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Words or text file to audio with pico2wave and pico-tts

Generate a nice audio notification from a few words :

https://github.com/chimay/scripts/blob/master/shell/multimedia/pico-words-to-ogg.sh

It's the end of the day, your eyes are tired but you want to read that last post on @stefano 's blog. With pico-tts, you can listen to it instead!

First save the page, convert it to text (eg with w3m), then use this script to obtain the corresponding ogg file :

https://github.com/chimay/scripts/blob/master/shell/multimedia/pico-textfile-to-ogg.sh

Usage :
pico-textfile-to-ogg.sh --help
pico-words-to-ogg.sh --help

Requisites : you'll need pico2wave, pico-tts (aur packages avail for arch), sox and ffmpeg.

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This is my method to dual-boot NetBSD and Archilnux in my laptop.

Please, feel free to comment everything I'm doing wrong. I'm not exactly an expert on the topic.

I have no idea how to do full-disk-encryption with NetBSD in UEFI systems.

Closest thing I can do is plain-text rootfs and encrypted /home, /var, /usr and swap. So, it's secure enough if my laptop get lost or stolen.

I wrote a post about how I do that.

If anyone can guide me to a rootfs on CGD or LVM, I'd appreciate that.

NetBSD 10 RC 4

https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html

Almost 10 :)

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NetBSD 10.0 RC 3 is out

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_10_0_rc3_available

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NetBSD 10.0RC2 available

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_10_0_rc2_available

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Building a NetBSD ramdisk kernel

https://bentsukun.ch/posts/ramdisk-kernel/

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#NetBSD

Almost every NetBSD user knows about pkgsrc, the equivalent of FreeBSD port system. You can use it on NetBSD of course, but also on other Unix-like OS like *BSD or Linux.

Besides that, there is also pkgsrc/wip, where new maintainers can practise their skills. It may be worth taking a look there, whether you want to contribute or to find a package not present in the main pkgsrc tree.

You also have pkgin, equivalent to FreeBSD's pkg.

Finally, Joyent proposes prebuilt packages for a variety of platforms.

A vulnerability in the NetBSD FTP server allows unauthenticated users to execute MLST and MLSD commands without authentication. This can lead to information leakage - unauthorized party may be able to download the listing of the current ftpd(8) directory. This vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2023-45198.

Additionally, potential buffer overflow in count_users() and reading outside of allocated memory issues due to wrong struct type used in the pam_set_item() call have been identified.

NetBSD sysupgrade

#openBSD upgrade tool is praised, and with reason. From what Ijust read, #NetBSD #sysupgrade one is also a great tool :

https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-upgrading.html

let's try the crosspost

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