taquiones.net is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
One of the several times I was asked to do a talk about why I'm an #opensource enthusiast with a particular fondness for #OpenBSD, I wrote "Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better (and may turn up elsewhere too)" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/recent-and-not-so-recent_changes_in_openbsd_that_make_life_better.html in 2021.
Things have happened since, of course, but those things are still developments I remember fondly.
boosted"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that...
Plasma 6.6 is here (duh!), we fixed those widgets the new release broke 😬, we made the close buttons on the "Thumbnails" task switcher more legible, and the “Terminate this frozen window” dialog got a spinner, among many more tasty things.
https://blogs.kde.org/2026/02/21/this-week-in-plasma-6.6-is-here/
#Plasma6 #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #desktop #linux #FreeBSD #OpenBSD
#OpenBSD
Updated the article about bsd.rd.
Added a section on the crunched binary.
👉 https://www.openbsdjumpstart.org/bsd.rd
Exosphere:
― aggregated patch and security update reporting
― basic system status across multiple Unix-like hosts via SSH
<https://exosphere.readthedocs.io/> | <https://github.com/mrdaemon/exosphere>
<https://untrusted.website/@mr_daemon/114980024541462116> @mr_daemon
<https://mastodon.social/@terminaltrove/114977286773333343> @terminaltrove
#Unix #Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Debian #Ubuntu #RedHat #macOS #Windows #SSH
Right now I'm testing #OpenBSD 7.8 on the #framework laptop (Framework Laptop 13 DIY Edition (AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 Series)).
Everything works until it doesn't. Sometimes when display content changes fast (activating screensaver or opening browser full screen) the system freezes completely without any error message. Any ideas to see what's happening ?
I just wrapped up an interesting call that was originally scheduled for last week but rescheduled for today. The client is looking for a unique setup, and thanks to having an early re-read of the fantastic The Book of PF - 4th Edition, I was able to propose some configurations that had completely slipped my mind. The client is extremely curious, and this will likely lead to a new OpenBSD deployment in an interesting environment.
At the same time, I received an email from a professor at an Italian university whom I had encouraged to extend his lectures to include BSDs. I piqued his curiosity as well and proposed a session specifically on firewalls, focusing on OpenBSD and pf. He will be reading The Book of PF soon and will likely add it to his students' recommended reading list. I'll probably present them, too.
In short - one book, a thousand new possibilities. Infinite thanks to @pitrh for the massive and wonderful work behind it.
https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition
#OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #RunBSD #PF #Firewalling #IT #SysAdmin
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The fresh 4th edition of The Book of PF in physical form has reached Europe (Ireland), https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tomsmythconnect_thebookofpf-openbsd-packetfilter-activity-7427686906349555713-7s4w - so my stack of author copies are hopefully on the way too.
The book home page is at https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition
Some background https://nxdomain.no/~peter/yes_the_book_of_pf_4th_ed_is_coming.html @nostarch #bookofpf #openbsd #freebsd #pf #packetfilter #networking #security
People waxing lyrical about using 'original vi', both nowadays in 2026 and back in 2006, haven't a clue what that is.
There's only one family of operating systems where 'vi' will actually run the original vi program by Joy, Horton, et al.: #Illumos and its derivatives #Tribblix, #OmniOS, and #SmartOS.
*Everyone else* uses one of the ground-up clones.
On #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, and #NetBSD, it's Bostic's early 1990s #nvi, which was derived from Kirkendall's elvis, a clone written some time around 1990.
On Linux-based operating systems, vi either is Bostic nvi, or is one of the derivatives of STEVIE (the middle-1980s vi clone for the Atari ST that inspired Kirkendall to write elvis in the first place): Moolenaar's VIM or NeoVIM.
On none of those will you get original Joy+Horton vi in base, or indeed packaged/in ports.
Yes, Heirloom vi exists, which is Ritter's 2002 fork of 1985 Joy+Horton vi. But it's not even available in Arch Linux nowadays.
@osuosl is raising funds to cover critical extra expenses that incurred while moving and modernizing their data center.
