Do you still reflexively type “shutdown -p now” to power down your computer? I haven’t been able to break that habit. A recent documentation commit reminded me that “poweroff” exists, even though I posted about it 7 years ago.
I could not come up with a good roguelike link this week, but I am hitting many of my other usual targets.
- Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal. Right up my alley. (via)
- Clocking a 6502 to 15GHz (!). Lode Runner would go too fast!
- Writing a Book with Pandoc, Make, and Vim. (via)
- John Conway died. Known for Game of Life, but responsible for much, much more – read his published work. (via)
- Related: Hackaday Game of Life projects.
- Smalltalk-80 on VAX/VMS. (via)
- 3mux, terminal multiplexer inspired by i3. I like the animated image; better than a thousand-word README. (via)
- “TLS Mastery” sponsorships open. MWL nonfiction, worth it.
- “git sync murder” status. MWL fiction, also worth it.
- Tree diagrams in computer science and other fields. Links for you to read, or to find books to read.
- The Hinman Collator, a mechanical version of diff(1). (via)
- THE SECRET LIFE OF MACHINES: The Videos. Cartoons! (also via)
- Niklas Luhmann’s Zettelkasten, the paper version of Roam Research. That is the sort of link pairing I love to do for Lazy Reading.
- In weird coincidence, here’s that word again: creating and linking zettelkasten notes in vim.
- Gnomes. “Most everyone hates gnomes.”
- CommunityRule. There’s a mapping here onto open source projects.
Accidental theme of video links, which I would not have expected for a BSD summary.
- Speculoos, a FreeBSD (and Citrix) specific vulnerability. You know you’ve made it when you are a target.
- January to March 2020 FreeBSD Status Report.
- OpenBSD on the HP Envy 13. (via)
- Ars Technica – Not Actually Linux Distro Review – GhostBSD. (via)
- FuryBSD 12.1 overview. (video, via)
- Ubiquiti UniFi Controller Installation on FreeBSD from ports/packages. (video, via)
- 3-Antivirus Protection using OPNsense Plugins. (video, via)
- Northgard currently Free for the Weekend on Steam. (Can run on OpenBSD at least.)
- FreeBSD progress on Slimbook Base14. (via)
- Using OpenVPN with Multi-WAN. I’ve done this; it’s easier than it looks. (via)
- mksh R59 released. (MirBSD Korn shell)
- TrueNAS CORE is the New FreeNAS.
- Setting Up Users, Permissions, and ACLs on FreeNAS. Or TrueNAS Core?
- Running X Applications on a Jail created with Bastille.
- Valuable News – 2020/04/13.
- RIP Romeo, host of many NYCBUG events.
- SEMIBUG, still meeting remotely through May.
If you want to work on Bluetooth on DragonFly, there’s more people adding to the bounty.
BSD 346 is out and has some interesting Unix history bits in amongst the other news.
sysmouse, the one mouse driver for X that always works for me, now has evdev support.
Related: why is there no evdev man page in DragonFly?
Imported directly by the author, DragonFly now has dhcpcd 9. The commit message lists changes.
(and there’s a 9.0.1)
I’m posting now because it’s happening Wednesday and waiting for In Other BSDs on Saturday will be too late: the next FreeBSD Office Hours (livestream with Q&A) is happening on the 16th.
My sadly neglected RSS reader is overflowing.
- Chesses 2. I posted about Chesses 1 some time ago; this is more. (via)
- Paper Models of Polyhedra. (via)
- Open Source Fonts Are Love Letters to the Design Community.
- The Original Internet Bottleneck.
- Gopherus – a DOS (and multi-platform, console-mode) gopher client. Getting pretty obscure here. (via)
- Curses City, a simple ASCII Sim City style game using ncurses. (via)
- Internet Histories, Volume 4, Issue 1. Parts available online. (via)
- Tempestas II, A Clock style Barometer. No display – physical sliding parts.
- pheriday 3: infrastructure. Installing Netscape 6, with screenshots, on current hardware for fun.
- The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer. (via)
- Roam, real hypertext.
