Peter N. M. Hansteen (@[email protected])
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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@[email protected])
@pitrh.bsky.social
Puffyist, daemon charmer, penguin wrangler. Wrote The Book of PF, rants on security and sanity in IT (lack of)@ http://bsdly.blogspot.com. #OpenBSD #unix #cloud #security, Bergen, Norway.

See also https://nuug.no https://eurobsdcon.org, https://bsdcan.org
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EU CRA: It's Later Than You Think, Time to Engineer Up! nxdomain.no/~peter/eu_cr... (or tracked bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/09/eu-c...) for your weekend #sbom #development #software #engineering reading #cra #resilience
EU CRA: It's Later Than You Think, Time to Engineer Up!
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Long rumored and eagerly anticipated by some, the fourth edition of The Book of PF is now available for preorder

More: nxdomain.no/~peter/yes_t... (bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/07/yes-...), nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4... @nostarch #openbsd #freebsd #pf #networking #bookofpf #freesoftware #firewalls
Yes, The Book of PF, 4th Edition Is Coming Soon
nxdomain.no
December 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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December 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
heh. our #slack #huddle says it "Couldn't load thread".

nxdomain.no/~peter/slack...

possible not-early warning of another #amazon #aws #downtime ?

EDIT: possibly #cloudflare, rather
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December 5, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The Call for Papers for #bsdcan is open, see www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.... and nxdomain.no/~peter/what_... for some background (f you want to explain to less BSD-savvy friends) #bsdcan #bsd #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #development #sysadmin #devops #conference
Call for papers — BSDCan
BSDCan is a technical BSD conference held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
www.bsdcan.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
A Bus Ride and the (At Least) 3x UX FAILs

Norway is digital to a fault. A bus ticket purchase can lead to cascading UX failures ...

Read on: nxdomain.no/~peter/a_bus... (tracked bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-bu...) #ux #uxfail #ai #artificialintellingence #digitalization #onlinepayments
A Bus Ride and the (At Least) 3x UX FAILs
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November 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Installing #openbsd is easy, but what does it take to keep your system in trim? See "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." nxdomain.no/~peter/openb... for some tips and pointers (also bsdly.blogspot.com/2024/09/you-... tracked) #maintenance #sysadmin #dailytasks #dailydriver
You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The Call for Papers period for both #AsiaBSDCon and #BSDCan are open, until end of November for AsiaBSDCon, until Jan 17 for BSDCan.

If you can, submit!

Or read "What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out!" nxdomain.no/~peter/what_... for more info #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflyBSD
What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out!
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November 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
If you are looking for #PF resources for #openbsd or #freebsd, up to date slides for the #tutorial are at nxdomain.no/~peter/pf_fu....

Also @nostarchpress.bsky.social and yours truly are preparing The Book PF, 4th ed (see nxdomain.no/~peter/yes_t... or tracked bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/07/yes-...)
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November 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out!
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November 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The .cn domain name scammers are still at it, a new entry added to the archive at nxdomain.no/~peter/domai...

See "Domain Name Scams Are Alive And Well, Thank You" nxdomain.no/~peter/domai... for some background (from 2016, the problem was not new then) #dns #domainnamescam #cndomains #scams #spam
Index of /~peter/domainnamescam/
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November 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"Were you ever right about *anything*?"

"Only by accident"

(if your friendly neighborhood LLM chatbot had any concept of honesty)
November 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Some of my peers here will be interested to hear that the Eurpean Commission have released a short, compact action document "Cloud Sovereignty Framework" commission.europa.eu/document/095... -- six pages, worth reading to the end #sovereigncloud #cloud #eucommission
Cloud Sovereignty Framework | European Commission
commission.europa.eu
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
In -current, chromium (and derivatives) gain VA-API support www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... #openbsd #chromium #chrome #iridium #vaapi #video #current
In -current, chromium (and derivatives) gain VA-API support
www.undeadly.org
November 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
If you asked "what was that SBOM and CRA thing again", the article corresponding to that presentation is at nxdomain.no/~peter/eu_cr... (or with GOOG trackers bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/09/eu-c...), slides nxdomain.no/sbom.pdf #cra #cybersecurity #depenency #supplychain #development #cyberresilience
EU CRA: It's Later Than You Think, Time to Engineer Up!
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November 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
BSDCan 2026 CFP is open, see www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.... and +links for instructions.

Submissions deadline is January 17, 2026, the conference runs tutorials June 17-18, talks June 19-20.

#bsdcan #conference #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #bsd #development #networking #freesoftware #libresoftware
Call for papers — BSDCan
BSDCan is a technical BSD conference held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
www.bsdcan.org
November 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM