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669: Poudriere Speed Run

2

668: Wiring up the BSDs

3

667: Don't exceed by security boundary

4

666: Everyone gets an LPE

5

665: 60 Puffies

6

664: No one misses SPARC

7

663: Proxhyve

8

662: I need a hero

9

661: Break up Big Tech

10

660: I just work here

11

659: Full traffic send

12

658: It’s the vibe of it

13

657: Hibernation is a long sleep

14

656: Honey, I shrunk the PDP

15

655: No Reboot Required

16

654: Plasma Rage

17

653: Butter makes everything better

18

652: Ghostly Graphics

19

651: Spatially aware ZFS

20

650: Korn Chips

21

649: The Desk Review

22

648: Greytrapping for years

23

647: Why BSDs?

24

646: Unix v4

25

645: Unwrapping gifts

26

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

27

643: Unwrapping gifts

28

642: Look Harder

29

641: Open to Free

30

640: Cleaning up Hammer

31

639: Reproducible Builds

32

638: Hipsters want their distribution back

33

637: /etc/hosts

34

636: Thunder Bolts

35

635: Guess who's back?

36

634: Why Self-Host?

37

633: Magical Systems Thinking

38

632: Zipbomb defeated

39

630: Bhyve Management UI

40

631: Endorphin Rush

41

629: Host Naming Conventions

42

628: Product Hype

43

627: Catastrophic OpenZFS bug

44

626: USB webcam testing

45

625: Build Cluster Speedup

46

624: OpenBSD Innovations

47

623: Two's interview

48

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

49

621: Exaggerated Death Report

50

620: Postmortem for jemalloc

51

619: Happy Tooling

52

618: Funding BSD projects

53

617: FreeBSD 14.3

54

616: FreeBSD Foundation Interview

55

615: Wifi Brakes Unlocked

56

614: Upstream Contributions Matter

57

613: DragonflyBSD 6.4.2

58

612: Zip Bomb Protection

59

611: Ghosty Things

60

610: OpenBSD 7.7

61

609: Toe-Dipping in Amsterdam

62

608: Reboot required

63

607: Sign those commits

64

606: Tackling 7k bugs

65

605: Fediverse Weather Service

66

604: Future looks back

67

603: Expanding the RAID-Z

68

602: Wildcard Gotchas

69

601: The Monospace Web

70

600: The big 600

71

599: Core Infrastructure Control

72

598: UFS1 up-to-date

73

597: OpenBSD FRAME sockets

74

596: Globbing /etc

75

595: Arc: the Triumph

76

594: Name that Domain

77

593: rc.conf Validator

78

592: Wohoo, FreeBSD 14.2

79

591: The Three Wise Men (hosts)

80

590: Single, not sorry

81

589: The buffering pipe

82

588: PGP Alternatives

83

587: New filesystems category

84

586: Cloud Exit Savings

85

585: Infrastructure Administration Workstation

86

584: ZFS Copy Offloading

87

583: A host of self-hosters

88

582: Introducing ZBM

89

581: Releasing more BSDs

90

580: EuroBSDcon 2024 - Part 2

91

579: EuroBSDcon 2024

92

578: KVM, but Smol

93

577: Multi-Threaded LZ4

94

576: The Forever Workaround

95

575: Missing BSD/Linux

96

574: Hypervisor Determination

97

573: Kyua Graduation

98

572: Where's my backup?

