Justin Sherrill – Page 7 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2023/10/082023/10/05

Lazy Reading for 2023/10/08

I made it through the third major ERP transition I’ve done professionally, and it was successful. I hope I never have to do another. Also, I have a lot of open tabs.

BSDCan has a planning blog.
ChiBUG meets on the 17th.
Get yourself on a PDP-11 right now. Or others. (via)
The origins of the stand directory.
The classic book ‘AWK Programming Language’ is getting an update.
x/y/zmodem history, and you can still use it.
Nine years uptime. (via)
“We need an internet of unmonetisable enthusiasms“. That would be this site right here. (via)
Open charter companies and relicensing. (via)
Why htmx Does Not Have a Build Step.
XScreenSaver 6.07 out now. Skulloop!
tentacular, a new Sharecode film.
HONK, a new Cyriak film.
Kagi smallweb. Endless amounts of things to look at here.
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e.
Thinking Seriously About Halfling Empires.

2023/10/072023/10/04

Shutting up about headless systems

If you are running a headless DragonFly system, you may find this new ‘ifexists’ option for ttys helpful.

2023/10/062023/10/04

BSD hardening scripts

Hardening scripts for BSD. There should be a DragonFly-specific one eventually.

2023/10/052023/10/04

Mercusys MW150US support

I may have missed this if it’s been committed, but if you have a Mercusys MW150US, aka a RealTek USB wifi dongle, there’s a patch to support it in Dragonfly.

2023/09/122023/09/12

ChiBUG monthly meeting today

ChiBUG’s monthly meeting is later today. Go, if you are near and not mired in ERP transition like I am at work.

2023/08/202023/08/18

Lazy Reading for 2023/08/20

A bit short this week – I am in the final parts of a large software transition at work.

2023/08/15

SemiBUG tonight: TrueNAS

SemiBUG is having a meeting tonight with a presentation from iXSystems on TrueNAS. There’s a video link in the posting.

2023/08/132023/08/11

Lazy Reading for 2023/08/13

Comfortably all over the map this week.

Recreating a Cyberpunk 2077 game prop.
Backblaze drive stats for 2023Q2. I just found out how cheap b2 storage can be.
Awesome Inferno. (via)
“Why would you do that?” The management review of yacc.
What’s special about this number? (via)
Dobbstown Mirror, $1. You should subscribe; I’ve enjoyed 3 issues so far.
I did not know: vim exists via Atari/Amiga vi ports.
Futurism Restated, an electronic music blog. I mean Substack. The lines blur. (via)
v8 /etc/motd.
Tiny life hack: paint your mouse dongles. I wish I had read this years ago.
Inflation in 1983 must have been horrible. Linked just because 9 year old me thought the Elephant Memory Systems logo was cool.
STIRred AND SHAKEN. Boring, but quietly important.
The first color e-ink monitor I’ve seen.
On the future of free long term support for Linux distributions. A certain amount of open source work is built on the tailings from venture capital, and from corporate waste.

2023/08/082023/08/08

ChiBUG meeting tomorrow

ChiBUG’s monthly meeting is today – go if you are near.

2023/08/072023/07/13

NYCBUG this Wednesday

NYCBUG is meeting on the 9th – go if you are near.

2023/08/062023/08/04

Lazy Reading for 2023/08/06

The mini-theme this week is that some of these links go to lists of more links, so I’m sure there’s a rabbit hole in here for you somewhere.

Paypal security story. (via)
LETTER BOMB TRANSFER PROTOCOL. (via)
textual-paint. (via)
Plain-text journaling. Not necessarily recommending this. (via)
Why is DNS hard to learn? (via)
Warren Ellis’s UbuWeb Top Ten.
The only remaining pre-1950 valve computer.
Free and open source software projects are in transition.
tildeverse.org.
Wrench button to root.
Forthcoming books. (scroll down for the list of suggestions)
CRT Rejuvenators. (via previous)
The Garden of Computational Delights.

2023/07/302023/07/28

Lazy Reading for 2023/07/30

This is one of the more eclectic groups of links I’ve published.

50 Years of Text Games as downloadable book; it will be available as a print on demand book eventually. I got my high-quality copy from the Kickstarter and it is a weighty tome. I was going to link to some of the posters but those are gone now too, geez. Here’s something not in the book.
August 15th: TrueNAS presented at SEMIBUG‘s monthly.
2023Q2 FreeBSD Status Report.
Tales of Type. Truetype is one of those all-nerds-should-be-passingly-familiar bits of history.
Space Colony Art from the 1970s. Surely you’ve seen these before?
Same source, Hokusai’s warriors series. You know the artist from the Great Wave, but probably never saw these.
Weird 80s audio sampler history. (via)
HTTP has become the default, universal communication protocol. Though people don’t always pay attention to the result codes.
Rejected GitHub Profile Achievements. (via)
Yubikey All the Things. Linked for the OpenBSD section.
Between ISA and PCI, PCs had EISA and VLB. And it sucked.
ARM Thinkpad. I might finally upgrade from my x220. (via)
Installing Research UNIX on a PDP 11/70, emulated.

2023/07/232023/07/21

Lazy Reading for 2023/07/23

No theme this week.

All the Nerds Are Dead. “But maybe the most characteristic feature of nerd culture is its total lack of irony.” (via)
Hidden BeOS installs.
A bit of Unix history on ‘su -‘.
Letters to ed(1) is on sale.
And the source, the FreeBSD Journal, has a new issue out.
pkg_*: the road forward. OpenBSD pkg.
Lessons Learned from Sendmail. (via)
Using FreeBSD’s daemon(8)? Consider -r.
How to install Kanboard on OpenBSD.
Fake Nixie tubes with a bootup screen.
Wayland on OpenBSD. (via)

2023/07/21

CoBUG meeting tomorrow

Saturday meetup in Colorado for CoBUG. Go, if you are near.

2023/07/17

LPI at SemiBUG tomorrow

SemiBUG is having John ‘maddog’ Hall talk about LPI for their meeting tomorrow evening. It’s on Jitsi if you want to see.

2023/07/172023/07/12

ChiBUG tomorrow

The ChiBUG meeting is tomorrow. RSVP if you are able to show up.

2023/07/162023/07/13

Lazy Reading for 2023/07/16

Mini-theme: things that haven’t existed for decades, recreated.

Making a Studio Ghibli Wallpaper Carousel. Linked for the script.
Resurrecting a Thinkpad 701c and its butterfly keyboard.
The day my ping took countermeasures. (via)
HAKMEM, the PDF. (via)
Z1, a mechanical computer from the 1930s. You can see bits flip. (via)
Unix support 50 years ago: “your only source of information is a 2-man operation an ocean away” Similar to much open source today. (via)
B Compiler restored.
Next NYCBUG: August 9th.

2023/07/152023/07/12

CoBUG on the 22nd

The Colorado BSD Users Group (CoBUG) is planning to meet on the 22nd of this month.

2023/07/14

Adding a disk in DragonFly

Here’s the notes, for future reference. It’s not hard, but it happens rarely enough I don’t remember the steps.

2023/07/12

ChiBUG: meeting July 18

If you are near Chicago on July 18th, go to the ChiBUG meeting.