The next scheduled meeting for SEMIBUG is tonight. Go, if you are near.
Partial overflow this week, which means probably even more next week. We all benefit!
- OUIGO – Let’s Play. Pinball in your browser. Good pinball. (via)
- shlide—a slide deck presentation tool written in pure bash. (via)
- Under Armour Dumped Its App, and Consumers Feel the Heartbreak. As the article mentions, companies will dump cheap services – and your data and invested time – at a moment’s notice. The article might be paywalled.
- How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporary x86? Begs the question, but still interesting to ask. (via)
- Apple 2 connecting via acoustic coupler modem and rotary phone. (via)
- Hard Drive Stats for 2019. Backblaze. (via)
- Blackwing Pencils: A Comprehensive Guide.
- Rotary Cellphone. (via)
- noclip.website, game floor plans. (via)
- Genres evolve and so does language. Roguelike arguments.
- The Burroughs Memoirs. I briefly worked at a child company of Burroughs. (via)
- The Missing Semester of Your CS Education. Open source teaches exactly this; most schools do not. Guess which makes you a better programmer? (via)
- A Bit of History Regarding “Tunnels of Armageddon” for the Apple IIgs.
- Building a Note-taking System with Vanilla Vim. (via)
- Vintage Computer Festival East 2020. (via)
UNIX history as an accidental theme this week.
Update: NetBSD 9.0 is released.
- Are there analogues to libxo out there?
- Unix Heritage Wiki. (via)
- Rigs of rods: physic vehicles simulator. (OpenBSD gaming)
- PF dynamic IP lists. I have the same question.
- Six FreeBSD terminal games. Probably other BSDs too. (via)
- UNIX Review Early 80’s Ad.
- Cycling / bike trips and opensource.
- Rob Landley about the /usr split. (via)
- awesome cli apps: A curated list of command line apps. Look for them in ports. (via)
- Using PKGSRC on Manjaro Linux aarch64 Pinebook-pro. (via)
- FreeNAS versus Unraid – Grudge Match. (via)
- Dependencies and maintainers. Tehcnically BSD related.
I like seeing cross-pollination, as I’ve said before. I really like it turning into informal cross-BSD standards.
This week’s BSD Now covers user groups and convention talks and releases and really the full gamut.
ChiBUG is having their monthly meeting at the normal place, Giordano’s, tonight. Next month is a new location.
Hamilton, Ontario, is having what I think is the inaugural meeting for their BUG, tonight. That’s I think the closest one to me so far.
Also, the Polish BUG is meeting tonight. I say “tonight” for both of these, but they are very different time zones.
The Dusseldorf BSD.nrw BUG is also also meeting tonight. Second Tuesdays are popular!
Linked cause I always forget the right shell command for UTF-8, to reduce the amount of ???? ??? ??? ??????? ??.
Apple ][ minitheme, this week.
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- The Public Domain Review, an Interview With Editor Adam Green. Worth looking at just for the images. Public Domain! (via)
- Related: Nightingale, the journal of the Data Visualisation Society. I would like to have a card stating I was a member, just to feel smug in a good way.
- Legible News, culled from Wikipedia. Readability is the draw. (via multiple)
- Pervane, a plain text private note taking tool. (via)
- Org-mode features You May Not Know. (via)
- “…this is my initial experience of a website…” Get a newsletter, click a link, get a “subscribe to our newsletter!” popup. That’s just laziness. (via)
- Common LISP awk macro for easy text file operations. I like reading LISP even if I never write it.
- OK Doomer. (via)
- Firing Up the Apple //c for “Not x86 Week”. (via)
- Vintage Apple. (via)
- The Importance of Being E.R.N.I.E. (via)
- Intro to the Haiku review series: the BeOS reborn. (via)
- Geometry: A minimalistic, fully customizable ZSH theme. Linked cause I never thought of shells as themeable before. (via)
- ThinkPad Mods, Done Right. Dangit dangit dangit! This mod uses the one corner I smashed on my x220. (via)
Your unrelated music link of the day: A Beginner’s Guide to Venetian Snares’ Breakcore Madness. Oh Bandcamp RSS feed, how did I live without you?
Another overflow week.
- Travel Grant Application for BSDCan is now open.
- Bram Moolenaar Uses This. I am curious about what specifically stopped him using BSD.
- Tildeverse. Several BSD communities in there.
- What files installed by this package have been modified post-install?
- Some effects of the ZFS DVA format on data layout and growing ZFS pools. Linked cause much ZFS discussion is about tools, not format.
- Open world games! OpenBSD.
- SerenityOS desktop running on an OpenBSD kernel. (via)
- Creating a ZFS dataset for testing iocage within a jail.
- FixedMisc [MirOS] 20200202 and MirKeyboardLayout 9x released!
- Finding out what directories exist with only basic shell builtins (a Unix shell trick). Tangentially BSD.
- Second (final) release candidate for NetBSD 9.0 available!
- Related: Help NetBSD test 9.0 Release Candidate 2.
- [packages] PostgreSQL major update.
- Valuable News – 2020/02/03.
- ThinkPad T480 is my new main laptop which runs FreeBSD. (via)
- FOSDEM BSD room video recordings. (via)
- [How-To] Running syslog-ng in BastilleBSD. (via)
- FreeNAS Plugins Development.
This week’s BSD Now has links to a number of about-BSD articles, as usual. Take note – there’s links to two European BUG meetings I didn’t have noted, under Beastie Bits.
Random number generation on DragonFly now runs per–CPU, and a bit faster. No real user effect, but randomness is one of those endlessly complex topics that are fun to read about.
NYCBUG meets tomorrow, at Chartbeat. You can bring in food, too! Go, if you are near.
Today’s date is fun to type.
- Elizabeth Goodspeed’s list of open access archives, historical ephemera and found materials. (via)
- Tinker Tech, a review of the Pinebook Pro that’s an exact description of the target audience.
- Pinebookpro gaming part 2, related. (via)
- NexDock 2, a Kickstarter I regret missing. (via previous link)
- Meet micro:bit. I think I linked these before. (via)
- SourceGen Disassembly Projects. Mostly Apple][. (via)
- PastWindow, a window with a 6-month delay. (via)
- Plotting Perlin Landscapes. Pen plotters are hypnotizing to watch in motion.
- Sea and Spar Between, an online generator of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson’s poetry, mashed together. Read the instructions. (via)
- The text adventure game of exiting a telnet session. (via)
- Coffee++ keyboardlayout (ENTI-key++). For when you don’t want to put down your drink. (via)
- Mysterious packets in the night. Linked cause live monitoring is underrated.
- AI Dungeon and Creativity.
- Tangent: The Automated Dungeon Master.
- Bucklespring, Model M audio emulation. (via)
- Terminal Phase, a terminal-based space shooter. (via)
- The happinesses and stresses of full-time FOSS work.
- KnightOS was an interesting operating system.
- The 4X seen as an RPG. (via)
- Master of Orion, in-depth.
- anideafora.website. Exactly that. (via)
- 2020 Web Milestones. Flash and Python 2 finally stop this year. (via)
Your unrelated music link of the day: The Death Metal Double Life of “Atypical” Star Keir Gilchrist. (thanks, Drew Diver) Getting that link made me notice the Bandcamp RSS feed quietly stopped working; an inquiry to their support got me this independent link for now.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?