DragonFly Digest @dragonflydigest@bsd.network
A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
Joined Jul 2018
Lazy Reading for 2026/10/04
I remain upbeat!
NYCBUG social meeting (i.e. no presentation) on October 7th.
A 'clamp' power strip. I like the design. (via)
GIMP, The Movie. (not really)
An in-depth explainer of SSH certificates, which are much nicer than... every other security certificate system I've ever used, now that I think about it. (via)
Risk in 3D - as in a physical globe. (via)
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2026/10/04/lazy-reading-for-2026-10-04/
Lazy Reading for 2026/09/27
At least one of these links is going to eat some of your day, in a fun way.
That Time Ken Thompson Wrote a Backdoor into the C Compiler. (via)
They had no concept of a duty of care to their users. Neovim vs. Vim.
Similar: s/Neovim/Helix/g. I'm not picking on Neovim on purpose, rather this is just the particular rabbit hole I fell into.
The Jef Raskin "3 Laws" quote
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2026/09/27/lazy-reading-for-2026-09-27/
Lazy Reading for 2026/09/13
A specific request, passed from a reader: Do you have HP equipment, specifically HPE, and are running FreeBSD on it? Dean Hamstead created kernel modules for the HP iLO management processor, without requiring Linux compatibility or non-MIT licensing, and he needs testers.
mdbase, a specification for Markdown files. Linked because it's a good idea, and because the swarm anima
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2026/09/13/lazy-reading-for-2026-09-13/
Lazy Reading for 2026/09/06
Clearing old but evergreen links. Speaking of old links, earlier this week I discovered that the Internet Archive saved memepool.com - and my contributions are still there, two years before this Digest even started. You may notice an influence.
OpenAI's Rogue Agents Are a Normal Accident. Linked for the Morris Worm history.
The Kleptones are on Bandcamp.
The first mach
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2026/09/06/lazy-reading-for-2026-09-06/
Lazy Reading for 2026/08/30
I'm only a little reactionary with this batch.
City Builders. The SimCity genre has kept going.
“It’s unclear how Sopwith escaped to the general public.” I remember playing this at least once.
BeepAlive – keeping my soundbar from going to sleep.
How I use Home Assistant to help with my cats. Far more ambitious than I expected.
Found via the recent DinoCon: multip
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2026/08/30/lazy-reading-for-2026-08-30/
Lazy Reading for 2026/08/23
Cleaning out some old links.
“Gravity is worth asking about.” Linked for describing the "zero-one-infinity" rule, but applied to things you don't want.
reTerminal Sticky, a new reader in the now-popular 'Xteink' form factor.
A Network Filesystem for 2.11BSD. (via)
Visiting the History of Computing and Play. Look for "abbreviated history of floppy disks in a single p
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2026/08/23/lazy-reading-for-2026-08-23/
Lazy Reading for 2026/08/16
No theme, all eclectic.
The Bad Apple video, ASCII version, playing without CSS or JS. (via)
Sounds of the 60s: The IBM 1401. I've heard this before as sound effects and never realized it. (via)
The Map of Metal. Similar to longtime favorite Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music. (also via)
The BBC Tetris Companion. Hardware I've never seen before.
ICEBP Finally
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2026/08/16/lazy-reading-for-2026-08-16/
Lazy Reading for 2026/08/09
"Interesting personal tech feats" is the mini-theme.
How you wind up with switches above your office's false ceiling. Every office job I ever had, now that I think about it.
How I self-host my ebooks and audiobooks. Calibre is an astonishingly useful program.
Entering accented characters in Linux. Which should be "in X11", so it should apply to BSD.
“Jokes, art proj
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2026/08/09/lazy-reading-for-2026-08-09/
VIDAR at NYCBUG, tomorrow
Tomorrow's presentation at NYCBUG is VIDAR, a FreeBSD-based automatic firewall program. Read the event description for details. Go, if you are near. The announcement doesn't mention streaming so you may need to be in-person.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2026/08/04/vidar-at-nycbug-tomorrow/
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Lazy Reading for 2022/06/26
Mini-theme of old games.
The Nethack Challenge: Dungeons, Dragons, and Tourists. (via)
I’ve played dopewars on Slack. Linked because dopewars is really a variant of unique-genre game Taipan.
Clarus returns home. (via)
3 More Fonts for Working with Plain Text. I find Source Code Pro works very well.
I posted about arttime before; the author helpfully reminded me version 1.5 is out
In Other BSDs for 2022/06/25
Almost cleaned out the RSS feeds I had waiting.
Differences between base and ports LLVM in OpenBSD.
FreeBSD Quick Guide: Audio on FreeBSD.
Hotfix GhostBSD 22.06.18 ISO is now available.
Using Netgraph for FreeBSD’s bhyve Networking.
(NomadBSD) New team member: Mehmet Mert Gunduz.
Use a gamepad to control mpv video playback. Should work for any BSD?
Valuable News – 2022/06/20.
GhostBSD meetup tonight
It's on Jitsi, so anyone can reach it. Tonight, 7 PM eastern.
BSD Now 460: OpenBSD airport folklore
This week's BSD Now talks about a lot of stuff as always, but also notes a time-dependent item: a bhyve presentation coming up on July 12th.
rEFInd design for all the BSDs
Ian Grindley has created a BSD theme for rEFInd that covers all the BSDs - including DragonFly.
SEMIBUG: SSH and Michael W. Lucas
SEMIBUG's monthly meeting is tonight, and it's all about OpenSSH, with Michael W. Lucas presenting. He literally wrote the book on it.
Lazy Reading for 2022/06/19
This is a week of fun links.
Cyberdeck Cafe. All custom terminals.
My PSU just won't do.
So long, home T1 line; hello, hacking the T1 router. A good T-carrier explanation.
Intro to the Web Revival #1: What is the Web Revival? (via)
A Web Around the World, Part 11: A Zero-Sum Game.
Interactive Art Museum. Pleasing webgubbins. (via)
A Trail Tale. A very nice presentation o
In Other BSDs for 2022/06/18
More links this week to make up for last week's short haul.
Implementing non-stop protocol compatibility in LLDB.
OpenBSD folklore and share/misc/airport.
FreeBSD first status report 2022, talking about portconfig.
OpenBSD 7.1 on PINE64 RockPro64. (via)
FreeBSD Foundation work in the 13.1 release.
Please read this before upgrading to 22.06.07. (GhostBSD)
HardenedBSD May 2022
Closing credit
DragonFly developer Tuxillo has done something notable by its absence: cleaned up a lot of old bug reports. That's usually an unseen and unthanked task, so here's credit for it.
BSD Now 459: NetBSD Kernel benchmark
This week's BSD Now is depressingly honest in the title; no puns. Along with the normal links, there's a Beastie Bit this week for Networks From Scratch.
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