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Anders Gulden Olstad boosted

[?]OpenBSD Amsterdam » 🌐
@OpenBSDAms@mastodon.bsd.cafe

It was great to see everybody again at .
Sorry if we missed you, but there is always ! :)

16 new VMs were added and 64 VMs were renewed.

We donated €1120 to the Foundation, €57335 since we started.

Thank you, our users, and OpenBSD developers for an awesome OS!

Stay safe, healthy & sane!

in 2025

Image of Harrison Ford as Han Solo in Star Wars. It has the text: How you doing it's so good to see you

Alt...Image of Harrison Ford as Han Solo in Star Wars. It has the text: How you doing it's so good to see you

Receipt of a paypal payment of €1120 to the OpenBSD Foundation

Alt...Receipt of a paypal payment of €1120 to the OpenBSD Foundation

    [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
    @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

    set tty com0

    If you know, you know 😆

      Anders Gulden Olstad boosted

      [?]ltning » 🌐
      @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net

      @EuroBSDCon was a blast as always. The amount of work put in by the organisers is incredible, and both the local crew (Karlo and friends, you've been a great help and I owe you an audio cable!) and the video gang (@mischa@exquisite.social, your camera saved the day .. reluctantly; @dexter and the rest of the @bsdtv gang y'all gonna need better dongles ;) bent over backwards to accommodate my somewhat eccentric needs.

      If anyone is interested in what I had to say (and hand out) during my talk, the QR code at the end leads to http://anduin.net/l.htm - go grab your copy in any of three formats: Bootable floppy, zipped TheDraw files, or PDF (boo!).

      I met too many awesome people to count, much less remember the names of everyone, but I truly hope those of you who want to reach out will do so. My DMs are open ;)

      The social overload from this weekend will quickly turn into the pain of missing the company of this extended family. Can't wait to see you again in Brussels - or at any time before that if you visit Oslo!

      #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #EuroBSDCon2026 #RunBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #BSD

        [?]Anders Gulden Olstad » 🌐
        @andersgo@infosec.exchange

        Distributed file system on OpenBSD using FUSE and Elixir by @robertkeizer

        Man showing his slides on stage

        Alt...Man showing his slides on stage

          Anders Gulden Olstad boosted

          [?]BSDTV » 🌐
          @bsdtv@bsd.network

          If you have been enjoying the @EuroBSDCon streams, you can buy a virtual ticket if you like:

          Slide from @EuroBSDcon virtual ticket system for remote attendees complete with QR code and url.

          Alt...Slide from @EuroBSDcon virtual ticket system for remote attendees complete with QR code and url.

            [?]Anders Gulden Olstad » 🌐
            @andersgo@infosec.exchange

            Volse Computing presents OpenJDK on FreeBSD with @harald

            Harald Eilertsen in front of the podium

            Alt...Harald Eilertsen in front of the podium

              [?]Anders Gulden Olstad » 🌐
              @andersgo@infosec.exchange

              The platinum sponsor demonstrates the 100 ways for poor Larry Laffer to die (and resurrect)

              Man with a vintage computer playing LeisySuit Larry

              Alt...Man with a vintage computer playing LeisySuit Larry

                Parade du Grotesque 💀 boosted

                [?]Anders Gulden Olstad » 🌐
                @andersgo@infosec.exchange

                Sticker cuteness

                BSD-NL sticker with all the cute BSD mascots

                Alt...BSD-NL sticker with all the cute BSD mascots

                  [?]Anders Gulden Olstad » 🌐
                  @andersgo@infosec.exchange

                  How commit messages may trigger conspiracy nutters! The UK tracking app.

                  «When the signal is received, terminate all non-responsive children. Do not log any data about this, and spawn a new daemon”

                  Alt...«When the signal is received, terminate all non-responsive children. Do not log any data about this, and spawn a new daemon”

                    Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                    [?]Justine Smithies » 🌐
                    @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                    Been following the BSD conferences for a while and have not yet had the chance to attend one. But what i have noticed from all the videos and photo's published on social media is that it seems to be a male ( I'm going to include NB folk here too ) dominated event ? Maybe I'm wrong and it's just how the media published distorts the reality ? Apologies if I have offended anyone it certainly isn't my intention.


