Current mood: filtering.

Reading Hansteen’s book for the first time. It teaches much more than rulesets: how to face Today’s Internet.

Also, re-reading parts of Zwicky’s book. Twenty six years later, still relevant.

#OpenBSD #pf

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Two firewall books

🚨 It's is happening!! 🚨

Some people might have seen the EuroBSDCon closing, either in person or the video, where it was announced there would be BSD-NL Late / Autumn edition.

It's all true!! And... we are looking for speakers. If you have something to share with a small group of like-minded people, please add your submission. First time speakers are very welcome!

https://events.bsdnl.nl/late2026/

All the other details:

📅 2026-11-07 @ 09:30-end
📍 Utrecht, NL
🌐 https://bsdnl.nl/
🎫 https://tickets.bsdnl.nl/bsdnl/late26/

The moment at EuroBSDCon ... https://exquisite.tube/w/xkUjYkVYdcKWwq8Jnr1aMz?start=52m41s

#RUNBSD #BSDNL #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #HardenedBSD

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"My brain is full" meme. It has a picture of Jackie Chan holding is hands up near his head, with a "my brain is full" expression on his face. It has the text: What is happening?

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟵/𝟮𝟴 (Valuable News - 2026/09/28) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/09/28/valuable-news-2026-09-28/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@openbsdjournal/117342956657333767

This will be a game changer

#OpenBSD

Stefano Marinelli boosted

OpenBSD Journal » 🤖 🌐 2026-09-27
@openbsdjournal@mastodon.bsd.cafe

vmm(4)/vmd(8) gain support for multi-processor VMs https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260927115632

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article%3Bsid=20260927115632

OpenBSD -current has moved to version 8.0 https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260927120854 #openbsd #current #newversion #pleasetest #development #networking #security #freesoftware #libresoftware

vmm(4)/vmd(8) gain support for multi-processor VMs https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260927115632 #openbsd #vmm #vmd #virtualization #hypervisor #virtualmachines #development #freesoftware #libresoftware

OpenBSD gains new networking daemon - rtrd(8) https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260927120124 #openbsd #rtrd #rpki #bgpd #routing #networking #security

The official OpenBSD homepage is now fully responsive! Took me by surprise this morning 😛

https://www.openbsd.org/

#openbsd #webdev

Anybody knows why the #openbsd merch store is b0rked?

#omarchy #wealth

I wouldn't usually get political here, but I think it's sickening how a madman has garnered millions of pounds when there's plenty of other institutional open source projects which we rely on every day who''ll never get to this level of monetary support.

I do try in my own way to support the projects I love where I can -- #freebsd, #openbsd, #gameoftrees, etc., all of which I've put some level of money behind.

Don't neglect the power of this -- and don't listen to the hype around some fascist's projects building up millions of pounds.

Your individual support means more than you could know.

I absolutely love #gameoftrees, for example, and I know my paid for VM goes a long way to supporting that project. See? You can make a difference and not even realise it. :)

With host-side SEV support, multi-core virtualization, and networking now functional in `bhyve`, the team is working on upstreaming the code to the main FreeBSD repository.

Future milestones include upgrading to newer SEV generations like SEV-ES for encrypted CPU register states and SEV-SNP for hardware memory integrity protection as well as updating the FreeBSD kernel to run seamlessly as an encrypted *guest* OS using memory C-bit handling and bounce buffers.

And for you, mere mortal, what does all of this actually mean? It means true cloud privacy without having to blindly trust anyone. Whether you're hosting sensitive customer data, financial workloads, or proprietary algorithms, confidential computing ensures that not even your cloud provider or a rogue admin with full root access can peek into your running memory.

By bringing AMD SEV to FreeBSD, top-tier, silicon-enforced protection stops being an exclusive enterprise luxury and becomes part of the open-source toolkit.

Bottom line: your data is finally locked down in transit, at rest, and right down to the hardware while in use.

#freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #bsd #EuroBSDCon2026

I put #OpenBSD on my Dell Latitude D630!

When you say ‘I use Linux’ and accidentally summon the entire BSD family.

