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September 14, 2023524: Legendary Unix Recovery
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
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Headlines
On the Loss and Preservation of Knowledge
Unix Recovery Legend
News Roundup
Useful Unix commands for data science
Why we like Tarsnap = Transparency : Tarsnap outage post-mortem
OpenBSD 7.3 on a twenty year old IBM ThinkPad R31
Beastie Bits
Quick and dirty IMAP(-UW) server
JENNY’S DAILY DRIVERS: FREEBSD 13.2
Elvish
xroach
Did hell freeze over?
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
Nelson - Bell Labs Memoranda
patrick - audio switching
tim - appjail
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58 min
September 07, 2023523: Literally Unix
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 and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature
The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace
News Roundup
Theo de Raadt on Zenbleed
OPNsense 23.7 “Restless Roadrunner” Released
[ILLUMOS GETS A NEW C COMPILER](https://briancallahan.net/blog/20230705.html
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FIXING THINKPAD X1 WIFI ON FREEBSD
Tarsnap
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41 min
August 31, 2023522: Zenbleed Foot Shooting
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 and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to FreeBSD 13.2
History never repeats but sometimes it rhymes
News Roundup
Wayland on OpenBSD
OpenBGPD 8.1 released
Shoot yourself in the foot
Zenbleed: aka : The new fun for a while
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
Nixbytes - news on netbsd
Phillip - Questions
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49 min
August 24, 2023521: BSD Summer Reading
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 and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
FreeBSD Status Report Second Quarter 2023
Our 2023 Recommended Summer Reads 2023
News Roundup
How to install Kanboard on OpenBSD
A bit of Unix history on 'su -'
Some hints for splitting commits
Live from OpenBSD in Amsterdam
In memoriam
In Memoriam: Hans Petter William Sirevåg Selasky
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
Chris - Desktop BSD systems
Dane - Use another OS
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57 min
August 17, 2023520: 4 months BSD
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
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Headlines
4 Months of BSD
Self Hosted Calendar and address Book
News Roundup
Ban scanners IPs from OpenSMTP logs
Self-hosted git page with stagit (featuring ed, the standard editor)
Bastille template example
Nginx: How to Restrict Access by Geographical Location on FreeBSD
Beastie Bits
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
Chris - ARM
Matthew - Groups
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44 min
August 10, 2023519: Telegram from BSDNow
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
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Headlines
3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server Operating System
FreeBSD 14 Release Schedule
News Roundup
Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio to other devices
DOD KSOS Secure UNIX Operating System Manual and Final Report
How to limit bandwidth usage with SCP transfers
Beastie Bits
OpenSolaris 11.4 running in a VM
Celebrating 30 Years of FreeBSD – FreeBSD Journal Special Edition
Some ways you can contribute to open source software without writing code
ScreenCapture if you don't have a twitter account
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
Matthew - 512
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38 min
August 03, 2023518: Unix Edition Zero
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
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Headlines
A Guide to Problem-Solving for Software Developers with Examples
Making 20% time work
News Roundup
Long live netbooks!
OpenBSD Router on Sg105w
FreeBSD: How to Set Up a Simple and Actually Working Wireguard Server
How to be a -10x Engineer
Unix Edition Zero
Beastie Bits
Game of Trees 0.90 released
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
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57 min
July 27, 2023517: Huge pfsync rewrite
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
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Headlines
Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls – The Ultimate Guide - Part 2
27 Years with the Perfect OS
News Roundup
Top 20 OpenSSH Server Best Security Practices
Huge pfsync rewrite
OpenSMTPD 7.3.0p1 released
Running OpenBSD 7.3 on your laptop is really hard (not)
QuicSSH
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
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47 min
July 20, 2023516: Computer Time Origins
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
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Headlines
Linux vs. FreeBSD : Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls – The Ultimate Guide : Part 1
Why Netflix Chose NGINX as the Heart of Its CDN
News Roundup
FreeBSD: Protect your web servers against PHP shells and malwares
HowTo: Installing and running Gitlab
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.
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Feedback/Questions
sam - fav episodes
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47 min
July 13, 2023515: ChatGPT writing pf.conf
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
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Headlines
Linux vs. FreeBSD : FreeBSD or Linux – A Choice Without OS Wars
The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories
I asked ChatGPT to write a pf.conf to spec, 2023-06-07 version
News Roundup
GhostBSD 23.06.1 is now available
OPNsense 23.1.9 released
Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD
COFF: Bell Labs vs "East Coast" Management style of AT&T
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
Matt - Wireguard
Oscar - ISC.md
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41 min

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