Bryan Steele 
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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
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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
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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A guaranteed $2500 CAD a month would go a long way towards solving a lot of my problems.. sigh. 
It would allow me to spend less time worrying about food, rent, bills, and more on open source. 
I'm looking for monthly/yearly "no-strings" sponsors, if any companies (or individuals) would like to help to support me so that I can focus on open source full time. Feel free to direct message or Email me.
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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
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New instance, another #introduction. 
I'm brynet or canadianbryan 🇨🇦
on most sites, I occasionally 
on #OpenBSD, but mostly eat 🍕 and slack.
Hi.
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I don't suppose that I have any #bsd #unix #opensource #thinkpad friends out there willing to signal boost, by chance?
Bryan Steele
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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
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
(Native SegWit): bc1qzkchnc25yeqt9p24edsu5ln0mvh8hqdzdznlk2
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New #OpenBSD story, on kernel stacks.
I don't suppose that I have any #bsd #unix #opensource #thinkpad friends out there willing to signal boost, by chance?
Bryan Steele
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A guaranteed $2500 CAD a month would go a long way towards solving a lot of my problems.. sigh.
It would allow me to spend less time worrying about food, rent, bills, and more on open source.
I'm looking for monthly/yearly "no-strings" sponsors, if any companies (or individuals) would like to help to support me so that I can focus on open source full time. Feel free to direct message or Email me.
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://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ZQJC48GUPB3UU&source=url
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🔰 🇦🇺
My works have been scraped for LLM training without my permission, attribution, or compensation.
Businesses and individuals who use these tools have therefore asked how they can indemnify themselves. To address this need, I have introduced an LLM Licence.
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Kudos to Robert Nagy (robert@). Without much fuss, he committed OpenWV and enabled Widevine support in Chromium. Now we can all enjoy Netflix, Disney+, and other DRM content on #OpenBSD.
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=176850784406383&w=2
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=176850824206836&w=2
#OpenBSD/amd64 now supports more than 64 CPUs, after improvements by mlarkin@, the maximum has increased to 255.
mlarkin@ modified src/sys/arch/amd64/include/cpu.h: Increase MAXCPUs on amd64 to 255
Now that we have larger bitmask support for more than 64 CPUs, we can increase the max to 255. 255 is the max that xapic can support; this number can be bumped later if we want to discriminate x2apic vs xapic.
with input from and ok deraadt.
also ok kettenis
#OpenBSD now works as a guest under Apple Virtualization on Apple Silicon, after recent driver fixes in -current.
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=176847076401851&w=2
Additionally, X11 now works again under QEMU w/ Apple Hypervisor.
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=176824452210423&w=2
EDIT: I was conflating two separate developments, Apple's low-level Hypervisor framework and high-level Virtualization frameworks.
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3 more days!
BSDCan 2026 is now accepting submissions for the June 2026 conference, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html and links therein for instructions.
Submissions deadline is January 17, 2026, the conference runs tutorials June 17-18, talks June 19-20.
#bsdcan #conference #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #bsd #development #networking #freesoftware #libresoftware
Nearly 2026, don't forget to rotate your mboxes.
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A friendly reminder to check out the #OpenBSD want.html page on occasion, developers may add requests for hardware they want/need for development.
rsadowski@ modified www/want.html: Mac mini M2 needed for ports development.
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Hey, I wrote another #OpenBSD story.
http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/boot_hppa.html
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@canadianbryan/115304576903651665
The #OpenBSD Foundation has surpassed its fundraising goal for 2025!
The total smaller donations from the OpenBSD community has reached Iridium tier for the 6th year in a row! Very cool! 😎
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#OpenBSD kernel mutexes now borrows an idea from... WebKit? 🤔
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=176238920827853&w=2
https://webkit.org/blog/6161/locking-in-webkit/
"the algorithm is being examined by researchers in formal methods too. special thanks to ian hayes, rob colvin, brijesh dongol, roger su, and daniel wright for their work so far."
UPDATE: This was briefly reverted shortly after it was committed, but it has been recommitted as of Dec 2025. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=176549891121847&w=2
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- Bluesky
- @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
