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Just to help you get through these difficult times while there isn't yet an official #littlefedi package on #OpenBSD, here's an installer script for the binary only:

#!/bin/sh set -e if [ "$(id -u)" -ne 0 ]; then echo "Run this as root." >&2 exit 1 fi

salt=dd if=/dev/random bs=128 count=1 2>/dev/null | sha1 release="littlefedi-openbsd-amd64" bin_path="/usr/local/bin/$release" tmp_path="/tmp/$(echo "$salt-date +%s" | sha1)"

mkdir -p $tmp_path ftp -o $tmp_path/$release https://littlefedi.social/downloads/binaries/$release install -b -o root -m 0755 $tmp_path/$release $bin_path rm -rf $tmp_path echo "LittleFedi updated and installed at $bin_path." exit 0

@stefano@littleone.littlefedi.social @littlefedi_official@littleone.littlefedi.social

I heard of this cool new app called #copyfail and i tried running it on #OpenBSD but it won't work can anyone help plz i feel i am missing out everyone is posting about it

#TIL how to add swap space easily on #OpenBSD

1) Create a swapfile made of many many 0's, in the size of how large a swapfile you want, so e.g. for 16gb:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=~/.swapfile bs=1m count =16384

2) Add it as swap:
# swapctl -a ~/.swapfile

3) For great success, check it out to get warm fuzzy feelings:

$ swapctl -l
Device              512-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Priority
/dev/sd2b             17065992        0 17065992     0%    0
/home/puffy/.swapfile   33554432        0 33554432     0%    0
Total                 50620424        0 50620424     0%

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

I guess that's a "No" for trying #NetBSD on this old Macbook Air

#MATE on #FreeBSD: #macOS-Like Setup Guide: Font Rendering, UI Tweaks, and Settings

https://interfacecraft.online/blog/2025/mate-on-freebsd-macos-like-setup-guide-font-rendering-ui-tweaks-and-settings/

This is it I had enough nothing works on #OpenBSD i am switching to ubuntu

@rqm@exquisite.social

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.

Never tried #MidnightBSD before, and it seems to boot well... Let's see what happens!

Does anyone know of any JavaScript-free but responsive #WordPress themes? (Thinking pure HTML5/CSS3). #smolweb #permacomputing #webdesign

#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 and will now become part of -stable. Great news for those wishing to revive older Intel Macbooks. #Apple

Managed to FINALLY mount an u9fs share from #OpenBSD in #9front, albeit I haven't yet managed to tackle authentication from 9 to BSD, I only managed it with -a none thus far. This isn't ideal. However, here is what I learned so far:

• You really do need to go the inetd route as outlined in the manual, it is really finicky to run u9fs in any other way
• However OpenBSD doesn't have 9pfs in /etc/services, but you can recycle the relevant parts from FreeBSD sauces
• Order of parameters matters, u9fs fails if it isn't in the right order
• Good idea to specify your own user to run it as using -u YOURBSDUSERNAME
• u9fs logging basically doesn't exist, not even the verbose mode with -D produces anything useful usually

Amyhow I'll be interested to see if I can listen to music in 9Front over drawterm from my OpenBSD media collection.

Also please someone tell me how to do auth for u9fs.

I have to say I don't know why, until some recent discussions on the #OpenBSD mailing lists, I have not heard of the built-in calendar(1) program, but I am totally sold on its simplicity. Really easy recurring and moving events and date calculations based on Easter etc. It is parsed by cpp(1) and so you can # include other calendar files in your personal one.

I really really like this and will consider moving to this format -- 2-way sync with this via vdirsyncer or similar would be awesome to see.

Here's a snippet for sending files via serial from #OpenBSD (and other BSD systems) via direct RS232 serial using YMODEM (set to 57600 baud for great success, in my case the transfer likes to fail at higher speeds):

First you need lrzsz for sending stuff:

# pkg_add lrzsz

Then establish a serial connection:

$ cu -l /dev/cua00 -s57600 -d
Connected to /dev/cua00 (speed 57600)

Then (on a "clean" line, so perhaps press Enter once for good measure) issue the cu command:
~C
Which forks out and asks for a command you'd like to execute.
Run:

*Local command?* lsz --ymodem ~/file-to-send.bin
Sending: file-to-send.bin
Bytes Sent:1881472/5125910   BPS:5243     ETA 10:18

Then put the other machine in YMODEM receiving mode and rub your hands together in glee.

Other methods that work but are discouraged:

cu(1) actually has XMODEM transfer baked in (running the ~X command once connected) but I found it to be unreliable and slow. Don't use it.

