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2021/08/152021/08/07

Lazy Reading for 2021/08/15

Mini-theme: C64, I guess?

The Rise of the Small Internet. Gopher and Gemini. (via)
The Old Computer Challenge: Start, Day 1, Day 3, Day 6, Day 7, and conclusion.
Personal Computing On An Amiga In 2021. Another person taking up the challenge. (via)
Related: Commodore 64 “Mod of the Year” (2015). (via)
The Tao of Unicode Sparklines. Someday I will find the right use case for these. (via)
The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy. (via)
Empty npm package ‘-‘ has over 700,000 downloads. (via)
the alternative limb project. (via)
700,000 lines of code, 20 years, and one developer: How Dwarf Fortress is built. (via)
From previous source comments: emergent effects in complex game systems and also Dwarf Fortress Bugs.
Daicon IV Opening Animation. From 1983 with copyright violations galore. (via)
Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal. (via)
A Tour of the Fuchsia Operating System. (via)

2021/08/142021/08/07

In Other BSDs for 2021/08/14

Whee!

InitWare (a systemd fork) runs on OpenBSD for the first time. (via)
Using UTF?8 [in OpenBSD] (2010) Still applies I think, and knowing the compose mechanism is useful. (via)
The Design of the NetBSD I/O Subsystems (2002). (PDF, via)
Unix Shell: History and Trivia. Very in-depth; pre-BSD. (via)
dancrossnyc/multics: Source for the Multics operating system. Also pre-BSD. (via)
Yubikey/(pfSense& OpenVPN)/ADDS – HOW DO I MAKE THIS WORK? I am also interested in the answer.

2021/08/132021/08/12

Bounty paid for NVMM

I didn’t realize this, but there was a bounty offer for porting a hypervisor to DragonFly, listed on the DragonFly Code Bounties page. Aaron LI did it, and now he’s promptly paid, too. Put your name on a bounty if you’re willing and interested in paying.

2021/08/12

BSD Now 415: Wrong OS Switch

The lead article in this week’s BSD Now talks about how to not change your OS – though it’s both Linux flavors, so it’s not necessarily BSD-related except for schadenfreude. There’s a bunch of other articles linked, so don’t be distracted by my splitting of hairs.

2021/08/102021/08/05

ChiBUG tonight: “Protecting OpenBSD from DMA Attacks”

ChiBUG is meeting tonight at 6:30 CDT via Zoom. “Protecting OpenBSD from DMA Attacks” is the presentation; RSVP to the address in that linked message for the meeting link.

2021/08/092021/08/08

NVMM in DragonFly, the story

Aaron LI posted a summary of how he went from zero to done, so to speak, porting NVMM to DragonFly. There’s some interesting future projects there, too.

2021/08/082021/08/05

Lazy Reading for 2021/08/08

Physical parts and their history is the mini-theme.

The earth is speeding up recently. Literally, 2028 may be less than a year long.
Sam and Max Hit the Road, an in-depth history. The original 1990s comics origin is noteworthy. (reminded via)
hi analysis.
Amazon + Kindle means less books for all of us.
AIRAMP: Bringing Winamp Into The Real World!
LED Pocketwatch.
Ways of reading without the influence of community.
Signal Boost Bots And Manipulated Trending Content (about halfway down the page. Spam mechanisms as involuntary attention-boosters.
History of the Kensington security slot. Chances are you are sitting about 2 feet away from one right now.
How the IBM PC won then lost the personal computer market. (via)
Why and How you should start using Onion Networking. (via)
“Paleo PNGs”.
50 Years of Text Games: 1998: Photopia and 1999: King of Dragon Pass.
A 5,400 character typewriter. Pre-Unicode, obviously. Check the source link for some neat historic pictures on other topics.

Your unrelated music of the week: Jalang.

2021/08/072021/08/05

In Other BSDs for 2021/08/07

Today’s mini-theme: follow threads!