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Unix #Linux #BSD #Meme #Memes #Humor #SpongeBob

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Six-panel cartoon featuring SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward. Patrick says, “I use Linux.” Squidward asks, “What is Linux?” SpongeBob replies, “It means he is afraid of BSD.” Squidward responds, “No it does not.” The next panel lists “FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD,” while Patrick looks funny. In the final panel, SpongeBob raises his hands in panic and says, “Stop it Patrick! You’re scaring him.”

I'm completely new to BSDs and I'd like to install one on a ThinkPad x220. Which one should I choose if I want a minimalist system? FreeBSD, OpenBSD?
#bsd #unix #freebsd #openbsd

Traditional hosting company:

“We had a Linux crash. Or maybe systemd. Or KVM. Possibly a kernel issue. There is also a non-zero chance aliens interfered with our servers.

We’re not entirely sure what happened.

Sorry for the inconvenience.”

OpenBSD Amsterdam:

“We had a crash.

One of the OpenBSD developers looked at it and is now patching OpenBSD so it won’t happen again.”

Who’s the boss now? 😎

Thank you, @OpenBSDAms !

#OpenBSD #RunBSD #IT #SysAdmin

🐡 Small refresh on #OpenBSD Jumpstart.
New look, tighter slides, a few fixes along the way.
60 slides to get started with OpenBSD 7.9.
https://openbsdjumpstart.org

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟵/𝟮𝟭 (Valuable News - 2026/09/21) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/09/21/valuable-news-2026-09-21/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

It's finally here!!! #Yet_Another_Free_Profile_Picture_Giveaway!!! Normally these can be acquired for anywhere between $1,300 and $0.07, but they are all free *just* today! AMAZING!

Pls, if you downloaded one of these pictures, say so in a comment, so I can delete it from the post. Don't download more than one! Thanks!

Enjoy!

--

pls don't download FishLunic, it's already acquired.
pls don't download c: , it's been acquired!
pls don't download 'i don't even use plan9', it's been acquired.

#unix_surrealism #mobilek #openbsd #plan9 #9front #art #nft #linux #lunic #giveaway

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c:

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yellow mister mobilek profile picture template

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i dont even use plan 9

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fishlunic

Can't wait to run VMs with more than one CPU on #OpenBSD

I like this a lot.

#OpenBSD

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# sysctl machdep.vmmode machdep.vmmode=guest # sysctl hw.ncpu hw.ncpu=4

PSA!

We are OpenBSD Amsterdam!
Not Linux || Windows Amsterdam.

EOPSA

#RUNBSD #OpenBSD

😄

I'm working as a freelancer, which means I'm a business. I can not easily give to the BSD foundations [well I could but it would make sense to do it as a business] (#FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD) because I'd need an invoice.

Can someone help a fellow out here? How do companies do it? I'm based in Germany in case that matters.

Every fatal firmware error fix depends on one guy on an IRC channel voluntarily and supportively looking up magic fimware error codes and explaining the implications to me. Bus factor: 1

And for some vendors like Qualcomm there is simply nobody to ask questions to. The Linux ath10k/11k/12k driver maintainer stopped years ago and hasn't been replaced as far as I know.

Vendors should never have been allowed to stop providing public documentation for computers they are selling.

#OpenBSD #wifi

Techno-Mage in: FATES

#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage #openblade #art #openbsd #linux #foss #fosschild #ai

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OB: After some freakish accident, it became omniscient and made a lot of people uncomfortable. So they hid it. Mage: Why didn't they kill it? OB: I don't think it was ever truly alive. Mage: So how do _WE_ kill it? OB: You've been so violent lately, Girl. We'll see what it has to say first. Mage: Don't get sentimental now, OB. We're here to make sure MATA never gets their hands on it.

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Mage: We're at the top! FOSSCHILD: Why is she doing this again? Penguin: Why does anyone do anything? Because she can. And maybe spite.

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OB: Looks creepy enough. Mage: Hmmm.This is some sort of an ancient military compound. OB: They did make the best cursed tech. OB: After you.