                      Parade du Grotesque 💀 boosted

                      [?]Anders Gulden Olstad » 🌐
                      @andersgo@infosec.exchange

                      Sticker cuteness

                      A beer drinking red daemon sticker

                      Alt...A beer drinking red daemon sticker

                        Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                        [?]ltning » 🌐
                        @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net

                        The feeling when some of the Grand Masters and Architects of #UNIX mocks me for being crazy to run modern #NetBSD on decidedly-not-modern hardware while also pointing out how *incredibly* powerful this 386sx/486-class hardware is and what an absurdly huge amount of memory 16MB is compared to what *they* had while, you know, developing UNIX..

                        #EuroBSDCon #RunBSD #Retrocomputing #Fanboi #StarStruck

                        Marshall Kirk McKusick, Eric Allman, a couple of (much) younger BSD developers and myself hovering over an old open-frame PC build which is busy booting NetBSD. Sponsor pull-up poster for Entersekt/Modirum (my employer) in the background.

                        Alt...Marshall Kirk McKusick, Eric Allman, a couple of (much) younger BSD developers and myself hovering over an old open-frame PC build which is busy booting NetBSD. Sponsor pull-up poster for Entersekt/Modirum (my employer) in the background.

                          [?]Anders Gulden Olstad » 🌐
                          @andersgo@infosec.exchange

                          Off to and ! Hope the connections at goes relativly well! Can't miss the tutorial!

                            Jim Spath boosted

                            [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                            @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                            Sunday morning. I open the issue tracker of a software project.
                            One of the issues: "Library Y is outdated, you should use library Z".
                            A dev replies: "Y is still perfectly valid, and it’s the only one that ensures compatibility with other OSes like the BSDs".
                            Response: "Nobody uses those OSes anymore, and there’s no reason to - we have Linux!"
                            The dev simply closed the issue.

                            Great way to start the day. 🙂

                              Anders Gulden Olstad boosted

                              [?]OpenBSD Amsterdam » 🌐
                              @OpenBSDAms@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                              🎉 Server27 just joined the party! 🎉

                              The OpenBSD.Amsterdam fleet just got a little bigger. It's online and ready to rock your 🐡 VM.

                              obsda.ms/servers.html

                              Close up image of a seal. It has the text: AWW, SO CUTE

                              Alt...Close up image of a seal. It has the text: AWW, SO CUTE

                                Bart van Leeuwen boosted

                                [?]ltning » 🌐
                                @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net

                                Here we go again, #EuroBSDCon! I may have mentioned it, but it's really happening*: I'm giving a talk again, this time titled:

                                Dirty Tricks: Using #nginx and #Lua to thwart bots and skript kiddies

                                This talk is specifically for anyone who

                                • has tried to host a BBS on the Internet,
                                • is struggling with scrapers and bots,
                                • lives in the #RetroComputing bubble,
                                • wants to see an early '90s PC on stage,
                                • needs a telnet captcha, or
                                • simply has nothing better to do.

                                Read more about it here, take a look at the conference schedule, and buy your ticket!

                                See you there!

                                #FreeBSD #Security #BSD #RunBSD #DOS #RunDOS #TheDraw #AnsiArt

                                * I didn't want to post this until I was fairly certain I could even pull this off..

                                Introduction screen from my talk, presented in ANSI art. The words "nginx" and "LUA" in large ANSI fonts in the top left and bottom right corners, with some of the text from the talk description (linked in the post) in the middle.

                                Alt...Introduction screen from my talk, presented in ANSI art. The words "nginx" and "LUA" in large ANSI fonts in the top left and bottom right corners, with some of the text from the talk description (linked in the post) in the middle.

