Like a few of you pointed out, NetBSD* became 33 years old yesterday.

In unrelated news, ow, my back...

* As in, our version control repository. The first commit was made on 21 March 1993.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115887797274244849

100% kids need this and no smart mobile phone. maybe give dumb Nokia for texting and emergency. but that is all. some social media apps are very dangerous these days combined with AI. You need to protect your kids and family from these tech bros.

dwipe is a free and opensource tool for securely and efficiently wipe devices and partitions for Linux operating systems. It comes with TUI and easy to use interface. Give it a try.

https://github.com/joedefen/dwipe

Running out of disk space on your Linux, macOS, BSD, or Unix-like OS? Or perhaps you're hitting the classic disk quota limits set by your sysadmin? Fear not. Run `du -sh * | sort -h` command to get a sorted list of your directory sizes so you can remove or compress unwanted files. Here is another useful shell alias:
```
alias ducks='du -cks -- * | sort -rn | head'
ducks
```

See https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-find-the-largest-filesdirectories-on-a-linuxunixbsd-filesystem/ for more info.
#unix #linux #macos

SSH brute force login attempts 🤣 It is time to hide your ssh port behind a vpn? I say, disable password based login and only use the 2FA protected ssh keys based login and ensure TCP/port 22 is rate limited.

I've more tips for you. Read: OpenSSH Server Best Security Practices https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-unix-bsd-openssh-server-best-practices.html if you want to protect yourself from such attacks.