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662: I need a hero

2

661: Break up Big Tech

3

660: I just work here

4

659: Full traffic send

5

658: It’s the vibe of it

6

657: Hibernation is a long sleep

7

656: Honey, I shrunk the PDP

8

655: No Reboot Required

9

654: Plasma Rage

10

653: Butter makes everything better

11

652: Ghostly Graphics

12

651: Spatially aware ZFS

13

650: Korn Chips

14

649: The Desk Review

15

648: Greytrapping for years

16

647: Why BSDs?

17

646: Unix v4

18

645: Unwrapping gifts

19

644: Holidays 2025 - What you been do'in?

20

643: Unwrapping gifts

21

642: Look Harder

22

641: Open to Free

23

640: Cleaning up Hammer

24

639: Reproducible Builds

25

638: Hipsters want their distribution back

26

637: /etc/hosts

27

636: Thunder Bolts

28

635: Guess who's back?

29

634: Why Self-Host?

30

633: Magical Systems Thinking

31

632: Zipbomb defeated

32

630: Bhyve Management UI

33

631: Endorphin Rush

34

629: Host Naming Conventions

35

628: Product Hype

36

627: Catastrophic OpenZFS bug

37

626: USB webcam testing

38

625: Build Cluster Speedup

39

624: OpenBSD Innovations

40

623: Two's interview

41

622: Interview with Mark Phillips - Technical Marketing Manager at the FreeBSD Foundation

42

621: Exaggerated Death Report

43

620: Postmortem for jemalloc

44

619: Happy Tooling

45

618: Funding BSD projects

46

617: FreeBSD 14.3

47

616: FreeBSD Foundation Interview

48

615: Wifi Brakes Unlocked

49

614: Upstream Contributions Matter

50

613: DragonflyBSD 6.4.2

51

612: Zip Bomb Protection

52

611: Ghosty Things

53

610: OpenBSD 7.7

54

609: Toe-Dipping in Amsterdam

55

608: Reboot required

56

607: Sign those commits

57

606: Tackling 7k bugs

58

605: Fediverse Weather Service

59

604: Future looks back

60

603: Expanding the RAID-Z

61

602: Wildcard Gotchas

62

601: The Monospace Web

63

600: The big 600

64

599: Core Infrastructure Control

65

598: UFS1 up-to-date

66

597: OpenBSD FRAME sockets

67

596: Globbing /etc

68

595: Arc: the Triumph

69

594: Name that Domain

70

593: rc.conf Validator

71

592: Wohoo, FreeBSD 14.2

72

591: The Three Wise Men (hosts)

73

590: Single, not sorry

74

589: The buffering pipe

75

588: PGP Alternatives

76

587: New filesystems category

77

586: Cloud Exit Savings

78

585: Infrastructure Administration Workstation

79

584: ZFS Copy Offloading

80

583: A host of self-hosters

81

582: Introducing ZBM

82

581: Releasing more BSDs

83

580: EuroBSDcon 2024 - Part 2

84

579: EuroBSDcon 2024

85

578: KVM, but Smol

86

577: Multi-Threaded LZ4

87

576: The Forever Workaround

88

575: Missing BSD/Linux

89

574: Hypervisor Determination

90

573: Kyua Graduation

91

572: Where's my backup?

