Hacker News: brynet

New comment by brynet in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)"

brynet — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 03:57:00 +0000

Trying something different again here, sorry..

Location: Canada

Remote: Yes

Technologies: C, OpenBSD

I'm looking for monthly/yearly "no-strings" sponsors, not employment, if any individuals, companies (or bitcoin millionaires) would like to help a long-time OpenBSD slacker, unslack, I'd really like to focus more of my time on open source development (and advocacy), rather than making rent. Feel free to contact me (see HN bio).

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

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New comment by brynet in "New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro"

brynet — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:24:06 +0000

I'm curious what 2.5GbE chipset they used.

New comment by brynet in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

brynet — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:03:43 +0000

Thanks, but unfortunately I found nothing new there that's applicable in my case. Not looking for project grants or rigid commitment/goals based funding at this time.

New comment by brynet in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

brynet — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:25:14 +0000

Making rent as an open source developer.

Desperately trying to attract new monthly sponsors and people willing to buy me the occasional pizza with my terrible HTML skills. Is it working?

If any individuals, companies (or bitcoin millionaires) would like to help a long-time OpenBSD slacker, unslack, I'd really like to focus more of my time on open source development (and advocacy), rather than making rent. Feel free to contact me.

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

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New comment by brynet in "NetBSD 11.0"

brynet — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 02:27:01 +0000

> IIRC OpenBSD used to use GCC 2.95 for years.

2.95.3 and 3.3.6, both have now been retired in favour of gcc4. The majority use clang now, though.

New comment by brynet in "NetBSD 11.0"

brynet — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 02:11:35 +0000

Indeed, 4.2.1 was the last GPLv2 version. OpenBSD still uses it (w/ patches) for a few platforms, for example.

/bsd.own.mk:GCC4_ARCH=alpha hppa m88k sh sparc64

The rest have already been migrated to LLVM/Clang 22 by default (except sparc64 below, that's experimental).

./bsd.own.mk:CLANG_ARCH=aarch64 amd64 arm i386 mips64 powerpc powerpc64 riscv64 sparc64

WPA3 Implementation for OpenBSD

brynet — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:18:29 +0000

Article URL: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=178437520390575&w=2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48957458

Points: 5

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New comment by brynet in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

brynet — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:49:01 +0000

Making rent as an open source developer.

Desperately trying to attract new monthly sponsors and people willing to buy me the occasional pizza with my terrible HTML skills. Is it working?

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

New comment by brynet in "Theo de Raadt: "You've been smoking something mind altering" (2007)"

brynet — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:53:18 +0000

This is not usenet, it's the openbsd misc@ mailing list.

New comment by brynet in "OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root"

brynet — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:52:29 +0000

No.

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/d5b0ed23b6fe61f0278c37a4...

Perhaps relevant, Students from the University of Southern Denmark released a paper earlier this month, which once again noted the fact that over ~90% of the OpenBSD base system uses pledge(2). Almost certainly all of the network speaking daemons in base do.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.03056

New comment by brynet in "Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD"

brynet — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 03:09:00 +0000

> I'm pretty sure a MIPS doesn't have them on port 60h/64h, or indeed any I/O ports.

Funnily enough, it does. They're just sitting behind a AMD CS5536 PCI-to-ISA bridge.

https://man.openbsd.org/man4/loongson/glxpcib.4

https://man.openbsd.org/pckbc

...

> glxpcib0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0 "AMD CS5536 ISA" rev 0x03: rev 3, 32-bit 3579545Hz timer, watchdog, gpio, i2c

> isa0 at glxpcib0

> pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 irq 1 irq 12

> pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)

> wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0

> pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)

> wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0

> mcclock0 at isa0 port 0x70/2: mc146818 or compatible

...

Other machines, such as the DEC Alpha were similar.

New comment by brynet in "We all depend on open source. We will defend it together"

brynet — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:57:35 +0000

Also in addition to funding the open source projects you use, if you can, please consider directly supporting individual contributors/developers personally who work on those projects, many are volunteers and even a small monthly contribution could mean the difference.

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

New comment by brynet in "We all depend on open source. We will defend it together"

brynet — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:55:30 +0000

Defending open source should begin with real, tangible support for both the projects and its developers. Not just words.

With my OpenBSD developer hat on, getting new hardware in the hands of developers is really important, many of us are hacking on 5-10 year old thinkpads that need replacing.

https://www.openbsd.org/want.html

The OpenBSD foundation is ~50% away from its fundraising goal for 2026!

https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2026.html

New comment by brynet in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

brynet — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:59:28 +0000

Making rent as an open source developer.

Desperately trying to attract new monthly sponsors and people willing to buy me the occasional pizza with my terrible HTML skills. Is it working?

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

New comment by brynet in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On?"

brynet — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:57:51 +0000

Making rent as an open source developer.

Desperately trying to attract new monthly sponsors and people willing to buy me the occasional pizza with my terrible HTML skills. Is it working?

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

New comment by brynet in "OpenBSD 7.9"

brynet — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:48:56 +0000

If you're interested, you should check out Miod Vallat's Motorola 88k story.

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/m88k.html

One interesting bit of trivial is Luna-88k workstations were heavily used to implement CMU Mach (which would eventually be used by Apple).

New comment by brynet in "OpenBSD 7.9"

brynet — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:18:45 +0000

I don't see any "gibberish".

New comment by brynet in "OpenBSD 7.9"

brynet — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:17:37 +0000

The artwork on the store may have been an earlier (non-final) version, or there's just simply multiple variations, which is usually the case for the t-shirt art.

Job Snijders works closely with the artists each release, and runs the store.

New comment by brynet in "OpenBSD 7.9"

brynet — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:17:18 +0000

> OpenBSD supports sparc very well and is compatible with old sunos stuff (iirc)

No 32-bit sparc anymore (only UltraSPARC, aka sparc64).

No SunOS compatibility (despite Theo de Raadt inventing it for NetBSD, before being copied by other BSDs).

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=161435521906992&w=2

> Technically there's a niche flavour of 68k that still is supported because of a very dedicated man in Japan

luna88k, while related, is not 68k.

https://www.openbsd.org/luna88k.html

New comment by brynet in "OpenBSD 7.9"

brynet — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:12:50 +0000

Announcement mail: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=177919671915512&w=2