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[?]Nihils Pilz »
@Nihils@fribygda.no

@justine
I've been in the hole tor almost 7 years. Maybe I broke a mirror or something!

I just tried it on a IBM t42 laptop and it spread out! Even my mom got it now. And my laptops.

It's sort of sadistic, but I can't help it! It put a spell on me.
I've dabbled in FreeBSD, but it's been a worse experience setting up laptops with it.

Can't wait to get my router set up with OpenBSD and pf and ike2 VPN etc...

I love - !

    [?]Jan »
    @js@x0r.be

    @stefano Feeling the pain with on OpenBSD. V3 was working with some fiddling but V4 broke again. It is pretty annoying to be honest.

      [?]Justine Smithies »
      @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

      Oh so it seems color emoji not displaying on is a thing. I wondered why I never saw the handshake icon for followers on and now I know why.

      A quick fc-list | grep -i emoji does indeed show the correct font is installed.

      /usr/local/share/fonts/noto/NotoColorEmoji.ttf: Noto Color Emoji:style=Regular

      https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/1atanzd/color_emoji_not_shown/

        [?]thinkberg »
        @thinkberg@tetrax.de

        What could be the reason I get "Packet has unallowed source IP from peer 1" by ? I basically copied the server setup from to and just used the new server address on the client.

          [?]OpenBSD España »
          @OpenBSD_es@mastodon.bsd.cafe

          Otro canal que publica algunos vídeos sobre es el de @Zaney
          Aquí tienes uno sobre la grabación de escritorio (con un script suyo usando ffmpeg):
          youtu.be/0OGO8LXVx8E
          el script que presenta está en el repositorio gitlab.com/Zaney/capscreen

            [?]OpenBSD España »
            @OpenBSD_es@mastodon.bsd.cafe

            El canal YT de @Zaney publicó hace unos días otro vídeo sobre cómo configura para su entorno de escritorio:

            youtu.be/3YP5ooHohjg

              [?]Wintermute_BBS »
              @Wintermute_BBS@oldbytes.space

              *sigh* so yes, I admit it - my daily driver still is @VoidLinux for various reasons that make me sound like a user reluctant to switch to . It involves cheap USB grabbers among other things.

              Yet I have a weak sport for 🧡 and while and get some fair coverage here on the , I am getting the impresson that NetBSD is a bit under-presented here.

              So, do you also 🧡 NetBSD?!

              netbsd.org/

                Solène :flan_hacker: boosted

                [?]Joel Carnat ♑ 🤪 »
                @joel@piou.foolbazar.eu

                Power consumption and performance notes of a modified Fujitsu FUTRO S930 using , , and in the context of a .

                Enjoy!

                tumfatig.net/2025/tinkering-wi

                  [?]vermaden »
                  @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                  Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟱/𝟮𝟲 (Valuable News - 2025/05/26) available.

                  vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/05

                  Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                    [?]Peter N. M. Hansteen »
                    @pitrh@mastodon.social

                    EuroBSDcon 2025 CFP is still open (until 2025-06-21)

                    Are you mulling a submission? Get yours in at events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/

                    Main conferfence site: 2025.eurobsdcon.org/

                    See you in Zagreb!

                    @eurobsdcon

                      [?]Raven »
                      @raven@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                      [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: »
                      @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                      @gumnos @justine

                      Isn't #qemu (in software virtualization mode) also an option for #OpenBSD?

                      You'd lose a fair bit of performance, but gain a lot of flexibility for other OSes.

                        [?]Stefano Marinelli »
                        @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                        Maybe could be the best choice for my AMD mini pc desktop...maybe I should try...

                        Alt...Bilbo saying "Why shouldn't I?"

                          [?]Justine Smithies »
                          @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                          users, Am I understanding virtualization correctly ? I'm wondering if it's possible to setup an OpenBSD machine that has several virtual OpenBSD machines running on it. Like I'd have for example a webserver then a separate git server and others. That way if I break one I don't take down the whole system.
                          I have been reading from https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq16.html

                          I'm just at the reading and thinking stage just now. Yes I know another rabbit hole my brain thinks would be a good idea to jump into. 🙄

                            [?]Peter N. M. Hansteen »
                            @pitrh@mastodon.social

                            [?]rootnode »
                            @rootnode@social.wollwage.com

                            Finally fully switched to *BSD. on my home server and as a rock solid gateway, provided by the lovely @OpenBSDAms

                              [?]Bryan Steele :flan_beard: »
                              @brynet@bsd.network

                              Theo de Raadt has completed an overhaul of the gprof process profiling facility on -current, the existing profil(2) system call is deprecated, with a new enhanced profil(2) interface replacing it to better work with privsep programs with current mitigations.

