It's finally here!!! #Yet_Another_Free_Profile_Picture_Giveaway!!! Normally these can be acquired for anywhere between $1,300 and $0.07, but they are all free *just* today! AMAZING!

Pls, if you downloaded one of these pictures, say so in a comment, so I can delete it from the post. Don't download more than one! Thanks!

Enjoy!

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pls don't download FishLunic, it's already acquired.
pls don't download c: , it's been acquired!
pls don't download 'i don't even use plan9', it's been acquired.

#unix_surrealism #mobilek #openbsd #plan9 #9front #art #nft #linux #lunic #giveaway

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I'm annoyed with myself.

When I reinstalled #OpenBSD on my server I just waved the disk partition away being like "oh I’m sure the automatic disk allocation is fine"

And now I’m stuck with a 15 GB /var partition and wasting hundreds of GB on /home that will never need more than a handful…

So now I need to either try to fix that (no idea how), or use /home for storage to all my services…

You can find the new port "x11/sddm" on ports@. Feedback welcome. happy #OpenBSD #Desktop

Can't wait to run VMs with more than one CPU on #OpenBSD

I like this a lot.

#OpenBSD

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# sysctl machdep.vmmode machdep.vmmode=guest # sysctl hw.ncpu hw.ncpu=4

This significant #OpenBSD vmm(4) redesign, which improves VM lifecycle management, has now been committed. It paves the way for future development. Many thanks to Dave Voutila (dv@)! ☺️🐡

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=178983836923867&w=2

Previous tech@ mailing list discussion from August: https://marc.info/?t=178576803200002&r=1&w=2

#w2k26 #OpenBSD #KDE progress. Welcome to an new login manager.

PSA!

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

EOPSA

#RUNBSD #OpenBSD

😄

Recovering and reminiscing on an incredible #EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium! 🇧🇪 😥

What a week! Over 234 attendees, 48 brilliant speakers, and 14 amazing sponsors came together to celebrate all things #BSD. The energy was #BSD, deep dives into tech, inspiring talks, and those hallway conversations that spark new ideas and collaborations.

Huge shout-out to the video crew who made sure every moment was captured, and to everyone who traveled near and far to be part of this vibrant community. Whether it was hacking, learning, or just geeking out over #BSD, the connections made here are what make this event so special.

Brussels, and the incredible Organizing Committee, you were the perfect host! Already counting down to the next one in Bratislava!

Did you attend? What was your highlight? 👇

We are collecting as much as possible on: https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/wrapup.html

Like and subscribe! 😄

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #EuroBSDCon2027 #BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

Blink and you might have missed it, mlarkin@ landed vmm/vmd(8) SMP guest support in #OpenBSD -current! ​

This includes a new "cpus" parameter in vm.conf(5), and '-p' flag for vmctl(8). The default number of virtual guest CPUs is 1, with current maxium of 64.

https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/d74b165ebc85c9aaf5150f25e6088f52d9fc0f04

Hope my fellow #OpenBSD developers are having an amazing time in Canada (Edmonton, AB) this week at the #w2k26 #hackathon! ​ ​

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OpenBSD w2k26 hackathon "artwork" ;-)

TIL that #VLC on #OpenBSD can actually read videos from #Samba shares! 🤗

mpv and Parole can’t. I think it’s because ffmpeg is not compiled with this option.

You can now also enjoy all the #EuroBSDCon 2026 videos directly from the schedule.

https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/

Thank you @pretalx for the YT plugin, and @jmlich for the PT version!

#LazySunday #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #RUNBSD

Follow Thursday!

- @ebc (Account)
- @ebc2026 (Channel)
- that is the list...

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD
#EuroBSDCon

Every fatal firmware error fix depends on one guy on an IRC channel voluntarily and supportively looking up magic fimware error codes and explaining the implications to me. Bus factor: 1

And for some vendors like Qualcomm there is simply nobody to ask questions to. The Linux ath10k/11k/12k driver maintainer stopped years ago and hasn't been replaced as far as I know.

Vendors should never have been allowed to stop providing public documentation for computers they are selling.

#OpenBSD #wifi

I'm working as a freelancer, which means I'm a business. I can not easily give to the BSD foundations [well I could but it would make sense to do it as a business] (#FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD) because I'd need an invoice.

Can someone help a fellow out here? How do companies do it? I'm based in Germany in case that matters.

Blub!

#OpenBSD

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Puffy pluche with sepia sunglass

Techno-Mage in: FATES

#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage #openblade #art #openbsd #linux #foss #fosschild #ai

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OB: After some freakish accident, it became omniscient and made a lot of people uncomfortable. So they hid it. Mage: Why didn't they kill it? OB: I don't think it was ever truly alive. Mage: So how do _WE_ kill it? OB: You've been so violent lately, Girl. We'll see what it has to say first. Mage: Don't get sentimental now, OB. We're here to make sure MATA never gets their hands on it.