92

571: Cloud Chaos

93

570: RIP dhclient

94

569: The ZFS Pi

95

568: regreSSHion

96

567: To the Core

97

566: Open Source Excellence

98

565: Secure by default

99

564: Computation Poems

100

563: 14.1

101

562: All by myself

102

561: Kicked off ARPANET

103

560: Why not BSD

104

559: Rainy WiFi Days

105

558: Worlds of telnet

106

557: 17h per frame

107

556: Cozy OpenBSD

108

555: Poudriereing Apple Silicon

109

554: NetBSD Double Digit

110

553: Terminal Latency

111

552: The Laptop Sparc

112

551: SSH Port Story

113

550: Netware and Netmap

114

549: htop Tetris

115

548: NTP - In Memoriam

116

547: IT Impostor Syndrome

117

546: Debunking FreeBSD Myths

118

545: BSD Audio Enhancements

119

544: Geeky weather check

120

543: OpenBSD Workstation Hardening

121

542: Retro and Futuro

122

541: Learning and Teaching

123

540: Terrapin Attacks SSH

124

539: Query all hosts

125

538: Gadget Catalog Age

126

537: Authentic SSH Host

127

536: Pot-flavored Jails

128

535: Untitled Episode

129

534: Narrow Waisted Internet

130

533: Package the Base

131

532: 2^18 dollars sponsorship

132

531: Everlasting Software

133

530: Old Computer Rescue

134

529: Adapt, adopt, diffuse

135

528: Pledge the Program

136

527: Reports are in

137

526: ZFS Replication Tools

138

525: Old NetBSD Server

139

524: Legendary Unix Recovery

140

523: Literally Unix

141

522: Zenbleed Foot Shooting

142

521: BSD Summer Reading

143

520: 4 months BSD

144

519: Telegram from BSDNow

145

518: Unix Edition Zero

146

517: Huge pfsync rewrite

147

516: Computer Time Origins

148

515: ChatGPT writing pf.conf

149

514: Infecting Public Keys

150

513: New Host Interview

151

512: BSDNow Live! 9 bits of BSDNow - Just speak into the goat

152

511: Against Innovation

153

510: The BSD Slabtop

154

509: Dot File Naming

155

508: Foundational Proceedings

156

507: Michael W. Lucas Interview

157

506: A greener BSD

158

505: BSD Desktop Setup

159

504: Release the BSD

160

503: Fast Unix Commands

161

502: Ping from Hell

162

501: Boot that Snapshot

163

500: Guarding the Wire

164

499: Dan Langille Interview

165

498: Dropping Privileges

166

497: Random Relinking SSHD

167

496: Hacking the CLI

168

495: Limited Jail Time

169

494: Unix workstation extinction

170

493: Dotfile Management

171

492: Feeling for NetBSD

172

491: Catch the Spammers

173

490: New Year’s Plan9’ing

174

489: Refreshing Perspective

175

488: Old ping(8) bug

176

487: EuroBSDcon Interviews Pt. 2

177

486: EuroBSDcon interviews

178

485: FreeBSD Home Assistant

179

484: Birth of stderr

180

483: ZFS Time Machine

181

482: BSD XFCE Desktop

182

481: Fiery Crackers

183

480: OpenBSD 7.2

184

479: OpenBSD Docker Host

185

478: Debunking sudo myths

186

477: Uninitialized Memory Disclosures

187

476: Warren Toomey interview

188

475: Prompt Injection Attacks

189

474: EuroBSDcon 2022

190

473: Rusty Kernel Modules

191

472: Consistent Exit Code

192

471: De-Penguinization

193

470: 0mp interview

194

469: Ctrl-C Reset

195

468: Apples and CHERI

196

467: Minecraft on NetBSD

197

466: cat(1)’s efficiency

198

465: Deep Space Debugging

199

464: Compiling with kefir

200

463: The 1.0 Legend

201

462: OpenBSD Sales Pitch

202

461: Persistent Memory Allocation

203

460: OpenBSD airport folklore

204

459: NetBSD Kernel benchmark

205

458: Traceroute interpretation

206

457: The NetBSD Wheelbarrow

207

456: FreeBSD 13.1

208

455: Ken Thompson Singularity

209

454: Compiling 50% faster

210

453: TwinCat/BSD Hypervisor

211

452: The unknown hackers

212

451: Tuning ZFS recordsize

213

