reyk @reyk@bsd.network

@mike Some appreciation for your work: https://pauladamsmith.com/blog/2018/07/fixing-bufferbloat-on-your-home-network-with-openbsd-6.2-or-newer.html 👍🏻

Today I was procrastinating ... err, toying around with authenticator and implemented an OATH-compatible login mode for #OpenBSD – RFC 6238 (TOTP) and RFC 4226 (HOTP). https://github.com/reyk/login_oath/blob/master/README.md

Rust‘s official style uses spaces instead of tabs. 4 spaces. “I don’t care, I just use rustfmt” is what they say. OK, I will use rustfmt, and rustfmt.toml with hard_tabs = true. And max_width = 80 because 100 doesn’t fit on vertical split with any healthy font size.

I also think the syntax and style is ugly. These :: look a lot like Perl. Still semicolons, really? I also never liked C++-style // comments. No KNF, enforced { on the same line? Rust hast some interesting promises, but why should I learn a language that looks like the worst mix of Linux kernel code and Perl?

I started reading the Rust book, chapter 1.1 “$ curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh” … “Of course, if you distrust using curl URL | sh to install software, you can download, inspect, and run the script however you like.” … so why do they even suggest this curl nonsense in the first place?!
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I wrote the ar5k driver for 1st gen Atheros wlan under Linux. But everyone stopped caring as soon as there was an official blob driver from the vendor. #OpenBSD devs invited me to rewrite my driver and I fell in love with the clean source code, kernel and OS ever since. #bsdstart

... I will continue to use Twitter for the surreal illusion of happiness and Mastodon for all the negativity and raw thoughts. It might include traces of OpenBSD but won’t be that focused as it used to be.

But I have to admit that the Microsoft guy merged my patch very quickly. whatever...

That doesn’t mean that the Azure CLI is specifically bad. ALL of these cloud CLIs are bad. The worst one is OpenStack where you have to use the „obsolete“ version (eg. neutron CLI) for half the options that are unimplemented or broken in the latest &greatest openstack CLI. But, of course, the old CLI always yells at you „I‘m obsolete, use the new CLI“. And why are Python people so keen on throwing their tracebacks at you? You do something wrong - traceback. Typo - traceback. Timeout - traceback.

I hate it when I have to dig into Python code. But Azure’s CLI was throwing tracebacks at me, so I had to fix it: https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/commit/6b7b0a09ab9349ae51d260b55a60e5ff228781cd

No commits, no conferences, no hackathons. I‘m taking a break from OpenBSD but it won’t last forever. It’s another hiatus. My current work is primarily focused on securing larger cloud infrastructures which is exciting and depressing at the same time. It doesn’t leave me much spare time. After focusing on OpenBSD for a long time, it helps me to sync with the bitter truth of reality and to remember how much I appreciate the cleanness and simplicity of the OS.

ok, you convinced me, it’s alive!

Is Mastodon still a thing?