Justine Smithies

It's mine and Julie's 29th Wedding anniversary today and apparently the gift is furniture? I wonder if purchasing a new front and back door counts as we had to purchase earlier last week? 😂

Thanks to @thomasadam@bsd.network I now have #CoW running on #NetBSD under #RiverWM ! It's just a basic config whilst I iron out stuff on my test NetBSD setup. More to come!

I think you need @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe help. 😉

This. 👆 CC: @stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it

Left the house at 4:45 this morning and got to Uig on the isle of Skye at about 10:30. Ripped out the fishing vessels old autopilot and fitted a new one all by 12. Then drove back home and that's me just in the door about 18:45. To say I'm absolutely cream crackered is an understatement! Time for some food and a cup of tea.

For all those #Unix lovers running a #BSD which of the following #ksh shells would you recommend and why ? Let it be noted that I'm currently running #oksh on #FreeBSD just now but have wondered about ksh-devel ksh93u+m the development branch ksh93 based on AT&T ksh93u+ (stable). Am I missing out on anything here ? https://github.com/ksh93/ksh #RunBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

Giving #Ironfox a go on my mobile instead of #Firefox . Also going to try #Librewolf instead of #Qutebrowser to see how I go on my #FreeBSD #ThinkPad .

When you go to view a post on the #FreeBSD forum and you're greeted with Forum upgrade in progress.

Built using Microslop Front Page 2000. 😉

Because they thought Mozilla was a type of cheese. 🤪

Decided I've nothing better to do than to wipe the nvme drive on my Dell Optiplex 3080 Tower and download / install the latest #OpenBSD snapshot img file to see if it now upgrades fine after the issues I had when it suddenly refused to upgrade past the 13th May snapshot but would downgrade without issue to any other date. Fingers crossed it works now as it's only an i5.

Yabba-Dabba-Doo!

OK then I'm away to possibly break my #FreeBSD 15.1 install on my #ThinkPad by going all modern and pkgbasify it. Wish me luck! 😟 https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify

So yesterday I got my wife Julie to install #DeltaChat so I could test out voice notes, Video calling and so on, Thinking that she'd probably not use it again. Well today to my surprise she sends me a voice not to say that she's going to be late home this morning from her work. I'm very impressed as I didn't expect her to use it again, So that's progress. 😁

We just tried audio and video calls on #DeltaChat and it works perfectly as Julie gave me the bird. 🙄🤣

Thank you Oxy. CC: @oxy@social.bsdlab.au

OK So I'm having that much fun with ed(1) that I've ordered a copy of @mwl@io.mwl.io "Ed Mastery". Fun times ahead! 😉

No computer tinkering this weekend for me as I'm babysitting three of my grandchildren at their house in Peterhead. On the plus side they wanted MacDonald's last night and MacDonald's messed the order up as I discovered once it arrived. So I complained and they gave us another complete order too. The kids were well chuffed and stuffed. 🤣

OpenBSD update issues I've had are resolved! Thank you to everyone who gave me things to try to resolve my #OpenBSD Dell Optiplex 3080 i5 not wanting to boot /bsd but would only boot /bsd.sp and bsd.rd I tried everything from booting bsd.rd and upgrading to using doas sysupgrade -s but each upgrade failed the same. I even deleted /bsd so it remade it after an upgrade but still the same. Finally after thinking the next step was to do a fresh install I decided to try rolling back the snapshot to the 1st May. This is not recommended but what had I to lose ? So i entered doas sysupgrade -sf http://ftp.hostserver.de/archive/2026-05-01-0105/ and guess what ? It only boots into /bsdnow and I have all my CPU's back ! Yipee ! 🎉 Now to see if a doas sysupgrade -s does it's stuff and still boots /bsd` #RunBSD

Nice! What are the specs?

Oh no ! Hope you both feel better soon.

Wow ! That's a blast from the past ! I was a Tufty club member way back many many years ago. 🤣

Mythic Beasts. https://www.mythic-beasts.com/

I think your drinks been spiked because feathers. 🤣

That's impressive ! 💪

That's a blast from the past ! I remember using those in primary school art.

That's Beastie upgraded from #FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p1 to FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p2 without issue.
Although I did come a cropper on my 8 Bastille jails. I had to change the securelevel to allow it to complete the command doas bastille pkg ALL upgrade but all is good and they are running FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p2 now too.

Anyone able to see if they can open this link please ? It's the second link on gnu.org I've tried this evening and I get nothing. https://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite/

I've not tried them but ZeroSSL is a free alternative to Let's Encrypt. CC: @hywan@floss.social

As Michael just said why hide your geekier side? If it's part of who you are then be proud and geek out to everyone. CC: @Dianora@ottawa.place @mwl@io.mwl.io

No I'm going as his lovely wife not you! 🤪 CC: @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe @js@bsd.cafe

Urine big trouble by the sounds of it if you do. 🤣 CC: @darkuncle@infosec.exchange

Ok so I've found this log file when my #OpenBSD fails to boot /bsd but boots /bsd.booted or /bsd.sp I've not mentioned in mailing lists yet as hoping someone shouts "Haha you Muppet! Fix it like this" 😜

FYI #OpenBSD

We're done with the 7.9 release. The head of the ports tree is now unlocked.
Normal development can continue there.

