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Putting this out as I need help.
Please boost far and wide.

In the 1980s there used to be this paper catalogue sent out. (yep, this is how we used to buy things if local stores didn't have them!)

I want to say quarterly but I'm not sure. It let you order things such as band T-shirts, buttons (badges), patches, posters, and other memorabilia. I *think* it was sent out from California. Does anyone know the name of it? I have been racking my brains trying to remember it. I have fond memories of my sister (who's 10 years older than me) and I poring through it to see what we could get.

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building FreeBSD release media (the installer) with pkgbase instead of installworld: reviews.freebsd.org/D54542

this is much faster, and also means you could build media from pkg.f.o without having to build src first, which is handy for building custom media.

and a few more changes in that stack to try to make this a bit more configurable and less finicky and error prone, since building the media has always been a bit of a hassle, especially if something goes wrong.

hopefully we can get all the release improvements for 16 in early enough that we're not left rushing to fix everything before release like we were with 15.

next: allowing the pkgbase installer to handle multiple kernel options, so we can provide both debug and non-debug GENERIC on the media…

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Sometimes we try to juggle too much and the little things slip. Best we can do is reevaluate, reprioritize and retry.

Some regressions slipped into Rocinante recently and broke some template functions. These have been fixed now in GitHub.

Thank you for your patience. Even the best intentions sometimes have unexpected consequences.

These changes will make it into ports/pkg in the next update.

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New 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 [FreeBSD and Poudriere in High Security Environments] article on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01

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There will be a "Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset" at AsiaBSDCon in Taipei Thursday, March 19 2026.

Yours truly and Max Stucchi teaching networking goodness.

Details soon to emerge at 2026.asiabsdcon.org/ @stucchimaxMax Stucchi

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Sometimes we try to juggle too much and the little things slip. Best we can do is reevaluate, reprioritize and retry.

Some regressions slipped into Rocinante recently and broke some template functions. These have been fixed now in GitHub.

Thank you for your patience. Even the best intentions sometimes have unexpected consequences.

These changes will make it into ports/pkg in the next update.

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Fresh from the BSDCan program committee - submissions are coming in, but we can still take more!

If you have not made your submission, you have until Saturday, January 17th to get yours in!

Go to bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html to orient yourself, then submit via the submission link.

BSDCan is in Ottawa, with tutorials June 17-18, 2026, talks June 19-20, 2026

@bsdcan

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🐄🍪 An Intel Fab in Arizona was seeing a sharp decline in yields when producing their chips at night.
Engineers were really puzzled why between 1 and 2AM the yields were so bad.

Turned out that at night, the direction of the wind was changing. Methane, from cow farts from nearby dairy farms, ended up in the cleanrooms via the air conditioners.

Intel didn't figure out how to solve the problem, so they just paid the three neighbouring farms to move.

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8.18.0 has been released. This release fixes 2 medium and 4 low level vulnerabilities:
- CVE-2025-13034: No QUIC certificate pinning with GnuTLS curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-13034.ht
- CVE-2025-14017: broken TLS options for threaded LDAPS curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-14017.ht
- CVE-2025-14524: bearer token leak on cross-protocol redirect curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-14524.ht
- CVE-2025-14819: OpenSSL partial chain store policy bypass curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-14819.ht
- CVE-2025-15079: libssh global knownhost override curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-15079.ht
- CVE-2025-15224: libssh key passphrase bypass without agent set curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-15224.ht

I discovered the last 2 vulnerabilities.

Download curl 8.18.0 from curl.se/download.html

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offpunk browser is featured in today’s terminal trove email:

https://terminaltrove.com/offpunk

still, always best to check the official website:

https://offpunk.net

for someone who isn’t in love with cli it can have a steep learning curve, but for old school technopunks it’s a truly liberating experience.

thanks, @ploum

#offpunk

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8.18.0 has been released. This release fixes 2 medium and 4 low level vulnerabilities:
- CVE-2025-13034: No QUIC certificate pinning with GnuTLS curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-13034.ht
- CVE-2025-14017: broken TLS options for threaded LDAPS curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-14017.ht
- CVE-2025-14524: bearer token leak on cross-protocol redirect curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-14524.ht
- CVE-2025-14819: OpenSSL partial chain store policy bypass curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-14819.ht
- CVE-2025-15079: libssh global knownhost override curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-15079.ht
- CVE-2025-15224: libssh key passphrase bypass without agent set curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-15224.ht

I discovered the last 2 vulnerabilities.

Download curl 8.18.0 from curl.se/download.html

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레포 파놨더니 모르는 사람들이 스타를 찍기 시작해서. 급하게 WIP라고 써놨다. 빨리 완성하자...

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