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Peter N. M. Hansteen

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Occasional rants about IT with an OpenBSD slant at bsdly.blogspot.com If you're new to the fediverse or Mastodon, please take a peek at fedi.tips for […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@pitrh, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Simon Stålenhag is the best www.instagram.com/p/C3j9F6kq6p5/

Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I thought I was long past blase about this kind of silliness, but then this afternoon Oct 4 16:03:56 netflag sshd-session[9157]: Failed password for invalid user sickbeard-custom from 109.160.32.37 port 59414 ssh2 But hey, welcome to the spamtraps! #ssh #sshgropers #passwordgropers […]

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Headers Up! What's New in httpd and relayd www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article… #openbsd #relayd #httpd #web #proxy #layer7filtering #filtering #security #development #freesoftware #libresoftware

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

If you need financial assistance to attend EuroBSDCon 2027, the Paul Schenkeveld Travel Grant eurobsdconfoundation.org/travel-gra… may be for you. Apply before 2027-02-01 #eurobsdcon @EuroBSDCon #bsd #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd

Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@pitrh/117369662523… Again for the later time zones: This packet from the original RFC1149 implementation is on auction for another 11 days: onlineonly.christies.com/s/fine-pri…

Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

The first packet sent on a RFC1149-compliant (avian carrier) network is up for auction: onlineonly.christies.com/s/fine-pri… For background, see blug.linux.no/project/rfc1149 and […]

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

OpenBGPD 9.3 released www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article… #openbsd #openbgpd #bgp #routing #networking #development #security #freesoftware #libresoftware

OpenBGPD 9.3 released

Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

OpenBSD -current is now "8.0-current" www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article… #openbsd #current #newreleasesoon #development #freesoftware #libresoftware

OpenBSD -current is now "8.0-current"

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

OpenBSD 8.0 is due out soon, and -current snapshots identify as 8.0 already. So it's time to reprise "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installe… which should help answer some common questions. #openbsd […]

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 30/09/2026

Minutes since the last "your network isn’t secure because it doesn’t use XYZ" email: 0 Where XYZ is, as usual, some procedure copied from a compliance handbook that would actually make the current setup less secure. #IT #SysAdmin

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Amen bro.

Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Seen on LinkedIn: "I did not know what a trigraph was before this document. I am a worse person for knowing now." #ccode #clang

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

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

OpenBSD -current has moved to version 8.0

Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

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

OpenBSD gains new networking daemon - rtrd(8)

Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

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

vmm(4)/vmd(8) gain support for multi-processor VMs

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I sometimes wonder about people's degree of reading comprehension. Today somebody (or possibly somebot) claiming they had read my LinkedIn profile contacted me about, of all things, a "SAP implementation project". I am beginning to suspect the twentysomething woman from Greece may in fact be […]

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

"What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out!" nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come… (or tracked bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/11/what-is-…) has been updated with dates and locations for 2027. @eurobsdcon @bsdcan […]

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

If you were unable to attend EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, or had to choose between parallel sessions, you can now see the talks directly from the talk descriptions on the program page events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule or peertube: exquisite.tube/c/ebc2026/videos @eurobsdcon […]

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

GEFS, the "Good Enough File System" on the horizon for OpenBSD www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article… #openbsd #gefs #goodenoughfilesystem #filesystem #development #freesoftware #libresoftware @EuroBSDCon

GEFS, the "Good Enough File System" on the horizon for OpenBSD

Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

I think the weirdest thing in my inbox today was a message with the subject "Feature Opportunity for The Book of PF, 2nd Edition with The Inner West Book Club". As in why on earth would a regular book club suddenly be interested in a by now 16 year old edition of a technical book (yes, the 4th […]

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

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

OpenSMTPD 7.9.0p0 released

Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

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

EuroBSDCon 2026 talks online

Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

If you thought #wankstortion was dead, sorry, it is not. New entries added to nxdomain.no/~peter/wankstortion - jpg nxdomain.no/~peter/wankstortion/202… raw […]

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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Timeline cleanser of a parrot that found a traffic cam to ham it up for.

Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

From EuroBSDCon 2026: "What has (can) the EU Cyber Resilience Act done (do) for you?" by Peter Hansteen - video exquisite.tube/w/pZuKtVxhfgGYYayG81… article nxdomain.no/~peter/what_hascan_eu_c… @eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #cra […]

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Andreas H. Opsvik :kageaasen: @tanketom.dftba.social · 09/09/2026

Er du i #Bergen og er interessert i alternativ til #BigTech? Vi gjer digital dugnad med foredrag og kjapp introduksjon til Linux på @bll, Lystgården på Landås den 22. september: gjer.no/events/331b4176-bcbb-4bb3-8… #NorskTut

Digital dugnad og ombruk av gamle datamaskiner

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Learn about software engineering for cyber resiliency at EuroBSDcon 2026 in Brussels: The night before CRAmas - why EU regulations are a gift to open source Alice Sowerby, Pierre Pronchery and Peter Hansteen 2026-09-10, 10:30 full day See events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/RER… To […]

