Out of desperation, I updated the BIOS - something I have never done before, oops - and now it seems to be working again. For updating, I created a bootable USB flash stick from the ISO on #OpenBSD, following this blog post: https://blog.raveland.tech/post/thinkpad_update_bios/

Computers are weird machines.

• #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

Some of our #OpenBSD anti-ROP #research ended up on lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/xclcel/final_return_for_openbsd_anti_return

#BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #Linux #Unix #Illumos #compiler #compilers #GCC #LLVM #Clang

Amazing… just solved* a problem on my #OpenBSD desktop thanks to a tiny program posted to a mailing list back in 12002: https://marc.info/?l=netbsd-users&m=103719000328428&w=2

The layers of awesomeness here:
• the code is tiny enough to know it contains no nasties
• it compiles without any changes
• it still does the job it was programmed for
• it works around the problem I have today (xenodm crashes on resume)
• the author wrote it to work around the same problem
• 23½ years ago!

Is this the moment where I get annoyed enough with state and quirks of configuration management tools, and switch my #OpenBSD boxes to somewhat more hands-off #NixOS ? 🤔

#SysAdmin #HomeLab #SelfHosting

Pique adversial computing: we have silently switched out a part of the government email infra from US Big Tech to EU, #OpenBSD / #OpenSMTPD based infra.

How do you like us now Bezos? 😈

Apparently lot of firewall loving people live in this part of Luxembourg. #freebsd #openbsd #macos

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Table says "secteur pf".

The single downside of running a mailserver with a modern CPU and NVMe storage is that sysupgrade blasts through it so fast that it does not allow to fetch a coffee (or whatever).

2m16s from running sysupgrade -s to it being back in production.

What a complete and utter madness.

#OpenBSD #OpenSMTPD

Trying to organize all my #OpenBSD guides/tutorials into a single place (mostly for my future self)

https://openbased.xyz/

(Also being served by my local HP T630 running OpenBSD as a bonus 😜)

✅ XFCE desktop environment with Wayland on #OpenBSD

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Screenshot of a XFCE desktop environment with Wayland on OpenBSD

J. Ruohonen et al, "A Measurement Study on the Adoption of Pledges and Unveils in the OpenBSD Operating System"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.03056

#OpenBSD