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Stefan Sperling

For my company I have put together and support packages which cover tasks I have been doing via ad-hoc consulting gigs for years now. And I asked some freelancing friends from the OpenBSD community to share the work with me.

We support deployments of OpenBSD in server and firewall roles via yearly fixed-price contracts. All base system components can be supported.

From our existing client base we know for a fact that there are small and mid-sized businesses out there who run OpenBSD and would benefit from working with us. We want to find more of them.

chirpysoft.be/support.html

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Stefan Sperling

:flan_announcer:​ We are building the Game of Trees Hub, a repository hosting service based on and , funded via an open collective.

Our Git repository server implementation can already be self-hosted on OpenBSD and Linux, but:

1) Not everyone can or wants to self-host.

2) Most people don't need yet another Git hosting service, though some people might appreciate a financially transparent and independent service that supports both public and private repositories, has no intentions of abusing user data, and is not striving for infinite growth.

3) Ever since the Game of Trees project started as a side project in 2017 it has received zero financial support. And with developers growing up and having families with children to support, unpaid work on Game of Trees has been eating its way into working hours. Which is not sustainable in the long term.

Can we make a win-win situation out of this dilemma? :flan_thumbs:​

You can now support us here:
opencollective.com/gothub

For now, this is an early-bird crowd-funding effort to support the initial work on getting the service up and running. Git repository service tiers will appear once the hosting infrastructure is ready. The more initial funds we can collect the faster we will get there.

All software developed will be released under the ISC license, the same open source license terms as used by OpenBSD.

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Stefan Sperling

I will be hosting and firewall courses at @linuxhotel in the city of Essen, Germany.

OpenBSD: linuxhotel.de/course/openbsd-d

PF: linuxhotel.de/course/pf-de

Currently there are no dates set for either course, but it is possible to send Linuxhotel a proposal for the next date.

The target audience are system administrators who would like to learn about OpenBSD and PF in order to use them as part of their network security tool set.

(Do not be afraid to sign up if you do not understand German. While the courses are advertised in German, written course material will be in English and the presentation will be entirely in English if preferred by participants.)

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Martijn van Exel

One of my highlights of yesterday's Mapping USA online conference was osm.kids, a map using #OpenStreetMap that's made for #children! If you're zoomed in, it highlights things like playgrounds, fire stations, schools and ice cream shops.

When you zoom out, you see city and country names and flags so you can learn all about those!

It is so creative and I love it. osm.kids demonstrates so well that you can make maps with OSM that you cannot make with any other map tools out there.

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h3artbl33d :openbsd: :antifa:

I am really honored that @gothub choose our instance for their Fediverse presence. If you need repository hosting that isn't big tech, go with them :flan_heart:

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Game of Trees Hub

Today's new release of the #gameoftrees version control system finally makes it possible to have a #git repository web frontend on the Game of Trees Hub, including the ability to serve static web sites directly out of hosted repositories.

We are in the process of upgrading all user VMs to make these new features available.

Watch the (upcoming in one hour) #fosdem presentation by @op in the BSD devroom to learn more about how our web server implementation works: fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event

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Thomas Adam

-portable

Hello!

As with got's upstream release, I've released got-portable-0.121

More information here:

gameoftrees.org/releases/porta

Do see got's own CHANGES file for the specifics:

gameoftrees.org/releases/porta

xteddy mirror also updated.

Now shut up and hack!

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Miod Vallat

How about an #OpenBSD story on oooooooooold hardware this morning?

miod.online.fr/software/openbs

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Andrew Nesbitt

I didn’t realise just how US centric all of package management was until I made these tables 😅

The Dependency Layer in Digital Sovereignty: nesbitt.io/2026/01/28/the-depe

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Rib :ms_red_panda:

Cryptography challenge for anyone willing to undertake it: Wii U discs, much like GC/Wii prior, seem to use a non-standard scrambling algorithm for their raw sectors. So far we have been unable to break it.

Two sectors are here: workupload.com/file/3v6vzgRYZHh

When descrambled correctly, the first should simply read "WUP-P-AMKP-00-410EUR-0" followed by all zeroes, and the second should be all zeroes.

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Teun Vink

lifehack: use IPv6 addresses as passwords: they have letters, numbers, special characters, can contain caps, and are long enough.

If you accidentally paste it somewhere noone will suspect a thing.

Bonushack: you can put a label in DNS as a password reminder!

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anonitus

These three tiny points of light aren’t random stars.
They are Venus, Earth, and Jupiter, captured in the Martian twilight by NASA’s Perseverance rover
That faint middle glow is Earth — our home — seen from Mars, over 200 million kilometres away.
Everything we know lives there.
Every story, every grief, every act of love.
All of it… inside a single dot suspended in space.
Perspective changes everything.
#Image credit: NASA

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roman

now self-hosting my git repos with gotwebd(8)
romanzolotarev.com/got/

kudos to @stsp :ablobattention:

git is also available
romanzolotarev.com/git/

see also
gameoftrees.org/gotwebd.8.html
romanzolotarev.com/ssg/
#gameoftrees
#runbsd
#openbsd
#httpd

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JA Westenberg

We have "growth hackers" but no "stability hackers." "Disruptors" but no "preservers." Our entire vocabulary is oriented toward the new. We have no language for the equally difficult work of keeping existing things from falling apart.

joanwestenberg.com/the-rime-of

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Stefan Sperling

Fun times ahead on the hub 🕸️​marc.gameoftrees.org/mail/1768

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Jared McNeill

Instructions for installing #NetBSD on the Wii U: mail-index.netbsd.org/port-pow

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦

In a recent FT article, the director of Cybersecurity Belgium claimed it was impossible to store data within the EU. "Dream on" he said. This reflects the widespread lack of IT understanding among executives, who should urgently wise up & help us regain our digital autonomy: berthub.eu/articles/posts/ft-o

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Julia Evans

A data model for Git (and other docs updates) jvns.ca/blog/2026/01/08/a-data

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Seán Fobbe

Question: what commercial EU-based Git hosting services can you recommend?

Codeberg is great for Open Source, but I am thinking along the lines of larger personal or commercial projects that are not suitable for a non-profit like Codeberg.

#Git #GitHosting #Codeberg

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Miod Vallat

Time for your #OpenBSD story!

I intended to publish it tomorrow, to keep a weekly schedule, but the proofreading team didn't raise too many issues, and it's ready for general consumption.

miod.online.fr/software/openbs

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r1w1s1
Really nice to see this: Game of Trees Hub (GOT)
A Git hosting service built on OpenBSD and Game of Trees, transparently funded via Open Collective.

Small, boring, security-first, and run by people who actually care about infrastructure.
Feels like one of the first real BSD-native Git hosting services.

This is the kind of thing BSD folks quietly smile about. 🐡

👉 https://gothub.org/

#OpenBSD #BSD #GameOfTrees #Git #FOSS
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Joris Vink

Happy to announce sanctum 1.0.0

chants.conclave.se/260106-sanc

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pesco

oh my god gothub's ssh-based signup bot is adorable! :flan_stars:​

gothub.org/signup.html

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