libfetch has a vulnerability, now fixed on DragonFly in current and release, plus it also affects FreeBSD.
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?
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)
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.
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.
I imagine this may work for any BSD, really. Aaron Li has the instructions, which may be especially useful for non-English readers.
SEMIBUG’s next meeting is tonight, with Michael Lucas talking about SNMP. Go, if you are near.
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)
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.
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- 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.
If you installed BSDStats but it didn’t work, here’s why – with a fix.
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.
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?
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.
ChiBUG meets tomorrow at the usual place. Go, if you are near.
Accidental themes this week: keyboards and game remakes.
- Indieweb; something I plan to explore more.
- Autocomplete as an interface.
- Heroes of Might and Magic 3, as open source game engine. (via)
- Hello World, a comparative exercise. (for one meaning of “better”)
- Why is Wednesday, November 17, 1858 the base time for OpenVMS? (via)
- Benchmarking shell pipelines and the Unix “tools” philosophy.
- Weird Keyboards, Programmable Keyboards. The author sells some bonkers keyboards. (via)
- How to create a handheld Linux terminal (v2). Or BSD! (via)
- The Planck Keyboard, via comments on the previous source. Apparently a “40% keyboard” is the phrase that describes this sort of smaller keyboard.
- tmux-resurrect. Somewhat magical. (via kerma on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
- Class of 2020: New in the Public Domain today! I linked to a different article before, but this one talks about outside the U.S.
- BeOS: The Alternate Universe’s Mac OS X. (via)
- A Decentralized Web Primer: Dat. “The read/write web”. (via)
- Unciv, an open source Civilization V; probably could run with openjdk8? Haven’t tried. (via)
- A retrospective of Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun. (via)
- Society for the History Of Technology call for papers is out. (via)
- 2020 IGF nominees: a good mood and 2020 IGF nominees: hit and miss.
- Monoid: open source coding font. (via)
- 2019 Income Sources. Interesting since a chunk of that is BSD books.
- A Compiler Writing Journey. (via)