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2024-08-04T12:04:13Z	**Lazy Reading for 2024/08/04**
FINALLY cleaned out my inbox. NYCBUG Aug 7: Brian Callahan “Once again, I’ve done something no one asked for” (added after I published this) “Constructing Your Own Linux and FreeBSD Packages” at GoLUG August 7.  Watch both. Beyond All Reason on OpenBSD, a video.  (via) Hypercard Simulator.  (via) Stephen King’s The Mist, 80’s text adventure. …

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2024-07-28T12:04:57Z	**Lazy Reading for 2024/07/28**
I am attempting to clear my link backlog but not succeeding. Deconstructing the Role-Playing Video Game.  (via) From boiling lead and black art.  Veers into UNIX history at the end.  (via) A Look Back at StripWare. Escaping the software tar pit: model clashes and how to avoid them.  (via) The Programmer Productivity Myth. Plan 9 …

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2024-07-21T12:04:36Z	**Lazy Reading for 2024/07/21**
I wanted to clear all the newsletters items I’ve saved, so you are getting links until my inbox no longer paginates. Just Use Postgres for Everything.  (via) When web search failed me for Postgres. The Future of MySQL is Postgres. (target from previous link) From Cloud Chaos to FreeBSD Efficiency.  Or any BSD.   (via) Layers …

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2024-07-14T12:13:46Z	**Lazy Reading for 2024/07/14**
Almost all links from saved emails instead of RSS, for once. The history of Alt+number sequences, and why Alt+9731 sometimes gives you a heart and sometimes a snowman. Geomys, a blueprint for a sustainable open source maintenance firm.  (via) Entering text in the terminal is complicated.  (via) PySkyWiFi: completely free, unbelievably stupid wi-fi on long-haul …

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2024-07-07T12:09:06Z	**Lazy Reading for 2024/07/07**
I got quote-happy this week. Ladybird Browser Initiative.   (via several places) Related to the previous link: Mozilla is an advertising company now and Mozilla’s Original Sin. The new Fantasy Steampunk Storybundle, with orcs!  Unrelated to MWL’s about-to-come-out tech book that you should order, or his next book. Related: Next NYC\*BUG: July 10th The State of Email, …

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2024-06-29T12:05:23Z	**Lazy Reading for 2024/06/30**
I was not able to get this done early like the last few posts, but there’s still a good range here. Can You Make It Bigger? – A Journey In Building Arcade Cabinets.  (via) Via previous story, the Picade. The 84 Series.  On point for current topics and period stylings.  (via) Bat Hauntings on Apple …

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2024-06-23T12:05:38Z	**Lazy Reading for 2024/06/23**
I have a weird schedule this week but I think I came up with sufficient links. Artifacting.  Understanding JPEG encoding will incidentally help understanding MPEG. Technical Marvels, the start, plus the Lebombo and Ishango Bones.  An ongoing series, so I’m interested on what they do with the Antikythera Device.  (via) diff turns 50.  (via) Micropolis, …

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2024-06-16T12:06:48Z	**Lazy Reading for 2024/06/16**
Text tools this week. CommonMark, a Markdown specification. LyX, a TeX editor.  (this and previous from this thread.) nvi command summaries.  Follow the thread. BSD User Group Düsseldorf Juli 2024. Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87). XScreenSaver 6.09 out now. Greatest Comics Of All Time as Chosen by 45 Writers and Artists.  (via) …

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2024-06-09T12:08:09Z	**Lazy Reading for 2024/06/09**
Technical reading is the accidental theme. Refurb Weekend: Canon Cat.  This is a far more capable machine than I ever knew about. Terminal Text Effects.  Much showier than I expected.  (via) Losing Sight of Creators.  Ad-blockers aren’t the answer; finding ways to support creators without ads is. City in a Bottle.  Via multiple places. Replacing …

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2024-06-05T16:15:02Z	**NYCBUG tonight**
NYCBUG is meeting tonight at a changed location.  There’s going to be discussion of the just-finished BSDCan plus talk about membership growth and handling streaming events. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/06/05/nycbug-tonight-4/)
2024-06-02T12:07:08Z	**Lazy Reading for 2024/06/02**
This week, extended commentary on the links. Unscalable, Hand-Crafted Lists of Links.  “Even today, thirty years after Jerry and David, I still visit bookmarked webpages that maintain human-curated lists of links.”  You can guess my opinion of that. Higher Intellect, a huge repository of documents of the sort you’d find squirreled away on the Internet in the late …

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2024-05-26T12:14:26Z	**Lazy Reading for 2024/05/26**
No theme this week, but some neat history items. Modern cactus. Winamp goes open source.  (via) Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159.  (via) Next NYCBUG meeting: June 5th.  It’ll be a post-BSDCan recap. “udm=14” is now useful for Google searches much like you had to turn on literal search …

