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2020/02/012020/01/31

In Other BSDs for 2020/02/01

There’s a lot of releases happening.

Next NYCBUG meeting: February 5th. I’ll post a reminder.
Don’t forget there’s ChiBUG and SEMIBUG meetings coming up on the 11th and 18th, respectively.
FOSDEM 2020 is happening now and there’s a BSD devroom. (reminded via)
The MWL 2020 Asia Tour. Worth catching if you are on that side of the world; these events sound fun.
FreeBSD quarterly status report for 2019Q4.
“OpenBSD/arm64 on the Pinebook Pro with working wireless, USB and graphics!” (via)
Related: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a bored open source developer. (via)
HardenedBSD Tor Onion Service v3 Nodes.
The Idealistic Future of HardenedBSD.
LPE and RCE in OpenBSD OpenSMTPD. (via)
Related: OpenSMTPD advisory dissected. (via)
Deploy Kubernetes Cluster on FreeBSD Bhyve (CBSD). (via)
Meet FuryBSD: A New Desktop BSD Distribution. (via)
Thoughts on FuryBSD 12.0. (via)
Insights into Why Hyperbola GNU/Linux is Turning into Hyperbola BSD. (via)
FreeNAS 11.3-RELEASE Available. (via)
Announcing the pkgsrc-2019Q4 release.
Valuable News – 2020/01/27.
Debugging FFS Mount Failures. On NetBSD, but FFS is everywhere.
First release candidate for NetBSD 9.0 available!
Clang build bot now uses two-stage builds, and other LLVM/LLDB news. NetBSD.
GSoC 2019 Final Report: Incorporating the memory-hard Argon2 hashing scheme into NetBSD.
Working towards LLDB on i386. NetBSD.
Improving the ptrace(2) API and preparing for LLVM-10.0. NetBSD.
Symlinking FreeBSD svnlite to svn.
pppac(4) replaces tun(4) in npppd(8). OpenBSD.
[packages] firefox 71.0: pledge configuration change. OpenBSD.
Should you abandon Linux and switch to *BSD?
OPNsense 19.7.10 released.
OPNsense 20.1 “Keen Kingfisher” released.
BSD Link Roundup 1.29.
FreeBSD MiniConf at LCA2020 Conference Recap. (via)
Locking down the Instance Metadata Service: Announcing imds-filterd. I like new tools for not-BSD coming from BSD-using vendor.

2020/01/312020/01/29

A new daemon(8)

daemon(8) has been updated, cause there’s ports that expect daemon to have some specific flags – especially -T.

There is a certain correlation between this utility and certain BSD logos.

2020/01/30

BSD Now 335: FreeBSD Down Under

BSD Now 335 is up, with links to a bunch of advocacy articles this week, and also notation of a (past) BSD conference in Australia, and an interview of a Hyperbola dev; a project I need to pay more attention to.

2020/01/292020/01/28

HAMMER2 and how to use

If you’ve been following HAMMER2 for some time, these questions and answers will not be new to you – but they are useful notes all the same.

2020/01/28

It’s always snd_hda

Just like it’s always DNS, if you have to ask what your sound device is… it’s probably hda. That’s been the answer I think I’ve seen every time for maybe a decade?

2020/01/262020/01/24

Lazy Reading for 2019/01/26

I literally just smooshed all my open tabs that weren’t baking–related into this post.

Electric Rogue. (via)
Tiny Helpers. Single-purpose web development tools. (via)
Manytools, similar. (via)
Bringing the London Bus Network home. Home-made info screen. (via)
Fun With Software. An AR joke.
fast_template, your own blog, without having to buy into anyone’s platform. (via)
ReMarkdown.css, render HTML as Markdown. Full-circle! (sorta via)
Dark Ages of the Web. (via)
The clearest statement of how leap years work is a several-centuries-old papal statement. (via)
The Cidco MailStation.
Vintage Byte Magazine Library. (thanks, tuxillo)
Work Is Work. (via)
Ping, the game.
Meanwhile, the game, which originally was a comic I’ve mentioned before.
Tangent: The Automated Dungeon Master. Fun/nostalgic images for me. (via)
A philosophy of project governance.
Inside the digital clock from a Soyuz spacecraft.
Dick Gabriel Uses This. Computer scientist, poet, exclusive Lisp programmer.
Adding CGI support to my gopher server.
real world crypto talks.
TT2020, a typewriter font that doesn’t obviously look like a font. (via)
Which Machines Do Computer Architects Admire? (also via)
Formlabs Form 3 Teardown.
Unix bc command and its -l flag.

Your unrelated video of the week: Igorrr – Very Noise. Reminds me of early Garry’s Mod videos. (via)

2020/01/252020/01/24

In Other BSDs for 2020/01/25

BUGs BUGs BUGs this week. I’ll make sure to note the events again when they get closer, too.

