https://github.com/ksh93/ksh

#RunBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

Our Mastodon instance is powered by #OpenBSD. The media storage, however, is powered by #HardenedBSD.

Our Mastodon media is about 1,3TB - including 30 days of remote cache. Adding the storage of our PeerTube instance triples that amount.

Using any other filesystem than ZFS makes no sense whatsoever with storage arrays like this. And for ZFS, HardenedBSD is the most logical choice. The benefits of FreeBSD with added exploit mitigations and other security measures.

Plus, a project that actively advocates and works for human rights!

@nina_kali_nina

Soon I want to do probe of me PCs on NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Consider doing a probe of your computer. It helps other users know if your laptop works fine with BSD or not. Or what works and what does not.

https://bsd-hardware.info

#BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #FOSS #opensource

We are counting down to the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

Big thank you to our gold sponsor: Apple
https://www.apple.com

If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/

📅 You can check out the program at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/

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

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

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Hey #FreeBSD #NetBSD folks,

which mailing lists should one subscribe for technical development, discussions and diffs (such as tech@, ports@ for #OpenBSD)?

@skyglobe @nuintari

And if you need Bluetooth solely for audio, the Creative BT-W2 and BT-W3 do enable BT audio on #OpenBSD.

Those dongles handle the BT in hardware/firmware and expose an audio interface to the host

@nuintari #OpenBSD is fine if you don't need Bluetooth.

My timeline reminds me that 2020-2021 was like :

• From 1password to Bitwarden
• From Rubywarden to KeePassXC

Just saying in case…

PS: it may contain obsolete commands but the principles should be the same these days.

#PasswordManager #OpenBSD #RunBSD

Toying with a Ryzen 7 5825U machine.

Interestingly, #OpenBSD 7.9 achieves 10 W when IDLE with just powerd enabled, but #FreeBSD 15.1 doesn't go below 13 W with a couple of extra configurations. Trying FreeBSD 16, the better I get is 12W and that's forcing dev.hwpstate_amd.0.desired_performance to the lowest possible value ; which sux in real life. NetBSD goes for 14 W using estd but that doesn't surprise me that much.

From what I see, there're things happening around sys/x86/cpufreq/hwpstate_amd.c

EDIT: after doing the FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p3 install again from scratch and tweaking a few other things, I can achieve 8W at IDLE. Now, that's nice!

EDIT2: while 2x 3.5" SATA disks pluggued in and set to standy, power consumption is kept at 10W. YeePee!

We will see you at #EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels!!

29 new VMs were added and 71 VMs were renewed.

We donated €1355 to the #OpenBSD Foundation, €70420 since we started.

Thank you, our users, and OpenBSD developers for an awesome OS!

Stay safe, healthy & sane!

#RUNBSD in 2026

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Comic like drawing of well known Belgian icons. The first panel has part of the Atomium with the FreeBSD logo floating in front of it. The second panel depicts city hall at the grand place, it has the NetBSD orange flag at the top. The third panel has Snowy the dog of Tintin In the second row there is a row of panels as well The first panel has a butler serving a nice special Belgium beer, in the speech bubble it has the text "Etterbeek, Sir" The second panel it has an image of "Manneken Pis", with an annoyed wet person. The speech bubble has "Not Here! VUB!" The third and last panel is an image of a person walking down stair. The speech bubble says "2026" On top of the comic panels there is an image of Beasty in the likeness of Tintin, running while putting on a long trench coat. Puffy the OpenBSD logo is floating next to him.

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Paypal payment receipt for €1355

We are counting down to the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

Big thank you to our silver sponsor: FreeBSD Foundation
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/

If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/

📅 You can check out the program at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/

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

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

Installing #OpenBSD in 1996.

#UNIX #RetroComputing

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A retro-styled illustration of a suited figure holding a 5.25-inch floppy disk, illuminated by a pink beam of light with dashed grid lines projecting outward.

