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Created by three guys who love BSD, we cover the latest news and have an extensive series of tutorials, as well as interviews with various people from all areas of the BSD community. It also serves as a platform for support and questions. We love and advocate FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD and TrueOS. Our show aims to be helpful and informative for new users that want to learn about them, but still be entertaining for the people who are already pros. The show airs on Wednesdays at 2:00PM (US Eastern time) and the edited version is usually up the following day.

Location:

United States

Description:

Created by three guys who love BSD, we cover the latest news and have an extensive series of tutorials, as well as interviews with various people from all areas of the BSD community. It also serves as a platform for support and questions. We love and advocate FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD and TrueOS. Our show aims to be helpful and informative for new users that want to learn about them, but still be entertaining for the people who are already pros. The show airs on Wednesdays at 2:00PM (US Eastern time) and the edited version is usually up the following day.

Twitter:

@bsdnow

Language:

English


Episodes

526: ZFS Replication Tools

9/28/2023
Why DNS is still hard to learn, Unix support 50 years ago, ZFS Replication tools, Between ISA and PCI, PCs had EISA and VLB, Old Computer Challenge v3, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Why DNS is still hard to learn (https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/07/28/why-is-dns-still-hard-to-learn/) Unix support 50 years ago: “your only source of information is a 2-man operation an ocean away” (https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~brian/LetterFromRitchie.pdf) News Roundup ZFS Replication tools (https://evilham.com/en/blog/2023-ZFS-replication-tools/) Between ISA and PCI, PCs had EISA and VLB (https://rubenerd.com/between-isa-and-pci-we-had-vlb/) Old Computer Challenge v3: postmortem (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-07-17-old-computer-challenge-v3-part2.html) Beastie Bits • [Installing and Using Research Unix Version 7 on the OpenSIMH PDP-11 Emulator](https://decuser.github.io/unix/research-unix/v7/videos/2023/07/14/installing-and-using-research-unix-v7-in-open-simh-video.html) • [Cheat Sheets](https://github.com/cheat/cheatsheets/tree/master) • [Introducing BSD Cafe](https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/15rt7em/introducing_the_bsdcafe/) • [Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1)](http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230829051257) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Daniel - Fav episode (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/526/feedback/Daniel%20-%20Fav%20episode.md) Sam - Fav episode (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/526/feedback/Sam%20-%20Fav%20episode.md) Question from JT - to Tom and Benedict, what has your fav episode been? *** Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

Duration:00:46:49

525: Old NetBSD Server

9/21/2023
Do one thing and do it well, Turning a 15 years old laptop into a children proof retrogaming station, Old Computer Challenge v3: day 1, It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code, Rejected GitHub Profile Achievements, that old netbsd server, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Do one thing and do it well (https://medium.com/source-and-buggy/do-one-thing-and-do-it-well-886b11a5d21) Turning a 15 years old laptop into a children proof retrogaming station (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-07-24-childproof-retrogaming-station.html) and a rereview of (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-06-04-old-computer-challenge-v3.html) News Roundup Old Computer Challenge v3: day 1 (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-07-10-old-computer-challenge-v3-part1.html) It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code (https://edw519.posthaven.com/it-takes-6-days-to-change-1-line-of-code) Rejected GitHub Profile Achievements (https://github.com/Flet/rejected-github-profile-achievements) That old netbsd server (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2023/08/27/that-old-netbsd-server-running-since-2010/) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Felix - questions (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/525/feedback/Felix%20-%20questions.md) Francis - Episode 511 (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/525/feedback/Francis%20-%20Episode%20511.md) Ian - CDN (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/525/feedback/Ian%20-%20CDN.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

