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Steven Rosenberg ยป
@passthejoe@ruby.social

`man afterboot` is another reason to love

Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Think I'm going to have to add my FishPad, I mean ThinkPad dot files to my self hosted git repository shortly.

Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Fixed

Finally worked out how to toggle in using a custom script designed for my 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

Just add the following line to your sxhkdrc script.

# Toggle Polybar
super + z
bar-toggle.sh

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@joel@gts.tumfatig.net

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

๐™น๐š˜๐šŽ๐š• ๐™ฒ๐šŠ๐š›๐š—๐šŠ๐š โ™‘ ๐Ÿคช ยป
@joel@gts.tumfatig.net

Hey les gens,
si vous cherchez une instance #SearXNG publique maintenue avec amour et avec #OpenBSD, il y en a une ici https://about.nogoo.me/fr/services/searxng/

Peter N. M. Hansteen ยป
@pitrh@mastodon.social

Jan Schaumann ยป
@jschauma@mstdn.social

I fell down a rabbit hole into a virtual memory layout landscape, trying to better understand how thread stacks are placed under Address Space Layout Randomization. Turns out, there's quite a bit of variability across different Unix flavors.

netmeister.org/blog/thread-sta

The Psychotic Network Ferret ยป 🤖
@nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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

Why doesn't support ? 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 were the far more obvious choice.

Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Tinkering with and I'm getting quite used to it and love the preselection aka manual tiling. Even managed to get picom setting the transparency for tbe preselection area. Still lot's more to explore here before I decide if I'll switch from but it's looking probable as i can have 1-10 individual or whatever workspaces on each monitor.

Peter N. M. Hansteen ยป
@pitrh@mastodon.social

รngel boosted

Tomรกลก ยป
@prahou@merveilles.town

Prehistoric AI, OpenBlade's relative

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!"

Alt...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!"

Parade du Grotesque ๐Ÿ’€ ยป
@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org

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

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

BoxyBSD ยป
@BoxyBSD@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Steven Rosenberg ยป
@passthejoe@ruby.social

I need to try the Xfce image next. I can't say I'll replace with this, but a system with so much working out of the box -- and with ZFS -- is tempting.

Russ Sharek ยป
@RussSharek@mastodon.art

Last night, while upgrading our computers to the latest 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. :)

Hyde ๐Ÿ“ท ๐Ÿ–‹ ยป
@hyde@lazybear.social

This week for the series, my guest is @bt!

He gave his thoughts about , , , , and !
He also recommendended two

lazybea.rs/ovr-039

vermaden ยป
@vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Latest ๐—ฉ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜„๐˜€ - ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฑ/๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ/๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿณ (Valuable News - 2025/10/27) available.

vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/10

Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

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@joel@gts.tumfatig.net

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 ๐Ÿคท

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.

R1 Open Source Project ยป
@r1os@mastodon.bsd.cafe

I'm a little bit late, but... OpenBSD 7.8 released with support for Raspberry Pi 5, ACPI processor power state support on arm64, updated DRM to Linux 6.12.50, new Qualcomm drivers, SEV-ES support for VMs, LibreSSL 4.2.0, OpenSSH 10.2

openbsd.org/78.html

Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

What do you all think to my new avatar / web logo ? This has been drawn by the fantastic Tomรกลก aka @prahou@merveilles.town whose work can be found at https://analognowhere.com/

A cartoon drawing of me and Fish aka Puffy in the style of Unix Surrealism as drawn by Tomรกลก of tbe website analognowhere.com

Alt...A cartoon drawing of me and Fish aka Puffy in the style of Unix Surrealism as drawn by Tomรกลก of tbe website analognowhere.com

Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Have to say as much as I love FreeBSD since switching to it very much feels like this is my church of Unix. ๐Ÿ’›
Seems like I'm worshipping but hey it does everything that I want it to and more, Securely.

Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Is adding this line to my ~/.xsession to disable home directory core dumps: ulimit -Sc 0 going to cause me a problem or not in the future ?

Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

I've found a weird issue in where with my USB external Scarlett 2i2 which works connected with sndio, when I open Qutebrowser and go to a youtube video to play in the browser the audio works but sometimes all USB external devices like my keyboard and trackball stop working. My ThinkPads trackpad, keypad and nipple still work though. Not sure where to start but it only happens when I try using the in browser youtube player ????
Only way to make them work is to reboot as I tried just unplugging the USB hub and reconnecting but nothing.

And now the machine is laughing at me as I cannot make it happen again so far. Whereas about 2 hours ago it happened everytime without fail.

Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Decided to see how the WiFi was on my P14s Gen 1 AMD using an AX200 and it works perfectly ! I get 300 x 100 on WiFi versus 970 by 100 on my lan FTTH connection. So I'm quite impressed.

Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

folk I require a little help if possible ?
I have my external screen connected to my ThinkPad but the dimensions are wrong ie screen size in mm.

HDMI-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1060mm x 626mm

It should be 700x390mm so I thought by adding this it would change but NO it didn't ?

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/monitor.conf

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "HDMI-1"
DisplaySize 700 390
EndSection
What am I doing wrong and I have tried rebooting too ?

R1 Open Source Project ยป
@r1os@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Finally!

I'm happy to announce the R1OS Forum, a place for everyone interested in free and open source software that wants to discuss about it, get help using it, or simply want to be part of a new community.

r1os.com/sites/blog/forum-plat

Forum: forum.r1os.com

Red Riding Root ยป
@kinderstampfer@mstdn.social

I do have as dualboot option together with installed. My only problem with that is that a sysupgrade overwrites my grub and i then have to boot the linux installation once with a live-system to run a grub-install again.

I wonder if it is possible to avoid this annoying little step every 6 months.

Steven Rosenberg ยป
@passthejoe@ruby.social

There is a great community on this Fediverse. Friendly and helpful.

Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Also noticed that apmd putting my ThinkPad P14s Gen 1 AMD into suspend or hibernate seems to work but they never come back. Waking from one gets as far as unpacking image and just sits there and the other the Ethernet port lights but no keyboard or screen come back. Oh well maybe another day

Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Anyone get their fingerprint reader working to login on using fprintd and login_fingerprint from ports ? Just wondered if anyone had blogged about the setup ? I have used it with Linux before but just wondered what differs setup wise on OpenBSD ??

I see mines detected in dmesg.

ugen2 at uhub1 port 3 "Synaptics Fingerprint Reader" rev 2.00/0.00 addr 8

Michael Jack ยป
@mjack@mastodon.bsd.cafe

OpenBSD guest on Hyper-V, take 3:

1) Use Generation 1
2) Use MBR

Screen shot showing fastfetch output from OpenBSD 7.8, running under Hyper-V

Alt...Screen shot showing fastfetch output from OpenBSD 7.8, running under Hyper-V

Anders Gulden Olstad ยป
@andersgo@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Installed 7.8 on an old 2x4 Xeon machine with a Radeon Nautilus GPU and KDE plasma. No sweat! The iwx0 wifi got an ac connection and managed approx 200Mbps down and 100Mbps up! Why did the Yubikey OTP stop working!? Why Theo! Why! Good grief Iโ€™m still in mourning, not even at the acceptance phase evenโ€ฆ.

KaiXin ยป
@kaixin@snac.bsd.cafe

Upgrade night! really made it easy!


Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Got my Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 working on and have it chose that when it's connected and the ThinkPads audio when it's not. Yeah I'm easily pleased I know. ;)

doas rcctl set sndiod flags -f rsnd/0 -F rsnd/1
doas rcctl restart sndiod

The New Oil ยป 🤖
@thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

Andrew Hewus Fresh ยป
@AFresh1@bsd.network

Hmm. Enabled dnssec on the base domain that I use a subdomain of at home and now unwind(8) doesn't want to resolve any of the internal names. โ€‹

Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

I was today years old when I discovered that openrsync works better than rsync on ! So guess what I've removed from my systems.

