2026-04-16T14:57:55Z https://yabu.me Peter N. M. Hansteen https://yabu.me/npub1gar64hd8h8fpnkd2lzql0p4y3nq8l5wmqqrrj6c6jejt28m885zsanuee2 https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/027/233/original/4a1f1367cafeaaa0.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/027/233/original/4a1f1367cafeaaa0.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8ml28mhz9hfj3ny9y5jkk3f4dkxfcvksvzh3kplhyslfs7j3znwgzypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s2v6wvqx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdf5xtjkkq5qw8agfu4f49y3h2teaq4sd7fluty874suy5rctwcksa9eett'>nevent1q…eett</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m quietly amazed we&#39;re still here, so yes 2026-03-08T09:59:39Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf3syn2na247077ycxe4mh0vxyqt0059dedvchpj0v3tpjskvpnsczypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s2zgg6zp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdmygwqsc07lm0pjep9vur7zcww2mvtng94x8wjvyjxn3trd2p7zq6nh27z'>nevent1q…h27z</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think that in the early 2030s we will be seeing dissertations and papers on &#34;The Mid-2020s Developer Skills Erosion Caused by Indiscriminate Large Language Model (LLM) Use&#34;.<br/><br/>Believe me, it *will* be a hot academic topic. 2026-03-07T10:38:24Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgnfxc6dpylzuawa3jrgfgxreznu0g4k0flnpreesdeyp9d749p8qzypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s2trknfd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvh58x6wdef8u70tldca6wgj2l2sthmevayy8408ullftg9e2dmpcp8usdw'>nevent1q…usdw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>😠 kan gjerne passe? 2026-02-22T21:58:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstqcm56hnvm73mlrtx6m80lh4lusf0n5qaufcg5zkglxc2p7tvzmczypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s2335vll In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs28qc5klq0jv5dmfelfw6rewwkaxlj66xkpkuxhef2j8qe90ackyq67ktjn'>nevent1q…ktjn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I *think* <a href="https://stagetimer.io/">https://stagetimer.io/</a> (or at least something very similar) was what we used for EuroBSDcon, rigth, [@EuroBSDCon](<a href="https://bsd.network/@EuroBSDCon">https://bsd.network/@EuroBSDCon</a> ) ?<br/><br/>(search terms were &#34;conference talk countdown timer&#34;, there are several others) 2026-02-12T21:43:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0ze26g48sx83e7l4w0vt0lj8xsmvqlzck2pww8wu0y0x3sp3dpgczypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s2uzhuej In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrvw8sr6ekhzxgprlasjcn43pwup382glz9gj67kjkn96x5j6a5cq4lf2kz'>nevent1q…f2kz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I wonder, what was the original (I assume ad) context for that picture? 2026-01-27T20:31:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0pxc0kt3pc272ddqv0z7za67kad5dtyzs8q8p2w3n5kudrats9kgzypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s2lrs5tv Do you want to come to #ottawa and tell a bunch of #BSD geeks about what you enjoy doing?<br/><br/>Submit to BSDCan 2026!<br/><br/>Our submissions deadline is January 17, 2026, see <a href="https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html">https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html</a><br/><br/>Tutorials: June 17-18, 2026<br/>Conference: June 19-20, 2026<br/><br/>More about the BSD conferences: <a href="https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html">https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html</a><br/><br/>#freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #conference #development #sysadmin 2026-01-14T14:23:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv987xp4rhyqysnj9s6xt8egxgc3wgqth604dvsxykr3d56hlwvhczypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s2skzgpt In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfdtrecrdwfq2adzazd4llk2hjhpler2r8f3grnzpkffgwljywhqsjszut5'>nevent1q…zut5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>while I am one of those lazy gits who prefer my keyboards be made for me, I&#39;m sure there are #openbsd people who make their own. <br/><br/>I&#39;d suggest to air the issue on misc and see if anyone pipes up. 2025-12-10T10:59:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdx46pg205nd8peahyz7dcj82a20x8exnz6cf88xwt2d0c8xw2jaqzypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s25zn2gn Tired of the interminable emacs vs vi editor wars (with praise for nano baked in)? Back in 2018 I wrote &#34;ed(1) mastery is a must for a real Unix person&#34; <a href="https://nxdomain.no/~peter/ed_mastery_is_a_must_for_real_unix_person.html">https://nxdomain.no/~peter/ed_mastery_is_a_must_for_real_unix_person.html</a> - a review of <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ksfsk7zf88lk37thy0w5254empykpkw2aenr3chpnjv7wp2usyjsgmr6s6" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ksf…r6s6</span>)</a></span> &#39;s then recent book #ed #vi #emacs #editors #unix #editorwars #standardeditor 2025-11-26T12:22:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrz6ez0wpzq6h338xcs9mnfpzu9823vz5aggyr8g2v7nghr9d0grszypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s22c6tlc &#34;What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out!