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interesThings Newsletter - March 2026

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

KDE Plasma 6.6 is Not Forcing systemd(1) but Arguments Rage On
https://theregister.com/2026/02/24/kde_plasma_66/

How QEMU Accelerator Works
https://dumrich.github.io/GSoC25-Blog/posts/qemu-accel/

Bhyve Part 1.
https://dumrich.github.io/GSoC25-Blog/posts/bhyve-part-1/

Bhyve Part 2.
https://dumrich.github.io/GSoC25-Blog/posts/bhyve-part-2/

Bhyve Part 3.
https://dumrich.github.io/GSoC25-Blog/posts/bhyve-part-3/

Git Fundamentals
https://dumrich.github.io/GSoC25-Blog/posts/git-fundamentals/

Upgrading My Open Source Pi Surveillance Server with Frigate
https://jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/upgrading-my-open-source-pi-surveillance-server-frigate/

What is a DNS Twin and Why Your Primary Name Matters
https://blog.doma.xyz/what-is-a-dns-twin-and-why-your-primary-name-matters/

RootViz: New Root DNS Reachability Dashboard
https://labs.ripe.net/author/giovane_moura/rootviz-new-root-dns-reachability-dashboard/

Mapping The Sound Field Of An Acoustic Levitator
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/12/mapping-the-sound-field-of-an-acoustic-levitator/

OS/2 Never Went Away. Its Successor Has Received An Update
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/13/os-2-never-went-away-its-successor-has-received-an-update/

Enjoying Music Applications with Amiga 500 v1.3 System in 2026
https://www.epsilonsworld.com/2026/03/enjoying-music-applications-with-amiga.html

FreeBSDKit: Swift Package to Write Capability Aware FreeBSD Apps
https://christiantietze.de/posts/2026/03/freebsdkit-swift-package-write-capability-aware-freebsd-apps/

TinyGate is Lightweight Cross Platform HTTP/HTTPS Reverse Proxy
https://github.com/sibexico/TinyGate/tree/dev

Arkime 6 Open Source Network Analysis/Packet Capture Tool with FreeBSD Support
https://arkime.com/release-v6

Ternary RISC Processor Achieves Non-Binary Computing Via FPGA
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/16/ternary-risc-processor-achieves-non-binary-computing-via-fpga/

Inside the MacBook Neo
https://512pixels.net/2026/03/inside-the-macbook-neo/

It’s the vibe of systemd
https://rubenerd.com/its-the-vibe-of-systemd/

GNOME 50 Desktop Environment Released, This Is What’s New
https://linuxiac.com/gnome-50-desktop-environment-released/

The story of OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 series processors
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260325122415

Elive is alive! Elive Retrowave 3.8.50 LTS Linux distro released nearly seven years after last stable version
https://nerds.xyz/2026/03/elive-retrowave-3-8-50/

Fugazi, Steve Albini e il capolavoro nato da uno sbaglio
https://www.lindipendente.online/2026/03/15/fugazi-steve-albini-e-il-capolavoro-nato-da-uno-sbaglio/

interesThings Newsletter - September 2025

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

GhostBSD 25.02-R14.3p2 Now Available
https://ghostbsd.org/news/GhostBSD_25.02-R14.3p2_Is_Now_Available

Yet Another Init System – Meet Nitro – Fresh Take on Process Supervision for Linux/FreeBSD
https://linuxiac.com/nitro-is-a-new-init-system-process-supervisor/

GhostBSD Ships Gershwin Desktop Environment for macOS Like Experience
https://phoronix.com/news/GhostBSD-Gershwin-Desktop

Plans to Remove initrd Support from Linux Kernel
https://phoronix.com/news/Initrd-Linux-Try-Removing-2025

Discovering the Discovery of Designated Resolvers
https://labs.ripe.net/author/yevheniya-nosyk/discovering-the-discovery-of-designated-resolvers/

Engagement in IXPs - Strategies and Growth in the Network Ecosystem
https://labs.ripe.net/author/flavio_luciani_1/engagement-in-ixps-strategies-and-growth-in-the-network-ecosystem/

