Long trek home.

#technomage #openbsd #openbsdgaming #unix_surrealism #puffy #ksh #comic #fediart #mastoart #art

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Puffy and Girl walk across the desolate land. Girl keeps asking Puffy what game he'd like to play along the way: Girl: "...How about 'Guess which GNU core util I am?'" Puffy: "No..." Girl: "'Find the syntax error?'" Puffy: "No." Girl: "'REGEX or GLOB?'" Puffy: "No." Girl (desperately): "Well, what _do_ you want to play?" Puffy: "How about 'Execute my command?'" Girl (ecstatic): "YES! You start!" Puffy: "x=1; until (( x == 1000 )); do ((x++); done" Puffy and Girl walk across the desolate land. It is quiet. (Girl is adding up numbers in her head).

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pitrh/115509098143295810

The BSD conferences are magical. The atmosphere is friendly. It's a family - a good one - with different views but a common goal: making great things, making smart choices in a positive environment.

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #BSDCan #AsiaBSDCon

Stefano Marinelli boosted

Peter N. M. Hansteen » 🌐 2025-11-07
@pitrh@mastodon.social

"What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out!" It's where the Internet comes from!
https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html
https://medium.com/@peter.hansteen/what-is-bsd-come-to-a-conference-to-find-out-06acd7d77fd8
https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/11/what-is-bsd-come-to-conference-to-find.html
#BSD #Unix #FreeBSD #OpenBSBD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #Freesoftware #Libresoftware #BSDlicense #permissivelicensing

Almost running everything on #OpenBSD

- Desktop on mini PC
- Desktop on X201 laptop
- Home router
- Two tiny VPS hosts (web servers)

Not that it NEEDS to be OpenBSD, it’s just that I have the least amount of friction with that OS.

Hey #NetBSD 🚩community! There's been discussion over the years about whether the NetBSD project should have its own unique mascot (separate from the general BSD Beastie).

I outlined a proposal for one back in 2021, including some concepts:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2021/01/21/msg000828.html

What's the general feeling today? #RunBSD #OpenSource #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD

💾 OpenBSD Amsterdam VM feature alert! 💾

Tired of reinstalling just because /var ran out of room while /home just sat there.
We fixed that.

Now when you book, pick your disk layout:
- Default (same old, same old)
- /home 5G; /var *
- /home 1G; /var *

#RUNBSD #OpenBSD

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A meme featuring Kenan Thompson with a skeptical expression on a game show set, SNL, inspired by 'Who wants to be a milionair' The game show question reads 'Best Disk Layout,' with options: A: DEFAULT, B: CUSTOM, C: /HOME 5G, /VAR *, and D: /HOME 1G, /VAR *. Above the man, the text 'PHONE A FRIEND?' is displayed, humorously suggesting the difficulty of the question."

https://www.openbsdhandbook.com/storage/#software-raid-with-softraid

Updating my Stalwart email server... Wish me luck! #OpenBSD #stalwart

At a brewery on the Oregon coast, someone walks past and double-takes at my shirt. "OpenBSD? Are you an OpenBSD developer?"

@BugZ says she will not get over that for a long time.

#OpenBSD

Just stumbled upon this, nothing really new here, but it is nicely done and fairly complete:

Awesome #OpenBSD

https://github.com/ligurio/awesome-openbsd

Yes, the @bsdcan 2026 Call for papers is open! See https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html, submissions deadline is 17 January 2026.
#bsdcan #cfp #callforpapers #conference #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware

I reached the point where my laptop is day-to-day usable and I have no ideas what to configure next. This is a good place to be in.

#OpenBSD

@stefano I once went with my boss from the college to visit Dundee University in Scotland. We came into this huge room with #iMacs on each table. I was drooling!
When we came home I argued that we needed something like that.
"I'll let you buy a keyboard" my boss said.
I bought the keyboard ;)
Then I left for another college. 5 years later one of my old colleagues came for a visit. Out of his bag came the keyboard, "I believe this is yours" he said.
I still use that wonderful iMac keyboard on my #openbsd home server every day.
#nostalgia

Time for a late-night #OpenBSD upgrade on the router, this time to 7.8. Backup is done, now just going to run sysupgrade. See y'all on the other side.

