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<code>$ ssh ...

2026-04-25T20:42:40Z

<code>$ ssh puffy@fishtank.openbsd.amsterdam </code>The fishtank already runs the latest snapshot on -current, all locked and loaded for the imminent release of 7.9!

#OpenBSD #79hype #RunBSD

OpenBSD Amsterdam (npub1060…ydzs) Mischa 🐡😎 (npub1amg…njc8)

#OpenBSD 7.9 will be great news for #OpenBSDonApple users - the ...

2026-04-14T20:34:39Z

#OpenBSD 7.9 will be great news for #OpenBSDonApple users - the long-standing 4-hour EFI timeout boot bug was fixed in 7.8-current for a and will now become part of -stable. Great news for those wishing to revive older Intel Macbooks.#Apple

Just a reminder that if OpenPorts.pl is down you can use ...

2026-03-30T16:58:44Z

Just a reminder that if OpenPorts.pl is down you can use https://pkg-add.vip instead. #OpenBSD

A "built-in VPN". Surely that built-in DNS server that ...

2026-03-21T22:03:20Z

A "built-in VPN". Surely that built-in DNS server that the VPN routes all your traffic through and is owned by the advertising company called Mozilla is not there to harvest your behavioural data and feed it to advertisers and some AI? Surely not. That would be... Unethical.

Slashdot :verified: (npub18e3…kv8z) https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/116268165823190407

Spent the day atop a ladder again, trying to get out of the RF ...

2026-03-20T16:05:45Z

Spent the day atop a ladder again, trying to get out of the RF hole we are in and get connected to #Meshtastic locally but even with this ridiculous setup the best I could do is a horribly degraded connection to a single node - not a single message made it out to LongFast. This was the last attempt with the rooftop. May try again with the node put on top of a tree but I am very close to giving up.

No, Meshcore won't solve this issue.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@geeknik/116236604092664885 Shoshana ...

2026-03-16T09:10:46Z

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@geeknik/116236604092664885

Shoshana Zuboff in "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (Harvard Business School, 2019, [1]) has pointed this out a LONG time ago. Pokemon Go was always a data harvesting AND behaviour manipulation tool. Why would you physically walk where an app tells you to?! Because there bouncy creatures on the screen?

[1] https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=56791

quoting
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Pokémon Go players thought they were catching Pikachus.

They were actually building the nervous system for robot civilization.

500M humans. 30B images. Zero consent forms.

The game was the harvest.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/10/1134099/how-pokemon-go-is-helping-robots-deliver-pizza-on-time/

Say what?! #OpenBSD -current bumping up to 7.9?! ...

2026-03-12T11:14:36Z

Say what?! #OpenBSD -current bumping up to 7.9?!

### .:: APT 77 INCIDENT REPORT ::.This evening around 1772828043 ...

2026-03-06T20:33:02Z

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.:: APT 77 INCIDENT REPORT ::.This evening around 1772828043 the threat actors known as #APT77 aka #FluffyRodent aka #t34md3gu have breached containment.

While APT77 were engaged in their routine evening check of /var/run which is carried out with escalated privileges and outside of their usual jail environment, due to human error, a critical port was left open for egress and ingress in the production environment. Utilising the breached door(8) Agent R and Agent F both escaped containment.

The discovery was quick and incident response was rapid. Fortunately, after lessons learned from the last incident, the bathroom shower tray fascia has been patched, and upgrades to the general tidiness of the upstairs corridor were actioned. This meant that it was much harder for APT77 to establish persistence, although attempts were made to do so, by hiding under a small console table.

In the immediate aftermath Agent R has taken to run in the wheel in their jail environment, and Agent R, sitting on top of /var/log has been issuing kill -SIGALRM commands repeatedly, but has now settled down after the episode.

APT77 have now resumed their evening check of /var/run, albeit, with continued port scanning activity targeted at the previously discovered security holes.

#degucontent

Anyone else having issues with #gurk for #signal not syncing ...

2026-03-01T16:23:32Z

Anyone else having issues with #gurk for #signal not syncing messages and spamming logs with libsignal errors?

