Also, it has been discovered that typing passphrases with the CapsLock key active is an exercise in futility

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

Oh, so somebot thought this would work: May 20 04:04:16 portal sshd-session[90553]: Failed password for invalid user $ from 23.94.213.157 port 41886 ssh2 #ssh #passwordgroping #botnets #bots #cybercrime

OpenBSD 7.9 released https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260519132757 #openbsd #newrelease #openbsd79 #security #development #networking #foryourlaptop #freesoftware #libresoftware

The #eurobsdcon 2026 Call for Papers: Submit by June 20th! https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/ Submit by June 20th, come to Brussels September 9-13 and mingle with #bsd people! We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see within. Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See […]

We are very close to a new OpenBSD release. "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html can help you prepare for the upgrade. If you are using exim as your MTA (or any other non-base system MTA), "OpenSMTPD Is […]

Migrating mail servers from exim to OpenSMTPD (smtpd) is fun and useful https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260516064650 #openbsd #opensmtpd #smtpd #exim #email #smtp #mail #spam #antispam #greylisting #greytrapping #mailmigration

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

Automatic expiry at timeout for pf(4) overload tables https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260513064948 #openbsd #pf #packetfilter #overload #overloadtables #statetracking #timeout #expiry #autoexpiry #autotimeout #networking #networktrickery

Let's find out how to get predictable IPv6 addresses assigned to OpenBSD VMs https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260512115225 #openbsd #networking #ipv6 #predictable #dynamic #autoconf #development #freesoftware #libresoftware

Game of Trees 0.125 released https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260512052610 #openbsd #gameoftrees #got #git #development #versioncontrol #sourcecontrol #freesoftware #libresoftware

The #eurobsdcon 2026 Call for Papers is still open! https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/ Submit by June 20th, come to Brussels September 9-13 and mingle with #bsd#eurobsdconpeople! We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see the CFP text. Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See […]

At BSDCan 2026: Full day Network Management with the Packet Filter Toolset on OpenBSD and FreeBSD https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-Network-Management-with.html To register: https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html See […]

The #eurobsdcon 2026 Call for Papers is still open! https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/ Submit by June 20th, come to Brussels September 9-13 and mingle with #bsd people! We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see within. Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See […]

Now OpenBSD is gearing up for its 60th release, version 7.9 https://www.openbsd.org/79-html, it may be a good time to read up on day to day activities in "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html #openbsd […]

I don't get all the hype, I've been a prompting engineer for 40 years!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pitrh/116480580740445483 I get reactions to this that could indicate that people are unaware that TFC1149 was successfully implemented 25 years ago. This ought to be common knowledge, certainly in geek circles.

Happy RFC1149 Implementation Test Day 25th anniversary to all who celebrate! https://nxdomain.no/~peter/rfc1149_implementation_25_years_later.html

BLUG, Bergen 2026-05-28: Social anarchic, mad, and misbehaving agents collaboratively solving tasks v/Bjarte Johansen https://blug.linux.no/events/2026-05-agents/ Bergen (BSD and) Linux User Group er tilbake! #bergen #linux #agents #development #programming

Twenty-five years ago today, on 28 April 2001, we tested our TCP/IP over avian carriers (RFC1149) implementation. See "The implementation of the Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol, RFC1149, 25 years later", https://nxdomain.no/~peter/rfc1149_implementation_25_years_later.html #networking #tcpip […]

Friends, I wrote a book. It's now out in its fourth edition. More in "The Book of PF, 4th Edition: It's Here, It's Real" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/its_real_its_here.html For background, "Yes, The Book of PF, 4th Edition Is Coming Soon" […]

The #eurobsdcon 2026 Call for Papers is open through June 2oth! https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/ Submit by June 20th, come to Brussels September 9-13 and mingle with #bsd people! We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see within. Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See […]

Only four days left! Register for BSDCan 2026 https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ *before May 1st* to get the Saturday reception for free! Schedule https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-all.html To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Saturday 2026-06-20: 15:45 - 16:35 DMS 1130 pkgbase in Production: A Practical Overview Lukas Engelhardt https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-pkgbase-in-Production.html To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan #freebsd […]

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Saturday 2026-06-20: 15:45 - 16:35 DMS 1120 A Two-Step FreeBSD Installer: Current Status and Future Plans Alfonso Sabato Siciliano https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-A-Two-Step-FreeBSD.html To register […]

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Saturday 2026-06-20: 15:45 - 16:35 DMS 1110 Universal Flash Storage on FreeBSD Jaeyoon Choi https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-Universal-Flash-Storage.html To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan #freebsd #storage