450: Unix Tool Writing

214

449: Reproducible clean $HOME

215

448: Controlling Resource Limits

216

447: Path to BSD

217

446: Debugging ioctl problems

218

445: Journey to BSD

219

444: Historic Developments

220

443: Certified Unix Compliant

221

442: Birthing Unix

222

441: Migration to BSD

223

440: BSD Inside Zone

224

439: Browser Tab Unix

225

438: Toolchain Adventures

226

437: Audit that package

227

436: Unix Standards Battle

228

435: Year End Interview

229

434: It’s Quiz-mas time

230

433: GhostBSD of Christmas

231

432: Introducing OpenZFS 3.0 - Yeah

232

431: FreeBSD EC2 Agents

233

430: OpenBSD Onwards

234

429: Advanced ZFS Snapshots

235

428: Cult of BSD

236

427: Logging is important

237

426: OpenBSD 7.0 Hero

238

425: Releases galore

239

424: Unveiling OpenBSD’s pledge

240

423: RACK the Stack

241

422: The Brian Callahan Interview

242

421: ZFS eats CPU

243

420: OpenBSD makes life better

244

419: Rethinking OS installs

245

418: The greatest time in history to be a creator

246

417: bhyve private cloud

247

416: netcat printing

248

415: Wrong OS Switch

249

414: Running online conferences

250

413: BSD/Linux Chimera

251

412: Command-line secrets

252

411: FreeBSD Deep Dive

253

410: OpenBSD Consumer Gateway

254

409: The Filesystem Dungeon

255

408: FreeBSD DevSummit 2021

256

407: The jail Detail

257

406: Jailed Gemini Capsule

258

405: OOM Killer Feature

259

404: 404 BSD Now Hosts Not Found

260

403: The Linuxulator Investment

261

402: Goodbye GPL

262

401: OpenBSD Dog Garage

263

400: FreeBSD became 13

264

399: Comparing Sandboxes

265

398: Coordinated Mars Time

266

397: Fresh BSD 2021

267

396: License to thrill

268

395: Tracing ARM’s history

269

394: FreeBSD on Mars

270

393: ZFS dRAID

271

392: macOS inspired Desktop

272

391: i386 tear shedding

273

390: Commercial Unix Killer

274

389: Comfy FreeBSD Jails

275

388: Must-have security tool

276

387: OpenBSD Broadcast Studio

277

386: Aye, 386!

278

385: Wireguard VPN mesh

279

384: In memoriam

280

383: Scale the tail

281

382: BSDNow Q&A 2020

282

381: Shell origins

283

380: Early ZFS-mas

284

379: bhyve my guest

285

378: Networknomicon

286

377: Firewall ban-sharing

287

376: Build stable packages

288

375: Virtually everything

289

374: OpenBSD’s 25th anniversary

290

373: Kyle Evans Interview

291

372: Slow SSD scrubs

292

371: Wildcards running wild

293

370: Testing shutdown

294

369: Where rc.d belongs

295

368: Changing OS roles

296

367: Changing jail datasets

297

366: Bootloader zpool checkpoints

298

365: Whole year round

299

364: FreeBSD Wireless Grind

300

363: Traditional Unix toolchains

301

362: 2.11-BSD restoration

302

361: Function-based MicroVM

303

360: Full circle

304

359: Throwaway Browser

305

358: OpenBSD Kubernetes Clusters

306

357: Study the Code

307

356: Dig in Deeper

308

355: Man Page Origins

309

354: ZFS safekeeps data

310

353: ZFS on Ironwolf

311

352: Introducing Randomness

312

351: Heaven: OpenBSD 6.7

313

350: Speedy Bridges

314

349: Entropy Overhaul

315

348: BSD Community Collections

316

347: New Directions

317

346: Core File Tales

318

345: Switchers to BSD

319

344: Grains of Salt

320

343: FreeBSD, Corona: Fight!

321

342: Layout the DVA

322

341: U-NAS-ification

323

340: Check My Sums

324

339: BSD Fundraising

325

338: iocage in Jail

326

337: Kubernetes on bhyve

327

336: Archived Knowledge

328

335: FreeBSD Down Under

329

334: Distrowatch Running FreeBSD

330

333: Unix Keyboard Joy

331

332: The BSD Hyperbole

332

331: Why Computers Suck

333

330: Happy Holidays, All(an)