Working on something fun and #OpenBSD related; in the spirit of ...

2026-02-25T22:29:33Z

Working on something fun and #OpenBSD related; in the spirit of whimsical computing, like with the obsd.ams fish tank...

Domains have been purchased, scripts are being written. Stay tuned... :flan_XD:

RE: https://mstdn.social/@osnews/116008893698862289 Rust is ...

2026-02-03T21:48:52Z

RE: https://mstdn.social/@osnews/116008893698862289

Rust is everywhere

#NetBSD is everywherer
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Kinda had to spend the morning in bed, so I made an aquarium for ...

2026-01-26T13:10:32Z

Kinda had to spend the morning in bed, so I made an aquarium for OpenBSD Amsterdam (npub1060…ydzs) displaying the number of VM's deployed:
https://asciinema.org/a/iyxZA6cvuNX7BRiz

Telnet version soon.

#openbsd

How about EU subsidized VPS hosting for Fediverse things instead ...

2026-01-22T18:50:35Z

How about EU subsidized VPS hosting for Fediverse things instead of reinventing the wheel with #WSocial?

Ron Manosuthi sent in a patch recently to tech@ that should bring ...

2026-01-19T21:40:06Z

Ron Manosuthi sent in a patch recently to tech@ that should bring #RaspberryPI cpu frequency reclocking to #OpenBSD https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=176879016806867&w=2

Actually exquisite bbs on port 22 when @npub1y90…900y

2026-01-18T18:28:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…jngk
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Actually exquisite bbs on port 22 when h3artbl33d :openbsd: :antifa: (npub1y90…900y)

Excuse me sir but what codepage and what baud rate is this BBS ...

2026-01-18T18:24:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…vmg2
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Excuse me sir but what codepage and what baud rate is this BBS and do you support YMODEM downloads

While openports.pl is healing, I made a backup: ...

2026-01-07T22:21:58Z

While openports.pl is healing, I made a backup:
https://pkg-add.vip/

Please boost.

#OpenBSD #RunBSD

Wanted to see whether I need to catch up with @npub1m9m…nuez, ...

2026-01-01T20:53:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…2c5c
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Wanted to see whether I need to catch up with Exquisite.social (npub1m9m…nuez), but...<code>$ doas sysupgrade -ns Fetching from https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/ SHA256.sig 100% |*****************| 2144 00:00 Signature Verified Already on latest snapshot </code>

I like #NetBSD so far. Even despite my stupid mistakes with ...

2025-12-22T23:22:40Z

I like #NetBSD so far. Even despite my stupid mistakes with pkgsrc. And not only because THERE IS TETRIS BUNDLED

I only wanted to watch Die Hard #Apple ...

2025-12-20T21:01:31Z

I only wanted to watch Die Hard

#Apple

We had a Rorate Mass by candlelight this morning. Advent is the ...

2025-12-20T08:15:11Z

We had a Rorate Mass by candlelight this morning. Advent is the best.
#catholic

#Python in #OpenBSD 7.8-current has been bumped to #Python313 ...

2025-12-14T09:40:33Z

#Python in #OpenBSD 7.8-current has been bumped to #Python313 from 3.12.

If you run any applications via #pipx then you might find they are failing to launch and cannot be upgraded either because of the version bump. You need to reinstall them all:<code>$ pipx reinstall-all </code>

Solved my woes :flan_thumbs:

Aw man I now have FOMO, my kern.version is from 5 days ago. I am ...

2025-12-08T00:21:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…vshl
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Aw man I now have FOMO, my kern.version is from 5 days ago. I am missing out!!! #OpenBSD

smirks in self-hosted #cloudflare

2025-12-05T12:22:24Z

*smirks in self-hosted*
#cloudflare

Super late to the game but can anyone recommend a "Teach ...

2025-12-01T21:53:07Z

Super late to the game but can anyone recommend a "Teach yourself programming with Assembly" type of book, like they used to produce "way back"? Something that covers the implementation of absolute basics in ASM, like, loops, storing "variables", file i/o, things like that? Something understandable for a hobbyist like myself?