- This Super-Clean Smart Screen Puts a Newspaper on Your Wall. Neat looking but of course expensive. (via)
- Wolfram Style Cellular Automata with Vim Macros. See comments at source link.
- A Definitive Guide to Enabling Italics in Vim and tmux. (via)
- UI design is fun! (via)
- The Implied Appendix N.
BUG meetings are canceled, but this can’t be surprising at this point.
- Installing FreeBSD for Raspberry Pi 1/2/3. (via)
- Tale of two hypervisor bugs – Escaping from FreeBSD bhyve. (via)
- SNMP Mastery is out. (related: The Print Book Trade, and Money)
- NYCBUG meetings are suspended for obvious meetings, but there’s online chat.
- BSDCan 2020 will be online-only.
- No April ChiBUG meeting.
- FreeNAS and TrueNAS are merging.
- OpenBSD andIPv6.
- WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN. Linked cause there’s BSD support too. (via)
- Announcing the pkgsrc-2020Q1 release.
- BSD Link Roundup 4.8.
- Wifi renewal restarted.
- LLDB work concluded.
- Valuable News – 2020/04/06.
- WRATH: Aeon of Ruin on OpenBSD!
- Testing AGS games on OpenBSD! That’s Adventure Game Studios.
- OPNsense 20.1.4 released.
BSD Now 345 has the usual batch of recent stories to cover, plus a treat – a number of community feedback items on switching to BSD.
Even if you run bash, zsh, or maybe fish, tcsh is the default root shell in DragonFly – and it just had an update. (all bugfixes according to the release notes)
karu.pruun posted an answer on how to get DragonFly onto your GPT/EFI drive.
The ssh-copy-id utility is now included in DragonFly 5.8 and in -current. Useful for your next machine setup.
No theme this week.
- New “Prohibition Orcs” today.
- Aggregate internet links with mlvpn.
- A USB Loader for the Cidco MailStation. “worst use of Thunderbolt”.
- riftty. Think about the name, and you can guess what it is. (via)
- My home DSL link really is fast enough to make remote X acceptable. This is the future we really sorta wanted.
- Preparing Presentations with Markdown. (via)
- Repairing a vintage 40-kilovolt xenon lamp igniter. Not as dangerous as it sounds.
- ESP8266 Network Display. “For whatever”.
- The Hunt of the Unicorn, rediscovered.
- gifcap – screen recordings via browser. (via)
- “Dusted off my GPD Pocket PC…” (via)
- Vim rendered on a cube for no reason. (via)
- “Please resend the virus“.
- Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup. A Google Doc, which is a new-ish trend in “public rich media”, for lack of a better phrase. (via)
Your unrelated video of the day: Horse.
Last minute this week. Everyone is inside except me working two jobs again. Dumb, but I do enjoy the work.
- RISC OS and NetBSD running on same SoC. (via)
- MixerTUI 0.1. (via)
- Extending support for the NetBSD-7 branch.
- NetBSD 8.2 is available!
- The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 1).
- Update Lenovo X260 BIOS with OpenBSD. (via)
- My Latest Self Hosted Hugo Workflow using FreeBSD Jails, Caddy, Restic and More. (via)
- NextCloud on OpenBSD. Clever image. (via)
- My New Print Bookstore.
- Cloud images for *BSD, based on cloud-init. (via)
- OPNsense 20.1.3 released.
- Playing Half-life using xash3d : Puffy against Black Mesa. (via)
- Valuable News – 2020/03/30.
- rethinking openbsd security.
Everything else is topsy-turvy, but BSD Now is a constant: it’s out like usual this week. There’s a feature about text processing, a subject I inexplicably enjoy, and a lot of things that start with Z.
This doesn’t really have any effect on you unless you are programming on DragonFly, but it’s interesting to read about a “spinlock trick” Matthew Dillon had implemented recently.
Aaron LI’s updated the development(7) man page to account for new steps in vendor import.
Aaron LI managed to graft FreeBSD code history onto the DragonFly BSD git repository, and he’s documented how he did it. So, you can follow DragonFly code all the way back to 2003, and then FreeBSD code all the way back to… I’m not sure how far back it goes, but it’s in his merged copy.