That grumpy BSD guy

Field notes and occasional musings by Peter on Stuff that happens, from a free software perspective, mainly OpenBSD, FreeBSD.

Friday, March 6, 2026

The Book of PF, 4th Edition: It's Here, It's Real

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© 2026 Peter N. M. Hansteen The long wait is over. Fresh copies of The Book of PF, 4th Edition arrived here today. Which m...
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Sunday, February 1, 2026

The Rest Is Trash

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© 2026 Peter N. M. Hansteen We are now halfway through the nineteenth year of greytrapping, still tracking and collecting from the w...
Thursday, January 8, 2026

A Major Mail Provider Demonstrate They Likely Do Not Understand Mail At All

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© 2026 Peter N. M. Hansteen So it happened again. A major mail provider proved that they do not, in fact, understand how modern emai...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

Why 451 is Good for You - Greylisting Perspectives From the Early Noughties

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© 2025 Peter N. M. Hansteen A software vendor was using SMTP spamware to send license keys customers had paid thousands for. A measured r...
Friday, November 28, 2025

A Bus Ride and the (At Least) 3x UX FAILs

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© 2025 Peter N. M. Hansteen Norway is digital to a fault. That is why attempting to buy the ticket for a bus ride can reveal a casc...
Friday, November 7, 2025

What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out!

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© 2025 Peter N. M. Hansteen What is BSD? It's where the Internet comes from! Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) is a family of...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

EU CRA: It's Later Than You Think, Time to Engineer Up!

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© 2025 Peter N. M. Hansteen On December 12 2027, it's already too late. The day before, the European Union Cyber Resilience Act (...
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Peter N. M. Hansteen
Bergen, Norway
Puffyist, daemon charmer, penguin wrangler. Wrote The Book of PF (4th ed out now, see https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition), rants on sanity in IT (lack of) at https://bsdly.blogspot.com/. Please read https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/rentageek.html before contacting.
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