&#34; It&#39;s where the Internet comes from!<br/><br/>Read more: <a href="https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html">https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html</a><br/><a href="https://medium.com/@peter.hansteen/what-is-bsd-come-to-a-conference-to-find-out-06acd7d77fd8">https://medium.com/@peter.hansteen/what-is-bsd-come-to-a-conference-to-find-out-06acd7d77fd8</a><br/><a href="https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/11/what-is-bsd-come-to-conference-to-find.html">https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/11/what-is-bsd-come-to-conference-to-find.html</a><br/>#BSD #Unix #FreeBSD #OpenBSBD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #Freesoftware #Libresoftware #BSDlicense #permissivelicensing 2025-11-07T15:22:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv28hf3dp6c6ks0hz9lxpnts8semfrw624llgc2jd2048n7dzvgdqzypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s266kf3f RFC1149: Ten Years of In-Flight Internet <a href="https://nxdomain.no/~peter/rfc1149_ten_years_of_in-flight_internet.html">https://nxdomain.no/~peter/rfc1149_ten_years_of_in-flight_internet.html</a> <br/><br/>Yes, there was an implementation. In April 2001, my laptop was pinged via carrier pigeon. <br/><br/>My writeup for the 10th anniversary of the experiment, with links to copies of the original material. #rfc1149 #pigenons #networking #hacking 2025-10-03T20:35:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgl4xva3q72wssx2xx8h4rec222gntg35wy0d90ye8mk8phmr023czypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s244pvn3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstuf4ej334juxkksl2luuxksgkfs4c8ec3zrdwvcn6q0zcmhjcezsfgqe2y'>nevent1q…qe2y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>thanks!<br/><br/>One of my goals with that article is (while not sounding downright sloganish) to point to both that open source is important in all software engineering, and open sourcing is somewhere in the range a necessity down to very helpful to get good software engineering. 2025-10-01T15:50:55Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgztj6zxjy9xpjy0gqfkngweva6xhrgcfhwwf8sfe5lrllnlkn5jczypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s2s0vat4 Friends, what is the appropriate response when what you were sold as an upgrade to an actually useful product you were running in a trial turns out to be just *vibe coder excreta* flimsily packed in a resemblance of the former version&#39;s gui?<br/><br/>yes, *vibe coder excreta*. You saw it here first.<br/><br/>#vibecode #vibecoderexcreta 2025-09-04T13:41:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspe060qulup8apf6wgar8ku3rwufvuvqp4erqf8yl3qn6mw9zw0aszypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s2hplpxn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvasuaf0d7zma659qw8y90hhzqp6u3hv4fmf9yfz0ylwfgl8yhf4cumye58'>nevent1q…ye58</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Were Bambi and Cash Puddle autocarrot in acction, or deliberate variants by you? (nice either way in my book) 2025-08-22T13:55:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw45626hpasxy35mxwa0tqr3p35fwta868rnku0pke2mwtglm4p8szypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s29u3qjs Recently I found out that when I sent mail to GOOG hosted domains, they would mark my messages as spam or disappear then entirely. <br/><br/>Then today a mailing list host&#39;s spamassassin rejected my message. <br/><br/>It turned out that somebody had reported bsdly.blogspot.com (GOOG hosted, but referenced in my .signature) to spamhaus as malicious, and GOOG + the mailing list hoster believed them.<br/><br/>Got delisted, no problem. So which party is to blame here, or what method?<br/>#spam #antispam #smtp #contentfiltering 2025-08-11T13:50:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspw0ryd9nmsace2m5p28w3j39mpavf9xexf9a3paksam2u4c4tjmgzypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s29qjayt Can you help somebody skill up on a BSD related topic?<br/><br/>Submit a tutorial at <a href="https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/">https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/</a><br/><br/>See <a href="https://2025.eurobsdcon.org">https://2025.eurobsdcon.org</a> for information about the conference.