Merry Christmas! Here is a present. I haven’t been posting while I fiddle with layouts, or just get too busy from holiday work, but here’s a pile of links, also known as “all my open tabs so that I can now close them”.
- In praise of Plan 9.
- X11 Conservancy Project.
- A brief history of murder in Ultima Online. (via)
- A2osX. “Multi Tasking OS for Apple IIe //c IIgs”.
- An objective criteria for deprecating community platforms,
- Mailing List Freebies. Worth it worth it. Also recent book plans.
- GoToSocial on OpenBSD, a Fediverse adventure.
- The Art Teacher from Drohobycz. New Brothers Quay!
- The Foundation and the FreeBSD Desktop.
- Pattern Collider. (via)
- Weekend Links 650, the source for the previous link, relinked cause of the note on Tom Phillips’ death. Phillips is responsible for A Humument, one of the more dense and complex books I’ve ever read. “Read” isn’t the correct term.
- Authentication gateway with SSH on OpenBSD.
- FreeBSD vs. Linux – Where and How To Run OpenZFS.
- The Palmpilot returns, this time in your browser.
- Dwarf Fortress’ Steam version immediately punched me in the gut. Note to self: buy.
- Best Books of 2022.
- Still Going: A zine on using old technology. (via)
- New Desktop Synth, Prismatic Spray, Offers Knobby Control Of Bytebeat Synthesis. Linked for the app name, which I hope you recognize. (via)
- Magic Cap, from the Magic Link to the DataRover and the stuff in-between.
- XScreenSaver 6.06 out now. Newest screen hack is related to a pipes game I now can’t find the link for.
- What we can learn from vintage computing.
- How to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg.
- Recently updated blogs on ooh.directory.
- Vintage-Style Map of the Mandelbrot Set.
- feedle.world. An RSS feed of RSS feeds.
- Blogroll. Curated.
- Open source is democratizing video game development.
- Speech-to-text with Whisper: How I Use It & Why.
- Sierpi?ski Triangle Interpreted as Musical Notes.
- The Best Buried Treasures Of 2022.
- As (Not) Seen In The Art of Darkness.
- Haiku R1/beta4 has been released. (via)
- 9th International Workshop on Plan 9. Important because it’s all BSD licensed now. (via)
Edited later to add: Mörk Borg? Mörk Borg! Mörk Borg!
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.
I’m working in my limited spare time to change the site to enable more frequent, smaller posts – which means the layout is going to get fiddled with too. It won’t all finish in one night; please be patient with me.
(yes, I’d like to do another personal memepool.)
I’ve been looking for a way to make the posting process quicker for the Digest. My existing process has been to collect open tabs and categorize emails, then go through them later, turning them into links and source links. I’d like to be able to post them as I read them – a link per post, even. The closest tools I’ve found for this are Press This! / Press This Extended, but both appear to be abandoned and no longer compatible. Suggestions welcomed.
Keeping your published fiction and technical book list in SNMP is definitely a new use of a MIB to me.
If you’re near Chicago, go to the ChiBUG meeting tonight at 6.
No theme this week.
- Distributed Cooperation
- Copilot lawsuit. Happening with images too but not as obvious yet.
- Barilla’s open source tool for perfect pasta. Is the app open source? Couldn’t tell.
- Pimping my Casio with Oddly Specific Objects’ alternate motherboard and firmware (via)
- In praise of ffmpeg
- More Thoughts About Dongles. 2FA TOTP mechanisms are sorta The New Dongle, arguably.
- The wonderful tee(1) command
- One more MOS 7600 Pong: Coleco Telstar Gemini
Your unrelated music link of the week: Death In Vegas – Zugaga. I heard it on the radio and thought it was a remix of something eighties – Vangelis?
It’s Long Article Title week!