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"": MAGE OB & Mage: Who said that? "": THE PROTAGONIST VENTURES INTO THE PAST WITH THE LAST OF THE OPEN CLAN TRAPPED INSIDE BITS OF PAINT MACHINE BRAINS SEEKING GRIEVING DRESSED IN VENGEANCE MISGUIDED WARRIORS COMPUTER KILLERS

EuroBSDCon 2026 talks online https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260916093106 #openbsd #eurobsdcon #conference #development #security

OpenSMTPD 7.9.0p0 released https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260916093956 #opensmtpd #openbsd #smtp #email #mail #freesoftware #libresoftware

Ori Bernstein is porting GEFS, the crash-safe, snapshotting, copy-on-write filesystem originally written for 9front, to OpenBSD.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=178948744271633&w=2

#openbsd #bsd

Ori Bernstein - GEFS: The File Shredder of the Future.

https://exquisite.tube/w/3QQimMdswWJxrsPaJtak2u

\o/

#EuroBSDCon #OpenBSD

some days I wish upgrading #FreeBSD was as mindless as upgrading my #OpenBSD machines.

On OpenBSD, it's generally `sysupgrade`, let it do its thing, rebooting itself a couple times (entering my FDE passwords as necessary), and then a `pkg_add -u` to upgrade my packages. Sometimes a `sysmerge` if it can't do it automatically. But very much two (or three) idiot-proof commands with very little demand on this idiot's brain to recall where I am in the process.

While I like the automatic ZFS boot-environment snapshotting, FreeBSD requires me to know the next version-number I want to upgrade to (can't determine it or prompt me for viable options?), transcribe it as part of the upgrade command, then manually running `freebsd-update install` multiple times, rebooting manually multiple times between each, then `pkg update` and a `pkg upgrade` to update userspace. I'm sitting at a login…is this the first, second, or third reboot? I don't know, it was taking a while and I ended up wandering off to do something else.

This post brought to you by this morning's 14.3→14.4 FreeBSD upgrade 😆

EDIT: the recording is available here: https://exquisite.tube/w/nQbc54t4G7YGaqiryZ7mg1

On 10 March 2021, I had only just fallen asleep when my phone started buzzing. Then another notification, and another. In a matter of minutes, 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. And not the cloud-computing kind.

Most of them were physically going up in a column of smoke in Strasbourg.

My wife looked at me and asked if I wanted a coffee. I nodded. It was going to be a very long day.

At EuroBSDCon 2026, I won't be giving a theoretical lecture on high availability. Instead, I’m going to tell the raw story of that night: the emergency recovery, the architectural choices that actually saved us, and the ones that crumbled under pressure (because we rarely talk about what fails).

Most of all, I’ll explain why that night changed my perspective, and why I’ve come to see BSD systems not just as operating systems, but as essential, practical tools for building simpler, more resilient infrastructure.

The official schedule is now live. If you want to hear a real-world post-mortem, join me on Saturday, 12 Sept at 11:15 (Room D.0.02).

EuroBSDCon Full schedule: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/
See you there! ☕️

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD #RunBSD #EuroBSDCon #SysAdmin #SelfHosted #IT #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSDCon

Great news! My presentation for #EuroBSDCon has been accepted!

Expect a mix of disasters, horror stories, recoveries, BSDs, and one very, very long day.

Stay tuned!

#EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Linux

comfort

https://analognowhere.com/_/ohrico/

#unix_surrealism #technomage #comic #openbsd #fosschild

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fosschild narrates: there was a hint of weariness in her eyes the kind that can be only found on the faces of the disillusioned on nights when she thought i was asleep, i would listen to her tightening the failing grip of the miltek arm when skies were clear she looked at the stars as if looking for someone back then i didnt understand why it comforted her i do today

https://analognowhere.com/

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A photo of a canvas picture with a girl wearing puffer fish pyjamas with a laptop in the picture.

Entropy 2

#unix_surrealism #technomage #openbsd #linux #foss #comic #art #mastoart #privacy

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Girl: "Master?" Fish and Penguin are playing chess. Fish: "Yes?" Girl: "It should compile by morning. I'm off to bed." Fish: "Fine, fine" Girl goes to bed, reads hagakure and falls asleep.

