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Hi, if you are following me because you think I am the dipshit who writes books about the People's Republic of China, I am not that dipshit.
I am a completely different dipshit.
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When I started this instance, I envisioned it as a social network 
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Like the hallway track at #BSDCan 
. Or when we wander the streets at #EuroBSDCon 
. And like when we hit up the bars at #AsiaBSDCon 
.
Chat about anything! Everything! Code is cool, but so is anything in your noggin. Good thing so many of you are already doing that 
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/me puts Admin Hat on.
Hi everybody!
The bsd.network instance has a Code Of Conduct, viewable at https://bsd.network/terms or via the "Terms and Conditions" link that is sprinkled around a few places.
The TL;DR is "be cool unto others". However, since society at large has demonstrated they can't be cool, we had to write out a bunch of things.
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Hey, users of bsd.network. Be cool unto people, and people will be cool unto you. Interacting with people is a *privilege* not a *right*. This is a private place owned by me and @aag and we want it to be friendly and nice.
We don't want to have to swing the admin-hammer to correct your behaviour!
But we will.
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I have created a #Librepay account for donations to me. I intend to use any monies to cover my open-source work, and for hosting this instance. https://liberapay.com/phessler/
Since donations through the service are anonymous, I don't know if, or how much, people have donated.
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instance is back up and running, everything seems good. just need the queues to catch up.
hey party people, I'm going to be rebooting and doing a hypervisor upgrade of bsd.network in about 10 minutes, starting at 08:00 UTC.
peter hessler @openbsd
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It is wild to me that PrEP exists. Bless all the ACT UP fighters who never relented, never quit, and brought us to an era where we can protect ourselves from HIV.
Fucking heroes, all.
peter hessler @openbsd
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NIST Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment Guide (March 2026)
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-81r3.pdf
peter hessler @openbsd
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Those who remember AUX ports on routers and cabling to CON ports might appreciate Wetatronics design of a SFP that provides an AUX port (or two with a breakout adapter). Connects outbound to a meet me server (cloud or run on-prem) over TLS.
Seems like a clever idea, for a “zero U” console server.
(As announced at #NZNOG lightning talks.)
peter hessler @openbsd
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If you work in any sort of organizational volunteer capacity:
think about EVERYTHING you have access to, slowly over time gathering a list of everything you've touched
get all the passwords
give them and recovery information access to someone else
thank
peter hessler @openbsd
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Dr. Chuck Tingle putting difficult things into words as always 🔥
peter hessler @openbsd
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I've been critical of the way the @verge has been covering the development of HBO's upcoming Harry Potter reboot. But it looks like it wasn't in vain.
If you're going to cover it, *this* is how the series should be described every time it's mentioned.
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/900819/hbo-harry-potter-trailer-release-date
peter hessler @openbsd
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Hey, if you are #trans and began transitioning in the 2016 - 2019 era, can you reply and let me know!
There are apparently way more of us here than I realized, and I would like to be closer friends with those that remember the before times and trans twitter and the discourses and the excitement before we all got burnt the fuck out. 😅
peter hessler @openbsd
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Guess who forgot to publish the new episode of the #OpenBSD on m88k story earlier this morning? (I'll blame the cat wanting to play, for this).
So, in today's episode, I try my luck at arm-wrestling the compiler, the OpenBSD/mvme88k port gets its first official release, and we end with a proof that I suffer from Alzheimer's disease.
Read it at http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/m88k2.html and stay tuned for next week!
peter hessler @openbsd
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#getfedihired looking for remote work, i'm disabled and looking for something low stress, just need any kind of steady income
peter hessler @openbsd
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“We briefly had a library of alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mash of pulp back to us at a premium.”
peter hessler @openbsd
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RE: https://hostux.social/@PorCus/115703141547318010
Hey Fedi !
I'm still searching for my next job. I'd also be ready to work full time if something pops up. Anyone needs a network engineer ?
#fedhire #getfedihired #jobsearch
peter hessler @openbsd
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i love that we went from "zero trust" as a fundamental buzzword to "trust autonomous nondeterministic agents everywhere in your stack"
peter hessler @openbsd
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I saw the quote on my feed a month ago or so but lost the link. I had to make it a hazard sign...
peter hessler @openbsd
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For people who have been following my #OpenBSD stories, you know that I have started a new 5-week saga.
There might be readers who have no interest in the current m88k saga.
I can publish that m88k saga in the next four weeks, and then switch to other stories; or I can interleave them, with one more m88k episode every two weeks, and another completely unrelated story every other week.
What would you readers prefer?
peter hessler @openbsd
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How about a new #OpenBSD story for breakfast (if you're having breakfast now, that is)?
The first episode of the story of OpenBSD and Motorola 88000 processors can be read at http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/m88k1.html. With pictures!