Duration:00:44:19

524: Legendary Unix Recovery

9/14/2023
On the Loss and Preservation of Knowledge, Unix Recovery Legend, Useful Unix commands for data science, Tarsnap outage post-mortem, OpenBSD 7.3 on a twenty year old IBM ThinkPad R31, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines On the Loss and Preservation of Knowledge (https://samoburja.com/on-the-loss-and-preservation-of-knowledge/) Unix Recovery Legend (https://www.ecb.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html) News Roundup Useful Unix commands for data science (https://gregreda.com/2013/07/15/unix-commands-for-data-science/) Why we like Tarsnap = Transparency : Tarsnap outage post-mortem (https://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-announce/msg00050.html) OpenBSD 7.3 on a twenty year old IBM ThinkPad R31 (https://box.matto.nl/openbsd-73-on-a-twenty-year-old-ibm-thinkpad-r31.html) Beastie Bits Quick and dirty IMAP(-UW) server (https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/quick-and-dirty-imap-uw-server.89877/) JENNY’S DAILY DRIVERS: FREEBSD 13.2 (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/01/jennys-daily-drivers-freebsd-13-2/) Elvish (https://elv.sh/) xroach (https://infosec.exchange/@paco/110772422266480371) Did hell freeze over? (https://soc.feditime.com/notice/AXo6xXlSrfdfjNPdRI) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Nelson - Bell Labs Memoranda (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/523/feedback/Nelson%20-%20Bell%20Labs%20Memoranda.md) patrick - audio switching (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/523/feedback/patrick%20-%20audio%20switching.md) tim - appjail (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/523/feedback/tim%20-%20appjail.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***

Duration:00:57:42

523: Literally Unix

9/7/2023
The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature, The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace, Theo de Raadt on Zenbleed, OPNsense 23.7 released, illumos gets a new C compiler, fixing Thinkpad X1 WIFI on FreeBSD, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature (https://theody.net/elements.html) The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace (https://blog.plover.com/Unix/whitespace.html) News Roundup Theo de Raadt on Zenbleed (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230724224011) OPNsense 23.7 “Restless Roadrunner” Released (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-23-7-released/) [ILLUMOS GETS A NEW C COMPILER](https://briancallahan.net/blog/20230705.html ) FIXING THINKPAD X1 WIFI ON FREEBSD (https://michal.sapka.me/2023/fixing-thinkpad-x1-wifi-on-freebsd/) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***

Duration:00:40:11

522: Zenbleed Foot Shooting

8/31/2023
Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to FreeBSD 13.2, History never repeats but sometimes it rhymes, Wayland on OpenBSD, OpenBGPD 8.1 released, Shoot yourself in the foot, Zenbleed: aka: The new fun for a while, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to FreeBSD 13.2 (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/top-ten-reasons-to-upgrade-to-freebsd-13-2/) History never repeats but sometimes it rhymes (https://ciq.com/blog/history-never-repeats-but-sometimes-it-rhymes/) News Roundup Wayland on OpenBSD (https://xenocara.org/Wayland_on_OpenBSD.html) OpenBGPD 8.1 released (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230713110230) Shoot yourself in the foot (https://g-w1.github.io/blog/observation/2023/07/08/shoot-yourself-in-the-foot.html) Zenbleed: aka : The new fun for a while (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230724224011) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Ian - about dozing off when listening (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/522/feedback/Ian%20-%20about%20dozing%20off%20when%20listening.md) Nixbytes - news on netbsd (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/522/feedback/Nixbytes%20%20-%20news%20on%20netbsd.md) Phillip - Questions (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/522/feedback/Phillip%20-%20Questions.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow) ***

Duration:00:48:26

521: BSD Summer Reading

8/24/2023
FreeBSD Status Report Q2 2023, Klara Systems Recommended Summer Reads 2023, install Kanboard on OpenBSD howto, A bit of Unix history on 'su -', hints for splitting commits, Live from OpenBSD in Amsterdam, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines FreeBSD Status Report Second Quarter 2023 (https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/) Our 2023 Recommended Summer Reads 2023 (https://klarasystems.com/articles/our-2023-recommended-summer-reads-freebsd-and-linux/) News Roundup How to install Kanboard on OpenBSD (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-07-07-kanboard-on-openbsd.html) A bit of Unix history on 'su -' (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/SuDashHistory) Some hints for splitting commits (http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2023/07/some-hints-for-splitting-commits.html) Live from OpenBSD in Amsterdam (https://michal.sapka.me/2023/moved-to-openbsd/) In memoriam In Memoriam: Hans Petter William Sirevåg Selasky (https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/in-memoriam-hans-petter-william-sirevag-selasky.89697/#post-616627) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Agbo - Using BSD for a business (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/521/feedback/Agbo%20-%20Using%20BSD%20for%20a%20business.md) Chris - Desktop BSD systems (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/521/feedback/Chris%20-%20Desktop%20BSD%20systems.md) Dane - Use another OS (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/521/feedback/Dane%20-%20Use%20another%20OS.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***

