After years of “standalone” features that were just too clunky to use, I am moving back to the open ecosystem that started it all. Why?

- 30-day battery (estimated) vs. 30 hours
- No more charger-hunting
- Digital sovereignty & ease of dev
- Physical buttons for the win

It is time to stop charging the watch every night and get back to basics. ⌚️🔓

https://geekyschmidt.com/post/2026-05-14-onthepebbleagain/

#Pebble #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #HackerTech #PebbleTime2

Attachment: two watches ]]> https://mastodon.social/@oneguynick/116573972376616678 Thu, 14 May 2026 17:10:12 UTC https://mastodon.social/@oneguynick/116573972376616678 The second half of the #OpenBSD/zaurus story has been published! You can read it here: http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/zaurus2.html
or read the whole story on one big page: http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/zaurusall.html

Attachment: The Couple]]> https://honk.vedetta.com/u/horia/h/XrSGK5Dm1gD796Z3J3 Tue, 12 May 2026 17:41:41 UTC https://honk.vedetta.com/u/horia/h/XrSGK5Dm1gD796Z3J3 I know 7.9 will be extra good because of the prolonged release date.

#propaganda #unix_surrealism #internet #brave #www #comic

Attachment: BRAVE BROWSER DOES NOT EXIST STOP USING NONEXISTENT SOFTWARE]]> https://merveilles.town/@prahou/116562014790972354 Tue, 12 May 2026 14:41:58 UTC https://merveilles.town/@prahou/116562014790972354 I published a patch today which adds support for Intel E610 #Ethernet devices to the #OpenBSD ix driver:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=177850774103141&w=2

Tests would be very welcome on any ix(4) device.

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

📹 https://exquisite.tube/w/38gDYhMNTNZimk3GcFnHNa
🌐 https://events.bsdnl.nl/early2026/talk/W9P9RT/
🎤 Let's find out how to get predictable IPv6 addresses assigned to OpenBSD VMs
by Florian Obser

📹 https://exquisite.tube/w/dkV6kWiT9sp2y6xVwkH1iF
🌐 https://events.bsdnl.nl/early2026/talk/BGGPZQ/
🎤 On DOS, floppies, NetBSD and nostalgia
by Eirik Øverby

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

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]]> https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@bsd_nl/116546522593317043 Mon, 11 May 2026 18:14:36 UTC https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@bsd_nl/116546522593317043 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 ăâșîț and not have to copy paste the characters.

Attachment: Aura Farming]]> https://honk.vedetta.com/u/horia/h/84Z6kybfR9K2ky7d3W Fri, 08 May 2026 21:08:07 UTC https://honk.vedetta.com/u/horia/h/84Z6kybfR9K2ky7d3W The “ugliest” OpenBSD ports are now operational. 🛡️

Providing bridge support for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and IRC on Synapse. Verified on -current.

A brilliant learning experience in package building; if you want to recruit these for the main ports, have at it!

https://gitlab.com/oneguynick/openbsd-ports/

#OpenBSD #Matrix #SelfHosted #SysAdmin