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Personal account. Opinions expressed are my own & are not health advice/not a substitute for expert consultation. Reposts are not endorsements
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thfr.bsky.social
USA: From "Yes we can" to "Yes we con"
March 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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gs314.bsky.social
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If I were Canadian PM I would immediately:

1. Create a new $15B science fund

2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada

3. Immediate permanent residency

4. Citizenship after 2 years

Overnight a science superpower
January 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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der-postillon.com
"Ist er ein Kommunist?" – Alice Weidel nach Musks Hitlergruß völlig verwirrt
"Ist er ein Kommunist?" – Alice Weidel nach Musks Hitlergruß völlig verwirrt
Berlin (dpo) - Die Enttäuschung ist riesig: Nachdem sie sich zunächst blendend mit Elon Musk verstand, hegt AfD-Chefin Alice Weidel nach seinem Hitler
www.der-postillon.com
January 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
thfr.bsky.social
They didn't become billionaires by having principles and spines.
January 20, 2025 at 11:14 AM
thfr.bsky.social
so much for equal application of the law
January 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
thfr.bsky.social
Like other "social media", #BlueSky is also set up as a popularity contest in the form of likes/favorites and reposts. The pathway to a "lowest common denominator" position is clear, via oversimplification, intellectual shortcuts, echo chambers and ultimately populism.
Read more books!
December 1, 2024 at 10:59 AM
thfr.bsky.social
join me for a test stream of #Brotato on #OpenBSD using the recently enabled VA-API encoding via ffmpeg in 30 minutes (2:00 UTC) at:
twitch.tv/thfrw
#PlayOnBSD
#StreamingBSD
thfrw - Twitch
Playing games on OpenBSD, the best operating system! As none of the games have official support for OpenBSD, stuff will break, streams will at times desync and drop... Enjoy the ride!
twitch.tv
September 25, 2024 at 1:35 AM
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brynet.ca
Friendly reminder for #OpenBSD -current users, you'll need to use 'pkg_add -Dsnap ...' with upcoming snapshots as the project enters release mode for 7.6.

The -beta tag has been dropped.

marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
September 17, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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brynet.ca
Witnessed another person discover #tmux today, tmux was my first #OpenBSD port, 16 years ago now. I discovered it on SourceForge, and sent in the short-lived port.

marc.info?l=openbsd-po...

The next year, tmux creator Nicholas Marriott (nicm@)'s first #OpenBSD src commit

marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
September 5, 2024 at 5:53 AM
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pitrh.bsky.social
You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks. nxdomain.no/~peter/openb... (prettified, tracked: bsdly.blogspot.com/2024/09/you-...) #OpenBSD #install #syspatch #supported #releases #packages #pkg_add #sysupgrade #release #snapshot #current
You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks.
nxdomain.no
September 2, 2024 at 8:54 PM
thfr.bsky.social
Bem vindos pessoal do Brazil!
September 2, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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brynet.ca
Not exactly a game-- but gaming related, we have a community called PlayOnBSD.

pobsd.chocolatines.org

This includes commercial games using open engines, portable language runtimes. One of members (@thfr.bsky.social) just released IndieRunner, a wrapper to run games.

old.reddit.com/r/openbsd_ga...
July 25, 2024 at 11:44 AM
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brynet.ca
As a part of this community, me and another developer (Nam) got Amnesia: The Dark Descent ported to OpenBSD shortly after Frictional Games released it as open source back in 2020.

old.reddit.com/r/openbsd_ga...
Amnesia title screen, still crashing at this point. Amnesia running on OpenBSD.
July 25, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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brynet.ca
Hardware accelerated video decode/encode (VA-API) support is beginning to land in #OpenBSD -current. 🥳

libva has been integrated into xenocara with Intel userland drivers in ports. AMD requires Mesa support, hence the inclusion in base.

marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...