                              It is no longer possible to startup profiling manually with monstartup(3), it's now only possible via the -pg compiler flag.

                              deraadt@ modified src/lib/csu/crt0.c: As a first step in making the gprof profiling subsystem compatible with all of our privsep work, add an ELF note to gcrt0, this means we know which binaries have been compiled with -pg.
                              ok kettenis

                              deraadt@ modified src/*: In the old gprof profiling subsystem, the simplistic profil() syscall told the kernel about the sample buffer, and then the normal exit-time
                              _mcleanup() would finalize the buffer, open()'ed a file and write out the details. This file opening has become increasingly impossible because of our privsep / privdrop, chroot, setresuid uid-dropping, pledge, unveil, and other efforts. So people stopped using gprof.
                              Programs which needed profiling needed substantial mitigation removal changes to put them under test.

                              In the new gprof profiling subsystem, profil() is enhanced to provide more buffer information to the kernel, as well as better instructions for where the file should be written. At normal exit-time mcleanup(), after finalizing the buffer, the process simply terminates via _exit(2), and the kernel does all the opening and writing in a safe way. The file is now deposited into the starting directory, or into PROFDIR as determined at program start, with safety issues taken into consideration.

                              Additional side effects:

                              • The monstartup(3) interface will go away, it cannot be supported.
                              • profil() is now allowed in pledge "stdio", access is decided by the -pg ELF note
                              • gmon.out is renamed to gmon.progname.pid.out, due to pervasive multi-processprivsep practices

                              prompted originally by job and claudio for use in rpki-client and bgpd
                              advice from kettenis and claudio

                                [?]h3artbl33d :openbsd: :ve: »
                                @h3artbl33d@exquisite.social

                                Sigh. No more Home Assistant on OpenBSD. The developers have announced the deprecation of core and supervised installs.

                                Oh well. Going to flash Home Assistant OS on a mini PC and migrate to that.

                                  Tomáš boosted

                                  [?]EK :a_openbsd: »
                                  @rqm@exquisite.social

                                  PROGRESS!! Hopefully going to boot on the 1st gen Apple TV soon. Custom bootlogo by the inimitable @prahou

                                  Alt...A disassembled AppleTV starting a custom bootloader.

                                    [?]fredg »
                                    @fredg@pouet.chapril.org

                                    Quick but solid overview of how well handles disk I/O

                                    rsadowski.de/posts/2025/fio_si

                                      [?]Justine Smithies »
                                      @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                      Ok an update on my adventures. I have foot installed and set as my default terminal. Interestingly after yesterday's issue with Libreoffice and the Xorg SAL problem meaning it would only run with gen and not gtk, under Wayland it runs fine with gtk3 . Oh well Wayland was meant to be anyway, it's the future you see.
                                      I cannot get Qutebrowser to run it just throws lots of errors but was fine in Xorg so might be missing packages for Wayland support ?? So I've installed Firefox for now until I resolve the Qutebrowser issue on OpenBSD. But all in all it's looking promising ! ;)

                                        [?]Justine Smithies »
                                        @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                        Haha ! I have running on my desktop. Yes that's right I'm running on OpenBSD. Nice ! 😁

                                          [?]Peter N. M. Hansteen »
                                          @pitrh@mastodon.social

                                          Some of the best things in life are free, such as

                                          Case in point: "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_ins

                                            [?]inglfo »
                                            @inglfo@mastodon.online

                                            is now running on real hardware (pico/rp2040) for me.. and it's connected to over usb: minicom -D /dev/ttyU0

                                              [?]Tomáš »
                                              @prahou@merveilles.town

                                              sirens

                                              Film reel frame of Girl and Puffy and Sun. All are smiling.

                                              Alt...Film reel frame of Girl and Puffy and Sun. All are smiling.

                                                [?]stilla »
                                                @stilla@exquisite.social

                                                What desktop environment are you running on ? And if you're running a wm instead, which one and what tools do you use it with? I have been switching back and forth between GNOME and XFCE4 a lot. Even booted some Linux distros to test COSMIC and Cinnamon.

