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pitrh

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Occasional rants about IT with an OpenBSD slant at http://bsdly.blogspot.com

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pitrh, to devops
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Friends, is the fact that the Humble bundle that has my "The Book of PF" along with a number of other good titles, the "Dive into DevOps" bundle https://www.humblebundle.com/books/dive-into-dev-ops-no-starch-books has sold more than 8,000 bundles and made more than CAD27,000 for the charity a cause for celebration or should I hold off until we see rounder numbers?

Anyway the bundle runs until June 10th 2024, so get your clicks and cards ready!

pitrh, to FreeBSD
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EuroBSDCon 2024 tutorials have been published, https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2024/schedule/
you can register at https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/dublin/

And you can still submit talks! (go to https://events.eurobsdcon.org/)

Important upcoming dates:

2024-06-15: CfP closes (BSDCan closes on 2024-06-01)
2024-06-22: PC finalizes speaker selection
2024-06-31: Early Bird closes
2024-07-15: Schedule published
2024-09-19—22: EuroBSDCon 2024 in Dublin

#eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #dublin #conference #freesoftware

pitrh, to random
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I rather dislike the "digital native" term myself, but this article does make a number of valid points - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/24/banning-kids-from-social-media-isnt-the-way-its-the-over-60s-who-need-to-get-off-the-internet?CMP=share_btn_url

pitrh, to FreeBSD
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For those of you wondering what happened to the slides, the new home for the slides is at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/pf_fullday.pdf - as PDF for reasons only to be discussed over refreshments when we meet. New versions will be available at that location in sync with updated sessions.

pitrh, to random
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Important message for Apple Silicon OpenBSD/arm64 users https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240522045252

pitrh, to Ottawa
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BSDCan - North America's Largest BSD Conference - is in less than two weeks!

Go to https://www.bsdcan.org/2024/, check out the schedule https://www.bsdcan.org/2024/schedule/ and register at https://www.bsdcan.org/2024/registration.php

pitrh, to FreeBSD
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New No Starch Press Humble Bundle "Dive into DevOps" https://www.humblebundle.com/books/dive-into-dev-ops-no-starch-books has several #bsd books in it, including "The Book of PF", "Absolute OpenBSD" and "Absolute FreeBSD" #openbsd #freebsd #bookofpf #devops #security #networking - runs until June 10, 2024

nixCraft, to random
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The best coding language, without a doubt, is _______.

pitrh,
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@nixCraft "not yet invented"

pitrh, to security
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sshd(8) split into multiple binaries https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240517092416 -session

pitrh, to security
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LibreSSL version 3.9.2 released https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240512115958

girlonthenet, to random
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So many affiliate dashboards are a complete piece of shit, but none more so than CCBill: the worst web interface ever designed by humans.

pitrh,
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@girlonthenet Where are they based? IIRC CCheques haven't really been a thing in the wild here in .no since the early 1990s or thereabouts. I suppose they are still technically valid but nobody ever uses them here.

jpmens, to random
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    pitrh,
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    @jpmens but scammyspam anyway, right?

    pitrh, to email
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    OpenSMTPD table protocol changes, now with the backstory https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240503110540

    pitrh, to Ottawa
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    Now for something really scary: On May 30th, 2024 at in , @mwl will give a tutorial about "Run Your Own Email Server" (including the scary parts), https://indico.bsdcan.org/event/1/timetable/#20240530.detailed

    pitrh, to FreeBSD
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    This year's will be in . Important dates:

    2024-05-01: Registration opens
    2024-06-15: CfP closes (BSDCan closes on 2024-06-01)
    2024-06-22: PC finalizes speaker selection
    2024-07-15: Schedule published
    2024-09-19—22: EuroBSDCon 2024 in Dublin

    Go to https://2024.eurobsdcon.org/ and explore, submit and register! (two out of three will do)

    janbeta, to apple
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    Something "new" to explore on the workbench today: a 1995 630 in the "DOS Compatible" variant. It’s a bit of an oddball machine from Apple‘s otherwise quite bland (in my opinion) beige era. It has both a regular 68040 Mac and a full 486/DX2-66 PC inside. Should even be capable of running Windows 95 alongside MacOS 8! Thanks to a very generous donation from @markuspooch I’m going to get to play with it. Thank you!

