Did you seriously bring a gun to a sword fight !?

My dear friend, this is (again!) some beautiful art you got there ! This could easily be the artwork for openbsd 7.6 ! If you don’t mind me I’d like to mention it on /c/openbsd so your work doesn’t go unnoticed? :D

I cannot speak for prahou, but I’m fairly sure we both agree on this:

• Codebase is clean and lean
• Security is a first grade citizen
• Dev team is not afraid to call stuff obsolete and remove/replace stuff
• It’s a full operating system, not just a kernel that you need to build on top of before distributing it
• Config files syntax is cohérent across the whole OS
• master Puffy rocks.

We call them crowdstals down there. They used to only target ancients NT kernels but apparently they evolved to infect other environments. Eh, nature.

Nope. But I’m eager to know how you can be so confident saying that ? (FYI the WiFi is served by a hotspot from my phone, which uses a randomized MAC address)

Thanks !

Gotta punch holes in the screen and hammer the keyboard a bit haha. But remember friends, Hardware is forever.

Easy, become a Magnetic Nymph today !

The real answer here.

More like openblade2head. What an evolution !

I didn’t come up with this idea myself, this is straight from OpenBSD disk setup guide (which I personally trust as a good source of info) :

Encrypting External Disks

This section explains how to set up a cryptographic softraid volume for an external USB drive. An outline of the steps is as follows:

• Overwrite the drive’s contents with random data

[…]

# dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/rsd3c bs=1m

/usr/share/language/pack/français: Permission refusée

Well as I see it, it will just do a lot of write operations to your disk, which might eventually damage it if you do it a lot (just like any write operation done on a disk). However, this specific command isn’t bad per se, and is even technically a good thing to do for preparing to full disk encryption.

sudo cat is pointless here, better do

</dev/urandom sudo tee /dev/sd*

As a bonus it’ll scramble your terminal 💪

Not with busybox’s rm 🤘

Nevermind I figured it out, you gotta use sudo for it to work properly !

Nevermind I figured what went wrong, I mistyped it initially ! It would have been much easier to copy paste it if it wasn’t a picture…

Fun fact, the command displays a nice cat picture in ASCII :)

Edit: screenshot

I just tried your command and it yields a lot of Permission denied. Is it expected or your command is incomplete ?

I tried but got an error:

:& : Command not found

Is it expected ? Did I type something wrong ? I’m confused…

Just like stabbing yourself if the eye is better with a fork than with a rusty fork.

pf gang rise up !