peter hessler @openbsd @[email protected]

mmhm

Given people will be looking to spin up hosting on shit like a VPS. It's time for another one of and's obligatorily Hetzner is fashtech:

8.2. The Customer is obligated not to publish any content that infringes on the rights of third parties or otherwise violates applicable law. This includes in particular, but is not limited to, pornographic or obscene material, extremist content or content that offends common decency, gambling, material that could seriously endanger the morals of children or young people or violate the rights of third parties (copyrights, name rights, trademark rights and data protection rights). This also includes the publication of defamatory content, insults or disparagement of persons or groups of persons.

Do not under any circumstances use them if you plan on hosting queer or sexual media. "common decency" and "material that could seriously endanger the morals of children or young people" is a far-right talking point against queer people.

Quote from an AliExpress product description:
"We cannot solve all problems for you but we will provide some."

🙃

Hat tip to Gerald L. Coleman for doing The Work.

https://bookshop.org/lists/beginner-s-guide-to-black-science-fiction-and-fantasy

Hello world!

Today is day one of #fluConf2026, an online event for those of us involved with Free/Open-Source Software (#FOSS) who continue to take precautions to protect our health and that of our communities.

Throughout the weekend we'll share links to content submitted as part of this year's program, and boost discussion/commentary related to those contributions.

#fluConf

🎉 Early Bird Registration for OARC 46 is still open! 🎉Join us in Edinburgh, Scotland 🇬🇧 for #OARC46, taking place May 16–17, 2026 — co-located with #RIPE92.
Early bird registration runs Dec 18 through Feb 17 (23:59 CET).

Visit our main event page for full details, booking links, and registration info:
👉 https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc46

#LoveDNS #DNSOARC #DNSCommunity #Edinburgh

A friend pointed out last night that WinRAR is more profitable than OpenAI and I can't stop thinking about it.

Housemate:

"The existence of http and https implies the existence of http3, http: Resurrection, and http vs. Predator.

Discuss."

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle in that order!

Help! #SmallBizAccounting

EDIT thx found some great options!

Toggl
Kimai
Fastbill
Easybill
Papierkram
FreeAgent if you’re uk based

My 10+ year invoice & accounting software https://harvestapp.com/ has just been bought out by those Private Equity Fuckers "Bending Spoons US Inc.". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending_Spoons

Typically they:

- increase prices
- lay off almost all existing staff
- screw over customers

You know the names - Evernote, Filmic, Meetup, Issu, WeTransfer, Brightcove, Vimeo, AOL, Eventbrite.

Time to move. ASAP.

Here's what I need:

- automatically send a few very boring invoice with 3-5 line items every month
- allow manual editing of line items prior to sending
- include my bank, company details
- and the customer's ones
- allow me to check off that each invoice has been paid
- EU hosted
- not owned by Private Equity Fuckwits

> Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy have been revised to reflect that
> your service is now being provided by Bending Spoons US Inc.
> and to make a few other minor updates. No action is required on your part.
> Everything about your account will remain the same—including how your
> personal data is processed. These new Terms go into effect on January
> 1, 2026. By continuing to use our service, you agree to the new Terms of
> Service and acknowledge the updated Privacy Policy.

Hello, we've just done a bugfix release of #GoToSocial v0.20.3, codename "Most Sinister Sloth 😈😈😈😈😈"!

https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.20.3

This release contains some bugfixes for annoying little API issues, updates to robots.txt to forbid more so-called "ai" (🤢) crawlers, and a bugfix for polite interaction requests that will be useful when v0.21.0 comes out in a couple weeks.

If you're updating to this version from v0.20.0, v0.20.1, or v0.20.2, it's a very easy update with no db migrations.

If you're updating to this version from a version before v0.20.0, please follow the update instructions from v0.20.0, but replace 0.20.0 with 0.20.3 throughout. Be aware that the update to 0.20.x contains some potentially very long migrations. Please do read the notes carefully!

If you are currently on a snapshot / nightly build, stay on the snapshot / nightly build, as it's already ahead of this release.

Thanks for reading!

New #OpenBSD story, on kernel stacks.

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/stack.html

This gave me a laugh.

I like this:

The GPS never says "Are you sure you're going the right way?"
It just says, "Recalculating route."

Remember that when your kid tells you they're trans.

ohhhh crying in the libraryyyyyyyy

A student in their final semester who has been checking out a laptop from us every week their whole time here just came up to return, not renew, one because they could finally afford their own and they wrote up a testimonial to talk about the positive impact it had for them.

There is a lot, way too much, bullshit at my institution, but these little moments where we get to really see what the library can do for a person is what keeps me in the fight.

With one record chasing the other, it's sometimes hard to keep track of social media, so here are some records condensed in a single post:

2025-12-30: New Peak -163G📈
2026-01-02: New Peak - 176G📈
2026-01-07: New Peak - 182G📈
2026-01-08: New Peak - 207G📈
2026-01-13: New Peak - 213G📈

And that's just the beginning, we have some grad news lined up for the coming months! 🚀

Thank you for all the trust and great partnerships.

Happy Peering!

#peering #InternetExchange #KeepTrafficLocal

Now this is how you exit a "smart" tech business. Bose is open-sourcing the API for SmartTouch speakers, moving as much functionality as possible to an app, and extending support.

https://www.theverge.com/news/858501/bose-soundtouch-smart-speakers-open-source