We close on our home refinancing today. Almost immediately afterwards, I plan to plop #GrapheneOS on phone.
Shawn Webb
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HardenedBSD cofounder, Emerald Onion Advisory Board member, all around infosec wonk.
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@christopherkunz I don't want to chance breaking my primary communications device during this crucial period.
The probability of me breaking my phone during the process is pretty small, but it's a non-zero chance.
I'm way too risk averse to switch while we're working with a few hundred thousand bucks on the line. :-)
@feld After my "hacker show & tell" on Saturday, I plan to take a very deep look at #MeshCore. I suspect both MeshCore and #Reticulum will play crucial roles in the next phase of my R&D on a censorship- and surveillance-resistant mesh network.
The #Meshtastic code is absolutely full of hardcoded magic numbers. I suspect changing the size of a single buffer might prove problematic.
Anyone know of anyone making and selling fully complete outdoor solar #Meshtastic nodes? I'm at the point in my experimentation where I could use two permanent devices.
@feld Some of those are new to me. I'll take a look. Thanks!
I'm a huge fan of post-rock. I've seen #MogwaiBand multiple times. My favorite concert was when they played at a prominent Jewish synagogue in Washington, DC, the soundtrack to the BBC documentary "Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise" while the documentary played overhead.
Really good documentary and even better music. :-)
Today is brought to you by #Caspian : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYwe0gV20zE
My employer currently does annual performance reviews. I had so much anxiety coming up to mine that I just barely concluded a few minutes ago.
My employer likes me and wants to keep me around, so that's good. :-)
I decided that since Keychron wasn't gonna honor their warranty for a brand new purchase that was dead on arrival, I would open it up and see what's inside. My dexterity is beyond horrible and I tend to further break things, hence my extreme reluctance to even unscrew the thing.
But I got it working. There was a loose cable. I did almost break it further, but managed to finagle it closed.
So it turns out that the last time the #HardenedBSD 16-CURRENT installer builder successfully built img/iso files was build 65 from 07 Dec 2025.
So that tells me two things: I need to check for the existence of specific files in our build script and throw an error when memstick.img and/or disc1.iso (and related) are missing for some reason.
I suspect I screwed something up when trying to drudge through this pkgbase stuff. Upstream made a freakton of rushed last-minute changes to the src build framework to support pkgbase and I wasn't able to properly keep up.
The good news coming out of this is that I have been able to reproduce the spontaneous reboot issue in a Hyper-V #HardenedBSD 15-STABLE VM. We first encountered this when attempting to upgrade our storage server, only to revert back to the last #OpenZFS #ZFS Boot Environment.
So, being able to reproduce this on non-production gear is a huge win. I've never done remote kernel debugging before, so this is going to be a really fun learning experience.
It seems a recent build of FreeBSD 15-STABLE boots, so it's likely a problem specific to HardenedBSD.
@feld correct: no need for additional drivers. I have another Keychron numpad of the same model, and that one works just fine.
I will be filing a stop payment with my financial institution regarding the last #Keychron numpad purchase.
Screenshots here: https://nextcloud.hardenedbsd.org/apps/photos/public/vDzEXrhAHHEcyacmMWXgSiUK9VBGVJLI
My workload in ${PERSONAL_LIFE} is rather high right now. There's currently a merge conflict in the #HardenedBSD hardened/current/master branch. #FreeBSD today released a security; advisory. I hope to address both the merge conflict and the security advisory on HardenedBSD's side this weekend.
Dear #eventbrite
- I am a very happily married man. How dare you?
- This is my HardenedBSD email. How dare you?
Quite annoyed,
He who is putting you on blast
@nuintari Probably no one cares. It was just a completely random thought/question I had.
Random question: What filesystems shipped in #FreeBSD 15.0 base would support being used as a writable root filesystem?
- UFS
- ZFS
- msdosfs?
- ext2fs?
My wife's little sister, who is special needs, wants to attend a community college (well, not technically a community college, but it's a special program connected to a well-known Utah-based university.)
Her family doesn't want to buy her a laptop or other computer.
My wife is headed to Utah next month to spend time with family. I'm preparing an #Ubuntu #Linux system to donate to her little sister.
Education is crucial in life. I'll always support (to the best of my ability) efforts to better one's knowledge and skills.
For some reason, I can't seem to ssh into the Ubuntu system. It just hangs. Never experienced this before.