[ Update ]
So i discovered openrsync needs rsync too.

~/rqm ยป
@rqm@exquisite.social

stickers from @prahou arrived and I love them

The Grendel sticker was immediately confiscated by the 5-year-old (who now is rocking it on his laptop that he practices his school IT studies on)

Stickers on a Macbook

Alt...Stickers on a Macbook

Stickers scattered on a sofa cushion

Alt...Stickers scattered on a sofa cushion

BoxyBSD ยป
@BoxyBSD@mastodon.bsd.cafe

We at @BoxyBSD are happy to announce our new and modern website!

While the missions keeps the same by providing a free place for beginners to learn, educate themselves and test things in the wild on BSD-based systems (such like , , (or even ) and many more ones) with public accessible IP addresses, the old nerdy design only hit a niche of users.

We want to make BoxyBSD more accessible & enjoyable to everyone and this is one of the first steps. We know, a laggy SSH connection doesn't make fun and therefore, we're also setting up new locations to provide you a better latency independent of your location.

During this time, signups for new users are currently deactivated until the new locations are up and running and the first real-user tests within the new interface have been successfully performed.

Web: boxybsd.com

Thanks to @gyptazy for this :)

New BoxyBSD website

Alt...New BoxyBSD website

Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Hmmm strange temperature issue and not sure if it's or btop or even me ??
btop shows my CPU cores at 1229 degrees celcius. I can assure you that that is very wrong indeed. If I enter the following it only shows the CPU not the cores.

justine@openbsd-laptop ~  $ sysctl hw.sensors.ksmn0
hw.sensors.ksmn0.temp0=43.62 degC (Tctl)
Any ideas for this AMD PRO 4750u ?

This works perfect on my I5-10505 desktop.

A screenshot from the output of btop showing my CPU cores at 1229 degrees celicius which is obviously very wrong.

Alt...A screenshot from the output of btop showing my CPU cores at 1229 degrees celicius which is obviously very wrong.

Linux Renaissance ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ท ยป
@darth@silversword.online

Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

I'm quite impressed with this laptop running to be honest. So that's two machines running OpenBSD in this household so far. One being my desktop which is a Dell Optiplex 3080 Tower with an i5-10505 and my ThinkPad P14s Gen 1 AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U. Still lots to configure and play with as I have my Scarlett 2i2 connected to my ThinkPad too.

A screenshot of my ThinkPad P14s Gen 1 AMD displaying the Fastfetch out put of the systems stats.

Alt...A screenshot of my ThinkPad P14s Gen 1 AMD displaying the Fastfetch out put of the systems stats.

thegnuguy ยป
@thegnuguy@fosstodon.org

Well OpenBSD just had a release. As much as I use it, I donated $10. If you like ssh, pf, pledge, httpd, sndio, and all the other cool stuff they do....donate.

dch boosted

๐™น๐š˜๐šŽ๐š• ๐™ฒ๐šŠ๐š›๐š—๐šŠ๐š โ™‘ ๐Ÿคช ยป
@joel@gts.tumfatig.net

Because of expenses and depreciation and corporate income taxes, I finally replaced my laptop. I wasnยดt going to yet because ThinkPad and T480s still works properly. But there was that 40% promotion on a more recent ThinkPad so I jumped in.

It is #ThinkPad P14s Gen 5 AMD. I have installed both FreeBSD 14.3 and OpenBSD 7.8 on it and used it for a couple of hours. So far, sleep/resume, audio, accelerated video, X11, keyboard and touchpad, ethernet work as expected. The Qualcomm wireless card does not seem to be recognized by #FreeBSD. But it works on #OpenBSD! This is a great surprised because it wasn't supposed to, according to the online docs I found and I was ready to use a USB dongle.

I donยดt really like the keyboard because Fn and Ctrl are not in the ThinkPad normal order. Also, the keys are a bit too thin for my linking - same as X1 Carbon - I like X280/T480s/X230i keyboards better. But all in all, the outside is quite nice, for a plastic thing.

