• Releasebot!
• Red Alert 2 in the browser, so playable on BSD?  Haven’t tried yet.
• The local-first rebellion.  If you run Home Assistant, how do you like it?  (via)
• CSS Named Colors poster.  (via)
• Secure Communications with the One Time Pad Cipher.  With paper and pencil.  (PDF, via)
• The Exploding Whale has a dedicated site now.  (also via)
• Actually Existing Solarpunk.  (via)
• Presentation Club.
• CHATGPT MAGIC-8 BALL.  (via)
• How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants.  (also via)

• Doctype Magazine.  (via)
• An Infinity of Ships.  Video review.  (via)
• Mapping the [TTRPG] Blogosphere.  Linked for the data processing.  (also via)
• Typing with your Thumbs.
• Tooth and Bone, a dinosaur blog.
• Twilight Imperium rulebook.  (via)
• Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system?
• Library of Time.  (via)
• Boing.  (also via)
• Los Campesinos on streaming:.  Use Bandcamp or Quobuz instead of Spotify.  Better service for less money.  (via)

• Another Type 30 Display Reproduction At 36% Scale.
• Corners of the Internet Database.  Set some time aside for this.  (via)
• Obsidian merchandise is surprisingly nice.  (via)
• Reflections from TPAC 2025.
• AI contributes code on GitHub.  Time, not code generation, is the scarcest resource for open source.  AI patching does not help.
• Framing and World of Warcraft’s Rest System.  (via)
• XSscreensaver 6.13 is out, a minor update.
• The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition.
• Inside the Great Firewall Part 3: Geopolitical and Societal Ramifications.  (via)
• The best tape dispenser I’ve ever seen.

Note that the recorded stream from the last event, The Once and Future COBOL, is available on YouTube and PeerTube.  I heard the speaker, James K. Lowden, talk about FreeTDS years ago and enjoyed it too.

• Claude is listening.  Linked to note there’s no standard in how long a company keeps your data.
• Strandbeest evolution 2025.  I am glad this has kept happening.
• Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again.  (lost the source, sorry)
• Containers and giving up on expecting good software installation practices.
• The Space Sim’s Last Hurrah.
• Running a PDP-8 from 1965.  (video, via)
• Colossus: The Missing Manual.  (via)
• ACM has gone open access.  This is a significant leap from a major publisher.
• Related: the most comprehensive technical journal bibliography I’ve ever seen.  (both via)
• Apple 2 Black Friday sales.  (via)

• The only existing copy of UNIX v4.  (via)
• readtape, for Magnetic tape data recovery in software.  Related.
• The Internet of Things That Don’t Work.  Surely I’ve linked to this before?
• The Baby and the Black Box, about ‘Steve’ Shirley, who died earlier this year.  (via)
• User Specific Runit Supervisor.  Not BSD-specific but interesting detail.  (via)
• Always check that your bug report wasn’t solved a hundred-plus years ago.
• What was the Dark Age of Comic Books?
• Moving From Windows To FreeBSD As The Linux Chaos Alternative.
• Reviving Classic Unix Games: A 20-Year Journey Through Software Archaeology.  (via)
• how to use the internet again: a curriculum.  (via)

Oddly, searching for a nut manpage led me to a utility I haven’t seen before – nut(1), for nutritional analysis.

• Dithering, part 1.  (via)
• A1 DEADLINE SPECIAL.  Resurrecting a high-water point in comics history with new stories.  (via)
• Ken Thompson interviewed in 2024.  Talking about inventing UNIX.
• Consider a year-end donation to NetBSD.  (via)
• Appendix N Jam.  The winners.  (via)
• Advanced Readings in D&D, a series.  Accidentally found while searching my own archives.
• OS6, an operating system I hadn’t heard of before.  (via)
• Mr. TIFF.  (via)
• Brenda.
• A Pentium in your hand.  These are almost becoming common.

