Valuable News – 2022/11/21

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

OpenBSD Desktop Playbook to Automatically Setup Xfce/Openbox via Ansible.
https://github.com/jhx0/openbsd-desktop-playbook

EuroBSDCon 2022 Trip Report – Muhammad Moinur Rahman.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/eurobsdcon-2022-trip-report-muhammad-moinur-rahman/

Wine Development Release 7.21 is Now Available.
https://www.winehq.org/announce/7.21

Machine Learning with Unix Pipes.
https://jott.live/markdown/ml_pipes

History and Future of Core Dumps in FreeBSD.
https://github.com/gwydirsam/bsd-coredump-history/blob/master/freebsd-coredump-history.org

Be is Nice. End of Story.
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/be-is-nice-end-of-story

In Praise of Plan 9.
https://drewdevault.com/2022/11/12/In-praise-of-Plan-9.html

FreeBSD is Well Supported on Latest AMD EPYC 4th Gen Processors.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/latest-news/freebsd-is-well-supported-on-4th-gen-amd-epyc-processors/

OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems – Print and Ebook Bundle – Ends on 2022/12/01.
https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/omf-print-ebook-bundle/

Testing NomadBSD for Upcoming Release.
https://github.com/nomadbsd/NomadBSD/issues/128

Role of Operating Systems in IoT.
https://klarasystems.com/articles/the-role-of-operating-systems-in-iot/

QEMU Adds ZFS TRIM Support for FreeBSD.
https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg921964.html

FreeBSD PF and Dummynet.
https://meka.rs/blog/2022/11/17/freebsd-pf-and-dummynet/

FreeBSD – Unexpected Soft Update Inconsistency.
https://programmatic.solutions/sk3l50/freebsd-unexpected-soft-update-inconsistency

FreeBSD cat(1) Alternative – You bat(1) There is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7m2l-0DbfA

OPNsense 22.7.8 Released.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=31096.0

FreeBSD Receives Million Dollar Donation.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/MTg0Mzc

FreeBSD Foundation Announces Generous Donation and Fundraising Milestone.
https://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2014/11/freebsd-foundation-announces-generous.html

FreeBSD Foundation Fall 2022 Update.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/newsletter/freebsd-foundation-fall-2022-update/

How to Monitor FreeBSD with Netdata.
https://blog.netdata.cloud/freebsd-monitoring/

HP-UX Porting and Archive Centre.
https://www.osnews.com/story/135519/the-hp-ux-porting-and-archive-centre-2/

Nerd Fonts Font Aggregator Downloads.
https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads

FreeBSD Ansible Server Playbook.
https://github.com/jhx0/freebsd-server-playbook

Install VIM Text Editor on FreeBSD 12/13.
https://www.computingpost.com/install-vim-text-editor-on-freebsd-12-13/

Install node.js 16 LTS on FreeBSD 13/12.
https://www.computingpost.com/install-node-js-16-lts-on-freebsd-13-12/

Set Hostname and Static IP Address on FreeBSD 12/13.
https://www.computingpost.com/set-hostname-static-ip-address-on-freebsd-12-13/

OpenBSD Calls for Testing on Updated Apple M1/M2 Bootloader Code.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20221120113149

Running FreeBSD arm64 on QEMU/UTM on Apple Silicon.
https://weblog.antranigv.am/posts/2022/11/running-arm64-aarch64-freebsd-on-qemu-utm-app-on-apple-silicon/

FreeBSD Keyboard Language.
https://mabufs.com/blog/freebsd-keyboard-language

Automatic Prompt to Unlock Remote Encrypted Partitions on OpenBSD.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-11-20-openbsd-remote-unlock.html

FreeBSD Foundation Fall Software Development Update.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/fall-foundation-software-development-update/

Invest in FreeBSD.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/invest-in-freebsd/

Announcing nvidia-drm Port on FreeBSD and Call for Testing.
https://badland.io/announcing_nvidia_drm.md

Hardware

Breaking BIOS – Enabling Intel VT-x Virtualization on Acer Aspire One Netbook.
https://sudonull.com/post/137275-Breaking-BIOS-enabling-VT-x-virtualization-support-on-Acer-Aspire-One-netbook

Turemetal UP3 – Building Fully Silent Fanless PC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY5jlWV6Ifo

Processor Design.
http://www.gamezero.com/team-0/articles/math_magic/micro/

Life

Speed Traps Have No Long Term Effect on Speeding.
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2022/11/14/mdf2022-speed-traps-have-no-long-term-effect-on-speeding

Harry Frankfurt on Bullshit.
http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_bullshit.pdf

Suburban Mom Handcuffed and Jailed for Making 8 Year Old Son Walk Half a Mile Home.
https://reason.com/2022/11/16/suburban-mom-jailed-handcuffed-cps-son-walk-home/

Give Your Ideas Some Legs – Positive Effect of Walking on Creative Thinking.
https://fermatslibrary.com/s/give-your-ideas-some-legs-the-positive-effect-of-walking-on-creative-thinking

You Can Not Out Shoot Teenager – How to Play FPS Games if You Are Over 30.
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/nov/15/you-cant-out-shoot-a-teenager-how-to-play-first-person-shooters-if-youre-over-30

Association Between Vitamin D Supplementation and COVID-19 Infection and Mortality.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24053-4

Red Meat is Not Health Risk – New Study Slams Years of Shoddy Research.
https://bigthink.com/health/red-meat-cancer-not-health-risk/

Gabor Mate – Childhood Lie That is Ruining All of Our Lives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPup-1pDepY

How to Get Rich.
https://nav.al/rich

Much Ado About Nothing.
https://off-guardian.org/2022/11/12/much-ado-about-nothing/

Other

DivestOS Mobile Operating System Divested from Norm.
https://divestos.org/

Heroes of Might and Magic III – Board Game.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/archonstudio/homm3boardgame

Novak Djokovic – “People Sometimes Think I am fake, that I do certain things because I want to be loved.”.
https://www.sportskeeda.com/tennis/news-novak-djokovic-opens-unjust-harsh-media-criticism-faces-people-sometimes-think-i-m-fake-i-certain-things-i-want-loved

HTML is All You Need to Make Website.
https://whitep4nth3r.com/blog/html-is-all-you-need-to-make-a-website/

12-bit Rainbow Palette.
https://iamkate.com/data/12-bit-rainbow/

Reducing Replication Lag with I/O Concurrency in PostgreSQL 15.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-postgresql/reducing-replication-lag-with-io-concurrency-in-postgres-15/ba-p/3673169

AMD Finally Open Sources Radeon Raytracing Analyzer.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GPUOpen-RRA-Open-Source

Criticizing Computers.
https://annasofia.xyz/2022/11/05/criticizing-computers.html

Quote(s) of the Week

“The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.”

Richard Feynman

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