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Installing #openbsd can be quite easy with one exception. The disklabel setup uses sectors as the size unit and I misinterpreted the size and chose the 1TB NVME drive by mistake instead of the 16GB SATA drive. Nothing important was lost but still a mistake I wouldn't want to make again.
But in the meantime, I'll install some software and try it out.
The first thing I notice is only 14 of the 28 cores are active.
Is this a feature where it turns off hyperthreading on vulnerable systems?
Someone was wondering about color emoji support in terminal using #OpenBSD. I never really checked before but on 7.8, it does work OOTB.
This is #Neomutt inside a #tmux session ran from #Xfce terminal. But it also works in plain #Xterm; since you have it render UTF-8 characters with DejaVu Sans for example.
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/30763
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For whatever reason? The rpki-client.org website main page hasn't been updated to reflect the release of 9.7 yet, but it's there on the mirrors (and I verified the tarball with signify) and an undeadly.org story was posted, so I am guessing I didn't really beat anything to the punch so much as the World Wide Web isn't a first class citizen contrasted with those toiling in the realms of securing routing protocols, as it should be.
#RPKI #rpkiclient #MacPorts #OpenBSD #OpenBGPD #BGP #OpenSource
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Heads up for Firefox users on #OpenBSD -current, landry@ the mozilla port maintainer has committed a new policy configuration file which changes some (annoying) default behaviour.
landry@ modified ports/www/mozilla-firefox/*: Install a policy configuration file
mostly taken from https://justthebrowser.com/firefox/, Disables:
Firefox Studies
Checking if firefox is the default browser
Sponsored stuff on the home page
GenAI features
PerplexityAI from the default search engines
in addition, frob GoToIntranetSiteForSingleWordEntryInAddressBar, which forces firefox to ask your dns first if you enter a single word in the address bar, useful to access local sites on your network instead of sending your internal dns entries to $searchengine.
cf https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/#gotointranetsiteforsinglewordentryinaddressbar
many knobs to frob, but those seem to be a decent baseline to fight against enshittification.
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Because all statistics should be presented as whimsical ascii art.
Now go and book a VM with @OpenBSDAms so we can render more ascii fish.
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Audio on hp300
In the late 1980s, with the expansion of the Internet (even though it was not open to commercial activities yet) and the slowly increasing capabilities of workstations, some people started to imagine the unthinkable: that, some day, you may use your computer to record voice messages, send them over the Internet, and the recipient could listen to these messages on his own computer.
That was definitely sc
Installing #Slackware #Linux using #vmm on #OpenBSD. Got some help from this video on getting the console to display correctly in the terminal. 
#RunBSD #BSD #virtualization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZnM-T6Os-s
Planning on using this as a practice Linux system for my Linux+ studies. 
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/31080
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This isn't very significant from the last PR I submitted from late October 2025 (upstream has a commit from early September 2025 so I am trailing by many months with this one) however, remarkable to me:
MacPorts' signify's version is now in alignment with upstream's versioning!
Yay!
I have no idea if that was true previously? My guess is: no, since I think jpouellet/Jean-Philippe Ouellet branched that out a long time ago and seemed to have iterated version tags haphazardly? Maybe I am mistaken though! There's a completely different Linuxism fork of signify which seems to have evolved (and versioned) very differently too.
That in particular has confused me with spurious repology.org out of date error messages for many months. I dunno if it has confused others, or if this version sync will make things less confusing, but hopefully? It makes things less confusing for me at least.
In tangential news, since I saw tedu in the man page, someone was wondering where he got off to a while ago and I don't think I saw a response. Hopefully he's doin OK? Please?
#signify #MacPorts #macOS #OpenSource #OpenBSD #cryptography
So if I want to run multiple OpenBSD servers running the same copy of an application, configuration management seems the logical step.
Like, the whole kubernetes thing is way to complicated for a lot of things, but having a declarative way to think about you applications and settings is nice.
I believe @h3artbl33d is using (some) ansible here. Is ansible my goto solution to do config management on OpenBSD or are other tools I could consider?
Keeping my streak: next daily source reading is up: https://blog.wollwage.com/2026/20260207-daily-source-reading-ed.html
i try to push shell as far as it reasonably goes. for most tasks, sh, find, grep, sed, and cut is more than enough. only when things become truly complex or painfully slow do i reach for another language.
i used to care a lot about strict portability, but in practice i only run my scripts on macos and #openbsd. that simplifies things: if shellcheck is happy, i'm happy. i'm 99% sure my scripts work on other unix-like systems, but i don't feel the need to check.
what really draws me to shell is that it's always there. it's part of the base system, requires no extra installation, and the runtime has been stable for decades. that stability translates directly into confidence: shell scripts feel future-proof.
i know i can run something like ssg.sh ten years from now and it will still work --- certainly on #openbsd, and hopefully on macos too. there's no dependency churn, no worrying about the "right" version of python or ruby, and no hoping the ecosystem hasn't moved on.
it just runs.
#snac #openbsd #retrocomputing
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/31141
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#Got #GameOfTrees #MacPorts #VersionControl #OpenBSD #Git #Development #FreeSoftware #LibreSoftware
Bob Beck (OpenBSD) on why vi should be and stay vi.
#OpenBSD #vi
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=115820462402673&w=2
There are obvious missing platforms in the #offpunk packages:
https://repology.org/project/offpunk/versions
No #openbsd ! 
No #fedora ! 
No #opensuse !
and probably several other missing. If you are doing package for one of the missing platforms, join us on the dedicated mailing-list:
Game of Trees 0.122 released https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260211061627 #openbsd #got #git #gameoftrees #versioncontrol #development #freesoftware #libresoftware