Notices by peter hessler @openbsd (phessler@bsd.network)

#mastoadmin

hi, the bsd.network instance has blocked FLoC on all pages and media that our web servers serve.

We previously, currently, and in the future, will NEVER had ads, and we do not support any efforts to track our users.

Google is an important part of the advertising cabal, and is quite evil thank you very much.

(here is the snippet we use in nginx: add_header Permissions-Policy "interest-cohort=()";)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/google-testing-its-controversial-new-ad-targeting-tech-millions-browsers-heres

#sysadmin #privacy

ripe is out of /22s, and has a backlog longer than all of the remaining /22-equivelents.

that means Europe+Middle East+CIS no longer has #IPv4 addresses for new participants.

Come and say hi to me if you are at #ietf105 this week, I'll be around until Friday!

Firefox admits they will eventually be sending all of your DNS to Cloudflare. Cloudflare will monetize your internet browsing, no matter how much their PR people say they are.

If you want to disable that, go to "about:config", and set "network.trr.mode" to 5.

The values are: 0 - default off, 1 - race, 2 TRR first, 3 TRR only, 4 shadow, 5 off by choice

#Pine64 has some pre #FOSDEM announcements.

Biggest one is the #PinebookPro.

14" 1080p display
**usb-c**, with power input and video output
#Rockchip #RK3399

and the usual laptop features. target price, US$199! I look forward to getting #OpenBSD running well on this #arm64 system.

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7093&pid=43850#pid43850

Super cool to see a speaker try a font that was intended to be better to read his presentation.

https://www.opendyslexic.org/

#RIPE77

The knzk.me instance brags that they are close buddies with bofa.lol. If you block one, you may want to consider blocking the other.

https://knzk.me/@Knzk/100679456048509452

Theo de Raadt of #OpenBSD has two very specific recommendations for the recent #Intel CPU bugs.

"""DISABLE HYPERTHREADING ON ALL YOUR INTEL MACHINES IN THE BIOS"""

"""I'm going to spend my money at a more trustworthy vendor in the future."""

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=153504937925732&w=2

@SuzanEraslan @natecull @thegibson

1) I love this thread

2) I love the Federation for bringing back some of the early Internet feels back to us. I have missed them so much.

Sydney Opera Dishes

#RIPE has assigned the last block from the 185/8 space.

This means there are no more pristine IPv4 addresses available in Europe, Middle East, or CIS.

RIPE still has a /9 of issuable space, but that is returned/revoked addresses from LIRs, and from the IANA returned pool.

Starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel for #IPv4.