99

571: Cloud Chaos

100

570: RIP dhclient

101

569: The ZFS Pi

102

568: regreSSHion

103

567: To the Core

104

566: Open Source Excellence

105

565: Secure by default

106

564: Computation Poems

107

563: 14.1

108

562: All by myself

109

561: Kicked off ARPANET

110

560: Why not BSD

111

559: Rainy WiFi Days

112

558: Worlds of telnet

113

557: 17h per frame

114

556: Cozy OpenBSD

115

555: Poudriereing Apple Silicon

116

554: NetBSD Double Digit

117

553: Terminal Latency

118

552: The Laptop Sparc

119

551: SSH Port Story

120

550: Netware and Netmap

121

549: htop Tetris

122

548: NTP - In Memoriam

123

547: IT Impostor Syndrome

124

546: Debunking FreeBSD Myths

125

545: BSD Audio Enhancements

126

544: Geeky weather check

127

543: OpenBSD Workstation Hardening

128

542: Retro and Futuro

129

541: Learning and Teaching

130

540: Terrapin Attacks SSH

131

539: Query all hosts

132

538: Gadget Catalog Age

133

537: Authentic SSH Host

134

536: Pot-flavored Jails

135

535: Untitled Episode

136

534: Narrow Waisted Internet

137

533: Package the Base

138

532: 2^18 dollars sponsorship

139

531: Everlasting Software

140

530: Old Computer Rescue

141

529: Adapt, adopt, diffuse

142

528: Pledge the Program

143

527: Reports are in

144

526: ZFS Replication Tools

145

525: Old NetBSD Server

146

524: Legendary Unix Recovery

147

523: Literally Unix

148

522: Zenbleed Foot Shooting

149

521: BSD Summer Reading

150

520: 4 months BSD

151

519: Telegram from BSDNow

152

518: Unix Edition Zero

153

517: Huge pfsync rewrite

154

516: Computer Time Origins

155

515: ChatGPT writing pf.conf

156

514: Infecting Public Keys

157

513: New Host Interview

158

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

159

511: Against Innovation

160

510: The BSD Slabtop

161

509: Dot File Naming

162

508: Foundational Proceedings

163

507: Michael W. Lucas Interview

164

506: A greener BSD

165

505: BSD Desktop Setup

166

504: Release the BSD

167

503: Fast Unix Commands

168

502: Ping from Hell

169

501: Boot that Snapshot

170

500: Guarding the Wire

171

499: Dan Langille Interview

172

498: Dropping Privileges

173

497: Random Relinking SSHD

174

496: Hacking the CLI

175

495: Limited Jail Time

176

494: Unix workstation extinction

177

493: Dotfile Management

178

492: Feeling for NetBSD

179

491: Catch the Spammers

180

490: New Year’s Plan9’ing

181

489: Refreshing Perspective

182

488: Old ping(8) bug

183

487: EuroBSDcon Interviews Pt. 2

184

486: EuroBSDcon interviews

185

485: FreeBSD Home Assistant

186

484: Birth of stderr

187

483: ZFS Time Machine

188

482: BSD XFCE Desktop

189

481: Fiery Crackers

190

480: OpenBSD 7.2

191

479: OpenBSD Docker Host

192

478: Debunking sudo myths

193

477: Uninitialized Memory Disclosures

194

476: Warren Toomey interview

195

475: Prompt Injection Attacks

196

474: EuroBSDcon 2022

197

473: Rusty Kernel Modules

198

472: Consistent Exit Code

199

471: De-Penguinization

200

470: 0mp interview

201

469: Ctrl-C Reset

202

468: Apples and CHERI

203

467: Minecraft on NetBSD

204

466: cat(1)’s efficiency

205

465: Deep Space Debugging

206

464: Compiling with kefir

207

463: The 1.0 Legend

208

462: OpenBSD Sales Pitch

209

461: Persistent Memory Allocation

210

460: OpenBSD airport folklore

211

459: NetBSD Kernel benchmark

212

458: Traceroute interpretation

213

457: The NetBSD Wheelbarrow

214

456: FreeBSD 13.1

215

455: Ken Thompson Singularity

216

454: Compiling 50% faster

217

453: TwinCat/BSD Hypervisor

218

452: The unknown hackers

219

451: Tuning ZFS recordsize

220

