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And for those who wonder about the install and update process, "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installe… should help answer some common questions. #openbsd #newrelease #maintenance #sysadmin #security […]

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h

With a fresh OpenBSD release just around the corner, this may be a good time to reprise my 2021 article "What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD" nxdomain.no/~peter/what_every_it_pe… (also available in smaller chunks at apnic.net) #openbsd […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

“I am a Jedi, like my father before me.” “Actually, it’s one Jedum” “Noooooooooo!”

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

People would know this if they bothered to read a little history - it's of course in any of the editions of The Book of PF nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4e but I would think the absolutely available and even BSD licensed precursor has the facts (but may have the times wrong) […]

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

In a discussion on LinkedIn somebody opined that PF is "an evolved fork" of IPF. My as-polite-as-possible correction to that was, "$poster, It's not a fork. Rather, an independent implementation that was initially tweaked so OpenBSD kept a mostly compatible configuration syntax. ipf was […]

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Benedicte Emilie @benedicte.kodeklang.social · 13/10/2026

På LinkedIn var det noen som delte en lenke til et tilsynelatende interessant innlegg fra noen i Nobel-komiteen. Dette ønsket jeg å lese! Problemet var jo at det originale innlegget er på X og det er tilsynelatende ingen måte å lese dette på uten å ha konto, lenger? Folkens, finn dere et åpent […]

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

With 23h 40m left to go, the highest bid is USD 4800. Get your bids in!

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Les datas centers Russes s’éteignent et, soudainement, « l’engagement » sur les comptes réseaux sociaux d’extrême droite disparait. Non, la majorité n’est pas fasciste. Mais la majorité aime se rallier à la majorité. Il suffit de lui faire croire que la majorité est fasciste. On a justement […]

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

The auction is on for another day or so. Get your bids in, you have a chance to own a piece of Internet history!

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

A unique piece of Internet history: A packet from the RFC1149 implementation is up for auction at Christie's! bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/10/a-unique… (not tracked: nxdomain.no/~peter/rfc1149_auction.…) #rfc1149 #internet #history #auction […]

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Simon Zerafa @simonzerafa.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

The Asimov-Moscow Protocols: 1. Humans must not anthropomorphise AI systems, 2. Humans must not blindly trust the output of AI systems, 3. Humans must remain fully responsible and accountable for consequences arising from the use of AI systems. #MoscowRules #TheThreeLaws #AI

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Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Just got a mass email from our bank that essentially says, "If you give your username and password to an AI agent, you're on your own." You've. Been. Warned. 🤣

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

In case you are in a late time zone and missed it earlier, you have a chance to bid on a unique part of Internet history here -

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Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Oh. no. It looks like the snake oil merchants at #antispamcloud (the SMTP callbacks kind) are still in business: nxdomain.no/~peter/oh_no_not_the_sn… Please point their marks at nxdomain.no/~peter/twenty-plus_year… and make […]

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026

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

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

and another one for the blooper reel: Oct 4 14:30:44 portal sshd-session[83187]: Failed password for invalid user .d from 109.160.32.154 port 51992 ssh2

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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 · 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

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

@aslakr helt dagligdags i Bergen, i betydning "gjerrig, smålig"

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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…

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

This is a unique item in Internet history. The stated starting bid is USD 1000, which would be a steal.

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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 · 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.

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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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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

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

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 · 15/09/2026

Possibly clarifying: the to: (and from:) address here is an alias, and has never been used to log on to anything. So functionally the same as any "imaginary friend" listed at nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml

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