Valuable News – 2019/01/04

The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX or BSD systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here so someone else can

Today the amount information that we get using various information streams is at massive overload. Thus one needs to focus only on what is important without the need to grep(1) the Internet everyday. Hence the idea of providing such information ‘bulk’ as I already do that grep(1).

UNIX

SSH Examples – Tips & Tunnels.
https://hackertarget.com/ssh-examples-tunnels/

OpenBSD Gaming Resource.
https://mrsatterly.com/openbsd_games.html

Unleashed 1.2 Released.
http://lists.31bits.net/archives/devel/2018-December/000033.html

Taming the Chaos: Can we build systems that actually work?
Possible paths from today’s ghastly hackery to what computing should be.
https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9647-taming_the_chaos_can_we_build_systems_that_actually_work

FreeBSD Ports unable to use multiple GitHub repos with the same name.
https://hashbang0.com/2018/12/28/freebsd-ports-unable-to-use-multiple-github-repos-with-the-same-name/

In Other BSDs for 2018/12/29.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2018/12/29/22262.html

F-Stack: FreeBSD TCP/IP stack on DPDK by Tencent.
http://f-stack.org/

NetBSD entering 2019 with more complete LLVM support.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_entering_2019_with_more

Survey of ${RANDOM}.
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/12/25/

The pkgsrc-2018Q4 Announced.
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2018/12/30/msg027871.html

FreeBSD 12.0 Performance Against Windows & Linux on Intel Xeon Server.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=freebsd-12-windows

GhostBSD 18.12 Available.
http://ghostbsd.org/18.12_release_announcement

Support for RTL8188EE chipset added in rtwn_pci(4) driver on FreeBSD.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=342682

PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year 2018.
https://db-engines.com/en/blog_post/79

BSD Now 279 – Future of ZFS.
https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/128671/future-of-zfs-bsd-now-279/

One year of flying with the Raven – Ready for the Desktop? [DragonFly BSD]
https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2018/11/30/one-year-of-flying-with-the-raven-ready-for-the-desktop/

NES/Famicom: Visual Compendium.
NES/Famicom: a visual compendium

I Made MPD Index SoundCloud.
https://polyfloyd.net/post/soundcloud-fuse-mpd/

The zackup Tool – Backup to ZFS.
https://github.com/digineo/zackup

Hardware

Fujitsu A64FX Post-K Supercomputer – World’s Fastest ARM Processor.
https://connect.linaro.org/resources/yvr18/interviews/fujitsu-a64fx-post-k-supercomputer-worlds-fastest-arm-processor/

Does tape still have a place in my backup strategy?
https://www.cloudpro.co.uk/it-infrastructure/backup/7836/does-tape-still-have-a-place-in-my-backup-strategy

Life

How Much of the Internet Is Fake?
(…) less than 60 percent of web traffic is human.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html

Apps Are Revealing Your Private Information To Facebook And You Probably Don’t Know It.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/apps-are-revealing-your-private-information-to-facebook-and

Other

Thunderbird in 2019.
https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2019/01/thunderbird-in-2019/

OpenAGE – free (as in freedom) clone of the Age of Empires II engine.
https://openage.sft.mx/

Algorithms by Jeff Erickson.
http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/

Hackers Bypassed Gmail and Yahoo 2FA.
https://www.hackread.com/hackers-bypassed-gmail-yahoos-2fa-to-target-us-officials/?fbclid=IwAR03OJTgck8MrJqD9MLcUMX3a2q9nTgcXoi1Gd0z6Ul01B3SkyKZCvi2hFE

Personal & Banking Data of 120 Million Brazilians Leaked Online.
https://www.hackread.com/personal-banking-data-of-brazilians-leaked-online/

Moving to Require Python 3.
https://python3statement.org/

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