<br/><br/>See you in Zagreb!<br/><br/>#eurobsdcon #bsd #conference #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #unix #development #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware #skillup #upskill 2025-05-20T10:56:51Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswr95erfn6n8emtdr6q4eruez9u5cnwx4v4fyv53fglktswemuthgzypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s2xu5r08 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvxvnk78chr3z3qa9s8c9mc6v0yc38q9n5dmuppvz2myvns557wnqyd7rmp'>nevent1q…7rmp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It looks like there will be live streams on youtube <a href="https://eurovision.tv/how-to-watch">https://eurovision.tv/how-to-watch</a> 2025-05-12T17:18:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2550dq3eejsny0jcr3jrrcn4mx3r7y0px5rfwhu9su9h2926qd9czypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s2avy4ff Stefano Martinelli&#39;s <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ef53dd26zz26wlxa70xrl238fywamsrfp24nxxysesczwv425r0q6tgcpc" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Stefano Marinelli</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ef5…gcpc</span>)</a></span> article about his EuroBSDCon 2024 experience has been published by the FreeBSD Journal and on the Foundation web site: <a href="https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/virtualization-2/conference-report-my-eurobsdcon-experience-in-dublin/">https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/virtualization-2/conference-report-my-eurobsdcon-experience-in-dublin/</a> (TL;DR: he enjoyed it *a lot*) #eurobsdcon #dublin #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #libresoftware #sustainability #development #freesoftware 2025-01-16T08:53:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstwnh0lqpksakhme5gau2cfmsmze9sfpfvnglx8mra5ugcm9g25rgzypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s26wu5uh APNIC Blog: IP addresses through 2024<br/><br/>&#34;There is still no evidence of any common sense of urgency about the deployment of [IPv6] ...&#34; <a href="https://blog.apnic.net/2025/01/13/ip-addresses-through-2024/">https://blog.apnic.net/2025/01/13/ip-addresses-through-2024/</a><br/><br/>#networking #IPv6 #infrastructure #transition 2025-01-13T07:49:24Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8r3rlgs4nz4cxr3mxtp59ngxnh8ezrd5y6e45fpdx6lh9ut9esdczypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s2vstew8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqu0ggjrklrtpjjva8g22h9urwwtmz053n448q6p2tukqc5dpxhesqqkm9l'>nevent1q…km9l</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Once it sank in with my various relatives and acquaintances that I don&#39;t do Windows at all, I have been mostly spared those requests. 2024-12-12T08:30:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqz8g069unzejycq8rnpr4l6xqndu3f8y47j22q2q7mzadx2ngy9gzypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s235yxae In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstfdd4xsqxxyk848lrr9aesl3ejynvkxecyddwn849xv58dvzxzsse59tmv'>nevent1q…9tmv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>AFAIK both systems support Secure Boot, but I would warn that multibooting is a pain in general and the inevitable missteps can be quite time consuming. <br/><br/>The safer path would be IMO to decide which system is your main one and relegate the other to running in a virtual machine (or several if needed).<br/><br/>If the preference (or precedence) changes, it&#39;s relatively easy to change your setup to match. 2024-12-04T08:00:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvdtjl9gswde386ptvnusw4k70cvnzta2hk882cxlruy4jxfl4xgszypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s2mh8qsg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvyckua30nxmtjgl0tv5xp9h8jn33awejyzyhmwa45g0lzwaf69psry53v3'>nevent1q…53v3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>what I see looks like mostly my profile info wrapped in JSON - files preserved here <a href="https://nxdomain.no/~peter/edent/">https://nxdomain.no/~peter/edent/</a> 2024-11-30T12:11:05Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9zm5apv66c3f5lr068azsptjdwfd6phdug2yqwcrmhkjj3t30fkqzypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s2gmvstk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyp5f6umxpasr5tx9e36uf8veertjq6ns6fdlrf6nkfq2qefrkd8gm2m6ku'>nevent1q…m6ku</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Live CDs or the USB storage equivalent are still doable.