Is it always recommended to install obsdfreqd in place of apmd for temp control? #openbsd

[Again for those on the other side of the pond] -

Friends, it finally happened. On August 7th, 2025, the number of spamtraps rolled past the number of people in my home country. It's time for a retrospective.

Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off? https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html)

Post-Quantum Cryptography Advice Added to OpenSSH Website https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250811110058 #openbsd #openssh #ssh #cryptography #postquantum #postq #crypto #security #libresoftware #freesoftware #bsd

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Friends, it finally happened. On August 7th, 2025, the number of spamtraps intended to woo the unwary spammer rolled past the number of inhabitants in my home country of Norway. It's time for a retrospective.

Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off? https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html)

I've got a ThinkPad X1 Carbon 5th, currently running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I want to try *BSD on this laptop.

Network controller is reported as "Intel Corporation Wireless 8265 / 8275 (rev 88)" under Linux.

FreeBSD installs OK, but wireless speed is not impressive, and my USB-C dock doesn't seem to be recognized.

I can live with using a wifi-dongle when out and about, but missing dock connectivity is not something I look forward to. I don't care about the built-in camera.

Is there anything else I should worry about? Sound, Bluetooth, sleep mode, battery life?

I ordered this a few minutes ago as my new #openbsd firewall router from AliExpress with N150 DDR5 Intel 2.5Gb #runbsd #bsd

First steps in the BSD world!

1) OpenBSD on VPS (Amsterdam)
2) FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 (home)

I'm running a Wireguard connection between the two.

Next step is setting up relayd on the VPS to point at services on the Raspberry Pi server.

Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off? https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html)

Friends, it finally happened. On August 7th, 2025, the number of spamtraps intended to woo the unwary spammer rolled past the number of inhabitants in my home country of Norway.

It's time for a retrospective.

Ok so, please explain it like I’m five, #BSD folx.

Let’s say I wanted to leave ipv4 behind in my homelab, both internal network services and services exposed to the wider internet. Could I decide “I’m an ipv6 guy” and just not mess with ipv4 and NAT etc?

For context, I am a generalist that occasionally cosplays as a sysadmin and don’t really understand either standards in a complete way.

Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off? https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html)

With the imaginary friends, also known as spamtraps, now more numerous than the inhabitants of their virtual landlord's home country, a greytrapping retrospective is in order.

Noticed that Debian went from bookworm to trixie recently. Pondered updating my Pis, then remembered I’m scheduled for surgery soon, and if something was to go wrong with the upgrade, and I couldn’t get it fixed before surgery, I would likely have no idea how to fix it afterwards.

Then thought about how OpenBSD system upgrades are a non-event. I wouldn’t have hesitated to turn the crank there.

I think this means my long-term task changed to “upgrade to OpenBSD on Pis.” #OpenBSD #SysAdmin

Hey #FreeBSD admins with #OpenBSD as second language, what would be the equivalent to ˋacme-client` on FreeBSD?

Like in single command you run every night that checks if your Let’s encrypt certificates are up to date and, if not, just request another one. Nothing more, no integration with other software configuration.

I have looked in the handbook but there doesn’t seem to be a stock option. Also, I used pkg search but can’t make up my mind from the tenth of results :-/

Call for testing: USB webcams #openbsd
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250808083341

Call for testing: USB webcams https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250808083341 #openbsd #usb #webcams #testing #snapshot #freesoftware #libresoftware

I am not skilled in various network technologies for configuring a server, can someone suggest something to try learning that comes part of the #openbsd base installation to expand my skill set?

I've considered setting up a CVS mirror, trying to figure out a multimedia server to play from or a NAS, or buy a domain and see if I can host a static website. I'm open to suggesting something more basic as a beginning point

Did you notice? The registration was temporary open today and we welcome all new users!

While we still have a plenty of free resources, we might switch from an open registration model to a recommendation / mentor model where already present users can invite new users.

This is not yet fix but a possibility to avoid misusage and abuse where our primary goal is still to provide resources for people interested into BSD based systems. Maybe also closer integrations with BSD communities like the BSD Cafe (@stefano) could be an approach.

#freevps #free #education #ipv6 #hosting #bhyve #proxmox #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #runbsd #boxybsd @gyptazy