David Cross @david@mastodon.crossfamilyweb.com

Partisans for the term "GNU/Linux" instead of just "Linux" are 1% informed on the matter and 99% "RMS said so", although they believe it to be the opposite.

I guess I can't blame them for RMS being influential. But I do blame RMS for being salty about the future that wasn't his being "stolen" instead of just accepting it like an adult.

Tumblr full of gifs of floppy disks in anime. The good stuff 👍👍👍

https://animefloppies.tumblr.com/

Remember, folks: #FreeBSD had jails while #Linux was still in elementary school.

Potentially unpopular puffin meme:

#Docker is a form of vendor lock-in.

I'm seeing more and more people not able to run BSD due to depending on #Linux-only Docker-ized projects.

Making your project have a hard dependency on Docker means you're locking your users into a potentially unwanted ecosystem.

Regarding captchas and free labor, digitizing books felt way better than training Google’s self-driving car.

(manual re-toot from birdsite)

#AWS #OpenBSD AMIs on eu-west-1 by https://twitter.com/ajacoutot:

current => ami-d1875ea8
6.2 => ami-ec904395
6.1 (don't use!) => ami-17110571

Yes it's "ec2-user@$ip" and you can doas(1) all you want...

To improve the security of my severs, I'm generating my own moduli file. Having a different one from others makes certain precomputed attacks more difficult.

"""
for i in 2048 3072 4096 6144 7680 8192 ; do ssh-keygen -G moduli-${i}.candidates -b $i; done

for i in 2048 3072 4096 6144 7680 8192 ; do ssh-keygen -T moduli-${i} -f moduli-${i}.candidates; done

cat moduli-???? > moduli; mv moduli /etc/moduli
"""

This will take a few days....

#openbsd #infosec #security #ssh

@kurtm @kellerfuchs and to be perfectly clear: we coordinated with the original author on our commit in August.

That the author regrets that choice is 1) not our problem, and 2) not our responsibility.

it is completely inappropriate that he singled out #OpenBSD, when e.g. Mikrotik also stealth published before hands.

@kellerfuchs @phessler Or maybe just not moving the goal posts on disclosure? #OpenBSD *did* honor the original embargo. They did not agree to another extension. Even so, they left out parts of the patch that explained it until the extension ended.

buckle up kids, I upgraded our varnish cluster again and get to fight systemd+varnish

last time I did this, I inspired posts on the twitter account "systemd sucks" and part of the book "savaged by systemd".

let's see how destructive it gets this time around!

Got #FreeBSD #mastodon startup scripts to automatically create or upgrade database when needed.. \o/

Good grief. Internal team at Microsoft has been trying to port OpenSSH to Windows for over two years now.

This latest 2 year stretch is their third attempt. 3RD ATTEMPT.

No wonder none of the alternatives out there seem able to pull it off reliably. Mind you, the alternatives all seem to be able to do the server listening to a port part well enough. It's verifying passwords and/or UX they can't manage.

Still, Microsoft is two years into their third attempt to do this.

Geebuz.

Trolling Conglomerates #MPEGLA and #Fortress Are Plotting to Start Another Round of #Patent Shakedowns http://techrights.org/2017/09/30/mpegla-and-fortress/

When debugging code.

#programming #funny https://mastodon.social/media/l63Gnr2Tt2gvQQrh-9I

EuroBSDCon 2017 social event.
https://mastodon.social/media/LNS4YNEGeClFiL8PRFg
https://mastodon.social/media/CVcQS8vV5lwuqqIStjU
https://mastodon.social/media/VLix0jBcMzSsiC_DJ2Q
https://mastodon.social/media/3aQeXpHioA19kKaTkvU

EuroBSDCon 2017, day 1 of the conference proper. https://mastodon.social/media/fG2vH7mFkk8v4cPU6L4

My BSD sucks less than yours. #EuroBSDcon
https://mastodon.social/media/mbd1tW1EDT4D9wBoIRM

vm-bhyve makes configuring #bhyve so much easier.

https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve

#bhyve #vmhyve #freebsd