<br/><br/>I&#39;ve at times installed a basic OpenBSD to a USB thingy and test booted things from that. <br/><br/>Even booting the install image dd&#39;ed to a USB thing will give you a reasonably informative dmesg output. But then again in almost all cases when I have tried things have Just Worked. <br/><br/>Reinstalling Windows when I needed it turned out to be a lot harder (essentially requiring you to keep that device specific recovery image handy) 2024-11-28T10:47:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz72wwnpftfk73z57h9j0ymg7xlez53w028yuyf697tdshe330ztqzypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s2ars8hm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspmn87hjqpspvv8whrjsvg85e0zzfr965jf7mv6h4nf4na8y3clgsvwryqq'>nevent1q…ryqq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>While I have no Costco-specific info, in my experience you should not be surprised if the shop requires you to reinstall (from a recovery image likely provided on the machine) before returning. <br/><br/>Otherwise they may charge you for something silly like a year of PC support (buried deep in the 2021 &#34;The Impending Doom of Your Operating System Going to or Past 11, Versus the Lush Oasis of Open Source Systems&#34; piece <a href="https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blog_wild_wild_world_of_windows.html">https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blog_wild_wild_world_of_windows.html</a> or prettified with trackers <a href="https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-impending-doom-of-your-operating.html">https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-impending-doom-of-your-operating.html</a> 2024-11-28T09:56:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszvcy6s4w084ux8zjkj8l0csspy5kjf55tk680vhfqmtqqkuhaddczypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s2re0khw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswamw2lgffz60uzwayyr94uf7h7lan0cyedgga5ttr2wcz726mxrcku78xp'>nevent1q…78xp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I wonder to what extent the actual file format is common to those products, though. <br/><br/>My impression from way back was that at most times in the Windows age, MSWord .doc files were essentially memory dumps that if you were lucky could be rescued via RTF (see eg <a href="https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2013/11/compatibility-is-hard-chartestdoc-is.html">https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2013/11/compatibility-is-hard-chartestdoc-is.html</a> and <a href="https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2008/04/does-anybody-here-remember-artie-eff.html">https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2008/04/does-anybody-here-remember-artie-eff.html</a> - sorry, G-tracked only), compatibility between versions was far from guaranteed AFAICR 2024-11-12T22:40:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswpg2puyyz950agwws9tceqpnpjfcec9055msaahe7f9tzjjevevqzypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s2gy2zcn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswtzd3zqx0tqd257e0g8fwc9hs59cc09l8w9e9cjkg9dz9wgv2ylqhn9tj6'>nevent1q…9tj6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>domains that were set up back in the day for temporary futzing about is I guess something we all have, and nobody expects those to stay available forever. <br/><br/>In my case I was a little surprised a few times to find that researchers and their research within my fields of interest appeared to have just disappeared into thin air, the material now available only via the wayback machine. 2024-10-03T06:58:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgrcs34hl3q07nhmm83402gv39wxuwxazlarwgh48fvksg3zm785gzypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s2pekeu2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy8w6yyljfkc46fm72nh7u2rxdslup3xmzkjk3wwwencnxtd38wysrlp7xu'>nevent1q…p7xu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I have been refreshing some of my older pieces lately and have seen the same problem more often than I like. <br/><br/>I simply updated the URLs in my pieces but either of the logo options would be good to highlight the problem.<br/><br/>Back in the day we used to say that &#34;good URLs do not change&#34;, but that seems to be of less importance to many at this point in time. 2024-10-02T07:00:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszwl4hnfp36eef740lcz546fkepygdcxztladutf8vhkfwslmp0yqzypr502ka57uayxwe4tugraux5jxvql73mvqqvwttr2txfdglvu7s20fvztk Any friends ut there herding mail for .no domains, are you also getting an upsurge in bounces to addresses of the type no-$randomgarbage@$yourdomain.no (eg no-zl93u6ro3rf93va0ort@nxdomain.no)? <br/><br/>See <a href="https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml">https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml</a> and links therein for reference #norway #smtp #mail #spam #bounces #spamd #traplist 2024-08-03T10:28:04Z