DragonFly BSD Digest

I almost scheduled this post for 2021/01/02.

• Zolatron 64 – first PCBs.  I like that while the common market for processors is unfortunately only Intel or Apple, small-scale new platforms have become possible on a relatively trivial budget.  (via)
• Make ping audible.  Turn up the volume and you can tell when you plug in the correct cable in another room.
• Sustainable creativity in a world without copyright.  I am sympathetic but it confuses work-for-hire terms with copyright.
• Welcoming Recorded Music to the Public Domain.  Speaking of copyright…
• 50 Years of Text Games: 2019: A.I. Dungeon.  The penultimate chapter.
• Monitoring the vintage server room (and reverse-engineering USB sensors).  I need to set up some temperature sensors too.
• Embarrassing product names created: Windows CE.
• Introduction to the Sam Text Editor.  Your non-Emacs/non-vi link of the day.  (via)
• Software can just never be done it seems.
• mkrl/misbrands: The world’s most hated IT stickers.  The original misconception, 20 years old.  I hate this, I love this.  (via)
• A followup:  I went back to the Ether device I linked a few weeks ago; it seems worth buying just because it’s so different.  Following links to stores that sell it took me down a rabbit hole of analog interfaces on audio equipment.  Note that every store “sells” with a shot of the dials, cause it’s so fun to see.

I am definitely doing very much nothing today.

• Bandcamp: The Chaos Bazaar.  Very in-depth analysis of the different business models between Bandcamp and Spotify.  Also: Bandcamp may be the biggest physical music media seller in the world?  (via)
• Searzall Pro.  I have the original and it works great, so here’s your chance to get a rather unique device.  The creators have a podcast which I enjoy in part because unlike many podcasts they talk fast enough.
• 34 at 34 for v5.34: Modern Perl features for Perl’s birthday.  (via)
• The Raspberry Pi 400 as a couch game machine.  Have I linked to that hardware before?
• ElitePetite.
• A followup on the open source creators photos I think I linked to at some point.
• Zala Vacha.
• thewebisfucked.com.  (via)
• Scoundrel of the Year.  It’s the lack of imagination that bothers me.  (via many places)
• Summary of “Unix Administration Horror Stories” thread.  (via)
• Might and Magic, a history.
• NextSpace: NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux.  (via)
• GameDev News for 15 December 2021.  Linked for the links; lots to read from there.

Your unrelated music for the week: The Best Beat Tapes of 2021.

Guess which link this week is a business decision I am maybe considering…

• Weird: Generative art in Common Lisp.  More here from comments at source link.
• Print-your-own chocolate molds.
• All Sound Recordings Prior to 1923 Will Enter the US Public Domain in 2022.
• Related: An advent calendar of works becoming public domain in 2022.
• A list of links about fakery.
• In Praise of Glitches.  I feel …nostalgic? about uuencoding errors in rebuilt images.
• 50 years of Text Games: 2018: Weyrwood.
• Parceiro: An Extraordinary Upgrade for Amiga 1000 Users.
• Fixing a Tiny Corner of the Supply Chain.

There’s some gift ideas in here.

• The  Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute.  Styles and time periods.  (via)
• d20 Orbs.
• Robot Arm Clock.  Entertainingly dumb.  (via)
• postmarketOS, an indirect explanation.
• SerenityOS, an indirect explanation.
• Meet the Self-Hosters, Taking Back the Internet One Server at a Time.  (via)
• Related and same source: r/selfhosted.
• Have Vint Cerf tell you about how he and others built the Internet.
• The Ether, an anti-radio.  This seems like a good Christmas present to me.  (via)
• This can’t work out well.  (via)
• 50 Years of Text Games: 2015: Lifeline, 2016: The Freshman, and 2017: Universal Paperclips.
• The Analog Thing.  (via)