From venture37 at geeklan.co.uk Wed May 2 21:30:17 2018 From: venture37 at geeklan.co.uk (Sevan Janiyan) Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 21:30:17 +0100 Subject: [Ukfreebsd] Talos II In-Reply-To: <3f0c6f04-480a-3cd4-4bae-6e1c8ecacb84@geeklan.co.uk> References: <3f0c6f04-480a-3cd4-4bae-6e1c8ecacb84@geeklan.co.uk> Message-ID: <3ca20c95-697d-ed77-8ae0-415584cfbb28@geeklan.co.uk> On 28/04/2018 16:17, Sevan Janiyan wrote: > Hello, > The topic of the POWER based Talos systems has come up in the past here > and in the pub, following on from that, It looks the workstations have > started shipping: > http://tenfourfox.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/unboxing-talos-ii-its-here.html > > Looks pretty cool specification wise, and there's an option to pre-order > a 22 core based CPU. > I for one, welcome the return of workstations which I cannot afford! > Now if only they could work on the industrial design of the casing that > would be fantastic. I have no objection to using supermicro hardware, > but the look leaves a lot to be desired, need more SGI looks, and less > Amstrad! Semi review http://tenfourfox.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/a-semi-review-of-raptor-talos-ii.html Sevan From venture37 at geeklan.co.uk Fri May 11 15:20:34 2018 From: venture37 at geeklan.co.uk (Sevan Janiyan) Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 15:20:34 +0100 Subject: [Ukfreebsd] May's London *BSD meetup - 22/05/18 Message-ID: Hello, Tuesday the 22nd, 18:30 onwards and The Hand & Shears? The Hand & Shears 1 Middle Street Cloth Fair London EC1A 7JA Tel: 020 7600 0257 http://www.thehandandshears.co.uk Sevan From venture37 at geeklan.co.uk Tue May 15 21:01:14 2018 From: venture37 at geeklan.co.uk (Sevan Janiyan) Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 21:01:14 +0100 Subject: [Ukfreebsd] BCS/OSHUG meeting on open source funding: 17 May 2018 Message-ID: Rather shorter notice than usual, but we have the final speaker confirmed for this week's meeting of the BCS OSSG to which all OSHUG members are invited. We have three speakers looking at how to fund open source projects and businesses. This is a joint meeting with BCS Entrepreneurs, BCS Young Professionals Group, BCS Women and OSHUG. Full details here: https://ossg.bcs.org/blog/2018/05/15/funding-open-source-thursday-17-may-2018/ Each talk will last 30 minutes and include plenty of time for questions. I look forward to seeing you there. Talk 1: Thinking differently: new approaches to funding the development of open source conservation technologies Alasdair Davies An active conservationist and technologist all his working life, Alasdair Davies is combining his two passions with a third ? openness ? to bring affordable, customizable technology to the field through the Arribada Initiative. As a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, he is designing, developing and producing open source conservation technologies in partnership with leading wildlife charities such as WWF and the Zoological Society of London, employing open approaches and licences to drive down costs by introducing new community-based funding models. Talk 2: Funding open ? tactics and stories from civic tech Irina Bolychevsky Irina is passionate about products and using technology to make things better. She spent many years working on open data at Open Knowledge as one of the directors and ckan product owner, at web startups, and most recently as a data consultant for W3C, the Open Data Institute and the UK, Dubai and UAE governments. She co-founded redecentralize.org?a project to promote and bring together people working on and interested in decentralised digital technologies. Talk 3: Other ways of funding open source Ben Nickolls Ben Nickolls is a software developer turned product manager building a sustainable source of funding for open source maintainers at Tidelift. He is an advisor to The Centre for Cultivation of Technology, The Ford Foundation, The Sloan Foundation and helps organise the annual open source sustainability conference Sustain.org and the Core Internet Infrastructure working group. In his spare times he rides bikes, designs boardgames and walks his dog. From alnsn at yandex.ru Mon May 21 23:05:50 2018 From: alnsn at yandex.ru (Alexander Nasonov) Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 23:05:50 +0100 Subject: [Ukfreebsd] May's London *BSD meetup - 22/05/18 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20180521220550.GA10821@neva> Sevan Janiyan wrote: > Hello, > Tuesday the 22nd, 18:30 onwards and The Hand & Shears? Reminder, this is tomorrow. > The Hand & Shears > 1 Middle Street > Cloth Fair > London > EC1A 7JA > Tel: 020 7600 0257 > http://www.thehandandshears.co.uk > > > Sevan -- Alex From venture37 at geeklan.co.uk Wed May 23 13:25:41 2018 From: venture37 at geeklan.co.uk (Sevan Janiyan) Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 13:25:41 +0100 Subject: [Ukfreebsd] Notes from last night meeting Message-ID: <8bdcf580-27d7-c35f-d72f-caca307872c6@geeklan.co.uk> luaposix vs luaunix ljsyscall Inferno Network Operating System - Tomorrow's Full Service OS-available today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cKlQ10jj70 Google employees resigning over Google's involvement with military projects Google removes "don't be evil" from CoC dtop unable to enable dtrace on macos because of corporate policy Softpanics Times are changing (Dmesg -t in NetBSD) Colour mode on OpenRC What happened to Cyrix processors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWGAdoMz1c0 8080 reversing Theoretical Haskell 9p in nix Looking for early releases of Plan 9 Tracking things when the lines of memory & storage are blurred noexec shortcomings exec() -> XIP (execute in place) -> mount noexec -> persistent memory AS/400 Machine-Level Programming https://cmpct.info/~calvin/Voxlator/AS400%20Machine-Level%20Programming.pdf "The truth will make you fret" - Terry Pratchett Hacker rank Haskell Microsoft heads up on CVE-2018-8897 https://www.triplefault.io/2018/05/spurious-db-exceptions-with-pop-ss.html Wrestling a Yubikey as ugen or uhid device if you want to use it with pcscd on NetBSD ktap https://github.com/ktap/ktap history of kauth(9) in NetBSD and sandboxing in Darwin https://man-k.org/man/NetBSD-current/9/kauth?r=1&q=kauth NetBSD folks working on other projects signature, verification, encryption and decryption of memory in libnetpgp(3) bitrig on scaleway arm servers terrible support, solely interested in turning away customers Linux BUG_ON() Patching macos feels very much like windows now, has the windowsupdate team switched sides? Nokia Bell Labs Sense of dread from unexpected firmware reflash with macos update Handling spam on the FreeBSD cluster FreeBSD devsummit at BSDCan https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/201806 ex-Plan 9 & Bell Labs folks now on OpenBSD plan9 category in OpenBSD ports & pkgsrc More ideas on Lua bindings for kernel subsystems Keeping it mediocre https://xkcd.com/1988/ From tj at enoti.me Wed May 23 13:43:03 2018 From: tj at enoti.me (Tom Jones) Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 13:43:03 +0100 Subject: [Ukfreebsd] Notes from last night meeting In-Reply-To: <8bdcf580-27d7-c35f-d72f-caca307872c6@geeklan.co.uk> References: <8bdcf580-27d7-c35f-d72f-caca307872c6@geeklan.co.uk> Message-ID: <20180523124303.GA34522@tom-desk.erg.abdn.ac.uk> > Wrestling a Yubikey as ugen or uhid device if you want to use it with > pcscd on NetBSD I am using a yubikey with pcscd on FreeBSD I wonder what others experience is like using a yubikey on *BSD. Compared to using the same key on Mac OS it is pretty lackluster. I have to restart both the pcscd daemon and gpg-agent when reinserting the key. I gave up on touch to authenticate as it completely stopped me using the key. Are others having a better experience? - [tj] From venture37 at geeklan.co.uk Wed May 23 15:03:55 2018 From: venture37 at geeklan.co.uk (Sevan Janiyan) Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 15:03:55 +0100 Subject: [Ukfreebsd] Notes from last night meeting In-Reply-To: <20180523124303.GA34522@tom-desk.erg.abdn.ac.uk> References: <8bdcf580-27d7-c35f-d72f-caca307872c6@geeklan.co.uk> <20180523124303.GA34522@tom-desk.erg.abdn.ac.uk> Message-ID: <06bfe5fd-e8a2-987f-8752-ae68c74be9a8@geeklan.co.uk> On 23/05/2018 13:43, Tom Jones wrote: >> Wrestling a Yubikey as ugen or uhid device if you want to use it with >> pcscd on NetBSD > I am using a yubikey with pcscd on FreeBSD I wonder what others > experience is like using a yubikey on *BSD. > > Compared to using the same key on Mac OS it is pretty lackluster. I have > to restart both the pcscd daemon and gpg-agent when reinserting the > key. I gave up on touch to authenticate as it completely stopped me > using the key. > > Are others having a better experience? My interest was for CVS/SVN/SSH use to free me to work from any system with a USB port without having to spread my keys around. Things work fine on FreeBSD with pcscd and on macOS High Sierra with OpenSC but fall short on NetBSD as uhid(4) binds to the device (haven't gotten on to try OpenBSD yet). The yubikey 4 is OTP+CCID mode and the RSA keys were generated on the card using ssh-keygen (not doing the exported gpg keys dance). On macOS I have to restart the ssh-agent with the path to the OpenSC library whitelisted which hopefully can be done automatically but I fear handwriting XML may be involved (haven't actually looked into it). Sevan