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Mage: We're at the top! FOSSCHILD: Why is she doing this again? Penguin: Why does anyone do anything? Because she can. And maybe spite.

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OB: Looks creepy enough. Mage: Hmmm.This is some sort of an ancient military compound. OB: They did make the best cursed tech. OB: After you.

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"": MAGE OB & Mage: Who said that? "": THE PROTAGONIST VENTURES INTO THE PAST WITH THE LAST OF THE OPEN CLAN TRAPPED INSIDE BITS OF PAINT MACHINE BRAINS SEEKING GRIEVING DRESSED IN VENGEANCE MISGUIDED WARRIORS COMPUTER KILLERS

We are starting to provide an unrestricted (fair-use) amount of hosted mailing lists with each subscription. See https://gothub.org/lists.html

We want to make use of mailing lists easy for projects which are starting out today, or have to migrate away from a mailing list server which is being shut down.

Our mailing list infrastructure is kept completely separate from our #Git hosting infrastructure. You can use mailing lists without having to use any of our version control features.

You can use your own domain name instead of lists.gothub.org if you want to.

Public lists can be archived. Private mail is only stored on our servers while in transit.

The mailing list server is hosted on #OpenBSD, running on our hardware in #Berlin, Germany.

Ori Bernstein is porting GEFS, the crash-safe, snapshotting, copy-on-write filesystem originally written for 9front, to OpenBSD.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=178948744271633&w=2

#openbsd #bsd

Reposting this because I got #RunBSD stickers at #EuroBSDcon2026 and can now illustrate the post with a proper image :D Also updated the temperatures screenshot.

So that's basically how much watts are #NetBSD and #OpenBSD using by default on this AOOSTAR WTR Pro NAS machine and how to have #FreeBSD use less watts as possible while still operating Jail and #bhyve services.

https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/overview-of-aoostar-wtr-pro-on-bsd/

#selfhost #homelab

Shoutout to @mischa and @OpenBSDAms for routing me a /56 IPv6 subnet in sub 7 minutes after I hit the send button on the request form.

#openbsd #bsd

@darkuncle @overeducatedredneck @dotjayne

Fully agreed (nearing 30 years of daily driving too). It is the basis of my sanity. I need my machine to be extremely reliable. #OpenBSD does just that. And with that, it allows me to maintain my sanity no matter how dire the circumstances might be.

If any of my work on #OpenBSD, or my highlight posts here (or elsewhere) has been helpful in the past, a small recurring monthly donation would be extremely appreciated. ​

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

https://bsd.network/@brynet/114458997143046937

Ori Bernstein - GEFS: The File Shredder of the Future.

https://exquisite.tube/w/3QQimMdswWJxrsPaJtak2u

\o/

#EuroBSDCon #OpenBSD

Your VPS lives here! #OpenBSD #RunBSD #Brussels #sticker #EuroBSDCon2026 #stickerart @OpenBSDAms

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OpenBSD Amsterdam sticker inside an empty electric box

Closing session from the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

The stream of the closing session had some challenges, see here it is in all it's glory!

https://exquisite.tube/w/xkUjYkVYdcKWwq8Jnr1aMz

Thank you all for coming, safe travels and we will miss you!

Videos from the first day are published as well, the second will follow very soon!

EuroBSDCon 2027 in Bratislava, Slovakia 🇸🇰
September xx-xx, 2027

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #EuroBSDCon2027 #BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

Pomera DM250 への OpenBSD ほぼ自動インストーラーを、GitHubで公開開始。間違いなく導入簡単です。 #Pomera #DM250 #OpenBSD /

mah-jp/openbsd-pomera-dm250-installer: Pomera DM250 OpenBSD Automated Installer / Pomera DM250 OpenBSD 自動インストーラー https://github.com/mah-jp/openbsd-pomera-dm250-installer

The last day of talks at the European *BSD event of the year has come to an end! 😈⛳🐡

A colossal shout-out to everyone who made this event awesome! Bedankt!!

