Goings-on – DragonFly BSD Digest

2024/12/082024/11/29

Lazy Reading for 2024/12/08

Unofficial theme: synthesizers!

- How to Build a Chess Engine and Fail. (via)
- cablesoft. Finally, a ‘computers are bad’ story where I experienced (some of) the history described.
- Jon Makes Beats. Seeing synthesizers and samplers in use. (via)
- More synthesizer stuff: the Orchid. (via)
- Even more: Music Thing Modular Workshop System. (via)
- Using (only) a Linux terminal for my personal computing in 2024.
- more tales of the unscreenshotable.
- AI-powered Self Service Checkouts.
- Why pipes sometimes get “stuck”: buffering. (via)
- Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web. (via)
- Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground. Tabletop RPG history. (via)
- A Margaret Hamilton’s worth of printed code. (via)
- What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen. (also via)

Your video experience of the week: Hundreds of Beavers. This was played in a theater in my town months ago and I missed it. I should have gone to see it on the big screen, but here it is on YouTube. (via)

2024/11/05

Docker and DragonFly, multiple methods

2 different ways to do Docker on DragonFly.

2024/05/14

A DragonFly BSD Taste

A ‘first try’ document for DragonFly.

2024/04/03

NYCBUG 20 years, tonight

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.

2023/12/262023/12/25

New mirror added

Yao Ge has created a new DragonFly mirror in Nanjing, China. It’s on the mirrors page too.

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.)

2023/11/20

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.

2023/10/062023/10/04

BSD hardening scripts

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

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.

2023/05/072023/05/05

Links for 2023/05/07

I’m glomming all BSD and not-BSD into these roundup posts. I don’t think they need to be separate.

The Apple ][ Age, a new book. (via)
Let’s Make Sure Github Doesn’t Become the only Option. (via)
The Cocoa Press Chocolate 3D Printer.
Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop. (via)
Xterm: It’s better than you thought. (via and via)
A look at terminal emulators, part 1.
Sensenmann: Code Deletion at Scale. (via)
The NYCBUG presentation on GeFS from a few days ago is now online.
More NYCBUG in the future!
Ancient Myths and Open Source.
intpm(4), the smbus power control I didn’t know existed.
NetBSD AGM2023: Annual General Meeting, May 13. Nicely open.
The Museum of Screens. (via)
The Internet Isn’t Meant To Be So Small. (also via)
Drass: Shadow of Doubt. Cubism makes a comeback. (also also via)

2023/04/302023/04/29

Links for 2023/04/30

Back by popular demand.

50 Shades of Rust, or emerging Rust GUIs in a WASM world. Everything has its own name and language, and there’s 20 of them! Great! (via)
Review of Six Text Editors. Fun hot takes on old-school editors. (via)
Calculators, codes, and hidden messages. (via)
textart.sh. Copy/paste almost anywhere. (via)
The Modern WWW.
WizardKnighting Planescape.
How an 18th Century Sailing Battleship Works. Ostensibly for an upcoming movie, but I always think of the Aubrey/Maturin books.
Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH.
130 A History Of The World According To Getty Images. Public domain does not mean public. (via)
The 13 Levels of Complexity of Turntable Scratching.
Junk Drawer Phone as a Music Streaming Server. (via)
Of Sun Ray laptops, MIPS and getting root on them.
Set up your own CalDAV and CardDAV servers on OpenBSD.

2023/01/022023/01/04

A happy thought for 2023

A happy thought for the new year: you may not have to rely on the Bernoulli Effect to retrieve data for the entire year!

2022/11/10

dsynth without stopping

If you have a bulk build of packages happening with dsynth(1), you can now add – literally, that’s the command – to the package list without interrupting the build.

2022/10/222022/10/21

In Other BSDs for 2022/10/22

It’s Long Article Title week!

2022/09/152022/09/15

uwtwn(4) update

If you are using urtwn(4) for your USB network connection, it now supports the Edimax EW-7811Un chipset? model?.

2022/09/092022/09/08

Moving dsynth

If you’re moving your dsynth build to a different machine, there’s now a ‘list-system’ directive that lets you recreate the same setup in a new place.

2022/08/08

Cleaning up a HAMMER drive

Predrag Punosevac has some notes on how he cleaned up some HAMMER drives and freed up half his disk space.

2022/07/222022/07/21

Where the (dports) action is

I mentioned a new committer for DragonFly, Sergey Zigachev, recently. He hasn’t shown in the commit logs for DragonFly directly – cause he’s fixing up dports. I’m mentioning that because the amount of work that goes into dports to keep all those ports working on DragonFly is separate and unseen – but necessary.

2022/06/21

rEFInd design for all the BSDs

Ian Grindley has created a BSD theme for rEFInd that covers all the BSDs – including DragonFly.