ZeroFS S3 Backed NFS Service on FreeBSD – Part 1
https://honeyguide.eu/blog/2025-08-29/

XLibre Third Party Packages for FreeBSD are Available and Maintained
https://bsky.app/profile/xlibredev.bsky.social/post/3lxumybi2mc2p

Building Simple Router with OpenBSD
https://puffy.software/openbsd-router.html

Piracy Shield Study Reveals Massive Overblocking & Collateral Damage
https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-shield-study-reveals-massive-overblocking-collateral-damage-250909/

ZeroFS: S3-backed ZPOOL via NBD Service on FreeBSD (Proof of Concept, Part 2)
https://honeyguide.eu/blog/2025-09-09/

The unconscious process that leads to creativity: how ‘incubation’ works
https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2025/sep/10/creativity-unconscious-process-incubation

Using sandboxctl for program sandboxing in NetBSD
https://eugene-andrienko.com/it/2025/09/15/sandboxctl-netbsd-little-howto.html

KDE Plasma 6 Wayland on FreeBSD Works
https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/kde-plasma-6-wayland-on-freebsd-works/

CI for libvirt/bhyve on FreeBSD
https://empt1e.blogspot.com/2025/09/ci-for-libvirtbhyve-on-freebsd.html

Geedge and MESA Leak – Analyzing China Great Firewall Largest Document Leak
https://gfw.report/blog/geedge_and_mesa_leak/en/

Is the ability to think going to become a rare and valuable skill?
http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/09/is-the-ability-to-think-going-to-become-a-rare-and-valuable-skill/

BitTorrent’s DHT and the Leading ISP Networks Helping to Keep it Alive
https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrents-dht-and-how-customers-of-major-isps-help-keep-it-vibrant-alive-250927/

Autocast: Automatic Anycast Site Optimisation
https://labs.ripe.net/author/thijsvandenhout/autocast-automatic-anycast-site-optimisation/

Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD
https://github.com/BalajeS/WSL-For-FreeBSD/

BSD Router Project 2.0 Available
https://sourceforge.net/p/bsdrp/mailman/message/59239643/

Israele ha annunciato l’intenzione di “stabilire la propria sovranità” sulla Cisgiordania
https://www.lindipendente.online/2025/09/01/israele-ha-annunciato-lintenzione-di-stabilire-la-propria-sovranita-sulla-cisgiordania/

“La generazione ansiosa” di Jonathan Haidt: analisi di un’emergenza https://www.unobravo.com/post/recensione-la-generazione-ansiosa-jonathan-haidt

Attacco con drone alla Global Sumud Flotilla: cosa è davvero accaduto in Tunisia?
https://omegaclickinsights.com/newsroom/comunicazioni-ufficiali/attacco-con-drone-alla-global-sumud-flotilla-cosa-e-davvero-accaduto-in-tunisia

Sotto l’Atlantico è stata scoperta una nuova riserva d’acqua dolce
https://www.lindipendente.online/2025/09/11/sotto-latlantico-e-stata-scoperta-una-nuova-riserva-dacqua-dolce/

Bruxelles obbliga Microsoft a separare Teams da Office per garantire la concorrenza
https://euractiv.it/section/digitale/news/bruxelles-obbliga-microsoft-a-separare-teams-da-office-per-garantire-la-concorrenza/

AV2: il nuovo codec video open-source di AOMedia promette di rivoluzionare lo streaming
https://www.afdigitale.it/av2-il-nuovo-codec-video-open-source-di-aomedia-promette-di-rivoluzionare-lo-streaming/

Un antico teschio ritrovato in Cina sfida le teorie sull’evoluzione della specie umana
https://www.lindipendente.online/2025/09/30/un-antico-teschio-ritrovato-in-cina-sfida-le-teorie-sullevoluzione-della-specie-umana/

Il ritrovamento di antiche statuette racconta il ruolo della Sardegna nel Mediterraneo antico
https://www.lindipendente.online/2025/09/17/il-ritrovamento-di-antiche-statuette-narra-il-ruolo-della-sardegna-nel-mediterraneo-antico/

interesThings Newsletter - January 2025

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Hardware

Clink-X xCraft is a mini PC with a modular, customizable design
https://liliputing.com/clink-x-xcraft-is-a-mini-pc-with-a-modular-customizable-design/

