Matthew Dillon’s fixed a possible deadlock in HAMMER2, plus some optimizations that I can’t quantify, but are fun to read about.
ChiBUG’s in-person meeting is tonight. Go, if you are near. (and vaccinated, which you should be.) There will be stickers and of course pizza.
If you like csh/tcsh, and also Emacs, there’s a eLisp file to put Emacs in csh script mode, now in DragonFly.
(Someone who uses Emacs more than me tell me if I have a wrong description.)
I am sorely tempted to buy one of those there Flippers.
- Internet Histories, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2021. (via)
- World’s first commercial flight simulator. (via)
- The Flipper Zero. (via)
- The Age of Software: An Introduction.
- Monitoring the Health of Precursor’s TRNGs and Upgrading Precursor’s TRNG.
- Decoding the signal from 1988 Videophone. (via)
- Basic Fantasy Role Playing Game. Not just talking about it, but you can download it.
- Science Fiction Novels for Economists. (via several places)
- Hyperbolic Text.
- The Timeline of Information Technology. (via)
- The Tyranny of Time. Using a specific vocabulary, but good facts. (via)
- Surprising shared word etymologies. (via)
Your unrelated music link of the week: Chronicling Yautja’s Decade-Long Quest to Merge Sludge and Grindcore.
Follow the helloSystem links this week.
- Sponsorships for DNSSEC Mastery, second edition, are available.
- SourceHut on NetBSD, I think, mentioned here.
- SANY adopts TwinCAT/BSD for the automation of wind turbines. (via)
- helloSystem 0.5 is out. (via several places)
- Related: This comment from I assume a helloSystem developer is the best polite “how do you like them apples?” comment I’ve seen in a long time.
- FreeBSD package building pt. 4: (Slightly) Advanced Synth and FreeBSD package building pt. 5: Sophisticated Synth.
- My EC2 wishlist.
- Valuable News – 2021/06/14.
- HardenedBSD 2021 Donation Run.
- Help me decide: which BSD for a first tryout?
- Updating to Minecraft 1.17 in FreeBSD. Happened to me too.
- Are all installed packages available for reinstall?
- Support for chdir(2) in posix_spawn(3).
- Using dpb on OpenBSD for package compilation cluster.
You may run into a setup issue with Wireguard when trying to set it up on DragonFly. Keep an eye on this Go bug report if so.
Update: here’s a solution in the works.
This week’s BSD Now gets into jails heavily (do not pass Go) this week, plus a few other topics.
The drivers amdsmn(4) and amdtemp(4) have received several updates. The output still may have issues, but this is useful if you have newer AMD hardware.
It’s worth saying because people don’t realize it: In-code documentation updates, even if the code itself isn’t changed, is a worthwhile way to contribute.
If you have an AR9485 wireless adapter, this bug report notes the appropriate config for DragonFly. Might work for other hardware too?
Lots of analog this week.
- The Tactile Beauty of Buttons, Meters, Knobs and Dials. (via)
- From the same place, Knobfeel.
- Baking Magnetic Recording Tape. (via)
- “The purpose of the web software industry is to extract value out of Open-Source Software (OSS).”
- The possible return of Connections. (via)
- The Computer Mouse Conference 2021 and The Mouse Sees. (also via)
- XScreenSaver 6.0.1 is out. No new savers in this release, just bugfixes.
- Explaining geometry with pizza. The pull quotes are the point.
- Itanium UNIX history.
- Some Plain Text Note Taking Tactics.
- Playdate Update. The cranking hardware console. (via)
- The little details you don’t think about when playing D&D.
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1993: Curses. Not the terminal software.
Multiple links from one source is the mini-theme this week.
- FreeBSD from a NetBSD user’s perspective. (via)
- Simple use of Let’s Encrypt on OpenBSD is pleasantly straightforward (as of 6.8).
- actually, BSD kqueue is a mountain of technical debt. The comments at the source all disagree.
- NetBSD : Enable swap encryption by default. (via)
- OpenBGPD 7.0 is out.
- LEAP is removed from FreeRADIUS and therefore from OpenBSD.
- FreeBSD package building pt. 1: Introduction and test system, pt. 2: Basic Synth, and pt. 3: Intermediate Synth.
- Valuable News – 2021/06/07.
- Diving into toolchains. Deep dive!
- Updating my FreeBSD 12.2 host to FreeBSD 13.0, a test of this ZFS boot environment upgrade post I’ve linked before.
- Upgrading a FreeBSD 12.2 jail to FreeBSD 13 using mkjail. You may need this.
- pfSense Plus 21.05-RELEASE Now Available.
- GearBSD: a project to help automating your OpenBSD and GearBSD: managing your packages on OpenBSD.
This query had karu.pruun write a short note on how to contribute (device driver) development work to DragonFly. Don’t forget grok.
Sounds like a space drama: this week’s BSD Now covers some different flavors of virtualization plus notes a Michael W. Lucas interview.
If you are one of those unlucky/foolhardy people running DragonFly with very little RAM, this maxvnodes change will help you out.
(DragonFly is not that RAM-hungry in normal circumstances, anyway; 1-2G is ‘safe’, last I knew.)
A short but oddball batch of links this week.
- Ambigram StyleGAN faces. Somewhat disturbing but well explained. (via)
- How Developers Choose Names. (also via)
- Perl / Unix One-liner Cage Match, Part 1 and Part 2. (via)
- rpg-cli: Your filesystem as a dungeon! Did I link this already? (via)
- Electric Ink Analysis. Product review as category review.
- Dwarf Fortress Creator Explains its Complexity & Origins. Video. (via)
- RetroForth investigation.
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1992: Silverwolf.
- More 6502 Updates.
- Problems with video recreations of classic pinball.
- Gun book. (via)
- Heavy Metal Parking Lot, the movie, which I am sure I have mentioned before.
- A New Session. A telnet-only magazine. (via)
Literally this is my open browser tabs pasted in order.
- Jitsi on OpenBSD, specifically how to make it work.
- NetBSD IRC channels are also moved to Libera.
- Also KDE on FreeBSD — IRC channels.
- Gaming on NomadBSD – Based on FreeBSD 13. (via)
- Guide to FreeBSD Desktop Distributions. “Distributions”. (via)
- Updating GCC GNAT (Ada) in pkgsrc/NetBSD. (via)
- NetBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU.
- June 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit, next week.
- HardenedBSD May 2021 Status Report.
- NetBSD 9.2’s new default package DB location.
- FreeBSD 13 on the Panasonic Let’s Note CF-RZ6. It is adorable.
- What you can’t install with NetBSD’s pkgsrc.
- Harsh resource limits on CGIs set for the MirBSD server.
- aiomixer, X/Open Curses and ncurses, and other news.
- FYI – Upcoming 1.17 release requires JDK 16 (and thus -current). For Minecraft on BSD users.
- Updating my FreeBSD 12.2 host to FreeBSD 13.0.
- Upgrading a FreeBSD 12.2 jail to FreeBSD 13 using mkjail.
- Rumors of an OpenBSD game console?
- Valuable News – 2021/05/31.
- Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years. Look at the first comment on the source.
- You Can Watch Netflix on FreeBSD. (via)
This week’s BSD Now talks about starts (NetBSD, DragonFly releases) and ends (preventing memory-based process kills, deleting boot environments).
James Cook continues to work on zalloc, and he’s published a small report on his progress.