C'est pas illégal de le demander à ton/ta collègue cela dit.
Artist idea for the release artwork
As the next release is slowly cooking, I'd like to mention an artist that I love: @pmjv, or prahou. He's been dedicated to submitting awesome artwork about his universe, here at /c/unix_surrealism, which features many openbsd related comics (puffy being an important protagonist).
I was thus wondering how an artist could pretend at submitting an artwork for the next release ? Is it a shortlist ? Do you simply upload some on the mail list ?
Nope. But I'm eager to know how you can be so confident saying that ? (FYI the WiFi is served by a hotspot from my phone, which uses a randomized MAC address)
Thanks !
Gotta punch holes in the screen and hammer the keyboard a bit haha. But remember friends, Hardware is forever.
Easy, become a Magnetic Nymph today !
Magnetic nymph
Une dictature, comme vous y allez !
The real answer here.
Right now overlays requires elevated privilèges, but ideally it shouldn't. Rewriting the Linux kernel to implement per user namespaces like plan9 does would allow unprivileged actions from any user (just like if any user was sitting in a container, overlayed from the base system).
I know we're not there, and that's not the direction development is going, but this thread is about dreams, right ? 😉
About the XDG specs, they serve a totally different purpose so they're out of the discussion IMO. I'm not advocating against env variables. Just $PATH which is a workaround as I see it, but your mileage may vary.
As for your "issue" with steam, of course this is the best way to solve it. Because of today's OS limitation. My point is that with a better designed namespacing implementation, there would be more elegant solutions to solve it (and would get rid of the need to use LD_LIBRARY_PATH too, or literally any *_PATH env variable)
By mounting the binary over, I mean something like a bind mount. But in your case of a wrapper script, it doesn't apply indeed. Though in this case I would simply name the script steam-launcher and call it a day 🙂
Having multiple executables with the same name and relying on $PATH and absolute paths feels hackish to me, but that's only a matter of preference at this point.
I'm not saying we should get rid of $PATH right now. My point is that it was created to solve a problem we don't have anymore (not enough disk capacity), but we still keep it out of habit.
As a reminder, the discussion is about what should be rewritten from scratch in linux. And IMO, we should get rid of $PATH as there are better options.
Today's software would probably break, but my point is that $PATH is a relic from ancient times that solved a problem we don't have anymore.
You missed my point. The reason $PATH exists in the first place is because binaries were too large to fit on a single disk, so they were scattered around multiple partitions (/bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, etc...). Now, all your binaries can easily fit on a single partition (weirdly enough, /usr/bin was chosen as the "best candidate" for it), but we still have all the other locations, symlinked there. It just makes no sense.
As for the override mechanism you mention, there are much better tools nowadays to do that (overlayfs for example).
This is what plan9 does for example. There is no need for $PATH because all binaries are in /bin anyways. And to override a binary, you simply "mount" it over the existing one in place.
$PATH shouldn't even be a thing, as today disk space is cheap so there is no need to scatter binaries all over the place.
Historically, /usr was created so that you could mount a new disk here and have more binaries installed on your system when the disk with /bin was full.
And there are just so many other stuff like that which doesn't make sense anymore (/var/tmp comes to mind, /opt, /home which was supposed to be /usr but name was already taken, etc ...).
sysupgrade seems to fetch 7.5 right now. I'll see how well it goes !
Edit: upgrade went fine, running 7.5 now !
+1 on the Gazzew U4. I just swapped from browns to it and I'm never going back ! They're more tactile and much more silent.
To be honest, Ed.
When I'm forced to edit text on my phone (eg. to fix a broken server while on the go), I ssh in and fire up ed. This is what takes the less screen space on my already to small screen, and because it's line oriented the screen doesn't bounce/resize/screw up when the keyboard appears/disappear.
endlessh was pretty cool and a more modern version is even better ! I'll give it a shot !
On a side note, I found a way to trap HTTP connections too while working on my cyb.farm project. The go implementation is ridiculously simple: tarpit.go. It works by providing an endless stream of custom headers to the client, which it is supposed to ingest before getting to the content itself.
I find the config syntax cleaner.
Switches indeed ;)
Both voyager and moonlander are prebuilt, right ? I like the voyager, but might like just a few keys under the thumb compared to my current planck layout.
Thanks for the suggestions !
It's not about the cost, it's more about my current situation, storage space, and besides this specific use-case, I have no use for it (and I dont like buying stuff I don't use).
Presoldered split keyboard
Hi everyone! I'm planning on getting a split keyboard to replace my planck, but I don't have a soldering iron.
What are my options ? Ideally I want:
The keyboard I'm leaning toward is the let's split as it's a planck split in two halves, but it seems that you need to at least solder the keycaps yourself, which I can't.
Chapter 0x02 - Is it too abstract ?
Hey everyone !
With so many people stuck at 200 points on the board, I'm wondering if the chapter 2 isn't too "abstract" ?
The Cyb3r Hunt is meant to be challenging, but it shouldn't discourage players because they can't figure out what to do.
For those that went past it, did you find the solution sketchy ? Did it all make sense, or you went past it without really understanding what all these files were for ?
For those stuck, where are you stuck at (please use a spoiler tag) ?
I'm considering removing some files I consider "optional", and changing the hint to make it less like a guessing game as to what to do.
Any opinions on this ?
