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horia honked 12 May 2026 08:22 -0700

I know 7.9 will be extra good because of the prolonged release date.

horia bonked 11 May 2026 11:14 -0700
original: bsd_nl@mastodon.bsd.cafe

BSD-NL Conference - Early 2026 is over, already... ๐Ÿก๐Ÿ˜ˆโ›ณ

We would like to thank all the attendees who made time to visit us in Utrecht.
And of course our wonderful speakers:

๐Ÿ“น https://exquisite.tube/w/38gDYhMNTNZimk3GcFnHNa
๐ŸŒ https://events.bsdnl.nl/early2026/talk/W9P9RT/
๐ŸŽค Let's find out how to get predictable IPv6 addresses assigned to OpenBSD VMs
by Florian Obser

๐Ÿ“น https://exquisite.tube/w/dkV6kWiT9sp2y6xVwkH1iF
๐ŸŒ https://events.bsdnl.nl/early2026/talk/BGGPZQ/
๐ŸŽค On DOS, floppies, NetBSD and nostalgia
by Eirik ร˜verby

You can see older videos at: https://exquisite.tube/c/bsdnlconference/videos

See you next time!

#BSDNL #RUNBSD #BSD #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #HardenedBSD #SecBSD #DragonflyBSD

External Attachment: Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in front of tree with infinite posters. Bugs Bunny's poster says: We're Back Daffy Duck's says: It's over

horia bonked 11 May 2026 11:02 -0700
original: fionescu@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Until now I've never bothered to look into the internals of keyboard software support and whatnot, but for a long time I somehow put up with #Alpine #Linux (or maybe it was a #KDE / #Wayland issue?) not enabling by default key repeat - or however you call holding a button and have it register as continuous holding instead of a single press.

Lo and behold, on #OpenBSD that just works (I just passed by the conf where key repeat is explicitly defined, so you know real people put real effort into this system). On the other hand, changing the language on my keyboard when using cwm instead of something like KDE?...

setxkbmap -layout ro does not output an error, but still doesn't mean it actually switched me to Romanian (however, something like French actually just works). wsconsctl keyboard.encoding=ro outputs the error that ro is not a valid encoding. According to the documentation, encodings are apparently listed in /usr/include/dev/wscons/wsksymdef.h - and indeed, there seems to be no "ro" in there. Changing locale didn't seem to help either.

Then I took a deep dive into the man page of wsconsctl(8). There it says: "The current mapping can be printed with wsconsctl keyboard.map. The value for each keycode specifies the keysym that is output when each of Key, Shift + Key, AltGr + Key, or Shift + AltGr + Key is pressed" A magic thing then happens... I test wsconsctl keyboard.map+="keycode 15 = l L at" - afterwards, I see in the keyboard mapping "l L at at"; the output is a Polish l=L with slash. I decide to test AltGr with every other key on my keyboard...

I burst into laughter when I realized that I do have now Romanian characters: they were hidden in plain sight, usable with AltGr as modifier. I can't seem to spot them in keyboard.map, where according to the documentation all keysyms should be specified. Maybe setxbkmap did the magic on top? At least I am grateful I can type ฤƒรขศ™รฎศ› and not have to copy paste the characters.

horia bonked 07 May 2026 08:54 -0700
original: florian@bsd.network

IPv6 gore

IPv6 gore

Gateway

$ cat /etc/rad.conf
interface vlan42 {
        no auto prefix
        prefix 2001:db8::42/128
}

OpenBSD Host, running slaacd(8) 

$ ifconfig vio0 inet6
inet6 2001:db8::42 prefixlen 128 autoconf pltime 2699 vltime 5399

A triumph in modern igoring. โ€‹

I always suspected that this would work on OpenBSD, we intentionally wrote it this way, but as far as I know, nobody every tried it.

Btw. don't tell the occupants of the IETF 6man working group. They will probably blow a gasket, go feral and come after me. โ€‹