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2024-05-19T12:09:25Z	**Lazy Reading for 2024/05/19**
No mini-theme this week. Soft Electronics.  Linked for the physical designs.  (via) Magic Numbers.  What shaped the 1500 byte Ethernet MTU. Languages as Symbols.  (via) Odie Directory.  Found Google Docs turned into HTML.  (also via) NON-OBJECTIVE.  All sorts of neat clock faces. (also also via) Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art …

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2024-05-16T12:59:25Z	**Time service on DragonFly**
Dan Cross is looking to set up a hardware time service on DragonFly.  It worked out, and there’s a patch coming to support this. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/05/16/time-service-on-dragonfly/)
2024-05-14T18:22:39Z	**BSDCan in two weeks**
Only a BSD conference announcement would include a note about changing your SSH listening port.  Also, BSDCan in 2 weeks! ⌘ [Read more](https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/05/14/bsdcan-in-two-weeks/)
2024-05-14T12:56:37Z	**A DragonFly BSD Taste**
A ‘first try’ document for DragonFly. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/05/14/a-dragonfly-bsd-taste/)
2024-05-12T12:08:32Z	**Lazy Reading for 2024/05/12**
Mini-theme of art. How are zlib, gzip and zip related?  (via) All Internet Roads Lead Back to 2014.  (via) Utopian Realism, a speech by Bruce Sterling.  The forks part is most interesting. Jeff Keen’s Amazing Rayday Comic collages.  (via) Creating A Productive Terminal Environment.  (via) Steeped in chemistry: A nice cup of tea, molecularly.  Prewarm …

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2024-05-05T12:06:45Z	**Lazy Reading for 2024/05/05**
What’s the history of Cinco de Mayo?  (updated since last linked in 2016.) SNOBOL, ICEBOL, SPITBOL, et al. What is Computer Science?  (via) Live performance of Blur’s Song 2 on a modular synth. A history / greatest hits of dedications and footnotes.  (via) How I search in 2024.  Saved for the links.  (via) Some nice …

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2024-04-30T16:19:06Z	**May 1 NYC*BUG: Demystify ZFS Replication**
Tomorrow night, NYCBUG’s monthly meeting is about ZFS.  There’s simultaneous chat in IRC and livestream video, too. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2024/04/30/may-1-nycbug-demystify-zfs-replication/)
2024-04-28T12:21:43Z	**Lazy Reading for 2024/04/28**
No accidental theme this week. DVD.yay.boo, found through a comment from last week. All of yay.boo is fun to explore, really. humans.txt.  (via) Memory remapping over 15 billion miles and 5 decades.   (via) Lecture as performance art.  Or performance art in the form of lecture. Ballmer Peak has been found.  See page 48 – it’s …

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2024-08-11T12:06:27Z	**Lazy Reading for 2024/08/11**
Oddities this week. Join the Interim Computer Museum.  (via) containerization moves the learning period from “before deployment” to “during outages”  I’m quoting a quote of a quote there. public.work, visually search public domain images.  (via) And if you like that, read The mining of the public domain, an excellent analysis of public.work. A (Very) Brief …

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2024-08-18T12:13:35Z	**Lazy Reading for 2024/08/18**
Odd hardware week. Repository Statistics.  That’s way more package repos than I expected.  (via) The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins.  (via) A short history of the 909 in 16 songs.  (via) DMARC Vendors.  (via) Sign up to support the Interim Computer Museum. … because you can actually use the exhibits. Technical Marvels, …

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2024-08-25T12:03:41Z	**Lazy Reading for 2024/08/25**
Links are all over the map, but I mostly cleared my tab backlog. Random sightings of UNIX in odd places.  Also Vim.  (mostly via) Related: the classic not-UNIX page. A note to myself about using traceroute to check for port reachability.  Includes BSD comparisons. Level Titles: Fighters and Thieves.  Linked cause I like the title …

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2024-09-01T12:06:38Z	**Lazy Reading for 2024/09/01**
After the initial notes, this is a week to dedicate some time to reading; these are more intense than usual. Sept 4 NYC\*BUG: GEFS: The Long road to Production Use, Ori Bernstein.  Go if you are near, and there are plans to stream if you are not near. Speaking of streaming, the NYCBUG group has …

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2024-09-08T12:08:48Z	**Lazy Reading for 2024/09/08**
No mini-theme this week. nmap in the movies.  (via) “This is the first image taken from space.” “THE HIVEMIND SWARMED, an oral history exploring Gamergate’s aftermath”. Roguelike Celebration Preview Event!  September 8th, so in a few hours. Related: Roguelike Celebration 2024 Speakers.  Each individual speaker’s presentation sounds like an article I’d link here. Email addresses …

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2024-09-15T12:12:28Z	**Lazy Reading for 2024/09/15**
A bit more… artsy?  this week. Coding Together on the Apple II+.  Mostly I just like the site design.  (via) Introducing MNT Reform Next.  Might replace my ancient, indestructible X220. Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison. DOOM on a volumetric display. “Run Your Own Mail Server” Auction for BSD Conference AV Team.  Closes today! …

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