I am moving to a usage-based billing

Dear employer, I will no longer charger a flat monthly salary, instead I will move to token based billing. Included will be every token I receive as input, including but not limited to emails, slack messages, spoken words and mandatory multi-modal meetings that could have been emails. Included will also be output tokens in the form of code, documentation and small talk. Tokens will also be consumed by my internal monolog as I reason about problems.

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OpenBSD 7.9 Released

The OpenBSD project has announced OpenBSD 7.9, its 60th release.

The new release contains a number of significant improvements, including but certainly not limited to:

• MAXCPU value on OpenBSD/amd64 increased to 255 [See earlier report]
• Preparations for supporting 52 disk partitions [See earlier report]
• Introduced selective blocking of cores from the scheduler with sysctl hw.blockcpu [See earlier report]
• Delayed hibernation support on OpenBSD/amd64 laptops [See earlier report]
• On amd64, implemented delayed hiberation [See earlier report]
• Parallel fault handling enabled on amd64 and arm64 platforms
• drm(4) code updated to linux 6.18.16 [See earlier report]
• Added sysctl(8) machdep.vmmode to indicate status as a host or guest [See commit]
• Added vmboot (on amd64), a tiny kernel for booting SEV VMs, which allows sysupgrade(8) to work [See commit]
• Made OpenBSD run as a guest under Apple Hypervisor [See earlier report]
• Converted vmd(8)'s virtio scsi device to a subprocess [See earlier report]
• Added nhi(4), a driver for USB4 controllers, which allows modern laptops with AMD CPUs to reach the appropriate low power idle states during S0ix suspend. [See commit]
• Added basic implementation of the low-level FUSE API
• Improved sysugprade(8) handling of low disk space in /usr [See earlier report]
• fw_update(8) now checks dmesg(8) output in addition to dmesg.boot [See earlier report]
• On amd64, added support for loading kernels from the EFI system partition [See commit]
• The pledge(2) "tmppath" promise has been retired [See earlier reports]
• Enabled IPv6 autoconf [SLAAC] by default in installer [See commit]
• Private VLAN (PVLAN) support added to veb(4) [See commit]
• LACP support removed from trunk(4) [See earlier report]
• Multiple pf(4) enhancements:
  • Source and state limiters introduced [See earlier report]
  • Print both nat-to and rdr-to in pfctl -s rules
• Added httpd.conf(5) "no banner" configuration directive to suppress generation of "Server" header [See commit]
• In relayd(8), added support for PROXY protocol in TCP relays
• In acme-client(1), added support for IP Address certificates
• OpenBGPD 9.1 [See earlier reports on releases of versions 9.0 & 9.1]
• rpki-client 9.8 [See earlier reports on releases of versions 9.7 & 9.8]
• LibreSSL 4.3.1 [See earlier report]
• OpenSSH 10.3 [See earlier report]
  • Several security enhancements were added
  • Added ssh(1) escape ~I showing information about the current SSH connection [See commit]
• chromium (and derivatives) gained VA-API support [See earlier report]
• chromium (and derivatives) gained (Open) Widevine support support [See earlier report]

See the full changelog for more details of the changes made over this latest six month development cycle.

The Installation Guide details how to get the system up and running with a fresh install, while those who already run earlier releases should follow the Upgrade Guide, in most cases using sysupgrade(8).

Readers are encouraged to celebrate the new release by donating to the project to support further development of our favourite OS!

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New pixelart farming simulator on #OpenBSD: Sprout Valley, running via the Godot engine. #PlayOnBSD

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So cool to finally have Prusa Slicer on my #OpenBSD laptop thanks to @renatoaguiar. Now I no longer need to use my Mac just to slice my STL files from Tinkercad.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=169405396303337&w=2

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Libreboot laptops on https://minifree.org/ now come with 1TB SSD or 2TB SSD; the 480GB SSD option is gone, and now 1TB is the default. 2TB is the upgrade option.

I sell laptops with Libreboot pre-installed, and your choice of Linux distro or a BSD (e.g. OpenBSD, FreeBSD).

Libreboot replaces proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware, offering faster boot speeds and greater security than proprietary firmware. I'm the founder of Libreboot, and its lead developer. These sales fund my work, and my research.