USA: From "Yes we can" to "Yes we con"

🧪 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

"Ist er ein Kommunist?" – Alice Weidel nach Musks Hitlergruß völlig verwirrt

They didn't become billionaires by having principles and spines.

so much for equal application of the law

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!

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

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...

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...

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

Bem vindos pessoal do Brazil!

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...

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...

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

Beyond All Reason now runs on #OpenBSD -current, as demonstrated here: videos.pair2jeux.tube/w/b5e9432d-c...

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/...

dhclient(8) has finally been removed in #OpenBSD base, after being successfully replaced with dhcpleased/ifconfig autoconf in 2021. marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...

#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...

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...

rigg 1.1 released with minor fixes for the use in #OpenBSD ports. Release Notes: github.com/rfht/rigg/re... #PlayOnBSD

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

PSA! 🚨 We are introducing minor compatibility breakage in shaders to bring you an import optimization. Read more: godotengine.org/article/intr...

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

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.

Surprise! It's #OpenBSD 7.5 release day... in Australia probably! 🐡 marc.info?l=openbsd-an... www.openbsd.org/75.html

rigg 1.0 is released! A new way to run indie games on #OpenBSD... github.com/rfht/rigg/re... In a nutshell: www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkxyzz... #PlayOnBSD

How does rigg restrict access to the #OpenBSD filesystem when running games? youtube.com/clip/Ugkxyzz... #PlayOnBSD

Will do another Stream showing rigg and playing Crystal Project with it on #OpenBSD. In 30 minutes at 1:45 UTC, www.twitch.tv/thfrw #PlayOnBSD

Will stream some prior-to-release testing of rigg(1), a partial successor to fnaify to run games on #OpenBSD. At 02:45 UTC (in about 25 minutes) at twitch.tv/thfrw #PlayOnBSD

Will stream Balatro from #OpenBSD in 30 minutes, at 23:00 UTC. See you then at: twitch.tv/thfrw #PlayOnBSD

It's now easier to tell in ktrace/kdump on OpenBSD -current if a process is crashing due to a BTI/IBT CFI violation, as supported on Intel Tiger Lake (11th Gen and up) and Apple M2 CPUs. marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...

Roguelike cardgame deckbuilder Balatro now supported by IndieRunner for #OpenBSD. store.steampowered.com/app/2379780/... github.com/IndieRunner/... #PlayOnBSD

I will stream some more BAR (Beyond All Reason) in 15-20 minuts (circa 1:40 UTC). #PlayOnBSD twitch.tv/thfrw

Teaser of Beyond All Reason running on #OpenBSD. #PlayOnBSD youtu.be/VsKUKYD3vWA

Mac gamers might be excited to know that someone has been porting old Pangea Software games to OpenBSD -current, titles so far: • Cro-Mag Rally (1998) - games/cromagrally • Bugdom (1999) - games/bugdom • Otto Matic (2001) - games/ottomatic • Bugdom 2 (2002) - games/bugdom2 #PlayOnBSD

Be a bear and virtually overdose on Burritos in Burrito Bear. Thanks to using Godot 3 engine, this runs well on #OpenBSD. #PlayOnBSD store.steampowered.com/app/1941420/...

imgur.com/a/whfTUbT Zero-K in Recoil engine natively on #OpenBSD. #PlayOnBSD

First time managing to run Spring engine (aka. Recoil) on #OpenBSD, though so far only with `--safemode`. But level and interface work - this is a screenshot of Zero-K running on my OpenBSD Tigerlake laptop. More refinement will be needed before this can go into ports, but it's a start! #PlayOnBSD

The demo of "Into the Necrovale" runs with hashlink on #OpenBSD. The early access release is in 1 week. #PlayOnBSD clydegames.itch.io/necrovale

Say 'hi 👋" to: @godotfoundation.bsky.social @godotassetstore.bsky.social @godotcon.bsky.social

Twitch stream in 30 minutes, at 02:00 UTC. Literally the best game on #OpenBSD: Sternly Worded Adventures! #PlayOnBSD twitch.tv/thfrw

Probably the most philosophical puzzle running on #OpenBSD to date: Trolley Delayma, a free (as in beer) game made with #godotengine. #PlayOnBSD albertnez.itch.io/trolley-dela...

Heads up for people running OpenBSD -current amd64 snapshots, you'll want to hold off upgrading any important systems for awhile. There will be some disruptive (read: fun) changes being tested. marc.info?l=openbsd-te...

Theo de Raadt on OpenBSD tech@: "Removing syscall(2) from libc and kernel" marc.info?l=openbsd-te...

Anodyne from 2013 got a Remaster based on FNA, which now runs on #OpenBSD! #PlayOnBSD han-tani.itch.io/anodyne

If you #PlayOnBSD and have a Steam account, you can get Cryptark for free for another day! Fantastic roguelite twin-stick shooter in space hulks. Run it with fnaify (or soon with rigg). Use steamctl from #OpenBSD packages to download. store.steampowered.com/app/344740/C... github.com/rfht/rigg

OpenBSD 7.4 has been released! Happy release day, everybody! 🐡 marc.info?l=openbsd-an... www.openbsd.org/74.html

October means Halloween season, time to remind people that #1 2spooky4me game Amnesia: The Dark Descent was ported to OpenBSD (& FreeBSD!) not long after it was open-sourced by its developer, Frictional Games. 👻 On OpenBSD: # pkg_add amnesia-tdd $ less /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/amnesia-tdd

Life too cozy with #OpenBSD? Play "They Don't Sleep" with the #GodotEngine, a zombie survival game which runs on #OpenBSD! #PlayOnBSD store.steampowered.com/app/2009380/...

The write-after-free detection in OpenBSD's malloc(3) may soon provide some additional useful debugging information: where the original allocation was made, not just where the write happened. Very cool. Proposal/diff from Otto Moerbeek (otto@): marc.info?l=openbsd-te...