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by brynet 2y ago
After heavy criticism for a decade, the government ceased all support for the ICON in 1994 and ordered all ICON hardware to be sent to landfill and software to be destroyed. This is a sad part of history, I vividly remember hearing this h
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OpenBSD on ThinkPad L13 Gen 2 running KDE 6(brynet.ca)
13 points by brynet 2y ago|0 comments
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by brynet 2y ago
Non-alcoholic. I don't drink. :-)
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by brynet 2y ago
I showed my Mom my personal website a few years ago, and her only comment was it needed more pictures, so I added a picture of a window plant to exactly one page. I haven't showed it to anyone else IRL. https://brynet.ca&#x2
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by brynet 2y ago
Curious why Intel announced this on their community forums, rather than somewhere more official.
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by brynet 2y ago
OpenBSD. Good people, consistent style, correctness.
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by brynet 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40738733
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by brynet 2y ago
Patrick shared an early dmesg showing OpenBSD booting on the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7, for those curious about the hardware and driver support so far. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=171883671113138&w=2
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by brynet 2y ago
dmesg: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=171883671113138&w=2
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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite minimal support (OpenBSD)(marc.info)
4 points by brynet 2y ago|1 comments
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Wall of Pizza(brynet.ca)
2 points by brynet 2y ago|2 comments
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by brynet 2y ago
Made a few years ago as a fun way of doing a donations page and a way to thank those who supported my open source slacking with the delicious gift of pizza.
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by brynet 2y ago
The script is running on macOS and is what the Asahi project recommends when updating or installing m1n1/Linux: https://asahilinux.org/ It's called out in the OpenBSD/arm64 installation notes, at least: http
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by brynet 2y ago
An OpenBSD developer has since very early on contributed to m1n1 and the u-boot port, which is also shared by Linux. https://asahilinux.org/about/#who-is-working-on-asahi-linux Booting OpenBSD on a Apple silicon Mac re
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Branch Target Identification (BTI)(rsadowski.de)
1 points by brynet 2y ago|0 comments
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by brynet 2y ago
Quite some years ago I did a bit of digital archeology and put the 68k MacMinix 1.5 release source on GitHub, sadly the original file dates weren't preserved in the distribution image. They were archived using tar(1) to dump the files
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OpenBSD laptop battery drain prevention (accidental unhibernate)(marc.info)
1 points by brynet 2y ago|0 comments
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by brynet 3y ago
> ARM64 has execute-only support so that it's possible for code to execute, but not read, a text segment. OpenBSD does xonly by default on multiple architectures (arm64, risc-v, ... g5 powerpc), including even amd64 on recent Intel&
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by brynet 3y ago
chatgpt(8). It's pretty useless. https://brynet.ca/chatgpt/
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by brynet 3y ago
Announcement mail: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=171228270018970&w=2
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by brynet 3y ago
> I'm not sure if this patch is noteworthy on its own, but perhaps it was posted because it implies this CPU feature is now supported or soon to be supported by OpenBSD. OpenBSD has supported mandatory BTI/IBT on Intel CPUs (11
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by brynet 3y ago
> Lots of people have adopted something like this; Really? And how many systems have made any effort to use it, on OpenBSD most of a programs static address space is now automatically immutable (main program .text, ld.so .text, .bss, mai
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by brynet 3y ago
Library relinking, mimmutable(2), xonly, along with other recent developments such as the removal of indirect syscall(2), make syscall pinning all the more interesting, and raise the bar against attackers significantly. One can only hope th
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by brynet 3y ago
I'm not aware of anything that depends on the SecureBoot status of a device, except possibly Widevine DRM for video streaming, but I don't see how that would be unique to ARM, disabling SecureBoot is also usually required on x86 f
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by brynet 3y ago
All WoA (Windows 10/11 on ARM) devices based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7/8cx Gen 3 seem to allow disabling UEFI SecureBoot, AFAIK earlier SoCs did as well. OpenBSD/arm64 runs on the Microsoft Dev Kit 2023 and Lenovo ThinkPad
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by brynet 3y ago
"Puffy vs Cthulhu" is also pretty badass. https://www.openbsd.org/images/puffy_vs_cthulhu.jpg https://twitter.com/natazilla/status/1138473365969264643
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by brynet 3y ago
They also designed probably the best t-shirt art for an OS release, no longer available, sadly. https://www.openbsd.org/tshirts.html#47 https://twitter.com/natazilla/status/1187896621045956608
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OpenBSD Foundation 2023 year successful(twitter.com)
3 points by brynet 3y ago|0 comments
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by brynet 3y ago
The kde-plasma and kde-plasma-extras packages are available in -current aarch64 packages, perhaps you can test it?
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by brynet 3y ago
There is experimental support for Wayland/sway in OpenBSD -current, with lots of recent ports activity. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=170176226313427&w=2

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