Valuable News – 2021/08/09

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

Reviewing My First OpenBSD Port – What I Would Do Differently 10 Years Later.
https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210802.html

Workaround sudo(8) GUI for Wayland-X11 Apps.
https://www.scivision.dev/gui-sudo-fix-connection-refused/

Back to Linux – Actually to Windows 10 with WSL.
https://metaredux.com/posts/2021/07/31/back-to-linux.html

InitWare (systemd fork) Runs on OpenBSD for First Time.
https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare
https://imgur.com/a/nqg9Go9

OpenBSD Focused openbsd-run Ansible Playbook Embedded in Type Annotated Python.
https://openbsd.run/

Project Wifibox – Use Linux Wireless Drives on FreeBSD with Bhyve virtualization Passthrough.
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-wireless/2021-August/000045.html
https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox

Bye CUPS – Printing with Netcat.
https://retrohacker.substack.com/p/bye-cups-printing-with-netcat

ReactOS amd64 Build is Getting More Stable.
https://reactos.org/blogs/newsletter-101/

Klara Systems – Achieving RPO/RTO Objectives with ZFS – Part 1.
https://klarasystems.com/articles/achieving-rpo-rto-objectives-with-zfs-part-1/

Interview with John Kozubik (rsync.net CEO).
https://console.dev/interviews/rsync-john-kozubik/

Logical Decoding of Two Phase Commits in PostgreSQL 14.
https://www.postgresql.fastware.com/blog/logical-decoding-of-two-phase-commits

FreeBSD Foundation 2021 Q2 Status Update.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-foundation-q2-2021-status-update/

pfstat on OpenBSD – Analyze Stream on IPv4/IPv6 Through PF.
https://doc.huc.fr.eu.org/en/monitor/pfstat-openbsd/

OPNsense 21.7.1 Released.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=24233.0

BSD Now 414 – Running Online Conferences.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/414

Old Computer Challenge – OpenBSD on 1 CPU with 512 MB RAM.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-07-07-old-computer-challenge.html
https://ohio.araw.xyz/old-computer/

TrueNAS 12.0-U5 Released with Bugfixes as FreeNAS Sunsets.
https://www.servethehome.com/truenas-12-0-u5-released-with-bugfixes-as-freenas-sunsets/
https://www.servethehome.com/truenas-12-0-u5-released-with-bugfixes-as-freenas-sunsets/truenas-12-0-u5-update-post/

So What Can You Do with FreeBSD Anyway – Part 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAU7zUeWOTU

OpenBSD on Framework Laptop.
https://jcs.org/2021/08/06/framework

Unix Shell: History and Trivia.
https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/08/history-trivia.html

In Other BSDs for 2021/08/07.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2021/08/07/26037.html

Expanding our FreeBSD Home File Server.
https://rubenerd.com/expanding-our-freebsd-home-file-server/

Suppres motd on FreeBSD 13.0.
https://dan.langille.org/2021/08/03/suppressing-motd-on-freebsd-13-0/

Zen Music is Music Player/Visualizer/Organizer Inspired by 2000 Era iTunes.
https://github.com/milgra/zenmusic

Bringing NetBSD to Zig Continuous Integration.
https://wf.lavatech.top/lun-4/bringing-netbsd-to-zigs-continuous-integration

The bsd-user Updates to Run Hello World on QEMU.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-08/msg01266.html

Notcurses – Blingful TUIs and Character Graphics.
https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses

Hardware

One Year of AMIGA.
https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2021/08/02/one-year-of-amiga/

Backblaze Drive Stats for 2021 Q2.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2021/

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX Zen 3 CPU Powers New NUC Like PC.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-9-5900hx-powers-new-nuc-like-pc

Personal Computing on AMIGA in 2021.
https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/personal-computing-on-an-amiga-in-2021

AMD Based Palm Sized Desktop is Upgradeable Despite its Small Size.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/upgradeable-palm-sized-amd-renoir-pc

Use PinePhone as Mobile WiFi Hotspot
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/08/08/how-to-use-pinephone-as-a-mobile-hotspot/

WD Black SN850 1TB NVMe SSD Review Testing on AMD and Intel CPUs.
https://www.servethehome.com/wd-black-sn850-1tb-nvme-ssd-review-testing-on-amd-and-intel-cpus/

Life

Most Unbelievable Things About Life Before Smartphones.
https://mattruby.substack.com/p/the-most-unbelievable-things-about

Where Are Robotic Bricklayers?
https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/where-are-the-robotic-bricklayers

People Are Less Tolerant of Atheists Expressing Their Beliefs at Work Compared to Christians/Muslims/Jews.
https://www.psypost.org/2021/08/people-are-less-tolerant-of-atheists-expressing-their-beliefs-at-work-compared-to-christians-muslims-or-jews-61626

Top Health Expert Dr Joseph Mercola Forced to Delete His 15000 Articles Due to Big Pharma Censorship.
https://greatgameindia.com/joseph-mercola-delete-48-hours/

Other

Firefox – Performance in Progress.
https://blog.mozilla.org/performance/2021/08/05/performance-in-progress/

Meet alyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative.
https://calyxos.org/

Beckhoff Opens Denver Area Office – Space Will Increase Collaboration with FreeBSD Foundation.
https://www.controldesign.com/industrynews/2021/beckhoff-opens-denver-area-office/

Open Letter Against Apple Privacy Invasive Content Scanning Technology.
https://appleprivacyletter.com/

No Leap Second on 2021-12-31 – Earth is Spinning a Bit Faster.
https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2021-July/030318.html

Apps Getting Worse.
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/08/07/Apps-Get-Worse

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