As @brynet has been pointing out... it's time for some #80HYPE 🧙🏻‍♂️​ 🐡

Some of the highlights we are looking forward to! This is just a teeny tiny subset of all the amazing things coming in 8.0! https://www.openbsd.org/80.html

OpenBSD vmm/vmd(8)
- Added MP support for up to 64 VCPUs per guest VM

This is what a dmesg looks like:
https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/dmesgd?do=view&id=9166

OpenBSD httpd(8)
- Setting custom HTTP response headers.
- New blocking/filtering rules based on received HTTP headers (e.g: User-Agent: )

OpenBSD relayd(8)
- Added Lua patterns(7) support for relayd(8) filter rules; improved glob(7) documentation.
- Added ECDSA support to the relayd(8) CA privsep engine.
- Switched the default TLS cipher in relayd.conf(5) set from 'HIGH:!aNULL' to 'secure.'

Thank you @mlarkin, dv@ and @sizeofvoid for these specifically, and of course all developers who are working tirelessly on #OpenBSD

How do you pronounce Pluggable Authentication Modules?

#solarpunk #offgrid

september was the first month when i got an electric bill since i installed battery in june.

money wise the balance is still positive, but winter is coming...

#solarpunk

-- radial flippy maze #pico8 #postcart

e=124::_::cls(14)srand()
for y=-e,e,6 do
for x=e,-6,-6 do
z=y+x
local d=(x-64)^2+(z-64)^2
a=rnd{0,.25}+mid(0.25,sin((d>>14)-t()/4))
u,v=cos(a)*5,sin(a)*5
for q=0,2 do
line(x-q,z+q,x+u-q,z+v+q,8)line(x,z-q,x+u,z+v-q,13-(q\2)*6)
end end end
flip()goto _

Huge Font/Small Screen Challenge:

Open a terminal with a ridiculous font-size that results in a tiny number of columns/rows, ideally 40x25 or less, e.g.

$ xterm -fa 'xft:JetBrains Mono' -fs 42

(maximize the window)

$ echo $COLUMNS $LINES
40 10

and attempt to use your preferred $EDITOR/$VISUAL.

How readily can you edit text?

#hugefont #smallscreen

I was given one of these little Xte Ink readers a few months back. I put some books on it and carried it around, and I tried to like it, the way I tried to like my Pinebook. I have something against electronics rotting in drawers, so I kept trying, despite the feeling that the people behind it did not care for it one bit.

Unlike the Pinebook, it's well built; it only needed a not-terrible operating system. I've jumped through these hoops before, and it's no different from working on any other embedded platform, except that this time I only had to write the thinnest Varvara emulator I could get away with, and only ever flash the device for critical changes.

Since the firmware is just a ROM, I wrote and debugged it all in Uxn11. The device emulator only had to pass the tests, and once it did, whatever I ran on my laptop ran on the device. The result is a document viewer that works equally well on everything with an emulator!

I'm not sure exactly where this device fits in my life right now, but it will help with one thing: bringing tickets and QR codes to events, which is always a headache for me without a smartphone or a printer. I might as well have something to read on the way there.

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/now.html

Severance voice: "Your outie knows how many bytes, sectors, tracks, and cylinders his hard drive has".

some days it feels like this

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A young girl (maybe kindergarten age) sits in a bike-seat behind the piloting adult. The adult has a serious case of plumber's crack which happens to land right in front of the poor girl's face. She gives a resigned, "this is my life, unpleasant and not much I can do about it" expression. She has been captioned "me" while the adult has been captioned "the current AI industry"

aspire to write code so convoluted that no one could accuse you of using an LLM

TIL git rerere https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Rerere

So apparently there's this new activitypub server called LittleFedi which is in many ways like GoToSocial (which is what I'm running), except it has first class OpenBSD support (GTS requires using an unsupported compile flag). I don't think I can just migrate in place, which is a bit annoying, but maybe in the future I'll find a way to switch over. https://littlefedi.org/

How to use dithered brushes (screentones) in GIMP (and have it behave like it would in traditional monochrome drawing programs)

https://triapul.cz/automa/gimp_dither

#gimp #tutorial #monochrome @GIMP #linux #art

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GIMP Dither Brush

Wallpaper support because of course.

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Uxn emulator prototyping wallpaper window.

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Tested on XTE INK4

One of my favourite thing about uxn for embeded development is that I have a universal emulator. While there are no xte-ink emulators out there, I still get to prototype entirely without having to constantly upload new builds on the device for testing.

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A file listing with a selector, emulating the rendering on the XTE INK 4.

📢 syspatch time!

