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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 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/

Edent, to test
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Another post.

If you can see any of the posts by:
@你好
please hit like on that post (not this post - the one by 你好).

I'm trying to see how many different servers can cope with usernames.

pitrh,
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@Edent Searching with "Posts matching" I get your posts with that string in them.

Searching with "Profiles matching" turns up an empty result.

pitrh, to FreeBSD
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I just submitted for #bsdcan.

If you too have #BSD (#OpenBSD, #FreeBSD, #NetBSD or related) material you want to present and would like to go to #Ottawa end May to start of June to do that and hang out with other BSD people, go to https://www.bsdcan.org/2024/papers.php and follow the submission instructions until Monday February 12th.

See you in Ottawa!

chucker, to macos
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Sure. Among these, the app that takes up RAM should be… Twitter.

(Sometimes I do wonder if there are still lingering weird ARM-specific issues in #macOS, since I hadn’t had these dialogs on Intel in a long time, despite having half the RAM. Something in Cocoa, maybe?)

pitrh,
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@chucker assuming this is not a fake, I would suggest the user try loading the site in a web browser. it might even appear incrementally less fugly in that case

pitrh, to random
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PROTIP: If you run a "cloud mapping experiment", make sure the contact address you give is deliverable -

2a05:d01c:b43:8a10:36c:5dc5:25e5:de22 - - [07/Feb/2024:18:06:02 +0100] "\x16\x03\x01\x00\xB1\x01\x00\x00\xAD\x03\x03\x9C\xB9\x0F\x1FW`\xF4\xAE\x01\xC5\xAC\x12\xDF9\xC2\xA0\x16\x9B\xBCl\xDE\xFFj4e>Z\x11\x17~g#\x00\x00P\xC0/\xC0+\xC0\x11\xC0\x07\xC0\x13\xC0\x09\xC0\x14\xC0" 400 150 "-" "-"
2a05:d01c:b43:8a10:36c:5dc5:25e5:de22 - -
1/2

pitrh,
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[07/Feb/2024:18:09:02 +0100] "GET /manage/account/login HTTP/1.1" 301 162 "-" "'Cloud mapping experiment. Contact research@pdrlabs.net'"

And certainly when you also throw binary junk at webservers and grope "login" URLs. 2/2

pitrh,
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@feld Color me unsurprised. Anyway, their MX does not receive mail from my domains or even gmail.com.

pitrh,
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@hdm so not responding to the redirect, I gather

pitrh, to FreeBSD
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The BSDCan 2024 call for papers deadline is one week from now, 2024-02-12.

Submit your proposal now and beat the rush! See https://www.bsdcan.org/2024/papers.php (direct link to the submissions system: https://indico.bsdcan.org/)

BSDCan 2024 will be held 31 May - 1 June (Fri-Sat), 2024 in Ottawa, at the University of Ottawa. It will be preceded by two days of tutorials on 29-30 May (Wed-Thu).

#bsdcan #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #conference

pitrh, to Ottawa
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Do you want to go to and meet up with other people this May/June (2024-05-29 - 2024-06-01)?

The @bsdcan Call for Papers https://www.bsdcan.org/2024/papers.php runs until February 12th.

Submit now (submissions interface is at https://indico.bsdcan.org/)

pitrh, to email
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[Again for the morning CETish crowd] Three Minimalist spamd Configurations for Your Spam Fighting Needs (With Bonus Points at the End) https://www.nxdomain.no/~peter/minimalist_spamd_configs.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2024/01/three-minimalist-spamd-configurations.html)

pitrh, to apple
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KMS for Apple silicon machines https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240125064408 #openbsd #kernel #modesetting #kms #apple #applesilicon

pitrh, to ChatGPT
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I just saw a post that referred to ChatGPT as "Mansplaining as a service", and it is so wonderfully correct - instant generation of superficially plausible yet totally fabricated nonsense presented with unflagging confidence regardless of topic without concern, regard or even awareness of the expertise of its audience :D #chatgpt #mansplaining

pitrh,
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@samueljohnson Happy to hear it's been useful to you. Unfortunately in my experience it has been more of a noise generator than anything else.

pitrh, to KDE
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KDE Plasma now linked to packages build on -current https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20231227120851 #openbsd #kde #plasma #desktop #kdeplasma

pitrh, to FreeBSD
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BSDCan 2024 will be held 31 May - 1 June (Fri-Sat), 2024 in Ottawa,
at the University of Ottawa. It will be preceded by two
days of tutorials on 29-30 May (Wed-Thu).

