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Viewing a 1920x1080 [screenshot] taken from #NetBSD on a 1920x1080 laptop running #sway (#wayland) with 1.5x scaling set in sway:

nsxiv (X11) -- horrible blurry mess
imv (Wayland native) -- far clearer, but still blurry (can tell by looking at the parts that use bitmapped fonts)
swayimg (Wayland, maybe wlroots-native??) -- completely crisp

#FractionalScaling still sucks too much, y'all. 🫣 🙄

I love the fact that an idle NetBSD server is...idle.

load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00; up 10+23:59:43

#NetBSD #RunBSD

@phlash You could always add kern.heartbeat.max_period=0 to /etc/sysctl.conf, but if cpu1 has stalled so is dormant booting uniprocessor is no worse.

You could even try #NetBSD 10.1_STABLE as the subsystem panicking your kernel was introduced in 11. Probably won't fix your stuck CPU though

@phlash A quick workaround just to get #NetBSD running would been using boot -1 to boot uniprocessor

#NetBSD on Intel #N150 kernel panic question for the hive mind:

I have a new Beelink ME Pro NAS, which has an N150 and Intel PCH chipset on the SoC. Debian boots just fine but I would like to run *BSD on this.

Currently NetBSD produces this kernel panic on entering multiuser mode:
"panic: cpu1: time has not advanced in 1501 heartbeats"

EDIT: With thanks to @sborrill for the lead, this seems to be sorted 🎉

https://mastodon.me.uk/@phlash/117133482871165053

Two new preprints from my #research center!

"Is Cleaning Costly? Evaluating the -fret-cleanAnti-Return-Oriented Programming Mitigation from the OpenBSD Operating System" — an evaluation and critique of #cybersecurity #engineering: https://briancallahan.net/preprints/Callahan_Shaikh_IEEE_CARS_2026.pdf (and #blog post about it: https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260811.html)

"Write Your Way to Better Cybersecurity Awareness Training with Active Word Games" — about identifying creating cybersecurity training as a site of learning worthwhile of studying: https://briancallahan.net/preprints/Wroblewski_et_al_IEEE_CARS_2026.pdf

#academic #academia #professor #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #unix #linux #illumos #solaris #compiler #compilers #cybersec #cyber #informationsecurity #infosec

@theruran

Worth doing! If you find a config you like, please share! :D

I'm still rocking the default #ctwm on my #NetBSD secondary work machine, partially because I use deskflow to control it with my Debian machine's keyboard and mouse, so I don't feel the need to tile there.

Fresh NetBSD 11 in a VM, running ctwm, listening to @tilderadio and browsing the fediverse.

Thanks to @netbsd and everyone working on NetBSD - the clean base system is really appreciated.

#NetBSD #BSD #ctwm #TildeRadio

Livin' dat #NetBSD life, fam. XD

Secondary laptop at work, mainly using it as an info display ;)

#NetBSD #AVIF

For the interested, you can read a preprint of our latest #research on the #OpenBSD -fret-clean flag here:

https://briancallahan.net/preprints/Callahan_Shaikh_IEEE_CARS_2026.pdf

#freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #bsd #linux #unix #solaris #illumos #compiler #compilers #llvm #gcc #rop #cybersecurity #cybersec #cyber #security #infosec #informationsecurity

Made a small PR towards Forgejo to allow its build on NetBSD (I found out that the pkgsrc-wip contributor is already working on packaging it, but was blocked) and illumos - as these are broken at the moment, in 16.x branch: pretty much dumb addition or removal of type cast to int64 in one particular module.

#Forgejo #illumos #NetBSD #pkgsrc

I'm not the only person to provide a full off-line browsable HTML guide to my softwares in the box, also. (-:

In case anyone else hits it: The version of xgettext in #NetBSD 10.1 is old enough (0.16) that it breaks the #WatanabeShell build. You need the one that is in pkgsrc (0.22).

#UnixShells #nosh

@armando @stuartl OK, the problem you will have with older versions of Receiver (as it was) is that they won't know new enough TLS, etc. to be able to speak to anything modern.

I never got 11.6 to work with modern--ish NetScaler even when forcing on SSL v2 and SHA1 cert signatures.

However, I now have a graphical #NetBSD environment to play with thanks to @lproven and his query about CDE to the NetBSD mailing lists, so I'll see how well modern Linux emulation works.

If anyone cares about #NetBSD and #Python :

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/5922

There is also an issue about that on the NetBSD issue tracker since quite a while, but guess it was overlooked.

Reject it

#NetBSD #antiai #noai #runbsd

@nivex If you have a few hours to spare, this makes for an interesting read - https://www.theos.com/deraadt/coremail.html

"This mail archive is the complete (as far as I know) communication between myself and the NetBSD core between December 15 (when they removed all my NetBSD access) and the day OpenBSD was formed. It actually goes a little further beyond that time, and includes mail from a few other people involved in the negotiations."

#openbsd #netbsd

@armando How new do you need? Even the ancient one in pkgsrc speaks to CVAD 2507 CU1 just fine. Some of us have made and sold #NetBSD products with the ICA client in...

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lrtnPlm6LA_ae2TXjqBxhaHj75VzQJRzQ-V3SOsdxqQ/edit?usp=sharing

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