Log message:
Release nsd unbound libressl procargs sysvipc iked wgbind sysvsem uidrange errata.

https://www.openbsd.org/errata78.html

https://www.openbsd.org/errata79.html

#OpenBSD #Errata #RUNBSD

It's typical of #conlang projects to have a translation of the Lord's Prayer as a showcase template of the language. But I didn't want that, for some reason, I had in my head to do this one instead.

http://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/latin_sin_flexion.html

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I showed my dog and iphone 5 and she said: "This is as large a phone as it ever needs to be, the waste of your species has turned this paradise among the stars into a tomb"

I ran photoshop on a £0.60 Raspberry pi pico processor emulating a 1980s Apple Mac. It inspired me to think about simple computers.

https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-08-19-144600.html

#retrocomputing #permacomputing

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A black and white computer screen showing a 1980s Macintosh computer desktop. A dialog showing "Adobe Photoshop v1" is visible, along with a crude drawing of a face, titled "Self portrait by Colin"

#nownownow

I see folks building bedrock-type abstractions more and more these days and adding on @tbsp's list, I tried to gather every single virtual machine designed explicitly to fend of bitrot or digital obsolesce by targeting a frozen specification I could think of.

I was wondering, I'm sure I must have forgotten some, if you can think of one that is not on the list, could you please let me know!
https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/virtual_machines.html

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A list of virtual machines and a vague overview of their specs.

PSA!

We are OpenBSD Amsterdam!
Not Linux || Windows Amsterdam.

EOPSA

#RUNBSD #OpenBSD

😄

Making games and throwing them back through the time machine.
Uxn68 emulator by @d6.
https://phial.org/d6/uxn68k/

One of the first game we ever published for #Uxn was Donsol, five years ago, to celebrate, we've made a whole new version of the game with new monster sprites, better resolution and animations.

We had originally made it with the Playdate in mind, but they didn't want it so we're making available to play it directly in the itchio page, or via your favourite Uxn emulator!

https://hundredrabbits.itch.io/donsol

We hope that you enjoy it.
Have a good autumn. :)

Rek & Dev

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Monster and potion cards drawn in pixel.

spritesheet explorer
#pico8 #pico1k

OK. Today is the day I switch from Linux being my daily driver (which it has for a few years now), to #freebsd. Wish me luck. :-)

You know, having your own solar is pretty damn good on _any_ day — but when electricity prices are 5-6 times the average (surging to over half an euro per kilowatt-hour) it sure feels fkn great to have your own solar panels/batteries to cover all your electricity/heating and even car charging needs without having to touch the grid at all. 👀

#offgridFlaki #largelyoffgridFlaki

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Two graphs showing current grid power pricing including all fees and daily photovoltaic generation between Saturday and Today. The grid price moves between 8-20 cents/kWh most of the time on the weekend, with occasional spikes to around 30 cents, then Sunday evening pushes the price to peak at over 60 cents. Since Monday the price barely dips under 30 cents with peaks to 50-70 cents per kilowatt-hour. Meanwhile the graph below shows daily generation at 12kWh for Saturday as a bout of bad weather arrives, Sunday brings in under 6kWh but Monday peaks at 17kWh and today's production is already at 3kWh by 10:30AM.

Feeling sad about AI

https://video.infosec.exchange/w/rYgQFwrqs9mpWydyoUCakY

I talk about why I've been feeling sad and encourage myself and you to feel some hope.

Transcript: https://artificialworlds.net/blog/2026/09/11/feeling-sad-about-ai/

#ai #video #programming

#japanese_jesus gospel

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they spent a lot of money to make you forget that you can just turn it off and walk away.

This is calming.
https://hundredrabbits.itch.io/legs

tHe MeTRiC SySTEm iS BetTeR BEcUz iTS MoaR PreCiSE

#meme #html #webdev #linux #css #funny

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imperial html cornsilk hotpink gold cornflowerblue metric html ffffd7 ffd700 ff5faf 5f87ff

Fixed a bug in the notification page that made snac hang forever while trying to read abnormally big files.

Improved support for text-only web browsers: it's now possible to configure a set of web browser user-agent strings that will receive simpler HTML in the private timeline web UI. Basically, it consists in avoiding details / summary HTML tags as much as possible.

Added some fixes to media proxy code.

Fixed EmojiReact code to allow any emoticon defined in emojis.json, not only those with colon-wrapped identifiers.

Fixed a bug in notification filtering (paging was sometimes incorrect).

Added a notification filter for Webmentions.

Mastodon API: Don't return reactions count as string (contributed by mkljczk), implemented GET /v1/media (contributed by clairemont).