                                  Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                  [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                  @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                  Dear friends of BSD Cafe, I've just approved the 500th user for this instance.
                                  That's right, the 500th friend has just joined the BSD Cafe's Mastodon instance.
                                  This calls for a celebration! :runbsd: :freebsd: :netbsd: :openbsd: :dragonflybsd:

                                  EDIT: 500 users are currently registered, not counting those who moved, left, or started self-hosting.

                                    Parade du Grotesque 💀 boosted

                                    [?]Justine Smithies » 🌐
                                    @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                    Ok so it looks like 7.8 might release whilst I'm on holiday. So I'm currently running on 7.7 Current.
                                    Would some kind soul point me in the direction or write out an idiots guide as to how i safely get from 7.7 Current to 7.8 stable or preferably Current ?

                                    Thank you ❤️


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                                      [?]Ltning » 🌐
                                      @ltning@weirdr.net

                                      Well .. that went sideways. Despite many attempts, I have yet to find a 286 - or a 386sx for that matter - that will boot the NetBSD floppies without failing in some way or other. I'm not yet certain (perhaps someone here knows?), but there may be instructions missing from the various 486SLC and 486DLC CPU variants that my ugprade modules have. Or there are other bugs that I have not been able to figure out.

                                      Anyway, I've reduced my ambitions ever so slightly, and am now in the process of installing NetBSD (-CURRENT) on what is essentially a 386SX-class machine: 16-bit bus, 24-bit addressing, 16MB RAM, and nearly as unpleasantly slow as the 286 I had planned to use. It is however equipped with an IBM-branded 486SLC, which is from the Blue Lightning series. This one definitely has a full 486 instruction set. More hardware details will follow when I've completed the build (and installation).

                                      Meanwhile, the obligatory screenshot from the installer. Note the ETA for simply unpacking base.tgz ..

                                      Screenshot from installer. Shows base.txz being extracted, at a speed of 110 KB/s. ETA given is about 30 minutes, which turned out to be relatively accurate.

                                      Alt...Screenshot from installer. Shows base.txz being extracted, at a speed of 110 KB/s. ETA given is about 30 minutes, which turned out to be relatively accurate.

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                                        [?]Ltning » 🌐
                                        @ltning@weirdr.net

                                        I had on another 286 for a while, and there's some 16-bit "port" of Linux that is not as old as it should be. And of course the venerable OS/2 1.x, and a few actual variants as you point out. I didn't know about V6on286, that's a beautiful little nugget, thank you!

                                        All of those things are absolutely wonderful and make many of todays software developers look ... spoiled? What I want, however - and what I love doing - is making this old hardware do stuff its makers never dreamt of, things that are as far removed from their time as possible. That's why I will, if permits, run bleeding edge BSD on a 286-on-486steroids, and why I run web+ftp+irc servers (yes, multitaskign) on one 286 and multiple BBS nodes on a 386 - like one used to do, of course.

                                        I cannot state often enough how amazing it is that there's still software developed today that will work under such constraints.


                                          Anders Gulden Olstad boosted

                                          [?]ltning » 🌐
                                          @ltning@larry.weirdr.net

                                          for the win: Using ctwm (window manager), urxvt (terminal emulator), mrxvt (tabbed terminal emulator), pload (network monitor) and, in the spirit of the 90s, hot-babe (CPU monitor), I have a nice and borderline usable "desktop" on this 486.

                                          Until starts doing work of course. Then I just sit back and wait.

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                                            Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                            [?]Ltning » 🌐
                                            @ltning@weirdr.net

                                            I did a thing so I don't have to wait 20+ seconds to SSH into (or out of) my running .

                                            https://github.com/ltning/sshbench


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                                              [?]Ltning » 🌐
                                              @ltning@weirdr.net

                                              And here we are. is simply amazing.


                                              Console screenshot. Plaintext 80x50 mode, with screen(1) running htop(1) and neofetch(1), split horizontally.

                                              Alt...Console screenshot. Plaintext 80x50 mode, with screen(1) running htop(1) and neofetch(1), split horizontally.

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