450: Unix Tool Writing

221

449: Reproducible clean $HOME

222

448: Controlling Resource Limits

223

447: Path to BSD

224

446: Debugging ioctl problems

225

445: Journey to BSD

226

444: Historic Developments

227

443: Certified Unix Compliant

228

442: Birthing Unix

229

441: Migration to BSD

230

440: BSD Inside Zone

231

439: Browser Tab Unix

232

438: Toolchain Adventures

233

437: Audit that package

234

436: Unix Standards Battle

235

435: Year End Interview

236

434: It’s Quiz-mas time

237

433: GhostBSD of Christmas

238

432: Introducing OpenZFS 3.0 - Yeah

239

431: FreeBSD EC2 Agents

240

430: OpenBSD Onwards

241

429: Advanced ZFS Snapshots

242

428: Cult of BSD

243

427: Logging is important

244

426: OpenBSD 7.0 Hero

245

425: Releases galore

246

424: Unveiling OpenBSD’s pledge

247

423: RACK the Stack

248

422: The Brian Callahan Interview

249

421: ZFS eats CPU

250

420: OpenBSD makes life better

251

419: Rethinking OS installs

252

418: The greatest time in history to be a creator

253

417: bhyve private cloud

254

416: netcat printing

255

415: Wrong OS Switch

256

414: Running online conferences

257

413: BSD/Linux Chimera

258

412: Command-line secrets

259

411: FreeBSD Deep Dive

260

410: OpenBSD Consumer Gateway

261

409: The Filesystem Dungeon

262

408: FreeBSD DevSummit 2021

263

407: The jail Detail

264

406: Jailed Gemini Capsule

265

405: OOM Killer Feature

266

404: 404 BSD Now Hosts Not Found

267

403: The Linuxulator Investment

268

402: Goodbye GPL

269

401: OpenBSD Dog Garage

270

400: FreeBSD became 13

271

399: Comparing Sandboxes

272

398: Coordinated Mars Time

273

397: Fresh BSD 2021

274

396: License to thrill

275

395: Tracing ARM’s history

276

394: FreeBSD on Mars

277

393: ZFS dRAID

278

392: macOS inspired Desktop

279

391: i386 tear shedding

280

390: Commercial Unix Killer

281

389: Comfy FreeBSD Jails

282

388: Must-have security tool

283

387: OpenBSD Broadcast Studio

284

386: Aye, 386!

285

385: Wireguard VPN mesh

286

384: In memoriam

287

383: Scale the tail

288

382: BSDNow Q&A 2020

289

381: Shell origins

290

380: Early ZFS-mas

291

379: bhyve my guest

292

378: Networknomicon

293

377: Firewall ban-sharing

294

376: Build stable packages

295

375: Virtually everything

296

374: OpenBSD’s 25th anniversary

297

373: Kyle Evans Interview

298

372: Slow SSD scrubs

299

371: Wildcards running wild

300

370: Testing shutdown

301

369: Where rc.d belongs

302

368: Changing OS roles

303

367: Changing jail datasets

304

366: Bootloader zpool checkpoints

305

365: Whole year round

306

364: FreeBSD Wireless Grind

307

363: Traditional Unix toolchains

308

362: 2.11-BSD restoration

309

361: Function-based MicroVM

310

360: Full circle

311

359: Throwaway Browser

312

358: OpenBSD Kubernetes Clusters

313

357: Study the Code

314

356: Dig in Deeper

315

355: Man Page Origins

316

354: ZFS safekeeps data

317

353: ZFS on Ironwolf

318

352: Introducing Randomness

319

351: Heaven: OpenBSD 6.7

320

350: Speedy Bridges

321

349: Entropy Overhaul

322

348: BSD Community Collections

323

347: New Directions

324

346: Core File Tales

325

345: Switchers to BSD

326

344: Grains of Salt

327

343: FreeBSD, Corona: Fight!

328

342: Layout the DVA

329

341: U-NAS-ification

330

340: Check My Sums

331

339: BSD Fundraising

332

338: iocage in Jail

333

337: Kubernetes on bhyve

334

336: Archived Knowledge

335

335: FreeBSD Down Under

336

334: Distrowatch Running FreeBSD

337

333: Unix Keyboard Joy

338

332: The BSD Hyperbole

339

331: Why Computers Suck

340

330: Happy Holidays, All(an)