(Also similar resources for C are welcome)

#retrocomputing #programming #assembly #asm

Wire gauge units are BS acc to WikiPedia ...

2025-11-30T22:46:27Z

Wire gauge units are BS acc to WikiPedia

I attempted a wifi card swap in this HP Compaq Mini 700. I ...

2025-11-24T21:28:15Z

I attempted a wifi card swap in this HP Compaq Mini 700. I removed the stock Broadcom BCM94312HMG and added an Atheros AR5BHB92 (as the AR9280 chipset is supported by #OpenBSD and can do dual band).

Much to my surprise it refuses to boot now. Vendor lock-in is a terrible thing.

Any hints for bypassing such checks?

#retrocomputing

Not a single IP address in sight. This is the future of cyber ...

2025-11-21T20:22:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…kgkm
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Not a single IP address in sight. This is the future of cyber security.

#degucontent without comment ...

2025-11-16T18:38:30Z

#degucontent without comment

Thank the Lord I haven't yet turned the soldering iron on but ...

2025-11-13T11:40:27Z

Thank the Lord I haven't yet turned the soldering iron on but I have turned the power supply off before this tinker joined me.

Although #APT77 are 5V tolerant, it is best to be safe.

#degucontent

It seems the Degus like retro computing, but in a different ...

2025-11-13T09:52:32Z

It seems the Degus like retro computing, but in a different way... There goes my LPT-Centronics adapter.

"It is your fault human, why did you need to get the tasty kind of cable, and besides, if it touches the floor, it is fair game"

#metadegucontent

I think that in about a year, bit by bit I completely managed to ...

2025-11-12T17:12:47Z

I think that in about a year, bit by bit I completely managed to come off Big Tech. Here's how:

1. A big part of it was signing up with LAYLO (npub1kf2…q7ea) who provide my email and calendars (yes I also have a copy of Run Your Own Mailserver but I am yet to find the time and honestly LAYLO are excellent value for money). So that's official bits taken care of.

2. Messaging - to be honest I wish more of my contacts used it but now I operate on a Signal (npub1rkw…5q62) - first policy. Everything else is either deemed unimportant or a last resort.

3. MacOS was replaced basically with OpenBSD and iOS with GrapheneOS (npub1kwa…e0nj). I still have a Mac but I only use it for very specific things now. Daily drivers are OpenBSD on my old Macbook and on the Thinksomething desktop.

4. iCloud - instead of handing sensitive correspondence and documents to the UK govt via Apple or some other sociopathic company's computers, I sync directly across my own devices using [@syncthing](https://hachyderm.io/@syncthing ) but e.g. for photo storage I am still in the process of getting Ente to work. I am also building a NAS when I have the spare cash / get that old laptop motherboard to cooperate.

5. Search - Kagi HQ (npub1zq5…dlp2)

6. Maps (navigation) - MagicEarth

7. Music - I tried smaller streaming services but finally went back to listening to FLAC CD rips and Bandcamp downloads, streamed from Gonic (subsonic implementation) running on my desktop at home, to my mobile running Tempus. I haven't got a very fast connection at home but I am surprised how well this works regardless. Even on-the-fly transcoding to 320kbs mp3 works marvellously well and so I don't use up all my data allowance with streaming in FLAC.

8. The magic glue that binds this all together is Tailscale. None of my service endpoints are exposed to the public internet. Helps me keep ssh bruteforcers and other nasties away.

There are two outstanding services:

- Location Sharing - we rely on this in the family from time to time, and after I had luggage stolen on the train once by some local louts, I bought a small fleet of AirTags which are pretty much useless now under Android.
- Contactless Payments - i just need to carry my wallet again, so this isn't a HUGE issue. The most used workaround for GrapheneOS would have been to sign up for Curve, but for whatever reason they bounced back my application. Pretty annoyed that they gave zero feedback as to why, support was entirely unhelpful. Apparently they did so because "security". OK. I didn't really like the idea of yet another bank anyway.

