Lots of analog this week. The Tactile Beauty of Buttons, Meters, Knobs and Dials. (via) From the same place, Knobfeel. Baking Magnetic Recording Tape. (via) “The purpose of the web software industry is to extract value out of Open-Source Software (OSS).” The possible return of Connections. (via) The Computer Mouse Conference 2021 and The Mouse …
Multiple links from one source is the mini-theme this week. FreeBSD from a NetBSD user’s perspective. (via) Simple use of Let’s Encrypt on OpenBSD is pleasantly straightforward (as of 6.8). actually, BSD kqueue is a mountain of technical debt. The comments at the source all disagree. NetBSD : Enable swap encryption by default. (via) OpenBGPD …
This query had karu.pruun write a short note on how to contribute (device driver) development work to DragonFly. Don’t forget grok.
When you install a package, you want to know it’s still around to reinstall. You’ve probably never given this much thought. Neither had I, until I read this post on Reddit. In my case, I run my own poudriere server which allows me to run my own package server. Why run your own package server? […]
Sounds like a space drama: this week’s BSD Now covers some different flavors of virtualization plus notes a Michael W. Lucas interview.
If you are one of those unlucky/foolhardy people running DragonFly with very little RAM, this maxvnodes change will help you out.
(DragonFly is not that RAM-hungry in normal circumstances, anyway; 1-2G is ‘safe’, last I knew.)
The pageout daemon algorithms in DragonFly have gone through some changes, and Matthew Dillon goes into detail across two commits.
Errata patches for vmd have been released for OpenBSD 6.8 and 6.9.
vmd guests could cause stack overflows by crafting malicious dhcp
requests when using local interfaces.
Binary updates for the amd64 platform are available via the syspatch
utility. …
Errata patches for cpuswitch and inteldrm have been released for
OpenBSD 6.8 and 6.9.
Recent Intel or any AMD machines could crash as the kernel did not
flush all TLBs that multi threaded processes require.
Disable PPGTT on Intel machines with cherry…
A short but oddball batch of links this week. Ambigram StyleGAN faces. Somewhat disturbing but well explained. (via) How Developers Choose Names. (also via) Perl / Unix One-liner Cage Match, Part 1 and Part 2. (via) rpg-cli: Your filesystem as a dungeon! Did I link this already? (via) Electric Ink Analysis. Product review as category …
Literally this is my open browser tabs pasted in order. Jitsi on OpenBSD, specifically how to make it work. NetBSD IRC channels are also moved to Libera. Also KDE on FreeBSD — IRC channels. Gaming on NomadBSD – Based on FreeBSD 13. (via) Guide to FreeBSD Desktop Distributions. “Distributions”. (via) Updating GCC GNAT (Ada) in …
We have released OpenBGPD 7.0, which will be arriving in the
OpenBGPD directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon.
This release includes the following changes to the previous release:
* Stop processing queued UPDATES when the max-prefix limit was…
This week’s BSD Now talks about starts (NetBSD, DragonFly releases) and ends (preventing memory-based process kills, deleting boot environments).
James Cook continues to work on zalloc, and he’s published a small report on his progress.
FreeBSD-EN-21:17.libradius Errata Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Incorrect validation in rad_get_attr(3)
Category: core
Module: libradius
Announced: 2021-06-01
Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD.
Corrected: 2021-05-28 17:00:19 UTC (stable/13, 13.0-STABLE)
2021-06-01 20:26:32 UTC (releng/13.0, 13.0-RELEASE-p2)
2021-05-28 17:03:20 UTC (stable/12, 12.2-STABLE)
2021-06-01 20:38:39 UTC (releng/12.2, 12.2-RELEASE-p8)
2021-05-28 17:02:43 UTC (stable/11, 11.4-STABLE)
2021-05-28 20:37:54 UTC (releng/11.4, 11.4-RELEASE-p11)
For general information regarding FreeBSD Errata
Normally I’d throw this into the Lazy Reading section, but it’s happening Thursday and that would be too late: Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari (and Chuck E. Cheese) is doing a live Q&A Thursday in conjunction with ICHEG.
Tomorrow, for NYCBUG, Minimal Scripted Configuration from Eric Radman. Go, if you’re online.
Mark Felder and I have been working on a minimalist set of jail scripts for creating and updating jails. All jail management is accomplished via standard vanilla FreeBSD jails. No jail managers are involved. Everything goes through jail.conf. In this post: FreeBSD 13.0 host, recently update from FreeBSD 12.2 FreeBSD 12.s jail on that host, […]
Get FreeBSD 12.2 mfsBSD (because that matches the OS on slocum), burn it to a thumb drive using OSX. NOTE: the following didn’t work. I wound up not having the right values in /lib and /var/db/ I don’t know what I did wrong, but I did manage to fix them up afterwards. I suspect that […]
Oddball finds week. explain.dalibo.com, a Postgres EXPLAIN ANALYZE explainer. (via) Hifi Wasteland I: 100 Year Old Quick Silver Cloud, the sound of a vacuum tube decaying. Zosya, modern games for Spectrum ZX machines, I think? (via) The different types of modern (2021) SSH keys (and some opinions). Related: Understanding OpenSSH’s various options around keys and …