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
Linux/BSD Command Line Wizardry – Learn to Think in sed(1)/awk(1)/grep(1).
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/linux-bsd-command-line-101-using-awk-sed-and-grep-in-the-terminal/
NetBSD Laptop Recommendations.
https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/180-netbsd-laptop-recommendations/4
OpenBSD Got Hibernation Time Reduced.
https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210831050932
FreeBSD/EC2 AMI Systems Manager Public Parameters.
https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2021-08-31-FreeBSD-AMI-SSM-Public-Parameters.html
HardenedBSD 2021/08 Status Report.
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2021-08-31/hardenedbsd-august-2021-status-report
Humble Bundle – Machine Learning Bookshelf by No Starch Press.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/machine-learning-bookshelf-no-starch-press-books
Fair Internet Bandwidth Management on Network using OpenBSD.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-08-30-openbsd-qos-lan.html
58% of Tech Savvy Users Block Google Analytics.
https://plausible.io/blog/google-analytics-adblockers-missing-data
Docker Desktop no Longer Free for Large Companies.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/31/docker_desktop_no_longer_free/
SerenityOS Update 2021/08.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT2SO-X2Wik
New 2021Q3 Quarterly Binary Packages for DragonflyBSD Available.
https://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2021-August/404810.html
Tor is Great Sysadmin Tool.
https://www.jamieweb.net/blog/tor-is-a-great-sysadmin-tool/
Klara Systems – Choosing Right ZFS Pool Layout.
https://klarasystems.com/articles/choosing-the-right-zfs-pool-layout/
DEC Legacy 2021 is On!
http://wickensonline.co.uk/declegacy/
Raspberry Pi 3B+ FreeBSD Gaming Server.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzqKuOpZLjI
Application Sandboxing in Solaris 11.4.
https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/application-sandboxing-in-oracle-solaris-114
BSD Now 418 – Greatest Time in History to Be Creator.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/418
FreeBSD Enables Touch Tracking for Late Synaptics PS/2 Touchpads.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=c21171af687e20173b6b39e33db55999ba8d715e
https://twitter.com/FreeBSDHelp/status/1433584329003651072
FreeBSD Setup Tips from FreeBSD Foundation.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd-project/resources/freebsd-set-up-tips/
OpenBSD Gets xterm(1) Unveiled.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210903092042
OpenBSD Makes traceroute(8) Faster.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210903094704
Use Bookmarks in bash/zsh Shells.
https://threkk.medium.com/how-to-use-bookmarks-in-bash-zsh-6b8074e40774
Using FreeBSD re-root Capability for Fun and Profit.
https://people.freebsd.org/~lidl/blog/re-root.html
Installing IFIX with AIX Live Update.
https://techchannel.com/SMB/9/2021/ifix-aix-live-update
FreeBSD Desktop β Netflix Signal Telegram.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2021/09/06/freebsd-desktop-part-27-configuration-netflix-signal-telegram/
Hardware
Fanless HDPLEX H3 AMD Ryzen 7 5700G Build.
https://www.fanlesstech.com/2021/08/hdplex-h3-ryzen-7-5700g-build.html
Western Digital Reimagines HDD – Flash Integration with OptiNAND.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16920/western-digital-reimagines-hdd-flash-integration-with-optinand
Western Digital 20TB ePMR Hard Drives with OptiNAND.
https://www.servethehome.com/western-digital-20tb-epmr-hard-drives-with-optinand/
Cloudflare – Intel Ice Lake-SP Draw Several Hundred Watts More than AMD EPYC Milan at Same Performance Levels.
https://www.hardwaretimes.com/cloudflare-intel-ice-lake-sp-draw-several-hundred-watts-more-than-amds-epyc-milan-at-same-performance-levels/
Did IBM Just Preview Future of Caches?
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16924/did-ibm-just-preview-the-future-of-caches
Talospace – Cache Splash in Telum Means Seventh Heaven for POWER 11?
https://www.talospace.com/2021/09/cache-splash-in-telum-means-seventh.html
Chip Shortage Keeps Getting Worse. Why Can Not We Just Make More?
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-chip-production-why-hard-to-make-semiconductors/
Life
Art of Not Taking Things Personally.
https://medium.dave-bailey.com/the-art-of-not-taking-things-personally-b7a8395ce172
Complicated Reality of Doing What You Love.
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22620178/hobby-job-leisure-labor
Australia – Unprecedented Surveillance Bill Rushed Through Parliament in 24 Hours.
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/australia-surveillance-bill/
Teen Who Had Heart Attack after COVID Vaccine to Receive $225,000.
https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/singapore/teen-who-had-heart-attack-after-vaccine-dose-to-receive-225-000/ar-AANn7Am
Other
Google Researchers Detail New Method for Upscaling Images.
https://www.dpreview.com/news/0501469519/google-researchers-detail-new-method-upscaling-low-resolution-images-with-impressive-results
Mozilla VPN Completes Independent Security Audit by Cure53.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/mozilla-vpn-completes-independent-security-audit-by-cure53/
Kimi Raikkonen Formula 1 McLaren MP4-17D from 2002 for Sale.
https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/sm21/st–moritz/lots/r0014-2002-mclaren-mp4-17d/
Google Chrome to Remove Detailed Cookie and Site Data Controls.
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/chrome-cookie.html
uBlock Origin – Everything You Need to Know About.
https://addons.mozilla.org/blog/ublock-origin-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-ad-blocker/
Quote(s) of the Week
“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.”
Confucius
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