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 src Browsing on Linux and My rtld Contribution.
https://maskray.me/blog/2021-08-22-freebsd-src-browsing-on-linux-and-my-rtld-contribution
Hidden Early History of Unix.
https://papers.freebsd.org/2020/FOSDEM/losh-Hidden_early_history_of_Unix.files/slides.pdf
Putty in Your Hand and in FreeBSD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJpVVv8AmTQ
How to Install TrueNAS CORE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wya16ef1G-E
Doom 3 on ReactOS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkqt9jDJQ3E
CalyxOS is Private By Design de-googled Android.
https://calyxos.org/
FreeBSD Wine Proton Gaming – Sea of Thieves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0_hIf2Shyc
LibreOffice Suite 7.2.0 Available in the FreeBSD Ports.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=40db9da303629cb1835ee6bbe5f8d433770be2bc
OpenBSD 6.9 Router Benchmarks.
https://kernelpanic.life/hardware/openbsd-router-benchmarks.html
High Availability with OpenBGPD on OpenBSD 6.9.
https://kernelpanic.life/software/high-availability-with-openbgpd-on-openbsd.html
High Availability in Practice with OpenBSD.
https://kernelpanic.life/software/high-availability-in-practice-with-openbsd.html
Installing helloSystem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXOTCJItFeo
Installing GhostBSD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YukS88sRq_o
Airyx 0.3.0 Alpha Preview Release.
https://github.com/mszoek/airyx/releases/tag/0.3.0pre
Vagrant Plugin to Manage Bhyve and Zones on Illumos (OmniOSce).
https://github.com/Makr91/vagrant-zones
BSD Now 417 – Bhyve Private Cloud.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/417
Improving GDB Protocol Compatibility in LLDB.
https://www.moritz.systems/blog/improving-gdb-protocol-compatibility-in-lldb/
Announcing Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU36.
https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/announcing-oracle-solaris-114-sru36
The yt-dlp is youtube-dl Fork Based on youtube-dlc.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
NetBSD WiFi Project Status Update.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/wifi_project_status_update
WhatsApp Achieves 1 000 000 Established TCP Sessions on Single Machine with FreeBSD and Erlang.
https://blog.whatsapp.com/on-e-millio-n?lang=en
FreeBSD Journal 2021/07-08 Issue Available.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/past-issues/desktop-wireless/
https://freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/July_aug2021.pdf
In Other BSDs for 2021/08/28.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2021/08/28/26111.html
NetBSD Users – Why Do You Use it over FreeBSD and OpenBSD?
https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/90-netbsd-users-why-do-you-use-it-over-freebsd-and-openbsd/
Useless Use of GNU.
https://jmmv.dev/2021/08/useless-use-of-gnu.html
SerenityOS Adds Flamegraph View for Stack for PR Profiler.
https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1431683216625258501
OmniOS Private Virtual Network with Zone.
https://gist.github.com/pbdigital-dot-org/966a680b79a547133bba9495a60720dc
Venix Emulator Update.
https://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2021/08/a-new-path-vm86-based-venix-emulator.html
OmniOS Bhyve Host – Resize FreeBSD Disk.
https://gist.github.com/pbdigital-dot-org/78bcba475a179075208df44df1175362
Colombian Officials Accidentally Reveal Details on Big Pharma Immunity for Adverse Reactions to COVID Vaccines.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/columbian-officials-accidentally-reveal-details-on-big-pharmas-immunity-for-adverse-reactions-to-covid-vaccines/
The xterm(1) Terminal Emulator Can do Lot More than Just Display Text.
