Stefan Sperling

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Posting mostly about tech stuff I'm working on but happy to read and chat about non-tech stuff too. I'm grateful to be learning so much about the world from all of you.

Tech stuff I'm working on currently includes OpenBSD, Apache Subversion, Software Heritage, Game of Trees, @gothub, and Dulwich.

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wwwhttps://stsp.name
languagesde/en, a little fr
citiesBerlin / Brussels
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#zweifünf - Weltgeschichte in 10 Trööts.

Und weil sich niemand so viele Jahreszahlen merken will, komme ich mit zwei Zahlen aus: #zweifünf.

Sorry, nicht ganz. Der Urknall fand vor 13,7 Milliarden Jahren statt. Die Zeit beginnt zu ticken. 5 mal 10 hoch 44 Mal pro Sekunde. Der kleinste mögliche Zeitabschnitt, die sogenannte Planck-Zeit. Ich habe keine Vorstellung davon, was da passiert ist. Aber auch die Zeit danach stelle ich mir erst mal sehr ungemütlich vor.

Das heiße Material der Ursuppe verklumpt zu Galaxien, Sonnensystemen und Planeten. Aus der Ferne sicherlich beeindruckend anzusehen.

Wie die anderen Planeten auch „säubert“ die Erde die Umgebung ihrer Umlaufbahn von kleineren Körpern - was mit vielen harten Einschlägen einhergeht. Wegen der Umwälzung der Erdkruste durch die Plattentektonik und der Erosion sieht man hier heute wesentlich weniger Krater aus der Zeit als z.B. auf dem Mond und dem Mars.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urknall
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Urknall – Wikipedia

There were some small disturbances over the last 48 hours. Following the upgrade to #OpenBSD 7.8 our VM host server was hit by a vio interrupt handling issue in vmd which caused lots of error messages getting logged which filled up the /var partition which somehow killed httpd and we were left with a half-working system.

This cascade of bugs has been addressed at the root now. We are running a patched vmd to solve the vio interrupt problem and it seems the issue can no longer be triggered. Many thanks to Dave Voutila for looking into the problem for us and providing a fix we could test.

We can now go back to being boring and stable as usual.

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Thank you!

I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' Got (Game of Trees) to 0.124 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/32238

GitHub Continuous Integration checks passed OK!

It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.

I'm excited about the UTF-8 improvements in this release!

#Got #GameOfTrees #MacPorts #VersionControl #Git #OpenSource
got: update to 0.124 by artkiver · Pull Request #32238 · macports/macports-ports

Description Type(s) bugfix enhancement security fix Tested on macOS 26.4.1 25E253 arm64 Command Line Tools 26.4.0.0.1774242506 Verification Have you followed our Commit Message Guideline...

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MNT Station prelaunch page is finally online at @crowdsupply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt-research/mnt-station

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#got #gameoftrees

I've released got-portable 0.124 in line with upstream got.

No -portable changes, and for anything more general, have a look at got's release notes:

https://gameoftrees.org/releases/changes.html#2026-04-13

For the -portable bits, see:

https://gameoftrees.org/portable.html

Any issues/questions, please let me know!

Now shut up and hack!

Game of Trees Changes

Game of Trees Changelog

The most requested file served by @gothub to date is called "blowfish.jpg" 

During the last 3 days this file has been requested 159190 times, 159177 requests of which came from Microsoft's AS.

Pretty rad to see new Nintendo DS flash carts being made in 2026, especially one focussed on homebrew and with open source firmware. I bought my first DS in 2005 specifically to join the early dslinux project effort. I am still keeping dslinux.org online today for anyone curious out there.
Game of Trees 0.124 released

Some Monday afternoon maintenance is about to occur. We will (finally) upgrade our VM host server to OpenBSD 7.8, and then upgrade all hosted VMs to the latest release of #GameOfTrees, which has just arrived.

Service will be back shortly.

#Git #Hosting #OpenBSD