Misc

The Most Elegant Configuration Language.
https://chshersh.com/blog/2025-01-06-the-most-elegant-configuration-language.html

Networking

I feel that NAT is inevitable even with IPv6.
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/%7Ecks/space/blog/tech/IPv6AndStillHavingNAT.
Samba and macOS Time Machine.
https://www.jpatrickfulton.dev/blog/2023-06-23-samba-and-timemachine/.
Cruising a VPS at OpenBSD Amsterdam.
https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/cruising-a-vps-at-openbsd-amsterdam/

Life

Danimarca, il segreto della felicità è il fattore “Hygge”.
http://crepanelmuro.blogspot.com/2018/01/danimarca-il-segreto-della-felicita-e.html.
What if one of your online friends dies unexpectedly?
https://unixdigest.com/articles/what-if-one-of-your-online-friends-dies-unexpectedly.html.
Georgia: un’antica tavoletta rivela un linguaggio sconosciuto.
http://crepanelmuro.blogspot.com/2025/01/georgia-unantica-tavoletta-rivela-un.html

interesThings Newsletter - October 2023

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:45:02 +0200

News

Spid per attivare e gestire le sim, via libera da Agcom
https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/telco/spid-per-attivare-e-gestire-le-sim-via-libera-da-agcom/

“Open-Source Windows” ReactOS To See Improved GUI Setup/Installation
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-GUI-Setup-Project

ISPConfig Autoinstaller Script Updated
https://www.ispconfig.org/blog/ispconfig-autoinstaller-script-updated/

elementary OS 7.1 Available Now
https://blog.elementary.io/os-7-1-available-now/

Windows Subsystem for Linux September 2023 update
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-subsystem-for-linux-september-2023-update/

Approvato in Senato, l’elettrosmog passa a 15 V/m
https://oasisana.com/2023/10/27/approvato-in-senato-lelettrosmog-passa-a-15-v-m-camuffati-anche-30-40-v-m-dal-2024-in-tutta-italia-piu-pericolo-cancro-nellaria/

Security

Hacking Gas Pumps via Bluetooth
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/10/hacking-gas-pumps-via-bluetooth.html

Open source in cybersecurity: a deep dive
https://ventureinsecurity.net/p/open-source-in-cybersecurity-a-deep

Unix

FreeBSD Jail booting & running Devuan GNU+Linux with OpenRC
https://weblog.antranigv.am/posts/2023/08/freebsd-jail-devuan-linux-openrc/

Introduction to the OpenBSD operating system
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-10-01-octopenbsd-2023-openbsd-intro.html

How To Use SSHFS on macOS
https://www.petergirnus.com/blog/how-to-use-sshfs-on-macos

How To Use SSHFS On Microsoft Windows
https://www.petergirnus.com/blog/how-to-sshfs-on-windows

Using OpenBSD relayd(8) as an Application Layer Gateway
https://www.tumfatig.net/2023/using-openbsd-relayd8-as-an-application-layer-gateway/

Software

ClonOS - FreeBSD based distro for virtual hosting platform and appliance
https://clonos.convectix.com

Protomaps | A free and open source map of the world
https://protomaps.com

Hardware

ZimaCube - Breaking Through Our Previous Ideas: Three Years of Progress
https://icewhale.community/t/zimacube-breaking-through-our-previous-ideas-three-years-of-progress-1/264

Cyanodore 6 Is A Rad Commodore 64 Synthesizer | Hackaday
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/29/cyanodore-6-is-a-rad-commodore-64-synthesizer/

Varie

Transilvania o Translucania? La tomba di Dracula in Basilicata
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF_ihDkPqdE

Resistere all’inevitabile: il nostro controllo sulla tecnologia | Diletta Huyskes | TEDxFerrara
https://youtu.be/mH2OYUuww2k?feature=shared

Tips on how to structure your home directory
https://unixsheikh.com/tutorials/tips-on-how-to-structure-your-home-directory.html

La Dea degli Ebrei
https://axismundi.blog/2023/10/10/la-dea-degli-ebrei/