Valuable News – 2020/10/19

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

FreeBSD Adds zstd Support to Boot Loader.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=366657

FreeBSD Torrents.
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Torrents

MinIO Introduces Continuous Availability and Active-Active Bucket Replication.
https://blog.min.io/active-active-replication/

OpenZFS Developers Summit 2020 – Morning Overview.
https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-developer-summit-part-1/

OpenZFS Developers Summit 2020 – Afternoon Overview.
https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-developer-summit-part-2/

KDE Plasma 5.20 – New and Improved Inside and Out.
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.20.0

Modelling Basic Architectures of Data Storage Systems – FreeBSD BeaST.
https://mezzantrop.wordpress.com/2020/10/14/modelling-basic-architectures-of-data-storage-systems/
https://mezzantrop.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/modelling_basic_architectures_of_data_storage_systems.pdf

BSD Weekly – Issue 41.
https://bsdweekly.com/issues/41

Open Letter to Apache OpenOffice.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/open-letter-to-apache-openoffice/

RoboNuggie – 10 Questions I Often Get Asked About FreeBSD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asp-37IWmyY

BSD Now 372 – Slow SSD Scrubs.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/372

OpenBSD Laptop.
https://functionallyparanoid.com/2020/10/14/openbsd-laptop/

TrueNAS 11.3-U5 Available.
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/library/truenas-11-3-U5/

Cryptographic Signing Using ssh-keygen(1) with FIDO Authenticator.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20201016053038

OpenBSD vmm(8) Vulnerabilities.
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=158176939604512&w=2

OpenBSD 6.8 Release Notes.
https://www.openbsd.org/68.html

OpenBSD 6.8 Song – Hacker People.
https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#68

UDisks2 Service Implementation for FreeBSD.
https://foss.heptapod.net/bsdutils/bsdisks

NomadBSD 1.3.2 Errata.
https://nomadbsd.org/errata-1.3.2.html

OpenBSD on Dell Inspiron 1000 Laptop.
https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/openbsd-dell.html

Dive Into FreeBSD Foundation on Its 20th Anniversary with Deb Goodkin.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/673192/5589187

FreeBSD 12.2-RC3 Now Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2020-October/092786.html

In Other BSDs for 2020/10/17.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/10/17/25063.html

Switching Xorg Keyboard Layout on OpenBSD.
https://www.tumfatig.net/20201017/switching-xorg-keyboard-layout-on-openbsd/

The open-vm-tools on FreeBSD under VMware ESXi ARM Fling.
https://vincerants.com/open-vm-tools-on-freebsd-under-vmware-esxi-arm-fling/

LibreSSL 3.2.2 Released.
https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/LibreSSL/libressl-3.2.2-relnotes.txt

Visual Studio Code Running on HardenedBSD.
https://twitter.com/lattera/status/1317868272293974017

JuliaMono – Monospaced Font for Scientific and Technical Computing.
https://cormullion.github.io/pages/2020-07-26-JuliaMono/

FreeBSD Chromium Alternative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww8Co5IxNrg

State of Tribblix in 2020.
https://ptribble.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-state-of-tribblix-2020.html

OpenZFS 2.0 Exciting New Future.
http://storagegaga.com/openzfs-2-0-exciting-new-future/

Hardware

Imagination Announces B-Series GPU IP – Scale Up with Multi GPU.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16155/imagination-announces-bseries-gpu-ip-scaling-up-with-multigpu/

AMD ZEN 3 – AnandTech Interview with AMD CTO Mark Papermaster.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16176/amd-zen-3-an-anandtech-interview-with-cto-mark-papermaster

Crucial P5 1TB NVMe SSD Review.
https://www.servethehome.com/crucial-p5-1tb-nvme-ssd-review/

Best 4TB SSD for 2020 (M.2/NVMe/2.5/SATA/External).
https://premiumbuilds.com/storage/best-4tb-ssd/

Life

NSA Surveillance Program Was Illegal and It Did Not Stop Single Terrorist Attack.
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/nsa-phone-surveillance-illegal-expensive/

New Mind Control – How Internet Flips Elections and Alters our Thoughts.
https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-internet-flips-elections-and-alters-our-thoughts

Reading Too Much Political News is Bad for Your Well Being.
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/10/reading-too-much-political-news-bad-happiness/616651/

Other

2.1 Million of Oldest USENET Internet Posts Are Now Online for Anyone to Read.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pky7km/usenet-archive-utzoo-online

Which Programming Languages Use Least Electricity?
https://thenewstack.io/which-programming-languages-use-the-least-electricity/

LPAR2RRD 7.00 Available.
https://lpar2rrd.com/AWS-Azure-GCloud.php

STOR2RRD 7.00 Available.
https://stor2rrd.com/Ceph-Synology-Qumulo-RAIDIX-Inspur.php

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