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Shawn Webb

@lattera@bsd.network

HardenedBSD cofounder, Emerald Onion Advisory Board member, employed in offensive cybersecurity, all around infosec wonk.

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Listening to #FreeBSDFoundation 's Deb Goodkin on her experience running #FreeBSD as a "daily driver" on her Framework laptop while doing a security code audit of storage firmware.

Kinda cool that Deb was a storage firmware developer back in the day.

Good presentation. Shows where folks who've grown less technical (nothing wrong with that--a person's priorities change over the years) over time have issues working with an operating system that lends itself to a more technically-inclined mindset.

Her presentation helps me understand, as a fellow operating systems developer, some of the higher-friction areas; areas needing smoothed out.

Link to presentation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYI6go-6THI

Having to re-establish a whole new set of doctors means filling out all new forms for each and everyone.

This doctor, my new psychiatrist, has 26 forms to fill out and sign.

Because this is how I want to spend my day. /s

Loose dog in the neighborhood. If I hadn't been yelled at once before for trying to return a dog to a neighbor, I would try to get this dog back home. But I legitimately fear being murdered by gunshot simply for returning a dog to its home. Already almost happened once.

@feld A few customers I've worked with over the past few months use GitHub for their private repos. A couple of them were security product vendors.

Unfortunate to see, especially as an infosec wonk that advocates for self-hosting and hardening "ALL THE THINGS! "

Three years later, our Dyson vacuum has given up the ghost.

I'm looking for suggestions on a good quality vacuum that will last more than five years. Budget: $1000 USD.

I'm somewhat leaning towards more commercial/office style vacuums--the kind that are used in hotels and other high-trafficked and high-vacuumed areas.

I have done zero research, but likely will this weekend.

I suspect today or tomorrow might be #FreeBSD Security Advisory day.

I'm currently cherry-picking the fixes into our quarterly branches.

I still need to migrate our installer/update builds to #Radicle.

I also need to determine why our installer builds aren't producing bootable media. We're still being hit by the #pkgbase slop from upstream.

@feld @HardenedBSD I believe it might just be the first enterprise OS on Radicle. Thanks to OpenBSD's Aaron Bieber (qbit), OpenBSD is likely the second. :-)

There's thousands of projects on the Radicle network, though, so I'm not sure if there are any hobbyist OSes. Would be an interesting exercise to periodically analyze/categorize the repos on the network.