And now, you can get the #dmesg here:

รngel ยป
@angel@triptico.com

So 7.8 happened and it was upgraded and all my machines were happy as the process was smooth as always.

Thanks to everyone involved. All hail the fish.

Stefano Marinelli ยป
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

I couldn't wait. I'm currently installing KDE Plasma on my OpenBSD laptop - before having to rush to a client.

Dendrobatus Azureus ยป
@Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe

OpenBSD v7.8 is released in the world!

openbsd.org/78.html

The image is a promotional graphic announcing the release of OpenBSD v7.8

It features a stylized, abstract design with a prominent OpenBSD logo in the center. The overall color scheme is blue and white, creating a clean and modern aesthetic. The graphic includes text detailing new features and system improvements in the release. The bottom of the graphic lists various ports, includes details of some specific functionalities like "arm64," and includes a copyright notice.

The text on the graphic includes: "OpenBSD 7.8". "Released October 26, 2023". "New features and system improvements". Beneath this, there is a list of updates including "ports," "newsys," "arm64," "riscv64," "Apple silicon," "new sysctl variables," "acpica (J)," "virtio," "zfs," and "nftd." At the bottom, it includes "Copyright 1997-2023, The FreeBSD Project."

Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Gemma3:12b

๐ŸŒฑ Energy used: 0.461 Wh

Alt...The image is a promotional graphic announcing the release of OpenBSD v7.8 It features a stylized, abstract design with a prominent OpenBSD logo in the center. The overall color scheme is blue and white, creating a clean and modern aesthetic. The graphic includes text detailing new features and system improvements in the release. The bottom of the graphic lists various ports, includes details of some specific functionalities like "arm64," and includes a copyright notice. The text on the graphic includes: "OpenBSD 7.8". "Released October 26, 2023". "New features and system improvements". Beneath this, there is a list of updates including "ports," "newsys," "arm64," "riscv64," "Apple silicon," "new sysctl variables," "acpica (J)," "virtio," "zfs," and "nftd." At the bottom, it includes "Copyright 1997-2023, The FreeBSD Project." Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Gemma3:12b ๐ŸŒฑ Energy used: 0.461 Wh

Steven Rosenberg ยป
@passthejoe@ruby.social

I used for the first time today to back up my user files.

It is pretty much a drop-in replacement for rsync, and openrsync is part of the OpenBSD base system.

Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Well I've only gone and done it now ! Yep you guessed it is successfully running on my old P14s Gen 1 AMD albiet a tad slower than my i5 Dell Optiplex desktop on boot. I've still to finish getting things the way I like but that's no issue.

Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Backed up my P14s Gen 1 AMD home plus system files and now downloading 7.8.

Steven Rosenberg ยป
@passthejoe@ruby.social

I just finished the upgrade to 7.8.

My system is young -- only 2 weeks old, still running Fvwm with 1 browser (Firefox) and maybe a half-dozen other applications. I expected everything to go well, and it did.

The separation of base system and packages makes for a cleaner upgrade.

Bryan Steele ยป
@canadianbryan@mastodon.social

7.8 apparel (t-shirts, so far) are once again available on openbsdstore.com ! ๐Ÿ˜Ž

Many thanks to Job Snijders & "Apsephion" for the artwork!

Tomรกลก ยป
@prahou@merveilles.town

Happy birthday, !

P. FISH is growing cabbages. A special agent appears from nowhere.

Agent: "Mister Fish? Mister P. Fish? The ocean needs you for a job."

P. FISH opens the agent's envelope: 7.8

Alt...P. FISH is growing cabbages. A special agent appears from nowhere. Agent: "Mister Fish? Mister P. Fish? The ocean needs you for a job." P. FISH opens the agent's envelope: 7.8

Peter N. M. Hansteen ยป
@pitrh@mastodon.social

Stefano Marinelli ยป
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

OpenBSD 7.8 has been released.

First sysupgrade performed - everything smooth as usual

Happy release day!

Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Jason Tubnor ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ ยป
@Tubsta@soc.feditime.com

Peter N. M. Hansteen ยป
@pitrh@mastodon.social

Steven Rosenberg ยป
@passthejoe@ruby.social

Andrew Hewus Fresh ยป
@AFresh1@bsd.network

Sigh, saw an Allwinner D1 Nezha board for $29 and now I have no idea where to get a dtb or get installed.

openbsd.org/riscv64.html

Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

This looks handy for when I install 7.8 Current onto my P14s Gen 1 AMD.
amd64:
Fix processing of GPIO events for pin numbers less than 256 with an _EVT method. Fixes power button on various ThinkPads with AMD CPUs.

Mercรจ boosted

Peter N. M. Hansteen ยป
@pitrh@mastodon.social

Anders Gulden Olstad ยป
@andersgo@mastodon.bsd.cafe

But removal of OTP functionality in the upcoming 7.8 was real a shit.

It's a paradox that I have to remove from our list of approved operating systems due to this, while working in the infosec business.

zolaris ยป
@zolaris@mastodon.illumos.cafe

Something is happening at

🗳

BastilleBSD ยป
@BastilleBSD@fosstodon.org

Best NTP daemon?

Chrony:0
OpenNTPD:0
NTPD:0
systemd-timesyncd:0

vermaden ยป
@vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Latest ๐—ฉ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜„๐˜€ - ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฑ/๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ/๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ (Valuable News - 2025/10/20) available.

vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/10

Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

Peter N. M. Hansteen ยป
@pitrh@mastodon.social

Anders Gulden Olstad ยป
@andersgo@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Managed to set up my workstation with a USB and separate audio input / output on onboard snd/0 and usb snd/1. Had to create a little wrapper script to start with the necessary env variables to keep things separated, but it worked nicely. How? All because OpenBSD is really well documented!

๐™น๐š˜๐šŽ๐š• ๐™ฒ๐šŠ๐š›๐š—๐šŠ๐š โ™‘ ๐Ÿคช ยป
@joel@gts.tumfatig.net

It was 2019 and I think I was fed up with people posting gdm p0rn. So I did some using #xenodm on #OpenBSD.

It probably still works these days.

https://www.tumfatig.net/2019/customizing-openbsd-xenodm/

#xdm #xorg #xenocara #RunBSD

Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Once 7.8 is released I'll more than likely install it onto my ThinkPad and then switch to current. As I get older I've come to realise that it's not always about the latest and greatest. Just use what you feel comfortable with and what suits your needs.

Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

OMG How did that happen ? Not a great photo from my old FP4. Also I've not yet installed on this AMD P14s Gen 1. She's still running at the moment.

A photo of my ThinkPad P14s AMD Gen 1 with my custom OpenBSD boot logo consisting of puffy the OpenBSD logo and the text below "Think OoenBSD".

Alt...A photo of my ThinkPad P14s AMD Gen 1 with my custom OpenBSD boot logo consisting of puffy the OpenBSD logo and the text below "Think OoenBSD".

Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

New boot logo and I've not installed yet as not committed to installing OpenBSD yet. But what do you think ???

A ThinkPad custom boot logo showing Puffy on a black background with the text below saying Think OpenBSD

Alt...A ThinkPad custom boot logo showing Puffy on a black background with the text below saying Think OpenBSD

Steven Rosenberg ยป
@passthejoe@ruby.social

TIL that you can do a lot with an xterm. Thanks @jggimi daemonforums.org/showpost.php?

Jason Tubnor ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ ยป
@Tubsta@soc.feditime.com

@rzeta0 Lenovo T series has been typically an ideal platform for me to run #OpenBSD . I'd suggest looking at what the devs use, as they dog food the code on the laptops they use.

advokatt ยป
@km@mastodon.babb.no

7.8 comes with a new utility watch(1), which periodically executes and displays the output of command

man.openbsd.org/watch.1

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@joel@gts.tumfatig.net

Wink and wave from #GoToSocial 0.20.1 running on #OpenBSD #7.7. Duplicate posts in timeline should now be solved.