                                                  [?]Justine Smithies »
                                                  @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                  Back on my trusty ThinkPad with external 32" screen running and using which gives me less headaches than I've had today on my desktop running X. I've just done a git pull on the repo to get the latest updates and built it without issue and yes I know there is a package but I'm enjoying tracking progress. I also use and sometimes .
                                                  I will go back to my desktop as I do like OpenBSD and I will not be beat. I just need to clear my head first. ;)

                                                    [?]Justine Smithies »
                                                    @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                    Hmm on further testing on libreoffice on my setup it seems that under my own user even with using env SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3 soffice libreoffice fails to run giving the can't open window and permission error. But if I use env SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen soffice it runs up as the normal user but obviously this a fallback mode. I tried with gtk3,gtk4 and qt5 and qt6 but none work.
                                                    Even stranger if I run xhost + then doas libreoffice it runs up and shows me that it autodetected and is running the gtk3 plugin.
                                                    So what is the issue here then ??

                                                      [?]Justine Smithies »
                                                      @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                      [ RESOLVED ] Adding the line SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen into my .kshrc has resolved the issue.

                                                      UPDATE If I run xhost + and then doas libreoffice it runs up perfectly !
                                                      Why is that folk that I cannot run as a normal user under Xorg ???

                                                      I might be being dumb just now ? But I've got my desktop setup just nice with OpenBox and Xterm plus Qutebrowser. I decided to install libreoffice and it installed as it should but when I try to run it in the terminal I get the following error. Please help ❤️

                                                       ~  $ libreoffice
                                                      /usr/local/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin X11 error: Can't open display:
                                                      Set DISPLAY environment variable, use -display option
                                                      or check permissions of your X-Server
                                                      (See "man X" resp. "man xhost" for details)

                                                        [?]Justine Smithies »
                                                        @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                        Yeah it's to do with release/stable vs current. My next issue is weird, I just installed libreoffice on and it won't run from the terminal. I get some error about setting -display and x not having permissions yet everything else runs like I'm using OpenBox with xterm and Qutebrowser. Any ideas ??

                                                          [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: »
                                                          @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                                                          I feel the need... the need to buy another $200 #thinkpad. XD

                                                          P.S., X390 Yoga. Looking forward to having a convertible as my daily-driver again.

                                                          (I still use my X200t, but the wacom input doesn't work in #OpenBSD)

                                                            [?]Justine Smithies »
                                                            @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                            Very strange indeed ! I am in my study where the homelab rack is minding my own business working on my desktop and I heard buzzing. Looked up at the window which is just on the catch and a honey bee had gotten in. So I promptly opened the window and let it out. Three times it has come back in and please note that this room is upstairs. So I have shut the window for now but for the past hour this same honey bee keeps trying the window. I've never seen anything like it !

                                                              [?]Tim Chase »
                                                              @gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                              Another boring upgrade from 7.6→7.7

                                                              # sysupgrade
                                                              [automatic reboot into upgrade, enter FDE password]
                                                              [automatic reboot into OS, enter FDE password]
                                                              # syspatch
                                                              # reboot
                                                              [reboots into rebuilt kernel, enter FDE password]
                                                              # sysmerge
                                                              [a few mundane /etc/ssh/sshd_config and /etc/login.conf]
                                                              # pkg_add -u
                                                              [upgrades packages]
                                                              # rcctl restart dovecot # due to pkg upgrade

                                                              and done. Took all of ~10 minutes including downloading.

                                                                [?]Justine Smithies »
                                                                @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                                [?]Justine Smithies »
                                                                @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                                Ok so a fresh head has helped me resolve my Nerd font issue in . I just needed to download the font Go Mono from there rather than installing it from the repo. Adding this to my .Xresources and voila I have the Go Mono font and symbols.

                                                                xterm*faceName: Go Mono Nerd Font Mono
                                                                xterm*renderFont: true
                                                                xterm*faceSize: 10

                                                                  [?]Bryan Steele :flan_beard: »
                                                                  @brynet@bsd.network

                                                                  -current now has a watch(1) utility in base, using IIJ (Internet Initiative Japan)'s iwatch command as a basis.

                                                                  job@ modified src/usr.bin/watch/watch.{1,c}: Verbatim import of IIJ's iwatch as watch

                                                                  The watch utility periodically executes a command and displays its output.