- If only the kids knew about pipes
- OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop (via)
- FreeBSD Kernel Developer job at Klara
- The feasibility of pledge() on Linux (via)
- FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report – Third Quarter 2022
- How-to Guide: Binary Package Management on FreeBSD
- Avoid Infrastructure Vendor Lock-in by leveraging MinIO and OpenZFS
- Announcing the FreeBSD/Firecracker platform
- Installing and Using Research Unix Version 6 in the Open SIMH PDP-11 Emulator
- Keeping FreeBSD Secure: Learn the Whys and Hows with the FreeBSD Sec Team
- Valuable News – 2022/10/18
- NetBSD Arm on Oracle Cloud
- OpenBSD 7.2 Released
- BSD-XFCE (via)
- Newer NetBSD can still run on a 75 mHz Pentium
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.
No theme this week.
- Going where BeOS NetPositive hasn’t gone before: NetPositive+.
- Haiku Activity & Contract Report, September 2022. (via)
- The most important standard in development today.
- Last chance to preorder the “50 Years” book!
- Bea Wolf, a story.
- ISC DHCP Server has reached EOL. 20 years ago this was the only real reliable DHCP server I could find. (via)
- Make Things Bigger Part One.
- Exploring the Cutting Edge of Desktop ARM Hardware. Not there yet.
- Retrospective: Adventure.
- The Floppotron 3.0. (via)
- Community Governance Outside the Web’s Dictatorships.
Accidentally OpenBSD-heavy this week.
- OpenBSD build KDE software using kdesrc-build tutorial for beginners.
- How old various Unix signals are.
- SEMIBUG: NetBSD and Security, Oct 18th. Online.
- We are stuck with
egrepandfgrep(unless you like beating people) - A kiosk computer running OpenBSD
- Valuable News – 2022/10/10
- Running a Docker Host under OpenBSD using vmd(8)
- Ads blocking with OpenBSD unbound(8)
- Further memory protections committed to -current
- A Few of My Favorite Things About The OpenBSD Packet Filter Tools
- Automatic mounting of volumes on FreeBSD
This special episode of BSD Now has an interview with Warren Toomey. I just happened to sign up for the TUHS mailing list and let me tell you, there’s some history being reported there by the people that lived it.
“New commandline tools” is the mini-theme.
- UML: My Part in its Downfall.
- BSing at 300 Bits Per Second.
- The top 10 things about blog and IT you should know. Clever.
- Unix, Plan 9 and the Lurking Smalltalk. (via)
- VSIG Lecture on the Public Packet Infrastructure. (via)
- Software engineering practices.
- Open Book Abridged.
- The appeal of small computers. (via)
- Projecting Parallels in Archi Comics.
- Awesome Terminals.
- Nerd Fonts. Common terminal fonts with added image glyphs.
- Oh My Posh, prompt configs for any shell.
- Modern UNIX.
Your unrelated video of the week: Bollards. SheepFilms are fun. Also: Potato House.
No theme this week for the BSD section.
- Fiber + Static IP = Self-Hosting Glory! Sounds suspiciously like my ISP.
- OpenBSD: Manage DNS, DNSSEC (to automate TLSA records). (via)
- Red Hat OpenShift versus FreeBSD Jails. (via)
- Netlink Added to FreeBSD – Unmodified Linux ip(8) Correctly Works. (via)
- Fun with FreeBSD: Your First Linux Guest. (via)
- OpenBSD.app – quick full-text searching of OpenBSD packages for -stable and -current. (via)
- bsddialog 0.4 and LGPL-Free bsdinstall.
- Meet the 2022 FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Students: Koichi Imai, Christos Margiolis, and Jake Freeland.
- SCALE19X Conference Report.
- HardenedBSD September 2022 Status Report.
- Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS Part 3.
- Valuable News – 2022/10/03.
The first link and the title for this week’s BSD Now doesn’t have anything to do with BSD as far as I know, but I think it’s funny.
The social meeting for NYCBUG is tonight, at Torch & Crown Brewing. Go, if you are near.