Also: do not miss out on the Goat BOF on Tuesday 28 May.

For the safety of speakers and attendees, this conference will again
follow the mask policy outlined at https://bsdcan.org.

We are now accepting proposals for talks, https://www.bsdcan.org/2024/papers.php

#bsdcan #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #conference

pitrh, to random
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@parvXtl I disagree.

The 3rd ed happened because of changes in OpenBSD (specifically the new queueing system), but the book covers the FreeBSD version of PF, with examples clearly marked where there are differences in syntax.

pitrh, to FreeBSD
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Friends, for those of you who have asked about physical copies of The Book of PF, 3rd ed - I took delivery of the first box of the new batch here yesterday, with another to turn up when posten.no get their xmas sorted out. So anyone ordering https://nostarch.com/pf3 should have the option of receiving a physical copy soonish. Or you could opt to attend some upcoming event and buy one from my pile for my beer money :) #bookofpf #openbsd #freebsd #networking #security #pf #packetfilter #nostarch

nixCraft, to random
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Linux users, when they need to run a command in the terminal:
⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️ Ah, here it is!

pitrh,
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@nixCraft bash and IIRC most other shells have Ctrl-R for command history search. I am always baffled by hearing people do not know this.

pitrh, to security
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OpenSSH 9.6 released! https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20231219122431 #openbsd #openssh #ssh #newrelease #security #crypto #cryptography #terrapin

pitrh, to FreeBSD
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Friends, I just got word that The Book of PF, 3rd edition is now again available in printed as well as e-book versions https://nostarch.com/pf3 #bookofpf #pf #openbsd #freebsd #packetfilter

danderson, to random
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Wow, TIL near where I grew up in France, high-speed rail (the TGV) caused tangible reduction in passenger air traffic. The budget airlines shut off the routes as soon as the TGV started running, unable to compete. The larger airlines kept trying for ten years, but eventually gave up as well. Turns out, 2-3 hours on a comfortable train that drops you in the middle of town is better than faffing around in airports, despite the trip time being just 1h.

Just a thought, North America.

pitrh,
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@danderson There are bits of Europe that could do with more high speed rail too.

My local example (Norway) is the Bergen - Oslo stretch. ~500km, by slow train ~7 hrs, while flying BGO-OSL with luck you go city center to city center in about 4 hrs. Something like TGV would beat that for sure if competitively priced. Current train prices are at least 2-3 times flight prices for that stretch.

(And I am sure friends in Trondheim will say TRD-OSL is roughly the same on all counts)

pitrh, to random
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For those about to hack, why not read up on the topic first - A new Hacking bundle from No Starch Press is out now, grab it while the offer runs! https://www.humblebundle.com/books/hacking-2023-no-starch-books

pitrh,
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WARNING: LinkedIn now has Crapomatics fever

When I tried posting that to LinkedIn, the system suggested I try "Rewrite with AI", and produced a monstrosity that I unfortunately discarded right away which ran to at least four times the original length. Subsequent tries were shorter, and after the sixth or seventh retry the thing crashed with an "Unable to draft" message and the system stopped suggesting the "Rewrite with AI" option.

#notai #crapomatics #crapomats

Shrigglepuss, to random
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Sending your emails by carrier pigeon is the only way to securely transport your messages because pigeons can't read

pitrh,
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@defred @Shrigglepuss You could say that again - this was done, for real: https://blug.linux.no/rfc1149/writeup/ (also see https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2011/04/rfc1149-ten-years-of-in-flight-internet.html or trackerless https://nxdomain.no/~peter/rfc1149_ten_years_of_in-flight_internet.html)

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