Depending on your use case you might be able to use the ~> command in cu(1) as well, but that will just directly write file contents to the serial connections, "raw". In my case this was NOT what I wanted as I wanted to send stuff to a non-unix machine. But if you did, then you'd probably need to just cat the output of the serial connection to a file on the receiving end.

#RunBSD #retrocomputing

kern.version=OpenBSD 7.9-beta (GENERIC.MP) #305: Thu Mar 12 00:27:50 MDT 2026
    deraadt@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP

#OpenBSD

Some Easter #degucontent

Honestly how do I make this go away, this is awful to look at.

Is there a way to completely eradicate #LiquidGlass on #MacOS? I cannot stand this.

Never heard about Plakar for backups, this looks excellent. Not to mention it is developed by some.of the #OpenBSD devs!

@gonzalo@h.x61.sh @gonzalo@h.x61.sh

Frances prefers hide and seek. As usual. #degucontent

Peanut AND wheel - awesome overflow #degucontent

Peanut time! #degucontent

And some more #degucontent

It was about time #OpenBSD got on with the times and embraced the future.

I really hope that we can see a reliable systemd port next for greater compatibility with the Windows 11 Linux Subsystem, should benefit enterprise cloud applications tremendously.

@pitrh@mastodon.social @pitrh@mastodon.social

RE: @rqm@exquisite.social

Answer: client-side, meta-F to make drawterm fullscreen.

#9front

:wheel #degucontent

See I would have loved to reply to your email but my internet is slow and my working hours were taken up with running # sysupgrade -s before I would open my emails to make sure it's all secure so I never had enough time, sorry

#OpenBSD #RUNBSD

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

FWIW, the #MidnightBSD installation was successful but the system is in a deeply inconsistent state. Went with defaults but even the $PS1 prompt is screwed up. (Seems to have stock ksh defaults but it offered mksh as the shell as standard -- so the \u variables in the prompt do not evaluate). X11 is missing but ~/.xinitrc is populated, even though I told it to enable a graphical environment. Something seems broken with networking too, it cannot resolve the ntp servers - that is with the bogstandard axe0 Apple USB Ethernet adapter that works with everything else always.

MidnightBSD never gonna stay, I was only distrohopping, but this is rather disappointing. I'd rather debug NetBSD this evening. FWIW, #OpenBSD works without a hitch.

Would you trust a payment processor company with your money that is advertising to hire vibe code cleanup specialists?

Well well Frances, just where did you hide? #degucontent

anyone else finding that ZMODEM file transfers are failing on #OpenBSD -current using lsz? I can do XMODEM transfers via cu(1) but nothing else?! tried picocom and minicom too and they all seem to fail for various reasons.

Happy Easter! Christ is risen!

(I would attach a photo but the exquisite image upload seems to be down and I don't want to bug h3artbl33d at Easter about it)

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@mastodon.cloud @slashdot@mastodon.cloud

What's the better purchase for faster data transfers to an old laptop (486 running Win95), considering they all cost the same:
#retrocomputing

RE: @geeknik@infosec.exchange

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

Funnily this is once again true in 2026

ungoogled-chromium is playing crashy-crashy on the latest #OpenBSD snapshot once again, so this is another #Dooble appreciation post

France ditches Windows

It strikes me that the leader of The Doors is also buried in Paris

@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social

This post is a blatant lie.

Please boost and and like to make it true~

Does anyone know of a very simple to use self-hostable alternative to blot.im?

I love how you can just save a .doc in dropbox and it automagically generates a new post on the webpage and I would love to replicate that functionality.

Has anyone any pointers for using #duckdb with #python on #OpenBSD?

Installing it in a venv using pip seems to take ages because it is building everything including the kitchen sink, only for the build process to then fail with,

[snip] ... external/duckdb/src/include/duckdb/common/platform.hpp:22:10: fatal error: 'features.h' file not found

Anyone using it successfully?

ed.: duckdb is installed from packages on the system.

#PDA and #retrocomputing people - I see a lot of HP iPaq H3600's offered as "for parts" as they do not power on. I am assuming these aren't horribly complicated fixes usually. What are some common problems and are there guides on fixes? Dead batteries? Broken screen connectors? What tends to give out on these?

This evening at the Mass of Maundy Thursday the bells usually rung at the Consecration are replaced with the so-called "strepitus" - in some places this is a rattle, reminding us of the clamour of the crowds who derided Jesus, or, in other places, a hammer and wood - to imitate the sound of the nail being hammered into hands and feet of Christ on the cross.

An utterly harrowing experience.

#catholic