pretty much all other code i ever wrote is long gone
Most hilarious #OpenBSD bug I've seen in a while: The kernel can panic when pressing the CapsLock key: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=178186466408482&w=2
Fortunately, true hackers have mapped CapsLock to Control
@stsp Did anyone try to use the termux or better termius client to log in to the server console or just via ssh on OpenBSD Amsterdam?
edit: caps lock android termius with just ssh, does not lock. Will try different things, when back on the computer.
@stsp I like mapping caps lock to compose key so I can french on qwerty keyboard :)
@gkrnours I have Compose on an Alt key and it is indeed useful. I am not very happy with this placement as it is awkward to type with. Fortunately, I only need Compose for Umlauts with some German characters and I don't have to write a lot of formally correct German these days.
My written French, which I sometimes have to use in Belgium, is so bad that trying to place accents correctly would just make it even worse so I just don't bother
@miodvallat @gkrnours I don't uße this letter all that much. Can just fall back on double-s if the recipient isn't too pedantic.
@miodvallat @gkrnours Leading the way towards the next Rechtschreibreform to simplify things further.
@stsp
The choice of character would insinuate communicating with a German speaker, correct?
@miodvallat @gkrnours
it detects the intel hd audio and attaches azalia(4), but only the internal realtek alc257 codec is found.
there is no hdmi audio codec, no audio1, and mixerctl -a only shows the internal speaker/headphone outputs. the external display works over hdmi, but there is no way to select hdmi audio because no hdmi audio device is detected.
is hdmi audio expected to work with openbsd 7.9? if it should work, are there any additional diagnostics steps i should try?
@hi when I looked at it, if I remember and understood well, some docs said that this implies some defaults modification that impacts too many people, so it was never intergrated in the source.
But I think there was a patch somewhere in the wild. But not sure it still would work these days.
@hi it doesn’t work out of the box. If you look at the driver code you’ll see it skips HDMI. There’s been various discussions about that, the issue is it might select HDMI by default and there’s not a good mechanism for that currently. The naive approach of removing the code that skips it might work on some devices, although there are various HDMI specific quirks that aren’t implemented currently…
https://man.openbsd.org/azalia.4
At the botton us says hdmi codecs are not supported, but i don't
know what that means.
I use a small usb sound device on my system connected to a TV
using hdmi.
(I think that's how I came to know that hdmi doesn't work.)
@hi I got excited by your post thinking that I had missed HDMI audio support being introduced in 7.9.
Maybe one day! 
ESS9038K2M 32-bit
up to dsd256, pcm up to 32b/768kHz
I have one solar panel inverter that's currently reading 162F. 🫠
@hi hopefully they'll be okay. I have micro-inverters, so actually there's several of them up on the roof (but under the panels). One inverter handles 2 or 3 panels. Something like that. Rather than one big inverter in or on the side of the house.
Back from 15 amazing days with the family in Japan. Brought my new Fuji GFX RF for the journey, with no laptop to edit along the way.
Working with the images now and I am so pleased with the camera and @aphera; culling was quick, editing is a breeze, and most of all I'm _happy with the images_. A real-world test makes me feel really good about the app.
So here's a few from Kyoto
kudos to deltahedra ❤️
i just want to replace it with a few scripts and plain text logs. feels like all i need is to fetch price and weather forecasts and pull/push some modbus registers...
what do you use for your smart homes?
@hi yeah the more my solar setup evolves the more I want to hand-roll the monitoring/dashboard part
People have a lot of good to say about https://solar-assistant.io - it's a one-time-payment but I'm planning to look into it at some point.
@hi iirc @hywan hand-rolled some (most?) of their stuff for https://lamaisonvivante.blog/
@hi I'm *particularly* annoyed at how bad HA is at integrating weather (forecasting etc.) and other metadata. It feels like you could get a lot more out of your systems/batteries if you had better foresight into weather patterns.
Until I connected my car charger I didn't have any sufficient loads to keep my batteries from sitting at 100% at 8AM, but now that I do, intelligently dumping solar into the car's battery but making sure there is enough left in case of bad weather looming around the corner would be awesome.
