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

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 removed https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=99118909527873&w=2 and the initial PF import happened later https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=99341215821296&w=2 (with lots of commits following)."

#pf #packetfilter #networking #openbsd #freebsd

Ah, we've been Lobstered! https://lobste.rs/s/qmvgke/opensmtpd_is_mail_server_for_future #opensmtpd #openbsd #saneemail #email #freesofware #libresoftware

OpenSMTPD Is The Mail Server For The Future https://nxdomain.no/~peter/time_for_opensmtpd.html Migrating to OpenSMTPD from exim on OpenBSD was joyfully painless and smooth. #openbsd #opensmtpd #email #smtpd #rspamd #spam #antispam #greylisting #greytrapping #mailserver

@jon "lux" means "light", so makes sense, kind of?

OpenSSH 10.3/10.3p1 released! https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260407084719 #openbsd #openssh #ssh #security #cryptography #networking

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pitrh/116182418029757504

For Saturday (CET) morning BSD and networking nerds: Here's a book for you!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pitrh/116182418029757504

At first, I had planned a user group talk, which was well received in January 2005.

Later it became a conference tutorial, and the ambition grew to make a book you could take in during an afternoon and start building "The Network You Need" the next day.

Now a book of roughly 250 pages, you likely need to plan to spend more than just one afternoon.

Anyway, this fourth edition is for you, who wants to build the best setup you can, using the best of breed free tools.

@aral @jani I'm quietly amazed we're still here, so yes

@jani I think that in the early 2030s we will be seeing dissertations and papers on "The Mid-2020s Developer Skills Erosion Caused by Indiscriminate Large Language Model (LLM) Use".

Believe me, it *will* be a hot academic topic.

Since the original came out, I have made updates here and there, and added references to some newer material.

You could see "EU CRA: It's Later Than You Think, Time to Engineer Up!" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eu_cra_its_later_than_you_think_time_to_engineer_up.html as a further development in response to the real world (or at least the EU parts) moving forward.

Back in 2022, surrounded by colleagues who were infused with "open source scepticism", I wrote "Open Source in Enterprise Environments - Where Are We Now and What Is Our Way Forward?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/opensource_enterprise_notes.html as an explainer.

Hopefully a useful thing for others too, with links therein #freesofware #opensource #enterprise #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #linux

@forteller 😠 kan gjerne passe?

@forteller I *think* https://stagetimer.io/ (or at least something very similar) was what we used for EuroBSDcon, rigth, @EuroBSDCon ?

(search terms were "conference talk countdown timer", there are several others)

"A century of tech BS" seems a bit over the top when it's only 2026, but it certainly feels that long.

More, by @lproven in https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/08/waves_of_tech_bs/ #techbs #bullshit #blockchain #ai #llms #llmdroppings

The .cn domain name scammers are still at it, a new entry added to the archive at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/domainnamescam/

See "Domain Name Scams Are Alive And Well, Thank You" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/domain_name_scams_are_alive_and_well_thank_you.html for some background (written 2016, and the problem was not new then) #dns #domainnamescam #cndomains #scams #spam

Now that #openbsd 7.8 https://www.openbsd.org/78.html is out, a refresh of "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html or tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2024/09/you-have-installed-openbsd-now-for.html was in order. #install #upgrade #maintenance #security #freesoftware #libresoftware

@kaia I would tend to think this due to incompetence rather than malice.

Likely inept robocall herders with bad timing. Which would be annoying, but likely harmless.

@cstross @nixCraft I anticipage breakage, interesting in the Chinese sense

Soon a new OpenBSD release, v 7.8, will be on the horizon. Time prepare and to reprise "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html (also https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2024/09/you-have-installed-openbsd-now-for.html) #openbsd #install #sysadmin #devops #maintenance #packages #freesoftware #libresoftware

Post-Quantum Cryptography Advice Added to OpenSSH Website https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250811110058 #openbsd #openssh #ssh #cryptography #postquantum #postq #crypto #security #libresoftware #freesoftware #bsd