Duration:00:57:00

520: 4 months BSD

8/17/2023
4 Months of BSD, Self Hosted Calendar and address Book, Ban scanners IPs from OpenSMTP logs, Self-hosted git page, Bastille template example, Restrict nginx Access by Geographical Location on FreeBSD, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines 4 Months of BSD (https://danterobinson.dev/BSD/4MonthsofBSD) Self Hosted Calendar and address Book (https://www.tumfatig.net/2023/self-hosted-calendar-and-addressbook-services-on-openbsd/) News Roundup Ban scanners IPs from OpenSMTP logs (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-06-22-opensmtpd-block-attempts.html) Self-hosted git page with stagit (featuring ed, the standard editor) (https://sebastiano.tronto.net/blog/2022-11-23-git-host/) Bastille template example (https://bastillebsd.org/blog/2022/01/03/bastille-template-examples-adguardhome/) Nginx: How to Restrict Access by Geographical Location on FreeBSD (https://herrbischoff.com/2021/05/nginx-how-to-restrict-access-by-geographical-location-on-freebsd/) Beastie Bits Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Chris - ARM (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/520/feedback/Chris%20-%20arm.md) Matthew - Groups (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/520/feedback/matthew%20-%20groups.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***

Duration:00:43:26

519: Telegram from BSDNow

8/10/2023
3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server OS, FreeBSD 14 Release Schedule, Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio, DOD KSOS Secure UNIX Operating System Manual, How to limit bandwidth usage with SCP transfers, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines 3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server Operating System (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-3-advantages-to-running-freebsd-as-your-server-operating-system/) FreeBSD 14 Release Schedule (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/) News Roundup Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio to other devices (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-05-05-openbsd-sound-streaming.html) DOD KSOS Secure UNIX Operating System Manual and Final Report (https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2023-June/028441.html) How to limit bandwidth usage with SCP transfers (https://herrbischoff.com/2023/03/how-to-limit-bandwidth-usage-for-scp-transfers/) Beastie Bits OpenSolaris 11.4 running in a VM (https://www.reddit.com/r/unix/comments/14m90v2/oracle_solaris_114_running_in_a_virtual_machine/) Celebrating 30 Years of FreeBSD – FreeBSD Journal Special Edition (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/celebrating-30-years-of-freebsd-freebsd-journal-special-edition/) Some ways you can contribute to open source software without writing code (https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1673215499365384194?s=52&t=-_bfM_adaiX8Ri_3lN9OYw) ScreenCapture if you don't have a twitter account (https://i.imgur.com/5AlqBlO.png) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. New BSD Now Telegram Channel We now have a new BSD Now Telegram channel that anyone can join. Conversations don’t have to just be about the show, anything BSD, Unix, or *nix in general is fair game. https://t.me/bsdnow Feedback/Questions Johnny - 512 (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/519/feedback/Johnny%20-%20512.md) Matthew - 512 (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/519/feedback/Matthew%20-%20512.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv)

Duration:00:37:25

518: Unix Edition Zero

8/3/2023
A Guide to Problem-Solving for Software Developers with Examples, making 20% time work, Long Live Netbooks, OpenBSD Router on Sg105w, Set Up a Simple and Actually Working Wireguard Server, Unix Edition Zero, how to be a -10x engineer, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines A Guide to Problem-Solving for Software Developers with Examples (https://thevaluable.dev/problem_solving_guide_software_developer) Making 20% time work (https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-01-29-making-twenty-percent-time-work.html) News Roundup Long live netbooks! (https://sebastiano.tronto.net/blog/2022-09-10-netbooks/) OpenBSD Router on Sg105w (https://evolving-architecture.eu/openbsd-router-sg105w/) FreeBSD: How to Set Up a Simple and Actually Working Wireguard Server (https://herrbischoff.com/2023/04/freebsd-how-to-set-up-a-simple-and-actually-working-wireguard-server/) How to be a -10x Engineer (https://taylor.town/-10x) Unix Edition Zero (http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/v0/) Beastie Bits Game of Trees 0.90 released (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230624054334) ZFSp (https://github.com/alcarithemad/zfsp) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***

