If it weren't for Democrats, most of America would starve.

#NoRepublicansEverAgain #WelfareQueens #USPol

Kakāt vai nokāpt no poda.

Why do I have to perform my responsibilities for events when it’s suddenly optional for others?

Please do not punish your constituents and participants.

I will not hesitate to play the $dayjob and three kids cards, just as others do.

If you signed up for it, do it, or delegate/surrender.

Do not punish your constituents and participants.

Good night.

Heard the phrase "moral de-skilling" to describe what happens to people who use AI for decision making, and yeah, this sounds exactly right

A simple way to deploy your own mail server on FreeBSD.

https://github.com/bsdtr/bsdmail

04:00 Fireworks still going off.

Not sure if in celebration or protest.

Watched some Expanse to preserve my sanity.

Unrelated, PLEASE REACH OUT FOR HELP WITH YOUR CONFERENCE VIDEOS.

I’ll cut the damn things myself if needed Asia, AUS, Euro, and Canada.

Don’t punish your constituents and participants.

Earlier this year I told a story in a conference talk. This is the behind-the-scenes story of that story. Weirdly, they're both basically the same story.

https://despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2026-07-05-conference-presentation-cost/

Celebrating the 4th #USPOL

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@dch @tubsta Does Discord run under the Linuxulator on FreeBSD or do you just use the web site?

I've gotten games to install on Steam but none of them run for me.

I don't even play recent games. These are the ones I play on Steam:

Skyrim Special Edition
Portal 2

I also had a "game" on Steam called ZenkCraft which creates templates for an old MMORPG I played called "Dark Age of Camelot" but that won't run on FreeBSD (but DAoC itself does)

World of Warcraft I've played on occasion in WINE. I don't play that many games and the ones I play are old now. 😂

“They Weaponized Spider Man for literacy.”

https://youtu.be/lh2jlFrkmkQ

You gather your most expensive people into a room to make your most important decisions. Then, somewhere in the second hour, the room quietly gets worse at making them. Not the people. The room.

I now travel with a portable CO2 monitor. Outdoors it reads around 400 parts per million. In a closed meeting room with a handful of people in it, I have watched it climb past 2,000. The photo here is a real reading: 2,143.

That number matters more than it looks. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory put people in a chamber and varied only the CO2. At 1,000 ppm, performance dropped significantly on six of nine decision-making measures compared with a clean-air baseline of 600. At 2,500 ppm, seven of the nine fell substantially, some into a range they called dysfunctional. A separate study out of Harvard found cognitive scores declining as CO2 rose, with the steepest losses in exactly the domains you called the meeting for: strategy, planning, and using information under pressure.

Continue reading on my blog because it's too long for here. https://blog.mikebowler.ca/2026/07/03/co2-and-decision-making/

serious question: has anyone here ever found a job via LinkedIn?

A few people have asked me recently about how OpenSSH sshd implements privilege separation after the changes of the last couple of years, such as splitting sshd into multiple binaries.

I finally got around to writing it up - please take a look if you're curious.

https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/master/README.privsep

Stanford scientists just solved one of the biggest problems with human aging.

They found a way to regrow joint cartilage.

They blocked an aging-linked protein called 15-PGDH, and the results were massive. Old, worn cartilage began to grow back in older mice. Human cartilage samples also showed signs of new cartilage growth.

This is a massive milestone for human longevity. Actual biological repair. Proof that the body can fix its own parts.

Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Me: "Therefore, any sufficiently complicated technical problem is indistinguishable from a curse."

#infosec #sysadmin #bofh