                                                                  v1.0.4 from github.com/iij/iwatch
                                                                  eng-blog.iij.ad.jp/archives/23

                                                                  OK yasuoka@ florian@

                                                                    [?]Samuel Chase »
                                                                    @samebchase@fantastic.earth

                                                                    I've been a customer of @OpenBSDAms for a few years now. Every now and then I used to get an email that they upgraded the version, but I never got around to upgrading my VM.

                                                                    With the latest upgrade they upgraded to OpenBSD 7.7, but my VM was on 7.0.

                                                                    Being several years behind made me anxious. I started wondering if I needed to provision a new VM, and move all my stuff to it.

                                                                    But, then I felt I could try upgrading. Took a backup of all my files.

                                                                    I was able to upgrade from.
                                                                    7.0 -> 7.1 (reboot)
                                                                    7.1 -> 7.2 (reboot)
                                                                    7.2 -> 7.3 (reboot)
                                                                    7.3 -> 7.4 (reboot)
                                                                    7.4 -> 7.5 (reboot)
                                                                    7.5 -> 7.6 (reboot)
                                                                    7.6 -> 7.7 (reboot)

                                                                    Now, I am on the latest version. If this seamless 7-upgrade is not an absolute master class in software engineering, I don't know what is. OpenBSD developers, take a bow! 🙇🏽‍♂️

                                                                      🗳
                                                                      It's Just Me boosted

                                                                      [?]Stefano Marinelli »
                                                                      @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                      People working on Linux or the BSDs (or illumos based OSes, etc), are you using two monitors? And, if so, what do you use them for?
                                                                      I'm trying to understand if it makes sense to keep two monitors on my desk

                                                                      Please boost

                                                                      One Monitor:209
                                                                      Two Monitors:228

                                                                      Closed

                                                                        [?]Justine Smithies »
                                                                        @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                                        Discovered that I can display an image in xterm using w3m and this works with neofetch too but not fastfetch but I'm OK with that. Also I can still preview images in ranger using w3m too. So I think at the moment I'm sticking with xterm even though I did try urxvt but I couldn't see any reason why I should use it over xterm. If you know of some then please do point them out.

                                                                          [?]vermaden »
                                                                          @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                          Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟱/𝟭𝟵 (Valuable News - 2025/05/19) available.

                                                                          vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/05

                                                                          Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                                                                            [?]Justine Smithies »
                                                                            @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                                            So still on my adventure and although I missed images in the terminal be it sixel in xterm or the kitty protocol in kitty, I've decided to stick with good old . Also on my daily driver I'm used to such luxuries as icons in the terminal like font awesome or nerd fonts but even though I could have used alacritty or kitty to achieve this I have decided to for go them. After all what do they do other make it look pretty ? I don't get any other functionality from them and they can easily be replaced with text. You might have noticed too that although I'm a chic on my I've decided to be all nostalgic and stick with Xorg on OpenBSD. I haven't yet settled on a window manager be it tiling or stacking but and are in my sights although I'm still using the default right now. I have my Qutebrowser setup and aerc for my email. Printing via cups and xsane for scanning. Looking into nsxiv for an image viewer as the OpenBSD port of imv is well out of date. Yes I'm having to make small changes but once I'm finished this wee Dell Optiplex 3080 tower will be perfect for daily driving OpenBSD and I'm looking forward to learning lots more.

                                                                              [?]oxy »
                                                                              @oxyhyxo@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                              Tomáš boosted

                                                                              [?]Peter N. M. Hansteen »
                                                                              @pitrh@mastodon.social

                                                                              [?]Tomáš »
                                                                              @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                              mpd radio

                                                                              How to stream and listen to music across the network.

                                                                              nein.triapul.cz/openbsd/mpd/ra

                                                                              Ema struggles with mpd configuration

                                                                              Alt...Ema struggles with mpd configuration

                                                                                [?]Justine Smithies »
                                                                                @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                                                Very strange ! Remember the printer issue I was having earlier on ? Well every time I selected my printer in the cups admin and used the drop down to select the Epson Inkjet ET-4700 series driver only to find that none of the ET models were listed. So I just did a quick ls /usr/local/share/ppd/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/ and there was the required ET-4700 ppd file. So I selected it using the from file option and now it all works.

