Valuable News – 2023/02/20

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

Modern Mono Font.
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/02/09/Monospace

Setup Fully Functioning Home Network Using OPNsense.
https://homenetworkguy.com/how-to/set-up-a-fully-functioning-home-network-using-opnsense/

Why We Are Rebuilding Thunderbird Interface from Scratch.
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/02/the-future-of-thunderbird-why-were-rebuilding-from-the-ground-up/

Kubernetes is Great but its Been 7 Year Distraction.
https://newsletter.cote.io/p/kubernetes-is-great-but-its-been

Tunneling vxlan(4) over WireGuard wg(4) on OpenBSD.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230214061330

FreeBSD Post Install Script to Automate Setup.
https://github.com/wolandark/FreeBSD_Post_Install

Using /bin/eject with USB Flash Drives on OpenBSD.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230214061952

FreeBSD 13.2-BETA1 Now Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-snapshots/2023-February/000205.html

FreeBSD 13.2-BETA1 Released with WireGuard/Bhyve Improvements and ASLR Enabled by Default.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-13.2-Beta-1

Xenix – Microsoft Long Forgotten UNIX on COMPAQ Portable Plus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlhDi2gGmhE

FreeBSD Updates KDE Plasma Desktop to 5.27 Version.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=3a490e8f310dd8d6fe8511291003d18d39d1ef6c

IBM AIX – Last Standing Commercial UNIX.
https://www.itjungle.com/2023/02/13/aix-the-last-standing-commercial-unix/

Cloud Provider Serverspace Adds FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE OS Template for VPS.
https://serverspace.io/about/news/new-template-os-freebsd-13-1/

KDE Plasma 5.27 Announcement.
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.27.0/

OPNsense 23.1.1 Released.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=32484.0

Kubernetes Releases for OpenBSD/Illumos/FreeBSD Systems.
https://github.com/tnorlin/kubernetes/releases

Haiku Package Management.
https://www.markround.com/blog/2023/02/13/haiku-package-management/

Learn to Use BSD – FreeBSD 101.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-UPt2JrqRQ

Bidirectional Pipes – Example.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/113dp38/bidirectional_pipes_example/

Nextcloud on OpenBSD.
https://x61.sh/log/2023/02/20230217T112354-nextcloud_openbsd.html

Intel Open Sources Its OpenCL CPU Based Runtime.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-OpenCL-CPU-Open-Source

Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions.
https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2023/02/17/modern-problems-require-modern-solutions/

Inside FreeBSD Driver.
https://lupyuen.github.io/articles/usb2?9#inside-the-freebsd-driver

Kubernetes Adds Basic FreeBSD Support on Kubelet.
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115870

FreeBSD 13.1 Desktop Experience with KDE Plasma 5.24.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbtqhT4Vrjw

Low Latency Game Streaming on NetBSD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrMJgk894ZI

FreeBSD 13.2-BETA2 Now Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2023-February/001128.html

Privilege Drop/Separation and Restricted Service Operating Mode in OpenBSD.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230219234206

BSD Now 494 – Unix Workstation Extinction.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/494

Hardware

Minisforum MC560 Mini PC with Integrated Projector.
https://www.techpowerup.com/304725/minisforum-mc560-mini-pc-with-integrated-projector-goes-on-sale

Drivers Ditch Electric Cars in Droves to Return to Petrol Vehicles Due to Lack of Charging Stations.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/21359344/drivers-ditch-electric-cars-lack-charging-stations/

Quick Micron 9400 Pro 32TB SSD Video.
https://www.servethehome.com/a-quick-micron-9400-pro-video/

SanDisk Shrinkflation.
https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2023/02/15/shrinkflation/

Some EV Owners Recharging Now More Costly than Filling Up.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/electric-car-2023-costs-gas-vehicles/

New Amiga X5000.
https://www.markround.com/blog/2018/10/10/new-amiga-x5000/

GM Patents Self Cleaning Touchscreens that Erase Fingerprints Overnight.
https://newatlas.com/technology/self-cleaning-touch-screen-gm/

AMD EPYC 9004 Genoa Under the Hood.
https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-9004-genoa-under-the-lid/

Purism Announcing Lapdock Kit.
https://puri.sm/posts/announcing-the-lapdock-kit/

Life

Let Teenagers Sleep.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/let-teenagers-sleep/

To Mask or Not to Mask – That is (Somehow) Still Question.
https://slate.com/technology/2023/02/masks-effectiveness-cochrane-review.html

The War on Cash is Here.
https://21stcenturywire.com/2023/02/14/the-war-on-cash-is-here/

Putting Solar Panels in Grazing Fields is Good for Sheep.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2357545-putting-solar-panels-in-grazing-fields-is-good-for-sheep/

Switzerland Considers Electric Car Bans During Electricity Shortages.
https://www.drive.com.au/news/switzerland-considers-ev-bans-during-power-shortages/

Millennials Who Buy Less and Save More are Happier.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/10/study-millennials-who-buy-less-and-save-more-are-happier.html

Cashless Society? Not in Switzerland Where People Will Vote on Keeping Banknotes and Coins Forever.
https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/02/06/cashless-society-not-in-switzerland-where-people-will-vote-to-keeping-banknotes-and-coins-

Other

Geopipe Offers 3D Model of New York for Free.
https://80.lv/articles/geopipe-offers-3d-model-of-new-york-for-free/

Political Bias of ChatGPT – Extended Analysis.
https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/political-bias-chatgpt

Go is 17 Times More Sustainable than Python.
https://sustainful.tech/blog/golang-is-17-times-more-sustainable-than-python-in-depth-side-by-side-comparison/

Mozilla Solves Manifest V3 Puzzle to Save AD Blockers from Chromapocalypse.
https://adguard.com/en/blog/firefox-manifestv3-chrome-adblocking.html

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