Valuable News – 2021/03/01

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

Stack Overflow 2020 Survey – Technology Developers Primary Operating Systems.
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-developers-primary-operating-systems

HardenedBSD Announces New git.hardenedbsd.org Git Server.
https://groups.google.com/a/hardenedbsd.org/g/users/c/wZgihY3PR8E

New sysctlinfo for FreeBSD Available.
https://gitlab.com/alfix/sysctlinfo

Introducing veb(4) on OpenBSD – New Virtual Ethernet Bridge.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210223111210

From Clean and Green Mockup to OpenBSD cwm(1) Desktop.
https://www.tumfatig.net/20210223/from-clean-green-mockup-to-openbsd-cwm1-desktop/

FreeBSD Implements Parallel Boot in rc.d(8) Subsystem.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=77e1ccbee3

Pawel Jakub Dawidek (FreeBSD Commiter) from FUDO Security. [Polish]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU71N_5lVNQ

OPNsense 21.1.2 Released.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=21698.0

BSD Weekly – Issue 57.
https://bsdweekly.com/issues/57

TrueNAS 12.0-U2.1 Available.
https://www.truenas.com/docs/hub/intro/release-notes/12.0u2.1/

How Often Should I Rotate My SSH Keys?
https://tailscale.com/blog/rotate-ssh-keys/

Nextcloud 21 Faster than Ever – Introducing Files High Performance Backend.
https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-faster-than-ever-introducing-files-high-performance-back-end/

Tracing History of ARM and FreeBSD – Past/Present/Future.
https://klarasystems.com/articles/tracing-the-history-of-arm-and-freebsd/

Testing GhostBSD 13.0 – Short But Sweet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSSs2Uq1lkw

OpenBSD Imports resolvd(8) to Handle Nameserver Configuration.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210225084959

Retrospective Look at Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
http://morrick.me/archives/9220

Retrospective Look at Mac OS X Snow Leopard – Addendum.
http://morrick.me/archives/9246

Lite is Lightweight Text Editor Written in Lua.
https://github.com/rxi/lite

BSD Now 391 – i386 Tear Shedding.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/391

Follow Up About FreeBSD Jail Advantages.
https://rubenerd.com/follow-up-about-freebsd-jail-advantages/

FreeBSD: Install Prometheus/Node Exporter/Grafana.
https://blog.andreev.it/?p=5289

FreeBSD/CentOS: Install Jenkins Behind Nginx Reverse Proxy with SSL.
https://blog.andreev.it/?p=5482

Common Nginx Misconfigurations that Leave Your Web Server Open to Attack.
https://blog.detectify.com/2020/11/10/common-nginx-misconfigurations/

Ansible: Quick Start Guide for FreeBSD/CentOS/Ubuntu.
https://blog.andreev.it/?p=8784

Potabi – Desktop/Mobile OS Combo Built on Top of FreeBSD.
https://twitter.com/Fivnex/status/1365105202806710272

Google Admits Kubernetes is So Complex it Had to Roll Autopilot Feature to Do it All for You.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/25/google_kubernetes_autopilot/

SerenityOS – LibGUI – Wizard Framework.
https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/5534

In Other BSDs for 2021/02/27.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2021/02/27/25479.html

FreeBSD 13.0-BETA4 Now Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2021-February/093233.html

HardenedBSD 2021/01 Status Report.
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2021-02-28/hardenedbsd-february-2021-status-report

GhostBSD Financial Report 2021/01.
https://www.ghostbsd.org/financial_report_of_january_2021

Void Linux Switching Back to OpenSSL
https://voidlinux.org/news/2021/02/OpenSSL.html

Significant Rework of FreshBSD.
https://freshbsd.org/news/2021/02/28

Hardware

Building E-Ink Laptop with ThinkPad T480.
https://alexsoto.dev/building-an-e-ink-laptop.html

Framework Startup Designed Thin/Modular/Repairable 13 Inch Laptop.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/framework-startup-designed-a-thin-modular-repairable-13-inch-laptop/

Sabrent Rocket Q4 4TB NVMe M.2 SSD Review.
https://www.servethehome.com/sabrent-rocket-q4-4tb-nvme-m-2-ssd-review/

Compal Notebook with 3 Screens that Connect Wirelessly.
https://www.aroged.com/2021/02/26/compal-launches-airttach-concept-laptop-with-three-displays/

Lenovo ThinkCentre M90n Nano – TinyMiniMicro Perspective.
https://www.servethehome.com/lenovo-thinkcentre-m90n-nano-1-the-tinyminimicro-perspective/

Atom x6000E Embedded SBC with 3xGbE/2xSATA/6xUSB.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/03/01/3-5-inch-atom-x6000e-embedded-sbc-features-3x-gbe-2x-sata-6x-usb/

Life

Giving Up Meat Won’t Have Much of Effect on Climate Change.
https://reason.com/2019/07/29/why-giving-up-meat-wont-have-much-of-an-effect-on-climate-change/

Vegetarian Diets Are Not Going to Save Planet.
https://shift.newco.co/2017/01/21/Vegetarian-diets-are-not-going-to-save-the-planet-/

USA Plans Major Expansion of Facial Recognition Authority at Airports.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/18/22188526/airport-facial-recognition-us-customs-biometric-exit-expansion

Other

Heat Home by Mining Crypto and Cut Electricity Bill in Half.
https://blog.haschek.at/2021/how-i-heat-my-home-by-mining.html

Firefox 86 Introduces Total Cookie Protection.
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/02/23/total-cookie-protection/

Introducing State Partitioning for Firefox.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/02/introducing-state-partitioning/

Firefox Replaces Google Analytics with Fake in Strict Tracking Protection.
https://twitter.com/__jakub_g/status/1365400306767581185

Quote(s) of the Week

me: you’re such a good listener
UDP server:

Kate
@thingskatedid
https://twitter.com/thingskatedid

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