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George Rosamond is presenting on the 20th anniversary of I think the longest-lived BUG, NYCBUG, tonight. Go if you are near (and RSVP so they can let you in), but it’s also going to be streamed.

2024/03/22

HardenedBSD talk tomorrow night

It’s for COBUG, and details are available here.

2024/03/042024/02/22

March 6 NYCBUG meeting

The March 6 NYCBUG meeting is coming up, and it sounds like something I’d want to see: NetBSD for the Advanced Minimalist, working remote using only a $100 Pinebook. Be sure to RSVP if you can go cause this is in-person and they need to know who is coming into the NYU facility.

2024/02/112024/02/09

Lazy Reading for 2024/02/11

No theme this week.

BSDCan papers submissions close tomorrow – get yours in.
Next NYCBUG meeting, March 6: NetBSD for the Advanced Minimalist. Traveling and working with only a Pinebook.
Anatomy of a Hollerith Card.
More stories about the famously idiosyncratic author of that previous link, David Mills. (via)
Hypertext emerges from his well to shame the tech industry.
Add coffee stains to LaTeX documents. (via)
What is a terminal-based game you’ve played that’s worth mentioning?
Understanding phonetic symbols. Written for IBM but talks about a standard.
D100 sheets. I enjoy just reading these. (via)
Nuclear Engineering Wall Charts. (via)

2024/01/102024/01/09

NYCBUG tonight

Assuming the weather hasn’t interfered (I am preposting this), NYCBUG meets tonight.

2024/01/082024/01/09

ChiBUG meeting tomorrow

ChiBUG meets tomorrow, in I assume the normal place.

Update: postponed due to weather.

2024/01/072024/01/05

Lazy Reading for 2024/01/07

Of course the first thing I did was type the wrong year into the title of this post.

OpenBSD printing and Avery labels.
pkgsrc-2023Q4 out.
Next NYC*BUG: Jan 10th.
DragonFly BSD on a Thinkpad T480s.
There’s a thread about disklabel on the TUHS list that went from interesting history to OpenFirmware discussion and then into the problem of bootstrapping/hardware monitors. Lots more I didn’t link. (iPhone-related)
‘Merchants of Complexity’: Why 37Signals Abandoned the Cloud. Recurring monthly payments for static goods are a goldmine – for the seller. (via)
Critical mass in the Goldilocks zone. (via)
Ten Things To Do After Installing FreeBSD. I don’t agree with it but it is interesting.
2024 FreeBSD community survey. Closes tomorrow.
Why Prusa is floundering, and how you can avoid their fate. I don’t know the products well enough to say this is the only analysis.
Why My Short Fiction Is Exclusively In My Store. Counterintuitively, he’s charging less money but making more money.
The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again. Read the article for the links inside it.

2023/12/312023/12/27

Lazy Reading for 2023/12/31

Happy new year! More BSD content in this week’s summary than usual.

The Infinite 8-Bit Computer Game Character Archive. (via)
OSR Rules Families. (via)
How about not having platforms so large that their policy decisions carry this much weight? Having an alternative platform makes these problems go away.
Battle for Libraries. Seeing some of the authors signed up to support this made me decide “yes, this is good”.
A Murder at the End of the World: Are you Vi or Emacs? (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 28 – Configuration – Corner Actions.
Making my own Bed Sensor. (via)
My cat water fountain comes with a spicy USB power adapter. Always check voltages / don’t trust written voltages. (via)
First bits of a Haiku compatibility layer for NetBSD. (via)
Default mail transport in FreeBSD 14.0 is DragonFly Mail Agent, neat.
The BSDCan 2024 Call For Papers is out.

Your unrelated music of the week: Don Leisure, Halal Cool J. Music’s good, title’s hilarious. (via)

2023/12/172023/12/15

Lazy Reading for 2023/12/17

Here’s a weird confluence of things all based on me searching out links and stories for this blog: Based on the recommendation of Cooking Issues listeners, I visited Hi-Collar last weekend, a Japanese kissaten (which I know of because of Craig Mod’s mailing list / book) while I stayed at St. Marks’s Hotel, which I know about through NYCBSDCon. Meal was good, and all these things would not have come together without these years of Lazy Reading posts.

BSD on Windows. A product I never heard of. (via)
A List of Lists. I have linked to at least one of them before.
Children of the Geissler Tube. Seems like something to buy at United Nuclear. (via)
From a comment on last week’s Lazy Reading: CCC is coming up.
The original UNIX Lab had left-handed lightbulbs. Note the author of the post.
History of SMTP. (Video, via)
DateTime, an XKCD cartoon. Painfully accurate.
Why we at $FAMOUS_COMPANY Switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY. (via)
Ctrl+Alt Museum pictures.
Dungeons & Directories. (via)
Umberto Eco Formulates The AI Novel In 2011.
Apple ][ copy protection affecting how a game plays. A game world being affected by a physical aspect of a legal status in the real world.
Finishing Up a FreeBSD Experiment. I like seeing what people use. (via)
“the plural of regex is regrets“. (via)

2023/12/112023/12/11

ChiBUG tomorrow

ChiBUG is meeting in the normal place ~~tomorrow~~ on the 19th. Go, if you are near. (Plans changed after I posted this.)

2023/12/102023/12/06

Lazy Reading for 2023/12/10

Old hardware – really old – minitheme.

ARCC tickets 30% off with code CH3AP.
Fun with DNS TXT Records. Password storage, bizarre but hilarious. (via)
The BSDCan 2024 page is up.
The Psychedelic Inspiration For Hypercard. (via)
Decker, Hypercard clone that builds web pages. (via)
User Manual for Babbage’s Difference Engine #2. Which exists. And you can build it. Or 3D print it. (via)
Saturn V Apollo Flight Configuration. Poster to print. (via)
Fake mainframe, real lights and switches.
The strange world of Japan’s PC-98 computer. Linked cause I remember seeing “PC-98” in I think the FreeBSD installer. (via)

2023/11/202023/11/07

ChiBUG meeting tomorrow

The monthly ChiBUG meeting is tomorrow at the normal location.

2023/11/20

SemiBUG tomorrow: shell scripting presentation

SemiBUG is having a meeting tomorrow, the 21st, with a presentation on shell scripting. It’ll be online through Jitsi. Slides from Nick Holland’s last presentation are available, for the curious.