I am slowly coming to understand that the reason some applications crash often on OpenBSD is not the fault of OpenBSD, but the fault of poorly written applications that have tons of vulnerabilities. OpenBSD is designed to be a secure operating system as one of its main goals, and trying to circumvent these safety guardrails by "optimizing OpenBSD for desktop use" -- i.e. tweaking sysctl.conf to the max -- defeats the purpose of having the guardrails in the first place.

If you want an OS where applications are free to roam full of holes and exploits without crashing, use Linux I guess. It will happily continue to allow those poorly written programs to run, giving the user a false sense of stability. Meanwhile, I'm starting to prefer safety and security over "desktop performance at all costs". If a program misbehaves it should die, and OpenBSD will kill it before I even know it misbehaved.

#OpenBSD #ProactiveSecurity

so i have been learning #sam and #acme properly and oh my god. acme is the best editor i have ever used. i love the fact that it really is an os interface in its own right. i have been completely underutilising it. i now have a setup on my second desktop at all times.

sam just seems like ed on steroids with a lot of the acme benefits of the mouse interface.

i am using acme for actual work or writing and i use sam for quick edits or config files.

#plan9 #plan9port #texteditor

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the acme text editor with one large window on the left and two smaller ones stacked on top of each other on the right. the left window is the sam-fans mailing list archive, the top right is my home directory, and the bottom left is a win terminal showing "uname -a" which shows darwin.

Great to see this also in vim:) github.com/vim/vim/pull... #vim #neovim

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vim9 with semi-transparent popups

OpenBSD 7.8 // IKED // ERRATA 036

Date: May 8, 2026
Name: 036_iked.patch
Description: In iked(8), address sizes were not checked.
Link: https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.8/common/036_iked.patch.sig

#OpenBSD #Security #Update

OpenBSD 7.8 // NFS // ERRATA 035

Date: May 8, 2026
Name: 035_nfs.patch
Description: Due to insufficient checks in NFS server, the kernel could crash.
Link: https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.8/common/035_nfs.patch.sig

#OpenBSD #Security #Update

OpenBSD 7.8 // EXPAT // ERRATA 034

Date: May 8, 2026
Name: 034_expat.patch
Description: libexpat uses more entropy to protect against hash flooding. CVE-2026-41080
Link: https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.8/common/034_expat.patch.sig

#OpenBSD #Security #Update

OpenBSD 7.7 // IKED // ERRATA 042

Date: May 8, 2026
Name: 042_iked.patch
Description: In iked(8), address sizes were not checked.
Link: https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.7/common/042_iked.patch.sig

#OpenBSD #Security #Update

OpenBSD 7.8 // RPKI // ERRATA 030

Date: April 14, 2026
Name: 030_rpki.patch
Description: A malicious RPKI Publication Server can cause an incorrect error exit. A malicious RRDP Publication Server can cause a NULL dereference.
Link: https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.8/common/030_rpki.patch.sig

#OpenBSD #Security #Update

Here my version of it

Gmail -> @Tutanota
Youtube -> @peertube
Liar Signal -> @delta
Chrome -> #Helium
NordVPN -> @mullvadnet

PS: Signal IS big tech, they run on their server, they pay them, they are part of the problem not a solution to it.

#privacy #sovereinty #notogafam #google #signal #youtube #chrome #chromium #nordvpn #gmail #mullvad #deltachat #peertube #tutanota #tuta #decentralisation #europe #canada

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Show change of services Gmail to Tuta, Youtube to Peertube, Signal Logo (called Liar Signal) to Delta Chat, Chrome to Helium, NordVPN to Mullvad.

Lots of Linux vulnerabilities lately. Time to move the instance to Windows.

My apologies for interrupting, I got some trouble on notification via telegram bot, I input everything as required, but some reason I'm not getting notification at all, I checked logs:

snac[90250]: 03:22:32 telegram post 400

And I tried curl post on my server it was working perfect, maybe telegram refusing html or makrdown format? smthing else? before going to check source code, I would like to ask you about it:)

Thank you for your time
Best regards.

#snac