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
HAMMER2 File System for FreeBSD (Read Only Support).
https://github.com/kusumi/freebsd_hammer2
HAMMER2 File System for NetBSD.
https://github.com/kusumi/netbsd_hammer2
OpenZFS – Final Word in File Systems.
https://jro.io/truenas/openzfs/
The muc Will Show You Fancy Stats of Your Shell Commands History.
https://github.com/nate-sys/muc
Haiku Beta 4 – BeOS Rebuild and Almost Ready for Release.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/11/haiku_beta_4/
What Happens When You Open Terminal and Enter ls.
https://www.warp.dev/blog/what-happens-when-you-open-a-terminal-and-enter-ls
Microservices are Big Ball of Mud.
https://code-held.com/2022/07/28/microservices/
Set TZ Environment Variable to Avoid Thousands of System Calls on Linux.
https://blog.packagecloud.io/set-environment-variable-save-thousands-of-system-calls/
OpenBSD RETGUARD for amd64 System Calls.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230111063250
Use whoarethey to Determine Who Can Log in to SSH Server.
https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/whoarethey
BSD Now 489 – Refreshing Perspective.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/489
Vagrant to Generate FreeBSD Based Boxes with ZFS and UFS.
https://github.com/punktDe/vagrant-freebsd-boxbuilder
Overview of NomadBSD 131R.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsk2b9svnHU
NetBSD ASCII Flag for Bootloader.
https://www.cambus.net/netbsd-ascii-flag-for-the-bootloader/
Linux Plan to Orphan JFS Filesystem.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Possible-Orphan-JFS
LibreOffice 7.4.4 Community Available for Download.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2023/01/12/libreoffice-7-4-4-community/
Nginx and Acme-Client on OpenBSD.
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2019-07-04-nginx-acme.html
This Week in KDE – Well Just Look at All TheseΓ Pictures!
https://pointieststick.com/2023/01/13/this-week-in-kde-well-just-look-at-all-these-pictures/
The awk(1) Commands Equivalents to SQL Queries.
https://subhadip.ca/unixlinux/awk-commands-equivalent-to-sql-query-data-manipulation/
Setup Hashicorp Vault on FreeBSD.
https://beerdy.io/2021/09/setting-up-hashicorp-vault-on-freebsd/
Restic 0.15 Released.
https://restic.net/blog/2023-01-12/restic-0.15.0-released/
GIMP 2.10.32 on Apple Silicon.
https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/12/02/gimp-2.10.32-apple-silicon/
Running Sendmail on FreeBSD as Local Delivery Agent.
https://networking.ringofsaturn.com/Unix/freebsd_sendmail_local_only.php
BSD Administration Scripts II.
https://github.com/lonkamikaze/bsda2
Exploring CBSD Framework – Part 2 – Setup.
https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2023/01/15/exploring-the-cbsd-virtual-environment-management-framework-part-2-setup/
Set or Change IP Address on FreeBSD.
https://linuxconfig.net/manuals/howto/how-to-set-or-change-the-ip-address-on-freebsd.html
Custom Bash abd Tcsh Prompts on FreeBSD.
https://twitter.com/vmisev/status/1614047660851208192
Deploying Piece of Fediverse on FreeBSD.
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2023/01/15/deploying-a-piece-of-the-fediverse/
IBM Shifts Remaining US Based AIX Dev Jobs to India.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/12/ibm_aix_developer_jobs/
Hardware
Disassembling Greatest F1 Car with Men Who Made It – 1988 Prost/Senna McLaren MP4/4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRtjeWsIscc
Obsolete Technology – Amber Monitors.
https://blog.solidsignal.com/tutorials/obsolete-technology-amber-monitors/
AMD Ryzen 9 7900 / 7 7700 / 5 7600 Review: Zen 4 Efficiency at 65 Watts.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/18693/the-amd-ryzen-9-7900-ryzen-7-7700-and-ryzen-5-5-7600-review-ryzen-7000-at-65-w-zen-4-efficiency
RISC-V SBC VisionFive 2 Officially Shipped.
https://www.starfivetech.com/en/site/new_details/976
AMD RDNA3 ISA Reference Guide Published.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-RDNA3-ISA-Guide
Atari 2600 Hardware Design – Making Something Out of Almost Nothing.
https://www.bigmessowires.com/2023/01/11/atari-2600-hardware-design-making-something-out-of-almost-nothing/
New Sony Walkman Music Players Feature Good Looks and Android 12.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/new-sony-walkman-music-players-feature-stunning-good-looks-android-12/
Life
It is Not Just What You Eat but Time of Day You Eat It.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/01/10/meal-timing-big-meals/
Old Man Yells at Cloud.
https://www.jonandnic.com/2023/01/08/old-man-yells-at-cloud/
We Need a Lot More Electricians if We are Going to Electrify Everything.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy-jobs/we-need-a-lot-more-electricians-if-were-going-to-electrify-everything
Where People from Ukraine are Fleeing To.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/where-people-ukraine-are-fleeing
Want to Improve Your Memory? Try These Unexpected Tips.
https://www.vox.com/even-better/23537229/improve-your-memory-concentration-tips
I Can Finally Afford House – Man Says After Winning $55M Lottery.
https://globalnews.ca/news/9337718/toronto-man-can-afford-house-lotto-max-win/
How Elites Abandoned Masses.
https://eriktorenberg.substack.com/p/how-elites-abandoned-the-masses
Hypocrisy of Elites.
https://eriktorenberg.substack.com/p/the-hypocrisy-of-elites
How Can We Trust Institutions that Lied?
https://brownstone.org/articles/how-can-we-trust-institutions-that-lied/
Other
Researchers Hacked California Digital License Plates – Gaining Access to GPS Location and User Info.
https://jalopnik.com/researchers-hacked-californias-digital-license-plates-1849966295
Amazon Ships Android TV Device with Malware.
https://www.osnews.com/story/135739/amazon-ships-android-tv-device-with-malware/
Remembering Triumph and Tragedy of 1986 Paris-Dakar Rally.
https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/remembering-the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-the-1986-paris-dakar-rally/
Firefox 109 Available with Unified Extensions Button and Other Small Changes.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Firefox-109
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