Notices by h3artbl33d :openbsd: :ve: (h3artbl33d@exquisite.social)

Belgium now opposes #chatcontrol :flan_hurrah:

But we aren't there yet, far from it. Lets bury this fucker :flan_molotov:

Things are escalating fast :flan_aww:

• Both me and the awesome @stefano will be giving a talk at @EuroBSDCon: Liberating the social web using *BSD
• I will be giving a talk at BSides Querétaro: "Defending the democracy - through hacking"
• And I have some blogs lined up to be published soon-ish ™️

It is a true honor to serve you all. I am incredibly grateful to be given this space - and your attention. Don't ever forget that, no matter whom you are - you are awesome and you really deserve to be you.

If you ever want to talk: just reach out.

@stefano @EuroBSDCon

You really should patent that smile :flan_XD:

:flan_heart:

Casual reminder: you are supposed to run your own mailserver

If you aren't operating your own mailserver by now, what is your excuse? Don't have the hardware? Get a VM with @OpenBSDAms. Too much effort? Nah, @mwl has you covered.

Never surrender the protocols.

Run your own mail server.

Revolt.

Rebel.

#RYOMS #mail #selfhosting #decentralize #reclaim

I recently found an iPhone at a café - looked like one of the more premium models. Tried to give it to the bar personnel, but the seat wasn't reserved and they had no clue how to contact the owner.

The phone and the case didn't have anything identifying. Tried to see if it was secured and it showed that it had a pin of six numbers. Pretty sure I couldn't get in, I tried all zeroes and 123456. Bingo. The latter one was correct

I opened the phone book just to check whether there was a favorite contact. There wasnt but there was an ICE. Texted the ICE that he phone can be picked up at the café and handed it to the personnel, solely stating that it would be picked up.

But OMG. It feels so incredibly wrong to go over those details - if I had malicious intentions I might have been able to inflict serious harm.

Please, if you want your phone to be recoverable: make sure it has some identifying info (or enable Find My) - and if you don't want that, make sure it is impossible for a hack like me to get in that easily.

Mobile phones often contain data that you don't want to share completely with one person!

@stefano @fosdembsd @mwl

Totally. Six lines of Postfix config are equal to three letters (!) for OpenSMTPD: tls.

@mwl @stefano @fosdembsd

Yeah - totally. Slay the Gods. I mean - there is a certain case for the looney bin that is Postfix.

I might be a privileged postmaster - but no legacy crap for me.

@fosdembsd @stefano @mwl

I read that book while travelling to EuroBSDcon. Totally alleviated my pains - by realizing how much I like #OpenSMTPD :flan_hacker:

@stefano @mwl @fosdembsd

Exim. Please stop.

I have sent a USB drive to Ireland, by mail. It took 160 hours, end to end, for 250GB.

Meaning: the sneakernet transfer went with 434KByte/s.

It would have been much faster if we did the transfer over the internet. My connection is 1Gbit FttH. The other end would be the limiting factor, since they have a 80Mbit connection.

If we calculate in some overhead and transfer those 250GB at 70Mbit/s, then it would have taken 7 hours and 56 minutes.

Cool excersize though!

We might have a world first on a proper and just DRM implementation :flan_hurrah: Signal has implemented DRM to protect against the adversarial functionality dubbed Recall :flan_molotov:

#BurnTheClouds

Google has announced that from May, 30, 2025, they will stop supporting 3DES for incoming SMTP.

I had to triple check whether that announcement was a (very) late April Fools prank. It isn't. They are dead serious :flan_nooo:

Meh. OnlyOffice is Russian and they tried to obfuscate it.

@wizzwizz4 @Gina

A moderator should be able to view a users details and reports about them. Having no access to the (limited) user view has a real impact on judgement calls for a moderator.

A moderator can virew the uses details - like previous reports and their e-mail address. And their IP address, if not disabled by the server admin.

A moderator is not able to hijack access to DMs. Even an admin can't do that from the interface. It is possible, but requires access to the database and being able to run queries and/or exports there.

It always remains an issue of trust. Larger instances can't be run by a single person, so you'll have to trust the admins to pick the moderators wisely.

If you are not okay with that, you can always spin up your own instance. That gives you full control, but can also be a burden because of the responsibilities that come with it.

OpenSSH 10.0 is out! :flan_hacker:

True story #selfhosting

Just read this in the docs of a PHP script:

Run as root if you get a permission error.

Run, Forrest, Run :flan_molotov:

@BeAware

People are SO brainwashed

This scares me more than anything else. Is mankind that susceptible to misinformation?

BlueSky has reached 30 million victims.

It is just the next big tech silo. The federated aspect of it is a lie - can't really create an instance for it. Only partial - and even that is broken beyond repair.

I am preaching to the the choir here: but please, please try to raise awareness with your beloved ones and help them make the jump to the Fediverse.

Silos will eventually enshittify. It isn't a question of if, it is a question of when.

@abstractcode

This os exactly what makes projects like #OpenBSD and #HardenedBSD a bliss to use. 'Dogfooding' is the de-facto scenario.