The BSD.nrw Dusseldorf-Wersten BSD user’s group next meeting is on the 20th. Go, if you are near.
This recent change in kernel memory use may make booting faster. If you’re running -current, time your boot before and after this change, and see what the difference is. I’m always curious.
A recent implementation of SMAP would cause a panic on some machines; that’s now fixed (including on release). So if you had a panic from ACPI between May and now – please retry.
Some deep dives here; take your time today.
- The ZedRipper: Part 1. 16 cores, 83 MHz. (via)
- Play AI Dungeon 2. Become a dragon. Eat the moon.
- Links of the 2010s. There’s a lot here.
- 3 Wyrd Things: Robin the Fog. Listen to Catch 22-20, on that page; a skipping recording that skips with the right timing to create coherent music.
- Two malicious Python libraries caught stealing SSH and GPG keys. (via)
- DNote, self-hosted personal note saving.
- Unreleased Infocom Game Unearthed (from 1986).
- “The Unbeatable Deck of Ronan Shin” by Kiyash Monsef. (via)
- Think App Updates Suck? Try Upgrading a Programming Language. Every language gets to find this out.
- Freebies. Oddball desktops, etc. (via)
- Vim 8.2 is out. (via)
- Andy Baio Uses This. Linked cause he’s a superior link source.
- What I want for CES.
- It’s a good idea to label all of the drives in your desktop.
Lots of variety this week.
- NetBSD Advent Calendar 2019. (via)
- ARM64 and BSD discussion.
- Notqmail, the presentation topic for the January NYCBUG meeting and maybe for SEMIBUG at some point too.
- HAMBSD, presented at NorthernRST. (via)
- BSD-Licensed Combinatorics library/utility. This is neat.
- “The Microsoft LSG (former Open Source Technology Center) FreeBSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE on Azure.”
- BSDCan 2020’s Call for Papers is out.
- December 2019 Infrastructure Status. (HardenedBSD)
- KDE plasma flavor now available. (FuryBSD)
- Developers shouldn’t distribute their own software. Touches on BSD ports. “Note: This article presumes that proprietary/nonfree software is irrelevant, and so should you.”
- Clang build bot now uses two-stage builds, and other LLVM/LLDB news.
- Manage Contacts the UNIX Way.
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 19 – Configuration – Plank – Skippy-XD.
- Valuable News – 2019/12/09.
- Learning from OpenBSD can make computers marginally less horrible. (via)
- Artworks for the Euro BSD Con 2020 in Austria.
- Infinity Engine on OpenBSD.
- Meet Radiant Award Recipient Claudio Jeker.
- Playing CrossCode within a web browser.
If you have an Elantech touchpad IC type 15 on your laptop (and you do if it’s a ThinkPad L480 or Huawei Magicbook), it’s now supported in DragonFly. Thanks to K Staring for the fix.
BSD Now 328 is out, and it’s covering various news items; the common thread seems to be “please test this new tech”, which is always exciting.
The i915(4) driver now supports some newer models of Intel GPU, thanks to Francois Tigeot.
The next ChiBUG meeting is tomorrow night, December 10th. Go, if you are near, but also RSVP on the list.
The BSD user’s group in Dusseldorf is also meeting on the 10th. Go there instead, if you are on that side of the ocean.
Accidental theme this week: terminals.
- Teletext’s creative legacy. (via)
- Related: Teletext, the font. (via)
- The Plain Text Project. (Thanks, Benn Collver.)
- TROS: How IBM mainframes stored microcode in transformers.
- IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display. An answer to the recently-linked-here “80×25” post, and perhaps the definitive answer on terminal size. Also: sound delay lines are bonkers.
- The Magical Excel 97 Far East Language Build Screwdriver™.
- 26th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2019) winners. (via)
- New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 2: Hacking Deeper (or, Follies of Graham Nelson’s Youth).
- New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 3: A Renaissance is Nigh.