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analognowhere presents techno-mage in entropy 2

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Girl awakens in the Realm of the Spirit of The Machine. She notices Fossangel in the distance.

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Girl: "Fossangel!" Fossangel: "SHHH. Fill this in first." It's a clipboard: Before you dream, we must verify your identity. Name, DOB, Address, MATA_ID. Girl: "I have to do this in my own dream now?!" Fossangel: "Girl.. You have no idea how deep this thing goes."

acquired - tome of pf

(this is not sponsored content, I just like the book)

thank you @pitrh

https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition

#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage #openbsd #pf #bookofpf

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girl studies the ancient tome of PF

#unix_surrealism #dataswamp #technomage #art #comic #openbsd

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Do you ever wonder how different thing would be if we had met in the data swamp?

strlcpy(3)

#unix_surrealism #technomage #openbsd #analognowhere #fish #penguin #mata #linux #comic #art

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MATA_Bots descend upon Fish's bunker. Bots: "CLEAR! KEEP MOVING, THE FISH IS HERE" Fish: "I'll buy you time. Use the ventilation system. Go wake her up. Get her out." Bots: "GOT A SEALED DOOR. BREACH IT" Fish: "And Purple? Thank you." Bots: "BREACHING! MOVE MOVE!" Fish: "For what it's worth... I wish for unlimited ammo."

last of the fish

#unix_surrealism #technomage #gameoftrees #9front no #thinkpad #openbsd #runbsd

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Girl lounging on a desk. there are 9front no-thinkpad, and game of trees posters behind her. a fish plush toy. and some other computer-speak stuff.

Fish Alpinism

How I make digital art.

https://triapul.cz/_/1765291397

#unix_surrealism #openbsd #alpine #linux #gimp #art #foss

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artist keyboard

DUFF v KORN 2

prev: https://merveilles.town/@prahou/115508225024561937

#unix_surrealism #plan9 #9front #korn #ksh #rc #comic #linux #lo0 #technomage #openblade #openbsd

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Daemon: "I think that looks pretty good! Don't you?" Kshboy: "Haha, yeah! You made it in troff?" Daemon: "Yeah!" Kshboy: "Cool!" DEAR MISTER DUFF, MY BEST FRIEND AND I WERE WONDERING, IF YOU COULD BEAT KORN IN A FIGHT. WE KNOW OF A GREAT PLACE WHERE YOU COULD DO BATTLE. Daemon: "We can just swap the names with sed for the other letter!" Kshboy: "But how do we get it to them? We don't even know where they live..." Daemon: "I have an idea. Let's rewrite it!"

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Random penguins hand a leaflet to Techno-Mage. DUFF V KORN DUEL OF THE AGES WHEN: NEXT FULL MOON WHERE: THE BIG HILL OUTSIDE FOSSTOWN WHOEVER DOESN'T SHOW AUTOMATICALLY LOSES! PLACE YOUR BEST AT THE DRUNKEN BIRD BARD OpenBlade: "Oh yeah, I heard about this." Mage: "You heard about this?" OpenBlade: "You have a lot of money riding on Korn btw."

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Lo0: "YOU AND I WERE MEANT TO BE!" Lo0 KORN TRIBUTE practice Korn: "STOP! That's not what they sounded like..." Mec: "Sorry, Mister K." Korn: "Are you? The gig is in a week. Do better!" Bot_Manager: "YO! CASH MONEY K! Why didn't you tell me about the fight?!" Korn: "What fight?" Bot_Manager: "I could get the band to play there!"

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Penguin Postman walks up a mountain. Penguin: "Mister Duff? Mail!" Duff: "Vincent! Is it next year already?" Penguin: "No sir, just some admin stuff regarding your fight." Duff: "Fight?"

Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared

Update: This post has been updated to include Docker benchmarks and a comparison of container overhead versus FreeBSD Jails and illumos Zones.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/

#ITNotes #freebsd #illumos #jail #linux #netbsd #openbsd #ownyourdata #server #smartos #sysadmin #zoneshosting

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/

#ITNotes #NoteHUB #freebsd #illumos #jail #linux #netbsd #openbsd #ownyourdata #server #smartos #sysadmin #zoneshosting

the list

#unix_surrealism #comic #poster #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #9front #plan9 #glenda #cirno #girl #daemon #puffy #rabbit #mata #openblade #penguin #linux #foss

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MATACORP'S MOST WANTED HACKERS Fish Daemon Cirno OpenBlade Rabbit Frederick "the Hammer" Glenda II Sphence Purple "Penguin" Pentium-M Man Girl

This Isn't a Battle

After reading a post describing the FreeBSD community as 'toxic', I share a different perspective. This isn't a battle. It's a reflection on coexistence, the original Open Source spirit, and the quiet richness of taking a different path.

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/14/this-isnt-a-battle/

#MyNotes #IT #SysAdmin #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Linux #OpenSource

bathing

I use @OpenBSDAms btw

#unix_surrealism #openbsd #vmm #vmd #poster #comic #linux #plan9 #glenda

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Girl and Penguin visit the fish vats.

rio-like configuration for base openbsd fvwm2

https://nein.triapul.cz/fvwm

#rio #fvwm #plan9 #openbsd #fishlinux #serpico

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jc leyendecker in acme

dating culture clash

#9front #openbsd #gnu #linux #plan9 #dating #comic #unix

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plan9bunny-person meets with a fish-daemon-person. Daemon: "So, how was the date?" Bunny: "He talked about docker for 35 minutes and then asked, if I have wine." Daemon: "Did you tell him you're not Unix?" Bunny: "Yeah, he said: 'oh, like GNU?'"

Prehistoric AI, OpenBlade's relative

#unix_surrealism #lispmachine #openblade #openbsd #technomage #comic

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Girl and Puffy discover an abandoned machine in a ruined building. Girl: "What is it, master?" Puffy: "This, my dear Girl, is a prewar fully sentient MilTek Lisp Machine. It's basically a bulkier OpenBlade. I was sure MATA got rid of them all..." LispMachine: "Hi there! I haven't seen another live form in over 200 years! Do you guys wanna hear my take on vaccines?" OpenBlade: "Wow, this guy is awesome!"

Heads up for people applying the first syspatch(8) for #OpenBSD 7.8, which is actually for the syspatch(8) utility itself.

There are instructions in the errata patch for if it fails.

If syspatch fails (probably because /usr is not a separate filesystem), perform these steps:
sed -e 's/.checkfs/#checkfs/g' /usr/sbin/syspatch > /root/syspatch
ksh /root/syspatch
syspatch # re-run new syspatch command as instructed
rm /root/syspatch
dev_mkdb

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=176158489701798&w=2

Thanks to everyone involved. All hail the fish.

The Man of MATA pt1

next: https://merveilles.town/@prahou/115271822786360293

pls consider supporting my work: https://analognowhere.com/support

#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage #openbsd #linux #penguin #mata

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Somewhere in a desert... Girl and Penguin are eating breakfast. Penguin: "Morning, slept well?" Girl: "mhmhmhm" Penguin: "What's today?" Girl checks her school schedule. It's Monday, morning class - history. Girl: "History. Penguin, unenthusiased: "Sounds exciting."

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Classroom. Fish begins the lesson. Fish: "I wanted to call this class mythology, but Purple said history suggests that some of it might actually be true. Nobody remembers how long ago, but as you know, the world ended. While the inheritors of the ravaged land learned to adapt to their predicament, three brothers, successors of those who brought about the end, set out into the destroyed world to ruin it some more." LAST REMAINING MATACORPBUNKER B_73; three brothers "Well, gentlemen, we ate all the women, children and uly. The water purifier is busted and the only person who could fix it was Parkinson." "We ate her last week." "We ate her last week." "Nothing to eat, nothing to drink. So now what?" "I think it's time to do what our great great great grandparents spoke of - Go outside and restart civilization." "Ugh..."

