Omar Polo @op@bsd.network

We have spun up 5 new VMs during the last 48 hours. Some were booked by known friends of ours, some booked by new friends we have never met before. Welcome on board!

#git #hosting #gameoftrees #openbsd

Today in #openzfsmastery:

"GEOM lets you get clever with your storage. Don’t be clever. Put your ZFS on top of a partition and leave it the hell alone." #nonotryagain

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Today's new release of the #gameoftrees version control system finally makes it possible to have a #git repository web frontend on the Game of Trees Hub, including the ability to serve static web sites directly out of hosted repositories.

We are in the process of upgrading all user VMs to make these new features available.

Watch the (upcoming in one hour) #fosdem presentation by @op in the BSD devroom to learn more about how our web server implementation works: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/K7YXFT-gotweb/

Fun times ahead on the #gameoftrees hub 🕸️​https://marc.gameoftrees.org/mail/1768837501.8165_0.html

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/rackspace-raises-email-hosting-prices-by-as-much-as-706-percent/

<cough>run your own email<cough>

Just learned that "January" in Italian is "Gennaio," the GenAI bros have gone too far this time

So, not only did I recently code a whole-ass programming language using nothing more than Rust and ed(1), I just submitted a proposal (unrelated) to RustConf 2026 a full month before the deadline using no AI.

Just cancelled my KeePassXC Patreon :(.

Been a member for years, but I can't in good conscience contribute financially to a security tool that uses and endorses gen-"AI". It's grossly irresponsible.

> I don't know what other people think about this, but I have no plans to add plugins to #ed.

— Antonio Diaz Diaz, maintainer of #GNU #ed(1)

Finally someone not falling for the idea of plugins!

CC @ed1conf

Since Ryanair now requires you to use their app to get a boarding pass or stand in line at the counter I got fed up with their BS.
I made an app that allows you to get the Google Wallet link and Apple Wallet pkpass (that you can also add to Android wallet apps) without their shitty app (online check-in still has to be done on the Ryanair website, I might make a tool that does that at some point as well).

Feel free to try it at https://ryanair.anze.dev.

You can find the source code at https://github.com/craftbyte/ryanair-bp

oh my god gothub's ssh-based signup bot is adorable! ​

https://gothub.org/signup.html

#gameoftrees #runbsd

xmas is now deprecated, we need waylandmas

Je refais ma pub mais s'il y a des fans de #DoctorWho qui veulent parler de #DoctorWho à d'autres fans de #DoctorWho, j'ai créé l'espace "Doctor Who sur Matrix" pour nous permettre de communiquer ! https://matrix.to/#/#dwmatrix:grtt.fr

The compiler flag -funsafe-math-optimizations tells the compiler to use fun and safe math optimizations

Though a bit niche, my #FreeSoftwareAdvent today is ed(1). As the goofball behind @ed1conf, I certainly play it up, but I certainly use it more than the average Unix/BSD/Linux user.

A while ago I wrote up list of reasons¹ why one might use ed, and some are more obscure/improbable reasons (though I've encountered all of them in that post), there are a couple of those that drive me back to ed regularly:

• I can still see the output of previous commands on the screen while I edit, where a full-screen editor would obscure that output that I need to incorporate in my edit

• it's just darn fast for a quick edit, changing a variable name or adding/removing an entry in a list, etc. No startup costs for a honkin' huge $VISUAL with dozens of plugins and language-server processes and GUI rendering

• very usable on low-bandwith/high-latency connections like I sometimes get when I remote into machines (less of a problem now, but I still experience sessions where I'll SSH in, invoke ed, make the change, write & quit, and exit the shell, in a couple seconds, while the screen repaints things oh-so-slowly

• and most importantly, there's quality geek-cred for using it in front of others 😆

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¹ https://blog.thechases.com/posts/cli/why-ed1/