Going over some of the finer points of #picotron accounts. podnet:// folders can only be listed by the owner, and so filenav reacts to that state change after switching accounts. podnet and scoresub() are arriving Monday-ish, along with PUT and POST fetch() requests. Get your 16x16 user icons ready!

LibreSprite on OpenBSD works*, wow**, and it was easy*** to make it run

*until it crashes; gotta figure out what it's unhappy about
** it's an old version
*** one compile time error resulting in a one-line diff, plus an hour of time

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A photo of a laptop running a pixel art editor - apparently it's LibreSprite

Nothing like a Sunday morning to move all your stuff to #GotHub #OpenBSD

https://x61.sh/log/2026/03/14032026191148-gothub.html

OpenBSD adventures, day two. My MacBook with arm64 is running fine under OpenBSD, but there is no video acceleration, so it can't play full-screen videos.

I started to think what I can do about it, and I realised that we had a few e-waste Chromebooks bought for $20 apiece. It's 1.5GHz Celeron, and it is as dodgy as laptops get: it is spray-painted, it is made of cheap plastic, and the keyboard and the touchpad are both kind of only look like real ThinkPad but there were so many corners cut making it that I can't type "root" without it missing a letter or two every other time. This is what kids apparently were using in schools ten years ago or so?

Some things are glacially slow, but Xfce4 is quite usable, and it can play YouTube in 720p. Everything the laptop has to offer seems to be working (even webcam).

It works incredible for an ultra-low-end device from 2013.

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A photo of a laptop - ThinkPad X131e Chromebook - running OpenBSD with XFCE, playing online radio in Firefox. There are some boxes and Blahaj in the background

ended up moving over to #openbsd on my router from openwrt, this works *incredibly* well with all just utilities that are just... already included in the base system

if anyone's curious, it's an hp T740 thin client with an intel x540-t2 NIC- currently pulling my full gigabit link, got my VLANs set up all nicely and everything

only had one issue- my unit had shipped with a 64gb EMMC drive which openbsd wasn't able to detect, but after swapping over to a typical sata m.2 everything is working great

such a cohesive OS

I've noticed the Retrogaming YouTube space feels so disjointed now.

So many people left on Twitter and never returned. Some are on Bluesky, others just left most social media.

Discord may be suffering an exodus in the coming months too.

It's been getting harder to contact people I know, because chatgroups or habbits were broken with all this change.

And it doesn't help that youtube views are down, so almost everyone I know is a little less motivated to keep going.

This last weeks has been pretty bad for my mood. I am very pessimistic about the free software desktop right now. A lot of irreplaceable projects have eagerly adopted LLMs in their development. People who really should know better. The FOSS desktop is very dear to me and I have been enthusiastic about it for a long time. So this has been exceptionally hard to watch and I am not sure how much of my enthusiasm has survived.

hey, that's OpenBSD arm64 bootloader on RK3588 MNT Pocket Reform making use of EFI GOP for framebuffer and other services (like keyboard) provided by @barebox and display driver porting work by @ailurux

You can now see other players in real-time. (refresh to get client changes)

Genuine question: how do you manage the urge to pick up your phone so often?

Jigsaw voice before you is a terminal application of unknown origin. You have one guess to the help command.

I'm tooting this from OpenBSD running XFCE on Apple Silicon. It was a bit of a learning curve, but it works better than my first Linux did. Display, keyboard, touchpad, Wi-Fi, even sound - they all work. Firefox is quite usable even without the video acceleration, but I'm not sure if I can daily-drive it if I'm not able to play videos on this machine.

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A photograph of a Macbook Air screen, showing XFCE-about - running OpenBSD 7.9 on Apple Icestorm M1 CPU. There is a Firefox window open, showing Mastodon UI and a draft of a toot.

English speakers of the fedi. In a software with the interface in English, Reading a menu with verbs such as Save, Open, Close, Edit, Format etc., do you read them as imperative (an order: "do this") or as an infinitive (the "base form" of the verb, like "to do this")?

Are you a native speaker or have English as a second language?

#Dev #ux #ui #software #interface #translation #uiux #uxui #gui

My submission to the "shortest horror story" competition (not a real competition; also, the plot is banal and highly predictable):

sudo rm -rf .cache /

# sysupgrade -s
# pkg_add -ua
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@ed1conf we need a unified hashtag for all ed(1)-posting. Using #ed is too generic, while #ed1 is under-represented. Ideas?

After update of my #OpenBSD current to 7.9 Beta iwx stopped working with "cannot load firmware 35" error. Firmware is installed.
Anyone with the same problem ?

from the first to last, excluding timeouts (they get requeued for later)

Mar 13 13:15:53 s2 snac[69343]: 13:15:00 output message: sent to inbox ... (202 Accepted)
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Mar 13 13:15:53 s2 snac[69343]: 13:15:53 output message: sent to inbox ... (202 Accepted)

Things we know:

* Valve have been working on an unknown project called” HLX”
* Valve promised an updated version of the Half-Life 2 “Raising the Bar” book in 2025, but missed the deadline for unknown reasons
* Valve’s new hardware launch has been delayed by the RAM crisis

…there is a non-zero chance that Sam Altman has delayed Half-Life 3

picoCAD 2 is on spot #9 on Steam's Popular and Upcoming list!
#gamdev #3d #lowpoly

i don't agree — i am way more optimistic

how do y'all do long form writing on Linux?