334

329: Lucas’ Arts

335

328: EPYC Netflix Stack

336

327: ZFS Rename Repo

337

326: Certified BSD

338

325: Cracking Rainbows

339

324: Emergency Space Mode

340

323: OSI Burrito Guy

341

322: Happy Birthday, Unix

342

321: The Robot OS

343

320: Codebase: Neck Deep

344

319: Lack Rack, Jack

345

318: The TrueNAS Library

346

317: Bots Building Jails

347

316: git commit FreeBSD

348

315: Recapping vBSDcon 2019

349

314: Swap that Space

350

313: In-Kernel TLS

351

312: Why Package Managers

352

311: Conference Gear Breakdown

353

310: My New Free NAS

354

Episode 309: Get Your Telnet Fix

355

308: Mumbling with OpenBSD

356

307: Twitching with OpenBSD

357

306: Comparing Hammers

358

305: Changing face of Unix

359

304: Prospering with Vulkan

360

303: OpenZFS in Ports

361

302: Contention Reduction

362

301: GPU Passthrough

363

300: The Big Three

364

299: The NAS Fleet

365

298: BSD On The Road

366

297: Dragonfly In The Wild

367

296: It’s Alive: OpenBSD 6.5

368

295: Fun with funlinkat()

369

294: The SSH Tarpit

370

293: Booking Jails

371

292: AsiaBSDcon 2019 Recap

372

291: Storage Changes Software

373

290: Timestamped Notes

374

289: Microkernel Failure

375

288: Turing Complete Sed

376

287: rc.d in NetBSD

377

286: Old Machine Revival

378

285: BSD Strategy

379

284: FOSDEM 2019

380

283: Graphical Interface-View

381

282: Open the Rsync

382

281: EPYC Server Battle

383

Episode 280: FOSS Clothing | BSD Now 280

384

Episode 279: Future of ZFS | BSD Now 279

385

Episode 278: The Real McCoy | BSD Now 278

386

Episode 277: Nmap Level Up | BSD Now 277

387

Episode 276: Ho, Ho, Ho - 12.0 | BSD Now 276

388

Episode 275: OpenBSD in Stereo | BSD Now 275

389

Episode 274: Language: Assembly | BSD Now 274

390

Episode 273: A Thoughtful Episode | BSD Now 273

391

Episode 272: Detain the bhyve | BSD Now 272

392

Episode 271: Automatic Drive Tests | BSD Now 271

393

Episode 270: Ghostly Releases | BSD Now 270

394

Episode 269: Tiny Daemon Lib | BSD Now 269

395

Episode 268: Netcat Demystified | BSD Now 268

396

Episode 267: Absolute FreeBSD | BSD Now 267

397

Episode 266: File Type History | BSD Now 266

398

Episode 265: Software Disenchantment | BSD Now 265

399

Episode 264: Optimized-out | BSD Now 264

400

Episode 263: Encrypt That Pool | BSD Now 263

401

Episode 262: OpenBSD Surfacing | BSD Now 262

402

Episode 261: FreeBSDcon Flashback | BSD Now 261

403

Episode 260: Hacking Tour of Europe | BSD Now 260

404

Episode 259: Long Live Unix | BSD Now 259

405

Episode 258: OS Foundations | BSD Now 258

406

Episode 257: Great NetBSD 8 | BSD Now 257

407

Episode 256: Because Computers | BSD Now 2^8

408

Episode 255: What Are You Pointing At | BSD Now 255

409

Episode 254: Bare the OS | BSD Now 254

410

Episode 253: Silence of the Fans | BSD Now 253

411

Episode 252: Goes to 11.2 | BSD Now 252

412

Episode 251: Crypto HAMMER | BSD Now 251

413

Episode 250: BSDCan 2018 Recap | BSD Now 250

414

Episode 249: Router On A Stick | BSD Now 249

415

Episode 248: Show Me The Mooney | BSD Now 248

416

Episode 247: Interning for FreeBSD | BSD Now 247

417

Episode 246: Properly Coordinated Disclosure | BSD Now 246

418

Episode 245: ZFS User Conf 2018 | BSD Now 245

419

Episode 244: C is a Lie | BSD Now 244

420

Episode 243: Understanding The Scheduler | BSD Now 243

421

Episode 242: Linux Takes The Fastpath | BSD Now 242

422

Episode 241: Bowling in the LimeLight | BSD Now 241

423

Episode 240: TCP Blackbox Recording | BSD Now 240

424

Episode 239: The Return To ptrace | BSD Now 239

425

238: VLAN-Zezes-ki in Hardware

426

237: AsiaBSDcon 2018

427

236: How a cd works

428

235: I C you BSD

