I went analog for a number of things this week. Not unusual! Working Off-Grid Efficiently. (via) Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering. (also via) reMarkable 2 – One Week Later. Thinking about buying one. Adversarial.io, subverting image recognition. Sampler patches that are patches. (via) Related: Best Hardware Experimental Synthesizer …
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FreeBSD Project Quarterly Status Report – Fourth Quarter 2020
Introduction
This report covers FreeBSD related…
Vermaden, who I link to on the regular, has been doing an excellent job of posting BSD links to lobste.rs. So of course I lead with Valuable News – 2021/01/11. I got to experience the march of storage technology today. (via) Fostering a culture that values stability and reliability. Not directly BSD. Hacking List of …
The October to December 2020 Status Report is now available with 42 entries.
I always thought IRC was pretty decentralized, but I didn’t realize talk(1) was designed to work machine-to-machine. That means in theory that if you have a talk(1) binary on your machine, you could chat directly to anyone else with the same binary, even on a different platform. Since 4.3BSD! Anyway, I only realized this because …
A very straightforward title in this week’s BSD Now; worth listening to for more information on Wireguard, the new hotness.
The short answer is: works great. The version in dports lags, cause it’s based on what’s in the FreeBSD package collection, and that’s not updated as quickly.
This is technically the prerelease, since the official one is a few months…
Errata patches for the kernel have been released for OpenBSD 6.8.
Use of bpf(4) on a carp interface could result in a use after free
error.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available via
the syspatch utility. Source code pa…
OpenBSD developer Vadim Zhukov (zhukov@)
has added preliminary OpenBSD support to
Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio release
26.1.0
and later. The changes come as part of an ongoing collaboration between the upstream
OBS
project and OpenBSD …
This happened a little bit ago but I wanted to be able to post a solution to the pkg upgrade issue (yesterday) before mentioning it: there’s a freshly built batch of packages for DragonFly, so now is a good time to upgrade with pkg.
If you upgrade pkg on your system, it may start erroring out. This is because the default config will confuse the newer version. To fix this, you can copy over a working config and the problem will go away. I expect this may only be a problem until …
Errata patches for the kernel have been released for OpenBSD 6.7 and 6.8.
When an NDP entry is invalidated the associated layer 2 address is not
invalidated.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available via
the syspatch utili…
This is a good week for variety; I managed to get historical links, game links, music links, hardware… checking all the boxes except roguelikes, darnit. The Design of the Roland Juno oscillators. Nicely explained. (via) 50 Years of Text Games, a new year each week, and here’s the post schedule, and of course, 1971: The …
This bulked up fast this week. Xfce 4.16 has landed in FreeBSD ports. (via) List of some Shell goodies for OpenBSD. (via) GNU Date and several versions of RFC 3339 dates. Reviving the 1973 Unix text to voice translator. (via) FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB RAM. (via) Remote work notes from a longtime …
MAP_VPAGETABLE has been removed in DragonFly because of conflicts with recent pmap work. This has the unfortunate effect of breaking vkernel(7), but vkernels can be resurrected with changes to use hardware virtualization support.
Note that running Dra…
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The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the 69th quarterly release
of pkgsrc, the cross-platform packaging system. pkgsrc is available
with more than 24,000 packages, r…
This week’s BSD Now talks about the usual hardware, but also gets into the recently announced Allen K. Briggs scholarship.
Aaron LI has ported timeout(1) to DragonFly. It’s a way to run a command with a time limit, and I’m happy to say it is a cross-BSD item, coming from NetBSD by way of FreeBSD.