Installing GNOME on OpenBSD 7.8

https://btxx.org/posts/openbsd-gnome/

#openbsd #gnome #desktop

Today's reboot reminded me of something to look forward to for these winter months, thanks to a gift I left myself in my #OpenBSD workstation's #X11 #xenodm `~/.xsession`:

```
# a little snow never hurt anyone, but let's only enjoy it in the winter months
case "$(date +%m)" in
11|12|01|02) xsnow -notrees -nosanta & ;;
esac
```

(Sadly, the #xsnow port & packages were sent to "the attic" long ago, but it still builds and functions normally.)

Nice to see Lagrange available for OpenBSD to browse gopher and Gemini links.

#openbsd #gopher #geminiprotocol

TOM DUFF v DAVID KORN

#unix_surrealism #comic #ksh #rc #tomduff #davidkorn #openbsd #plan9 #9front

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daemon: "see? I can put in as much whitespace as I want!" kornboy: "But can you print the output of a command inside heredocs?" daemon: "Who do you think would win in a fight?" Tom Duff or David Korn?" kornboy: "Don't ask questions you don't want answered!"

authlog

(ft. the tome of pf: https://nostarch.com/pf3 by @pitrh )

#unix_surrealism #openbsd #technomage #pf #comic #runbsd

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Girl and Puffy approach an ancient machine. A tome of PF lies nearby. The screen of the machine is printing thousands of lines. Girl turns to Puffy and asks: "all those lines... who are they?" Puffy: "Enslaved souls of unsuspecting machines. Forever cursed to haunt open ports."

Found some nice BeOS / Haiku OS icons for my OpenBSD Xfce setup. #openbsd #xfce
https://www.xfce-look.org/p/2087825

Tuning DWM on #OpenBSD is very fun when you are new to the operating system. Took me a while to realize that vmstat and iostat are showing average-from-boot CPU usage if you don't print at least two lines in a row.

Why and how we're migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs

My BSDCan 2025 presentation, PeerTube and YouTube links:

PeerTube: https://tube.bsd.cafe/w/x4oPuHpCJK3qWFfdZtr7hd

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnVp25-6Qao

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #BSDCan #ISolveProblems #Linux

For some reason #Slack seized working today, with #Firefox on #OpenBSD 7.7. #Chromium on the other hand worked nicely. Anyone else having issues with Firefox and Slack?

No AI being used here

Also: #RunYourOwnMailServer

#selfhosting #email #openbsd #opensmtpd

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Meme picture How they want my mailserver to look: [Exchange logo] Hos my mailserver actually looks: [hand holding up a small server-type machine]

It is really time to ditch Linux...

phoronix.com/forums/forum/phor…

When Attila joins Gengis Khan... 😖

I am desperate for having the time to ditch #Linux at least on my personal computers... 😭

#runbsd #freebsd #openbsd #nebsd #dragonflybsd

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

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ZQJC48GUPB3UU&source=url

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

It seems I cannot use Firefox 144.0.2 on #OpenBSD to log into slack.com anymore. Works with Chromium. Can anyone confirm/infirm if it is only me ?

Nuevo vídeo de The OpenBSD Guy sobre cómo configurar QEMU/KVM para instalar #OpenBSD (en lugar de usar VirtualBox)

https://youtu.be/ugs8wTRsnKs

Today was the day. 😁 #openbsd #unix #bsd
https://basic.bearblog.dev/my-openbsd-journey/

Reprising for the *BSD curious - "What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_every_it_person_needs_to_know_about_openbsd.html

and my "short reading list" that has more (hopefully useful) links for aspiring and seasoned techies https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_short_reading_list.html #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #freesoftware #development #devops #engineering

The new @BoxyBSD platform gained some new features for a better #BSD experience!