Stefano Marinelli ยป
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Dear friends of the BSD Cafe,

As 2024 comes to an end, itโ€™s time to reflect on what weโ€™ve built together during the first full year of life for BSD Cafe. Launched on 20 July 2023, this project has grown far beyond what I could have imagined. While I havenโ€™t tracked full uptime data, I can confidently say that the downtime was less than 30 minutes overall - even though the main VM hosting our services moved multiple times (including a switch from a Proxmox hypervisor to bhyve on FreeBSD, for the sake of alignment with our mission). In a world filled with over-engineered HA systems, weโ€™ve outperformed many โ€œbig-nameโ€ cloud providers. Not bad for a community project, right?

For me, this has been an incredible journey. The users here are not just participants - theyโ€™re collaborators, and their positivity has been inspiring. The content shared and created at BSD Cafe has been valuable not only to the BSD community but beyond. What truly sets BSD Cafe apart is the openness for dialogue and exchange. Whether itโ€™s social media posts, Matrix discussions, repositories in our brew, or RSS feeds, people seem to genuinely appreciate what we create and the conversations we foster.

BSD Cafe is a journey - one that grows, evolves, and continues. Our goal isnโ€™t endless growth (weโ€™re a community, not a business) but rather to maintain a welcoming, inclusive space where everyone feels a sense of positivity and belonging. For me, opening any service with โ€œbsd.cafeโ€ in the domain brings joy and pride. Thatโ€™s the spirit Iโ€™ve tried to convey, and I hope it resonates with all of you, whether youโ€™re active BSD Cafe users or friends of the community.

Promoting self-hosting and has, as a side effect, inspired some users to โ€œgo soloโ€ with their own setups. But even then, they remain part of BSD Cafe - in spirit, in purpose, and in connection.

Hereโ€™s a look at what weโ€™ve achieved together this year:

- mastodon.bsd.cafe: 370 total users
Active in the past month: 207
Active in the past six months: 286
- snac.bsd.cafe: 14 total users
Active in the past month: 7
- blendit.bsd.cafe: 61 registered users
- matrix.bsd.cafe: 23 users
- brew.bsd.cafe: 29 users - 80 repositories
- freshrss.bsd.cafe: 25 users
- miniflux.bsd.cafe: 11 users
- press.bsd.cafe: 9 users
- myip.bsd.cafe: Constantly used by various users
- wiki.bsd.cafe: Could use a bit more love and content, but it fulfills its role as a functional homepage.
- tube.bsd.cafe: Still in testing - Peertube 7.0 update is on the way.

For detailed stats from our reverse proxy and general router (excluding media services, which generate most traffic but are handled via caching reverse proxies), you can check here - updated hourly: netstats.bsd.cafe

The journey of BSD Cafe continues, and I look forward to seeing where 2025 will take us. Together, weโ€™ve built something special - something driven by passion, shared purpose, and a little bit of the BSD magic that makes all of this possible.

Hereโ€™s to a new year full of joy, serenity, and connection. Thank you for being part of this adventure.

Wishing you all a fantastic 2025 - and THANK YOU!
Stefano

zolaris ยป
@zolaris@mastodon.illumos.cafe

A application runs inside an LX-branded zone, where the kernel (descended from ) natively implements the Linux kernel ABI. A connection, terminated in a separate Solaris-style zone, routes the application's traffic to a VPN endpoint on an system running , which serves content on a custom domain.
Life is great!

Bryan Steele ยป
@canadianbryan@mastodon.social

Heads up: snapshots are rolling out shortly for some architectures (e.g: amd64) that are post-7.8 release, -current, be aware. If you sysupgrade -s now, downgrading to the 7.8 release when it releases later this month is NOT supported. ๐Ÿ‘

Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Back home from work and my destktop is now reporting 7.8-current so I can drop the -Dsnap from pkg commands.

kern.version=OpenBSD 7.8-current (GENERIC.MP) : Fri Oct 17 11:14:21 MDT 2025
deraadt@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP

OSNews ยป 🤖
@osnews@mstdn.social

NLnet sponsors development of WPA3 support for OpenBSD

The NLnet foundation has sponsored a project to add WPA3 support to OpenBSD, support which in turn can be used by other operating systems.