341

329: Lucas’ Arts

342

328: EPYC Netflix Stack

343

327: ZFS Rename Repo

344

326: Certified BSD

345

325: Cracking Rainbows

346

324: Emergency Space Mode

347

323: OSI Burrito Guy

348

322: Happy Birthday, Unix

349

321: The Robot OS

350

320: Codebase: Neck Deep

351

319: Lack Rack, Jack

352

318: The TrueNAS Library

353

317: Bots Building Jails

354

316: git commit FreeBSD

355

315: Recapping vBSDcon 2019

356

314: Swap that Space

357

313: In-Kernel TLS

358

312: Why Package Managers

359

311: Conference Gear Breakdown

360

310: My New Free NAS

361

Episode 309: Get Your Telnet Fix

362

308: Mumbling with OpenBSD

363

307: Twitching with OpenBSD

364

306: Comparing Hammers

365

305: Changing face of Unix

366

304: Prospering with Vulkan

367

303: OpenZFS in Ports

368

302: Contention Reduction

369

301: GPU Passthrough

370

300: The Big Three

371

299: The NAS Fleet

372

298: BSD On The Road

373

297: Dragonfly In The Wild

374

296: It’s Alive: OpenBSD 6.5

375

295: Fun with funlinkat()

376

294: The SSH Tarpit

377

293: Booking Jails

378

292: AsiaBSDcon 2019 Recap

379

291: Storage Changes Software

380

290: Timestamped Notes

381

289: Microkernel Failure

382

288: Turing Complete Sed

383

287: rc.d in NetBSD

384

286: Old Machine Revival

385

285: BSD Strategy

386

284: FOSDEM 2019

387

283: Graphical Interface-View

388

282: Open the Rsync

389

281: EPYC Server Battle

390

Episode 280: FOSS Clothing | BSD Now 280

391

Episode 279: Future of ZFS | BSD Now 279

392

Episode 278: The Real McCoy | BSD Now 278

393

Episode 277: Nmap Level Up | BSD Now 277

394

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

395

Episode 275: OpenBSD in Stereo | BSD Now 275

396

Episode 274: Language: Assembly | BSD Now 274

397

Episode 273: A Thoughtful Episode | BSD Now 273

398

Episode 272: Detain the bhyve | BSD Now 272

399

Episode 271: Automatic Drive Tests | BSD Now 271

400

Episode 270: Ghostly Releases | BSD Now 270

401

Episode 269: Tiny Daemon Lib | BSD Now 269

402

Episode 268: Netcat Demystified | BSD Now 268

403

Episode 267: Absolute FreeBSD | BSD Now 267

404

Episode 266: File Type History | BSD Now 266

405

Episode 265: Software Disenchantment | BSD Now 265

406

Episode 264: Optimized-out | BSD Now 264

407

Episode 263: Encrypt That Pool | BSD Now 263

408

Episode 262: OpenBSD Surfacing | BSD Now 262

409

Episode 261: FreeBSDcon Flashback | BSD Now 261

410

Episode 260: Hacking Tour of Europe | BSD Now 260

411

Episode 259: Long Live Unix | BSD Now 259

412

Episode 258: OS Foundations | BSD Now 258

413

Episode 257: Great NetBSD 8 | BSD Now 257

414

Episode 256: Because Computers | BSD Now 2^8

415

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

416

Episode 254: Bare the OS | BSD Now 254

417

Episode 253: Silence of the Fans | BSD Now 253

418

Episode 252: Goes to 11.2 | BSD Now 252

419

Episode 251: Crypto HAMMER | BSD Now 251

420

Episode 250: BSDCan 2018 Recap | BSD Now 250

421

Episode 249: Router On A Stick | BSD Now 249

422

Episode 248: Show Me The Mooney | BSD Now 248

423

Episode 247: Interning for FreeBSD | BSD Now 247

424

Episode 246: Properly Coordinated Disclosure | BSD Now 246

425

Episode 245: ZFS User Conf 2018 | BSD Now 245

426

Episode 244: C is a Lie | BSD Now 244

427

Episode 243: Understanding The Scheduler | BSD Now 243

428

Episode 242: Linux Takes The Fastpath | BSD Now 242

429

Episode 241: Bowling in the LimeLight | BSD Now 241

430

Episode 240: TCP Blackbox Recording | BSD Now 240

431

Episode 239: The Return To ptrace | BSD Now 239

432

238: VLAN-Zezes-ki in Hardware

433

237: AsiaBSDcon 2018

434

236: How a cd works

435

235: I C you BSD

436