* The new portal now also finally supports VNC access to your BSD based VPS instances!

* You can finally select ISO files which offers you even to install any BSD or #OpenSolaris version from scratch or to install your VPS instance based on your personal needs without relying on a ready2use image. More images can be added upon request quickly. Simply get in touch with @gyptazy

* You can now get up to 2 free VPS instances to test and evaluate HA setups, multi-region setups etc.

* Extended DN42 peering (where you can also use your DN42 IPv4 addresses)

This is created by @gyptazy and if you're interested into more information, just come to the FOSDEM 2026 for a chat!

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #SmolBSD #MidnightBSD #DragonflyBSD #RUNBSD #FreeVPS #Hosting #IPv6 #DN42 #community #opensource #fosdem

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The new BoxyBSD platform now offers VNC access and ISO selection which brings in several new possibilities for users.

During my lunch break I downloaded OpenBSD and flashed it twice but my Thinkpad P51 won’t recognize it during boot time. The boot menu screen flashes quickly and stays on the boot menu.

Any suggestions? Using balena etcher to make the img on a flash drive.

#OpenBSD #BSD #unix

rio-like configuration for base openbsd fvwm2

https://nein.triapul.cz/technology/openbsd/fvwm/

#rio #fvwm #plan9 #openbsd #fishlinux #serpico

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jc leyendecker in acme

The CfP for the BSD, illumos, OpenZFS, bhyve Devroom at FOSDEM 2026 is now available, you can start submitting your talk 🤩

https://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigo/fosdem26/

#Fosdem2026 #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Illumos #ZFS #bhyve

boosts appreciated

Something I did this weekend to my @OpenBSDAms VM (great service!) before updating to #OpenBSD 7.8 was merging a couple of file systems to make a bit of headroom. To my own surprise, I even blogged about it → https://perezdecastro.org/2025/openbsdams-merge-filesystems.html

#RunBSD

En su web @sizeofvoid destaca las principales novedades de #OpenBSD 7.8

https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025/openbsd-78/

In -current, chromium (and derivatives) gain VA-API support https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251104063040 #openbsd #chromium #chrome #iridium #vaapi #video #current

I pasted my laptops model number and it showed up as this 20Y1000SUKp-_g^O^C when it should have been just what I highlighted 20Y1000SUK
This is supposed to be /usr/X11R6 when pasted shows as /usr/X11R6Lohit Tamil

My .Xresources is below.

XTerm*termName: xterm-256color
XTerm*locale: true
XTerm*highlightSelection: true
XTerm*trimSelection: true
XTerm*saveLinew: 4096
XTerm*scrollBar: false
XTerm*cursorBlink: true
XTerm.VT100.utf8: true
XTerm*allowScrollLock: true
! Xcursor theme
Xcursor.theme:  Adwaita
Xcursor.size:   24
! Font
XTerm*faceName: Go Mono Nerd Font Mono
XTerm*renderFont: true
XTerm*faceSize: 10
Xft.dpi: 96
XTerm*keepClipboard: true
XTerm*selectToClipboard: true
XTerm*VT100.Translations: #override \n\
  Ctrl Shift <KeyPress>C:    copy-selection(CLIPBOARD) \n\
  Ctrl Shift <KeyPress>V:    insert-selection(CLIPBOARD)
! Clicking a line selects only from the current word forward
XTerm*cutToBeginningOfLine   : false
! and dont include a trailing newline in the selection!
XTerm*cutNewline             : false
! Some black magic to change what characters XTerm considers "word delimiters"
XTerm*charClass              : 33:48,36-47:48,58-59:48,61:48,63-64:48,95:48,126:48
! Select word on two clicks
XTerm*on2Clicks              : word
! Select whole line on three clicks
XTerm*on3Clicks              : line
! Select whole group on four clicks
XTerm*on4Clicks:        group
! Select whole page on five clicks
XTerm*on5Clicks:        page
! Gruvbox theme
XTerm*background: #262626
XTerm*foreground: #ebdbb2
XTerm*color0: #262628
XTerm*color8: #928374
XTerm*color1: #CC241D
XTerm*color9: #fb4934
XTerm*color2: #98971a
XTerm*color10: #b8bb26
XTerm*color3: #FF8F15
XTerm*color11: #FFAF00
XTerm*color4: #458588
XTerm*color12: #83a598
XTerm*color5: #b16286
XTerm*color13: #d3869b
XTerm*color6: #689d6a
XTerm*color14: #8ec07c
XTerm*color7: #a89984
XTerm*color15: #ebdbb2