They host and maintain not only our gitlab instance, but also a bunch of services for a long list of important free software projects, including @alpinelinux, @armbian, #busybox, @chimera, #Debian, @fdroidorg, @fedora, #ffmpeg, #fosdem, #freedesktoporg, #gcc, @gentoo, @gnome, @inkscape, @kde, #kodi, @LineageOS, the #linux kernel, @llvm, #openbsd, #qemu, @reproducible_builds, @rust, #tor, #vlc and many more:
https://osuosl.org/communities/
Consider donating to them or boosting this post if you want to help them out. Thank you!
https://fosstodon.org/users/osuosl/statuses/116048416100183283Due to pending travels for $DAYJOB in the next weeks, I have changed the #OpenBSD story publication schedule, and the new episodes of the SGI story will be published on mondays.
You can enjoy the 2nd episode now!
(If the "technical notes you can skip" parts are not within double borders, be sure to reload the page with ctrl-shift-R to make sure you also fetch the updated CSS file, there has been some changes to it.)
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#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday
Upcoming "Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset" tutorials (covering #freebsd and #openbsd):
2026-03-19 AsiaBSDCob https://www.asiabsdcon.org
2026-06-18 BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org
See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/pf_tutorial_upcoming_questions_welcome.html (https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/05/for-upcoming-pf-tutorials-we-welcome.html)
and https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html (https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/11/what-is-bsd-come-to-conference-to-find.html)
plus https://nxdomain.no/~peter/yes_the_book_of_pf_4th_ed_is_coming.html (https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/07/yes-book-of-pf-4th-edition-is-coming.html)
Registration for BSDCan 2026 is open at https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html + tutorial schedule published.
#bsdcan #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #development #networking #devops #sysadmin #conferences
For more on BSD and the BSD conferences, see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html (or tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/11/what-is-bsd-come-to-conference-to-find.html +
https://medium.com/@peter.hansteen/what-is-bsd-come-to-a-conference-to-find-out-06acd7d77fd8 )
Hey #OpenBSD cool kids!
I like how this tool creates OpenBSD virtual machine images with a mix of a local mirror, signify, and QEMU, but it does not support EFI images, raw images, and is, while not fatal, in BASH.
https://github.com/hcartiaux/openbsd-cloud-image
Do you have any tools that check the above checkboxes?
❤️
Registration for BSDCan 2026 is now open https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html and tutorials schedule is published.
#bsdcan #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #libresoftware #freesoftware #conference #development #networking #sysadmin #devops
I added a few more translations of the phrase "This is trash" to the spamtraps at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml (see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_rest_is_trash.html or https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-rest-is-trash.html).
If you want further translations added, please let me know (with translation in your message).
#spamtraps #greytrapping #spamd #openbsd #freebsd #antispam #imaginaryfriends #localization #cybercrime
The list without wrapper text is available as https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/sortlist.txt (BIG! -- 22975800 entries as of right now, will increase)
"The Rest Is Trash"
We are now halfway through the nineteenth year of greytrapping, still tracking and collecting from the wealth of imbecility out there
https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_rest_is_trash.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-rest-is-trash.html) #spamd #greytrapping #greylisting #openbsd #freebsd #spam #antispam #cybercrime
Just a shout out to everyone directly or loosly involved in *BSD world here on fedi and elsewhere.
Thanks for having me here. It's been a couple of years now since I migrated from Linux and really enjoying it.
be safe and keep up the excellent work,
#appreciation #bsd #kiss #unix #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonfly #runbsd #illumos
Everything that can accept human-readable IPv4 addresses in place of hostnames, and that does so by using the conventional C library inet_aton() or inet_pton() functions.
A single (32-bit) number has been an accepted human-readable form from the start, back in the 4.3BSD days. It's a thing that gets regularly rediscovered.
(Bernstein's networking tools use a ip4_scan() function that only supports strict 4-decimal-numbers form. But several of them special case and re-map the string "0" before calling this function. libowfat's scan_ip4() is similar to ip4_scan(). As is ip4_scan() in @ska's libstddjb.)
This and three other accepted formats are explained in all of the #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, and Linux GNU libc manual pages. They also explain why 0x00000000 and 0x7F000001 and 0177.1 will work as IPv4 addresses with such programs.
Quote of the day:
"Text Editing (vi / nano) OpenBSD doesn’t come with VS Code. You will be editing configuration files directly on the server."
VS Code NOT being included is a FEATURE of #OpenBSD in my humble opinion. But you do you, my friend! 😂
Installing #Slackware #Linux using #vmm on #OpenBSD. Got some help from this video on getting the console to display correctly in the terminal.
