• #protectli vp2430 with #openbsd
• #projectaudio dac box s2+
• #tonefactory amp s
• #tonefactory speaker l
• #logitec pebble 2 combo
• #samsung frame tv
  

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  line diagram of my media player setup: tv, openbsd server, dac, stereo amplifier, speakers, keyboard, mouse

then i discovered that openbsd doesn't support audio over hdmi and my openbsd server doesn't have analog audio output, obviously.

my tv had been connected to a stereo amplifier anyway, so my setup is actually even better now: a dedicated usb dac connected directly to the amplifier.

current setup:

openbsd -- usb dac -- amp -- speakers
openbsd -- hdmi tv

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dac box s2+

We really appreciate the work done on the TLS settings in relayd(8) and httpd(8).

It makes it even easier to get a tried and tested secure connection to your favorite OS and service!

"Both relayd(8) and httpd(8) now have the "secure" list of allowed crypto methods for HTTPS, which include TLSv1.3 and the TLSv1.2 AEAD cipher suites.

The previous list was "HIGH:!aNULL" which contain non-perfect-forward-security methods and this change may cause old clients to not be able to connect."

Source: https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260629165750

Hat Tip to @sizeofvoid and others!

#RUNBSD #OpenBSD

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Meme of "The Most Interesting Man in the World" is an advertising campaign for Dos Equis beer featuring actor Jonathan Goldsmith as a bearded, debonair older gentleman with voiceovers that were both humorous and outrageous. It has the text: I don't always tip, but when I do, it's my hat. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Interesting_Man_in_the_World

I finally published the CWM configuration I use on Slackware-current as a practical example of that approach.

The repository keeps CWM focused on window management, while sxhkd, small shell scripts, and shared .xinitrc components provide a portable desktop workflow that can be reused across different WMs.

Repository:
https://git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/cwm-config

Background:
https://r1w1s1.srht.site/posts/window-manager-agnostic-workflows/

#OpenBSD #Slackware #Linux #X11 #cwm #Unix

I particularly liked this sentence:

"cwm is the only one amongst the minimalist window managers that has managed to make me think the least."

Whether you agree or not, it's an interesting way to think about window managers—not in terms of features, but in terms of cognitive load.

Worth the two-minute read.
https://williamjansson.com/posts/cwm/

#cwm #OpenBSD #Unix #Linux

I've got nothing.

20 new VMs were added and 46 VMs were renewed.

We donated €890 to the #OpenBSD Foundation, €67645 (!!) since we started.

Thank you, our users, and OpenBSD developers for an awesome OS!

Stay cool, safe, healthy & sane!

#RUNBSD in 2026

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Milton, Office Space, in his cubicle looking into the distance, with the text: I've got nothing" Source: Meme Generator

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Paypal receipt for €890

• hdmi (video) - tv
• usb (audio) - dac - amp - speakers

• idle: 10-15 w
• everything on (incl tv): 70-100 w

ESS9038K2M 32-bit
up to dsd256, pcm up to 32b/768kHz

it detects the intel hd audio and attaches azalia(4), but only the internal realtek alc257 codec is found.

there is no hdmi audio codec, no audio1, and mixerctl -a only shows the internal speaker/headphone outputs. the external display works over hdmi, but there is no way to select hdmi audio because no hdmi audio device is detected.

is hdmi audio expected to work with openbsd 7.9? if it should work, are there any additional diagnostics steps i should try?

similar to this setup, but with a trackpad not a mouse...

any ideas?

cc @joel@tumfatig.net

now i'm looking for m.2 modules (lte/5g and wifi ap) compatible with #openbsd. any recommendations?

It's a fantastic look at early incident response, code auditing, and how OpenBSD handled one of the first major software supply-chain attacks.

Definitely worth a read:
http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/trojan.html

#openbsd #openssh #security

https://www.openrsync.org/

OpenBSD 7.9 will be deployed on the hosts as soon as possible!
We want to wait for the first errata to appear.

21 new VMs were added and 61 VMs were renewed.

We donated €1125 to the #OpenBSD Foundation, €66755 since we started.

Thank you, our users, and OpenBSD developers for an awesome OS!

Stay safe, healthy & sane!

#RUNBSD in 2026

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Phoebe Teaching Joey refers to a scene from the Friends television series in which character Phoebe Buffay attempts to teach character Joey Tribbiani French by making him repeat words after her. In March 2020, the scene gained popularity in memes online, with Phoebe attempting to explain various concepts to Joey but ultimately failing. This one has the following exchange: Phoebe: Just Joey: Just Phoebe: Update Joey: Update Phoebe: And Joey: And Phoebe: Shutdown Joey: Update And Restart

LONG HAUL \\ HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, OPENBSD!

#unix_surrealism #comic #openbsd #technomage #runbsd

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Fish and Girl are looting the Museum of Open Technology. Fish spots an old poster dated 1996.

@hi still waiting for #openbsd vi to get UTF-8 and color syntax so I can get rid of vim… :(

/me: was you day productive?
/also_me: define productive!

#OpenBSD #WindowMaker #DockApps #sndiod

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Three dockapps

Aside from the Nvidia, it's pretty similar to my now-dead 2017 HP Envy, and I moved the 480 GB SATA SSD and 16 GB RAM from the dead laptop to the working one.

Maybe it was the live environment, but I had trouble getting #LibreOffice installed with the graphical package manager. It went most of the way, but I had to use pkg from the terminal to finish the installation of the office suite. But after that, LO was able to create and open a password-protected document, unlike in my previous tests. I'm glad that the LO package was fixed for all #FreeBSD users. It took longer than would be ideal, but at least it happened.

Nothing has changed in terms of being able to control brightness and volume with the laptop keys meant for that purpose. They still don't work. I had to set brightness in the terminal. Volume does work with the slider in the panel. And audio was very good, unlike on my 2011 iMac 27-inch, where I only got the treble speakers and not the bass ones.

I can't remember how brightness worked on the iMac. I might have to boot into that one again to check that out. Booting to a USB drive on the iMac is annoying: You need to use a wired keyboard. It won't work with that machine's regular keyboard, a Logitech wireless. I couldn't find my generic USB keyboard, so I had to pull an old Mac keyboard out of the box I hope to ship it in when I sell it. It has one of those ADB to USB adapters from the '90s (??), and it surprisingly still works. I suspect the adapter is worth more than the keyboard.

Back to the HP Pavilion and GhostBSD, just like with the iMac, wireless networking was excellent. The graphical interface worked for both.

I would consider GhostBSD, but at this point I'm more interested in FreeBSD with Plasma. I wish there was a live image that I could try before doing an install. I ran #OpenBSD on the original HP laptop for a long time, and the brightness and volume keys worked OOTB, so it's possible for FreeBSD to do it. But for the shaky machines I have, I really want #ZFS in order to cope with crashes and power loss. My whole intent with FreeBSD is to explore ZFS.

The ports tree is locked for the 7.9 release.
No more commits.

--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber

Now that the #arm64 boards are installed, it was time to use them as redundant #DHCP server and #DNS resolvers; using #dhcpd and #Unbound on both #OpenBSD and #FreeBSD.

https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/redundant-dhcp-server-and-dns-resolver-using-openbsd-and-freebsd/