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    "The Rest Is Trash" We are now halfway through the nineteenth year of greytrapping, still tracking and collecting from the wealth of imbecility out therehttps://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_rest_is_trash.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-rest-is-trash.html) #spamd #greytrapping #greylisting #openbsd #freebsd #spam #antispam #cybercrime
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    @grahamperrin I've never had much luck with the re-provided disk images. I couldn't get older ones to work in Hyper-V and the newer ones did but with silly default options.I ended up just building my own with Poudriere (which is very easy). Deploying your second FreeBSD instance is much easier than the first!
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    so Raptor gave me access to a Talos II to do some work on FreeBSD/ppc64le. first thing i noticed: the boot process is *very* unusual. it doesn't use the FreeBSD loader at all; instead it has a Linux-based firmware loader called Petitboot which can load and kexec() the FreeBSD kernel directly. however it needs a rather odd partition layout to do that:# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#/dev/nda0p2 / ufs rw 1 1/dev/nda0p1 /boot msdosfs rw 2 2i assume this is because Petitboot can't read FreeBSD UFS, so we need the kernel (which is in /boot/kernel) to be on FAT. Raptor suggested we should make the loader kexec()able instead, which seems like a good idea, but from what i can tell this platform doesn't use OpenFirmware at all, and i'm not even sure we have a PowerNV-native loader.(as you can tell, i know very little about either POWER or FreeBSD/powerpc, so this is going to be an interesting learning experience.)#FreeBSD
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    Conferences are fun and useful. Find one that suits you and get to hang out with fellow BSD Geeks!