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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.

ChiBUG: meeting July 18

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

NYCBUG meeting 2023-07-12

NYCBUG’s next meeting is Wednesday night, 7/12, 6:45. Go, if you are near.

2023/06/202023/06/19

SEMIBUG meeting tonight

It’s a presentation on backups.

2023/06/192023/06/08

ChiBUG meeting tomorrow

ChiBUG’s meeting in person tomorrow at 6, at the usual location. Go, if you are near.

2023/06/142023/06/15

2 lightning talks at NYCBUG tonight

The writeup sounds fun. Go if you are near, 6:45 PM tonight. It may be getting streamed, too.

Update: the recording.

2023/05/282023/06/04

Links for 2023/05/28

Events and crazy things are the mini themes this week.

Mini Moog Model D. (via)
ChiBUG’s next meeting is May 30th.
NYCBUG has a double lightning talk on June 16th.
Also the July NYCBUG monthly meeting will be on the 12th instead of the 5th.
Internet Histories, Volume 7, Issue 2. “Let’s play something awful: a historical analysis of 14 years of threads” got me as a title. (via)
Hidden Door, roleplaying games via AI using existing genre writing. I don’t know how I feel about this. (via)
SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes. (via)
Niklaus Wirth and Donald Knuth, 1985 interview.
Just take a crowbar to it, glitches as storytelling techique.
Doom modding and assuming everything on the internet is probably fake.
What’s black, white, and red on 20 sides?
Hieroglyphic monkeys holding stuff.
BSDCan 2024 Reorganization. Michael W. Lucas is a fan of achievement/pain.
The Story Of Mel, the actual biography. I never thought this would be explored. (via)

Your unrelated music of the week: rekt.network. (via)

ChiBUG meeting

While I slowly work on the layout, here’s something that can’t wait: ChiBUG meets tomorrow at the usual place, 6 PM. Go, if you are anywhere near Chicago.

ChiBUG meets tonight

If you’re near Chicago, go to the ChiBUG meeting tonight at 6.

2022/10/182022/10/17

SEMIBUG: NetBSD and Security, tonight

SEMIBUG is hosting a presentation by David Maxwell on security and NetBSD, tonight. It’s hosted online so if you can read this, you can attend.

2022/10/152022/10/13

In Other BSDs for 2022/10/15

Accidentally OpenBSD-heavy this week.

2022/10/052022/09/30

NYCBUG meetup tonight

The social meeting for NYCBUG is tonight, at Torch & Crown Brewing. Go, if you are near.

2022/10/012022/09/30

In Other BSDs for 2022/10/01

Next NYCBUG social gathering is this Wednesday.
Ultima Online’s 25th anniversary. Linked here cause it works on OpenBSD without Wine, according to the comment. (via)
Announcing the pkgsrc 2022Q3 branch.
How Rob Pike got hired by Dennis Richie.
A DMD 5620 Terminal Emulator. This is a terminal I’ve never seen before.
EuroBSDCon 2022, my first BSD conference (and how they are different).
EuroBSDCon 2022.
EuroBSDCon 2022.
The Geeks way of checking what the outside wheather[sic] is like.
Cartron asks what FreeBSD machines I use.
Red Hat’s OpenShift vs FreeBSD Jails.
Toolchains Adventures Q3 2022.
Valuable News – 2022/09/26.
How to trigger services restart after OpenBSD update.

2022/09/202022/09/19

ChiBUG meeting maybe tonight

In-person. Though it might be canceled; I am preposting this and it hasn’t been settled as of right now. Go, if you are near Chicago and it happens.

2022/09/172022/09/15

In Other BSDs for 2020/09/17

I got subscribed to the UNIX Heritage Society mailing list and it’s already turned up some good stories.

ps(1) gains support for tree-like display of processes. OpenBSD, though it would be useful everywhere, hint, hint.
rcctl(8) gains a “configtest” action.
Portable OpenSSH commits now SSH-signed.
Sharing Dual-Licensed Drivers between Linux and FreeBSD.
“interesting old-timey UNIXes” – I do not know where these intersect with the more well known branches of the family tree.
Time overflows have always been with us.
A fresh look at FreeBSD. (via)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy. By Rob Pike. Note the timestamp, for 2 reasons.
Valuable News – 2022/09/12.
Installing BSD on an older Dell Laptop: having some issues.
-current has moved to 7.2. OpenBSD.
rpki-client 8.0 released.
ChiBUG is meeting this Tuesday, the 20th.

2022/08/162022/08/10

SEMIBUG tonight: lightning talks

I’m preposting this, so hopefully it is still accurate: SEMIBUG has a menu of lightning talks tonight. It’s online.

Unofficial NYCBUG meetup, tomorrow

There’s an unofficial NYCBUG meetup, tomorrow at 6:45PM. Go, if you are near New York City.

SEMIBUG tonight: Jupyter notebooks

SEMIBUG is having a presentation on Jupyter notebooks tonight, online. The presenter is using them for genome sequencing, so this should the interesting.

2022/07/062022/07/05

Unofficial NYCBUG meetup tonight

It’ll probably involve some drinking. Go, if you are near, and RSVP so there’s space.