                                                                                  [?]Justine Smithies »
                                                                                  @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                                                  is very good but I'm struggling to decide on a terminal for two reasons.
                                                                                  I'd like it to have sixel and or kitty graphics support.
                                                                                  Also it would be nice to support font awesome fonts in the terminal.
                                                                                  I can get graphics support and font awesome icon support using kitty but it's not the latest version, it's about 2 years old for various reasons.
                                                                                  xterm has sixel support which for reasons OpenBSD see as a security issue and so it's disabled. It also does not support font awesome icons.
                                                                                  Yes alacritty exists and supports font awesome icons but it does not support images in the terminal.
                                                                                  So it seems I'll have to compromise.

                                                                                    [?]Justine Smithies »
                                                                                    @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                                                    Ok so on I have my neovim setup as per my working laptop but I cannot get the font awesome icons to display even though they are installed. I checked fc-list and they are there. Tried nerd fonts too.
                                                                                    What am I missing here that xterm will not display those icons as well as my default font Go Mono ??

                                                                                      [?]Tomáš »
                                                                                      @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                                      fishriotwm

                                                                                      twm configuration with plan9's rio window-border operations and default cwm keybindings

                                                                                      (It's basically cwm that you can also use with just a mouse)

                                                                                      nein.triapul.cz/openbsd/twm/

                                                                                      screenshot of a window manager twm with an open xterm and various random programs iconified

                                                                                      Alt...screenshot of a window manager twm with an open xterm and various random programs iconified

                                                                                        [?]Justine Smithies »
                                                                                        @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                                                        Right that's the scanner side of my Epson ET-4750 working via xsane and sane-airscan on my desktop. I had to install avahi and enable it and dbus as per the instruction in the ports README. So just the printer driver to figure out as building it myself failed. Think I'll come back to that at some point unless someone adds the escpr2 driver to the OpenBSD ports. :D

                                                                                          [?]Justine Smithies »
                                                                                          @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                                                          [ Update ]

                                                                                          I can now print thanks to this reddit post

                                                                                          https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/18bro15/epson_printing/

                                                                                          The driver was never listed in the drop down even though the printer was found. Doing a quick check of the PPD directory showed me that the ET-4700 driver was there. So I just used the select file from location option and voilà it worked !

                                                                                          Hmm it seems that my Epson ET-4750 is not supported on with the following drivers epson-inkjet-printer-escpr . My printer actually needs the Epson Inkjet Printer Driver 2 which no one has packaged yet. Any OpenBSD maintainers able to add this at all ??? I know it's a long shot. ;)

                                                                                            Tomáš boosted

                                                                                            [?]Bryan Steele :flan_beard: »
                                                                                            @brynet@bsd.network

                                                                                            Hope my fellow developers have an amazing time in Nara, Japan this week at the ! :flan_hacker:​ 🐡

                                                                                            OpenBSD hackathon 奈良 (Nara)
2025/05/18-25

                                                                                            Alt...OpenBSD hackathon 奈良 (Nara) 2025/05/18-25

                                                                                              [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: »
                                                                                              @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                                                                                              @justine

                                                                                              I like that quote, and I've heard it many times, but I don't actually buy it. The hating Microsoft part, I mean.

                                                                                              It might have been true among Linux users when that was first spoken, but I don't think it's true anymore, nor do I think Torvalds was ever motivated by a hatred of Microsoft or their methods.

                                                                                              Linus is a pragmatist, to a fault (or at least seems to be one to me). It was always about the code to him.

                                                                                              But the loving #Unix part, I agree with, and I staunchly maintain that Unix matters and is very much not dead.

                                                                                              And the fact that neither Unix (nor #BSD, for that matter) means much of anything to most Linux people (I'm talking about the people who are driving change in the Linux ecosystem) is a huge tragedy, to me.

                                                                                              The trajectory to re-make Linux into its own type of MacOS is very obvious to see, and not wholly unjustified. But it's the wrong emphasis, in my mind.

                                                                                              Just as #OpenBSD's single-minded emphasis on code quality and "correctness" (to the point that features that some rely on, like Bluetooth support and softdeps, are removed for the sake of code clarity) isn't a good fit for every user's needs, the corporate desire to make Linux a great data center OS or a great corporate workstation OS isn't the right approach for everyone, and the fact that those seem to be nearly the *only* motivating factor is really unfortunate, and dare I say, wrong-headed.

