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Introduction With the widely discussed issues of Mozilla now scanning and using your personal data, I decided to get rid of the two programs I used from this company: firefox and thunderbird. Firefox –> ungoogled-chromium and netsurf For the browser I have a lot of choices in the OpenBSD ports tree. There are chrome based programs like chrome, chromium, iridium and ungoogled-chromium. And I also found netsurf which I quite like. It is very fast. Of course it has its shortcomings with complex websites such as youtube. ...

Introduction In this article I want to talk about setting up a server and clients (in this case a vpn from OpenBSD.amsterdam) to work as a vpn. The technology used in this case is wireguard because it is built into OpenBSD. No packages have to be installed for this tutorial. For this tutorial I used a wonderful guide by Solene Rapenne I had to make a few changes to Solenes setup, because the configuration only worked for me with one client. When using a second client, only the first client would have internet access and not the other one. I solved this issue by using 192.168.10.2/32 instead of 192.168.10.2/24 on the hostname.wg0 on the server. Unfortunately I do not know exactly why this is necessary. ...

Introduction LaTex together with OpenBSD is a simple task. This article is going to be rather short. Setup Install the following packages: pkg_add texlive_texmf-full texmaker zathura zathura-pdf-poppler These packages install the complete LaTex packages. texmaker is a very good LaTex editor. You can also compile and display the resulting pdfs with it. zathura is a good pdf viewer. That is it. Conclusion Installing LaTex on OpenBSD is a piece of cake. Everything is configured automatically for texmaker. ...

Introduction In this article I want to give a brief explanation about how to configure a HP Officejet Pro 8020 printer and scanner with OpenBSD. Packages to install The printer is connected to my home network via wifi. I therefore want to use cups for printing and avahi for scanning. pkg_add cups gtk+2-cups gtk+3-cups gtk+4-cups hpaio hplip skanlite Services to enable rcctl enable messagebus cupsd cups_browsed avahi_daemon rcctl start messagebus cupsd cups_browsed avahi_daemon Firewall setings Make sure the firewall is opened for certain ports: ...

Introduction So I want to run a router at home. My topology is the following: I have a glasfiber modem/router at home (Freebox) with nat. There are PCs connected to its LAN and also iPads et cetera to its wifi. I want to stick a little PC in between that would be the only connected device to the Freebox. All other devices shall be connected to the new little PC. ...

TL;DR OpenBSD Amsterdam are really awesome. A lot of people are saying this around the nerd globe, and it is true. Introduction / Why OpenBSD I started way way way too late in joining the normal nerds in having an own blog where I would write about technical stuff. I have a lot of opinions mostly on politics and other stuff. Maybe for some time in the future though… Why did I start this? Well, I don’t know. ...