Valuable News – 2019/08/26

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.

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

All Voting Machines in USA Will be Powered by FreeBSD on 64bit RISC-V.
https://twitter.com/cop_on_bianchi/status/1163792878642114560

31 Years Old BIND 4.8 Running on 4.3BSD on VAX Architecture Works as Resolver in 2019.
https://twitter.com/wupeka/status/1106267358916689920

FreeBSD Instant Workstation Script.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adriaandegroot/FreeBSDTools/master/bin/instant-workstation

DragonFlyBSD Project Update.
http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2019-July/358226.html

Webmin Backdoored for Over a Year.
https://www.securityweek.com/webmin-backdoored-over-year

BSD Now 311 – Conference Gear Breakdown.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/311

Xfce 4.14 Tour.
https://www.xfce.org/about/tour

The xargs(1) WTF.
https://medium.com/@aarontharris/xargs-wtf-34d2618286b7

Porting WINE to amd64 on NetBSD – 3rd Evaluation Report.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/porting_wine_to_amd64_on1

Debian No Longer “Universal” Operating System.
Debian: No longer a “Universal” operating system

Building Distributed Time Series Database on PostgreSQL.
https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-a-distributed-time-series-database-on-postgresql/

FreeBSD Updates wpa_supplicant from 2.8 to 2.9 in Base System.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=351397

OpenATTIC Project Enters Maintenance Mode.
Use Upstream CEPH Dashboard Instead.
https://www.openattic.org/posts/the-openattic-project-enters-maintenance-mode/
https://www.virtualtothecore.com/new-dashboard-ceph-luminous/

UNIX – Why Use Package Managers?
https://uwm.edu/hpc/software-management/

BSD Now 312 – Why Package Managers.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/312

Stunnel and Squid on FreeBSD 11.
https://www.vcloudnine.de/stunnel-and-squid-on-freebsd-11/

Run Docker on FreeBSD 12.
http://www.gamsjager.nl/2019/01/11/How-to-run-Docker-on-FreeBSD-12/

Why Does Developing on Kubernetes Suck?
https://blog.tilt.dev//2019/08/21/why-does-developing-on-kubernetes-suck.html

The dfbeadm(1) Boot Environment Manager for DragonFlyBSD HAMMER2.
https://twitter.com/thilellidotnet/status/1164192961535590401
https://github.com/newnix/dfbeadm/

ThinkPad T480 is My New Main Laptop Which Runs FreeBSD.
https://genneko.github.io/playing-with-bsd/hardware/freebsd-on-thinkpad-t480/

In Other BSDs for 2019/08/24.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/08/24/23365.html

Some of News About GhostBSD.
http://ghostbsd.org/node/188

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report 2019Q2.
https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2019-04-2019-06.html

GSoC 2019 Report – Adding NetBSD KNF to clang-format Final.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc_2019_report_adding_netbsd1

FreeBSD Executive Director Calls for Devs to Work Together.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-BSD-Should-Work-Together

Not a Review of Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 7th Gen.
http://akpoff.com/archive/2019/not_a_review_of_the_lenovo_x1c7.html

Hardware

All About the Pinebook Pro.
https://www.pine64.org/2019/07/05/july-update-all-about-the-pinebook-pro/

Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine AI Chip is Largest Ever Chip Made.
https://www.servethehome.com/cerebras-wafer-scale-engine-ai-chip-is-largest-ever/

Journey to Next Gen ARM Neoverse N1 and E1 Cores.
https://www.servethehome.com/arm-neoverse-n-e-tech-day/

Open Source POWER ISA Takes Aim at Intel and ARM for Accelerator Driven Computing.
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/open-source-power-isa-takes-aim-at-intel-and-arm-for-accelerator-driven-computing/

IBM Open Sources POWER Chip Instruction Set.
https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/08/20/big-blue-open-sources-power-chip-instruction-set/

AMD Sentinel Fanless Review – Silent but Deadly.
https://www.itpro.co.uk/hardware/34232/quietpc-amd-sentinel-fanless-review-silent-but-deadly

Life

Every Productivity Thought I Have Ever Had as Concisely as Possible.
https://guzey.com/productivity/

Researcher Publishes 2nd STEAM 0-Day After Ban on VALVE Bug Bounty Program.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/researcher-publishes-second-steam-zero-day-after-getting-banned-on-valves-bug-bounty-program/

AMAZON Ring Asks POLICE Not to Tell Public How its Law Enforcement Backend Works.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/08/dont-call-our-surveillance-products-surveillance-ring-tells-police/

Other

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