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Dane · Cancer survivor · Bi(! ♂& ♂) · FreeBSD committer and sysadmin · Self-confessed paronomasiac · Hoopy frood · Naming computers after sentient AI since 1994
#food for lunch earlier today: Sandwich.

#Aurora from yesterday.

There was a bit more red in it than what my phone captured.

The slides for my #EuroBSDCon talk are now online. The presentation is about the rc ecosystem in FreeBSD (i.e., the init system, service scripts, etc.).

1-800-RC(8)-HELP: Dial Into FreeBSD Service Scripts Mastery!: https://papers.freebsd.org/2024/eurobsdcon/piotrowski-1-800-rc-8-help-dial-into-freebsd-service-scripts-mastery/

#FreeBSD #rc #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2024 #shell #init #sh

1-800-RC(8)-HELP: Dial Into FreeBSD Service Scripts Mastery! :: FreeBSD Presentations and Papers

@bcantrill Has anyone presented you with the different stylizations that NVIDIA has had over the years?

I’m pretty sure it’s a case of brand-dating, where you can tell when someone got involved with it, by how it’s stylized, as they’ve variously used nVIDIA, nVidia, Nvidia, and NVIDIA over the years.

@jimsalter The #ripe atlas nodes that @allanjude mentioned on #25admins do exist all over the world - for example, here’s the round-trip time to a bunch of fixed destinations: https://atlas.ripe.net/results/maps/rtt-fixed/

They "recently" (meaning since I last checked) also implemented a software probe, that you can throw at your hypervisor: https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/howtos/software-probes.html

So now there’s no excuse  

RIPE Atlas - RIPE Network Coordination Centre

RIPE Atlas is the RIPE NCC's main Internet data measurement system.

I completely forgot about #AsiaBSDCon 2024 
@mwlucas Are milters covered in the mail bible?

MachineA: would you like to hear a #UDP joke?

MachineB: that sounds lovely, yes please!

MachineA: THAT'S MY PURSE, I DON'T KNOW YOU!

@jimsalter I've been going through old episodes of #25admins and in one you mentioned putting up a httpd listening on 80 and 443, but if the goal is to ensure that a DNS lookup doesn't go through, a better solution is to simply NXDOMAIN the entire thing.
This is also exactly what https://github.com/cyclaero/void-zones-tools does.
GitHub - cyclaero/void-zones-tools: Prepare a list of void zones that can be readily feed into Unbound on FreeBSD

Prepare a list of void zones that can be readily feed into Unbound on FreeBSD - GitHub - cyclaero/void-zones-tools: Prepare a list of void zones that can be readily feed into Unbound on FreeBSD

GitHub

@beej There’s at least one person who appreciates your Unix jokes.

Though getting a PDP-11 up and running now just to run hack would be quite a feat, and I’d love to see it done.

Nethack could almost run on a dumb terminal.