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#OpenBSD -current now has initial suspend-to-idle (S0) support on amd64, useful on modern Intel/AMD machines that lack S3 (suspend-to-RAM). ​

kettenis@ modified src/sys/*: Implement the guts for "suspend-to-idle" on amd64. This enables suspend on machines that don't support S3. In its current state it doesn't save a lot of power, but this should improve over time. Implementation of wakeup methods is incomplete which means that some machine can't resume at the moment.

ok mglocker@, mlarkin@, stsp@, deraadt@

Additional power saving improvements in this follow-up commit, with more likely to follow:

kettenis@ modified src/sys/dev/acpi/*: Power down PCI devices in S0 as well. Needed for suspend-to-dle.

ok mglocker@

Looks like there's some additional power savings for #OpenBSD's new suspend-to-idle support, thanks to Mark Kettenis! ​ ​

kettenis@ modified src/sys/*: Make sure we select the deepest possible C-state during suspend-to-idle.

ok deraadt@, guenther@, mlarkin@, jsg@

OpenBSD has a new driver, intelpmc(4), for the Intel PMC (Power Management Controller) needed to enter even lower power idle states during suspend-to-idle (S0i), which #OpenBSD gained initial support for back in June.

Thanks to Mark Kettenis & previous work by jcs@! ​

kettenis@ modified src/sys/*: Add intelpmc(4), a driver for the power management controller found on various Intel SoCs. The driver takes care of calling the AML methods needed to enter low power idle states during suspend-to-idle (S0i).
The driver also implements some debug code that prints the residency of various power states in dmesg. Based on some earlier code by jcs@

ok jcs@

#OpenBSD has a new driver for AMD machines, amdpmc(4), similar to intelpmc(4), for power management control needed to enter even lower power idle states during suspend-to-idle (S0i), which #OpenBSD has began supporting since 7.6.

kettenis@ modified src/sys/*: Add [amdpmc(4)], the equivalent of intelpmc(4) for machines with AMD CPUs.

ok mlarkin@, stsp@, deraadt@

#OpenBSD -current now has some initial USB4 support, a new driver has been added, nhi(4).. but not for why you might think. ​

OpenBSD gained amdpmc(4) this summer, which helped to improve suspend-to-idle (S0ix) support on AMD machines, unfortunately that wasn't enough and machines also require some extra negotiating with the USB4 controller to actually enter lower power states. This new driver currently handles that part! ​

kettenis@ modified src/sys/*: Add a driver for USB4 controllers. For now this driver doesn't actually implements any USB4 support apart from putting the controller to sleep during suspend. This is necessary on modern laptops with AMD CPUs to reach the appropriate low power idle states during S0ix suspend.

Hello, decided to log back into Mastodon as the bus to my town seems to have stopped a minute away from here for 20 minutes now. I have a few status updates regarding my tech adventures to share.

Firstly, I installed postmarketOS on a Samsung Galaxy S9 a few months ago, and with it, I moved to Alpine Linux on my laptop and desktop. The experience has been wonderful, but bumpy. It works really well on my laptop, but my desktop has faced some issues which I am happy to post on their mailing list once I am back home.

I also installed Arch Linux alongside my Alpine Linux installation as a redundant backup option in case one ends up broken by an update, or a mistake of my own. This has proven handy twice now, the second time ending up with my main system still under maintenance as of today. I also have a reserve Linux Mint USB, if it gets really bad, but I remain hopeful that it won't get that bad. Just for assurance, my ego has not inflated after installing it.

