If you're using #OpenBSD 8.0 #httpd and have manually configured “ciphers” delete them. #httpd is now secure and PQC by default

I have a tiny home datacenter that’s free to run because of solar power (net metering). When I move to a new house, I want to increase the amount of solar and the amount of computering I’m able to do for free. The part that’s most in need of an update is power. I have whole-house batteries that take over during a power outage, but my server doesn’t survive the switch. It’s like 100ms. I have an expensive UPS to handle this, but I think I need a capacitor-driven PDU. That seems to not exist.

Financial summary of our #Git hosting service based on #OpenBSD and #GameOfTrees in Q3/2026:

Our financial situation is profitable. Our expenses with 3 production servers (web, mail, repositories) are now fully covered by our subscriber base. Our one and only repository server is almost booked out.

There is not enough money left over to pay anyone for their time working on the project so we remain in full volunteer mode. We will keep a buffer to prepare for renting additional servers once this becomes necessary.

Expenses:

Total hosting costs in Q3 2026: 781€

Payment processor fees: 52.66€

EU VAT: 147.11€

Amount total: 980.77€

Funds received from subscribers in Q3 2026:

EU amount total: 701.00€

non-EU amount: 454.00€

Amount total: 1155.00€

Funds received on #OpenCollective in Q3 2026:

EU amount total: 538.65€

non-EU amount: 171.50€

Amount total: 710.15€

Procession of Fools \\ HAPPY BIRTHDAY, #OPENBSD!

#unix_surrealism #technomage #comic #analognowhere #phone_bad_book_good #mobilek #ai

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Girl to Fish: Master I did all the work! Fish: All the work? Girl: YES! CAN I GO OUTSIDE AND WATCH THE PARADE NOW PLS? Fish: What parade? Girl: The AI one? Fish: Sure, whatever. it's a parade. jugglers, rope walkers, magicians, banner carries with conflicting messages, what have you Penguin: I can't believe he lets you watch this. Girl: it's educational

# sysupgrade
# syspatch
# sysmerge
# pkg_add -ua
# reboot
#

my favorite features of 2.96:

• accounts can be marked as cool
• rss timelines are now cached

https://www.openbsd.org/80.html

Because Ventoy often sucks when it comes to non-Linux ISO files, I decided to go the good ol’ way with colored USB sticks.

It took a bit of time, but I found the proper color range

and more.

I've been thinking more about #openbsd the last couple of days, I've not used it since 3.9 and back then it was the core of a security product. It was perfect for that. Does anyone use it these days?

install77.img 801mb
install78.img 801mb
install79.img 801mb
install80.img 851mb *

i see we stuck with deprecated v6

• #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

Been trying to organise my thoughts on genAI for a blog post for a couple of days now and just end up getting angry at myself each time 🫠

how many times in your life have you dd'd the wrong hard drive?

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

roi on solar panels is not that impressive if you have grid connection, but it still saves us a lot especially in cold sunny springs and autumns

for being able to go fully off-grid from march till november solar is my favorite

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 :)

❤️