"Investment levels are sustainable" -- okay, so you say ...

2025-11-09T11:57:27Z

"Investment levels are sustainable" -- okay, so you say you are able to shovel cash on top of the dumpsterfire because you still have cash and still have a shovel. But ... where is the profit from any of this? And before anyone says "well the revenue...", please remember "revenue" is not profit...

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (npub1afm…5gp4) https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/115519560430587518

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2025-11-05T22:33:08Z

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We built #OpenBSD 7.8 -stable installers for amd64 with old intel ...

2025-10-29T20:58:48Z

We built #OpenBSD 7.8 -stable installers for amd64 with old intel #Apple Mac specific ACPI patches, so you don't have to!

If your 2015-ish yeargroup Mac suffers from the "getting stuck at sd0" issue because of the buggy Apple firmware, then boy do we have an install78.img for you!

Just head over to https://mirror.openbsdonapple.wiki/pub/OpenBSD/7.8/amd64/ and fill your boots with bytes.

All syspatch fixes as of today already baked in (001-004). Also, 10000% more ANSI art than ever before in any OpenBSD release.

No waiting around for 10,000 seconds for Timmie to make up his mind about how to ACPI, just sweet, sweet Unix.

ps. in case you are wondering h3artbl33d :openbsd: :antifa: (npub1y90…900y) promised to signify it because i am a lamer

In which I follow the manpages -- My working notes for preparing ...

2025-10-28T12:49:42Z

In which I follow the manpages --

My working notes for preparing my system for building an #OpenBSD release

gemini://vigilia.cc/openbsd_things/2025-10-26-working_notes_for_preparing_system_for_building_release.gmi

This also means that we will soon have BOOTABLE installers on the OpenBSDonApple.wiki for booting machines with ACPI timeout bugs.

#gurk for #signal has a new commit in the repo that brings it in ...

2025-10-23T20:29:58Z

#gurk for #signal has a new commit in the repo that brings it in sync with latest libsignal and stuff. Worth recompiling with Commit 5d27f54

https://github.com/boxdot/gurk-rs/commit/5d27f542364141c481a61bd20fda4d30b699ebcf

OK here's a theory: #ChatGPT's #Atlas browser is not a ...

2025-10-23T07:07:04Z

OK here's a theory: #ChatGPT's #Atlas browser is not a really browser but fact a way for OpenAI to circumvent scrape blockers. It's more a distributed human-based scraper rather than anything else.

Given how widely loathed AI and how damaging AI scrapers have become #OpenAI's IP ranges ended up in quite a lot of block lists, many servers outright terminate any connection to them. Then there are things like #Anubis or #Iocaine that further frustrate #LLM scraping.

But what if you DIDN'T neeed to bother about all that? What if you could use civilian IP addresses with "organic" traffic patterns, and have humans solve Captchas, provide proof of work for Anubis, or get around Iocaine? All this for free -- you don't even need to pay people for it?

I would be REALLY interested to see what telemetry Atlas sends back. 100% certain it will send back things like URL and rendered HTML output, possibly user interaction patterns ("a normal human on this website moves their mouse first to the 'I am not a bot' captcha then clicks it). They do not have to respect robots.txt because, well, it comes from organic visitors...

Am I crazy?

EDIT: And what do you know?! I was correct. https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/115419472139725665

Gonna get real about #OpenBSD. I don't like the puffy logo. ...

2025-10-19T14:57:51Z

Gonna get real about #OpenBSD. I don't like the puffy logo. Something about the anthropomorphised face. Just not my vibe. A pufferfish is a great mascot but I'm not into the lipfiller-and-duckface thing.

It's off my chest now. Let's all move on.

A bit of #retrocomputing and #DOS help please: I am trying to ...

2025-10-07T21:39:37Z

A bit of #retrocomputing and #DOS help please: I am trying to connect to my new ESP8266-based "retro modem" [1] from command line on my Toshiba T1910CS 486 laptop.
Did the following:<code>C:\> mode COM1: baud=12 parity=N data=8 stop=1 C:\> ctty COM1 </code>

And I get write errors.

