NYCBUG’s hosting “Extreme scripting with KSH and AWK” with G Clifford Williams, tomorrow. It’s online, so everyone can get the lesson.
If you want to update to the now fixed tmux port, you’ll want to add a -f to the pkg command to force it; the version number hasn’t changed.
There’s a toy/game mini-theme this week.
- Optimizing the Nethack 4.3 Save System. (via)
- Plua revisited: Lua for PalmOS (and resurrecting plua2c). Niche but neat.
- The Commodore Plus/4, 3-Plus-1 and computer literacy.
- Being sure about things.
- Venn diagrams and humor.
- “The Good Games“, a playlist showing influential 1980s games. I’ve played almost every one, and the mechanisms hold up today. (Thanks, Sasha)
- The Dance Music Archive. If you were at a particular age at a particular place, you will like this. I was neither but it’s still fun. (via)
- Systems Thinking. (via)
- TZExplorer, for exploring the time zone file. (via)
- Raspberry Pi glasses and Sidekick.
- All the computer history and science books you should read.
- Herbie Hancock demonstrates a synthesizer on Sesame Street in 1983. (via)
- Roguelike Celebration 2021 – the speakers. Tickets available.
- Remaking Vintage Computer Toys.
Note the last link; BSD and M1.
- RSA/SHA1 signature type disabled by default in OpenSSH. Disruptive but good.
- (open)rsync gains include/exclude support.
- Choosing The Right ZFS Pool Layout. Appropriate illustration.
- HardenedBSD August 2021 Status Report.
- ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, September 14th at 6:30PM CDT via Google Meetings. I’ll post a reminder.
- NYCBUG Sept 8 meeting: Extreme scripting with KSH and AWK. Also reminding.
- Valuable News – 2021/08/30.
- FreeBSD/EC2 AMI Systems Manager Public Parameters.
- A new path: vm86-based venix emulator.
- After Summer. (KDE and BSD planned work)
- Former things – OSSG. BSD in London history.
- Hibernate time reduced. (OpenBSD)
- Fair Internet bandwidth management on a network using OpenBSD.
- NetBSD on the Apple M1. (via)
No allusions or puns in this week’s BSD Now title, for sure. It’s all Michael W. Lucas interviewing, so sure to be a good time.
If you’re upgrading to the latest dports, and you use tmux – don’t update that particular port yet.
tuxillo has built a new set of packages for dports; upgrade using the instructions in his post. (Though ‘pkg upgrade’ has generally worked for me as the quickest solution.)
Somehow I still have 20 tabs open… I need to clean out harder.
- A Culture of Innovation: Insider Accounts of Computing and Life at BBN. (via)
- Building a random Aeropress recipe generator for my search engine.
- 20 Years of Haiku. (via)
- MAD GOD.
- The IBM 1401 datacenter simulator – experience 1960’s mainframe programming. (via)
- The Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition Challenge Rating system is deranged.
- My sleeper PC… curse!
- It’s Time to Retire the CSV. (via)
- A 6 byte Commodore 64 Demo and C64 Coding Under (Many) Constraints.
- Living the Beta Life.
- The xterm terminal emulator can do a lot more than just display text.
- Learning that Vim has insert mode keystrokes that do special things.
- Vieb – Vim bindings for the web by design. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games: 2001: The Beast and 2002: Screen.
Longer reading this week.
- Remote desktop on NetBSD with Xnest (no VNC). (via)
- One week with FreeBSD 13 on an Acer Aspire One ZG5. (via)
- Linux is dead, long-live Docker monoculture. (via)
- FreeBSD development on Docker support. (via)
- VoidLinux in FreeBSD Jail; with init. (via)
- Troubleshooting netatalk3 in a FreeBSD jail.
- wifi project status update. (NetBSD)
- Meet the 2021 FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Students.
- History of ZFS Part 3: Heading Into the Future.
- Valuable News – 2021/08/23.
- [OpenBSD]-current has moved to 7.0-beta.
- Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better (and may turn up elsewhere too).
- OpenBSD on the Huawei MateBook X (2020). I have never encountered this hardware.
- Useless use of GNU.
It’s a very quiet week here but there’s still a BSD Now episode. It’s covering a bunch of topics, but the title makes me think: all the BSDs have VM hosting solutions now.
A BSD followup: today’s SEMIBUG presentation from Peter Hansteen is at this Jitsi link, in about 5 hours from this post.
- Comics Laureate Recommended Reading List. (via)
- The truth about semver.
- Undead Dinosaur Generator.
- atari64: Commodore 64 OS running on Atari 8-bit hardware. (via)
- Announcing RetroChallenge 2021/10. (via)
- TLDs — Putting the ‘.fun’ in the top of the DNS.
- Cracking into the Sun Ray General Dynamics-Tadpole M1400. Odd hardware, though not the oddest Tadpole made.
- Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance. I am not sure but it seems like Facebook reinvented a wheel. (via)
- ZIL tidbits and Inform 6 dev news.
- “the only planet where 100% of Linux systems have working sound is Mars.“
- This Clifford Stoll interview made me realize he’s the author of The Cuckoo’s Egg, a good book about Cold War hacking, and the creator of ACME Klein Bottles. I’ve mentioned both before separately without connecting the dots. (via)
- Trevor Owens Uses This. The first ever Head of Digital Content Management at the Library of Congress.
- Minimal Computing, via the previous link.
- 50 Years of Text Games: 2000: Galatea.
- Introducing the PineNote. (via)
I have some barely-BSD links this week but I don’t think you’ll mind.
- Peter Hansteen is presenting virtually for SEMIBUG, tomorrow. “Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better”. 1 PM Eastern, cause he’s in a different time zone, so I am mentioning it early.
- Bringing NetBSD to Zig’s Continuous Integration. (via)
- FreeBSD Experiment Rethinks The OS Install. (via)
- PackagingCon 2021 – a conference for package manager developers and packagers. Hope it includes BSD packaging. (via)
- iXSystems is hiring. (a BSD-specific company)
- NetBSD Explained. (via)
- Install NetBSD 9.2 on a DEC Alpha CPU in QEMU with X11. More acronyms than not in that sentence. (via)
- SerenityOS. Slightly BSD-related. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/08/09 and 2021/08/16.
- EC2 boot time benchmarking.
- OpenBSD on the Framework Laptop.
It’s been a very quiet week, so here’s a link to BSD Now’s netcat printing episode. There’s some variety in the Beastie Bits, too.
Yep, it’s probably there depending on your chipset.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.