429

234: Code and Community

430

233: High on ZFS

431

232: FOSDEM 2018

432

231: Unix Architecture Evolution

433

230: Your questions, Part III

434

229: The Meltdown of Spectre

435

228: The Spectre of Meltdown

436

227: The long core dump

437

226: SSL: Santa’s Syscall List

438

225: The one true OS

439

224: The Bus Factor

440

223: Compile once, debug twice

441

222: How Netflix works

442

221: BSD in Taiwan

443

220: Opening ZFS in 2017

444

219: We love the ARC

445

218: A KRACK in the WiFi

446

217: Your questions, part II

447

216: Software is storytelling

448

215: Turning FreeBSD up to 100 Gbps

449

214: The history of man, kind

450

213: The French CONnection

451

212: The Solaris Eclipse

452

211: It's HAMMER2 Time!

453

210: Your questions, part I

454

209: Signals: gotta catch ‘em all

455

208: Faces of Open Source

456

207: Bridge over the river Cam

457

206: To hier is UNIX

458

205: FreeBSD Turning it up to 11.1

459

204: WWF - Wayland, Weston, and FreeBSD

460

203: For the love of ZFS

461

202: Brokering Bind

462

201: Skip grep, use awk

463

200: Getting Scrubbed to Death

464

199: Read the source, KARL

465

198: BSDNorth or You can’t handle the libtruth

466

197: Relaying the good news

467

196: PostgreZFS

468

195: I don’t WannaCry

469

194: Daemonic plans

470

193: Fire up the 802.11 AC

471

192: SSHv1 Be Gone

472

191: I Know 64 & A Bunch More

473

190: The Moore You Know

474

189: Codified Summer

475

188: And then the murders began

476

187: Catching up to BSD

477

186: The Fast And the Firewall: Tokyo Drift

478

185: Exit Interview

479

184: Tokyo Dreaming

480

183: Getting Steamy Here

481

182: Bloaty McBloatface

482

181: The Cantrillogy (Not special edition)

483

180: Illuminating the desktop

484

179: The Wayland Machine

485

178: Enjoy the Silence

486

177: Getting Pi on my Wifi

487

176: Linking your world

488

175: How the Dtrace saved Christmas

489

174: 2016 Highlights

490

173: Carry on my Wayland son

491

172: A tale of BSD from yore

492

171: The APU - BSD Style!

493

170: Sandboxing Cohabitation

494

169: Scheduling your NetBSD

495

168: The Post Show Show

496

167: Playing the Long Game

497

166: Pass that UNIX Pipe

498

165: Vote4BSD

499

164: Virtualized COW / PI?

500

163: Return of the Cantrill

501

162: The Foundation of NetBSD

502

161: The BSD Bromance

503

160: EuroBSD-Dreamin

504

159: Net Scaling Privacy (Flix Style)

505

158: Ham, Radio and Pie (oh my)

506

157: ZFS, The “Universal” File-system

507

156: The Fresh BSD experience

508

155: Cabling up FreeBSD

509

154: Myths, Pi’s & Features, oh my!

510

153: Big int trouble

511

152: The Laporte has landed!

512

151: Fuzzy Auditing

513

150: Sprinkle a little BSD into your life.

514

149: The bhyve has been disturbed, and a wild Dexter appears!

515

148: The place to B...A Robot!

516

147: Release all the things!

517

146: Music to Beastie’s ears

518

145: At the Core of it all

519

144: The PF life

520

143: One small step for DRM, one giant leap for BSD

521

142: Diving for BSD Perls

522

141: BSD Likes Ike!

523

140: Tracing it back to BSD

524

139: Cheri-picking BSD

525

138: Rushing into BSD

526

137: FreeNAS Mini XL

527

136: This is GNN

528

135: Speciality MWL

529

134: Marking up the Ports tree

530

133: The Tokyo Debrief

531

132: Scaling up with BSD

532

131: BSD behind the chalkboard

533

130: Store all the Things | BSD Now 130

534

129: Synthesize all the Things!

535

128: The State of BSD

536

127: DNS, Black Holes & Willem

537

126: Illuminating the future on PC-BSD

538

125: DevSummits, Core and the Baldwin

539

124: Get your engine(x) started!

