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
What Exactly Was the Point of [ "x${var}" = "xVAL" ] Syntax?
https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1035
Samba 4.18 Released with Performance Optimizations.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Samba-4.18-Released
Game of Trees 0.85 Released.
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230308183022
OpenBSD Will Add Initial Support for Guided Disk Encryption in Installer.
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=167821018806244&w=2
OPNsense 23.1.3 Released.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=32915.0
FreeBSD Foundation – Work with FreeBSD at Google Summer of Code 2023.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/work-with-freebsd-at-google-summer-of-code-2023/
FreeBSD Fractal Fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWnwxCtkO6w
Rise of Hardware Based Security and Why it Matters [Q&A].
https://betanews.com/2023/03/10/the-rise-of-hardware-based-security-and-why-it-matters-qa/
FreeBSD 13.2-RC2 Now Available.
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-snapshots/2023-March/000221.html
Main Goal of Freesbie is to Make Easier to Test Various Wine Versions on FreeBSD.
https://github.com/thindil/wine-freesbie
OpenBSD on Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (5th Gen).
https://jcs.org/2017/09/01/thinkpad_x1c
Wireguard VPN Server with Unbound on OpenBSD.
https://marcocetica.com/posts/wireguard_openbsd/
Researching New FreeBSD or NetBSD Laptop.
https://rubenerd.com/a-new-freebsd-laptop/
Curious Case for Bridged WiFi Setup for Bhyve VM.
https://twitter.com/vermaden/status/1635015490669285376
Major containerd 1.7.0 Release with Support for Linux Containers on FreeBSD.
https://github.com/containerd/containerd/releases/tag/v1.7.0
Illumos Replaces csh(1) Based which(1) with Implementation in C from BSD.
https://code.illumos.org/c/illumos-gate/+/2710
Hardware
Retro Styled Modular IPS Display for Old and New Systems.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/checkmate1500mini/retro-styled-modular-ips-display-for-old-and-new-systems
Fanless i5-12600 with 32GB RAM Build.
https://www.fanlesstech.com/2023/03/fanless-i5-12600-32gb-ram-build.html
Laptop Brands with GNU/Linux Preinstalled.
https://floss.social/@ademalsasa/109597688986340391
HP Outrages Printer Users with Firmware Update Suddenly Bricking 3rd Party Ink.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/customers-fume-as-hp-blocks-third-party-ink-from-more-of-its-printers/
Disambiguating ARM/ARMv9/ARM9/ARM64/aarch64/A64/A78/…
https://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2023/03/10/disambiguating-arm/
Life
Court Documents Show GlaxoSmithKline Knew – for 40 Years – Zantac Could Cause Cancer.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/glaxosmithkline-zantac-cancer/
Google Overhired Talent to Do Fake Work and Stop them Working for Rivals.
https://fortune.com/2023/03/10/google-over-hired-talent-do-nothing-fake-work-stop-working-rivals-former-paypal-boss-keith-rabois/
Smartphones and Social Media are Destroying Children Mental Health.
https://www.ft.com/content/0e2f6f8e-bb03-4fa7-8864-f48f576167d2
24 Hour Do Nothing Challenge.
https://mattlakeman.org/2020/12/08/the-24-hour-do-nothing-challenge/
Greta Thunberg Deletes 2018 Tweet Saying World Will End in 2023 After World Does Not End.
https://thepostmillennial.com/greta-thunberg-deletes-2018-tweet-saying-world-will-end-in-2023-after-world-does-not-end
Other
Getting AMIGA A1200 Online – Installing Amiga Email Client.
https://lyonsden.net/getting-an-a1200-online-part-4-installing-an-amiga-email-client/
DuckDuckGo Launches DuckAssist Service.
https://spreadprivacy.com/duckassist-launch/
How Ahrefs Saved $400M in 3 Years by NOT Going to Cloud.
https://tech.ahrefs.com/how-ahrefs-saved-us-400m-in-3-years-by-not-going-to-the-cloud-8939dd930af8
Vinyl Records Outsell CDs for First Time Since 1987.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/vinyl-records-outsell-cds-for-the-first-time-since-1987-49deeef0
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