• Abstract Board Games.  Check the source discussion for similar game links.
• Related: abstractgames.org.  Read the online magazine articles.
• Building a UI Framework.
• I Am Out Of Data Hell.
• Directory of Open Access Books.  Not old books out of copyright, but modern books not behind a paywall.  (via)
• Filtered for wobbly tables and other facts.  #4 is funnier out loud.
• Thinkycon 2025.  (via)
• Forbidden Psalm: tabletop miniature MÖRK BORG-compatible.  I would not have understood those words a few years ago.  (via)
• The Morl Society presentation signups.  “No topic too niche”.  Put together by this fellow. (via)

Your unrelated music of the week: the ‘lost album’ Stereotype from Squarepusher.

Update:  here’s the video:

• The Questing Beast Appendix N.  I like the idea of “personal” Appendix Ns.
• Phrack is still publishing.  (via)
• PagedOut, tech articles with a one-page max.  (also via)
• Winners of the 2025 IFComp.  (via)
• One of Pascal’s original calculating machines from 1642 is up for sale.  (via)
• AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System.  Seeing the inside of Brian Kernighan’s office is sorta neat.  (video, via)
• Drawing an ASCII TIE fighter for post?quantum cryptography.
• Robot Phone Home…Or Else.
• Cursed Knowledge.  (via)

Related: turning on vim mode in Obsidian gets you this entertaining dialog:

Shouldn’t it be “vi mode”?  Oh hey, look, an esoteric definition argument, just what you came to the Internet for.

• Networking for System Administrators (2nd Edition) is definitely happening.
• Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web.  (via)
• Replacing Music Streaming Services with a Self-hosted Stack.  (via)
• ELIZA turns 60.  Check the bibliographic links at the end.  (via)
• BSD-USER 4 LINUX or the BSDULATOR.  (via)
• Selling Lemons.
• Abagious Tactics, a sort of sequel to Oblique Strategies.  (via)
• PIRACYKILLS, a clever method to turn pirates into customers.  (via)
• A dumb use of AI.
• A clever use of AI.
• MUNG origin.
• Other tech trees.
• Special admin tools.  (via)
• Simple X11 configuration.  Saved for my own benefit.  (also via)

Current event: Roguelike Celebration 2025 is happening right now if you read this soon enough.  If you missed it, there’s a related Steam sale filled with roguelike games.

• Overview of alic and Differences from C.  (via)
• Introducing TCP-in-UDP solution.  That seems weird.  (via)
• How 100MB Ethernet came to exist.
• Project MadHat, building a CPU from the ground up.  (via)
• Paper Apps Labyrinth.  Single player notebook game.  (via)
• Same place, Pencil Dice.
• A Retrospective Survey of 2024/2025 Open Source Supply Chain Compromises.  (via)
• Random Demonic Incursion Generator Test Case.
• A coffee chat in links.
• OpenSSH and Post-Quantum Cryptography.  Now a default warning.

• Cal Newport on the case for quitting social media – second video.
• Tea Brewing Guides.
• Our Ancestors Murdered Their Mother Tongue, Thankfully.  If you don’t know what Proto-Indo-European is, this will help.
• “you’re not talking to a helpful sci-fi robot – you’re roleplaying a story about a human talking to a helpful sci-fi robot“
• lenticular potato chip.
• YouTube… Over Dial Up.  Multilink PPP, which I have never seen in the wild.
• The 100 MHz 6502.  (via)
• UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A.  (via multiple)
• Roguelike Celebration 2025 event list.  Happening in less than a month.
• [COFF] TECO variants.  I had heard TECO was arcane but I had no idea.

• Aspire Zine.  An e-book that is a poster or vice versa.
• Did Cheetos try to incite a rebellion in 2008?  A chunk of Internet history that passed me by.  (via)
• Why I prefer human-readable file formats.  You should not be surprised by any of these reasons.  (via)
• EU CRA: It’s Later Than You Think, Time to Engineer Up!  An indirect explainer of what the CRA requires.
• Shamogu: a roguelike developed on OpenBSD!
• Your very own humane interface: Try Jef Raskin’s ideas at home.  What might have been.  (via)
• Qavg po fnoppy.
• The broad state of ZFS on Illumos, Linux, and FreeBSD (as I understand it)  Describing the branches and status.
• Spending time with the material.
• Some interesting stuff I found on IX LANs.  So much chatter.

Your unrelated video link of the week: Lessons in Questioning.