I'm from Romania and my interests include self-hosting / homelabbing, proactive cybersecurity, alternative networking...
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Last Notes npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) I had no idea that the creator of Mitra is working on a nomadic identity implementation of ActivityPub that uses cryptographic identities before littleFedi did. Looking forward to wrap my head around it tomorrow... (too bad I didn't learn about this before my OmniOpenCon presentation) npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) "The basic idea is for vulnerabilities rated low and medium severity, they will be treated like regular old bugs instead of a special bug that needs extra attention. I think this is a great idea and a policy we should be encouraging open source projects to adopt something similar. Open source projects are drowning in vulnerability reports, this should help remove some of the pressure." npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) I ended up using i3 during my presentation because niri did not work ootb with the input of my wireless keyboard, which I rely on as my mom gave me this laptop partly because its keyboard is not working properly anymore! Otherwise, it's a decent old laptop with the now luxurious amount of 8GB RAM. Surely I'd get a ThinkPad or a thickbook if I could, but I'm still on a shoestring budget. npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) My presentation from a week ago, at #OmniOpenCon 2026 (Bucharest), is finally online and somewhat polished... The video is raw footage and my talk could only cover mostly #ActivityPub, but the complete text also dives a bit into #ATproto, not without deserved criticism. npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) I only just now see the "art" of #OpenBSD 8.0... After a long while in which they weren't very clear with their AI policy but still seemed to be on the skeptical side, they decided in bad taste - but somehow predictable, considering the mainstay devs having grown up in a generation where it was "cool" to be or at least pretend being neither for nor against anything - to drop ironic slop... npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) My presentation at #OmniOpenCon 2026 will be published on PeerTube and on my static website in a few days, I hope! I can't praise enough their organizers for their openness and friendly assistance, no eyes rolled when I arrived with an OpenBSD laptop and only a vague understanding of xrandr! I wasn't expecting to draw a relativeky numerous public, so I'm grateful for their interest, despite how my presentation skills sucked! And last but not least, I'm grateful for how open towards me the young people from the XMPP stand were - despite the age and skill gap, we had strikingly many common interests / software affinities as *BSD and mostly non-systemd Linux users! npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) The event calendar should be released any moment now, but so far I can confirm that my talk proposal for #OmniOpenCon 2026 Bucharest was accepted, so I'm going to have a presentation on #ActivityPub and #ATproto! npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) Which is also why I use #OpenBSD, which is pretty secure by default, although I'm looking forward to running #dropQbsd npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) #OmniOpenCon is an open source conference that takes place in Bucharest each year at the Politehnica University - not a very big thing, but for eg. last year there was a talk given by one of the developers of Collabora, there were features on new stuff in the RISC-V space, so it's not just an event for students. npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) @nprofile…9atz Why don't they provide PDFs anymore? npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) Has anyone here ever used #HardenedBSD rather than vanilla #FreeBSD for their NAS? npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) @nprofile…p4p6 I understood from @nprofile…vf35 that it's actually not Mastodon, but a different ActivityPub implementation, very lightweight, inspired by other implementations, like snac2. I haven't seen its repo though npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) @nprofile…hth5 28k domains? npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) Now I'm also on #Usenet via Eternal September. To my surprise, #Emacs #Gnus was easier to set up than its documentation initially promised... npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) Having followed a tutorial, I could make #WireGuard wg-quick work on my #OpenBSD, but not without DNS query leaks, so I learned I must figure out #unbound - however, a noob like me can only seem to manage to fix configuration errors while unbound itself apparently won't start because of this (which I found out after learning there's more than one way to debug unbound - not elegant, imho): npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) Has anyone here switched from Let's Encrypt to Actalis? npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) An #OpenBSD install a day keeps the doctor away, or beloved Balkan babushka home decor serving background to restoring my mom's old laptop to its utmost computing glory... npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) Some of you might get the wrong impression that I'm an unconditional lover of everything in nostalgic of frugal computing (never claimed to commit myself to frugal computing, so can't be accused of hypocrisy - besides, frugal computing is something many of us might have to practice in the coming years due to sheer circumstance). npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) There are only about 400 #Gopher servers left in the world in 2026... does it matter? I've just opened a gopherhole for my literary persona. It should be accessible at the address gopher://gopher.princeps-poesis.xyz/ npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) Thought-provoking words on #NetBSD posted by someone from Reddit who seems to know their stuff (https://old.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/1tki5xp/how_long_have_you_all_been_using_openbsd/oo2fa39/): npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) I've warned my normie friends that I'm fed up with FB Messenger and WhatsApp and that I'm going to self-host an alternative and if they want to keep in touch with me, they have to contact me there... Now I'm left wondering what's more lightweight for my modest budget VPS between #Matrix and #XMPP (probably the latter?) and what might favor a smooth transition later to an #OpenBSD VPS (might switch from Hostinger to OpenBSD Amsterdam, though both seem to rely to some degree on bloody Cloudflare)... probably XMPP? npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) I'm a nobody who sucks at programming, so what do I know? Nothing, except paying attention to people who really seem to have expertise and a track record of doing work that matters, even if they are opinionated and seem to be insufferable as human beings, and trying to make sense of their arguments. npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) #Gemini in #elpher on #Emacs npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) @nprofile…q6qh I did try lynx when I was beta testing my Hubzilla instance and it was... an underwhelming experience. I haven't tried EWW, but it probably feels similar npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) me: I should be going to sleep... npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) Anyone familiar with mastodon.el (the #emacs client for #mastodon)? I've tried for the first time to run it and I keep getting the following error: npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) @nprofile…hl5m Wow, thank you for sharing! npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) Is anyone else running #lf on #OpenBSD? If so, have you ever managed to get image previews working? pistol hasn't been ported to OpenBSD as far as I can tell npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) I have written in Romanian about #OpenBSD 7.9 and my first very impressions of #Mango, but while editing the post, as I was switching between tiling layouts, the #Wayland session crashed with the infamous Wayland socket broken pipe error, so for now I'm back on cwm... npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) Fresh #OpenBSD 7.9 install, trying #mangowm for the first time and I'm absolutely delighted! npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) I had no idea there's a port of HAMMER2 for #OpenBSD ! npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) #solarpunk PCBs anyone? That would make for a literal Groundberry Pi... npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) @nprofile…v6fw @nprofile…x6sx ...or just maybe they should be using Artix instead, or any other distro which rejects age verification. Also, openSUSE rely on systemd, anyone concerned about their privacy should avoid systemd like the plague. npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) Until now I've never bothered to look into the internals of keyboard software support and whatnot, but for a long time I somehow put up with #Alpine #Linux (or maybe it was a #KDE / #Wayland issue?) not enabling by default key repeat - or however you call holding a button and have it register as continuous holding instead of a single press. npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) @nprofile…h3v3 On one of my Linux systems I still have KDE with Karousel. The default keyboard integration sucks, but hey, it's niri-like scroll-tiling layout for Plasma. npub1zdz299vrvna0d843ky056utlp802w0ujykr79wksd9vu3u48uj7suk4t9u fionescu(1) Hello #BSDCafe !