234: Code and Community

437

233: High on ZFS

438

232: FOSDEM 2018

439

231: Unix Architecture Evolution

440

230: Your questions, Part III

441

229: The Meltdown of Spectre

442

228: The Spectre of Meltdown

443

227: The long core dump

444

226: SSL: Santa’s Syscall List

445

225: The one true OS

446

224: The Bus Factor

447

223: Compile once, debug twice

448

222: How Netflix works

449

221: BSD in Taiwan

450

220: Opening ZFS in 2017

451

219: We love the ARC

452

218: A KRACK in the WiFi

453

217: Your questions, part II

454

216: Software is storytelling

455

215: Turning FreeBSD up to 100 Gbps

456

214: The history of man, kind

457

213: The French CONnection

458

212: The Solaris Eclipse

459

211: It's HAMMER2 Time!

460

210: Your questions, part I

461

209: Signals: gotta catch ‘em all

462

208: Faces of Open Source

463

207: Bridge over the river Cam

464

206: To hier is UNIX

465

205: FreeBSD Turning it up to 11.1

466

204: WWF - Wayland, Weston, and FreeBSD

467

203: For the love of ZFS

468

202: Brokering Bind

469

201: Skip grep, use awk

470

200: Getting Scrubbed to Death

471

199: Read the source, KARL

472

198: BSDNorth or You can’t handle the libtruth

473

197: Relaying the good news

474

196: PostgreZFS

475

195: I don’t WannaCry

476

194: Daemonic plans

477

193: Fire up the 802.11 AC

478

192: SSHv1 Be Gone

479

191: I Know 64 & A Bunch More

480

190: The Moore You Know

481

189: Codified Summer

482

188: And then the murders began

483

187: Catching up to BSD

484

186: The Fast And the Firewall: Tokyo Drift

485

185: Exit Interview

486

184: Tokyo Dreaming

487

183: Getting Steamy Here

488

182: Bloaty McBloatface

489

181: The Cantrillogy (Not special edition)

490

180: Illuminating the desktop

491

179: The Wayland Machine

492

178: Enjoy the Silence

493

177: Getting Pi on my Wifi

494

176: Linking your world

495

175: How the Dtrace saved Christmas

496

174: 2016 Highlights

497

173: Carry on my Wayland son

498

172: A tale of BSD from yore

499

171: The APU - BSD Style!

500

170: Sandboxing Cohabitation

501

169: Scheduling your NetBSD

502

168: The Post Show Show

503

167: Playing the Long Game

504

166: Pass that UNIX Pipe

505

165: Vote4BSD

506

164: Virtualized COW / PI?

507

163: Return of the Cantrill

508

162: The Foundation of NetBSD

509

161: The BSD Bromance

510

160: EuroBSD-Dreamin

511

159: Net Scaling Privacy (Flix Style)

512

158: Ham, Radio and Pie (oh my)

513

157: ZFS, The “Universal” File-system

514

156: The Fresh BSD experience

515

155: Cabling up FreeBSD

516

154: Myths, Pi’s & Features, oh my!

517

153: Big int trouble

518

152: The Laporte has landed!

519

151: Fuzzy Auditing

520

150: Sprinkle a little BSD into your life.

521

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

522

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

523

147: Release all the things!

524

146: Music to Beastie’s ears

525

145: At the Core of it all

526

144: The PF life

527

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

528

142: Diving for BSD Perls

529

141: BSD Likes Ike!

530

140: Tracing it back to BSD

531

139: Cheri-picking BSD

532

138: Rushing into BSD

533

137: FreeNAS Mini XL

534

136: This is GNN

535

135: Speciality MWL

536

134: Marking up the Ports tree

537

133: The Tokyo Debrief

538

132: Scaling up with BSD

539

131: BSD behind the chalkboard

540

130: Store all the Things | BSD Now 130

541

129: Synthesize all the Things!

542

128: The State of BSD

543

127: DNS, Black Holes & Willem

544

126: Illuminating the future on PC-BSD

545

125: DevSummits, Core and the Baldwin

546

124: Get your engine(x) started!

