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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


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


> 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


Modern operating system booting on hardware that is closing in on 40 years old in just over three minutes, this is wild to see:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btwiiZw3B2s

Kenji Aoyama truly is aligned with the best of the hacker spirit. As for getting your hands on a luna88k, I have no clue. The only thing I managed to find was a broken one that sold for ~USD 750 at an online auction.


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).


I must've read about the sunos thing somewhere and imagined it still existed.

>luna88k, while related, is not 68k

I misremembered it as being similar to the relationship between the 6502 and the 65C816



OpenBSD 7.9 release artwork by Lyra Henderson

https://www.openbsd.org/images/PinkPuffy.png

https://www.openbsd.org/images/puffy79.gif

Release song is "Diamond in the Rough" - Composed & produced by Bob Kitella.

https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#79

Apparel (t-shirts, so far): https://openbsdstore.com/


> https://www.openbsd.org/images/PinkPuffy.png

> Apparel (t-shirts, so far): https://openbsdstore.com/

Interesting.

In the image you linked (PinkPuffy.png), the cat's hat says "security." In the OpenBSD store, the cat's hat reads "POLICE" on several of the shirts.


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.


The images for the last two shirts appear to have gibberish on the hat indicating AI was somehow involved. https://openbsd.creator-spring.com/listing/openbsd-7-9?produ...

Edit: oops, bad eyesight led my brain to believe "no way this is legible text" when in fact it is. Needed a screen magnifier to read it clearly. Though the other items have police in place of security.


I don't see any "gibberish".


My bad. I have poor eye sight and on my first look the fonts appeared jumbled. On second look with a screen magnifier I can see it reads security while the others read police.


Interesting to see OpenBSD continuing to gain hardware support. I've been running it on a small home server for DNS/DHCP and the stability is remarkable. The man years of auditing really show.


Pretty much any OS would be just as stable if it's just serving DNS/DHCP.


As someone who has run DNS and DHCP servers... unfortunately, no.

Shit happens, and choices still do matter. Even if it feels it should be simple, Linux has a way.

My experience has been that Openbsd is rock solid, so are its implementations of the relevant server daemons.


> Even if it feels it should be simple, Linux has a way.

As someone who has run DNS and DHCP servers for over 30 years and continues to do so, this just feels like confirmation bias based on your personal anecdotes. If there's an issue, it's likely due to messy over-complicated distros. Alpine is no less solid than OpenBSD.


Nah, whenever I'm involved in a cloud cost audit, I routinely find boring unfashionable Ubuntu and RHEL servers someone forgot about with 5 year uptimes.


Going off of "data" from r/uptimeporn I can only conclude that Cisco makes the most stable software of all time.


"Interesting"

Is this an AI-generated comment

It was originally [flagged] and [dead]


It's a new account, and by default new accounts have their posts flagged/dead I think?

FWIW my guess is you're right - this user looks like a bot based on this comment and their other one; I've noticed that somewhat-vacuous praise for a post is a bot tendency. Although it's also a human tendency, so maybe too soon to tell. What a world.


Will be interesting to see if Theo leans into AI ... and starts having AI generate the release artwork & songs.


Making rent as an open source developer.

Shamelessly trying to attract new monthly sponsors and people willing to buy me the occasional pizza with my crap HTML skills.

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html


Shameless low-volume rss feed drop.

https://brynet.ca/feed.xml

Also the embedded mastodon feed on my site uses rss.


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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On the topic of bitcoin millionaires... I'm getting some sponsorship for my FreeBSD release engineering work from https://opensats.org/ . Have you asked them?


I haven't, honestly the application processes, paperwork, project reporting expectations and eligibility criteria for these kind of funds just gives me too much anxiety. I never know how to navigate it as a Canadian either, most of them are US or Europe based.

I guess I'm naive to hold out for the anonymous bitcoin millionaires to donate "no strings" until I find something a bit more frictionless.

Thanks anyway for the suggestion, glad to hear you're getting sponsored for your FreeBSD work.


They're US based but I'm in Canada and haven't had any issues. Yes they ask for some information but it's not at all unreasonable.


oh, okay then.. you can have it

https://brynet.ca/


How dare you run a website without some sort of React framework.


React wouldn't be an improvement. But adding max-width: 1200px; margin: auto; to the body sure would.


That does look nicer, thanks!


sorry


GotHub is pretty cool, it's from the developers of the Game of Trees project, but git compatible.

https://gothub.org/

https://gameoftrees.org/index.html


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