Awesome work by rsadowski@! #c2k24
July 19, 2024 at 2:55 PM
thfr.bsky.social
Beyond All Reason now runs on #OpenBSD -current, as demonstrated here:

videos.pair2jeux.tube/w/b5e9432d-c...
Beyond All Reason on OpenBSD
Brief demo of launching it on -current, single-player scenario, and spectator mode of a multiplayer game.
videos.pair2jeux.tube
July 15, 2024 at 6:08 PM
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brynet.ca
If you run #OpenBSD and games, I recommend checking out IndieRunner, committed to ports today, made by fellow OpenBSD developer Thomas Frohwein (@thfr.bsky.social), building upon his previous work for FNA (fnaify), for multiple engines/runtimes.

marc.info?l=openbsd-po...

github.com/IndieRunner/...
GitHub - IndieRunner/IndieRunner: Launch your indie games on more platforms!
Launch your indie games on more platforms! Contribute to IndieRunner/IndieRunner development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
July 9, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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brynet.ca
dhclient(8) has finally been removed in #OpenBSD base, after being successfully replaced with dhcpleased/ifconfig autoconf in 2021.

marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
'CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src' - MARC
marc.info
June 30, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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brynet.ca
#OpenBSD -current now has initial suspend-to-idle (S0) support on amd64, useful on modern Intel/AMD machines that lack S3 (suspend-to-RAM).

marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...

marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
June 2, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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brynet.ca
After many years, and some serious debugging by both martijn@ and kettenis@, a longstanding issue with MSI interrupts with azalia(4), #OpenBSD's HD Audio driver, has been fixed! 😎

This has plagued recent AMD machines for a long time..
marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...
May 17, 2024 at 8:30 PM
thfr.bsky.social
rigg 1.1 released with minor fixes for the use in #OpenBSD ports.
Release Notes:
github.com/rfht/rigg/re...
#PlayOnBSD
Release rigg 1.1 · rfht/rigg
This update contains some minor fixes for use in OpenBSD ports, as well as a new CLI flag. Use $HOME in test/MonoInvisible.cs instead of /home. This makes more sense with how PORTHOME works int he...
github.com
May 4, 2024 at 2:43 AM
thfr.bsky.social
I'm planning to do a stream of the newly released Godot game "Tempus Bound"on #OpenBSD at 00:30 UTC (in 1.5 hours) - twitch.tv/thfrw
#PlayOnBSD
thfrw - Twitch
Playing games on OpenBSD, the best operating system.
twitch.tv
May 3, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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godotengine.org
PSA! 🚨

We are introducing minor compatibility breakage in shaders to bring you an import optimization.

Read more: godotengine.org/article/intr...
Introducing Reverse Z (AKA I'm sorry for breaking your shader)
We are breaking compatibility for some custom shaders. Here is why.
godotengine.org
April 30, 2024 at 10:27 AM
thfr.bsky.social
I will do a stream "How to create an OpenBSD port" based on my own project rigg at 23:00 UTC (in about 3 hours).
Stream:
twitch.tv/thfrw
rigg:
github.com/rfht/rigg
#OpenBSD
#PlayOnBSD
thfrw - Twitch
Playing games on OpenBSD, the best operating system.
twitch.tv
April 27, 2024 at 7:55 PM
thfr.bsky.social
Coming up: I will do a stream of how to update a port on #OpenBSD (likely beginner-level difficulty) tonight at UTC midnight (25-Apr, 00:00).

twitch.tv/thfrw

I'm estimating this will be less than 20 minutes long. Will upload it to YouTube afterwards.
thfrw - Twitch
Playing games on OpenBSD, the best operating system.
twitch.tv
April 24, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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brynet.ca
Surprise! It's #OpenBSD 7.5 release day... in Australia probably! 🐡

marc.info?l=openbsd-an...

www.openbsd.org/75.html
OpenBSD 7.5 release artwork by Stipan Morian
April 5, 2024 at 2:24 AM