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Field notes and occasional musings by Peter on stuff that happens, from a free software perspective, mainly OpenBSD, FreeBSD.

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Blog 3 months ago
How 'Artificial Intelligence' Is Slowly Drowning In Its Own Droppings
2026 Peter N. M. Hansteen A website designed to appeal to humans' vanity serves to reveal how the large language models degrade by ingesting each others' unverified output In early July 2026, I was made aware of the website intheweights.com via a fedivers
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Blog 4 months ago
What has (can) the EU Cyber Resilience Act done (do) for you?
2026 Peter N. M. Hansteen Th...
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Blog 5 months ago
OpenSMTPD Is The Mail Server For The Future
Image credit: the OpenSMTPD project 2026 Peter N. M. Hansteen The SMTP mail server for the 21st century and onwards ...
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Blog 6 months ago
The implementation of the Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol, RFC1149, 25 years later
2005, 2026 Peter N. M. Hansteen Historical not...
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Blog 7 months ago
The Book of PF, 4th Edition: It's Here, It's Real
2026 Peter N. M. Hansteen The long wait is over. Fresh copies of a href="htt...
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Blog 8 months ago
The Rest Is Trash
2026 Peter N. M. Hansteen We are now halfway through the nineteenth year of greytrapping, still tracking and collecting from the wealth of imbecility out there My logs tell me that in early September of 2025, I added the following entries to the list of s
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Blog 9 months ago
A Major Mail Provider Demonstrate They Likely Do Not Understand Mail At All
2026 Peter N. M. Hansteen img src="https://nxdomain.no/peter/blogpix/likely_suspicious.jpg" width="90%" alt="Screenshot of part of a mail bounce message, saying ' [email protected] host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com 2a00:1450:4025:402::1b SMTP error f
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Blog 10 months ago
Why 451 is Good for You - Greylisting Perspectives From the Early Noughties
2025 Peter N. M. Hansteen A software vendor was using SMTP spamware to send license keys customers had paid thousands for. A measured rant was in order, and turned out to be quite enlightening. While looking through directories of old material, I stumbled
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Blog 11 months ago
A Bus Ride and the (At Least) 3x UX FAILs
2025 Peter N. M. Hansteen Norway is digital to a fault. That is why attempting to buy the ticket for a bus ride can reveal a cascade of user experience ( UX ) failures. Most days, I either take a half hour stroll to get to my main customer's offices, or w
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Blog 11 months ago
What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out!
2025, 2026 Peter N. M. Hansteen What is BSD? It's where the Internet comes from! Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) is a family of computer operating systems derived from the software developed at the University of California a...
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