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Penguin and Fish are dressed as the MATA brothers. Penguin: "I have the best ideas." Fish: "You're going to have to help us play the third brother." Girl, ecstatic: "School trip!" analognowhere presents: techno-mage in: Girl, Fish and Penguin stand outside their cave home. Fish: "... they gathered a bunch of thumbdrives with ancient CORPO tech and went on a journey to find people and machines they could poison." Penguin: "It's a good day to fuck shit up. Come on, bros!" Girl: "He's really into it!"

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The three brothers cross the ancient desolate land. "This suuuuuuuuuuuucks." "Shut up."

Me: huh, I don't remember logging out of my session on the kids' #OpenBSD laptop…oh, right, I did a `doas sysupgrade`, it did the upgrade, rebooted into 7.7, and returned uneventfully to the login screen without requiring any additional intervention or thought.

There's something wonderful about an upgrade-process so boring that you can accidentally forget you did it.

While I was mucking about with an #openbsd port, I got an email from github offering me access to their ai code writing uselessness.

No! Bad website!

*spritzes with water bottle*

My code doesn't work at the moment. Broken is still better than this offer.

This is my favorite part of the OpenBSD installer because I get it wrong every time, but I love that they anticipated it! #openbsd

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Text from the OpenBSD installer asking "Setup a user? (enter a lower-case loginname, or 'no')". The user enters "yes" and the next prompt says "No really, what is the lower-case loginname, or 'no'?"

**BSD Mail Project Update!**

Hello everyone! I wanted to share some exciting updates about the development of BSD Mail, our privacy-focused email service designed with robustness, security, and transparency in mind. Here’s a deep dive into the technical choices I've made, focusing on my use of open source solutions and open protocols:

🌍 **Servers & Location**

- We're running on two physical servers:
- One hosted by OVH in France
- Another by Hetzner in Germany
- Both servers operate on FreeBSD with NVMe drives in a ZFS mirror configuration for speed and data integrity.

🔒 **Virtualization & Security**

- We utilize jails on both servers to ensure isolated environments for different services, managed via BastilleBSD. On one server, jails are set up directly on the hardware, whereas the other server employs nested jails.
- Each server hosts a bhyve VM running OpenBSD with OpenSMTPD for handling SMTP duties securely.

🔗 **Networking**

- A Wireguard setup connects the two servers, facilitating routing capabilities so that jails and VMs can communicate seamlessly, supporting both IPv4 and IPv6.

📧 **Email Services**

- **Dovecot** is configured for maildir replication across the servers using Dovecot sync, ensuring email availability and redundancy.
- **Rspamd** instances are tied to local KeyDB jails, set up in master-master replication for consistent and reliable spam detection and greylisting.
- **ClamAV** runs in corresponding jails for virus scanning, maintaining a high level of security.
- **SOGo** provides a web interface for email management, connected to MySQL databases in master-master replication to handle sessions and authentication smoothly.

💾 **Data Management**

- Email data is stored on separate, encrypted ZFS datasets to secure emails at rest.
- MySQL databases are used for storing credentials and managing sessions for SOGo, also in a master-master replication setup. Importantly, all passwords are securely hashed using bcrypt, ensuring they are salted and safe.

🔎 **Monitoring & Reliability**

- Our DNS is managed through BunnyNet, which continuously monitors our server status. Should one server—or a specific service—become unavailable, DNS configurations are dynamically adjusted to avoid directing users to the affected IP until full service is restored.

🌐 **Commitment to Open Source and Open Protocols**

- Every component of BSD Mail is built exclusively using open source software and open protocols. This commitment is crucial for ensuring data freedom and the reliability of the solutions we use.

This setup not only emphasizes our commitment to privacy and security but also our dedication to maintaining an open and transparent platform.
We're excited to bring you a service where your privacy, data integrity, and freedom are prioritized. Stay tuned for more updates!

#BSDMail #OpenSource #Privacy #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #EmailHosting #Email

#OpenBSD may introduces Word into the base system

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=170742832804260&w=2

Running #wayland compositor #sway on #OpenBSD is very easy (only -current at the moment)

- pkg_add sway
- stop xenodm
- log-in as your user in a tty
- run /usr/local/bin/startsway.sh

that's all

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Screenshot of an OpenBSD desktop running the wayland compositor sway