                                                                                              This has been an issue of culture in the Linux community [[for a long time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Kolivas#Linux)], now.

                                                                                              @Tionisla

                                                                                                [?]Justine Smithies »
                                                                                                @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                                                                I love this quote in the handbook.
                                                                                                “Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. We do what we do because we love Unix.”

                                                                                                – Theo de Raadt

                                                                                                  [?]Justine Smithies »
                                                                                                  @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                                                                  Been tinkering around with my Dell Optiplex 3080 rig learning how OpenBSD differs from say FreeBSD. I've also got X running with the default but I cannot decide if I want to install or ? Yes I know the first is a tiling window manager but I know I can setup OpenBox to tile too with a few scripts. I think I'll have to research a tad more and decide later. For now FVWM it is and yes I'm actually liking OpenBSD if I'm honest.

                                                                                                    [?]Justine Smithies »
                                                                                                    @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                                                                    Here's a question that I cannot find a definitive answer to. I'm running X on and I have started configuring my .Xresources but I can't find out if it matters whether a line has capitals or all lowercase. For example:

                                                                                                    XTerm*faceSize: 10

                                                                                                    is this just the same does it not matter ?

                                                                                                    xterm*faceSize: 10

                                                                                                    Sorry but if it does not matter, if I start XTerm or xterm then that's good as having both just now plays on my OCD. :D

                                                                                                      [?]Justine Smithies »
                                                                                                      @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                                                                      For it to work in ksh on my setup I add the following to my ~/.profile :

                                                                                                      export TERM=wsvt25

                                                                                                      You might have to logout or reboot for it to work though.

                                                                                                        [?]Justine Smithies »
                                                                                                        @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                                                                        folk I haven't yet installed a WM yet so am still just running in the ksh tty. I have the likes of colorls aliased to ls which works great. My issue is I have just installed btop and when run it looks garbage all text hardly readable. Am I missing some font or configuration as it works in the tty on my FreeBSD laptop ?

                                                                                                          [?]ClaudioM »
                                                                                                          @claudiom@bsd.network

                                                                                                          Decided to boot into the Windows 11 SSD of my Evoo laptop which is the one that primarily runs so that I could update it. It had been a while since I'd booted into it, so much so that even Firefox was at version 129 and LibreOffice was still numbered as 7.5. After an entire morning of Windows itself updating, I updated the apps I could from work. Steam may have to wait until I get home.

                                                                                                          I'm still waiting on some post-24H2 updates to finish, and then I can boot back into the sanity of my OpenBSD SSD. :puffer::runbsdBg:

                                                                                                            [?]inglfo »
                                                                                                            @inglfo@mastodon.online

                                                                                                            FUZIX now running on real hardware (pico/rp2040) for me - it is connected to my over usb: minicom -D /dev/ttyU0

                                                                                                              [?]stilla »
                                                                                                              @stilla@exquisite.social

                                                                                                              Has somebody been able to compile gurk-rs on lately?

                                                                                                                [?]Justine Smithies »
                                                                                                                @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                                                                                Looks like I have this resolved thanks to the kindness of @dsp@social.sdf.org

                                                                                                                Was looking for some "Powered by OpenBSD" PC stickers and the only one I like is on Amazon and can't be shipped to the UK for some reason. Do I know anyone that can get a hold of a few of these and ship them to me price depending obviously ?
                                                                                                                Please boost for a greater reach.

                                                                                                                A PC sticker with the OpenBSD puffy logo and the text below "Powered by OpenBSD"

                                                                                                                Alt...A PC sticker with the OpenBSD puffy logo and the text below "Powered by OpenBSD"

                                                                                                                  Solène :flan_hacker: boosted

                                                                                                                  [?]Bryan Steele :flan_beard: »
                                                                                                                  @brynet@bsd.network

                                                                                                                  Wow, very damning mail from Ingo Schwarze to tech@ about upstream regressions in xterm(1), which apparently has no public version control. :flan_think:

                                                                                                                  So i think given your research results which i'm leaving in place below. we have positive proof that upstream deliberately and systematically ruined the security features of xterm(1), even those that have been - and still are - documented on their own website.

                                                                                                                  marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=17

                                                                                                                    [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: »
                                                                                                                    @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                                                                                                                    @justine

                                                                                                                    For all its missing features, it's dead easy to get a decent GUI up and running with #OpenBSD.

