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
OpenSolaris/Illumos pfexec(8) is Kind of Linux sudo(8) Right?
https://trochejen.blogspot.com/2009/08/pfexec-is-kind-of-sudo-right.html
The i3lock-color Lockscreen Available in FreeBSD Ports.
https://github.com/Raymo111/i3lock-color#freebsd-port
Storage Clustering via HAST Framework in FreeBSD 12.0.
http://www.assistanz.com/storage-clustering-via-hast-framework-in-freebsd-12-0/
Its Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36myc8wQhLo
Multi Core (SMP) Stability Work in SerenityOS.
https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1425199992252338178
Minop – Bare Metal Drop In for AWS S3.
https://tech.marksblogg.com/minio-aws-s3-hdfs.html
FreeBSD Support for Discord App.
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360068878251-FreeBSD-Support-for-Discord-App
FreeBSD Experiment Rethinks OS Install.
https://hackaday.com/2021/08/10/freebsd-experiment-rethinks-the-os-install/
Do Not Remove Data Disks from Solaris ZFS Pools if Performance is Important.
https://jomasoftmarcel.blogspot.com/2021/08/dont-remove-data-disks-from-solaris.html
Dooblecious BSD-3 Browser.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJAq6B0p6hs
CultBSD – Experimental BSD Based Project Distribution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYmfv9cIztQ
Hardware
AMIGA 500 Mini is On the Way.
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-08-10-an-amiga-500-mini-is-on-the-way
Another AMD Zen SEV (Secure Encrypted Virtualization) Vulnerability Demonstrated.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/yet-another-amd-zen-secure-encrypted-virtualization-vulnerability-demonstrated-by-researchers
Life
Why Thousands of American Parents are Sending Their Kids to Russian Math.
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https://www.wbur.org/news/2017/04/13/russian-math-school
Other
Firefox 91.0 Introduces HTTPS by Default in Private Browsing.
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/08/10/firefox-91-introduces-https-by-default-in-private-browsing/
Firefox 91.0 Release Notes.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/91.0/releasenotes/
Abandoned Motorola Headquarters.
https://www.abandonedspaces.com/industry/motorola.html
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