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July 06, 2023514: Infecting Public Keys
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
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Headlines
OpenZFS, Your Data and the Challenge of Ransomware
I Didn’t Learn Unix By Reading All The Manpages
News Roundup
Feedback: 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
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49 min
June 29, 2023513: New Host Interview
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
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Host Introductions - Jason Tubnor - https://www.tubsta.com / @tubsta / @[email protected]
Headlines
Understanding ZFS vdev Types
Don't abuse su for dropping user privileges
News Roundup
Dynamic Tracing on OpenBSD 7.3
new Libressl
Manual Jails on FreeBSD 12
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Feedback/Questions
Chris - questions
Dan - zfs questions
Pablo - Jail question
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54 min
June 22, 2023512: BSDNow Live! 9 bits of BSDNow - Just speak into the goat
Recorded at BSDCan 2023
NOTES
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Headlines
BSDNow - The early years
BSDNow - Production Process
News Roundup
FreeBSD Devsummit
BSDCan
Beastie Bits
How you can help the show!
Tarsnap
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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:
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41 min
June 15, 2023511: Against Innovation
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
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Headlines
Of Sun Ray laptops, MIPS and getting root on them
OpenZFS for HPC Clusters
News Roundup
Self-Hosted Bookmarks using DAV and httpd on OpenBSD
Terraform + Proxmox + OpenBSD = <3
WOL Plex Server
Against Innovation
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51 min
June 08, 2023510: The BSD Slabtop
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
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Headlines
AsiaBSDCon 2023 Trip Report
Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop
News Roundup
Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio to other devices
The Gnome and Its "Secret Place"
ttyload - Linux/Unix color-coded graphical tracking tool for 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/)
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47 min
June 01, 2023509: Dot File Naming
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
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Headlines
OpenZFS – Leveraging OpenZFS to Build Your Own Storage Appliance
Install OpenBSD as a VM
News Roundup
Set up your own CalDAV and CardDAV servers on OpenBSD
How to display basic computer information using DMI table decoder
Gpart CheatSheet - wiping drives, partitioning, & formating
Rob Pike on the Origin of Unix Dot File Names
Beastie Bits
Hackerstations
Mike McQuaid's clean, ergonomic setup in Edinburgh, Scotland
Daniel Stenberg and the home of curl in Stockholm, Sweden
viogpu(4), a VirtIO GPU driver, added to -current
OpenBGPD 8.0 released
cron(8) now supports random ranges with steps
malloc leak detection available in -current
vmd(8) moves to a multi-process model
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42 min
May 25, 2023508: Foundational Proceedings
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**
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Headlines
FreeBSD Foundation Welcomes New Team Members
What Makes OpenZFS the Ideal Storage Solution for University Environments
News Roundup
SCaLE20X Conference Report
916 days of Emacs
XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought
NetBSD AGM2023: Annual General Meeting, May 13, 21:00 UTC
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
Adrian - Tilde
Dan - Root Shell
Florian - Salt Extension
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42 min
May 18, 2023507: Michael W. Lucas Interview
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
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Interview - Michael W. Lucas - [email protected]
OpenBSD Mastery Filesystems
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Special Guest: Michael W Lucas.
59 min
May 11, 2023506: A greener BSD
Comparing Modern Open-Source Storage Solutions, FreeBSD Q1 Status Report, Hello Systems 0.8.1 Release, OpenBSD: Managing an inverter/converter with NUT, Tips for Running a Greener FreeBSD, BSDCAN Registration open
NOTES
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Headlines
Comparing Modern Open-Source Storage Solutions OpenZFS vs. The Rest
FreeBSD Q1 Status Report
News Roundup
Hello Systems 0.8.1 Release
OpenBSD: Managing an inverter/converter with NUT
Celebrating Earth Day: Tips for Running a Greener FreeBSD
BSDCAN Registration
Beastie Bits
• [SimCity 2000 running on OpenBSD 7.3 via DOSBox 0.74-3](https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd_gaming/comments/12k9zt2/simcity_2000_running_on_openbsd_73_via_dosbox_0743/)
• [OpenBSD Webzine #13](https://webzine.puffy.cafe/issue-13.html)
• [AWS Gazo bot](https://github.com/csaltos/aws-gazo-bot)
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33 min
May 04, 2023505: BSD Desktop Setup
OpenBSD 7.3 released, Accelerating Datacenter Energy Efficiency by Leveraging FreeBSD as Your Server OS, install Cinnamon as a Desktop environment, xmonad FreeBSD set up from scratch, Burgr books in your terminal, and more
NOTES
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Headlines
OpenBSD 7.3 released
BSDCan 2023 Schedule posted
Accelerating Datacenter Energy Efficiency by Leveraging FreeBSD as Your Server OS
News Roundup
FreeBSD – How to install Cinnamon as a Desktop environment
xmonad FreeBSD set up from scratch
Burgr books in your terminal
Pros and Cons of FreeBSD for virtual Servers
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
Reese - Dans Interview
jj - looking for help
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30 min

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