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 Quarterly 2021/Q3 Status Report.
https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2021-07-2021-09/
Running Searx Metasearch Engine on OpenBSD.
https://www.tumfatig.net/2021/running-the-searx-metasearch-engine-on-openbsd/
GhotBSD 0nline Meetup – 2021/12/11.
https://ghostbsd.org/node/234
FreeBSD Enables Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) by Default for 64bit Executables.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=b014e0f15bc73d80ef49b64fd1f8c29f469467cb
BSD Weekly – Issue 93.
https://bsdweekly.com/issues/93
CBSD got QEMU/NVMM Support.
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/qw64w8/cbsd_got_qemunvmm_support_dragonflybsdfreebsd/
Klara Systems – Demystifying OpenZFS 2.0.
https://klarasystems.com/articles/demystifying-openzfs-2-0/
SerenityOS at Handmade Seattle 2021.
https://media.handmade-seattle.com/serenityos/
FreeBSD 12.3-RC2 Now Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2021-November/000330.html
BSD Now 429 – Advanced ZFS Snapshots.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/429
Useful tmux(1) Configuration Examples.
https://dev.to/iggredible/useful-tmux-configuration-examples-k3g
Linux Has Serious Security Problem that Once Again Enables DNS Cache Poisoning.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/11/dan-kaminskys-dns-cache-poisoning-attack-is-back-from-the-dead-again/
FreeBSD Desktop Security.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0e2X7zo1to
In Other BSDs for 2021/11/20.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2021/11/20/26368.html
OpenBSD and Linux Comparison – Data Transfer Benchmark.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-11-14-openbsd-network-usage-mystery.html
New Utility for FreeBSD Ports Options.
https://alfonsosiciliano.gitlab.io/posts/2021-11-20-portconfig.html
VCF East 2019 – Brian Kernighan Interviews Ken Thompson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6q5dv_B-o
FreeBSD – SSH Server Security Audit and Hardening.
https://ozgur.kazancci.com/ssh-server-security-audit-hardening-freebsd/
OctoPkg – Great GUI Package Manager in FreeBSD.
https://nudesystems.com/octopkg-a-great-gui-package-manager-in-freebsd/
XigmaNAS 12.2.0.4.8854 Available.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xigmanas/files/XigmaNAS-12.2.0.4/12.2.0.4.8854/
The airyxOS Tanuki 0.3.0 is Now Available.
https://github.com/mszoek/airyx/releases/tag/airyx-0.3.0
FreeBSD 13.0 Manual Install Guide for BIOS/Legacy Systems.
http://therealnilz.de/FreeBSD-Install-Guide.pdf
LLVM Apache-2.0 with LLVM Exception Relicensing Update.
https://blog.llvm.org/posts/2021-11-18-relicensing-update/
GNU cut -c Considered Harmful.
https://catgirl.ai/log/cut-c-harmful/
Why UNIX V7 Matters So Much.
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/V7WhyItMattersSoMuch
Thoughts on Builtin Documentation for Command Line Utilities – Part I.
https://www.msiism.org/blog/2021/11/09/thoughts_built-in_doc_command-line_utils_1.html
C is the Greenest Programming Language.
https://hackaday.com/2021/11/18/c-is-the-greenest-programming-language/
Hardware
It is Possible to Trigger Rowhammer Bit Flips on All DRAM Devices Today.
https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/dram/blacksmith/
Radxa Introduces ROCK Pi SATA HATs.
https://wiki.radxa.com/News/2019/12/introduce-rockpi-sata-hat
DEC740/DEC750 OPNsense Rack Security Appliance with AMD Ryzen Embedded and Dual 10GE.
https://shop.opnsense.com/dec700-series-opnsense-desktop-security-appliance/
Life
To Be Energy Efficient Brains Predict Their Perceptions.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-be-energy-efficient-brains-predict-their-perceptions-20211115/
“I’m Human, I Have Emotions, and I Care” β Djokovic Slams Media Propaganda.
https://tennishead.net/im-human-i-have-emotions-and-i-care-djokovic-slams-media-propaganda/amp/
Swedish Study Finds Hiring Men Discrimination in Female Dominated Occupations.
https://www.psypost.org/2021/05/swedish-study-suggests-hiring-discrimination-is-primarily-a-problem-for-men-in-female-dominated-occupations-60699
123 Research Studies Affirm Naturally Acquired Immunity – Documented/Linked/Quoted.
https://brownstone.org/articles/79-research-studies-affirm-naturally-acquired-immunity-to-covid-19-documented-linked-and-quoted/
German Plan to Switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/11/18/german-state-planning-to-switch-25000-pcs-to-libreoffice/
Japan Sees Huge Drop in Cases After it Switches to Ivermectin.
https://freewestmedia.com/2021/11/03/japan-sees-huge-drop-in-cases-after-it-switches-to-ivermectin/
Protests and Rage Against Lockdowns and Mandates All Over World.
https://brownstone.org/video-podcast/protests-and-rage-against-lockdowns-and-mandates-all-over-the-world/
Other
All Hosts from 127.1.0.0 – 127.255.255.255 as Global Unicast Address Range.
https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-schoen-intarea-unicast-127-00.html
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-schoen-intarea-unicast-127/
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This.
https://zachholman.com/posts/only-90s-developers/
Quote(s) of the Week
One #!/bin/sh to rule them all,
One #!/bin/sh to find them,
One #!/bin/sh to bring them all,
and in the Unix bind them
Vladimir MiΕ‘ev
@vmisev
https://twitter.com/vmisev/status/1461074467828994049
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