And I will probably have to handroll it all 
similar to this setup, but with a trackpad not a mouse...
any ideas?
@hi FWIW once upon a time, there was a real computer, running a BSD system, plugged onto my TV to display DVD rips. I used a noname USB gamepad to navigate through the X11 GUI interface. Sorry, neither the pad brand, nor the home cinema software come back from far memories. Still this was a nice way, at that time, to drive the whole stuff.
@hi my Logitech K410 works on OpenBSD. It has a touchpad. But it’s not mechanical.
Also, this https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/using-the-logitech-wireless-rechargeable-touchpad-t650-on-openbsd/ standalone touchpad works with OpenBSD.
@hi there is also an "options to replace your old couch keyboard". No mention of OpenBSD support but there may be ideas for testings and send back if it fails ;-)
after all i'm thinking about pebble 2 combo. all keyboards with trackpads tend to look a bit too cluttered for my taste. will try to survive without pointing device, but will get a mouse for emergencies :)
@hi not enough "Ins" key for me 🤭 I should really get used to Shift-Ctrl-X/C/V 😅
@hi Prusa. They’re pricy but the quality is very good. They aren’t as committed to OSS as they once were but if you want a EU produced machine they’re your #1 choice. And the Core seems to be a very solid machine.
@petrillic @hi I second that! I had a Creality for the start, good for learning but I spend hell of an amount in maintaining it. My CoreOne is just printing for a year now.
now i'm looking for m.2 modules (lte/5g and wifi ap) compatible with #openbsd. any recommendations?
@hi I'm using a Quectel EP06-E in a USB/Mini PCIe enclosure it works well for the most part via umb(4). I have a few issues with it not reconnecting to the mobile network, still need to get to the bottom of them.
Not exactly what you're looking for, but perhaps that'll give some pointers.
It rained tropically all day yesterday, so we didn't wander the woods, I stayed in and worked on my little OpenFirmware-inspired operating system.
It's capable enough that I've added it to uxn11 and uxn2, accessible with F4. A perfect little tool bounce in and out of roms, set a screen size for roms that don't, rename/delete files, peek at metadata, etc..
@neauoire this is amazing, the evolution from loader.rom, porporo, potato, sunflower basic and now M/PC. μxn, UF as well and TalOS personally.
Is there any other monitor/launcher/OS I missed?
Oh and there was also a BIOS at some point.
So as I understand you could boot into M/PC and then load potato, just like a real thing.
I hope someday I can make TalOS run in a terminal inside potato.
@snufkin_vc yeah pretty much, next thing I want to add it is support for loading oversized roms like oquonie :)
@neauoire where are you guys anchored now?
@avi we're in Von Donop, we should see Mike soon, I think he's coming up in a week or two.
@neauoire this is very neat. I love how simple and useful your UI looks. I’ve ended up down the path of building my own Wayland window manager for Debian so I get things to look and behave how I like.
@hi If you have a disk that you're happy to have mounted read-only, then https://stable.rcesoftware.com/resflash/ could be useful!
@hi It's great! I also like that the project's been going for many years, yet got updated for 7.9 straight away 
next up: build own micro-grid and automate export to the grid based on price and weather forecasts
@hi you got your battery, nice! what did you end up getting?
currently getting my wiring and inverters up-to-snuff to be able to plug the car in but we have been, likewise, completely self sufficient with the batteries never dipping below 50%...
@hi not a ton, especially if you get your panels covered in snow before the weeklong freezes start :(
i was thinking about a rowing machine for long time, but was not sure if there is enough space for it in my tiny home gym. this end up very well: rowerg is quite compact and light.
it's not as fun as running outdoors, but there are many pros for me:
@hi cons: it doesn’t charge the external batteries that will recharge the phones during night ;-D (yet?)
> i still plan to run from time to time, but just for fun
I see the words you type, but they make no sense… 😆
so far we've presold 12x MNT Quasar 6490 modules, that's 50% of what we need to kick off the first batch. feel free to send me some promo ideas. should i make a video showing the general performance? who would be your favorite reviewer for the Quasar Pocket Reform?
