Notices by Peter N. M. Hansteen (pitrh@mastodon.social)

@0xabad1dea On approximately the same level of crazy I have seen

* PDFs embedded in word .docx files,

as well as

* screenshots of pages on a web site carefully inserted in .docx

I'm sure other equally horrible variations exist, limited only by the particular combinations of imbecility and imagination present in the specific individuals.

How much carbon was in the atmosphere when you were born? (compared to right now)

Select your birth year to find out https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/carbon-footprint-calculator/carbon-by-birth-year/ #carbon #carboncrisis #climate #climatechange

For those looking for OpenBSD advocacy material, I will allow myself to push my own "What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD", as a three part series on the APNIC blog starting with part one at https://blog.apnic.net/2021/10/28/openbsd-part-1-how-it-all-started/, also available in one big chunk without tracking at my webspace https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_every_it_person_needs_to_know_about_openbsd.html or *with* trackers and slightly nicer formatting at https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/09/what-every-it-person-needs-to-know.html - enjoy!

(also links therein) #openbsd #securebydefault #qualitysoftware

@czero @AdrianVovk @LaF0rge While individual contributors might decide to contribute to a free software project "out of the goodness of their heart", no commercial entity, whatever their business actually does. (defense or other sector, no matter)

Rather, they see the positive potential of utilizing the combined efforts of other developers as well as their own in maintaining and improving whatever it is they make their money from.

@starbreaker I would submit that all of the "social web" thingies are attempts at re-inventing USENET (OK showing my age, I know)

You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks. https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html (prettified, tracked: https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2024/09/you-have-installed-openbsd-now-for.html) #OpenBSD #install #syspatch #supported #releases #packages #pkg_add #sysupgrade #release #snapshot #current #sysadmin

20 years since "and we're just starting": undeadly.org turns 20 (2024-04-09) https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240409044953 #openbsd #openbsdjournal #undeadly #20years #anniversary #news

This is one of the best explanations of the xz matter I have seen so far:
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/technologist-vs-spy-the-xz-backdoor

and it leads in with a quote to remember -

"This dependency existed not because of a deliberate design decisionby the developers of OpenSSH, but because of a kludge added by some Linux distributions to integrate the tool with the operating system’s newfangled orchestration service, systemd."

Enjoy!

#xz #opensource #security #openssh

@feld Color me unsurprised. Anyway, their MX does not receive mail from my domains or even gmail.com.

[07/Feb/2024:18:09:02 +0100] "GET /manage/account/login HTTP/1.1" 301 162 "-" "'Cloud mapping experiment. Contact research@pdrlabs.net'"

And certainly when you also throw binary junk at webservers and grope "login" URLs. #cybercrime #cyberstalking #passwordgroping #deliverability 2/2

PROTIP: If you run a "cloud mapping experiment", make sure the contact address you give is deliverable -

2a05:d01c:b43:8a10:36c:5dc5:25e5:de22 - - [07/Feb/2024:18:06:02 +0100] "\x16\x03\x01\x00\xB1\x01\x00\x00\xAD\x03\x03\x9C\xB9\x0F\x1FW`\xF4\xAE\x01\xC5\xAC\x12\xDF9\xC2\xA0\x16\x9B\xBCl\xDE\xFFj4e>Z\x11\x17~g#\x00\x00P\xC0/\xC0+\xC0\x11\xC0\x07\xC0\x13\xC0\x09\xC0\x14\xC0" 400 150 "-" "-"
2a05:d01c:b43:8a10:36c:5dc5:25e5:de22 - -
1/2

I just saw a post that referred to ChatGPT as "Mansplaining as a service", and it is so wonderfully correct - instant generation of superficially plausible yet totally fabricated nonsense presented with unflagging confidence, regardless of topic, without concern, regard, or even awareness of the expertise of its audience :D #chatgpt #mansplaining #GenerativeAiIsGoingGreat

@feld @mms I suppose the wording in the Handbook https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/config/#configtuning-configfiles section 14.2.4 could be made less ambiguous then (the note vs the paragraphs following)

@mms OpenBSD forked from NetBSD back in 1995. There has been parallel development ever since, so there will be differences. But I do not think any of them went as far as replacing the entire init system.

@mms I'd say variations on a theme. FreeBSD and NetBSD both have the defaults in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and you edit /etc/rc.conf while OpenBSD has the defaults in /etc/rc.conf and you edit /etc/rc.conf.local, close enough that it's obvious they share a common origin.

OpenSMTPD 7.4.0p1 Released https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20231116120437 #openbsd #opensmtpd #email #smtp #mail

For friends in #Bergen (or wishing you were) - Bergen Open Source https://boskonf.no/ is a new open source conference organized by #Fribyte on November 2, 2023 (with yours truly giving a talk) #opensource

Viable ROP-free roadmap for i386/armv8/riscv64/alpha/sparc64 https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230925061225 #openbsd #retguard #rop #rop-free #security #roadmap

3D printing on OpenBSD? Yes, that’s a thing! https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230914075444 #openbsd #3dprinting #3d #prusa #slicing #design

New routed IPsec VPN mode committed https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230807094305 #OpenBSD #VPN #IPSec #routed #security