Pourquoi j’ai supprimé mon compte Twitter (et pourquoi vous pouvez probablement en faire autant sans hésiter) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
Cyber hunt - A technical adventure for Unix fans!
I've been working on this project for over a year now, and I'm sure many people here will like it !
This is a game where the player must complete technical challenges about various technologies (programming, cryptography, networking, etc...) to progress through the story. It puts the Unix family under the light, and features many opensource technologies all running on a single server!
Check out the about page for details, and happy hunting !
Cyber hunt - An epochalyptic adventure !
Over the past year, I've created technical adventure for people eager to challenge their skill and knowledge about many technical fields, while also having fun !
Programming, version control, command line, network protocols, cryptography, steganography, games, … Thorough the game you'll switch from decades old to state of the art technologies, and use it all to progress through a dystopian story happening around the 2nd Epochalypse.
Get your systems ready, and hope that you'll be done with it before the Advent of Code starts, because you will probably not handle both at the same time ;)
sysupgrade ❤️
Just spreading love for sysupgrade(8).
I had a private server running 7.2 dutyfully serving a PHP software for a local organisation for the past 4 years.
Our provider suffered an outage which brought the server down for a few hours. When it got back up, I decided to use this outage to upgrade it to 7.4.
Two sysupgrade and one pkg_add -u later, the server is up and running again, without further intervention needed.
I did it all from my phone, in a train with a a laggy connection.
Thanks OpenBSD for caring this much about your users ! 🐡♥️
The CYBFARM awaits, hunter.
Until the hunt opens, check out the Guest book !
Feeling floppy today ?
CYB3R HUNT is an epochalyptic online adventure of which you are the hero! Check out the about page, the rules, and prepare for the opening on the 31st of october !
Artworks are made by prahou, creator of the unix_surrealism universe (check out his mastodon account for the image on the background, and more quality content!).
As for the programs running :
Le dos de l'éléphant - Bavella Corsica
Came back from a trip in Corsica where we climb the most mental slab I've ever put my hands on !
Signed epochalypse
On the 19th of January [...] The admin team was helpless. In the split of a second, the whole CYBFARM network went down. Every subsystem on the planet stopped, and there was nothing they could do against it. The CYBFARM has always been autonomous, and nobody had enough knowledges of its internals to debug or fix anything.
Hopefully, a few minutes later, the first system came back up: the security module. Then other subsystems rebooted one after the others, and the production of goods restarted as expected.
We later found that an overflow occurred in the system clock. This caused a disruption of the internal message bus of the CYBFARM, which entered a locked state, and shut itself down to prevent harming the subsystems. The CYBFARM eventually found and patched the bug automatically, without any external intervention from our part. This was the first time in History that [an autonomous system] healed itself without human action!
This is such a major milestone in Histor
Security Mod
Case stared at the old laptop.
Is it broken ?
Molly closed the lid, and put it next the others, all destroyed by the CYBFARM security module.
There must be a way to bypass it...
artwork: @pmjv
Remote storage solution ?
I used to rock a bare metal 1Tib HDD server for 17€/month, that I used as an NFS server for all my other servers which needed storage space.
First of all, NFS kinda sucks and I'm looking for alternative solution that I can use on OpenBSD to mount remote volumes.
Secondly, I'm planning to move this server to hetzner (my current provider), but they lack affordable storage (it's 50€/month for 1Tib). Do you know an hosting provider which would provide high volumes for not so expensive prices ?
Besoin de votre temps CPU
Salut les Français !
Je bosse sur un projet dans le cadre duquel j'ai besoin de construire une table de correspondance entre des mots de passe et leurs hash cryptographiques.
Seulement voilà, l'algorithme de calcul de ces hash (argon2id) est spécifiquement construit pour être long et coûteux a calculer. Or moi j'ai besoin d'un gros volume de données aléatoires (+2Gib), et memes avec toute ma puissance dont je dispose a la maison, ça me prendrait des mois.
J'ai donc mis au point hashcrush, un "brûleur de CPU", qui calcule ces précieux hash en utilisant toute la puissance disponible sur la machine qui l'exécute. Je l'ai testé sous Linux et OpenBSD.
Parce que je crois en l''esprit communautaire et l'entraide dans la vie de tous les jours, je préfères demander de l'aide au sein des communautés auxquelles j'appartiens plutôt que d'engraisser les fournisseur de service (qui me louerait du CPU à foison pour le même résultat avec grand plaisir).
Donc si
Wake up, Neo ...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/1341812
The one true white rabbit.
Parsing RFC3164 logs for Grafana
Hey everyone ! I finally decided to monitor my applications more closely with Grafana. However I'm having issues building dashboards their logs.
Their logs are currently sent over syslog (in RFC3164 format) into telegraf. But it simply puts the whole message into the message field, so I can't use specific fields (eg. URL for httpd, source IP for DNS requests, username for SSH, …) to build graphs.
I've read about grok patterns, but I have no idea how to use them.
Would someone have any pointer on how I could make sense out of these logs for later use ?
Custom keyboard layout
I would like to add a new keyboard layout (FR - AZERTY AFNOR). What is the correct way to do it ?
Ideally I would like to use it for everything:
For now, I updated /usr/X11R6/share/X11/xkb/symbols/fr to add the variant, which I load in xenodm and my xsession using setxkbmap.
However I feel like it's not "clean" as it should be done with wsconsctl .
So what is the correct way to do it ?
