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605: Fediverse Weather Service
April 03, 2025 · 58 min
FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands, Core Infrastructure: Why You Need to Control Your NTP, Automatic Display switch for OpenBSD laptop, Using a 2013 Mac Pro as a FreeBSD Desktop, Some terminal frustrations, Copying all files of a directory, including hidden ones, with cp, You Should Use /tmp/ More, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/) Core Infrastructure: Why You Need to Control Your NTP (https://klarasystems.com/articles/core-infrastructure-why-you-need-to-control-your-ntp/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) News Roundup Automatic Display switch for OpenBSD laptop (https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/automatic-display-switch-for-openbsd-laptop/) Using a 2013 Mac Pro as a FreeBSD Desktop (https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/using-a-2013-mac-pro-as-a-freebsd-desktop.96805/) Some terminal frustrations (https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/02/05/some-terminal-frustrations/) Copying all files of a directory, including hidden ones, with cp (https://bhoot.dev/2025/cp-dot-copies-everything/) You Should Use /tmp/ More (https://atthis.link/blog/2025/58671.html) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Tyler - Toms request (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/605/feedback/Tyler%20-%20Toms%20request.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)