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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁
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AKA brynet@. Canadian 🇨🇦. I like tinkering with OpenBSD and occasionally other Unix-like systems. In other words, not a MCP. He/Him. hacker^Wslacker. @canadianbryan previously. https://brynet.ca/ Buy me pizza 🍕 https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html
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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · 10d
If any of my past work on #OpenBSD, or my highlight posts here (or Twitter/Mastodon) has been helpful to you, a small recurring monthly donation would be extremely appreciated. Reposts welcome. 🍕🐡

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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · 3d
I'd really appreciate some help friends.. 🍕🥰
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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · 10d
If any of my past work on #OpenBSD, or my highlight posts here (or Twitter/Mastodon) has been helpful to you, a small recurring monthly donation would be extremely appreciated. Reposts welcome. 🍕🐡

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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · 11h
Not super familiar with riscv stuff, but happy to help out if you have any OpenBSD questions. 👍🐡
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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · 10d
If any of my past work on #OpenBSD, or my highlight posts here (or Twitter/Mastodon) has been helpful to you, a small recurring monthly donation would be extremely appreciated. Reposts welcome. 🍕🐡

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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · 1d
a dirt road going through a desert landscape with mountains in the background
Alt: tumbleweed
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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · 1d
Slides from Hans-Jörg Höxer (hshoexer@)'s talk "Confidential Computing with #OpenBSD - The Next Step" at #EuroBSDcon 2025.

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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 2d
OpenSSH 10.2 has just been released.

This release contains only non-security bugfixes, most notably for a bad regression that made interactive that used ControlPersist basically unusable

Full release notes at openssh.com/releasenotes...
OpenSSH: Release Notes
OpenSSH release notes
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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · 2d
Oral History of Ken Thompson
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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · 3d
I'd really appreciate some help friends.. 🍕🥰
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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · 10d
If any of my past work on #OpenBSD, or my highlight posts here (or Twitter/Mastodon) has been helpful to you, a small recurring monthly donation would be extremely appreciated. Reposts welcome. 🍕🐡

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🎃 Like Mucas 🎃 @mwl.io · 4d
The "Networking for System Administrators" #kickstarter is on its last day. Back this book, get four #sysadmin ebooks!

mwl.io/ks

The last stretch goal got broke late yesterday. Today, it's jumped halfway to the next one. It might--MIGHT--fall, making the reward FIVE books?
Networking for System Administrators (2nd Edition)
The critically-acclaimed sysadmin reference, updated for modern Windows and Unix
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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · 5d
Sade - Pearls (Live)
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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 6d
OpenSSH 10.1 has just been released. This release includes several new features, a minor security fix and many other bugfixes.

Full release notes here: www.openssh.com/releasenotes...
OpenSSH: Release Notes
OpenSSH release notes
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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · 6d
Slides from Florian Obser (florian@)'s #OpenBSD talk "We choose to do the things, not because they are easy..." at #EuroBSDcon 2025.

www.openbsd.org/papers/eurob...
We choose to do the things, not because they are easy... EuroBSDCon 2025
... but because they are a bloody nuisance and we want them to be easy. In this talk I will reminisce on more than a decade of being an OpenBSD developer. With over 2,047 commits and more than 75,000...
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🎃 Like Mucas 🎃 @mwl.io · 7d
Three days left on the "Networking for System Administrators" #kickstarter. Every #sysadmin should know what's in this book.

Last chance to get the special edition, yes, but also the first chance to get the ebook or paperback!

mwl.io/ks

I would appreciate your support.
Networking for System Administrators (2nd Edition)
The critically-acclaimed sysadmin reference, updated for modern Windows and Unix
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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · 8d
For all you Java☕ fiends^Waficionados, #OpenBSD now has a port of OpenJDK 25, just in time for the 7.8 release!

marc.info?l=openbsd-po...
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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · 9d
Heads up from naddy@, "Locking down ports for the [#OpenBSD 7.8] release"

"THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO TEST."