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/XTermQuiteSophisticated
This Week in KDE – Accent Colors.
https://pointieststick.com/2021/08/27/this-week-in-kde-accent-colors/
20 Years of Haiku.
https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2021-08-18_20_years_of_haiku/
Humble Bundle UNIX Linux Books.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/unix-linux-books
Use VBOXVGA/VBOXSVGA for GhostBSD under VirtualBox.
https://github.com/ghostbsd/ghostbsd-src/issues/77
Hardware
ARM Neoverse N2 at Hot Chips 33.
https://www.servethehome.com/arm-neoverse-n2-at-hot-chips-33/
Esperanto ET-SoC-1 1092 RISC-V AI Accelerator Solution at Hot Chips 33.
https://www.servethehome.com/esperanto-et-soc-1-1092-risc-v-ai-accelerator-solution-at-hot-chips-33/
Kobol Team is Pulling the Plug.
https://blog.kobol.io/2021/08/25/we-are-pulling-the-plug/
MSI Cubi N Mini PC.
https://www.msi.com/Business-Productivity-PC/Cubi-N-JSL
ODYSSEY-X86J4105 SBC Re_Computer Mini PC.
https://cnx-software.cn/2021/08/26/odyssey-x86j4105-sbc-unboxing/
AMD Powered PrimeMini Connect Mini PC.
https://www.fanlesstech.com/2021/08/amd-powered-primemini-connect.html
AMIGA at NASA – Secret in Hangar AE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxW3E7UMrKM
Silent Changes to WD Budget SSD May Lower Speeds by 50%.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/silent-changes-to-western-digitals-budget-ssd-may-lower-speeds-by-up-to-50/
Western Digital Confirms Speed Crippling SN550 SSD Flash Change.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/hardware/western-digital-confirms-speed-crippling-sn550-ssd-flash-change/
ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-1165G7 Mini-PC Review.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16914/asrock-industrial-nuc-box1165g7-minipc-review-an-ultracompact-tiger-lake-desktop
AMD RDNA 2 and EPYC Inspired Infinity Cache at Hot Chips 33.
https://www.servethehome.com/amd-rdna-2-and-epyc-inspired-infinity-cache-at-hot-chips-33/
Semiconductor Heist of Century – ARM China Has Gone Completely Rogue.
https://semianalysis.substack.com/p/the-semiconductor-heist-of-the-century
Samsung Changes Components for Their 970 EVO Plus SSD and Make Them Slower.
https://www.techpowerup.com/286008/et-tu-samsung-samsung-too-changes-components-for-their-970-evo-plus-ssd
ICY Dock MB720MK-B-V2 4x M.2 NVMe to 5.25 in Bay Review.
https://www.servethehome.com/icy-dock-mb720mk-b-v2-4x-m-2-nvme-to-5-25-in-bay-review/
Meltdown Like Vulnerability Affects AMD Zen+ and Zen2 Processors.
https://www.techpowerup.com/286119/meltdown-like-vulnerability-affects-amd-zen-and-zen2-processors
OpenRSYNC Gains include/exclude Support.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210830081715
Life
Burning Out and Quitting.
https://mayakaczorowski.com/blogs/burnout
All Seeing ‘i’ – Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy.
https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i
Seven News Reporter Rushed to Hospital with Extremely Rare Heart Inflammation after Getting Pfizer Covid Shot.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9927973/Seven-News-reporter-Denham-Hitchcock-rushed-hospital-Pfizer-Covid-heart-effect.html
Lisa Shaw – Presenter Death Due to Complications of AstraZeneca Covid Vaccine.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-58330796
Facebook Messenger Silently Censoring Links – Claims They Were Sent.
https://twitter.com/kylejohnmorris/status/1431714982782066688
Quebec Vaccine Passport App Hacked within Days After Launch.
https://mobilesyrup.com/2021/08/27/quebec-vaccine-passport-app-hacked-within-days-after-launch/
Delingpole – Thousands Converge on London for Anti Lockdown Rally.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/06/27/thousands-anti-lockdown-rally-ignored-again-by-msm/
Other
Most Influential Books for Programmers.
https://github.com/cs-books/influential-cs-books
Rise of User Hostile Software.
https://den.dev/blog/user-hostile-software/
Why are Hyperlinks Blue?
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/deep-dives/why-are-hyperlinks-blue/
Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition Challenge Rating System is Deranged.
http://boston.conman.org/2021/08/15.1
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