    Closeup of the same Mac with the "DOS Compatible" logo showing. The floppy disk drive slot is also visible.

    pitrh,
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    @janbeta @markuspooch The first generation PowerMacs which would have been predecessors to this also had an option for an expansion card that was a full blown PC on a card running Windows (3.something if memory serves).

    The one we had was for a while the fastest Windows machine in the house.

    pitrh, to random
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    pfctl(8) and systat(8) to display fragment reassembly statistics https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240423052538

    pitrh, to security
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    Fun Facts About the April 2024 Cisco Attack Data https://nxdomain.no/~peter/fun_facts_about_the_april_2024_cisco_attach_data.html (or with trackers https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2024/04/fun-facts-about-april-2024-cisco-attack.html) #security #cybercrime #passwords #ssh #openbsd #spamd - light analysis of attack data by yours truly (again for the morning CE(S)T crowd)

    sinza, to usenet

    What platforms were used in the 80s up to about 1993 or 1994 for Internet servers? It can be #FTP, #Gopher, #telnet, #USENET, the #OldWeb, or anything else that was on the Internet in that era.

    My research indicates Solaris was very popular for web servers until Linux took over, and so I suspect it (and SunOS before it) was very popular for the Internet in general, but I'd like to hear from anyone with this sort of experience.

    #retrocomputing

    pitrh,
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    @sinza During the 80s, likely VAXes running some BSD variety, also some Sun kit. Moving into the 90s, some sort of TCP/IP was available for more systems, but still BSDs or derivatives mostly. Linux only really started catching on later. And notably ft.cdrom.com, the download site back then, was one (rather beefy for its time) FreeBSD box.

    pitrh, to news
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    20 years since "and we're just starting": undeadly.org turns 20 (2024-04-09) https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240409044953 #openbsd #openbsdjournal #undeadly #20years #anniversary #news

    pitrh, to opensource
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    This is one of the best explanations of the xz matter I have seen so far:
    https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/technologist-vs-spy-the-xz-backdoor

    and it leads in with a quote to remember -

    "This dependency existed not because of a deliberate design decisionby the developers of OpenSSH, but because of a kludge added by some Linux distributions to integrate the tool with the operating system’s newfangled orchestration service, systemd."

    Enjoy!

    GottaLaff, to random
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    🤦🏻‍♀️#RNC weighs limiting #NBC’s access at this summer’s convention

    It is the latest fallout from Ronna #McDaniel’s ouster from the network.
    Read in POLITICO: https://apple.news/A6fLcl_uRQ8ybC3mbOSj46Q

    https://apple.news/A6fLcl_uRQ8ybC3mbOSj46Q

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    @GottaLaff If they wan to restrict coverage of any event of theirs to strictly only their echo chamber media, I for one am FINE with that.

    It will all come out in the depositions later anyway.

    And I look forward to the day when the #tangerinemussolini is no longer an issue.

    pitrh, to FreeBSD
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    The 2024 tutorial is done, updated slides as PDF at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/pf_asiabsdcon2024.pdf

    pitrh, to usenet
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    Did you ever usenet? ... https://medium.com/tech-and-me/did-you-ever-usenet-437ccb6f9208 -- the article is from someone roughly my age, a reminder where we came from (and all social media, to my mind, have been half-assed attempts at re-inventing USENET) #usenet #history #news #nntp

    pitrh, to security
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    I am of course delighted to see people finding my piece https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_every_it_person_needs_to_know_about_openbsd.html, but I think the good people at did an excellent job editing the thing into three more easily digestible chunks starting with https://blog.apnic.net/2021/10/28/openbsd-part-1-how-it-all-started/

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