Basically I cannot connect to the modem. The modem is fine, I tested it on my Amstrad (via DB9) as well as via a modern pc (via SerialUSB) and it worked great on both occasions.

Checked BIOS, COM1 is enabled as the Serial port.

Any troubleshooting hints?

[1] https://github.com/retromakergoose/RetroWiFiModem

PRESS RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT I am donating investing ...

2025-10-07T15:42:34Z

PRESS RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT

I am donating investing €10.000.000.000.000 in Exquisite.social (npub1m9m…nuez) which I will do as soon as I receive the €10.000.000.000.000 I think <a href="https://exquisite.social/@h3artbl33d"; class="u-url mention">@h3artbl33d</a> might give me maybe because we're pals XQZ will make in cloud-enabled AI crypto coin in revenue from my investment

Everyone invest in Exquisite, look at all the revenue

Does anyone know of a #smolweb -type proxy I could run for ...

2025-10-06T11:47:50Z

Does anyone know of a #smolweb -type proxy I could run for #retrocomputing needs? What I have in mind is something that <li>Proxies HTTPS to HTTP for old machines</li><li>Has built-in ad-blocking</li><li>Possibly pre-renders JavaScript pages </li><li>And then strips down pages</li>

Is this a daydream or does such a thing exist?

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2025-10-01T15:02:32Z

Is #MacOS #Tahoe the Windows Vista of Apple?

something something honk fediverse something ...

2025-09-30T19:27:31Z

something something honk fediverse something https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/115294767491748463 tedu (npub1gkd…l2c2)

Okay, giving it a CMOS battery and feeding it 18V yields no ...

2025-09-24T18:29:35Z

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Okay, giving it a CMOS battery and feeding it 18V yields no beeping but constant LED blinking. If ONLY I knew what these meant! it kinda feels like progress but not really. I don't suppose anyone would have the list of error codes? Dare I say, a manual? #amstrad #retrocomputing #dos

Oh if anyone has any hints as to what should have gone into this ...

2025-09-21T20:21:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…ccfk
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Oh if anyone has any hints as to what should have gone into this socket next to the CMOS battery, what chip seems to be missing, please let me know. (Guessing a BIOS chip?!) #amstrad #retrocomputing #dos

The 386 laptop I bought turned out to be a late and relatively ...

2025-09-21T20:17:28Z

The 386 laptop I bought turned out to be a late and relatively obscure #Amstrad ANB 386SX20. However to my BIG disappointment it came basically gutted. Too bad because the notebook is really really nice. No PSU - I knew that - but there was also no FDD, no HDD, no modem. Also I think a chip is missing and I don't know what it could have been.

My hunch is this laptop died a mysterious death, whatever could be salvaged from it was sold off, and decades later someone sold off what remained.

A real pity. I was REALLY looking forward to getting back on a 386.

#retrocomputing #dos

> Due to the hobbyist nature of the network, any privacy ...

2025-09-20T20:02:06Z

> Due to the hobbyist nature of the network, any privacy between the sender and recipient was only the result of politeness from the owners of the FidoNet systems involved in the mail's transfer. It was common, however, for system operators to reserve the right to review the content of mail that passed through their system.

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be.

Apart from very few exceptions like Tuta (npub1tk7…0m5c), today's email privacy is as much a matter of trust as it was in the case of FidoNet messages in the 1980's. Except, unlike your friendly neighbourhood sysop who routed your messages at 4am at his own cost, the people with access to your mail are certifiable sociopaths high on AI tokens.

And then there is #APT77 ...

2025-09-20T12:39:27Z

And then there is #APT77 https://infosec.exchange/@SunTzuCyber/115236510196146768

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2025-08-19T22:53:58Z

Does anyone use #Anubis behind #OpenBSD’s relayd?

What are the temperatures like? Looks splendid outside.

2025-01-17T09:53:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…zhv0
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What are the temperatures like? Looks splendid outside.

. @npub1lym…fqe3 ...

2025-01-02T10:31:52Z

. Tomáš (npub1lym…fqe3)