                                                                                                                    #FreeBSD has a lot of capabilities, but takes some work to get going.

                                                                                                                    NomadBSD is elegant, and works well, but you only get a choice of a single desktop (IIRC), and kind of like Arch Linux derivatives, if something happens and you're left with a non-functioning system, you're a bit at a loss for what to do, because someone else essentially set it up for you.

                                                                                                                      [?]Justine Smithies »
                                                                                                                      @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                                                                                                                      I know I've already spun up OpenBSD once on my old Dell Optiplex 3080 and then put FreeBSD onto it. But for some unknown reason my head keeps telling me to to give OpenBSD another chance and to this time try the Wayland experience like I run on my Thinkpad.
                                                                                                                      Looking at the ports I see there are some WM's for Wayland on there like Sway, Labwc, Plasma and Wayfire. So I could try both Sway and Labwc but as for a bar I'm not sure ? Maybe any folks that have or are using Wayland could chime in ? I wonder what if I could build from source bar wise that would work for Wayland ?
                                                                                                                      Hmmm lots of questions and here's another. Why do I keep looking at OpenBSD docs, reading users blogs and watching videos ?

                                                                                                                      I need help ! :D

                                                                                                                      https://openports.pl/cat/wayland

                                                                                                                        [?]Tom »
                                                                                                                        @pertho@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                                                                        @stefano I have to use an Apple M1 Pro (2021 model) for $dayjob. I'm frustrated that I can't run a tiling wm on it. I guess I could try to put on it, but it's technically not my machine so just stuck with MacOS.

                                                                                                                          [?]Stefano Marinelli »
                                                                                                                          @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                                                                          Exactly one month from today, I'll be at to present my talk "Why (and how) we're migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs" (AKA: "I solve problems").

                                                                                                                          As the days go by, I feel increasingly honored to be a speaker at this event, more and more excited to live an experience similar to the incredible one I had last September at in Dublin, and more confident than ever in the technical choices I’ve made over the years - which I’ll be happy to share.

                                                                                                                          BSD conferences aren’t just technical events - they’re snapshots of the BSD community as a whole: friendly, collaborative, pragmatic, and positive.

                                                                                                                          To everyone attending: see you in Ottawa!

                                                                                                                          indico.bsdcan.org/event/5/cont

                                                                                                                            Ángel boosted

                                                                                                                            [?]Tim Chase »
                                                                                                                            @gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                                                                            Me: huh, I don't remember logging out of my session on the kids' laptop…oh, right, I did a `doas sysupgrade`, it did the upgrade, rebooted into 7.7, and returned uneventfully to the login screen without requiring any additional intervention or thought.

                                                                                                                            There's something wonderful about an upgrade-process so boring that you can accidentally forget you did it.

                                                                                                                              [?]gyptazy »
                                                                                                                              @gyptazy@mastodon.gyptazy.com

                                                                                                                              I got asked if I could create a for creating a (public) service - just like I did recently for . With and you can also reach resource in the legacy internet () on only systems.

                                                                                                                              While this is based on and , there’s also a solution by using the 's native way which is also running on the other gateway. I’ll share a second how to how to do this in OpenBSD and pf.

                                                                                                                              gyptazy.com/howto-create-a-pub

                                                                                                                                It's Just Me boosted

                                                                                                                                [?]Stefano Marinelli »
                                                                                                                                @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                                                                                **BSD Mail Project Update!**

                                                                                                                                Hello everyone! I wanted to share some exciting updates about the development of BSD Mail, our privacy-focused email service designed with robustness, security, and transparency in mind. Here’s a deep dive into the technical choices I've made, focusing on my use of open source solutions and open protocols:

                                                                                                                                🌍 **Servers & Location**

                                                                                                                                - We're running on two physical servers:
                                                                                                                                - One hosted by OVH in France
                                                                                                                                - Another by Hetzner in Germany
                                                                                                                                - Both servers operate on FreeBSD with NVMe drives in a ZFS mirror configuration for speed and data integrity.

                                                                                                                                🔒 **Virtualization & Security**

                                                                                                                                - We utilize jails on both servers to ensure isolated environments for different services, managed via BastilleBSD. On one server, jails are set up directly on the hardware, whereas the other server employs nested jails.
                                                                                                                                - Each server hosts a bhyve VM running OpenBSD with OpenSMTPD for handling SMTP duties securely.