540

123: ZFS in the trenches

541

122: The BSD Black Box

542

121: All your hyves are belong to us

543

120: I’m talking about the man in the middle

544

119: There be Dragons, BSD Dragons anyway

545

118: BSD is go for Launch

546

117: The Cantrill Strikes Back: ...

547

116: Arcing ZFS

548

115: Controlling the Transmissions

549

114: BSD-Schooling

550

113: What’s Next for BSD?

551

112: Tracing the source

552

111: Xenocratic Oath

553

110: - Firmware Fights

554

109: Impish BSD

555

108: ServeUp BSD

556

107: In their midst

557

106: Multipath TCP

558

105: Virginia BSD Assembly

559

104: Beverly Hills 25519

560

103: Ubuntu Slaughters Kittens

561

102: May Contain ZFS

562

101: I'll Fix Everything

563

100: Straight from the Src

564

99: BSD Gnow

565

98: Our Code is Your Code

566

97: Big Network, SmallWall

567

96: Lost Technology

568

95: Bitrot Group Therapy

569

94: Builder's Insurance

570

93: Stacked in Our Favor

571

92: BSD After Midnight

572

91: Vox Populi

573

90: ZFS Armistice

574

89: Exclusive Disjunction

575

88: Below the Clouds

576

87: On the List

577

86: Business as Usual

578

85: PIE in the Sky

579

84: pkg remove freebsd-update

580

83: woN DSB

581

82: SSL in the Wild

582

81: Puffy in a Box

583

80: The PC-BSD Tour II

584

79: Just Add QEMU

585

78: From the Foundation (Part 2)

586

77: Noah's L2ARC

587

76: Time for a Change

588

75: From the Foundation (Part 1)

589

74: That Sly MINIX

590

73: Pipe Dreams

591

72: Common *Sense Approach

592

71: System Disaster

593

70: Daemons in the North

594

69: Under the Ports Tree

595

68: Just the Essentials

596

67: Must Be Rigged

597

66: Conference Connoisseur

598

65: 8,000,000 Mogofoo-ops

599

64: Rump Kernels Revisited

600

63: A Man's man(1)

601

62: Gift from the Sun

602

61: IPSECond Wind

603

60: Don't Buy a Router

604

59: BSDって聞いたことある?

605

58: Behind the Masq

606

57: The Daemon's Apprentice

607

56: Beastly Infrastructure

608

55: The Promised WLAN

609

54: Luminary Environment

610

53: It's HAMMER Time

611

52: Reverse Takeover

612

51: Engineering Nginx

613

50: VPN, My Dear Watson

614

49: The PC-BSD Tour

615

48: Liberating SSL

616

47: DES Challenge IV

617

46: Network Iodometry

618

45: ZFS War Stories

619

44: Base ISO 100

620

43: Package Design

621

42: Devious Methods

622

41: Commit This Bit

623

40: AirPorts & Packages

624

39: The Friendly Sandbox

625

38: A BUG's Life

626

37: BSDCanned Goods

627

36: Let's Get RAID

628

35: Puffy Firewall

629

34: It's Gonna Get NASty

630

33: Certified Package Delivery

631

32: PXE Dust

632

31: Edgy BSD Users

633

30: Documentation is King

634

29: P.E.F.S.

635

28: Ghost of Partition

636

27: BSD Now vs. BSDTalk

637

26: Port Authority

638

25: A Sixth pfSense

639

24: The Cluster & The Cloud

640

23: Time Signatures

641

22: Journaled News-Updates

642

21: Tendresse for Ten

643

20: Bhyve Mind

644

19: The Installfest

645

18: Eclipsing Binaries

646

17: The Gift of Giving

647

16: Cryptocrystalline

648

15: Kickin' NAS

649

14: Zettabytes for Days

650

13: Bridging the Gap

651

12: Collecting SSHells

652

11: The Gateway Drug

653

10: Year of the BSD Desktop

654

9: CURRENT Events

655

8: A Brief Introduction

656

7: Go Directly to Jail(8)

657

6: Doing It de Raadt Way

658

5: Stacks of Cache

659

4: Teskeing the Possibilities

660

3: MX with TTX

661

2: Engineering and Powder Kegs

662

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