I still love using OpenBSD and FreeBSD when I can, but I deemed it more logical to use the operating system based off the kernel I want to develop for in the future. I plan on using OpenBSD on systems that I find to be not essential to use all the time, such as my brothers desktop, but I'm kind of bringing myself to use Alpine Linux on my daily drivers.

Sorry for disappearing for a while, this is a new phone which I forgot to install Mastodon on. My old phone drowned after my water bottle leaked during a walk, which meant I had to start over from scratch. I'm still addicted to Pixel phones however. Thanks for making a great operating system, #grapheneos team.

#OpenBSD #freebsd #alpinelinux #archlinux #BSD #Linux #technology #postmarketos

@justine Seriously? I was running #OpenBSD home router as a ESXi VM for years on end with 512 Mb of RAM and 20 Gb drive. Updates, upgrades, everything was working flawlessly.

Don't know about current version, but 7.5 and prior worked even with 256 Mb RAM and 8 Gb drive.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Glovary-Firewall-Upgraded-OPNsense-Appliance/dp/B0DSF3LTSH/

OpenSMTPD 7.8.0p0 released https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251102104457 #openbsd #opensmtpd #email #mail #smtp #mailserver #mta #libresoftware #freesoftware

Please boost <3

So I found the answer here and according to the blog it's a YES ! - https://www.rsadowski.de/posts/2025/aoostar-gem12-pro-max-openbsd/#the-top

LibreSSL 4.1.2 and 4.2.1 released https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251102090208 #openbsd #libressl #tls #ssl #security #networking #cryptography #crypto #realcrypto #libresoftware #freesoftware

Little bit experimenting with OpenBSD 7.8 🙂
Working nice, but I'll stay with FreeBSD on my systems (too many commands in muscle-memory)

#openbsd #bsd #unix #foss #opensource #xfce

dating culture clash

#9front #openbsd #gnu #linux #plan9 #dating #comic #unix

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plan9bunny-person meets with a fish-daemon-person. Daemon: "So, how was the date?" Bunny: "He talked about docker for 35 minutes and then asked, if I have wine." Daemon: "Did you tell him you're not Unix?" Bunny: "Yeah, he said: 'oh, like GNU?'"

How much RAM do you have on your #OpenBSD computer?

https://github.com/openbsd/src/commits/master/

BSDCan 2026 is now accepting submissions for the June 2026 conference, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html and links therein for instructions.

Submissions deadline is January 17, 2026, the conference runs tutorials June 17-18, talks June 19-20.

#bsdcan #conference #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #bsd #development #networking #freesoftware #libresoftware

frightening tales to tell when the sun is about to go down

#openbsd #technomage #linux #ai #unix_surrealism

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Girl, Puffy and Penguin are resting and eating PBJ sandwiches in the middle of nowhere. Sun is about to set. Puffy tells a spooky story. Puffy: "...so she submits a chatgpt generated patch... and it gets accepted."

Finally worked out how to toggle #polybar in #bspwm using a custom script designed for my #OpenBSD #KSH setup. There may be better ways of doing this in less code and if you know then I'd be happy to adapt but at the moment this works for me.

#!/bin/sh
get_polybar_id() {
# List monitors and extract names
monitors=$(polybar --list-monitors | cut -d":" -f1)
# Get PIDs of polybar processes
pids=$(pgrep polybar)
# Get the currently focused monitor name
focused=$(bspc query -M -m focused --names)
# Convert monitors to an array
set -- "$monitors"
mon_count=$#  # Number of monitors
# Initialize index
ind=0
# Find the index of the focused monitor
for monitor in $monitors; do
  ind=$((ind + 1))
  if [ "$monitor" = "$focused" ]; then
    break
  fi
done
# Extract the correct PID based on the index
# Convert pids into an array using space as a delimiter
pid_array=$(echo "$pids" | tr ' ' '\n')
poly_id=$(echo "$pid_array" | sed -n "${ind}p")
# Check if poly_id is set; if not, exit with an error
if [ -z "$poly_id" ]; then
  echo "No PID found for the focused monitor."
  exit 1
fi
}
get_polybar_id
# Define the state file
STATE_FILE="/tmp/toggle_state-$poly_id.txt"
# Check if the state file exists, create it if it doesn't
if [ ! -f "$STATE_FILE" ]; then
    echo "show" > "$STATE_FILE"  # Default state
fi
# Read the current state
CURRENT_STATE=$(cat "$STATE_FILE")
# Toggle the state
if [ "$CURRENT_STATE" == "show" ]; then
    echo "hide" > "$STATE_FILE"
    polybar-msg -p "$poly_id" cmd hide | bspc config -m "$focused" top_padding 0
else
    echo "show" > "$STATE_FILE"
    polybar-msg -p "$poly_id" cmd show
fi