- Unlocked Recordings, via the recent Music Modernization Act. This is one of the many reasons to donate to the Internet Archive. (via)
- Migrationator: Open source tool to help migrate away from Google. (via)
- Big Pile of Vim-like. (via)
- It was 20 years ago today. 4 years ahead of me.
Your odd pile of GIFs for the week: more Jan Svankmajer animations than I’ve ever seen in one place. (via)
Accidental theme: BUGs BUGs BUGs and also happy birthday me! It’s a bit brief cause like usual I am working extra.
- NetBSD 9.0RC1 is out.
- Next ChiBUG meeting: December 10th. RSVP on the list if you are attending.
- Next Dusseldorf BUG meeting: also December 10th.
- Next NYCBUG meeting: January 8th.
- ZFS sync/async + ZIL/SLOG, explained. (via)
- ryzen build (for openbsd).
- HardenedBSD Infrastructure Goals. (via)
- Authentication vulnerabilities in OpenBSD. (via)
- Related: syscall call-from verification.
- e2k19 Hackathon Report: At e2k19 nobody can hear you scream (Claudio Jeker).
- sysget: A single front end for every unix package manager. (via)
- Writing a daemon using FreeBSD and Python pt.3.
- Valuable News – 2019/12/02.
- PlayOnBSD Shopping Guide now scraping for sales on GOG and Steam.
This week’s BSD Now talks about, among other things, renaming of ZFS On Linux to OpenZFS, and a bonkers story about Sun.
The Holiday Hardware Swap is happening at NYCBUG’s monthly meeting today, at a new location. Go, if you are near.
Synth logs for dports are now located here on a new machine:
https://sting.dragonflybsd.org/dports/logs/Report/
If there’s only a short list, it’s because the most recent build was probably focused on retrying a broken-but-now-possibly-fixed package. I link both because of the utility and also because the interface is pretty.
If you’ve ever been left watching a “press any key…” line at shutdown of your DragonFly system, there’s now a fix. It’s committed to release, too, so it’s available now.
While you’re at it, there’s a HAMMER2 bugfix that will also be brought in by updating.
I’m going with high-concept material this week. If you have time for some thinking today, you’ll enjoy the links.
- Sounds recreated from pictures, a video and an album. Making sounds exist that were never recorded – a sort of time travel. (via)
- Transformative Tools for Thought. (via)
- A primer on hardware security keys, which I recommend. (via)
- SIMjacking, a new term to me. (also via)
- A history of procedural text.
- To Go Green, the Energy Industry Goes Open Source.
- Yes I do want LEDs and Bluetooth in my d20s.
- Various IF crowdfunds.
- The Information is Beautiful Award Winners 2019. (via)
- Don Libes’ Expect: A Surprisingly Underappreciated Unix Automation Tool. (via)
- Understanding and repairing the power supply from a 1969 analog computer. So pretty!
- 64 Bits ought to be enough for anybody. (via)
- Notes on Ambient Privacy. (via)
- Command and Conquer, a retrospective. Part of what defined RTS games. (via)
- Sunless Skies, a review. Not defining a genre, but a mood. (also via)
End of year events are starting to get scheduled; watch for one near you.
- Holiday Hardware Swap plus more at NYCBUG this Wednesday.
- MeatBSD reservations are due today. If you will be near SEMIBUG’s Dec 17th event, respond now.
- FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report for 2019Q3.
- Valuable News – 2019/11/25.
- OPNsense 19.7.7 released.
- p2k19 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling on iwm(4) wifi progress, more.
- Writing a daemon using FreeBSD and Python, part 1 and part 2.
- A Look at PureDarwin. (via)
- How to use pkgsrc on Linux. (via)
- FreeBSD Journal for September/October.
- OpenBSD: General web deployment security best practice (httpd, doas, git).
- [How-To] PostgreSQL ascii logo for FreeBSD boot loader.
- unwind(8) gains “Happy Eyeballs”-like flexibility.
- Some notes on userspace routing.
- Debugging FFS Mount Failures.
- samsung ativ book 9. Hardware review, OpenBSD install.
I sorta like seeing these things ricochet back and forth.