Michael Dexter @dexter@bsd.network

Hey fellow #Portlanders! We are looking for additional venues for the #Kubernetes meetup. Here's some criteria:

- Downtown, SW, or inner Eastside
- Free or cheap (<$200, or just a low F&B requirement)
- Private/semi-private space where we can do a slide preso/demo
- Able to have food (food sponsor separate)

Kubernetes-supporting company offices would be ideal.

Lemme know! #PDX #Meetup

#gameoftrees 0.111 has been released.

​ gotsysd has been added, which allows configuring #Git repository servers running #OpenBSD and Game of Trees by editing a configuration file in a special-purpose repository, similar in usage to how gitolite works. This is a core component required for running the Game of Trees Hub in the near future.

🌐​gotwebd no longer requires repositories to reside in the web server chroot, making it easier to share repositories between gotd and gotwebd.

⏩​​Performance issues of got clone over HTTP with chunked encoding have been fixed.

My ports@ update patch for OpenBSD -current (post-7.7) lists all changes: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=174533293626429&w=2

Did anyone else know that Western Washington University in Bellingham has a news podcast in Latin? https://nuntiilatini.com

(It shorter and not as punchy as the one from Universidad Panamericana in Ciudad de Mexico, but it’s published more often.)

#SalishSea #latin #lingualatina

With both #Eurovision and the Papal conclave happening in May, it’s gonna be a big month for Europeans who love overly complex, confusing and dramatic ways to select a winner that are run by international bureaucracies, include smoke for dramatic effect and feature excessively extra outfits

I published a follow-up on NPR's scoop last week about a whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), who alleges DOGE created super admin accounts (w/ no logging) at NLRB and transferred ~10GB worth of data from the agency's case files.

The story includes an interview with the whistleblower -- NLRB security architect Daniel Berulis -- and examines the technical claims in his report to lawmakers. He's taking some paid leave for now, noting that the same day the NPR story ran, the NLRB removed administrative rights for its IT staff and almost everyone else at the agency.

The backstory is that both Amazon and Musk’s SpaceX have been suing the NLRB over complaints the agency filed in disputes about workers’ rights and union organizing, arguing that the NLRB’s very existence is unconstitutional. On March 5, a U.S. appeals court unanimously rejected Musk’s claim that the NLRB’s structure somehow violates the Constitution.

Here's the lede:

"A security architect with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleges that employees from Elon Musk‘s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) transferred gigabytes of sensitive data from agency case files in early March, using short-lived accounts configured to leave few traces of network activity. The NLRB whistleblower said the unusual large data outflows coincided with multiple blocked login attempts from an Internet address in Russia that tried to use valid credentials for a newly-created DOGE user account."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/whistleblower-doge-siphoned-nlrb-case-data/

📢 Calling all *BSD enthusiasts to present at THE European *BSD conference of the year! 😈⛳️🐡

We have already received a good number of great talks, but we want more!

Got a groundbreaking discovery in BSD applications, architecture, or implementation? Or maybe you've cracked the code on performance and security? We want to hear from you!

Don't miss this chance to share your insights on:
- Applications: Show us how BSD-based systems are solving real-world problems!
- Architecture: Dive deep into the inner workings of BSD.
- Implementation: Share your tips and tricks for making BSD systems purr like a kitten.
- Performance: Help us squeeze every last drop of speed out of BSD.
- Security: Show off your fortress-building skills in the world of BSD.
- Economic or organizational aspects: How BSD is making a difference in the real world.

https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/cfp

Deadline: June 15, 2025 🕒

Let's make EuroBSDCon 2025 the best one yet! See you in Zagreb! 🌟

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷
September 25-28, 2025

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #BSD #CFP #Conference

Hey pals: Someone I like made a tool that extracts still images from youtube tutorials so we can follow them step by step with screenshots as God intended instead of having to constantly be pausing and seeking back and forth. I have LOST this precious resource.

Was it you? Will you give me the link? I will bookmark it this time.

UPDATE: FOUND. It is https://github.com/obra/Youtube2Webpage by @jesse and it deserves a genius grant if we're honest

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/25/eu_os_free_govt_desktop/

Have you ever heard of such a huge waste of money? Shouldn't Europe focus on, literally anything else? We already have competent Linux distros that they can use (and they do, the EU is big on open source things, it's one of its few redeeming qualities, and they have such preference due to an agenda for more European digital sovereignty eg they also host their own Mastodon server).

Better this though, than those people invading Debian, which I use. EU OS is Fedora-based.

TIL you can configure ssh to only allow a client to run 1 specific command https://dan.langille.org/2025/04/17/using-ssh-authorized-keys-to-decide-what-the-incoming-connection-can-do/

⚒️ Linux Kollektivs - Oh Please ⚒️: https://prose.winterschon.com/2025/04/21/linux-kollektivs-oh-please.html

Me too.

More than half of Americans use subtitles because audio is 'muddled,' survey finds
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/17/nx-s1-5346742/more-than-half-of-americans-use-subtitles-because-audio-is-muddled-survey-finds?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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