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.
If you’ve got unshielded disk cables in a tiny PC, you can run the AHCI link a bit slower to better handle interference.
There are some fun diversions this week.
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- Redux 001: BuzzPhrasing.
- Modern Unix tools. (via)
- From the comments on the last source: xutil and Visidata.
- PNG and JPG explainers. (via)
- Clearly a mini VT100 is required for a mini PDP-8.
- A “life clock” that could outlive you thanks to solar power and e-ink.
- Wrist mounted cyberdeck with expansion modules. Really!
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1994: The Playground and 1995: Patchwork Girl.
- 100 walk cycles.
- Adding a ChaCha Cipher to Precursor’s TRNG. Followup.
- URLs: It’s complicated…
- ARTSEY, a one-hand keyboard. (via)
- Building telemetry for tea aka Tealemetry. (also via)
- Shaker Dice and Edge Labelings. Oddest dice ever.
Yes, I am clearing out all my open tabs from Solène this week.
- Introduction to IPFS, and OpenBSD 6.9 packages using IPFS.
- Semi-related: Synchronization files software.
- How to run a NixOS VM as an OpenBSD guest.
- How to install Gnome on OpenBSD.
- Evolution of the Unix System Architecture: An Exploratory Case Study. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/06/21.
- TrueNAS Core 12 review. (via)
- Using the I2P network with OpenBSD and NixOS.
- Default community strings removed from snmp in OpenBSD.
- Advance!BSD – thoughts on a not-for-profit project to support *BSD – part 1 and part 2.
- Progress in support for the riscv64 platform. (OpenBSD)
- OPNsense 21.1.7 released.
- ProtoAppStore. Posted cause it should mention BSD ports.
- FreeBSD Performance Observability. (via)
No pun this time; the episode covers the title exactly – plus more recent headlines.
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.