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by brynet 1y ago
I played through the indie game 'Forest's Secret' and its DLC a few years ago, it's a cozy, non-violent, zelda-like game. Definitely recommended. https://bynine.itch.io/forestssecret
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by brynet 2y ago
I made a wall of pizza, where people on the internet can buy me pizza (but only if they really want to): https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html > How do you make a living .. Oh. Still trying to figure that part out, this is
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by brynet 2y ago
But that's not even the heresy bit!
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by brynet 2y ago
Committed some heresy last week while testing OpenBSD 7.7-beta snapshots on an Apple M1 MacBook Air. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brynet_openbsd-activity-73074... https://bsky.app/profile/brynet.
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by brynet 2y ago
Static HTML articles + rss embed, handmangled with vi. https://brynet.ca/ OpenBSD, httpd, acme-client.
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by brynet 2y ago
Why? OpenBSD seems to think execute-only in userland is important. We've had SMAP on x86 for many years, it helped fixed bugs early, these bugs are rare now, so why is everyone concerned about kernel accesses that aren't using cop
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by brynet 2y ago
OpenBSD's pledge(2) was first talked about publicly as tame(2), and was presented in at FSec 2015, it was renamed pledge(2) as mentioned on the OpenBSD 5.9 page. https://www.openbsd.org/papers/tame-fsec2015/
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by brynet 2y ago
Outdated FUD, OpenBSD's Mozilla port maintainer regularly updates and backports non-ESR Firefox to the -stable tree. https://freshbsd.org/openbsd/ports?q=firefox Tor browser bundle is also being updated consistent
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by brynet 2y ago
> The idea behind Pledge/Unveil was first in Landlock also. This is so plainly, and verifiably untrue, that it's almost funny. The patch series and kernel commit adding Landlock to the Linux kernel even references OpenBSD pledg
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by brynet 2y ago
Thanks, very misleading..
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by brynet 2y ago
> .. wifi as well. OpenBSD has supported 11ac for several years, and has the iwx(4) driver for modern Intel WiFi cards. There's also support for Broadcom FullMAC, bwfm(4), which is on e.g: Apple Silicon machines. HaikuOS also has a
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by brynet 2y ago
> The openbsd foundation raised around 5 million, half of which has been spent. Citation needed, they've raised nowhere near that amount. https://github.com/bob-beck/foundation-web/commit/483266cece...
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by brynet 2y ago
It depends on what you need for your daily use, OpenBSD has ports of common desktop environments, KDE Plasma, GNOME. In fact, thanks to KDE and GNOME port maintainers, Rafael Sadowski, and Antoine Jacoutot, respectively, OpenBSD 7.6 -curren
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by brynet 2y ago
https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/lib... Many things, retguard uses this for per-function random cookies, for instance. The bootloader uses this mechanism to pass data to the kerne
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by brynet 2y ago
In addition to work pioneering privdrop/privsep design for network daemons, and the almost ubiquitous adoption of pledge(2)/unveil(2) across the base system, I think people are missing out on much more recent mitigation work, such
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by brynet 2y ago
I finally get adopted by a nice family of sentient pizzas in 2025. https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html
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by brynet 2y ago
OpenBSD has support for a number of Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite machines. A bit more works on the T14s Gen 6 too, such as the keyboard! ;-) https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=172925590407875&w=2
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by brynet 2y ago
Your school might have had a PET or something, the ICONs were Canadian machines.. software had to be obtained from the government. These machines didn't work at all without a server to network boot from, aka the LEXICON machine, so it&
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by brynet 2y ago
I don't have great expectations for this, we've been rug pulled before. https://www.osnews.com/story/23565/qnx6-is-closed-source-onc... They then killed the self-hosted QNX entirely, no downloadable .ISO
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by brynet 2y ago
It's easy to invent a chart that only you can get a nearly perfect score on. This does nothing to explain what any of these features are, what are "Boot hardening" and "sysctl hardening"? At least OpenBSD's inn
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by brynet 2y ago
This seems very "project focused" rather than developer focused, many people contribute to open source projects but don't necessarily represent their project or don't wish to take away funding from those projects, but co
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by brynet 2y ago
OpenBSD 7.6 release artwork by Sue Doeksen https://www.openbsd.org/images/LifeIsButADream.jpg https://www.openbsd.org/images/puffy76.gif https://www.openbsd.org/76.html
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by brynet 2y ago
Yeah, freshbsd.org is useful for linking to searches publicly, I seem to recall GitHub requiring you to be logged in.
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by brynet 2y ago
Support was added to existing drivers for similar hardware, a number of commits mention the Milk-V Pioneer board, I can't comment on how well it is supported, though: https://freshbsd.org/openbsd/src?q=Milk-V
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OpenBSD 7.6 released(cdn.openbsd.org)
58 points by brynet 2y ago|10 comments
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by brynet 2y ago
Making rent. https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html
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by brynet 2y ago
No, time_t is a signed 64-bit type on all architectures, 64-bit architectures have no "32bit compat". https://www.openbsd.org/55.html
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by brynet 2y ago
> getaddrinfo() is the way to resolve names on Linux and I suspect the *BSDs. At least on OpenBSD, all classical/standard DNS functions (getaddrinfo/gethostbyname/...) are wrappers around OpenBSD's libc asr implementa
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by brynet 2y ago
It's a BSD game. https://man.openbsd.org/quiz
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by brynet 2y ago
I don't think very many of the LEXICON servers or disks survived, but I hope someone somewhere still has them, but might be lost to time.

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