What are your experiences with VPS providers using *BSD?
ChiBUG is meeting August 10th at 6:30 CDT via Zoom. “Protecting OpenBSD from DMA Attacks” is the presentation. RSVP for details. I’ll post a reminder day-of.
Peter Hansteen is presenting virtually for SEMIBUG August 22. “Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better”. 1 PM Eastern, cause he’s in a different time zone. I’ll post again for that too.
Generating random passwords on BSD – follow the long thread for ideas.
The slides from the July 7 privacy vs anonymity presentation at NYCBUG. (related non-BSD mention)
RAID 0 or 1 for OpenBSD. Follow the thread for all the suggestions.
Achieving RPO/RTO Objectives with ZFS – Part 1.
Expanding our FreeBSD home file server.
pfSense® Plus Software Version 21.05.1 is Now Available for Upgrades.
suppressing motd on FreeBSD 13.0+.
Valuable News – 2021/08/03.

2021/08/05

BSD Now 414: Running online conferences

This week’s BSD Now talks about online conferences – something I hope we can resume soon. There’s other links of course but that’s the one I want.

2021/08/042021/07/28

What are you doing at NYCBUG tonight?

Well, not what are you doing there, but you’ll be describing “what you are doing” at a roundtable for NYCBUG’s August meeting tonight.

2021/08/03

Low space and HAMMER2 snapshots

It used to be that if you had a HAMMER2 volume and ran low on space, snapshotting would stop so that you didn’t completely fill the disk. Now, thanks to Francis GUDIN, snapshots continue to roll forward and discard older ones to keep disk usage constant. It won’t fix the low disk space issue, but snapshots will stay up to date. It’s in 6.0 too.

2021/08/02

NVMM, qemu, and dports

I think from this commit that qemu in dports is able to build NVMM-compatible. It won’t be in the current binaries for download because those are built from quarterlies, but work from source.

I am not sure those sentences I just typed would be comprehensible to a non-BSD user.

2021/08/012021/07/27

Lazy Reading for 2021/08/01

Mini-theme, barely: music.

The Framework Laptop, Customizable parts, and pick-your-own ports. (via pikrzyszt on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
Plaintext Distro. As in Distributor of zines. (via)
Decoded: OpenTTD. (via)
50 Years of Text Games: 1997: Achaea. I never heard of this but it’s huge in scope.
Playdate reviews. Quirky is not the right word but I want to say it.
The little-known Soviet mission to rescue a dead space station. (via)
Never Enough Rhodes. (via)
The Tyranny of Spreadsheets. (via)
Are we really engineers?, We are not special, and What engineering can teach (and learn) from us. A series of essays on software engineering.
The DesQtop. (via)
A collection of the worst volume control UIs. (via)
Hot failover after 3 decades in space. (via)
The best antivirus joke. (via)
The best Wolfram Alpha joke. (also via)
EXTREME RECORD COLLECTING: CONFESSIONS OF AN ANALOG VINYL SNOB. I hate to admit it but I have experienced this with first-generation analog recordings vs hearing their later digital versions. (via)

2021/07/312021/07/28

In Other BSDs for 2021/07/31

No mini-theme, but I was also ‘done’ early.

2021/07/302021/07/31

Radeons and accelerated graphics

Apparently a commit that I can’t find (“e8de9e9“?) disabled acceleration for R5 240 Radeon cards, but causes an error for R7 models. If you’ve got an R5 and you want accelerated video, try taking it out – assuming it’s not working already. Any other Radeon model, it may not make a difference.

Update: Pierre Alain-TORET found the correct commit.

2021/07/29

BSD New 413: BSD/Linux Chimera

This week’s BSD Now talks about some pro-BSD ideas, which may or may not include the idea of Linux with a BSD userland. I find it slightly upsetting.

2021/07/28

passwdqc added to DragonFly

If you think about the name, you’ll realize what it does: libpasswdqc(8) does quality checks on passwords via PAM, and now it’s in DragonFly.

2021/07/26

NVMM for DragonFly HOWTO

The headline says almost everything, in this case. There’s a HOWTO for DragonFly NVMM which should get most of what you want to do, and I’m sure it will be updated.