# Toggle Polybar
super + z
  bar-toggle.sh

Not to "look at me how smart I am" but I attended 3 Teams Online meeting today using Ungoogled-Chromium on #OpenBSD. One of which had my Chromium application screen shared.

Just #RunBSD

OpenBSD 7.8 was released!! We will start the upgrade process soon!

15 new VMs were added and 59 VMs were renewed.

We donated €1035 to the #OpenBSD Foundation, €58370 since we started.

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

Stay safe, healthy & sane!

#RUNBSD in 2025

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Artwork for OpenBSD 7.8 Dark background with two colored squids floating, on the left a yellow/greenish and on the right one light blue. In the foreground it's written OpenBSD 7.8 with a fancy font in light blue.

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Paypal receipt for €1035

https://mail-archive.com/ports@openbsd.org/msg136132.html

#emwm on #OpenBSD lacks a maintainer now

I was just "done" with the work needed to make it work correctly on OpenBSD

@prahou Today part of my order arrived, thank you!

Still awaiting the t-shirt 😎

#runbsd #openbsd

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laptop with various computer / BSD related stickers. Including one with artwork from @prahou@merveilles.town

Enable BPF filtering on sockets https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251030110053 #openbsd #bpf #filtering #sockets #networking #security #development #poc #proofofconcept #earlydays #freesoftware #libresoftware

Making the veb(4) virtual Ethernet bridge VLAN aware https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251029114507 #openbsd #veb #vlan #networking #bridge #freesoftware #libresoftware #current #newfeature #development

Prehistoric AI, OpenBlade's relative

#unix_surrealism #lispmachine #openblade #openbsd #technomage #comic

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Girl and Puffy discover an abandoned machine in a ruined building. Girl: "What is it, master?" Puffy: "This, my dear Girl, is a prewar fully sentient MilTek Lisp Machine. It's basically a bulkier OpenBlade. I was sure MATA got rid of them all..." LispMachine: "Hi there! I haven't seen another live form in over 200 years! Do you guys wanna hear my take on vaccines?" OpenBlade: "Wow, this guy is awesome!"

Oh, before I go to bed: don't forget to update your #OpenBSD 7.8 boxes ladies and gentlemen!

You should have four (4) updates to download via syspatch, I will let you figure out which one!

The updated control panel at @BoxyBSD by @gyptazy

@gyptazy #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #FreeVPS #Hosting #IPV6 #BGP #DN42 #smolBSD #RUNBSD #BSD #BSDHosting #Hosting #FreeHosting #community #opensource

Serious question. Probably gonna get me flamed hard core for even asking.

Why doesn't #OpenBSD support #ZFS ? Is it ideological, or just financial?

I'm going to bed. I fully expect to get flamed into the ground for even asking. My phone is set to silent.

I ran OpenBSD as my primary fileserver from 1999 until 2011 or so, when ZFS and #FreeBSD were the far more obvious choice.

Last night, while upgrading our computers to the latest #OpenBSD release, I realized I've been daily driving this operating system for almost five years.

I have somehow managed to learn a lot, and still have no idea what I'm doing. :)

#RunBSD

Heads up for people applying the first syspatch(8) for #OpenBSD 7.8, which is actually for the syspatch(8) utility itself.