Oh… would that solve my issue with non-localized #Librewolf on #OpenBSD 🤔
https://chaos.social/@librewolf/117167438740232430

You haven't lived until you've slapped NetBSD on a Nintendo Wii and used it as a reverse proxy to your {Open,Hardened}BSD machines.

Either way, BSD all the way. The penguin shall be lynched tomorrow.

#RunBSD #OpenBSD #HardenedBSD #NetBSD #Wii

Anyone have any idea why pdftopdf fails in #cups on #OpenBSD? I cannot print anything because the filter chain dies with "pdftopdf" exiting with status 1. Weirdly I do not seem to have pdftopdf installed. On latest snapshot and latest version of cups. Hints?

(I did try removing / cleaning all cups related files; building cups myself... Problem still persists)

@gumnos

Hmmm, "PASS AIR BAG" must be the 2026 version of "Pass the Dutchie/Kouchie" 😄

Hey, you mentioned some compose key wizardry yesterday. How do I export #NetBSD's compose key setup into #OpenBSD? Because +"-"+"-"+"-" does not work properly in OpenBSD for me. :/

Also, unrelated, but for some weird reason, I have to do this in NetBSD, otherwise things like quotation marks come out looking like gibberish (both in uxterm and lxterminal, with any font I've tried):

case $uname in
	(...)
	NetBSD)
				#Somehow, having these variables exported breaks things,
				# so unset them and redefine them without being exported
				unset LANG LC_ALL
				LANG=en_US.UTF-8
				LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
				(...)

I export all those variables by default, but somethow that messes up things on NetBSD (and only NetBSD).

Another day where #Perl and #OpenBSD saved the day

We are counting down to the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

Big thank you to our partner sponsors:
- Skylime - https://www.skylime.net/
- Netzkommune - https://www.netzkommune.de/
- OpenBSD Amsterdam - https://openbsd.amsterdam/
- LAYLO - https://laylo.io/
- The Lightbird - https://thelightbird.com/

If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/

📅 You can check out the program at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/

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

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

It looks like I have resumed writing down my #OpenBSD stories. They will be published in september!

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Screen capture of a browser open to a web page in the ``OpenBSD stories'' section of my website, with the title ``Mr. Vain's Motorola Experiments''.

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Screen capture of a browser open to a web page in the ``OpenBSD stories'' section of my website, with the title ``Strange Medieval Devices''.

Bwahahaha, managed to map "Ctrl-9-Front" to launching drawterm on my Sun Type 7 keyboard. :D

#9front #OpenBSD #unix

ed: turns out it was Ctrl-9; but managed to change it to Ctrl-Front; which is good 'nuff.

I really like Simon Harrison's series of blog posts about using #GameOfTrees for simple version control tasks: https://simonh.uk/tags/got/index.html

My own use cases are more complicated than Simon's but it is making me happy to see confirmation of how the UI designed for working on #OpenBSD and related projects is working very well for people with fairly simple needs. That was one of my goals from the very beginning and is a significant differentiator from #Git.

Pretty cool update for #httpd on #Openbsd!

You can now set the Security Headers directly inside httpd.conf. No need to work with relayd!

I've updated my guide here: https://httpd.rocks/

Note: You will need to be on -current in order to use these new settings. Still awesome though!

Wrote a very small post about this recent #httpd change for #OpenBSD here:

"So Long Relayd, and Thanks for All the Fish"

https://btxx.org/posts/so-long-relayd/

Hey on #OpenBSD we also had a #PatchTuesday.

4 patches for NPPPD and IKE altogether.

Sorry we are lagging behind the 570 patches #Windows needed this month, we keep trying to write bad code but it just won't come to the devs. Our numbers are pitiful and we must try harder. Maybe if we used AI?

This is my #GoToSocial (on #OpenBSD, on #bhyve, on #FreeBSD) instance, as seen from the garage. Doesn’t it look cute!?

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An htop screenshot displaying two processes that match a filter.

OpenBSD Rulez!

