Bryan Steele 
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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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I'd like to replace my aging/noisy AMD Zen1+ desktop 
Not great timing, I know, but I'm thinking a Intel mini PC (e.g: N150, 11th Gen i5/i7) would work for my #OpenBSD testing & hacking, Any help towards this would be greatly appreciated. 
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=ZQJC48GUPB3UU&source=url
https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/2E7N6O3GTI6JF?sort=custom
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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: $507 / $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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re: Please boost my shameless posts for pizza, rent, & ThinkPads.
Please consider supporting me. 
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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: $507 / $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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Just a friendly reminder for #OpenBSD -current users, you'll need to once again use 'pkg_add -Dsnap ...' with upcoming snapshots as the project enters release mode for 8.0.
The -beta tag has been dropped.
re: Please boost my shameless posts for pizza, rent, & ThinkPads.
do not regret spending all your #bitcoin on pizza.
it's me, i'm pizza 🍕
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I wouldn't usually get political here, but I think it's sickening how a madman has garnered millions of pounds when there's plenty of other institutional open source projects which we rely on every day who''ll never get to this level of monetary support.
I do try in my own way to support the projects I love where I can -- #freebsd, #openbsd, #gameoftrees, etc., all of which I've put some level of money behind.
Don't neglect the power of this -- and don't listen to the hype around some fascist's projects building up millions of pounds.
Your individual support means more than you could know.
I absolutely love #gameoftrees, for example, and I know my paid for VM goes a long way to supporting that project. See? You can make a difference and not even realise it. :)
I submitted a funding.json entry to the floss.fund directory in the hopes it may steer some people to my wall of pizza. Fingers crossed. 🤞
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If you are sad about having missed my tutorial introducing users to the #Git compatible version control system #GameOfTrees at #EuroBSDcon two weeks ago, you can download the full tutorial instructions and work through all the same steps as people did in the room with me:
Video/slides are up from Matthieu Herrb (matthieu@)'s #EuroBSDcon 2026 talk "Input devices on #OpenBSD for console, X11 and Wayland"
(no audio until ~2:20)
https://exquisite.tube/w/iMjFGHMDpVGg4gk41ZVWvQ?start=2m20s
https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2026-matthieu-input.pdf
This significant #OpenBSD vmm(4) redesign, which improves VM lifecycle management, has now been committed. It paves the way for future development. Many thanks to Dave Voutila (dv@)! 🐡
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=178983836923867&w=2
Previous tech@ mailing list discussion from August: https://marc.info/?t=178576803200002&r=1&w=2
Blink and you might have missed it, mlarkin@ landed vmm/vmd(8) SMP guest support in #OpenBSD -current!
This includes a new "cpus" parameter in vm.conf(5), and '-p' flag for vmctl(8). The default number of virtual guest CPUs is 1, with current maxium of 64.
https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/d74b165ebc85c9aaf5150f25e6088f52d9fc0f04
Hope my fellow #OpenBSD developers are having an amazing time in Canada (Edmonton, AB) this week at the #w2k26 #hackathon! 
Video/slides are up from Alexander Bluhm (bluhm@)'s #EuroBSDcon 2026 talk "From Report to Patch, the #OpenBSD Errata Process"
https://exquisite.tube/w/sDafcZjdEQpR83aogPSx9j
https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2026-bluhm-errata.pdf
As with most of the OpenBSD base system utilities, pax/tar(1), gzip(1), as well as most archivers/(de-)compressors in ports have used pledge(2) for many years now.
p7zip has been replaced with 7zip in #OpenBSD ports, carrying forward the pledge(2) support I helped the maintainer Josh work out 10 years ago.
Features like benchmark, hashing/listing archives, extracting to stdout can't write to the filesystem, open a socket or execv.
https://github.com/openbsd/ports/commit/84666ef6dd7198a05ea703f7407a5c17f1723272
"7z" is interesting (read: scary), in that it attempts to support every conceivable archive format, many you wouldn't identify as archive.. like filesystems and even ELF binaries.
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Every fatal firmware error fix depends on one guy on an IRC channel voluntarily and supportively looking up magic fimware error codes and explaining the implications to me. Bus factor: 1
And for some vendors like Qualcomm there is simply nobody to ask questions to. The Linux ath10k/11k/12k driver maintainer stopped years ago and hasn't been replaced as far as I know.
Vendors should never have been allowed to stop providing public documentation for computers they are selling.
Job Snijders (job@) has imported a new network daemon to #OpenBSD -current, not yet linked to the build.
job@ modified src/usr.sbin/{rtrd,rtrctl}/*: Import rtrd(8), an easy-to-use RPKI-To-Router protocol implementation
The rtrd(8) program is intended as a scalable distribution layer to deliver data produced by rpki-client(8) to clients such as bgpd(8) in multi-node/multi-vendor IXP and ISP deployments.
A single rtrd(8) instance can concurrently serve many BGP routers and route servers.Many thanks to Ralph Covelli from Hurricane Electric for creating rtrd!
OK deraadt@ claudio@
Ori Bernstein (ori@) has sent an "early preview" diff for GEFS, the "Good enough file system" to #OpenBSD tech@.
GEFS is a new crash-safe, snapshotting, copy on write [filesystem]
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=178948744271633&w=2
While still experimental, GEFS has been used in production on 9front/plan9.
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We are pleased to announce that #BSDCan 2027 will take place in Vancouver, BC at the University of British Columbia, July 7th through 10th.
Stay tuned for the Call for Participation and Registration.
If any of my work on #OpenBSD, or my highlight posts here (or elsewhere) has been helpful in the past, a small recurring monthly donation would be extremely appreciated.
Video/slides are up from Marc Espie's talk "Advances in #OpenBSD's pkg_add" Sunday at #EuroBSDcon 2026.
- 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
