Matthias @_xhr_@mastodon.social

#FreeBSD 12.0 has been released!

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2018-December/001856.html

Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice
https://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/08/choose-firefox-now-or-later-you-wont.html

Reminder I have a malloc diff out on tech@. Please test and /or review. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=154409226608811&w=2

FOSS is free as in toilet

Excellent statement, absolutely true

To the Tumblr refugees: welcome!

Having been on the Internet for over thirty years, I have one piece of advice for creative folks working online:

Control Your Platform.

Don't build a business around Facebook, Tumbler, G+, Geocities, MySpace, AltaVista, or any of these other third parties that claim to offer quick and easy results.

They all go away. Every one of them.

Build your own site. Use third parties to steer people to your site.

Third parties are the devil--useful devils, but devils.

for any new folks not sure about CWs, here are some common tags:

politics (can be triggering without warning)
nsfw / 18+ (obviously)
selfies / eye contact (can make people [especially autistic people] uncomfortable)
venting
food (bad for people who fast)
animals (could trigger pet phobias or pet death memories)

basically anything you wouldn't want to talk to someone about in public. also, you can put a -, ~ or + to determine if the context is negative, neutral or positive

DragonFly 5.4 released!

DragonFly 5.4.0 has been released.  This release bring a new compiler (gcc 8.0), asymmetric NUMA support, and a number of new and updated drivers for virtual machine devices and network. My users@ post has the details on upgrading, as do the release notes.  Note there's a step in there to update initrd, which has been available for the…[...]

https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2018/12/03/22159.html

Just donated to the #OpenBSD Foundation again, total of €1,730. It's amazing how many people continue to express their interest in using #OpenBSD and helping the project.

Thank you @mlarkin @reyk @cobracmder @oribernstein and all the others!

#RUNBSD

@stsp @florian I agree and frankly think this is downplayed: writing C using system manpages on anything but OpenBSD is painful. (And that's only documentation---not even to mention OpenBSD's functions like strlcpy, reallocarray, etc.) And it probably turns people away from C. Or worse, encourages error-prone idioms, which throws fuel on the flamewar.

A proposal for a new RPKI validator: OpenBSD rpki-client(1) https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20181130162059

> telnet mapscii.me

#openstreetmap in the shell

We got #FreeBSD and #HardenedBSD sticker for our BSD Assembly on #35c3
@lattera @_tj

npm's module count is growing at an average of 456 ... PER DAY.

I wouldn't bet the recent compromised package was unique or that npm will get a handle on the problem soon. At 732k packages and growing, that's a lot of reviewing to do. #infosec

http://www.modulecounts.com/

#retrocomputing #boardgame tonight new Board game "8bitbox" Pacman clone.

"If there is something you cannot solve or you are unsure about, you just ask for help. Nothing is wrong with a MAINTAINER who
asks for help when he needs it." -Ingo

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=154301868421297&w=2

#OpenBSD

#malloc is a general purpose allocator. If you know more about your typical memory usage, you can probably write a faster special purpose allocator. But wait with writing your own until you have evidence that malloc is the bottleneck, remember the features of #OpenBSD's malloc.

The CCC video operations center is no joke. Two hours after I gave my talk, it is available for download and streaming. Amazing!

Anyway, watch my talk if you're into networks and stuff.

https://media.ccc.de/v/denog10-31-presenting-the-powerful-properties-of-packet-processing-with-p4