                                                                                                                                🔗 **Networking**

                                                                                                                                - A Wireguard setup connects the two servers, facilitating routing capabilities so that jails and VMs can communicate seamlessly, supporting both IPv4 and IPv6.

                                                                                                                                📧 **Email Services**

                                                                                                                                - **Dovecot** is configured for maildir replication across the servers using Dovecot sync, ensuring email availability and redundancy.
                                                                                                                                - **Rspamd** instances are tied to local KeyDB jails, set up in master-master replication for consistent and reliable spam detection and greylisting.
                                                                                                                                - **ClamAV** runs in corresponding jails for virus scanning, maintaining a high level of security.
                                                                                                                                - **SOGo** provides a web interface for email management, connected to MySQL databases in master-master replication to handle sessions and authentication smoothly.

                                                                                                                                💾 **Data Management**

                                                                                                                                - Email data is stored on separate, encrypted ZFS datasets to secure emails at rest.
                                                                                                                                - MySQL databases are used for storing credentials and managing sessions for SOGo, also in a master-master replication setup. Importantly, all passwords are securely hashed using bcrypt, ensuring they are salted and safe.

                                                                                                                                🔎 **Monitoring & Reliability**

                                                                                                                                - Our DNS is managed through BunnyNet, which continuously monitors our server status. Should one server—or a specific service—become unavailable, DNS configurations are dynamically adjusted to avoid directing users to the affected IP until full service is restored.

                                                                                                                                🌐 **Commitment to Open Source and Open Protocols**

                                                                                                                                - Every component of BSD Mail is built exclusively using open source software and open protocols. This commitment is crucial for ensuring data freedom and the reliability of the solutions we use.

                                                                                                                                This setup not only emphasizes our commitment to privacy and security but also our dedication to maintaining an open and transparent platform.
                                                                                                                                We're excited to bring you a service where your privacy, data integrity, and freedom are prioritized. Stay tuned for more updates!

                                                                                                                                  Ángel boosted

                                                                                                                                  [?]Stefano Marinelli »
                                                                                                                                  @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                                                                                  It's official: the new email hosting service I'll be launching will run on OpenBSD as well. The two OpenSMTPD SMTP servers will operate on two OpenBSD installations.

                                                                                                                                    [?]Stefano Marinelli »
                                                                                                                                    @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                                                                                    Sharing some technical details about how I'm setting up the hosted email service. It will not be a service of BSD Cafe but tied to my own business. It will run entirely on BSD systems and on bare metal, NOT on "cloud" VPS. It will use FreeBSD jails or OpenBSD or NetBSD VMs (but on bhyve, on a leased server - I do not want user data to be stored on disks managed by others). The services (opensmtpd and rspamd, dovecot, redis, mysql, etc.) will run on separate jails/VMs, so compromising one service will NOT put the others at risk. Emails will be stored on encrypted ZFS datasets - so all emails are encrypted at rest - and only dovecot will have access to the mail datasets. I'm also considering the possibility of encrypting individual emails with the user's login password - but I still have to thoroughly test this. The setup will be fully redundant (double mx for SMTP, a domain for external IMAP access that will be managed through smart DNS - which will distribute the connections on the DNS side and, in case of a server down, will stop resolving its IP, sending all the connections to the other. Obviously, everything will be accessible in both ipv4 and ipv6 and in two different European countries, on two different providers. Synchronization will occur through dovecot's native sync (extremely stable and tested). All technical choices will be clearly explained - the goal of this service is to provide maximum transparency to users on how things will be handled.

                                                                                                                                      Ángel boosted

                                                                                                                                      [?]Solène :flan_hacker: »
                                                                                                                                      @solene@bsd.network

                                                                                                                                      Ángel boosted

                                                                                                                                      [?]Solène :flan_hacker: »
                                                                                                                                      @solene@bsd.network

                                                                                                                                      Running compositor on is very easy (only -current at the moment)

                                                                                                                                      - pkg_add sway
                                                                                                                                      - stop xenodm
                                                                                                                                      - log-in as your user in a tty
                                                                                                                                      - run /usr/local/bin/startsway.sh

                                                                                                                                      that's all :flan_thumbs:

                                                                                                                                      Screenshot of an OpenBSD desktop running the wayland compositor sway

                                                                                                                                      Alt...Screenshot of an OpenBSD desktop running the wayland compositor sway