Fixed bug in documentation examples (contributed by Sprite_tm).

Updated Ukrainian and Russian translations (contributed by wincentbalin and koru).

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

Remember when 📱 were invented and didn't have much RAM so they ran one program at a time, and the programs were designed so when you switched away they'd remember what they were doing and resume it when you came back? And then the 📱 got a LOT of RAM so now multiple programs can run until RAM ran out and one got ejected? And then the programs started taking up so much RAM only one can run at a time? And then it turned out the programs no longer remember what they were doing when they get ejected?

OK, our little computer/server/NAS is online at Crowd Supply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt-research/mnt-station

The main idea was to have a high-end enclosure for the classic MNT Reform mainboard to give it a second life, but you can as well build an open hardware computer from the parts.

We're also publishing 3D printable versions of the cases, and there will be more photos and use case details in upcoming campaign posts.

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a stack of 3 aluminum cases in silver, petrol, and black colorways. the lowest one has a MNT Reform laptop mainboard in it

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the black MNT Reform station with 2 cute external wi-fi antennas and one of the 10 front panel LEDs glowing red

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close-up of the front panel with one red LED glowing

The Chat // Have a nice chat unencumbered by the meaning of real words. Made for #picojam26 https://itch.io/jam/picojam26/entries (thanks for organising, @illuminesce !)

Play online: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=194820#p

Or from #picotron terminal: > bbs://thechat.p64

When your compiler knows what to compile without giving it arguments, and when the operating system knows what artifact to run without having to tell it.

Don’t move buttons from under the mouse.

Thanks @The2lb3oz4dr10grOfHedgehogs for the video

#Popup #Calendar #Stability

Reading @j-g00da's comics via @jn's zine viewer on Uxn. Fits the medium like a glove.
https://codeberg.org/neuschaefer/dreams/releases
https://kamiokan.de/

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A page from the comics #14

Very cool!

An NES homebrew ROM showing live ADSB aircraft traffic, fed over serial through controller port 2 on real NES hardware. A companion app does the networking the NES can't, then streams it to the NES.

https://github.com/k6lcm/nes-radar

#Nintendo #NES #RetroComputing #RetroGaming

I am seriously considering switching back from Neovim to nvi. I constantly vacillate between the richness and bloat of Neovim and the scarcity and minimalism of nvi. Sure, Neovim does have some nice features. But is it worth this huge increase in complexity? The size of Neovim's codebase is probably like 20 times that of nvi's, while its benefits seem rather marginal to me (based on my way of using it - your mileage may vary).

We always add, add, add instead of subtract, subtract, subtract...

#Neovim #vi #minimalism

█▓▒░ 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗢⬩𝟭𝗞 𝗝𝗔𝗠 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 ░▒▓█
🌐 https://itch.io/jam/pico-1k-2026
WHAT?
👨‍💻 Make #Pico8 (or #Picotron) Games/Demos/Tools in ≤ 1KB
WHEN?
📅 SEP 1ˢᵗ-30ᵗʰ 2026
Hope to see you at #Pico1k jam! 🤓

#GameJam #Demoscene #TweetCart #Sizecoding

Our new Amsterdam servers are live. The EU can now be the primary home for Fastmail data, and like our US locations, it's our own hardware, racked and run by our own people. Nothing rented from a big cloud provider.

Already a customer? Switch regions in your settings. Thinking about it? You choose your region at signup.

Our CEO Bron's post walks through exactly what lives where, because we figure you'd read the fine print anyway.

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region

#Fastmail #Email

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The EU can now be the primary home for Fastmail data.

basically, my meter shows the net value across all phases, while the electric company counts import and export separately and charges for both. so instead of having almost zero import, the actual import was much higher...

trying to configure my inverter to balance the phases better

exported over one mwh at peak hours. can't wait for the next electricity bill... :)

#solarpunk

More surreal rendering tests for #picotron 0.3.1, this time with tline3d textures x colour tables. Notes and gif:
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=193908#p

like = you run it on server
boost = you run it on desktop/laptop :)

❤️

blast from the past

#technomage #openbsd #windows #comic

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girl is stuck in a windows logo fish :remind me what i told you about windows." girl: "they are containers for graphical interfaces?" fish: "dont get clever with me, girl"

spleen is the default typeface on #openbsd ...

cc: @RussSharek@mastodon.art

"coding is solved" they said
"use AI" they said

me working on OpenBSD writing C: dead software walking
https://rsadowski.de/posts/2026/dead-software-walking-relayd-and-httpd/

Checking that quad boundaries join up with no holes or overlaps. This one kind of reminds me of a colour plate from an 80s siggraph paper. #picotron

Apple keeps releasing new and more expensive hardware that folks want us to support but we can't even afford to buy the new stuff ourselves to test it on.