--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=177807185522395&w=2

Nice and you're watching Poirot.

Haha ! Julie now has #DeltaChat using the BSD Cafe server. That was easier than I thought it would be. 😀

Would you look like a jacket potato wrapped in tin foil? 😜 Sorry but couldn't help myself. Love you really. Xoxo

Got myself some second hand fantastic reading material for the weekend. #Vi

Get copper tape and put it around the base of your raised beds as their slime reacts with the copper stopping them proceeding any further. CC: @fedops@fosstodon.org

[ Solved sort of ]

I just installed the previous version of py311-bcrypt version 4.3.0 and I was able to restart radicale again.

Oh great just updated my #FreeBSD Bastille jails and my radicale now fails to start with the following errors.

[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] Logging of backtrace is disabled in this loglevel
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] Loaded default config
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] Loaded config file '/usr/local/etc/radicale/config'
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] Skipped missing/unreadable config file '/root/.config/radicale/config'
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] Starting Radicale (python=3.11.15 radicale=3.6.1 vobject=0.9.6.1 passlib=1.7.4 defusedxml=0.7.1 bcrypt=5.0.0 argon2-cffi=25.1.0 pika=1.3.2 ldap=n/a ldap3=2.9.1 pam=n/a) as user=root(0) groups=wheel(0),wheel(0),operator(5) on FreeBSD-15.0-RELEASE-amd64-64bit-ELF
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] auth type is 'radicale.auth.htpasswd'
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] auth.strip_domain: False
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] auth.lc_username: False
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] auth.uc_username: False
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] auth.urldecode_username: False
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] auth.delay: 1.000000 seconds
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] auth.cache_logins: False
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] auth htpasswd file: '/usr/local/etc/radicale/users'
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] auth htpasswd file encoding: 'utf-8'
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] auth htpasswd cache: False
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] auth htpasswd encryption is 'radicale.auth.htpasswd_encryption.bcrypt'
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] Read content of htpasswd file start: '/usr/local/etc/radicale/users'
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] Read content of htpasswd file done: '/usr/local/etc/radicale/users' (entries: 1, duplicates: 0, errors: 0)
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [WARNING] bcrypt module version '5.0.0' >= '5.0.0' and passlib(libpass) module version '1.7.4' < '1.9.3' found => incompatible, downgrade bcrypt or upgrade passlib(libpass)
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [CRITICAL] An exception occurred during server startup: The htpasswd encryption method 'bcrypt' requires the bcrypt module but not usuable

I've tried reinstalling all the usual suspects like py311-bcrypt and py311-passlib which I think the latter is the issue here but it will not start not even from service radicale start

I'm running on the latest 15.0-RELEASE-p7
Anyone ??

Nice that's the first time I've upgraded my system using pkgbase and it's gone from FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p1 to FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p2 without issue.
Oh and why yes I'm still using CoW ( Wayland and behaves like fvwm by @thomasadam@bsd.network ) as my Window manager and loving it's many many configurations. This could take me a wee while to get just how I'd like but definitely loving that retro vibe!

#FreeBSD #Wayland #CoW #pkgbase

Would you believe it ? I've only just finished my ECDIS course at Raymarine and Loganair have already messaged me to say that my scheduled 08:30 flight to Edinburgh tomorrow morning has been delayed and estimated departure is now 10:10 . Can they not run any flights on time !? 🙄

[ Update ] Changing the mirror to Oxford resolved this issue but on upgrading to todays 17th May took me back to the last issue where /bsd will not boot error 255. So I rolled back to the last known working snapshot of 14th May and everything works again /bsd boots perfectly. Also re the installer issue, I wasn't the only person to suffer see below link. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=177900949688752&w=2 So today on #OpenBSD snapshot dramas. I obvs am successfully running on the 14th May #473 snapshot so today run doas sysupgrade -s and it downloads today's snapshot and then runs the upgrade but then this comes up on screen and it reboots and tries the upgrade kernel again until I tell it to boot /bsd Things are going on in OpenBSD dev land and I can't see anything in the mailing lists ? Also what the fsck is an ai.log ????

Very nice! 😋 CC: @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

And before you know it, It'll all be over in a flash. 😜 CC: @fsphil@mastodon.social

Or swhkd for #Wayland instead of sxhkd

Just thought I'd reinstall #OpenBSD 7.9 again and then switch to the latest snapshot to see if my not being able too boot /bsd past the 14th May snapshot and it now fails to verify the downloaded stuff 😂 Good thing I've still my trusty #FreeBSD laptop. Even more random redoing the sysupgrade -s and it passes straight away and upgrades. Does it boot the /bsd ? No it does not only boot.rd and boot.sp boot.

💪 ❤️

So glad that I'm running #OpenBSD for my laptops, PC's and #FreeBSD for my servers after reading about copy fail and dirty frag. #RunBSD