Mastodawn

Conversation started with #Dell for the purchase of a new #HardenedBSD build server.

The biggest hurdle will be the requirement of at least 1TB RAM.

With our less-than-shoestring budget, I will likely announce an official call-for-donations over the next couple months.

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3d ago

Bryan Steele

Mar 8

#mutualaidrequest #mutualaid

I don't suppose that I have any #bsd #unix #foss #infosec friends out there willing to signal boost, by chance?

https://bsd.network/@brynet/114458997143046937

Today in #openzfsmastery: re-re-redrafted the section on block size, then discussed ashift autodetection, stripes, and mirrors.

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6d ago

Peter N. M. Hansteen Mar 12

Do you want to come to Brussels, mingle with BSD people, perhaps do a talk, a tutorial or a BOF session?

The Call for papers https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/ is open until June 20th, for the conference in Brussels September 9-13, 2026.

We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see within.

Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

#OpenBSD -current now supports delayed hibernation, after a number of seconds (a maximum 86400, or 24 hrs) the machine will wake from S0ix/S3 idle sleep/suspend and hibernate to disk.

By default, it is not enabled. It can be configured in /etc/sysctl.conf.

kettenis@ modified src/sys/*: Implement delayed hibernation. If the machdep.hibernatedelay sysctl is set to a value that isn't zero, this specifies a number of seconds after which the machine will wake up from suspend and hibernate itself.

ok florian@, mlarkin@

Likely useful for those who pack away their laptops while travelling, etc.

I'd also recommend taking a peek at the "machine idle" feature in the bootloader, for machines that accidentally wake from hibernate and sit at the softraid(4) passphrase prompt, to powerdown the machine to save battery.