A big up to OC for taking care of us these days. 🫶🏻
- Kristof Provost
- Cristina Boca
- Aymeric Wibo
- Philipp Buehler

And let's not forget the fantastic talks and tutorials by:
- Alexander Bluhm
- Alice Sowerby
- Allan Jude
- Andreas Kirchner
- Anne Currie
- Balaje Sankar
- Baptiste Daroussin
- Benedict Reuschling
- Beni Keller
- Bojan Novković
- Brooks Davis
- Charalampos Mainas
- Charlie Li
- Dave Cottlehuber
- George Neville-Neil
- Harold Gutch
- Henning Brauer
- Hiroki Sato
- Johannes Thyssen Tishman
- Kent Inge Fagerland Simonsen
- Kirk McKusick
- Kristaps Dzonsons
- Lukas Engelhardt
- Maciej Jan Broniarz
- Marc Espie
- Martin Vahlensieck
- Mateusz Piotrowski
- Matthieu Herrb
- Michael Dexter
- Moin Rahman
- Olivier Certner
- Organizers
- Ori Bernstein
- Patrick M. Hausen
- Peter N. M. Hansteen
- Pierre Emeriaud
- Pierre Pronchery
- Stefan Sperling
- Stefano Marinelli
- Stephen Borrill
- Taylor R Campbell
- Thomas Pasqualini
- Varinka Ohanyan
- Vinícius Z.
- Walter Belgers
- Yu-Chiang (Date) Huang
- Zhen-Rong Wu

🤘 You all rocked the stage! 🤘

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #EuroBSDCon2027 #BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

EDIT: the recording is available here: https://exquisite.tube/w/nQbc54t4G7YGaqiryZ7mg1

On 10 March 2021, I had only just fallen asleep when my phone started buzzing. Then another notification, and another. In a matter of minutes, 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. And not the cloud-computing kind.

Most of them were physically going up in a column of smoke in Strasbourg.

My wife looked at me and asked if I wanted a coffee. I nodded. It was going to be a very long day.

At EuroBSDCon 2026, I won't be giving a theoretical lecture on high availability. Instead, I’m going to tell the raw story of that night: the emergency recovery, the architectural choices that actually saved us, and the ones that crumbled under pressure (because we rarely talk about what fails).

Most of all, I’ll explain why that night changed my perspective, and why I’ve come to see BSD systems not just as operating systems, but as essential, practical tools for building simpler, more resilient infrastructure.

The official schedule is now live. If you want to hear a real-world post-mortem, join me on Saturday, 12 Sept at 11:15 (Room D.0.02).

EuroBSDCon Full schedule: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/
See you there! ☕️

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD #RunBSD #EuroBSDCon #SysAdmin #SelfHosted #IT #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSDCon

Ok, let’s go serious for a moment 🤓 #EuroBSDcon2026 #OpenBSD

Let’s get headaches!

#EuroBSDcon2026 #OpenBSD

#KDE Gear ⚙️ 26.08 landed in #OpenBSD ... happy secure clicking

OpenLUNIC logo/mascot

#openbsd #linux #nomarchy

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OpenLUNIC mascot logo a big thick floaty penguin

Still F.I.S.H.

#openbsd

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Just because contest while you are making your way to the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

The first three people to send selfies of themselves in from of all three peeing statues get one bottle of Westvleteren 12, 8 or blonde.

You can send these to @kp, who will be the judge and jury! 🍻

📅 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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Image of KPs living room with in the foreground the Lego Tintin moon rocket, from the album "Destination Moon". In front of the rocket there are 3 bottles of beer. Westvleteren 12, 8 and blonde

Counting down, for real now, to the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

https://stagetimer.io/r/X21SK1YB/

📅 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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This aimed to be a simple #RunBSD post about the AOOSTAR WTR Pro NAS system. But it ended being nearly a "Tune #FreeBSD for power consumption" one :p

Anyway, I very like this tiny #HomeServer. And it fits well in my #HomeLab closet.

https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/overview-of-aoostar-wtr-pro-on-bsd/

#OpenBSD #NetBSD #SelfHost

https://github.com/ksh93/ksh

#RunBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

@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)?

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

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).

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.

Thanks @OpenBSDAms and @mischa for patching the host systems and the the great communication 👌

If you are using OpenBSD 7.9 yourself as well, patch your system.

* syspatch
* pkg_add -u

#OpenBSD

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Question to those that contribute to #OpenBSD - what is the best way to submit a small non-impacting change?

For example: a script contains a comment line that is there to simply disable an echo statement. Most likely as a way of debugging its working during the creation and testing of the script.

Where and how would you bring this up? Is this for misc@openbsd.org or is there a better place?

I think #OpenBSD has one of the easiest methods to update (important) system updates. Just run syspatch and reboot.

Simplicity has many benefits and I think OpenBSD is one that clearly shows this.

#OpenBSD #systemadministration #security

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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.

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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thyme

#openbsd #freebsd #runbsd #foss #comic

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@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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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

Slides from Florian Obser (florian@)'s talk "Let's find out how to get predictable IPv6 addresses assigned to #OpenBSD VMs" yesterday at @bsd_nl's "Early 2026" conference.

https://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdnl2026-predictable-ipv6.pdf

https://events.bsdnl.nl/early2026/talk/W9P9RT/

Video is up on their Exquisite.tube channel! ​

@bsdnlconference

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

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