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articles

• 2018
  • Unveiling OpenBSD pflogd(8) - Aug 27th, 2018
• 2014-2015
  • Interviewed by a Polish BSD user/news site - October 18th, 2015 (original dead; archive.org)
  • OpenBSD's new rcctl(8) utility - Aug 30th, 2014 (updated Jan 2015)

computers

I have some computers.

• ThinkPad X395 - Jul 7th, 2020
• Huawei MateBook D (AMD) - May 22nd, 2019 (updated Jan 2020)
• AMD Ryzen OpenBSD desktop build - Sep 5th, 2018
• ...

projects

I guess I don't have much to show off here yet, but here's some fun stuff:

• OpenBSD
  • Added CPU freq scaling (p-states) for AMD K10+
  • SMBus support for AMD SB800+/Hudson-2 chipsets
  • Added ACPI suspend/resume support for vr(4)
  • Support for hiding user processes in top(1)
  • Converted pflogd(8) and tcpdump(8) to fork+exec security model (PIE/ASLR)
  • Added the ksmn(4) driver for the on-die CPU temperature sensor on Zen/Zen+/Zen2 CPUs.
  • Misc. documentation/userland/ports changes
  • Maintain an unofficial portable version of OpenBSD's privdrop/sandboxed file(1) for Linux (seccomp-bpf) and others.
  • See more..
• MacMinix
  • Digital archaeology
• chatgpt(8) - I made this out of dried macaroni.
• ..

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