[Ukfreebsd] Notes from last night's meeting

[Sevan Janiyan]

Perl regular expression is nothing regular
Luajit 1 is long dead
Macbrew and convenience
Giving up on life & resorting to docker
"Docker didn't work"
Pcre & Exim history
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=152042508507600&w=2
grsecurity PAX drama
Difference in culture among BSD projects & the interesting effect on
approaches to problem solving (in a positive sense)
AMD flaws in Ryzen CPUs https://amdflaws.com/
Linking to libgcc as a preventative measure against future compiler
changes which can generate code with calls in libgcc
proposed ifdef dance to resolve build issues in a llvm only env around
the lack of libgcc.
DPDK & NPF
NPF performance https://twitter.com/creepingfur/status/543654271598608384
Emigration and visa drama
https://www.freelists.org/post/racktables-users/looking-for-a-new-job
Bryan Cantrill @ Jane Street - The Hurricane's Butterfly: Debugging
Pathologically Performing Systems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AO4wz6gI3Q
London.pm's pissup in a brewery
Legacy restrictions, root filesystem to be in the first 8GB of a disk.
Lua bootloader in FreeBSD
Lua 5.4 beta is out
Patterns in Network Architecture: A Return to Fundamentals - John Day
http://www.informit.com/store/patterns-in-network-architecture-a-return-to-fundamentals-9780137063383
Routing & road layout and the impact on perception in digital networks
the disasters and poor decisions from the past living on to become the
status quo & expected behaviour
location independence
docking ocaml
php virtualbox frontend as a proxmox replacement
packaging luarocks distribution
FreeBSD pkg and its evolution over the years
PkgsrcCon 2018 - Berlin (6 to 8th of July)
mechanisms and build issues, past: emacs, lisp, now: racket
https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.html#ASLR-Interim-State
Switching off mprotect to build certain packages
Impressing investors by maintaining mediocrity and generating technical debt
CoCs and trolls
https://daringfireball.net/2018/02/non_native_apps_threat_to_mac