DragonFly BSD Digest – Page 19 – A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.

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!

2022/12/12

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.

2022/12/04

Layout fiddling

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.)

2022/11/25

Link creation tools

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.

2022/11/18

Nerdiest nerdy book list

Keeping your published fiction and technical book list in SNMP is definitely a new use of a MIB to me.

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.