Notices by peter hessler @openbsd (phessler@bsd.network), page 2

Remember: Prove what you know.

When debugging a thing that *can't* fail, you might assume things that aren't true. Go back to basics.

When it's new code, see if it worked without your changes.

Sometimes, you'll find a thing that has been broken for 8 months. And by double-checking, you can save 6 months of frustration.

#RIPE has assigned the last block from the 185/8 space.

This means there are no more pristine IPv4 addresses available in Europe, Middle East, or CIS.

RIPE still has a /9 of issuable space, but that is returned/revoked addresses from LIRs, and from the IANA returned pool.

Starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel for #IPv4.

Google just added 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 to Chrome's HSTS Preload list.

That means broken devices that are using IPs that don't belong to them, will have broken web interfaces.

GOOD.

Cisco and other lazy manufacturers used IP addresses that were not available for anyone to use, and now they are being punished for this.

"if you are publishing research behind a paywall, I don't know what you are doing, but it isn't Science."

"If you don't publish everything necessary to reproduce, including hardware decisions and settings, it isn't Science."

#TR18 #troopers #infosec #academia

Apparently the kiwi national hero: Get Off My Lawn Man

@Gargron almost 80% of users on a release less than 45 days old. very nice!

Do you use / write / do stuff with #BSD? Want to go to Ottawa Canada in June? The BSDCan 2018 CFP closes in three days (Jan 19). Don't put it off.

https://www.bsdcan.org/2018/papers.php

Travel costs are covered (flights, hotel, conference ticket) for accepted speakers!

#OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD

I'm currently super pissed off at #Intel/#Linux/#Microsoft.

So many of the shipping "fixes" for #Meltdown and #Spectre are causing noticeable problems such as "programs aren't starting" and "things take 30x longer".

I'm afraid this will kick off another round of "nobody should install updates!" We had *just* gotten out of that habit :/.

Fun article about the author discovering a speculative execution bug on the Xbox360.

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/finding-a-cpu-design-bug-in-the-xbox-360/

bsd.network is a mastodon instance running in #vmm on #openbsd.

I'm too lazy to make proper rc.d scripts yet, but will do that "soon".

remind-me: 2 years.

Registrations on bsd.network are now *open*!

I have pre-reserved the names for the projects, and a few others. If you would like to take control of those, please email the admins so we can ensure the proper people have them.

#bsd #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #hardenedbsd #bsdnow

Hi, I'm the Admin of this instance.

Registrations are not yet open, but will open soon.

#bsd #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #hardenedbsd #bsdnow