That grumpy BSD guy

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

Sunday, August 10, 2025

Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?

© 2025 Peter N. M. Hansteen With the imaginary friends , also known as spamtraps , now more numerous than the inhabitants of their vir...

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Elvis is alive! How 'AI' stunts modern mythmaking

© 2025 Peter N. M. Hansteen A chance followup to an old geek joke reveals how AI creates myths based on severely limited historical in...

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Those Titles the AI Bot Thought I Had Written

© 2024 Peter N. M. Hansteen (2024-12-06) Beware of robots generating your references. They could very well take it upon themselves to ...

Friday, July 11, 2025

Yes, The Book of PF, 4th Edition Is Coming Soon

© 2025 Peter N. M. Hansteen Long rumored and eagerly anticipated by some, the fourth edition of The Book of PF is now available for p...

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Peter N. M. Hansteen: Bergen, Norway; Puffyist, daemon charmer, penguin wrangler. Wrote The Book of PF (3rd ed out now, see http://www.nostarch.com/pf3), rants on sanity in IT (lack of) at http://bsdly.blogspot.com/. Please read http://www.bsdly.net/~peter/rentageek.html before contacting.

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