Bryan Steele @brynet@bsd.network

#MutualAid #MutualAidRequests

I could use some help, friends. I'd really appreciate sharing. ​

If you can help out with the occasional pizza, that would really mean a lot to me. Monthly gifts would take care of a lot of my financial stress/anxiety as well.

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ZQJC48GUPB3UU&source=url

Progress: $325 / $2500 CAD (monthly goal)

If you aren't able help with PayPal, I have an Amazon .ca wishlist with some odds & ends, computer hardware: https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/2E7N6O3GTI6JF?sort=custom

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If you find my shameless self boosts to be at all annoying, feel free to click on my profile, then the triple vertical dots next to my follow button, and finally "Hide boosts from @brynet

New instance, another #introduction.

I'm brynet or canadianbryan 🇨🇦
on most sites, I occasionally on #OpenBSD, but mostly eat 🍕 and slack.

Hi.

#mutualaidrequest #mutualaid

I don't suppose that I have any #bsd #unix #foss #thinkpad friends out there willing to signal boost, by chance? ​

https://bsd.network/@brynet/114458997143046937

The Ghidra reverse engineering tool/decompiler has returned to #OpenBSD ports! ​

Thanks to Kurt Miller (kurt@), #Ghidra 12.0.2 is now in -current! ​

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=177069535911042&w=2

Ghidra was originally ported to OpenBSD back in 2019, but due to major changes upstream, updates stagnated until 2023, when it was disabled to avoid shipping an outdated package.

Well hello there, curious visitor from the distant past.

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onfiguration/CLDC-1.1) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413"

If any of my past work on #OpenBSD, or my highlight posts here (or elsewhere) has been helpful, a small recurring monthly donation would be extremely appreciated. ​

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

https://bsd.network/@brynet/114458997143046937

Hope my fellow #OpenBSD developers have an amazing time in Isla Mujeres, Mexico this week at the #c2k26 #hackathon! ​ ​

Here's one for the local AI/LLM weirdos, #OpenBSD has stable-diffusion.cpp in -current ports, w/ a Vulkan support FLAVOR.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=177023303410708&w=2

* Don't ask me what any of this does.

** Please consult a doctor if your computer talks to you. ​

Please consider supporting me. ​

-26°C / -32°C wind chill. How's your morning? 🥶​

Heads up for Firefox users on #OpenBSD -current, landry@ the mozilla port maintainer has committed a new policy configuration file which changes some (annoying) default behaviour.

landry@ modified ports/www/mozilla-firefox/*: Install a policy configuration file

mostly taken from https://justthebrowser.com/firefox/, Disables:

• Firefox Studies
• Checking if firefox is the default browser
• Sponsored stuff on the home page
• GenAI features
• PerplexityAI from the default search engines

in addition, frob GoToIntranetSiteForSingleWordEntryInAddressBar, which forces firefox to ask your dns first if you enter a single word in the address bar, useful to access local sites on your network instead of sending your internal dns entries to $searchengine.

cf https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/#gotointranetsiteforsinglewordentryinaddressbar

many knobs to frob, but those seem to be a decent baseline to fight against enshittification.

sigh.. ​

https://www.blogto.com/city/2026/01/ontario-coldest-place-on-planet/

Sorry for the lack of OpenBSD highlight posts from me lately, especially January, this time of year has been a bit hard for a number of reasons, mostly very personal (health/financial), but this particularly harsh winter also isn't helping much.. I haven't been out walking much and my health is deteriorating, I'm easily fatigued.. ​

I hope some of these things will improve by Spring, and I can focus on OpenBSD more, maybe when the weather improves, but well, that may be wishful thinking..

I'd appreciate some boosts of my pinned profile posts, and some patience with my desperation lately. ​ ​