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

There will be a PF tutorial at EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels: Network Management with the PF Packet Filter Toolset on OpenBSD and FreeBSD Featuring Tom Smyth and Peter Hansteen, 2026-09-11, 10:30, full day See events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/RKC… #eurobsdcon #bsd #openbsd #freebsd […]

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Let it be known that Claude presented me with this traffic, nxdomain.no/~peter/claude_groping_f… which grew the number of auto-LART patterns feeding into the webtrash list by a few items. See nxdomain.no/~peter/badness_enumerat… (also tracked at […]

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Bli med i Bergen (BSD and) Linux User Group (BLUG): blug.linux.no/bli-med #blug #bergenlug #blug #bsd #linux #bergen #friprogramvare #freesoftware #libresoftware #norge #norway

Bli med | Bergen Linux User Group

BLUG - Bergen Linux (and BSD) User Group

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Tattoo epic fail

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:autobot: Glen Mastodon ☠ @viktortheboar.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

This is how you sell a slightly used used 15 meter leash. It sold within a few hours. #dogsOfMastodon

dog sitting and looking at me in the middle of a spiral made from an extremely long leash

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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

I've just seen this Peter Drucker management quote that I think encapsulates AI perfectly: > There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. A lot of people are using AI to automate processes that exist, instead of asking what the process accomplished in […]

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

I kveld, i Bergen: "Hva har (kan) CRA - EU Cyber Resilience Act gjort (gjøre) for deg?" blug.linux.no/events/2026-08-cra Bergen (BSD and) Linux User Group (BLUG), kl 19:00 i Pressekonferanserommet, Media City Bergen #cybersecurity #cra #cyberresilience #freesoftware #libresoftware […]

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Jocelynephiliac :reclaimer: @twipped.twipped.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@kottke/11712809151… I am once again begging people to stop sharing xitter posts on fedi and bsky. You are expanding the platform's influence.

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

When posting about events such as conferences, please include a clear indication of *where* the thing is. Keep in mind that your post will be seen worldwide, including people who are not in your city, country, time zone or even continent. Including details about possible remote participation […]

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

As happens occasionally, I was contacted by some{bot,body} (who knows?) about somebody wanting to register $mydomain.cn. Again, for those in the back rows: THIS IS A SCAM! See nxdomain.no/~peter/domain_name_scam… (or with google trackers […]

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

rpki-client 9.9 released www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article… #openbsd #openbgpd #rpkiclient #bgp #routing #rpki #security #cryptography #networking #freesoftware #libresoftware

rpki-client 9.9 released

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Jonas Bals @jonasbals.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Talen jeg holdt ved Spaniamonumentet i Birkelunden i anledning at det er 90 år siden den spanske borgerkrigen begynte: agendamagasin.no/kommentarer/...

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Den første krigen mot fascismen

Historien kan ikke lære oss hva vi skal gjøre, for historien gjentar seg aldri. Men vi kan lære av den, på vondt – men også på godt.

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

1/ Thorough debunking of arguments against banning, by law, «smart glasses»/«perv glasses» in Norway. «The Government’s Capitulation to Meta. It seems Karianne Tung has forgotten who she works for.» 🧵

Regjeringens knefall for Meta

Det virker som Karianne Tung har glemt hvem hun jobber for.

Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

EuroBSDcon 2026: register today and get the T-shirt for free with your registration! T-shirt is included for registration tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b… until 2026-08-16 05:59:59 CEST, then strictly first come, first served until stocks run out. See […]

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

At EuroBSDcon 2026: From Report to Patch, the OpenBSD Errata Process events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/ZGD… Talk by Alexander Bluhm 2026-09-13 10:30:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b… About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org @eurobsdcon […]

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

At EuroBSDcon 2026: Input devices on OpenBSD for console, X11 and Wayland events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/YMR… Talk by Matthieu Herrb 2026-09-12 13:00:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b… About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org @eurobsdcon […]

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

At EuroBSDcon 2026: Using modern *BSD to get a 4.2BSD system from 1983 running events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/YGC… Talk by Walter Belgers 2026-09-13 15:15:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b… About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org […]

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

At EuroBSDcon 2026: Linux emulation on NetBSD: How broken is it? events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/WXC… Talk by Stephen Borrill 2026-09-12 13:00:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b… About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org @eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon […]

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

At EuroBSDcon 2026: Porting STUNMESH-go to FreeBSD and macOS: Building Peer-to-Peer WireGuard Networks events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/WHG… Talk by Yu-Chiang (Date) Huang 2026-09-12 15:00:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b… About EuroBSDcon 2026 […]

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

At EuroBSDcon 2026: Keeping up with language-based packaging systems in Ports (especially Python) events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/VDQ… Talk by Charlie Li 2026-09-13 16:15:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b… About EuroBSDcon 2026 […]

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