#RunBSD #BSD #virtualization
acquired - tome of pf
(this is not sponsored content, I just like the book)
thank you @pitrh
#Slackware vs #OpenBSD round 1:
- Slackware is more user friendly
- Simple updates
- Offline updates possible
- No BGP routing in base install
- Standard Bind for DNS
- OpenBSD slightly less user friendly
- Simple updates
- Offline updates possible, but require a bit more work
- BGP in base install
- Unbound in base install
Winner: Fish Linux! Sorry, OpenBSD! 🏆 
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My BSDCan submission has been approved!
It will be wonderful to be back in Ottawa, meet again all the "old" (and new) friends from the BSD world and, this time, present something that has saved me more than once... and it’s based on NetBSD!
#BSDCan #BSDCon #NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD #RunBSD #BSDCan2026 #Ottawa #Canada #BSD
The Rest Is Trash https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_rest_is_trash.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-rest-is-trash.html) following up on #greytrapping, updating the 18 years piece https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html #openbsd #spamd #greytrappng #greylisting #antispam #cybercrime #networking # spam
Deadline this weekend - apply by Feb 1st, 2026!
Do you want to go to EuroBSDCon https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/ but need support to do so?
Or do you know someone in that situation? Apply for the Paul Schenkeveld Travel Grant before February 1st, 2026!
https://eurobsdconfoundation.org/travel-grant.html
#eurobsdcon #netbsd #openbsd #freebsd #conference #travelgrant
That's difficult to answer without a concrete idea of what a dependency is.
If it's who develops it, then #GhostBSD's major developers are in Canada, and #MirBSD's major developers are in the E.U./Switzerland.
If it's which BSDs would be unaffected if Microsoft-owned GitHub decided to pull the rug out from underneath them, then the answer is rather different.
Financial dependencies, and WWW/mail/other hosting dependencies, are different again.
I was pleasantly surprised to hear that the latest BSDnow https://www.bsdnow.tv/648 features my "Eighteen years of greytrapping ..." https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html as well as the @bsdcan organizer interview #bsdcan #bsdnow #freebsd #openbsd #greytrapping
Indeed, I can confirm @stefano ate like a grown-up.
#RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD #BSDCon #AsiaBSDCon #BSDCan #EuroBSDCon
And now for the inevitable, shameless plug: The Book of PF, 4th ed https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition has some preview of upcoming features as well as #openbsd 7.8 and #freebsd 14 #pf configs. Also see the #asiabsdcon tutorial and https://nxdomain.no/~peter/yes_the_book_of_pf_4th_ed_is_coming.html
Despite some persistent rumors, installing OpenBSD is both quick and easy on most not too exotic hardware. But once the thing is installed, what is daily life with the most secure free operating system like?
See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #dailydriver #sysadmin
How about an #OpenBSD story on oooooooooold hardware this morning?
This morning I was thinking about something: one of the reasons why every enthusiast should consider going to a BSDCon is simple.
I eat a lot and I still come back slimmer 😄
2024 - EuroBSDCon: ate twice as much as usual, came back from Dublin 1 kg lighter.
2025 - BSDCan: breakfasts that could cover a whole day’s calories, huge delicious meals... came back from Ottawa 0.5 kg lighter.
2025 - EuroBSDCon: double breakfast (sweet + savory), massive lunches, delicious dinners (including a huge pizza, as @outofcreativity, @angie and @mwl can confirm) and still came back 0.5 kg lighter.
Positive emotions burn calories.
So come to BSDCons: you’ll come back happy and slimmer!
#RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD #BSDCon #AsiaBSDCon #BSDCan #EuroBSDCon
The first scheduled "Network Management with the OpenBSD PF Toolset" session of the year will be at AsiaBSDCon 2026 https://2026.asiabsdcon.org/index.html.en, https://2026.asiabsdcon.org/entry/talk/ZUQPMV/, registration to open soon.
Also see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html #asiabsdcon #freebsd #openbsd #pf #packetfilter #networking #conference @nostarch @stucchimax
Oh, I suppose I have been slacking and not telling you that if you order The Book of PF, 4th ed https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition now, you will get the *final version* ebook (print is still in progress) #bookofpf #openbsd #freebsd #networking #firewalls #pf #networktrickery #freesoftware #libresoftware @nostarch
Also see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/yes_the_book_of_pf_4th_ed_is_coming.html
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Still looking for an invite code for #BoxyBSD for free VPS instances?
You can grab an invite for the @BoxyBSD project at the #FOSDEM - just watch out for @gyptazy - you can't really miss him!
