It’ll probably involve some drinking. Go, if you are near, and RSVP so there’s space.
If you pay attention to your daily security run emails on your DragonFly system, you may see entries like this:
+nlookup() at nlookup+0x623 0xffffffff806eff13 +kern_rmdir() at kern_rmdir+0x25 0xffffffff80706db5 +sys_rmdir() at sys_rmdir+0x4c 0xffffffff80706f0c +syscall2() at syscall2+0x11e 0xffffffff80bd9f9e
I see it on the machine where I run this Digest, as the caching mechanism adds and deletes files rapidly. Matthew Dillon has placed it behind a sysctl, so your messages log will be a little less noisy by default.
Whee!
- Mesopotamia, a nice online version of a museum exhibit. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games bonus article: Amnesia.
- MNT Pocket Reform, the smaller version of something I’ve linked before.
- The least friendly keyboard ever, but certainly interesting.
- The Internet as a Public Good.
- GitHub Copilot and open source laundering. This applies to AI art too.
- A mystery with Fedora 36, fontconfig, and xterm (and urxvt). Linked cause I wondered out loud “why that change, in version 36?”
- Dangit, Git!? (via)
- A strategy to defeat AI chessbots.
- The Dwarf Fortress Development Plan. Some of this sounds more like writing an epic novel than a game, which is good! They have a dirt-simple Patreon, too, and graphics are on the way? All news to me.
- Plan 9 was almost a music disk, too. (via)
Your unrelated cartoon of the week: Mega.
There’s multiple online and offline BUG meetings this month; go if you can.
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- Unofficial social NYCBUG meeting, July 6th.
- Fear and loathing in FreeBSD, or qorg’s experiences with FreeBSD.
- Foundation Elects New Officers, Interviews Outgoing Board Members.
- How I would sell OpenBSD as a salesperson.
- FreeBSD 2022Q1 report.
- How do I prepare my own port for distribution?
- A little bit of fun – Booting the NetBSD 1.6.2 installer on my 486!
- Split Audio Files into Parts.
- Valuable News – 2022/06/27.
- Notable OpenBSD news you may have missed, 2022-06-28 edition.
- Port of GNUBoy to OpenBSD using DRM framebuffer and wscons (no X11).
- pluart(4) baud rate correction.
- Basic fix between pf tables and macros on FreeBSD.
- GhostBSD virtual meetup July 22nd.
No pun, but lots of links in this week’s BSD Now, including a link to EuroBSDCon 2022, happening in Austria.
makefs(8) now supports HAMMER2 on DragonFly, so you can create HAMMER2 file system images, same as a CD image or a DOS disk.
When you are setting up a DragonFly machine on Hetzner, pay attention to this bug report for dhcp setup. The short answer is “use dhcpcd”.
Mini-theme of old games.
- The Nethack Challenge: Dungeons, Dragons, and Tourists. (via)
- I’ve played dopewars on Slack. Linked because dopewars is really a variant of unique-genre game Taipan.
- Clarus returns home. (via)
- 3 More Fonts for Working with Plain Text. I find Source Code Pro works very well.
- I posted about arttime before; the author helpfully reminded me version 1.5 is out.
- Rebecca, Michael recommend the Gateron Black Ink V2 keyswitches.
- David Ahl places all his classic computing publications into the Public Domain. I loved those books. (via)
- Toonstruck (or, A Case Study in the Death of Adventure Games).
- Dial-a-story.
- CaptionIt, live subtitles on a heads-up display, open source. (via)
- Dinosaur Pictures and Facts. My favorite dinosaur. (also via)
- Game Design Mimetics. (also via)
Almost cleaned out the RSS feeds I had waiting.
- Differences between base and ports LLVM in OpenBSD.
- FreeBSD Quick Guide: Audio on FreeBSD.
- Hotfix GhostBSD 22.06.18 ISO is now available.
- Using Netgraph for FreeBSD’s bhyve Networking.
- (NomadBSD) New team member: Mehmet Mert Gunduz.
- Use a gamepad to control mpv video playback. Should work for any BSD?
- Valuable News – 2022/06/20.
- Is FreeBSD a Real UNIX?
- Legends start at 1.0! – FreeBSD in 1993 part 1 and part 2.
- Speeding up autoconf with caching. A followup to a BSD Now link.
- OpenBGPD 7.4 released.
It’s on Jitsi, so anyone can reach it. Tonight, 7 PM eastern.
This week’s BSD Now talks about a lot of stuff as always, but also notes a time-dependent item: a bhyve presentation coming up on July 12th.
Ian Grindley has created a BSD theme for rEFInd that covers all the BSDs – including DragonFly.
SEMIBUG’s monthly meeting is tonight, and it’s all about OpenSSH, with Michael W. Lucas presenting. He literally wrote the book on it.
This is a week of fun links.
- Cyberdeck Cafe. All custom terminals.
- My PSU just won’t do.
- So long, home T1 line; hello, hacking the T1 router. A good T-carrier explanation.
- Intro to the Web Revival #1: What is the Web Revival? (via)
- A Web Around the World, Part 11: A Zero-Sum Game.
- Interactive Art Museum. Pleasing webgubbins. (via)
- A Trail Tale. A very nice presentation of an Appalachian Trail hike; something I’d like to do someday. (also via)
- Porting Doom to A/UX. (via)
- Artvee, public domain art search engine. (via)
- Fun With Power Monitoring on the Apple IIe.
- Installing a payphone in my house. The last paragraph is the best. (via)
- Regular expressions are effectively a (hard) programming language.
- How is Voyager still talking after all these years?
- Frogress Bar.
More links this week to make up for last week’s short haul.
- Implementing non-stop protocol compatibility in LLDB.
- OpenBSD folklore and share/misc/airport.
- FreeBSD first status report 2022, talking about portconfig.
- OpenBSD 7.1 on PINE64 RockPro64. (via)
- FreeBSD Foundation work in the 13.1 release.
- Please read this before upgrading to 22.06.07. (GhostBSD)
- HardenedBSD May 2022 Status Report.
- Give WindowMaker a macos Mojave look.
- OpenLDAP update. (OpenBSD)
- Vim colour scheme changes. (also OpenBSD)
- Minecraft server on OpenBSD. (via)
- Valuable News for 5/30, 6/6, and 6/13.
- OPNsense 22.1.8 and OPNsense Business Edition 22.4.1 released.
- OpenIKED 7.1 released.
This week’s BSD Now is depressingly honest in the title; no puns. Along with the normal links, there’s a Beastie Bit this week for Networks From Scratch.
An interesting thought: since HAMMER2 is intended to be a multi-master file system, it has to figure out – and quickly – which is the most up to date versions of any given file. That means you could have multiple versions of a file existing at the same time until that decision is made. That wouldn’t be visible from a user perspective.
The Hamilton (Canada) BSD user group will meet through Jitsi tomorrow, June 14th, 4:00 PM Eastern. I’m preposting this based on a SEMIBUG mention.
Mini-theme of hardware this week.
- Electronic Catan LCD Tiles. (via)
- Watchy, open hardware and software watch.
- Modal dialogs and other things that steal keyboard focus are dangerous. That makes me so mad.
- DuskOS. Linking cause “low impact computing” has turned into “postapocalyptic computing” for some people. (via)
- Catalogs and Context. (via)
- What happened to Perl 7? (via)
- Related: perl v5.36.0 has been released. (via)
- Access the Tesla API with Perl!
- BBQ20KBD. (via)
- Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7 MK3. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games crowdfunded book launch teaser.
- XModem in 2022. (via)
- The Thompson MO5, I’ve never seen before. Plus free BASIC. (via)