Bryan Steele 
@brynet@bsd.network
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AKA canadianbryan. I like tinkering with #OpenBSD and occasionally other Unix-like systems. In other words, not a MCP. He/Him. 🍕💻🇨🇦
Joined Jan 2018
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Please boost my shameless posts for pizza, rent, & ThinkPads. 
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
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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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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in 2019, but due to major changes upstream, updates stagnated until 2023, when it was disabled to avoid shipping an outdated package.
@thomrstrom I'm pretty sure @bluerise had it working at some point a few years ago, not sure the current status of it.
Well hello there, curious visitor from the distant past.
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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.
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got is about to get the ability fetch/send from/to sha256 repositories!
I've just sent a diff on the mailing list: it advances the work that I've committed almost two year ago during the Prague hackathon.
https://marc.gameoftrees.org/mail/1770483901.27750_0.html
Back then, I was too stupid to understand the documentation and realize that we only needed to add a capability instead of supporting the Git protocol version v2 (which is only for fetch anyway.)
runxiyu on IRC kindly made us notice that we were wrong, and I'm so grateful that I can finally complete the "sha256 project" in got, even if a bit late ;-)
the future steps will be to fix clone (which is slightly tricky since we'll know the object format only after the git "handshake" happens) and sha256 support in gotd, our Git protocol server.
exiting times ahead =)
@op congrats! 
@cynicalsecurity I was reminded the other day of Coherent, which was open sourced back in 2015, included in the dump was a partition from their source archives with RCS files. I don't think anyone has really dug into it, there might be some neat stuff in there..
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BSDCan 2026 registration is now open! List of accepted talks coming soon.
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.
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@arrrg Canada's most recent attempt is currently being inundated by "concerned individuals".
https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill/45-1/s-206
https://sencanada.ca/en/committees/nffn/briefs/45-1#?sessionFilter=45-1&OrderOfReferenceID=665861
Not looking too promising. 
@txt_file OpenBSD never had a port of SDDM to begin with, KDE Plasma can be started with any display manager, the pkg-readme has an example for starting it from .xsession.
@claudiom Can you drop to a shell and install LILO manually, or some other bootloader?
Wouldn't recommend going the GPT route as that might try installing an EFI bootloader, which vmd(8) does not support.
@claudiom Yeah, some confusion between /dev/sda and /dev/vda during install, perhaps?
@claudiom The emulated disk for VMs is using VirtIO, so it shouldn't matter how the host is configured. vmd(8) disks are file-backed, it doesn't support using entire disks or partitions.
re: Please boost my shameless posts for pizza, rent, & ThinkPads.
Please consider supporting me. 
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- @brynet.ca
AKA canadianbryan. I like tinkering with #OpenBSD and occasionally other Unix-like systems. In other words, not a MCP. He/Him. 🍕💻🇨🇦
Joined Jan 2018
