Valuable News – 2019/12/16

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

Home Lab Deep Dive – PFSense (FreeBSD).
https://www.storagereview.com/home_lab_deep_dive_pfsense

OpenBSD Vulnerability That Allows User to Login with Different User Login Class.
https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/6.6/common/012_suauth.patch.sig

Learn 10 Good UNIX Usage Habits.
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-badunixhabits.html

Setup IRC Server with ngircd on FreeBSD.
https://medium.com/@tdebarbora/freebsd-how-to-setup-an-irc-server-with-ngircd-ee242932db94

Add Address of FreeBSD iocage Jails to PF Table.
https://jpmens.net/2019/12/07/add-address-of-iocage-jail-to-pf-table/

NomadBSD – Installation and First Impressions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DglP7SbnlA

FreeNAS 11.3-RC1 Available.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/library/freenas-11-3-rc1/

Fingerprinting FreeBSD OS Versions Using OpenSSH.
https://www.trustwave.com/en-us/resources/blogs/spiderlabs-blog/fingerprinting-freebsd-os-versions-using-openssh/

BSD Now 327 – ZFS Rename Repo.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/327

Build Tengine on FreeBSD.
https://medium.com/@sveratum/build-tengine-on-freebsd-265d1f06c963

Keeping NetBSD Up-to-Date with pkg_comp 2.0.
https://jmmv.dev/2017/02/pkg_comp-2.0-tutorial-netbsd.html

Introducing pkg_comp 2.0 (and sandboxctl 1.0) for PKGSRC.
https://jmmv.dev/2017/02/introducing-pkg_comp-2.0.html

The osxfuse is No Longer Open Source.
https://colatkinson.site/macos/fuse/2019/09/29/osxfuse/

HardenedBSD December 2019 Infrastructure Status.
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2019-12-11/december-2019-infrastructure-status

Building Ansible Training Environment on FreeBSD.
https://jpmens.net/2019/12/11/on-building-an-ansible-training-environment-on-freebsd/

Local Privilege Escalation in OpenBSD Dynamic Loader.
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/11/9

FreeBSD Adds Ryzen 3 (Zen 2) Support to amdtemp(4) and amdsmn(4) Modules.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=355561
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ELlvMv0VUAM7JyU.png:large

NetBSD Clang Build Bot Now Uses Two Stage Builds and Other LLVM/LLDB News.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/clang_build_bot_now_usage

FreeBSD Adds Support for NFS 4.2 to NFS Client and Server.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=355677

BSD Now 328 – EPYC Netflix Stack.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/328

The End of Reddit as We Know It – Now Requires Login to Read Comments.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mobileweb/comments/e7yivg/join_reddit_to_keep_reading_an_account_is_now/

In Other BSDs for 2019/12/14.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/12/14/23896.html

Rambler Group Claims Exclusive Rights to NGINX.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/12/13/what-s-yours-is-ours

FreeBSD Networking Issues – TCP Offloading and Checksums.
https://imil.net/blog/2019/12/15/FreeBSD-networking-issues-disable-offloading-and-checksum/

The miller tool is like awk/sed/cut/join/sort for CSV/TSV/JSON.
https://github.com/johnkerl/miller

FreeBSD Desktop – Part 19 – Configuration – Plank – Skippy-XD.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2019/12/10/freebsd-desktop-part-19-configuration-plank-skippy-xd/

Manage Contacts the UNIX Way.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2019/12/13/manage-contacts-the-unix-way/

FreeBSD Adds Shedule/Locking Performance Improvements Thanks to Jeff Robertson.
https://twitter.com/FreeBSDHelp/status/1206363638178598912
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=355779
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=355781
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=355782
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=355784

Data Infrastructures – ZFS Survival Guide.
https://blog.dionresearch.com/2019/12/data-infrastructures-zfs-survival-guide.html

Hardware

Creating Ultimate ThinkPad T420.
https://beta.aceparent.me/#/t420

Intel Marketing Claims i5-9600KF (6C/6T) Better than AMD 3800X (8C/16T) and i3-9350KF (4C/4T) Better than AMD 3600X (6C/12T).
https://www.techpowerup.com/261959/intel-marketing-claims-i5-9600kf-better-than-3800x-i3-9350kf-better-than-3600x

Early TSMC 5nm Test Chip Yields 80% – HVM Coming in 2020H1.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15219/early-tsmc-5nm-test-chip-yields-80-hvm-coming-in-h1-2020

OpenHW Group Announces CORE-V Chassis SoC Project and Issues Industry Call for Participation.
https://www.openhwgroup.org/news/2019/12/10/openhw-group-announces-core-v-chassis-soc-project-and-issues-industry-call-for-participation/

AMD Publishes Vega 7nm ISA Documentation – 300 More Pages of GPU Docs.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Vega-7nm-ISA-Docs

Getting Drivers for Old Hardware is Harder than Ever.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3a88z3/getting-drivers-for-old-hardware-is-harder-than-ever

Key Takeaways from 2019 RISC-V Summit.
https://www.servethehome.com/key-takeaways-from-the-2019-risc-v-summit/

New Week – New Intel Security Hole – SA-00289.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00289.html

System76 Kudu4 – After Two Years.
https://humaidq.ae/blog/kudu-two-year/

Life

Having Kids.
http://paulgraham.com/kids.html

Unbearable News.
https://zainamro.com/notes/unbearable-news

Other

Google Now Bans Some Linux Web Browsers from Their Services.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-now-bans-some-linux-web-browsers-from-their-services/

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