#OpenBSD #Photography #Photo #Puffy

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A seaside wall painted with crowned pufferfish, looking like OpenBSD’s Puffy has finally claimed the throne and secured the entire coastline.

i'm wondering of anybody here could help me out with a #openbsd networking issue?

on my server i am having this weird issue of TCP handshakes randomly failing, but after the handshake completes the connection is completely fine. i dont think its a pf issue as it happens with it both enabled and disabled

it started around 48-hours again and i didnt touch any configuration files during that time

it happens with my IRC bouncer,HTTP(S),and FTP server, with/without TLS

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around 50% of the connections get a NS_ERROR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

thyme

#openbsd #freebsd #runbsd #foss #comic

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fish and daemon examine old photos

some days I wish upgrading #FreeBSD was as mindless as upgrading my #OpenBSD machines.

On OpenBSD, it's generally `sysupgrade`, let it do its thing, rebooting itself a couple times (entering my FDE passwords as necessary), and then a `pkg_add -u` to upgrade my packages. Sometimes a `sysmerge` if it can't do it automatically. But very much two (or three) idiot-proof commands with very little demand on this idiot's brain to recall where I am in the process.

While I like the automatic ZFS boot-environment snapshotting, FreeBSD requires me to know the next version-number I want to upgrade to (can't determine it or prompt me for viable options?), transcribe it as part of the upgrade command, then manually running `freebsd-update install` multiple times, rebooting manually multiple times between each, then `pkg update` and a `pkg upgrade` to update userspace. I'm sitting at a login…is this the first, second, or third reboot? I don't know, it was taking a while and I ended up wandering off to do something else.

This post brought to you by this morning's 14.3→14.4 FreeBSD upgrade 😆

At EuroBSDcon 2026:
The Realities of Enterprise FreeBSD https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/HRXAHF/
Talk by Allan Jude
2026-09-12 11:15:00
To register: https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/
About EuroBSDcon 2026: https://2026.eurobsdcon.org
@eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #conference #brussels #bruxelles #freesoftware #libresoftware

At EuroBSDcon 2026:
From Report to Patch, the OpenBSD Errata Process https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/ZGDXQR/
Talk by Alexander Bluhm
2026-09-13 10:30:00
To register: https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/
About EuroBSDcon 2026: https://2026.eurobsdcon.org
@eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #conference #brussels #bruxelles #freesoftware #libresoftware

@hi I tried #mangowm with #wayland and run it on #openbsd as my daily driver. Little more complicated to setup yes, but very lightweight with some eyecandy built it. It’s easy to use. All in ports already.

What does a good C development environment look like on #OpenBSD in 2026? What do people use?

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

😳 #OpenBSD 8.0-beta is already there!
🥺 and I still haven’t upgraded big-mama-vps to 7.9… 😱

Either Fish Linux is now a rolling release system, or I really need to get back to caring about my working VPSes…

With the syspatches to vmd yesterday, we lost a local fix we applied earlier to fix stability issues with vmd on #OpenBSD 7.8: see https://exquisite.social/@gothub/116413609523691565

We will be taking things down for a minute and upgrade our VM host to OpenBSD 7.9, which has the vmd fix we need. Back soon.

📢 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.

I have published my initial #OpenBSD #WPA3 implementation.

Thanks to @nlnet for supporting this effort.

Cc @vanhoefm

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=178437520390575&w=2

I finally have the #WPA3 SAE handshake working on #OpenBSD

media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (VHT-MCS1 mode 11ac)

status: active

ieee80211: join sae-testing chan 149 bssid 7e:8a:xx:xx:xx:xx 74% wpakey wpaprotos wpa2,wpa3 wpaakms psk,sha256-psk,sae wpaciphers ccmp wpagroupcipher ccmp powersave on (100ms sleep)

d_d

Got a large amount of qwx #wifi driver diffs off my chest and shoved them into the #OpenBSD CVS repository. Please let this driver be more stable now, i.e. finally leave me alone for a while and let me use my laptop to get important work done...

