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
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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
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