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352: Introducing Randomness

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A brief introduction to randomness, logs grinding netatalk to a halt, NetBSD core team changes, Using qemu guest agent on OpenBSD kvm/qemu guests, WireGuard patchset for OpenBSD, FreeBSD 12.1 on a laptop, and more. Headlines Entropy (https://washbear.neocities.org/entropy.html) A brief introduction to randomness Problem: Computers are very predictable. This is by design. But what if we want them to act unpredictably? This is very useful if we want to secure our private communications with randomized keys, or not let people cheat at video games, or if we're doing statistical simulations or similar. Logs grinding Netatalk on FreeBSD to a hault (https://rubenerd.com/logs-grinding-netatalk-on-freebsd-to-a-hault/) I’ve heard it said the cobbler’s children walk barefoot. While posessing the qualities of a famed financial investment strategy, it speaks to how we generally put more effort into things for others than ourselves; at least in business. The HP Microserver I share with Clara is a modest affair compared to