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  #Printers are truly among God's most evil creations. My dad's HP MFP just stopped accepting print jobs today. After a bit of digging, it turns out it has a TLS certificate which is needed for AirPrint and any other protocol using TLS. It expired this week. I'm fairly sure most people would toss the printer out and buy a new one. But if you hit the management interface in a browser (which is unauthenticated and plaintext by default, btw), you can have the printer generat...

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  Installed #NetBSD on this #Sparc64 Sun Ultra 10 and finally got X working. Even Palemoon browser works - albeit very, very slowly. Whole lotta swappin' goin' on here! Also we are out of colours! Anyone have some to spare? :D

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  I am absolutely in love with #tracker music. I recently spent a few evenings with a good friend and colleague of mine going through a big collection of tracks, and ended up with a few dozen[1] that impressed us in one way or other. While going through them, we mainly used #OpenCubicPlayer on a #386 (a 486slc2, technically) with a #Gravis Ultrasound PnP. Already pretty wild that some of these files play on such old hardware - but *that's the whole point!* Now I'm listening to s...

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  "The end goal is to standardise our platforms on AWS but this is not yet a decision made." Suuuuuure. #GetFediHired #HateThisJob #FreeBSD

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  @pitrh@mastodon.social If only I didn't need that kidney...

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  So, yeah. Another #EuroBSDCon is behind us, and we're sad to leave. It has been incredible meeting all the old farts and new hopefuls - more of the latter than ever, I think! Great talks in all tracks - including the hallway one. Even some conspiracies for good, which is always fun. There were too many highlights to mention, so I'll just shout a big THANK YOU to everyone who contributed to making this a fantastic experience - again. On a personal note I ask/hope those of you who said h...

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  Having an absolute blast at #EuroBSDCon as always. Loads of cool people, excellent tutorial on the #CRA and its implications for open source, very interesting #bhyve developments, a fantastic "debut" by Federico Angelilli bringing kernel live patching on #FreeBSD through his #GSOC project. As always I brought some properly obsolete hardware: a 486slc2 running #NetBSD (or OS/2 on request), a Toshiba luggable 486SX2-66 with #DOS and #MonkeyIsland, #DOTT, #Larry, #SpaceQuest or whatnot,...

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  Gikk bortom Regjeringskvartalet i dag, og ble satt ut av det store minnesmerket med navnene støpt inn i stålbjelkene. Så da begynte jeg naturligvis å grine. Et par gikk forbi meg mens jeg hulket som verst, og damen la hånden på armen min i et halvt sekund. Et slikt lite glimt av empati og medmennesklighet ut av det blå gjorde dagen en hel del lysere. #Norsktut #Allheimen #22juli

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  Making sure this beast of a #486 is ready for #EuroBSDCon .. It'll run #DOS, #NetBSD and OS/2 - and circles around nothing. #Retrocompuing #OS2 #Slowcomputing #EuroBSDCon2026

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  Best use of a Mac in 2026: provide power for a #FreeBSD laptop. :D

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  So I got an interesting #Floppy #Recovery job in my lap today .. a promo floppy(!!) for the band Everything but the Girl .. remember those people? Anyway: badly damaged it seems, hard to get much out of the disk, but I keep trying. Giving #RecoveryWhiskers a good workout with it (thanks for your help and patience, @JennyFluff@chitter.xyz !), will try some more with the straight #GreaseWeazle tools. Learning a lot here! #Music #EverythingButTheGirl (as if anyone is following *that* hashtag...)

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  @benteh@mastodon.social Wtf. Why, another AI slaughterhouse?

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  Flying for the first time in 30 years. Going to visit the #BSDNL conference tomorrow! (It was transported as hand luggage, in case anyone wondered ;) #RetroComputing #BSD #RunBSD #DOS

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  @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net @sqhistorian@dosgame.club Won't touch with a mile long stick.

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  @kemotep In my case ($dayjob) we have a few dozen FreeBSD iron with a few hundred jails. It's managed by Puppet (config mgmt), so e.g. locking a user happens across the "fleet" fairly automagically. We ship syslogs and kernel audit logs to a log server where it can either be "looked at" by scripts/tools locally or forwarded to some SIEM tool (doesn't matter which, but there are few of them in ports, sadly). Big exception to this rule (for config mgmt in particular)...

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  @feld @stefano Really? A car that shuts down for a software update like a bloody PC? A car that notifies you of things that are not explained? Removing basic drive info from the natural field of vision? If that's wanting my rotary back then okay.

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  @marcus@hachyderm.io Slightly dated Kia

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  @harald @JosteinSN@oslo.town Interessant, ikke hørt om før. Tror du de er villige til å kjøre en kjapp test med FreeBSD på en maskin? :) Gamlemaskinen din fra Multicom har forresten "eksplodert" - batteriet vokste plutselig til 4x tykkelse over natten :-D

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  @polpo@chaos.social Ordered three. Woohoo! Also, I did not expect to break the bank already on payday this month, so well played, Ian!