Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social)
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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social)
@pitrh.bsky.social
Puffyist, daemon charmer, penguin wrangler. Wrote The Book of PF, rants on security and sanity in IT (lack of)@ http://bsdly.blogspot.com. #OpenBSD #unix #cloud #security, Bergen, Norway.

See also https://nuug.no https://eurobsdcon.org, https://bsdcan.org
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EU CRA: It's Later Than You Think, Time to Engineer Up! nxdomain.no/~peter/eu_cr... (or tracked bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/09/eu-c...) for your weekend #sbom #development #software #engineering reading #cra #resilience
EU CRA: It's Later Than You Think, Time to Engineer Up!
nxdomain.no
The .cn domain name scammers are still at it, a new entry added to the archive at nxdomain.no/~peter/domai...

See "Domain Name Scams Are Alive And Well, Thank You" nxdomain.no/~peter/domai... for some background (from 2016, the problem was not new then) #dns #domainnamescam #cndomains #scams #spam
Index of /~peter/domainnamescam/
nxdomain.no
November 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"Were you ever right about *anything*?"

"Only by accident"

(if your friendly neighborhood LLM chatbot had any concept of honesty)
November 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Some of my peers here will be interested to hear that the Eurpean Commission have released a short, compact action document "Cloud Sovereignty Framework" commission.europa.eu/document/095... -- six pages, worth reading to the end #sovereigncloud #cloud #eucommission
Cloud Sovereignty Framework | European Commission
commission.europa.eu
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
In -current, chromium (and derivatives) gain VA-API support www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... #openbsd #chromium #chrome #iridium #vaapi #video #current
In -current, chromium (and derivatives) gain VA-API support
www.undeadly.org
November 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
If you asked "what was that SBOM and CRA thing again", the article corresponding to that presentation is at nxdomain.no/~peter/eu_cr... (or with GOOG trackers bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/09/eu-c...), slides nxdomain.no/sbom.pdf #cra #cybersecurity #depenency #supplychain #development #cyberresilience
EU CRA: It's Later Than You Think, Time to Engineer Up!
nxdomain.no
November 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
BSDCan 2026 CFP is open, see www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.... and +links for instructions.

Submissions deadline is January 17, 2026, the conference runs tutorials June 17-18, talks June 19-20.

#bsdcan #conference #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #bsd #development #networking #freesoftware #libresoftware
Call for papers — BSDCan
BSDCan is a technical BSD conference held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
www.bsdcan.org
November 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
No, my dear, Mailer-Daemon does *not* engage in money laundering or sanctions avoidance - nxdomain.no/~peter/dear-... #mailerdaemon #spam #scams #cybercrime #moneylaundering #sanctionsbusting #sanctionavoidance #shitheads
nxdomain.no
October 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
October 30th: Bergen Open Source 2025, boskonf.no.

Tietoevry is a sponsor, and yours truly will offeer a 20 min of EU CRA: It's Later Than You Think, Time to Engineer Up! nxdomain.no/~peter/eu_cr...

#boskonf #opensource #cra #sbom #engineerup #development #freesoftware #libresoftware #tietoevry
Bergen Open Source-konferanse
Bergen Open Source er en årlig teknologikonferanse i Bergen drevet av studenter og andre frivillige. Konferansen har fokus på fri åpen kildekode og åpne data.
boskonf.no
October 27, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Er du i #bergen 30. oktober 2025 og er interessert i #opensource?

Konferansen Bergen Open Source boskonf.no kan fylle ettermiddagen din med nerding og mingling!

Og du kan få med det en 20 minutters variant av nxdomain.no/~peter/eu_cr... som siste foredrag for kvelden #boskonf #bergenopensource
Bergen Open Source-konferanse
Bergen Open Source er en årlig teknologikonferanse i Bergen drevet av studenter og andre frivillige. Konferansen har fokus på fri åpen kildekode og åpne data.
boskonf.no
October 24, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Now that #openbsd 7.8 www.openbsd.org/78.html is out, a refresh of "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." nxdomain.no/~peter/openb... or tracked bsdly.blogspot.com/2024/09/you-... was in order. #install #upgrade #maintenance #security #freesoftware #libresoftware
OpenBSD 7.8
OpenBSD 7.8
www.openbsd.org
October 22, 2025 at 6:32 AM