I was listening to the BSD Now podcast and they were talking a lot about BSD conventions. It sounded like fun. I'd like to go to one. They said they are very welcoming to newcomers.

With my social phobia and agoraphobia, I think a BSD convention might be more manageable than, say, something like DEFCON or SCaLE. My estimate is that the latter would contain an order of magnitude more people than a BSD convention, and thus take place at larger, more daunting locations.

The folks on the BSD Now podcast mentioned that to maximize enjoyment of a BSD (or any) convention, one must observe the 6-2-1 rule, which consists of at least 6 hours of sleep, 2 meals, and 1 shower. This is reasonable. To help with my anxiety, I'd make it the 6-2-2-1 rule, which is at least 6 hours of sleep, 2 meals, 2 clonazepams (take one an hour before, and one during the convention), and 1 shower.

The closest upcoming BSD convention is BSDCan in June 2025, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The BSDCan website has information about accommodations and traveling to Canada. https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/

I looked up flights out of O'Hare to Ottawa on June 10th, and there are 20 available on the Air Canada website. It is a 2 hour flight. ~$252 for economy class seat and a shittier flying experience. ~$500 for a non-refundable business class seat, which is a more tolerable flying experience. ~$600 for a refundable business class one. I'm leaning toward the latter.

#FreeBSD Continues Working On 802.11n/802.11ac WiFi & Other Laptop Improvements

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Laptop-Improvements-25

#Neovim as an IDE for programming in #FreeBSD (not all in this life is VSCode).

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/neovim-as-an-ide-for-programming.97059/

Hello #FreeBSD friends,

I loan a new vps (Thanks @stefano for the provider name). As every #FreeBSD admin (I guess) I will use jails.

But which is "best" to manage jails?

#ezjail is no morre maintened
#iocage, I tryied(??) and I don't really like it
#cbsd
#bastille
still #vanilla
other tools?

Please et me know our choice andmay be why did choose this tool.

Thanks in advance,

Take care

New video out!

Setting up a #ssh tarpit on #FreeBSD with endlessh.

Enjoy

On #youtube
https://youtu.be/R8AyF228fn0

On #Odysee
https://odysee.com/@YetanotherSysAdmin:0/Setting-up-a-SSH-tarpit-(endlessh)-on-FreeBSD:a

My horribly old #desktop #PC is finally starting to die. Currently running a backup (using #zfs send/recv) to my server of one important local dataset.

Now I started looking for new hardware and to my surprise found a "modern" mainboard with a "real" parallel port (internal header, certainly good enough). This really helps with my retro hobby (#C64), years ago I soldered a simple interface cable that allows using a 1541 floppy on the PC, I even ported the #opencbm driver for that from #Linux to #FreeBSD. Without a parallel port, you'd need some complex USB interface instead including a microcontroller and "tons of shit", while the cable for the parallel port basically consists of a few diodes.

Now I wonder one thing: I'd also love to have a #FDC (#floppy drive controller) again. Is there any modern board coming with THAT as well or should I just forget about it?