Notices by Dan Langille (dvl@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)

PostgreSQL 12 released! https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/release-12.html

Full disk encryption gives peace of mind if your computer goes missing and reduces anxiety about throwing out old hard drives or computers.

Time for '23 years of software side channel attacks' by Colin Percival.

First, some definitions.

#vBSDCon

At vBSDCon 2019, you have missed the early bird registration at $100, and the price is now $125.

The next deadline is August 30 for the greatly reduced hotel rate of $100/night + tax

Register today at https://vbsdcon.com/registration

BTW: there is a closing social on Saturday night.

Do you use multiple workstations / laptops? Do you want some stuff synced between those devices?

I use syncthing for that. It is peer-to-peer, no 3rd parties involved. It is secure. it is fast.It is reliable.

Got laptops / workstations not always online all at the same time? Install syncthing in a VM or server.

See https://syncthing.net

Do I know someone who has already signed an Eclipse Contributor Agreement (ECA) with the Eclipse Foundation?

For a one letter change to a man page, I don't want to do that paperwork.

https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/pull/1377

The vBSDCon 2019 conference is Sept 5-7 in Reston VA.

The schedule has been added to the website: https://www.vbsdcon.com/schedule/

The Early Bird registration of $100 closes on Aug 15 (Thursday this week).

https://www.vbsdcon.com/registration

See you there.

If subversion on FreeBSD is no longer working with Kerberos auth, change your port config options.

With a recent commit to www/serf, the option for using Kerberos changed.

It was: HEIMDAL_BASE

It is now: GSSAPI_BASE

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/www/serf/Makefile?r1=492691&r2=492690&pathrev=492691

MeetBSD cake for FreeBSD 25th anniversary

Would anyone like to do some work with File::Find in Perl for me please?

https://gist.github.com/dlangille/6a7c81ff17cf1f446581660d96a33a14