"If you don't want to be surprised by your favorite application failing on 7.8, install -current, test -current packages, and report problems right now. Don't wait a week."
'Locking down ports for the 7.8 release' - MARC
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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · 9d
I'm excited for fellow OpenBSD developers Stefan Sperling's "Game of Trees" and the companion "Game of Tree hub" project hosting service.

gameoftrees.org/index.html

gothub.org

He gave talk this past weekend at EuroBSDcon in Zagreb, Croatia.
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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · 9d
Slides from Stefan Sperling (stsp@)'s talk "The Game of Trees Hub" at #EuroBSDcon 2025.

www.openbsd.org/papers/eurob...

events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/talk/YM...

#git #OpenBSD
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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · Jun 20
Game of Trees Hub (Gothub), a new #Git repository hosting service based on #OpenBSD and Game of Trees (got), now has an early-bird crowd-funding effort over on open collective. Go check it out!

opencollective.com/gothub

gameoftrees.org/index.html
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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · 9d
Amusingly OpenBSD's AnonCVS server was up months before the index.html file for the website was created (index.html 1.1 date 1996/01/09 16:28:45; deraadt) 😅
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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · 9d
I feel like not enough people appreciate the impact of Anonymous CVS, which predicated much of this. Theo de Raadt and Chuck Cranor's paper from Usenix 99' is a good read.

I once asked Theo, he believed the second project to use AnonCVS was probably GNOME. The first being OpenBSD, in Fall of 1995.
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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · 9d
The #OpenBSD Foundation is currently at $253,107 (~63%) raised of the $400,000 goal for their 2025 Fundraising Campaign, and we're only 2 months from December. 🐡

openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2025...

Donations fund events for developers, infrastructure costs.
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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · 9d
Slides from Stefan Sperling (stsp@)'s talk "The Game of Trees Hub" at #EuroBSDcon 2025.

www.openbsd.org/papers/eurob...

events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/talk/YM...

#git #OpenBSD
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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · Jun 20
Game of Trees Hub (Gothub), a new #Git repository hosting service based on #OpenBSD and Game of Trees (got), now has an early-bird crowd-funding effort over on open collective. Go check it out!

opencollective.com/gothub

gameoftrees.org/index.html
Game of Trees Hub - Open Collective
Collectively funded Git repository hosting service based on OpenBSD and the Game of Trees version control system.
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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · 10d
This upcoming #OpenSSH release will incorporate the IPQoS and ssh-agent(1) changes I previously wrote about, and more.

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Amazing work by Damien and other OpenSSH developers. 😊
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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 11d
OpenSSH 10.1 is almost ready for release. Please help test - details at link below

marc.info?l=openssh-un...
'Call for testing: OpenSSH 10.1p1' - MARC
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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 11d
OpenSSH 10.1 is almost ready for release. Please help test - details at link below

marc.info?l=openssh-un...
'Call for testing: OpenSSH 10.1p1' - MARC
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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · 10d
If any of my past work on #OpenBSD, or my highlight posts here (or Twitter/Mastodon) has been helpful to you, a small recurring monthly donation would be extremely appreciated. Reposts welcome. 🍕🐡

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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · 11d
Friendly reminder for #OpenBSD -current users, you'll need to use 'pkg_add -Dsnap ...' with upcoming snapshots as the project enters release mode for 7.8.

The -beta tag has been dropped.

marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
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Bryan Steele 🦋🍁 @brynet.ca · 13d
Slides from Marc Espie (espie@)'s talk "DPB [Distributed Ports Builder]: One protocol to build them all" Saturday at #EuroBSDcon 2025.

www.openbsd.org/papers/eurob...

#OpenBSD #perl
Dpb: one protocol to build them all EuroBSDCon 2025
One long-standing issue in package buildings is the handling of parallel builds. I've designed a simple network protocol (build-control) that allows real-time scaling of make/ninja processes job contr...
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