Cataclysm – Dark Days Ahead. Turn-based apocalyptic survival, open source and probably runs on BSD. (via)
NYCBUG is looking for speakers for I assume February and April; March was I think filled after this was written.
SemiBUG’s next meeting is February 18th.
ChiBUG’s next meeting is February 11th at the normal place; the March 10th meeting will be at the Oak Park Library.
OpenBSD on DigitalOcean.
An Excess of Operating Systems. Not directly BSD related, but the logo is there.
rebound(8) removed. (OpenBSD)
Valuable News – 2020/01/20.
The prekern architecture. (via)
BSD Weekly Issue 4. I missed the first 3. (via)
Migrating FreshPorts from one db server to another.
FreeBSD translations via Weblate.
The History of BSD and IP Stacks with Rodney Grimes, a podcast.
u2k20 Hackathon Report: Tracey Emery on GotWeb.
u2k20 Hackathon Report: Alexandr Nedvedicky on PF anchors work.

2020/01/232020/01/23

BSD Now 334: Distrowatch Running FreeBSD

BSD Now 334 is posted, with juuuust the right mix of items; some advocacy, some license confusion (for Linux), etc. I notice linked in the bottom section the ~~February~~, er March NYCBUG meeting will have Paul Vixie talking at their meeting, which hasn’t even been mentioned on the NYCBUG site yet.

2020/01/22

Font installation in DragonFly

I imagine this may work for any BSD, really. Aaron Li has the instructions, which may be especially useful for non-English readers.

2020/01/212020/01/17

SEMIBUG, SNMP, tonight

SEMIBUG’s next meeting is tonight, with Michael Lucas talking about SNMP. Go, if you are near.

2020/01/192020/01/17

Lazy Reading for 2020/01/19

No theme, just lots of links.

1978 “Heathkit” D&D Digital Dice Tower. Homebrew, Nixie tubes, D&D dice; this was made for me to link.
VisiData, command line tabular data manipulation. (thanks, Paul Ivanov)
The History of Games conference Call for Papers is out. (via)
No leap second this year.
Related: Did you know there is a global institution covering the rotation of the earth? The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service. They graph Earth’s spin. (via)
The Beasts of Europe. More graphs! (Thanks, brother)
Why are modern computers so slow? Scroll to the Technology section; there’s a collection of writeups about modern latency, some of which I’ve linked before but all are worthwhile.
2020 IGF nominees: puzzles, Shakespeare, topical games, interactive storybooks, and adventure plus.
The Roots of Doom Mapping. Goes with the ReDoomEd link yesterday. (via)
The Art of the Post-Internet.
Using Computer Modern on the web. For the TeX-lovers. (via)
Ganymede Series 01 Watch Arrived. A deliberately confusing interface.
Retro Review: Zeven OS. (via)
Opening up the Baseboard Management Controller. (via)
My review of the Pinebook Pro – a $200 ARM powered laptop. I want to see some in-depth BSD experiences on that hardware. (via)

2020/01/182020/01/17

In Other BSDs for 2019/01/18

Unofficial theme: conventions. There’s lots of options this year; you should go. If you are reading this, you’re the right demographic to enjoy one.

- Upgrading FreeBSD from 11.3 to 12.1.
- VVVVVV seems to work fine on OpenBSD (6.6-current #595).
- ReDoomEd – works on BSD. (via)
- BSDCan 2020 is June 3-6 in Ottawa, and the Call for Papers ends tomorrow.
- Other BSD-related conferences. (via)
- SEMIBUG’s next meeting is next Tuesday, with Michael Lucas talking about SNMP. He knows.
- The slides from the January 8th NYCBUG meeting are available, showing off notqmail. For further edification, here’s a podcast on the same topic.
- iked(8) automatic IPv6 blocking removed. (OpenBSD)
- Improving the ptrace(2) API and preparing for LLVM-10.0.
- Working towards LLDB on i386.
- GSoC 2019 Final Report: Incorporating the memory-hard Argon2 hashing scheme into NetBSD. Completed just in time for GSoC 2020.
- OPNsense 19.7.9 released.
- Pinebook-Pro with Manjaro Linux running accelerated qemu-system-aarch64 FreeBSD -current. Emulated, so the comment there led me to this tweet about NetBSD on Pinebook.
- LPI and BSD working together.
- Switching DistroWatch over to FreeBSD – AMA.
- Valuable News – 2020/01/13.
- Using the OpenBSD ports tree with dedicated users.
- Run broot on FreeBSD. Can’t use without saying “I am broot!” over and over.

2020/01/172020/01/16

Easy bsdstats fix

If you installed BSDStats but it didn’t work, here’s why – with a fix.

2020/01/16

BSD Now 333: Unix Keyboard Joy

The most recent BSD Now episode is unfortunately not all about legacy hardware as I would enjoy, despite the title, but the usual mix of news items – mostly about new platforms to find BSD.

2020/01/15

dragonflybsd.org line height

I for some reason set line height properties in the style sheet for dragonflybsd.org years ago, and it made scroll bars appear around all <pre> text. It’s taken me years, but I finally removed it. Anyone notice other effects than the lack of those odd scrollbars?

2020/01/14

Learning 2 things

Sometimes you get 2 nice tips: I like seeing this NetBSD->FreeBSD->DragonFly cross pollination in this commit, and also now I know I can fsck a FAT volume on BSD.

3rd bonus: that last sentence sounds terribly rude.