Duration:00:56:42

517: Huge pfsync rewrite

7/27/2023
Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls Comparison Part 2, 27 Years with the Perfect OS, Top 20 OpenSSH Server Best Security Practices, Huge pfsync rewrite, OpenSMTPD 7.3.0p1 release, Running OpenBSD 7.3 on your laptop is really hard (not), and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls – The Ultimate Guide - Part 2 (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-linux-and-freebsd-firewalls-part-2/) 27 Years with the Perfect OS (https://peter.czanik.hu/posts/freebsd-the-perfect-os/) News Roundup Top 20 OpenSSH Server Best Security Practices (https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-unix-bsd-openssh-server-best-practices.html) Huge pfsync rewrite (https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=168732121711177&w=2) OpenSMTPD 7.3.0p1 released (https://www.mail-archive.com/misc@opensmtpd.org/msg05909.html) Running OpenBSD 7.3 on your laptop is really hard (not) (https://sohcahtoa.org.uk/openbsd.html) QuicSSH (https://github.com/moul/quicssh) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***

Duration:00:46:49

516: Computer Time Origins

7/20/2023
Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls Part 1, Why Netflix Chose NGINX as the Heart of Its CDN, Protect your web servers against PHP shells and malwares, Installing and running Gitlab howto, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Linux vs. FreeBSD : Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls – The Ultimate Guide : Part 1 (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-linux-and-freebsd-firewalls/) Why Netflix Chose NGINX as the Heart of Its CDN (https://www.nginx.com/blog/why-netflix-chose-nginx-as-the-heart-of-its-cdn/) News Roundup FreeBSD: Protect your web servers against PHP shells and malwares (https://ozgurkazancci.com/freebsd-protect-your-web-server-against-php-shells-and-malwares/) HowTo: Installing and running Gitlab (https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/howto-installing-and-running-gitlab.89436/) Beastie Bits • [World built in 36 hours on a Pentium 4!](https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/13undl9/world_built_in_36_hours_on_a_pentium_4/) • [Fart init](https://x61.sh/log/2023/05/23052023153621-fart-init.html](https://x61.sh/log/2023/05/23052023153621-fart-init.html) • [Organized Freebies](https://mwl.io/archives/22832) • [OpenSMTPD 7.3.0p0 released](http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230617111340) • [shutdown/reboot now require membership of group _shutdown](http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230620064255) • [Where does my computer get the time from?](https://dotat.at/@/2023-05-26-whence-time.html) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. *** Feedback/Questions sam - fav episodes (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/515/feedback/sam%20-%20fav%20episodes.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***

Duration:00:46:07

515: ChatGPT writing pf.conf

7/13/2023
FreeBSD or Linux – A Choice Without OS Wars, The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories, ChatGPT was asked to write a pf.conf to spec, GhostBSD 23.06.1 is now available, OPNsense 23.1.9 released, Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Linux vs. FreeBSD : FreeBSD or Linux – A Choice Without OS Wars (https://klarasystems.com/articles/choosing-between-freebsd-and-linux-a-choice-without-os-wars/) The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories (https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientist-donald-knuth-cant-stop-telling-stories-20200416/) I asked ChatGPT to write a pf.conf to spec, 2023-06-07 version (https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2023/06/i-asked-chatgpt-to-write-pfconf-to-spec.html) News Roundup GhostBSD 23.06.1 is now available (https://ghostbsd.org/23.06.01_iso_is_now_available) OPNsense 23.1.9 released (https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=34282.0) Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD (https://bt.ht/vscode/) COFF: Bell Labs vs "East Coast" Management style of AT&T (https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/coff/2023-May/001556.html) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Matt - Wireguard (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/515/feedback/Matt%20-%20Wiregaurd.md) Oscar - ISC.md (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/515/feedback/Oscar%20-%20ISC.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***