@mntmn Out of curiosity: How many 7zip-MIPS for 1 core, and how many all cores? (p7zip v.16)
@goetz interestingly on 8550 i currently get a 27508 total score, decompressing scores are very similar but compressing is faster, 29608 in the first run and then throttles to ~24600
@mntmn Could you perhaps run it with »7za b -mmt1«, again, for 1 thread? Some CPUs then clock the single core used higher.
@goetz here you go! it didn't want to boost to 3.1ghz on the X-3 automatically (reason yet unknown) but with userspace governor i was able to manually set it to 3.1ghz. doesn't make a huge difference though, probably thermals related (passive cooled):
@mntmn thanks a lot! will add it to my 7zip bench list of systems, too
Still need to have the luck to touch a MNT book somewhere, for haptic trial …
@mntmn Ah, just noticed, you’re using 7zip 26.x something. AFAIK these newer versions has different benchmark results than the pre-18 ones, so can’t add it to my list, unfortunately. Still good to have some numbers to compare with my M1
@mntmn@mastodon.social The alt mode is nice but I read it requires a new mainboard, not something most people interested in upgrading would have, hmm
@bunny right, that's a bit tricky
@mntmn
I could imagine that some demo of sorts on how to run the old main board in a standalone configuration (in the upcoming MNT case maybe?) would be interesting and tempt people. I know I am in that group considering what I would do with the HW potentially obsoleted by the upgrade before taking the plunge.
@bunny
@mntmn Does orders placed for Pocket Reform with Quasar 6490 count towards the initial goal for 25 units?
@siviq yes!
@mntmn Very good. :) Also you may want to promote the MNT Quasar and Pocket at ExplainingComputers YT channel. https://www.youtube.com/@ExplainingComputers
@mntmn It'd be really cool if The Verge reviewed it, but they might also weight the price/performance ratio pretty strongly against the big-name manufacturers. I remember they did spotlight the Pocket in a short a while back though
@mntmn Why does the Quasar module only have 8GB RAM?
@thaodan because that's the max that thundercomm/atlantik are offering at our low quantities, because it's the default. customizing it for more ram they do only from MOQ 1000 or so
@mntmn That's unfortunate but matches what I heard before of that vendor.
I was looking for a device for some remote development that can also suspend.
@thaodan there are some alternatives but i haven't heard better things about them... maybe it would be cool to do a custom layout at some point, i was recently surprised to see that qcom is selling the chips on digikey etc
@mntmn Hm that sounds like some time off. The rockchip could be fine, I wish it would be possible to order a 32GB ram module and get it soldered on..
Is the interface of those interfaces the same that they can be plugged into the existing mechanism?
@thaodan do you mean if our processor modules adhere to a standard like smarc? unfortunately not. it's not too hard to make a carrier board though, as i know made 3 different designs public...
i'm very happy to present the first release of the Barebox bootloader tailored for MNT Pocket Reform with RK3588 processor, bringing you an advanced bootloader with graphics and comfy shell: https://source.mnt.re/reform/mnt-reform-barebox/-/releases/2026-06-18
this is the culmination of an 8-months part time effort, mostly by @ailurux who ported all the missing display drivers and did a lot of bugfixing and polishing, with some little spikes by myself here and there. also thanks to @a3f for the friendly support navigating @barebox code.
@ailurux @a3f @barebox we also have a fixup script for booting the current OpenBSD aarch64 image including instructions to get started: https://source.mnt.re/reform/mnt-reform-barebox/-/blob/main/README-mnt.md#booting-openbsd
@hi my friend wants to know also.
can't remember if i shared this fun computer thing i made
it's a lil toy for interactively exploring 1-bit dither — including my beloved Atkinson dither from the MacPaint era — by playing with it like it's a board game
try it here, but note there's zero instruction and the UI is full of secrets: https://www.inkandswitch.com/tangents/dither-explorer/
or, more fun, watch me explain how it works by saying words and moving my hands a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vZcmWhTeOM&list=PLCC8lmauZTzeEP7mIsOOI4HKeeyBN2rIy&index=5&t=114s
trip out, have fun <3
@spiralganglion love this.
wondering what else is in tangents 🤔
good dithering pattern always consists of multiple names :)
@hi do you have a favourite name?
