoft’s Xenix – Microsoft tries their hand at UNIX.
This week’s BSD Now takes its title from one of the links talking about how cat(1) works, which reminds me of this article about how the very original implementation of grep was crazy fast.
There’s an unofficial NYCBUG meetup, tomorrow at 6:45PM. Go, if you are near New York City.
No mini-theme this week, just a mix.
- No leap second this year.
- BUY NOW, the BeOS screensaver. (via)
- The Old Computer Challenge V2: day 1, day 2, day 5, done!
- An SPA alternative. (via)
- The History of User Interfaces. Linked for the screenshots. (via)
- Status Update on LS1028A Open Hardware CPU Module. Mntre is serious about that open hardware thing. (via)
- Not so Common Desktop Environment (NsCDE) 2.2. FVWM disguised as CDE. (via)
- Enginomics.
- Digital dice towers built in beautiful retro cases.
- The Codecs of Streams Past. Linked cause reading about RealVideo and Silverlight gave me painful flashbacks.
- Rocking the Web Bloat: Modern Gopher, Gemini and the Small Internet. (via)
Whee!
- arttime 1.8.0: “Enabled desktop notifications for BSD Unixes.”
- So I’ve patched KDE Plasma/Wayland under CheriBSD for pure-capability mode. It works. (via)
- How to use sshfs on OpenBSD.
- Guest Post: FreeBSD in Science.
- KDE Plasma 5.25 delayed on FreeBSD.
- My new Sony NW-A55 Walkman! Also a review. Linking just because rsync works to move files onto it, therefore BSD-compatible. I can’t simply put files on an iPhone the same way.
The lead link in this week’s BSD Now is the sort of thing I like to link to: debugging Lisp in space. There’s more than that.
This will matter most to you if your connection to the Internet is poor: fetch(1) now will time out on data transfers too.
Old machines week.
- An excellent payphone project.
- The Goriest Fight Scenes from The Iliad, Pt. 1. I enjoyed those books for a reason.
- A tiny Pinball Fantasies table – Intro.
- Crypto Ancienne 2.0 now brings TLS 1.3 to the Internet of Old Things (except BeOS). Linked for the screenshots.
- The Commodore 64 Smartwatch can now sync with your Commodore 64 desktop. Not a sentence I expected to type.
- In the Hall of the Third Blue Wizard Issue 1 – PDF Released. I just found my copy of the Peridot the other day, which was a fun read.
- Macintosh Common Lisp. (via)
- Contributing to Open Source Beyond Software Development. For example, this very blog.
- Sweet Mars inspired theme for WindowMaker.
- Writing and Running a BBS on a Macintosh Plus. Somewhat bonkers.
No mini-theme this week.
- An assortment of timestamp formats found in our (Unix) logs.
- How efficient can cat(1) be?
- NetBSD can also run a Minecraft server.
- Related: rjc shows Minecraft running on OpenBSD too.
- Also: DragonFly too; I did it.
- Valuable News – 2022/07/18.
- Game of Trees 0.74 released.
- OpenBGPD 7.5 released.
- Using BSD make for your (small) project. A mini-tutorial. (via)
- NetBSD is using a fork of the tz database. There’s a backstory.
- -current has moved to 7.2-beta.
- What is the most minimalistic BSD for desktop?
I mentioned a new committer for DragonFly, Sergey Zigachev, recently. He hasn’t shown in the commit logs for DragonFly directly – cause he’s fixing up dports. I’m mentioning that because the amount of work that goes into dports to keep all those ports working on DragonFly is separate and unseen – but necessary.
BSD Now 464 is out for the week, and has the normal roundup. Nothing unusual to point out, just good reading.
SEMIBUG is having a presentation on Jupyter notebooks tonight, online. The presenter is using them for genome sequencing, so this should the interesting.
I think I cover all the popular Lazy Reading topics: old computers, RPGs, graphs…
- Doom on Doom.
- An explanation of phone firmware using the PinePhone as the base example.
- Watches that don’t tell time. (via)
- The Impact of Open Connectivity.
- Your Adventure Ends Here, blogging ‘playthroughs’ of choose-your-adventure books. (via)
- Rewilding PowerPoint.
- Supertab for vim.
- god damnit adrian stop it.
- @defensecharts. I have encountered some of these in the wild.
- The Lost Tron Arcade Documents. (via)
- CP/M is (more) officially open source.
Your unrelated music link of the week: Better Living Through Synthesizers.
Started with overflow from last week.
- Toolchains adventures – Q2 2022.
- Your next C compiler is a D compiler: Introducing DMD’s ImportC.
- Comparative BSD cheatsheet?
- From 0 to Bhyve on FreeBSD 13.1.
- /bin/true used to be an empty file. (via)
- How we run a Minecraft server.
- Self-hosting a static site with OpenBSD, httpd, and relayd.
- Looking for a USB WiFi adapter that is compatible with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD.
- rpki-client 7.9 released.
- Porting OpenBSD pledge() to Linux. (via)
- How Unix didn’t used to support ‘#!’, a brief history.
- Valuable News – 2022/07/11.
- Desktop Environments Resource Usage Comparison. It’s been a long time since E17.
- helloSystem version 14-experimental is tagged.