boot and libstand directories are moved to src/stand/boot on DragonFly. This won’t affect most people, as you’ll upgrade and build the same way as always, but if you were specifically looking for it in the old locations of sys/boot and lib/libstand, you’d be surprised.
RPG subtheme this week.
- MICROS~1 launches automated license-laundering system. Incendiary.
- The Internet Is Rotting. (via)
- Architecture of LISP Machines. (via)
- The Thermal Printer Project: How I Print Events.
- Probably Bad RPG ideas. (via)
- Full Throttle, a deep dive into the Lucasfilm game.
- 808 Cube. (via)
- The Greatest Regex Trick Ever. (via)
- Vim is actually worth it. (via)
- Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my theme, config and some tips and tricks. (via)
- Uxn is a portable 8-bit virtual computer. Specifically designed to survive platform death, which is a new idea to me. (via)
- Entish is a declarative Datalog-like language implemented in Typescript. Language and RPGs, truly together at last. (via)
- Food for thought concerning MegaDungeons.
- The tiny gang of web outfits that don’t compete on their spying abilities. Bookmark these.
More BUG meetings are happening, which is great.
- Next ChiBUG meeting: in person, July 20th. I’ll post a reminder.
- The slides from the most recent NYCBUG meeting.
- The historical significance of DEC and the PDP-7, -8, -11 & VAX. The article itself is not about BSD, specifically, but some of the comments at the source link are.
- A Glimpse of the Canon object.station 41. A NeXT iteration I didn’t know about. (via)
- Meet the Summer 2021 [FreeBSD] Foundation Interns.
- Status of Online Conference Software on FreeBSD.
- Valuable News – 2021/07/05 and 2021/07/12.
- Using youtube-dl on FreeBSD. Or any BSD, probably.
- Repairing Akonadi on FreeBSD.
- Filtering spam using Rspamd and OpenSMTPD on OpenBSD.
- NetBSD/Desktop: Scalable Workstation Systems. Old but interesting. (via)
- [Semibug] RAID 0 or 1 for OpenBSD. Follow the thread for more info.
- Total Mastery, the bundle. Includes multiple FreeBSD Mastery books.
I didn’t know about this, but there’s a daily/weekly/monthly/security_show_badconfig option in periodic.conf that is now defaulting to “yes” in DragonFly. This I assume means you’ll get the output of erroring periodic scripts sent to you. Useful, especially if you find out about an error you hadn’t seen before.
This week’s BSD Now goes into structure and progress, judging from the titles on display. Also, I did not link last week’s “410: OpenBSD Consumer Gateway” because I was on the road – look at it too if you haven’t yet.
ndis(4) is removed from DragonFly; it’s probably been years since it was applicable to any hardware. I don’t think it will affect anyone – but it’s an interesting tool from a historical perspective; for a while it was possible to use Windows XP drivers to create a BSD network driver, effectively.
Many, many times over the years I have tried answering problems with “… and maybe something’s wrong with the RAM?”, which is always possible but not always probable. For once, it’s really what happened in this story of strange HAMMER2 errors.
Mini-theme: maintenance.
- Rethinking Repair. (PDF, via)
- Maintenance and Care. Same topic, but with interesting pictures. (also via)
- Ise Jingu and the pyramid of enabling technologies. About process knowledge.
- AnyDice, dice probability calculator. (via)
- PAGNIs: Probably Are Gonna Need Its.
- 50 Years of Text Games: Intermission. A little behind-the-scenes.
- Ethernet network cables can go bad over time, with odd symptoms.
- The Age of Software: An introduction.
- New Old Game: Gravi-o-roids!
- Research First.
- Bonkers app compatibility work. (via)
- DMGPlus. Runs Doom?
- Hardware Memory Models.
I’m writing this on the road, so it’s a bit low on links. Sorry! I will have much more next week.
Here’s a link to a commit for dsynth that gives an idea of how huge a debug build of chromium can be.
This note from James Cook describes how to get Wireguard functioning on DragonFly; his linked patch is not necessary at this point since it’s been committed to dports – though not in the latest binaries.
Tonight, via Zoom: George Rosamond, “Why Privacy/Security (usually) Needs Anonymity”, for NYCBUG. Go, even if you aren’t near.
Nelson H. F. Beebe posted links to two ACM articles; one about SSDs and the other about filesystem resilience. Matthew Dillon chimed in with his thoughts specifically on HAMMER2.
Thanks to yrabbit, there’s a full FPGA toolchain possible on DragonFly. It’s preliminary, but it works.
Mini-theme: music. Or at least, audio.
- A Definitive History of House. (via)
- BBC Micro/Acorn Playback. Audio tracks of cassette tape programs for that platform. (also via)
- Sequencer64. (via)
- d100 reasons your wizard had to drop out of academia.
- A Vim Guide For Veteran Users.
- Revisiting my emacs and Vim/nvi post.
- How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet.
- A Supercut of Supercuts. Long but good.
- RGBFAQ. How computer graphics has developed; recommended.
- Feed Us Weird Things: Artists On Their Favourite Squarepusher Music.
- Gaslighting Your Boss: Creative Experiments in Digital Sabotage.
- Those last 4 links: via.
- Drag and drop bashrc prompt generator. (via)
- Web 1.1: Building The New Old Web. (via)
- Big Blue’s big adventure [origins of the Thinkpad design]. (via)
- AT&T’s ’60s Modem That Won’t Die. (via)
- The parallel universe of FireWire hubs.
I’ll post a reminder for the NYCBUG event.
- July 7th: George Rosamond, “Why Privacy/Security (usually) Needs Anonymity”, for NYCBUG. George has strong opinions; you should hear them.
- The Evolution of the Unix System Architecture. A summary from an author of the IEEE article I linked before.
- Introduction to ZFS Replication.
- Rolling Back OpenBSD PF Changes. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/06/29.
- Any Marathon fans up in here?
- KDE on FreeBSD 2021o4.
- PDF/ePub/Comics readers on BSD, a discussion.
- History of FreeBSD Part 5: Net/1 and Net/2 – A Path to Freedom.
I’m actually some days late in reporting this, but there’s a new full build of packages for DragonFly 6.0; it’s following the quarterly release schedule for ports, so 2021Q2 is the base.
This goes with the recent merges from -current into 6.0. Now is a good time to update your system completely, if you have not already.
This week’s BSD Now is tech-heavy, with rpg-cli to lighten the mood.