#voidlinux setup
systemd ❌️ runit ✅️
glibc ❌️ musl ✅️
X11 ❌️ Wayland ✅️
Gnome ❌️ KDE ✅️

The usual solution is to use an ActivityPub relay. This, however, resulted in receiving looots of posts, hitting file size and inode limits on this small VM. Thus, I gave up this experiment a while ago.

Now, I just stumbled about https://relay.fedi.buzz/ from @astro@c3d2.social, which allows to only follow certain hashtags, which is kinda exactly what I wanted ❤️

After following the Subscribing to Fediverse Relays section from snac(8), I came up with the following jq(1) command to subscribe each hashtag I am already following on my #snac instance. And yes, this would be way faster to do by hand for those six hashtags in total.

$ # Create multiple snac follow commands for each hashtag the "xz"
$ # user follows. The "data" directory is the $SNAC_BASEDIR.
$ jq -j \
  '.followed_hashtags.[] | "snac follow data relay https://relay.fedi.buzz/tag/",.[1:],"; "' \
  < data/user/xz/user.json
snac follow data relay https://relay.fedi.buzz/tag/openbsd; snac follow data relay https://relay.fedi.buzz/tag/snac; [ . . . ]

Finally, I am able to doomscroll #biketooter for weird and ridiculously expensive bikes from my instance; yay!

#snac doesn't support split domains ;-(

https://mastodon.sapka.pl/

I was *so* close.

Use `:w !sudo tee %` to save a file that requires elevated permissions to edit, when you have forgotten to append sudo before opening it.

#linux #vim #neovim #nvim #ide #texteditor #arch #shortcuts

The 60th OpenBSD release is here... 7.9!

https://www.openbsd.org/79.html

Start your sysupgrade engines!
Lots of vmd/vmm fixes and we will upgrade as soon as possible.

Artwork by Lyra Henderson.

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OpenBSD 7.9 Artwork by Lyra Henderson.

New: NYC Health and Hospitals says a data breach earlier this year affects 1.8 million people. Hackers stole personal info, medical data, government-issued IDs, Social Security numbers — and *biometrics*, including fingerprints and palm scans.

Already one of the largest healthcare breaches of 2026.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/nyc-health-and-hospitals-says-hackers-stole-medical-data-and-fingerprints-during-breach-affecting-at-least-1-8-million-people/

Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list 'almost entirely unmanageable' https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/18/linus-torvalds-says-ai-powered-bug-hunters-have-made-linux-security-mailing-list-almost-entirely-unmanageable/5241633 😂

FYI, the Linux kernel officially allows AI-assisted code https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-assistants.html This is all big tech who are members of Linux foundations forced AI assisted code inside the Linux kernel. Now what's the point of crying about it?l

#linux #opensource

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