Make sure to visit the #BSDDevroom managed by @fosdembsd!
#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #BSD #BSDCommunity #FOSDEM2026 #fosdem26 #opensource #freevps #hosting #education #brussels #belgium #conference
New #OpenBSD story, on kernel stacks.
Advertisement: We are happy to welcome our new sponsor at #BoxyBSD: ST-Hosting.com
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We’re excited to have https://st-hosting.com on board! You can immediately start to provision your BSD based boxes (like #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD,...) at BoxyBSD in our new location in Germany, Nuremberg. Also, stay tuned for #Fosdem ;) Thanks a lot!
welcome home, purple
previously: https://analognowhere.com/techno-mage/what-was-i-to-do/
#unix_surrealism #comic #linux #openbsd #technomage #penguin #fish #art
@penguin86 they had a really long gap from version 3 to 4, something like five years, and that was back in the day when dist-upgrade was an unreliable experiment so people stayed on 3 for even longer. I had one running until mid-2024 because "just one more patch by hand, I'll upgrade properly soon" every time was safer than upgrading. I got 22 years without a single intrusion, which is even better than #OpenBSD 😉. By the time I finally turned it off I suppose there wasn't much Debian left!
Do you want to go to EuroBSDCon https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/ but need support to do so?
Or do you know someone in that situation? Apply for Paul Schenkeveld Travel Grant before February 1st, 2026!
https://eurobsdconfoundation.org/travel-grant.html
#eurobsdcon #netbsd #openbsd #freebsd #conference #travelgrant
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last of the fish
#unix_surrealism #technomage #gameoftrees #9front no #thinkpad #openbsd #runbsd
The latest "Lazy reading" by Dragonfly Digest @dragonflydigest https://www.dragonflydigest.com/ has "Eighteen years of Greytrapping" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html featured. Later this year it will be nineteen years :) (and updates will come) #spamd #spam #openbsd #antispam #greytrapping #greylisting #cybercrime
(Open) Widevine support added to the chromium port https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260118112808 #openbsd #chromium #widevine #openvidevine #video #streaming #current #development
My boat!
#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage #openbsd #rust #linux #art
| Wayland: | 375 |
| Wayback: | 2 |
| X11: | 258 |
| Xlibre: | 13 |
boostedSubmissions for the EuroBSDCon 2026 Paul Schenkeveld Travel Grant closes on the 1st of February.
When you know someone who can use the support please let them know!
MAXCPUS on OpenBSD/amd64-current is now 255 https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260115135856 #openbsd #amd64 #current #maxcpus #development #highperformance #multicore #libresoftware #freesofware
The lost 213th issue of Techno-Mage
"ON THE FRONTIER"
finally haphazardly assembled after 2 years!
https://analognowhere.com/techno-mage/on_the_frontier/
#unix_surrealism #technomage #comic #linux #penguin #openbsd #gentoo #slackware #ubuntu
Do you want to come to #ottawa and tell a bunch of #BSD geeks about what you enjoy doing?
Submit to BSDCan 2026!
Our submissions deadline is January 17, 2026, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html
Tutorials: June 17-18, 2026
Conference: June 19-20, 2026
More about the BSD conferences: https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html
#freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #conference #development #sysadmin
Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better (and may turn up elsewhere too) https://nxdomain.no/~peter/recent-and-not-so-recent_changes_in_openbsd_that_make_life_better.html - reprising a now 5 year old piece about #openbsd, which is a source of much #opensource #freesoftware #libresoftware goodness, also see links therein
LACP mode removed from trunk(4) https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260113070814 #openbsd #networking #trunk #lacp #development #current
The preliminary AsiaBSDCon 2026 program has been published, https://2026.asiabsdcon.org/entry/schedule/, with registrations to open soon!
@stucchimax and I will be giving the "Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset" tutorial (with #openbsd as well as #freebsd labs)
For more info on the regional #BSD conferences, see "What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out!" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html
#asiabsdcon #conference #bsd #freesoftware #development #libresoftware
The recording from NYC*BUG Saturday January 10th, 2026 session "The Book of PF 4th ed + EU CRA: It's time to Engineer up" is now available:
Youtube: https://youtu.be/HOCsvcCm1Ec
Peertube: https://toobnix.org/w/bQPtKXKqJMdeYDbzhrrkEa
#bookofpf #OpenBSD #freebsd #packetfilter #EUCRA #CRA #SBOMS #dependency #supplychain #security
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