I mean.. my iPad is an M1. My iPhone is still a 14. And my Mac is an M1 Max. So... I'm a few years behind over here across the board.

Now there's talk of a foldable iPhone? I'll probably need a second mortgage for it which wouldn't be a good idea because I don't know if selling apps will even survive another year.

The math isn't mathing.

I know I shouldn't be surprised that it just works as is, but still cool, I can build compile uxn binaries directly inside dos.

wcl -bt=dos -ml -fe=bin/uxnmol.exe src/uxnmol.c

http://wiki.xxiivv.com/etc/uxnmol.c.txt
#uxn

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Compiling a uxn binary with drifblim.

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Running mandelbrot

📢 EuroBSDCon2026: The Schedule is Here! 😈⛳️🐡

The schedule is now published!!
You can find it at: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/

Grab your tickets 🎟️ at https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/

For everything else, peek at https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/
More information is added all the time.

EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
September 09-13, 2026

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD #Conference #Register

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Cutout of the EuroBSDCon 2026 banner. Comic like drawing. First panel has a butler serving a nice Belgium beer. There are two speech bubbles. 1. ...we find this? 2. Etterbeek, Sir. The second panel has Manneken Pis doing his thing.

cons

• the window is a bit farther away
• a little more noise from the inverters

• more space
• all my tools are here
• this is where i spend most of my day anyway
• the old office is now a guest room :)

d_d

Everything I Know About Making Art On The Computer I Learned From @prahou.
https://triapul.cz/automa/i_did_not_kill_stanley_lieber
https://rabbits.srht.site/decadv/
#occ2026

Five years ago(as of June 8th), I decided to give up on Acme and make my own text-editor. The plan was to make something I'd use for the rest of my life, improve it as I went along. It was to be written in this new language, and my list of ideas for it included a ton of extremely bizarre UX choices I hadn't really tested for my own. But if we ignore the more quirky esoteric things about it, there was two pretty simple choices made for it:

Undo depth: zero.
Largest file: 64kb minus the editor's own size.

Undo is probably the easiest one to understand. As you'd expect, some other mechanism emerged to take its place, I wouldn't just let it eat up my work each time I made a mistake. What ended up replacing it was being able to append and cut off chunks of snarf buffers, when I have something I might want to keep, I push it the top of the snarf file. When I'm satisfied with the change, I pop it off, or add something else on top. This has served me well enough, I figured that if I ever needed undo I might add it, but the occasion never came!

As of today, Left sits at 17677 bytes, which means I can edit a file, at most, a 45kb long file. This turned out to be less of an issue than I expected, mostly it made it so I split projects into chunks, but more importantly, it means that every single byte of the editor has to be accounted for. If I add something, I know its cost and the cost is directly making for a worse editor. This has been a constant force of optimization and code hygiene over the years.

https://rabbits.srht.site/decadv/
#occ2026

Seeing the Linux TTY on this is so funny to me

#nownownow

A new MNT Pocket Reform mini laptop variant with Quasar 6490 (Qualcomm QCS6490) processor module (8GB RAM / 128GB UFS) preinstalled is now available in our shop: https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-pocket-reform

Enjoy!

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screenshot of the MNT Pocket Reform shop page with the QCS6490/8GB RAM/128GB UFS option selected in a dropdown

just took some pictures of the new MNT Pocket Keyboard (small standalone USB-C keyboard with integrated optical trackball and RGB backlight) that's coming to our shop at some point next week. the case is a mix of aluminum (top plate) and Multi Jet Fusion printed Nylon (HP PA 12 S). in my opinion it feels really nice in the hands. open source hardware, of course.

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overview of a black/gray MNT Pocket Keyboard with a fancy aluminum/silicone usb cable plugged in

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overview of a black/gray MNT Pocket Keyboard, with a human hand touching it from the right side to get a sense of scale

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top view of a black/gray MNT Pocket Keyboard, showing the USB-C cable port. and cyan backlights. the keyboard can balance on its sides

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back side of the keyboard, showing the texture of the gray HP nylon material. this photo is edited slightly because the logo was off-center in the print.

• #protectli vp2430 with #openbsd
• #projectaudio dac box s2+
• #tonefactory amp s
• #tonefactory speaker l
• #logitec pebble 2 combo
• #samsung frame tv
  

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  line diagram of my media player setup: tv, openbsd server, dac, stereo amplifier, speakers, keyboard, mouse

need to find something or write a little wrapper for ffplay