“Purpose” and “passion” are words we use when we’re not working.

Brown noise on the command line (via sox):

play -n synth brownnoise

(there's also pinknoise, whitenoise...)

fake ocean waves:
play -n synth brownnoise synth pinknoise mix synth 0 0 0 10 10 40 trapezium amod 0.1 30

IMGRAM MINI

https://nein.triapul.cz/technology/ksh/imgram_mini/

Minuscule static gallery, compatible with @rostiger 's webring ( https://codeberg.org/rostiger/subversive.pics_webring )

#openbsd #linux #ksh #art #theworkshop

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imgram.mini nein.triapul.cz/technology/ksh/imgram_mini

browsers are 2-3% faster than in #xenocara

trackpad and trackpoint are not working as expected

whole setup a bit more complicated (starting from tty0, installing extra packages, extra line in fbtab, etc)

for this week at least i'm switching back to good old #x11 and #cwm :)

What repairability score do you think the new MacBook Neo will earn?

How many of these disasters have you experienced?

warning! this may brick your thinkpad:
https://romanzolotarev.com/tp/boot.sh

see also
https://romanzolotarev.com/tp/boot.html

I made an online bitmap font editor (monospace only for now) that can import and export a bunch of formats including TTF/WOFF.

damieng.github.io/ch8ter/

Source up at github.com/damieng/ch8ter

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A screenshot of my bitmap font editor showing the letter E being edited.

Yay, it worked first time! #QRPLabs #QMX #QRP #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #AmateurFunk

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A circuit board for an amateur radio transceiver, with ten torroids wound and soldered in place.

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The same circuit board, now with 5v and 3.3v buck converter boards, and the knobs and buttons board installed.

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Now with an LCD display, which works!

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The finished article, in an extruded aluminium case, with knobs.

git stash gives me anxiety

🏥 Sortie de la consultation orthopédique : La mauvaise nouvelle, c'est que c'est de l’arthrose. La bonne nouvelle, c'est que c'est  de l'arthrose. Pas de réparation à prévoir 😶

Note pour plus tard : 🥋 faut vraiment arrêter de bloquer les coups de latte avec l'auriculaire.

L'informatique, c'est quand même vachement moins traumatique pour le corps...

the fan still kicks in under the load, but at least when cpu frequency is low, the fan is off

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red: fan off or 2000 rpm, gray: cpu 400-4000mhz

OpenBSD -current moves to 7.9-beta https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260311062921

9.78 xenocara + cwm
9.86 wayland + sway

cc: @haddock@bsd.network

Talking w/ friends about shortwave recently and was reminded as a 1980s kid I was able to RECEIVE PICTURES FROM SPACE SATELLITES on my Apple ][ w/ a simple circuit & assembly code from a magazine. I found it! BYTE June 84: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Byte/80s/Byte-1984-06.pdf On perfboard into joystick port! #appleii

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"FAX Converter" circuit schematic going from shortwave receiver output to Apple II game controller port. It's just a transformer to half-wave rectifer to a transistor to make clean digital edges

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Example "fax" image output from satellites that the Apple II was receiving

Okay this is doing the rounds and it's fun and infuriating. My advice: if you hit one you can't do, just guess and keep going. There are certain hues I struggled with more than others.

FWIW, I got 0.0050

https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=AfIgKP__8L9r

pink is the hardest for me... also this test works the best on iphone, not so good on google pixel.

edit: the best results on macbook :)

cc: @rek@merveilles.town @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

also curious if recent changes help in any way...

uname -sr
sysctl hw.version
time (x11perf \
-dot \
-create \
-destroy \
-map \
-rect500 \
-aa24text \
-copywinwin100 \
-f8text \
-fitext \
-gc \
-getimage500 \
-pcircle100 \
-polytext \
-putimage500 \
-rect500 \
-resize \
-scroll100 \
-tileftext \
-tr10text \
-triangle100 \
-repeat 2 \
-time 1 > /dev/null)

OpenBSD updates drm(4) subsystem to Linux 6.1.18 level

https://discoverbsd.com/p/9130c6def0

The question of the ages

This is a failed print (the other half of the pen lost bed adhesion and became plastic spaghetti), but enough of it worked to confirm I now have the negative space cutout for the feeder pen's electronics correct enough to spend time refining the outside shape.

It started with a roughly cylindrical cross-section, but that immediately made it tougher to print - and it already is a technical print because of the thin walls and large hollows everywhere. Pen v2 will have a simpler form. #3DPrinting

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A photo of a small, narrow circuit board nestled inside a failed 3D print in the shape of a pen. Visible is a 3-pin connector at one end, two small tactile buttons at the other, and text reads "solder feeder pen".

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A photo of the same circuit board from the other side, where there are no components but there is a rebate in the 3D printed part for the soldered pins on the connector to slot in without interfering. Text on this side of the board reads "@timixretroplays".