Duration:00:40:15

514: Infecting Public Keys

7/6/2023
OpenZFS, Your Data and the Challenge of Ransomware, I Didn’t Learn Unix By Reading All The Manpages, I try to answer "how to become a systems engineer", Writing shell scripts in Nushell, Sudo and signal propagation, infecting SSH Public Keys with backdoors, OpenBSD Thinkpad, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines OpenZFS, Your Data and the Challenge of Ransomware (https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-openzfs-your-data-and-the-challenge-of-ransomware/) I Didn’t Learn Unix By Reading All The Manpages (https://www.owlfolio.org/research/i-didnt-learn-unix-by-reading-all-the-manpages/) News Roundup Feedback: I try to answer "how to become a systems engineer" (https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/05/30/eng/) Writing shell scripts in Nushell (https://jpospisil.com/2023/05/25/writing-shell-scripts-in-nushell) Sudo and signal propagation (https://dxuuu.xyz/sudo.html) Infecting SSH Public Keys with backdoors (https://blog.thc.org/infecting-ssh-public-keys-with-backdoors) OpenBSD Thinkpad (https://douglasrumbaugh.com/post/openbsd-thinkpad-good/) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv)

Duration:00:48:30

513: New Host Interview

6/29/2023
We have a new show host, Understanding ZFS vdev Types, Don't abuse su for dropping user privileges, Dynamic Tracing on OpenBSD 7.3, new Libressl, Manual Jails on FreeBSD 12, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Host Introductions - Jason Tubnor - https://www.tubsta.com (https://www.tubsta.com) / @tubsta (https://twitter.com/tubsta) / @Tubsta@soc.feditime.com (https://soc.feditime.com) Headlines Understanding ZFS vdev Types (https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-understanding-zfs-vdev-types/) Don't abuse su for dropping user privileges (https://jdebp.uk/FGA/dont-abuse-su-for-dropping-privileges.html) News Roundup Dynamic Tracing on OpenBSD 7.3 (https://blog.lambda.cx/posts/openbsd-dynamic-tracing/) new Libressl (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230528115900) Manual Jails on FreeBSD 12 (https://ogris.de/howtos/freebsd-jails.html) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Chris - questions (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/513/feedback/Chris%20-%20questions.md) Dan - zfs questions (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/513/feedback/Dan%20-%20zfs%20questions.md) Pablo - Jail question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/513/feedback/Pablo%20-%20Jail%20question.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***

Duration:00:53:24

512: BSDNow Live! 9 bits of BSDNow - Just speak into the goat

6/22/2023
Recorded at BSDCan 2023 NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines BSDNow - The early years BSDNow - Production Process News Roundup FreeBSD Devsummit BSDCan Beastie Bits How you can help the show! Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Corey asks - what is the status of netbsd 10? How have things changed in the bsds over the history of the show? Announcement As a final thing Allan would like to make an announcement: - Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv)

Duration:00:40:35

511: Against Innovation

6/15/2023
Sun Ray laptops, MIPS and getting root on them, OpenZFS for HPC Clusters, Self-Hosted Bookmarks using DAV and httpd on OpenBSD, Terraform + Proxmox + OpenBSD = <3, WOL Plex Server, Against innovation, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Of Sun Ray laptops, MIPS and getting root on them (https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/04/of-sun-ray-laptops-mips-and-getting.html) OpenZFS for HPC Clusters (https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-openzfs-for-hpc-clusters/) News Roundup Self-Hosted Bookmarks using DAV and httpd on OpenBSD (https://www.tumfatig.net/2023/self-hosted-bookmarks-using-dav-and-httpd-on-openbsd/) Terraform + Proxmox + OpenBSD = <3 (https://x61.sh/log/2023/05/19052023172439-terraform_proxmox_openbsd.html) WOL Plex Server (https://maximiliangolla.com/blog/2022-10-wol-plex-server/) Against Innovation (https://dadadrummer.substack.com/p/against-innovation) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv)

