My liferaft has a name: Pickle. If you recognise the name, you might already know
a little about
me.

People's
hidden
histories

… please tell me yours.

#SilentSunday so here,
today
I'll say
no more.

Snippets, instead,
weeks and months ahead.

Peace

@fuzzy@beige.party @grahamperrin

https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/504 mentioned Framaforms.

From the same period in my Firefox history (July 2025): Yakforms. Related:

• Oubliez Framaforms, faites de la place à Yakforms !
• Forget Framaforms, make some room for Yakforms !

I don't have a saved password, I do have this in my Firefox history:

• Work items · Yakforms Docs · GitLab

– which probably means that I was unable to use Yakforms at the time. An intention to report an issue.

https://redd.it/1m973go (July 2025) reminds me:

I chose to use a CryptPad instance.

Specifically:

• https://pad.envs.net/

At https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/491 I mentioned the ID of a user whose BSD Cafe Mastodon account might be less than an hour old:

@Darknessraptor@bsd.cafe

There's no auto-matching (no auto-linking) when his ID is typed, I guess it's too soon.

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@Darknessraptor

Background: https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tedyva/comment/omq7w4v/ (announcing his presence in Mastodon) was posted around an hour ago.

Posted by Luis Emanuel to r/BSD:

I daily-drive Linux at work and FreeBSD on my personal ThinkPads (T480 & P52 currently). Both laptops and both operating systems, every day. I'm the kind of person who reads freebsd-update output and Phoronix benchmarks in the same hour.

Recently saw the "is FreeBSD really that goated" thread and it brought back the timeline of my own journey. Started with a rough — call it version 0.9 — build that barely had X11 working, evolved through five iterations, landed on something I'd call "production-stable personal desktop" around version 2.0 on FreeBSD 15.0 with a heavily customized MATE, ZFS boot environments, BastilleBSD jails for microservices, WireGuard tunnels and PF.

If I could send a packet back in time to my earlier self, here's what I'd put in the payload:

…

Question for this sub

What's the one thing you wish someone had told you in your first year on FreeBSD?

I suspect we'll generate a better FAQ in this thread than the wiki currently has.

Yesterday from the same author:

• The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Two Systems on My Desk | The FreeBSD Forums

https://www.openbsd.org/

dhcpd and unbound in FreeBSD jails

The other day, I used FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi card to get a redundant DHCP server and DNS resolver working together with an OpenBSD server. It works great. But another FreeBSD server is available and I don’t really need yet another gadget powered on. So I moved both the DHCP and DNS services to this machine. While I was there, I took the opportunity to put them into their own jails. Because, you know, privilege escalation…

• https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/dhcpd-and-unbound-in-freebsd-jails/

ping: https://framapiaf.org/@joel@tumfatig.net/116599962350361525

https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/pages/src/branch/main/FreeBSD and Plasma 6 install - a log

@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza wrote:

I got triggered to revive my description on how to get a KDE Wayland session on FreeBSD up and running. …

From line 105 onwards it handles the Big K and how to run a Wayland session. This is what you'll end up with:

#OpenBSD wallpaper collection.
Some of them are really cool.

I was told that most of these images are LLM generated.
BE WARNED !

https://github.com/raffaelschneider/openbsd-wallpapers/

Hi.

About Nginx: Rift vulnerability:
On my OpenBSD (actually on 7.8) server, I use Nginx (v1.28.x) ­— I known, normally tomorrow, in few hours, v7.9 will be release, and Nginx will release with 1.30.1 — and I've some rewrite rules.

As we can see on this page, I rewroted my rules.

Is-it needed on OpenBSD? Your opinion about, plz.

In any case, I think — maybe I'm wrong?! — that it's a good idea to get into the habit of “filtering” rewrite rules this way, don't you think? is-not-it?

