OpenVPN Error calling protect() on a M1 MacBook Pro

After getting my new MacBook Pro with the new M1 Pro CPU and running the Migration Assistant I started seeing the following error: Error calling protect() Unfortunately I didn’t take a screenshot so this might not be the exact error, but it is pretty close. The solution is kind of silly, but just download the latest version of OpenVPN from their website and reinstall it over the top of the existing install.
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Jenkins with FreeBSD Agents in ec2

One of my customers needs to have builds done on arm64 hosts, but they lack the necessary hardware to do so in house and procuring such hardware can be very difficult due to vendors EoL some hardware without the replacement hardware being ready to ship. Currently they already have Jenkins configured with a couple of amd64 build agents that do most of the building, so we wanted something we could just drop in to their existing infrastructure.
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Setting Up Hashicorp Vault on FreeBSD

Vault works well on FreeBSD, but there are a couple of quirks to be aware of. This guide will help take care of those. Installing Vault Follow the normal install method: pkg install vault Settings for use in Jail Using vault in a jail requires the option allow.mlock to be set. Using ezjail and a jail called vault just modify the config file /usr/local/etc/ezjail/vault on the host and set:
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