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The Hidden Costs of Stagnation: Why Running EOL Software is a Ticking Time Bomb, Maintaining FreeBSD in a Commercial Product – Why Upstream Contributions Matter, LLMs ('AI') are coming for our jobs whether or not they work, Implement Anubis to give the bots a harder time, erspan(4): ERSPAN Type II collection, Just my memory here is how I've configure OpenBSD and FreeBSD for a IPv6 Wifi, and more

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The Hidden Costs of Stagnation: Why Running EOL Software is a Ticking Time Bomb

Maintaining FreeBSD in a Commercial Product – Why Upstream Contributions

LLMs ('AI') are coming for our jobs whether or not they work

Implement Anubis to give the bots a harder time

erspan(4): ERSPAN Type II collection

Just my memory here is how I've configure OpenBSD and FreeBSD for a IPv6 Wifi

Some Interesting pieces of history

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Isolating Containers with ZFS and Linux Namespaces, DragonFly BSD 6.4.2, FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart, For Upcoming PF Tutorials, We Welcome Your Questions, Using ~/.ssh/authorized keys to decide what the incoming connection can do, PDF bruteforce tool to recover locked files, How and why typical (SaaS) pricing is too high for university departments, and more

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Isolating Containers with ZFS and Linux Namespaces

DragonFly BSD 6.4.2

FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart

For Upcoming PF Tutorials, We Welcome Your Questions

Using ~/.ssh/authorized keys to decide what the incoming connection can do

PDF bruteforce tool to recover locked files

How and why typical (SaaS) pricing is too high for university departments

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I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server, Owning the Stack: Infrastructure Independence with FreeBSD and ZFS, Optimisation of parallel TCP input, Chosing between "it works for now" and "it works in the long term", Losing one of my evenings after an OpenBSD upgrade, What drive did I just remove from the system?, and more

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I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server

Owning the Stack: Infrastructure Independence with FreeBSD and ZFS

Optimisation of parallel TCP input

Chosing between "it works for now" and "it works in the long term"

Losing one of my evenings after an OpenBSD upgrade

What drive did I just remove from the system?

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GhostBSD: From Usability to Struggle and Renewal, Why You Can’t Trust AI to Tune ZFS, Introducing bpflogd(8): capture packets via BPF to log files, What I'd do as a College Freshman in 2025, FreeBSD and KDE Plasma generations, Improvements to the FreeBSD CI/CD systems, FreeBSD as a Workstation, and more

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GhostBSD: From Usability to Struggle and Renewal

Why You Can’t Trust AI to Tune ZFS

Introducing bpflogd(8): capture packets via BPF to log files

What I'd do as a College Freshman in 2025

FreeBSD and KDE Plasma generations

Improvements to the FreeBSD CI/CD systems

FreeBSD as a Workstation

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Effie - FreeBSD as a Workstation

OpenBSD 7.7, ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 2: Replication, Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good, Graphed and measured: running TCP input in parallel, Introducing an OpenBSD LLDP daemon, Hardware discovery: ACPI & Device Tree, The 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey is Here, and more

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OpenBSD 7.7

ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 2: Replication

Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good

Graphed and measured: running TCP input in parallel

Introducing an OpenBSD LLDP daemon

Hardware discovery: ACPI & Device Tree

The 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey is Here

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Inside FreeBSD Netgraph: Behind the Curtain of Advanced Networking, Launching BSSG - My Journey from Dynamic CMS to Bash Static Site Generator, OpenZFS Cheat Sheet, Dipping my toes in OpenBSD in Amsterdam, SSH keys from a command: sshd's AuthorizedKeysCommand directive, How to move bhyve VM and Jail container from one host to another host, and more

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Inside FreeBSD Netgraph: Behind the Curtain of Advanced Networking

Launching BSSG - My Journey from Dynamic CMS to Bash Static Site Generator

OpenZFS Cheat Sheet

Dipping my toes in OpenBSD, in Amsterdam

SSH keys from a command: sshd's AuthorizedKeysCommand directive

How to move bhyve VM and Jail container from one host to another host ?

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Robust & Reliable Backup Solutions with OpenZFS, Why I Maintain a 17 Year Old Thinkpad, Motivations, Tinker Writer Deck, How to tell if FreeBSD needs a Reboot using kernel version check, Techie pulled an all-nighter that one mistake turned into an all-weekender, and more

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World Backup Day 2025: Robust & Reliable Backup Solutions with OpenZFS

Why I Maintain a 17 Year Old Thinkpad

Motivations

Tinker Writer Deck

How to tell if FreeBSD needs a Reboot using kernel version check

Techie pulled an all-nighter that one mistake turned into an all-weekender

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We should improve libzfs somewhat, Accurate Effective Storage Performance Benchmark, Debugging aids for pf firewall rules on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Thunderbolt issue on ThinkPad T480s, Signing Git Commits with an SSH key, Pgrep, LibreOffice downloads on the rise, and more

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We should improve libzfs somewhat

Accurate Effective Storage Performance Benchmark

Debugging aids for pf firewall rules on FreeBSD

OpenBSD and Thunderbolt issue on ThinkPad T480s

Signing Git Commits with an SSH key

Pgrep

LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs

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FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE Now Available, From Chaos to Clarity: How We Tackled FreeBSD’s 7,000 Bug Backlog, zfs-2.3.1, Complications of funding an open source operating system, Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025, First Use on GhostBSD, Better Shell History Search, and more

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FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE Now Available

From Chaos to Clarity: How We Tackled FreeBSD’s 7,000 Bug Backlog

zfs-2.3.1

Complications of funding an open source operating system

Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025

First Use on GhostBSD

Better Shell History Search

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FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands, Core Infrastructure: Why You Need to Control Your NTP, Automatic Display switch for OpenBSD laptop, Using a 2013 Mac Pro as a FreeBSD Desktop, Some terminal frustrations, Copying all files of a directory, including hidden ones, with cp, You Should Use /tmp/ More, and more

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FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands

Core Infrastructure: Why You Need to Control Your NTP

Automatic Display switch for OpenBSD laptop

Using a 2013 Mac Pro as a FreeBSD Desktop

Some terminal frustrations

Copying all files of a directory, including hidden ones, with cp

You Should Use /tmp/ More

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