• #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

then i discovered that openbsd doesn't support audio over hdmi and my openbsd server doesn't have analog audio output, obviously.

my tv had been connected to a stereo amplifier anyway, so my setup is actually even better now: a dedicated usb dac connected directly to the amplifier.

current setup:

openbsd -- usb dac -- amp -- speakers
openbsd -- hdmi tv

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We really appreciate the work done on the TLS settings in relayd(8) and httpd(8).

It makes it even easier to get a tried and tested secure connection to your favorite OS and service!

"Both relayd(8) and httpd(8) now have the "secure" list of allowed crypto methods for HTTPS, which include TLSv1.3 and the TLSv1.2 AEAD cipher suites.

The previous list was "HIGH:!aNULL" which contain non-perfect-forward-security methods and this change may cause old clients to not be able to connect."

Source: https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260629165750

Hat Tip to @sizeofvoid and others!

#RUNBSD #OpenBSD

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Meme of "The Most Interesting Man in the World" is an advertising campaign for Dos Equis beer featuring actor Jonathan Goldsmith as a bearded, debonair older gentleman with voiceovers that were both humorous and outrageous. It has the text: I don't always tip, but when I do, it's my hat. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Interesting_Man_in_the_World

Can you guess when I activated ActivityPub relays on this #GoToSocial instance? BTW, although running on #OpenBSD, cpu and memory usage are still chilling.

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Evolution of post activity in the last 15 days.

For $REASONS, I took my (old) #Lenovo Ideapad S10 out of the box and installed #OpenBSD 7.9/i386 on it. Turns out... it installs and runs. But the only graphical Web browser I could use is Dillo; which can display DuckDuckGo but not Phanpy or my Bank User Portal. So I don't expect to go very far there. Also, even with hw.perfpolicy set to auto, the fan never stops blowing and making some annoying noise (although CPU is 40 degC).

Maybe I'll try some i386 Linux distro there to see what happens. Maybe it'll go back to its box until the Zombie Apocalypse and the need for 2W TDP CPU happen. Or until I need a 1024x600 10" tmux terminal... I could actually take it on the road where the P14 is too big and the iPhone is a bit too small...

And BTW, in case whatever, the dmesg is here https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/dmesgd?do=view&id=9039 :)

PS: While writing this post, the fan finally stopped blowing. Not sure why as temperature is still 40 degC. Anyway.

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The output from fastfetch on the Lenovo S10

I've got nothing.

20 new VMs were added and 46 VMs were renewed.

We donated €890 to the #OpenBSD Foundation, €67645 (!!) since we started.

Thank you, our users, and OpenBSD developers for an awesome OS!

Stay cool, safe, healthy & sane!

#RUNBSD in 2026

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Milton, Office Space, in his cubicle looking into the distance, with the text: I've got nothing" Source: Meme Generator

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Paypal receipt for €890

• hdmi (video) - tv
• usb (audio) - dac - amp - speakers

• idle: 10-15 w
• everything on (incl tv): 70-100 w

ESS9038K2M 32-bit
up to dsd256, pcm up to 32b/768kHz

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?

similar to this setup, but with a trackpad not a mouse...

any ideas?

cc @joel@tumfatig.net

now i'm looking for m.2 modules (lte/5g and wifi ap) compatible with #openbsd. any recommendations?

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 ​

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

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Phoebe Teaching Joey refers to a scene from the Friends television series in which character Phoebe Buffay attempts to teach character Joey Tribbiani French by making him repeat words after her. In March 2020, the scene gained popularity in memes online, with Phoebe attempting to explain various concepts to Joey but ultimately failing. This one has the following exchange: Phoebe: Just Joey: Just Phoebe: Update Joey: Update Phoebe: And Joey: And Phoebe: Shutdown Joey: Update And Restart

Is there a way in #OpenBSD to stop charging battery from the OS ?

I know there is "hw.battery.chargestop" but it doesn't work on my laptop.

IMGRAM MINI

https://nein.triapul.cz/imgram_mini

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

#openbsd #linux #ksh #art #theworkshop #links2gang #serpico

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Anyone out there running wayland on #openbsd, as a daily driver that have written anything about it?