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Saturday 2026-06-20: 14:30 - 15:20 DMS 1130 Bringing memory safety to BSD with CHERI Brooks Davis https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-Bringing-memory-safety.html To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan #openbsd […]

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Saturday 2026-06-20: 14:30 - 15:20 DMS 1120 Community Event Organizing Michael Dexter https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-Community-Event-Organizing.html To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan #openbsd #freebsd […]

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Saturday 2026-06-20: 14:30 - 15:20 DMS 1110 What happens when you write to /dev/null Martin Vahlensieck https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-What-happens-when.html To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan #openbsd #freebsd

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Saturday 2026-06-20: 13:15 - 14:05 DMS 1130 Getting Extended Error Messages from the FreeBSD Kernel Marshall Kirk McKusick https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-Getting-Extended-Error.html To register […]

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Saturday 2026-06-20: 13:15 - 14:05 DMS 1120 Return of the Segment: Thread Local Storage John Baldwin https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-Return-of-the.html To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan #freebsd #threads […]

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Saturday 2026-06-20: 13:15 - 14:05 DMS 1110 Escaping Plato's Cave with Software Freedom: A Classical Greek Symposium with Fred, Puffy, and Beastie Corey Stephan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-Escaping-Plato-s-Cave.html To register […]

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BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Saturday 2026-06-20: 11:00 - 11:50 DMS 1130 NetManager - Building products with NetBSD round 2 Stephen Borrill https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-NetManager---Building.html To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan […]

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Saturday 2026-06-20: 11:00 - 11:50 DMS 1120 Supporting hibernate (S4) on FreeBSD Olivier Certner https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-Supporting-hibernate-S4.html To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan #freebsd #hibernate

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Saturday 2026-06-20: 11:00 - 11:50 DMS 1110 Through MAC and Back Kyle Evans https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-Through-MAC-and.html To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan #freebsd #mac

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Saturday 2026-06-20: 09:45 - 10:35 DMS 1130 ZFS AnyRAID: Flexible Disk Layout Allan Jude https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-ZFS-AnyRAID-Flexible.html To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan #freebsd #zfs

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Saturday 2026-06-20: 09:45 - 10:35 DMS 1120 BSD as a Foundational Platform for Nationwide Semiconductor Education in Japan Hiroki Sato https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-BSD-as-a.html To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html […]

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Saturday 2026-06-20: 09:45 - 10:35 DMS 1110 Model Checking in BSD Userland and Kernel Justin Handville https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-Model-Checking-in.html To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan #freebsd […]

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Friday 2026-06-19: 15:45 - 16:35 DMS 1130 How FreeBSD 15 landed Colin Percival https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-How-FreeBSD-15.html To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan #freebsd #releaseengineering

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Friday 2026-06-19: 15:45 - 16:35 DMS 1120 How Hard Could It Be? Modernizing XigmaNAS for OpenZFS 2.4.0 Ken Wong https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-How-Hard-Could.html To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan #freebsd […]

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Friday 2026-06-19: 15:45 - 16:35 DMS 1110 Geographically fault-tolerant SSH on OpenBSD Rob Keizer https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-Geographically-fault-tolerant-SSH.html To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan […]

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Friday 2026-06-19: 14:30 - 15:20 DMS 1130 What has (can) the EU Cyber Resilience Act done (do) for you? Peter Hansteen https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-What-has-can.html To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan #cra […]

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Friday 2026-06-19: 14:30 - 15:20 DMS 1120 Migrating from VMWare to FreeBSD bhyve Sarder Kamal https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-Migrating-from-VMWare.html To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan #freebsd #bhyve […]

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Friday 2026-06-19: 14:30 - 15:20 DMS 1110 geomman: Bringing GParted-like Partition Management to FreeBSD Braulio Rivas Abad https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-geomman-Bringing-GParted-like.html To register […]

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Friday 2026-06-19: 13:15 - 14:05 DMS 1130 OpenNTPD - 20 years and a few milliseconds later Henning Brauer https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-OpenNTPD---20.html To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan #openbsd […]

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Friday 2026-06-19: 13:15 - 14:05 DMS 1120 BSD Iterative Infrastructure with ZFS and Zelta: From Battle-Tested Backups to Zero-Cost Iteration Daniel Bell https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-BSD-Iterative-Infrastructure.html To register […]

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Friday 2026-06-19: 13:15 - 14:05 DMS 1110 FreeBSD Implementation of the SMT transport protocol Eugenio Luo https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-FreeBSD-Implementation-of.html To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan […]

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ BoF Friday 2026-06-19: 12:00 - 13:00 DMS 1130 Audio BoF Michael Williams https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-Audio-BoF.html To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #audio