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In a little more than a week, people like me will be heading to #Ottawa for #bsdcan.
You can still register for the conference at https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html, and browse https://www.bsdcan.org/ for info.
www.bsdcan.orgBSDCan ConferenceBSDCan is a technical BSD conference held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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The symptoms of what I take to have been a #phishing campaign aimed at users in #japan are no longer that visible in the backscatter.
But they will be visible as new #imaginaryfriends in the published #spamtraps list we user for our our #openbsd #spamd #graytrapping, see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml and https://nxdomain.no/~peter/spammers_believe_in_300k_imaginary_friends.html (with the total now inching in the direction of the 5 million mark)
nxdomain.nobsdly.net - A traplist collected by Peter Hansteen
nanotodon on #OpenBSD/luna88k is showing an image using the sixel format.
The more #sh scripting I do, the more I love it and wondering why I didn't learn it earlier. So for #wakegp now I have done this to have 256 runs for different values of deletion_mutation_rate and deletions_per_mutation:
➜ runs5 git:(main) for i in {0..255}; do
for> for size in nanod minid microd halfd thirdd majord; do
for for> for r in 1 2 4 8 16; do
for for for> w_run p4_"$size"_"$r" $i;
for for for> done
for for> done
for> done
w_run itself is a function I defined in my .zshrc
But of course, the syntax is hard. And it's not as easy to learn as something like Python. I wonder if #unixlike operating systems such as #Linux and #BSD would consider quitting the current sh in favor of something new designed from scratch.
Last time I remember, in the list of projects #NLnet had founded, there was a niche new shell invented for unix like systems. I'm gonna check it out. Also #OpenBSD people have something for themselves.
That Grumpy BSD Guy: A Short Reading List https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_short_reading_list.html A collection of pointers to things I have written and that I think may be of value to you too (with conference teasers) #openbsd #packetfilter #pf #cybercrime #antispam #security #networking #freesoftware #libresoftware #eurobsdcon #bsdcan
nxdomain.noThat Grumpy BSD Guy: A Short Reading List
Some random photos from OSDay 2025. I gave a talk about the BSD family and why to use them in 2025.
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Some random photos from OSDay 2025. I gave a talk about the BSD family and why to use them in 2025.
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When I was adapting all my stuff to work in #OpenBSD, I stayed up until 6 am a couple nights just happily hacking away. ;)
If you figure out how to get GTK programs like GIMP or Xournal++ starting up quickly, and anything that relies on libsecret working at all, let me know.
That was what finally soured me on sway, even though I loved using it as may daily driver for years.
Still have it on one of my boxes, and i3wm on my BSD box, but KDE Plasma is multiplying elsewhere.
TdR taking a crack at making ../ a little less useful:
undeadly.orgMaking openat(2) and friends more useful in practice
Good evening, #BSDCafe!
Good evening, #Fediverse!
Today I was finally able to spend the whole day working on FreeBSD and OpenBSD servers, after a few days full of other activities.
I must confess - it’s been incredibly relaxing and refreshing.
I upgraded an OpenBSD server with a colleague (inside a bhyve VM - we were both connected to the same tmux session).
He was amazed by how simple the process was, and actually said “WOW” when the server sent the entire upgrade output via email.
Tomorrow, he’s planning to install a new OpenBSD server and “play around” with it.
Mission accomplished. 
I have OpenBSD running on MassiveGRID VPS. Currently hosting my “OpenBASED” mini site there for testing purposes.
I have a bare-bones “status” page that I’ll be running for a few days: https://openbased.btxx.org/status.html
Plan to do a write-up after (setup, specs, cost, thoughts)
openbased.btxx.orgStatus for openbased.btxx.org
Hey @mischa, I just got your mail about the 7.7 upgrade of your host machines. Thanks for that!
The mirror URL (https://mirror.openbsd.amsterdam/pub/OpenBSD) you put in the mail is giving me a 404 error.
sysupgrade announcement
We will be upgrading all the hosts this Sunday 2025-06-01 between 07:00 - 09:00 UTC
From OpenBSD 7.6 to OpenBSD 7.7
https://www.openbsd.org/77.html
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Everybody reinventing the novel operating system ideas from the 1980s that got incorporated into GNU Hurd and Windows NT. (-:
This is close but isn't *quite* those, as it breaks all absolute pathname access as well. Which in the fchdir() example would break all uses of /dev/null and /dev/tty for starters, which I suspect users and apps programmers would find mightily inconvenient. And pseudoterminals. And /etc/localtime .
There's going to be
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#OpenBSD
Resources got restocked:
- Two new nodes in Netherlands
- One new node in Ukraine
- Extended resources on nodes in Germany
@gyptazy is now improving the self-service portal and then we can go straight to the 1k free boxes :) We're currently hosting ~ 600 free VPS instances.