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• Post #4250806

  I just got an email from the Belastingdienst (Dutch tax authority). Apparenttly they have switched mail providers, as they were mailing me from a hotmail address :flan_XD:

• Post #4122243

  If you are #selfhosting / #homelabbing: you have my utmost respect. Do not trust other parties to have your back - because they don't. However, few words to the wise: if you operate a minimalist setup - eg everything running in VMs on a single host: please do consider the consequences of downtime. You probably don't want to run your critical services on one machine without a fallback. If those services include your smarthome foundation, DNS and firewalling: you don't want to troubl...

• Post #3998782

  Today I received an email from Supermicro that they've released new BMC firmware and a BIOS for some systems I subscribed to. Nothing special. That is, until I noticed what machine was listed. Introduced late 2015/early 2016 :flan_awe: I have never purchased whatever support. Both Supermicro and Dell work this way. HPE does not. They require you to have overzealous support agreements, costing an arm and a leg. No agreement, no BIOS updates for you :flan_nooo: In most cases, companies...

• Post #3619105

  Whoop whoop. Yet another Linux privileges recovery method kernel vulnerability: DirtyClone (CVE-2026-43503) :flan_hacker:

• Post #3520753

  100% European infrastructure While using CloudFlare. On the shitlist you go :flan_molotov:

• Post #3476952

  How on earth should I fill twelve DDR5 channels? I have only two kidneys :(

• Post #3475254

  Our #Peertube instance, Exquisite.tube runs v8.2.1 since this morning. Normally we tend to be quicker with rolling out updates. However, there was some background work going on in forking and customizing the update script - which I will attempt to upstream. There are some security patches included. The vulnerabilities did not apply to us or were already mitigated using different means. After this plumbing is done, the next step is to scale up our transcoding capabilities. It should be ready,...

• Post #3401967

  OH: GitHub has connectivity issues. That is why we switched to Azure DevOps. Uhm... :this_is_fine:

• Post #3389357

  Ha! :flan_XD:

• Post #3389346

  GrapheneOS, the mobile Android OS geared towards security and privacy without consessions, is at Android 17. It is now in the beta channel, there will likely follow another build shortly that makes it to the stable channel. The team did a fantastic job porting over so quickly and meticously. I have been running the experimental releases on a Pixel 9 Pro and a Pixel 7 and it has been smooth sailing. #GrapheneOS #Android #Security #Privacy

• Post #3141151

  @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe @outofcreativity@exquisite.social INSERT INTO toot (attachment, alt) VALIES ('$ALLTHEBSDS.PNG', 'Meme of RUN ALL THE BSDs');

• Post #3141081

  @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe @outofcreativity@exquisite.social Nice! We have played a (minor) part into getting it ready for #OpenBSD, by giving the devs access to some compute - which resulted in a commit spree that I hadn't seen before. They are incredibly kind, humble and knowledgeable.

• Post #2866238

  @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe But surely Svetlana, who wants to sign up because the community might appreciate her erotic content, isn't exactly what BSD Cafe is about It isn't? You mean I have been wrong this entire time thinking it actually was a misspelled BSDM Cafe? So... What is this BSD thing? :flan_XD: (sorry I will show myself out now)

• Post #2533705

  Morning lovely Fedi! ☕ The Network Digitale Samenleving (Network Digital Society) of the Dutch Greens (GroenLinks-PvdA / Progessief Nederland) embraced PeerTube. They've posted the talks of their Digital Summit at Exquisite.tube :flan_hurrah: This is fantastic news! #Fediverse #PeerTube #Decentralised #GroenLinks #PvdA #ProgressiefNederland

• Post #2524138

  Oh right. Ofcourse Bitlocker encryption can be bypassed with a mere thumbdrive. If you MUST use Windows, then at least Veracrypt that shit. #Windows #Security #Bitlocker #FDE #Disk #Encryption #Bypass

• Post #2440981

  The venue for @bsd_nl is powered by the blockchain. The only proper one.

• Post #2322838

  Hi folks! I would love to hear about the non-standard physical #homelab #selfhosting security measures you've taken. From alarms to boobytraps, from customized IKEA boxes to reinforced closets. The crazier the better! One requirement: you need to have it implemented (at some point in the past or currently). No concepts that never left the design table please.

• Post #1719642

  KPN biedt Nextcloud aan onder de noemer soevereine cloud. Dat gaat in dit geval niet echt op: Als je supprt nodig hebt: KPN.com heeft kpn-com.i-v1.mx.microsoft. als MX,Telefoongesprekken worden opgenomen in Azure, door Copilot getranscribed,Vrijwel alle werkplekken zijn Microslop,Ze waren "partner of the year" 2025 van hetzelfde big tech bedrijf,De knop om meer informatie aan te vragen over het Nextcloud aanbod stuurt data naar Doubleclick (Google),Alsmede embeds van Adobe, Bing, Link...

• Post #1627914

  Hey fellow #OpenBSD crowd :flan_coffee: I am worried about @tedu@honk.tedunangst.com - can't get a hold of him, last CVS commits were somewhere 2025, no Fedi activity, websites down, etc. Just wanted to make sure he is okay, regardless of the reason for being inactive.

• Post #1540009

  #MastoAdmin on #OpenBSD feel:

• Post #1160632

  #OpenBSD 7.9 coming soon... And it is going to be one heck of a release. If you want to tinker with it already, go -current.

• Post #1020860

  Another day, another hit of a clusterfuck dropped by Microslop... https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/veracrypt-encryption-software-windows-microsoft-lock-boot-issues/

• Post #976646

  @doeidag Vandaag is ook een zondag, toch? :flan_hacker:

• Post #724100

  GamersNexus has a new shirt and it is truly fantastic. Link to the store page

• Post #712429

  BSD Conference in NLOn Saturday, 9th of May, there is the Spring edition of BSD-NL :flan_hurrah: Our lovely BSD conference, held in the Netherlands. Or more specifically, in Utrecht - which is the centre of our little country. Do you use the BSDs in any way - whether personally, professionally? Everyone with even the slightest interest into the BSDs is welcome, whether you are a beginner or a seasoned maintainer/contributor :flan_hacker: There will be a couple of talks/presentations, plenty of...

• Post #712427

  Mind blown 🤯 I just found out (after decades of daily driving, shame on me) that OpenSSH allows to sign keypairs, allowing a PKI infrastructure :flan_hacker:

• Post #712425

  A stranger was playing songs from the Amélie soundtrack (by Yann Tiersen) on a public piano, really well. Totally filled me with joy and made my day :flan_heart:

• Post #506197

  Probably Microsoft had an internal communication error and stuck with it. What we know as Outlook should have been named Lookout. What a piece of shit software. Ever since the first iteration, but it feels like the Win11 app said "hold my beer, you haven't dug deep enough".