Retro Connoisseur is building the Amiga 4000 into a LEGO block case, and the project already feels like the kind of wonderfully unlikely machine that could

• https://www.generationamiga.com/2026/05/17/lego-amiga-4000-build-commodore-classic-reimagined-as-the-amiga-cd3200/

The SMTP mail server for the 21st century and onwards is OpenSMTPD, which is developed as an integral part of OpenBSD, but available in a portable variety too. It was one of those things that I had fully intended to do years ago, but I only got around to actually doing once there was a definite deadline to get it done. The time has come, as OpenBSD 7.9 will leave the exim package behind, and exim users will need to find a replacement before upgrading. This article describes my transition to OpenBSD's own OpenSMTPD mail server.

• https://nxdomain.no/~peter/time_for_opensmtpd.html
• https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/05/opensmtpd-is-mail-server-for-future.html

ping: https://framapiaf.org/@pitrh@mastodon.social/116577188355690184

Back in April 2026 Anthropic caused a lot of media noise when they concluded that their new AI model Mythos is dangerously good at finding security flaws in source code. Apparently Mythos was so good at this that Anthropic would not release this model to the public yet but instead trickle it out to a selected few companies for a while to allow a few good ones(?) to get a head start and fix the most pressing problems first, before the general populace would get their hands on it…

• https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/

ping: https://framapiaf.org/@bagder@mastodon.social/116554421974341351

FreeBSD - a lesson in poor defaults

This page lists some of the changes I make to a vanilla install of FreeBSD for security hardening. Some changes to increase network performance or make things a bit more sane are also included. It only covers basic changes that a sysadmin can make to a running system.
It could also be considered a commentary piece on the state of security in FreeBSD's development ecosystem, highlighting their strong resistance to change and unwillingness to replace old cruft with modern alternatives.
The project's security page says the following:

FreeBSD takes security very seriously and its developers are constantly working on making the operating system as secure as possible.

But is that really true? Let's find out.

• https://vez.mrsk.me/freebsd-defaults

ping: https://mastodon.social/@CuratedHackerNews/116549957974859573

See:

• https://minwm.btxx.org/

ping: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@bt/116573608067727480

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the fourth (and this time hopefully final) release candidate of the upcoming 11.0 release, please help testing!
See the release announcement for details.

• https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_rc4_available
• https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html

ping: https://framapiaf.org/@jaypatelani@bsd.network/116570729312543808

FreeBSD Foundation Laptop Update:

• https://freebsdfoundation.github.io/proj-laptop/monthly-updates/2026-04 or
• https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/blob/main/monthly-updates/2026-04.md

Cross-post: https://redd.it/1tc70zr

An open invitation to Linux users across the board, offering a closer look at the penguin and its iceberg, a walk across the ecosystems that make it possible, an exploration beyond one’s biome.

• https://club.unix.rocks/commentary/under-linux/

ping: https://framapiaf.org/@fcambus@mastodon.sdf.org/116557961134185563

Every single software product is dealing with the question about what to do with “AI”-generated code, but the question is particularly difficult to answer for open source operating systems like Linux distributions and the various BSDs, which often consist of a wide variety of software packages from hundreds to thousands of different developers. On top of that, they also have to ask the “AI” question for every layer of their offering, from the base install, to the official repositories, to community-run ones…

• https://www.osnews.com/story/144935/openbsd-and-slopcode-raindrop-to-a-torrent/

ping: https://framapiaf.org/@osnews@mstdn.social/116558432820118949

Florian Obser (florian@) recently gave a BSD-NL talk entitled "Let's find out how to get predictable IPv6 addresses assigned to OpenBSD VMs".

Florian takes us on a guided tour of how inet6 autoconf actually works, with enlightening and entertaining peeks into selected piece of OpenBSD source.

At the end, we are asked to "now, draw the rest of the owl".

• https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260512115225
• slides: https://www.openbsd.org/events.html#bsdnl2026
• video: https://exquisite.tube/w/38gDYhMNTNZimk3GcFnHNa

Since 2026/04/20, I cant receive anymore the feed rss!
It's down?
The URL I've: https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=rss
I cant access to the website too.

(for my 100Th post, I request about undeadly… ‽)