"Fixing bufferbloat on your home network with #OpenBSD 6.2 or newer - Paul Smith" HT @paulsmith@twitter.com @mike
https://pauladamsmith.com/blog/2018/07/fixing-bufferbloat-on-your-home-network-with-openbsd-6.2-or-newer.html
#openbsd X240 bios updated 😎
get the .iso for your model from https://support.lenovo.com/au/en/solutions/len-22133
pkg_add geteltorito
plug a blank USB stick (will be overwritten)
geteltorito file.iso | dd of=/dev/rsd<n>c bs=1024k (replace <n> by the actual device number for your USB stick - /!\ be careful to not overwrite anoter disk)
reboot from USB.
et voilà.
An oldie but a goodie, Ted Unangst describing the 2Q (two queues) algorithm that #OpenBSD uses for the buffer cache.
https://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/2Q-buffer-cache-algorithm
And here we see #HardenedBSD 12-CURRENT/arm64 with Control Flow Integrity (CFI), a powerful exploit mitigation, enabled on the RPI3.
"It’s actually a big myth that search engines need to track your personal search history to make money or deliver quality search results" - DuckDuckGo's CEO explains how it’s become profitable without gathering user data
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-revenue-generation-model-for-DuckDuckGo/answer/Gabriel-Weinberg
The book that is mandatory reading at every data collection and aggregation company
I've switched from feh(1) to sxiv(1) few weeks ago and happy with it.
# pkg_delete feh
# pkg_add sxiv
Amazing how much sxiv(1) can do for a 44KB package.
Year progress ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░ 47% 2018 Fundraising Campaign ▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 14%
Seems like we need to catch up.
https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html
My web dev setup.
#OpenBSD 6.3 takes
4 mins to install (on bare metal)
4GB of memory
4GB on disk
base: cwm + xterm + tmux + vi + httpd
packages: git + firefox + node + entr ...
https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2018.html
If your company uses #OpenBSD or its products (pf, openssh, libressl) bring up donations to keep this software project running that provides code that basically the entire internet runs on. It takes more than just good will to run this!
IMO individual users should consider monthly donations e.g. via PayPal.
Regular reminder that if you use #OpenBSD, a great help to developers is to send your machines' dmesg outputs to dmesg <AT> openbsd.org.
If you'd like to help other *BSD users, regardless of what *BSD you use, submit your machines' dmesg outputs to http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/
It's free to do, and works best when we all chip in!
