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December 8th, 2017
I have donated 50 EUR to OpenBSD. This brings my donations for this year to
OpenBSD to 170 EUR. I likely won't donate until next year again. Cheers
OpenBSD! Seasons Greetings!
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Are the Ice Giants leaving Earth?
December 5th, 2017
Global warming is real. The ice is melting. While our leaders are negotiating
whether they should allow 2 degrees C or 4 degrees C global heat-up... it's
irrelevant. The Ice Giants may be off to other worlds. Perhaps when we need
to be around ice the place to go is Mars or further from the sun. It seems
we're facing the riddance of ice on earth. We've beaten the cold. But we
know how to get to it, if we want to. Just too bad a hot earth is more
uncomfortable than a cold earth, or is that a foolish statement? What will
become of the children and their children? I won't be around in the future
and I don't have offspring so I couldn't care less really. I just hope it stays
nice(r) while I'm doing my time on earth.
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In the EU, can journalists be safe?
December 5th, 2017
Something has been on my mind lately. The
murder of a
Maltese Journalist. As you know Malta is in the EU. She was killed by a car
bomb. I find this outrageous that this happens in the European Union.
This is something you hear of from Banana Republics, but it seems the "elite"
terror has reached within our borders as well.
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Yesterday was first snow day for 2017/2018
December 4th, 2017
Yesterday was a real snow day. Very small flakes but lots of them (over time).
Unfortunately the snow won't stick around, it's supposed to get warmer in
Germany.
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How many levels of government do you have in the EU?
December 1st, 2017
We all saw what happened in catalonia and shake our heads... But! Have you
ever considered what it means to be in the EU? Let's count the levels here
in Schweinfurt (of government).
- EU level
- Federal Germany
- Federal State of Bavaria
- Regional government of Lower Franconia
- City Hall
That's 5 levels. Our tax money pays 1-2 levels too many! I'm sure all those
people are a dream come true for bureaucracy, but it's not in the interest of
the citizen. So which are we gonna cut?
Cut the EU we basically have Brexit. Cut Federal Germany we basically have
Catalonia, Cut the Federal State of Bavaria (there's an idea!) and we're left
with Franconia as the regional government.
Seriously people think about these things! Because we don't need to have five
levels of government, with all their bureaucracy and waste. Think about this
before AI thinks for you and recommends cuts before you thought about it your
selves. It can't go on like this forever!
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My pledge is tighter!
November 29th, 2017
In comparing NSD with delphinusdnsd in OpenBSD this is what I came up with:
server.c: if (pledge("stdio rpath inet", NULL) ==
-1) {
And in Delphinusdnsd:
delphinusdnsd.c: if (pledge("stdio", NULL) < 0) {
Which one are you gonna trust on security issues? (If only delphinusdnsd was
only half as good as NSD *smile*). But it's more secure in the crap string
handler aka pledge parser.
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What I want in delphinusdnsd
November 27th, 2017
A presentation by Theo
de Raadt had this on page 22:
And that's exactly what I want in delphinusdnsd, it's a little bit of
programming but I think I can get it done before new years.. mainly because
I get one week holidays this winter.
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I tightened the pledge on delphinusdnsd a little
November 27th, 2017
Fortunately for me the changes in OpenBSD 6.2 allowed me to make pledge
explicit to use on OpenBSD. I was also able to tighten the pledge promises
a little increasing security (most likely). Thanks OpenBSD!
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Possibly applying to Prototypefund.DE next year
November 25th, 2017
As you know I've been writing on delphinusdnsd for close to 13 years now.
I've always done this on my spare time and not for pay. I use delphinusdnsd
on my own servers, I don't know how many others use it. So a while ago I
came across this website that is a public funding project of open source.
The requirements are that one lives in Germany and the project is open source
and available on the 'Net.
If I can work out a deal to perhaps put more DNSSEC ciphers in my daemon and
other things, perhaps I can make use of this fund. The
link to it is here. Next
application is in February 2018.
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Delphinusdnsd Flowchart 2017
November 25th, 2017
I have created this flow diagram, on how I think delphinusdnsd should work
with pledge from OpenBSD. Notice the pledge parsing process... that doesn't
exist yet, the rest does. The pledge parser will take queries from UDP and
TCP engines and parse them and then send them back parsed. It's a little bit
of fickle-programming but I think I may get it in before next release.
The pledge parse will likely only see pledge("stdio sendfd recvfd", NULL); and
that's it. If there is a bug in my parsing it'll be stopped here.
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