547

123: ZFS in the trenches

548

122: The BSD Black Box

549

121: All your hyves are belong to us

550

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

551

119: There be Dragons, BSD Dragons anyway

552

118: BSD is go for Launch

553

117: The Cantrill Strikes Back: ...

554

116: Arcing ZFS

555

115: Controlling the Transmissions

556

114: BSD-Schooling

557

113: What’s Next for BSD?

558

112: Tracing the source

559

111: Xenocratic Oath

560

110: - Firmware Fights

561

109: Impish BSD

562

108: ServeUp BSD

563

107: In their midst

564

106: Multipath TCP

565

105: Virginia BSD Assembly

566

104: Beverly Hills 25519

567

103: Ubuntu Slaughters Kittens

568

102: May Contain ZFS

569

101: I'll Fix Everything

570

100: Straight from the Src

571

99: BSD Gnow

572

98: Our Code is Your Code

573

97: Big Network, SmallWall

574

96: Lost Technology

575

95: Bitrot Group Therapy

576

94: Builder's Insurance

577

93: Stacked in Our Favor

578

92: BSD After Midnight

579

91: Vox Populi

580

90: ZFS Armistice

581

89: Exclusive Disjunction

582

88: Below the Clouds

583

87: On the List

584

86: Business as Usual

585

85: PIE in the Sky

586

84: pkg remove freebsd-update

587

83: woN DSB

588

82: SSL in the Wild

589

81: Puffy in a Box

590

80: The PC-BSD Tour II

591

79: Just Add QEMU

592

78: From the Foundation (Part 2)

593

77: Noah's L2ARC

594

76: Time for a Change

595

75: From the Foundation (Part 1)

596

74: That Sly MINIX

597

73: Pipe Dreams

598

72: Common *Sense Approach

599

71: System Disaster

600

70: Daemons in the North

601

69: Under the Ports Tree

602

68: Just the Essentials

603

67: Must Be Rigged

604

66: Conference Connoisseur

605

65: 8,000,000 Mogofoo-ops

606

64: Rump Kernels Revisited

607

63: A Man's man(1)

608

62: Gift from the Sun

609

61: IPSECond Wind

610

60: Don't Buy a Router

611

59: BSDって聞いたことある?

612

58: Behind the Masq

613

57: The Daemon's Apprentice

614

56: Beastly Infrastructure

615

55: The Promised WLAN

616

54: Luminary Environment

617

53: It's HAMMER Time

618

52: Reverse Takeover

619

51: Engineering Nginx

620

50: VPN, My Dear Watson

621

49: The PC-BSD Tour

622

48: Liberating SSL

623

47: DES Challenge IV

624

46: Network Iodometry

625

45: ZFS War Stories

626

44: Base ISO 100

627

43: Package Design

628

42: Devious Methods

629

41: Commit This Bit

630

40: AirPorts & Packages

631

39: The Friendly Sandbox

632

38: A BUG's Life

633

37: BSDCanned Goods

634

36: Let's Get RAID

635

35: Puffy Firewall

636

34: It's Gonna Get NASty

637

33: Certified Package Delivery

638

32: PXE Dust

639

31: Edgy BSD Users

640

30: Documentation is King

641

29: P.E.F.S.

642

28: Ghost of Partition

643

27: BSD Now vs. BSDTalk

644

26: Port Authority

645

25: A Sixth pfSense

646

24: The Cluster & The Cloud

647

23: Time Signatures

648

22: Journaled News-Updates

649

21: Tendresse for Ten

650

20: Bhyve Mind

651

19: The Installfest

652

18: Eclipsing Binaries

653

17: The Gift of Giving

654

16: Cryptocrystalline

655

15: Kickin' NAS

656

14: Zettabytes for Days

657

13: Bridging the Gap

658

12: Collecting SSHells

659

11: The Gateway Drug

660

10: Year of the BSD Desktop

661

9: CURRENT Events

662

8: A Brief Introduction

663

7: Go Directly to Jail(8)

664

6: Doing It de Raadt Way

665

5: Stacks of Cache

666

4: Teskeing the Possibilities

667

3: MX with TTX

668

2: Engineering and Powder Kegs

669

1: BGP & BSD