There are instructions in the errata patch for if it fails.

If syspatch fails (probably because /usr is not a separate filesystem), perform these steps:
sed -e 's/.checkfs/#checkfs/g' /usr/sbin/syspatch > /root/syspatch
ksh /root/syspatch
syspatch # re-run new syspatch command as instructed
rm /root/syspatch
dev_mkdb

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=176158489701798&w=2

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If you can read this, #GoToSocial 0.20.1 now runs on #OpenBSD 7.8.

No real problems. The gotosocial binary must be recompiled as a 7.7 binary does not seem to run on 7.8. That's probably a Go thing 🤷

Also, gotta review my partitioning. 10G for the whole system with a bunch of 1-3G partitions leads to way too many "not enough space" when upgrading / updating. My fault here! Luckily, OpenBSD is smart enough to sysupgrade in a custom directory (thanks -b) and have pkg_add delete old packages (and files) before upgrading them.

Thanks to everyone involved. All hail the fish.

The Man of MATA pt1

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#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage #openbsd #linux #penguin #mata

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Somewhere in a desert... Girl and Penguin are eating breakfast. Penguin: "Morning, slept well?" Girl: "mhmhmhm" Penguin: "What's today?" Girl checks her school schedule. It's Monday, morning class - history. Girl: "History. Penguin, unenthusiased: "Sounds exciting."

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Classroom. Fish begins the lesson. Fish: "I wanted to call this class mythology, but Purple said history suggests that some of it might actually be true. Nobody remembers how long ago, but as you know, the world ended. While the inheritors of the ravaged land learned to adapt to their predicament, three brothers, successors of those who brought about the end, set out into the destroyed world to ruin it some more." LAST REMAINING MATACORPBUNKER B_73; three brothers "Well, gentlemen, we ate all the women, children and uly. The water purifier is busted and the only person who could fix it was Parkinson." "We ate her last week." "We ate her last week." "Nothing to eat, nothing to drink. So now what?" "I think it's time to do what our great great great grandparents spoke of - Go outside and restart civilization." "Ugh..."

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Penguin and Fish are dressed as the MATA brothers. Penguin: "I have the best ideas." Fish: "You're going to have to help us play the third brother." Girl, ecstatic: "School trip!" analognowhere presents: techno-mage in: Girl, Fish and Penguin stand outside their cave home. Fish: "... they gathered a bunch of thumbdrives with ancient CORPO tech and went on a journey to find people and machines they could poison." Penguin: "It's a good day to fuck shit up. Come on, bros!" Girl: "He's really into it!"

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The three brothers cross the ancient desolate land. "This suuuuuuuuuuuucks." "Shut up."

Me: huh, I don't remember logging out of my session on the kids' #OpenBSD 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.

I got asked if I could create a #howto for creating a (public) #NAT64 service - just like I did recently for #BoxyBSD. With #DNS64 and #NAT64 you can also reach resource in the legacy internet (#IPv4) on #IPv6 only systems.

While this is based on #unbound and #tayga, there’s also a solution by using the #OpenBSD'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.

https://gyptazy.com/howto-create-a-public-dns64-nat64-gateway/

While I was mucking about with an #openbsd port, I got an email from github offering me access to their ai code writing uselessness.

No! Bad website!

*spritzes with water bottle*

My code doesn't work at the moment. Broken is still better than this offer.

This is my favorite part of the OpenBSD installer because I get it wrong every time, but I love that they anticipated it! #openbsd

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Text from the OpenBSD installer asking "Setup a user? (enter a lower-case loginname, or 'no')". The user enters "yes" and the next prompt says "No really, what is the lower-case loginname, or 'no'?"

**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!

#BSDMail #OpenSource #Privacy #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #EmailHosting #Email

#OpenBSD may introduces Word into the base system

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=170742832804260&w=2

Running #wayland compositor #sway on #OpenBSD 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

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Screenshot of an OpenBSD desktop running the wayland compositor sway