This project delivers the second open-source implementation of WPA3, the current industry standard for Wi-Fi encryption, specifically for the OpenBSD operating system. Its code can also

osnews.com/story/143558/nlnet-

alcinnz boosted

Peter N. M. Hansteen ยป
@pitrh@mastodon.social

Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Well now it seems has me beat when trying to wipe and setup a new USB memory stick.
I have never had issues under FreeBSD or Linux before but this is either me being extremely thick or ??

justine@openbsd-desktop ~  $ doas fdisk -iy sd2
Writing MBR at offset 0.
justine@openbsd-desktop ~ $ doas disklabel -E sd2
Label editor (enter '?' for help at any prompt)
sd2> p
OpenBSD area: 64-15728640; size: 15728576; free: 15728576
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
c: 15728640 0 unused
sd2> a
partition to add: [a]
offset: [64]
size: [15728576]
FS type: [4.2BSD] ext2fs
sd2*> q
Write new label?: [y] y
justine@openbsd-desktop ~ $ ^Cas disklabel -E sd2
justine@openbsd-desktop ~ $ doas disklabel sd2
# /dev/rsd2c:
type: SCSI
disk: SCSI disk
label: Flash Disk
duid: 507add78df02fecc
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
cylinders: 979
total sectors: 15728640
boundstart: 64
boundend: 15728640

16 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
a: 15728576 64 ext2fs
c: 15728640 0 unused
justine@openbsd-desktop ~ $ doas newfs_ext2fs /dev/rsd2a
/dev/rsd2a: 7679.9MB (15728576 sectors) block size 4096, fragment size 4096
using 60 block groups of 128.0MB, 32768 blks, 16384 inodes.
^C
justine@openbsd-desktop ~ $
justine@openbsd-desktop ~ $ doas newfs_ext2fs /dev/sd2a
newfs_ext2fs: /dev/sd2a: block device
justine@openbsd-desktop ~ $ doas newfs_ext2fs sd2a
/dev/rsd2a: 7679.9MB (15728576 sectors) block size 4096, fragment size 4096
using 60 block groups of 128.0MB, 32768 blks, 16384 inodes.
^C
justine@openbsd-desktop ~ $
justine@openbsd-desktop ~ $ doas newfs_ext2fs -I sd2a
/dev/rsd2a: 7679.9MB (15728576 sectors) block size 4096, fragment size 4096
using 60 block groups of 128.0MB, 32768 blks, 16384 inodes.

I used dd to wipe the USB then checked it was wiped. Then did the above and it all seems ok as per folk on the web and OpenBSD docs but newfs_extfs just sits there doing nothing.

Anyone help or have a simple idiot sheet of what to do from wiping the USB memory stick to setting up an ext2 partition and formatting it. Mounting it will be the easy part.

zolaris ยป
@zolaris@mastodon.illumos.cafe

I need some feedback regarding the rules on my host.

At the moment, I have the (beside others) DNS port open for both incoming and outgoing traffic, even though there is no DNS server running on the machine. I believe it would be a good idea to define additional macros to clearly separate the directions of traffic flow.

The current ruleset: pastebin.com/raw/AwkhfKY8

Solรจne ยป
@solene@bsd.network

Do you like 7.7 artwork? Do you enjoy @prahou art?

You can now buy OpenBSD wearable featuring his art

openbsd.creator-spring.com/

Justine Smithies ยป
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

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@joel@gts.tumfatig.net

I have discovered a simple way to host a What's My IP-like service with just a little of #nginx and #GeoLite2. Should you want to do it yourself, here are the notes: https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/check-your-ip-infos-using-nginx/

If you're not into hosting it yourself, I have also made it available on https://ip.nogoo.me, of course running on #OpenBSD.

#RunBSD

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