The Dillo browser has an excellent directory of bookmarks! If you have ideas that might be a good fit, suggest them at the bottom of the page.
https://dir.dillo-browser.org/
$719 color
$619 mono
@hi why do you like this, it doesn’t seem to do 80x25 console 😆
The other day, during $WORK lunch, they asked me if I watched the football match.
So they receive my whole bucket of vomit - about FIFA, Football spectacle shit, insane income for playing and lame appropriation of others work in the context of soft international wars - in the face.
I must have talked a bit emmotionnal because they thought I was angry. I was not, I just can’t stand mediocracy - and I believe this Football slop is a good example of it.
OK, here's some stupid fun:
I like to put an emoji before links to my podcast. Which do you think is better to represent YouTube?
| 📺: | 86 |
| 🎬: | 16 |
| Other: | 24 |
Closed
@grammargirl Whoops, voted Other after reading the "podcast" bit, figuring a 🎙️ or 🎤 would be a better choice; but for a YouTube portion with video, the 1st 📺 wins for me.
I was missing a good image viewer to flip through folders with hundreds of chr and icn pixelart files, so I wrote one!
https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/uxn-utils/tree/main/item/gui/image/src/image.tal
Randomly thought, with lingering disappointment and sadness, about Artemy Lebedev, a former hero of mine 🥲
Someone just demonstrated that the entire Uxn toolchain can be reconstructed from nothing but a POSIX shell, xxd and sed. It's down to taking 34 minutes to build the Uxntal assembler.
bootstrap: https://joe.cz/uxn/uxn1b-drifloon.txt
repo: https://gitlab.com/racketeer/uxnsh
#uxn
@neauoire that's the kind of tech development I like to see.
yet what we get on the news is a slopfestival
@capeta I don't think most people would be interested in this kind of stuff X) gotta get off the newsfeeds!
@neauoire Hmm, browsed the code a bit, it uses `local`, which is not POSIX, so this seems to be bash/zsh specific. Still, really cool, and shouldn't take much effort to port it to plain POSIX sh.
OpenBSD 7.9 will be deployed on the hosts as soon as possible!
We want to wait for the first errata to appear.
21 new VMs were added and 61 VMs were renewed.
We donated €1125 to the #OpenBSD Foundation, €66755 since we started.
Thank you, our users, and OpenBSD developers for an awesome OS!
Stay safe, healthy & sane!
#RUNBSD in 2026
Illustrated tear-downs and break-downs of everyday products, like mechanical pencils, lighters and pez dispensers, that you may have taken for granted. Drawn by Bryan Macomber, a mechanical engineer and artist.
A really neat idea.
it works! it's just a bit smol on this high res screen
# pkg_add qutebrowser#openbsd
got X running, but xrandr -o won't budge, need to figure out how to make a xorg.conf (this feels extremely retro) or how to install some wayland compositor
I made a zine, it's called Fractions Are Everything, it invites the reader into looking at fractions a little differently.
The typesetting is done entirely in #Uxn.
@neauoire similarly to Alan Weinstein's symplectic creed, “Everything is a Lagrangian submanifold.” Reality is a bunch of fractions and Lagrangians 
BTW if you're looking for an open hardware, repairable laptop made by a small team in berlin with no venture capital, maybe MNT Reform Next could be interesting for you: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next
@mntmn When it becomes available in the MNT shop after crowdfunding ends, will it be shipped from Europe or from the US when bought in the MNT store?
@isak mnt shop orders ship from berlin!
ha, was just about to ask the same question!
meaning: crowdfunding is send from the US, shop is send from Berlin? [edit: sorry, this question has been answered quite a few times throughout this thread and the answer is „yes“ :) ]
Just found out about mnt / reform literal minutes ago and I’m already in love with the project!