Duration:00:50:54

510: The BSD Slabtop

6/8/2023
AsiaBSDCon 2023 Trip Report, Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop, Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio to other devices, The Gnome and Its "Secret Place", ttyload, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines AsiaBSDCon 2023 Trip Report (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/asiabsdcon-2023-trip-report/) Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop (https://bt.ht/slabtop/) News Roundup Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio to other devices (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-05-05-openbsd-sound-streaming.html) The Gnome and Its "Secret Place" (https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2023-May/028363.html) ttyload - Linux/Unix color-coded graphical tracking tool for load average in a terminal (https://www.cyberciti.biz/open-source/command-line-hacks/ttyload-color-coded-graphical-tracking-tool-for-unixlinux-load-average-in-a-terminal/) Beastie Bits • [OpenIndiana with a Sun Microsystems 22" LCD monitor. Running on a 1.8GHz quad core AMD Phenom 9100e processor, 4Gb RAM, nVidia GEForce GT630.](https://www.reddit.com/r/unix/comments/13otjnt/openindiana_with_a_sun_microsystems_22_lcd/) • [cron(8) now supports random ranges with steps](https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230507122935&utm_source=bsdweekly) • [BSDCan 2024 Reorganization](https://mwl.io/archives/22799) • [Depenguin me](https://depenguin.me/) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv)

Duration:00:46:40

509: Dot File Naming

6/1/2023
Leveraging OpenZFS to Build Your Own Storage Appliance, Install OpenBSD as a VM, Set up your own CalDAV and CardDAV servers on OpenBSD, display basic computer information using DMI table decoder, Gpart CheatSheet, Rob Pike on the Origin of Unix Dot File Names, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines OpenZFS – Leveraging OpenZFS to Build Your Own Storage Appliance (https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-leveraging-openzfs-to-build-your-own-storage-appliance/) Install OpenBSD as a VM (https://byte-sized.de/linux-unix/openbsd-als-vm-installieren/#english) News Roundup Set up your own CalDAV and CardDAV servers on OpenBSD (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-04-23-calendar-and-contacts-with-radicale.html) How to display basic computer information using DMI table decoder (https://sleeplessbeastie.eu/2023/03/31/how-to-display-basic-computer-information-using-dmi-table-decoder/) Gpart CheatSheet - wiping drives, partitioning, & formating (https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/gpart-cheatsheet-wiping-drives-partitioning-formating.45411) Rob Pike on the Origin of Unix Dot File Names (http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/writ/unix_origin_of_dot_filename.html) Beastie Bits Hackerstations Mike McQuaid's clean, ergonomic setup in Edinburgh, Scotland (https://hackerstations.com/setups/mike_mcquaid/) Daniel Stenberg and the home of curl in Stockholm, Sweden (https://hackerstations.com/setups/daniel_stenberg/) viogpu(4), a VirtIO GPU driver, added to -current (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230421124221) OpenBGPD 8.0 released (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230505054214) cron(8) now supports random ranges with steps (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230507122935) malloc leak detection available in -current (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230417074903) vmd(8) moves to a multi-process model (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230430051250) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv)

Duration:00:41:14

508: Foundational Proceedings

5/25/2023
FreeBSD Foundation Welcomes New Team Members, OpenZFS the Ideal Storage Solution for University Environments, SCaLE20X Conference Report, 916 days of Emacs, XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought, NetBSD Annual General Meeting 2023, and more NOTES** This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines FreeBSD Foundation Welcomes New Team Members (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-foundation-welcomes-new-team-members/) What Makes OpenZFS the Ideal Storage Solution for University Environments (https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-what-makes-openzfs-the-ideal-storage-solution-for-university-environments//) News Roundup SCaLE20X Conference Report (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/scale20x-conference-report/) 916 days of Emacs (https://sqrtminusone.xyz/posts/2023-04-13-emacs/) XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought (https://aduros.com/blog/xterm-its-better-than-you-thought/) NetBSD AGM2023: Annual General Meeting, May 13, 21:00 UTC (https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2023/05/05/msg000348.html) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Adrian - Tilde (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/508/feedback/Adrian%20-%20Tilde.md) Dan - Root Shell (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/508/feedback/Dan%20-%20Root%20Shell.md) Florian - Salt Extension (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/508/feedback/Florian%20-%20Salt%20Extension.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***

Duration:00:41:05

507: Michael W. Lucas Interview

5/18/2023
Author Michael W. Lucas joins us in this interview to talk about his latest book projects. Find out what he’s up to regarding mail servers, conferences, his views on ChatGPT, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Interview - Michael W. Lucas - mwl@mwl.io (mailto:mwl@mwl.io) OpenBSD Mastery Filesystems Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. - Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Special Guest: Michael W Lucas.

Duration:00:58:41