Notices by Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)

Notice to Minifree customers: I was off ill for a week or so. I'm back now, catching up - I only have about 10 orders to catch up on. And more customers who I haven't invoiced yet (I will soon). I was too tired to be at the lab, but I'm back at it now.

If you emailed me I'll respond when I can. I put this notice here since I know a lot of you read my Mastodon posts.

2026 has not been kind to me.

Screensharing also works in webrtc applications e.g. Jitsi. My port inherits XShm patching from the Firefox port, which makes screensharing work properly under pledge.

I won't be updating my codeberg repo anymore. Any further updates to the port will just be sent to the OpenBSD mailing list from now on, as is expected with their workflow.

The screenshot shows screensharing working perfectly.

I have excellent news. Well, excellent news, and one dubiously optimistic piece of news:

Firstly, OpenBSD merged my LibreWolf port into their ports tree. See: https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/ports/www/librewolf?sort=File

This is a privacy- and security-hardened fork of Firefox, that removes various telemetry features and even comes with Ublock Origin by default. Just a really nice, sensible web browser, that I use daily. I was extremely annoyed that OpenBSD didn't have it, so I added it. It's the only browser that I will ever use, on OpenBSD. That, or Tor Browser, but they already had that, so, no worries.

Get it in -current or next 8.0 release.

Secondly, I've been off ill again for the past two weeks. Any Minifree customers who I owe laptops to will have their shipments soon - I have about 10 orders to ship. If you sent me an email it'll be answered soon. Anyone who wanted to place an order, I will send you an invoice soon. I'm just catching up on work, since today - I'm pushing myself today to actually be at work.

My friends across the pond are have even more to worry about. Take for example this article:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/05/conservative-states-rebrand-pride-month-backlash

I have a different proposal, to create a new set of celebrations celebrating the welfare state, trade unions and worker's rights legislation, and how these tended to produce the economic conditions necessary for childbirth as seen in the very period these fascists seem to admire. Childbirth is what this GOP stunt is about. The boom in baby births in the 1950s, 60s and 70s were a direct result of people suddenly being able to afford nice things like housing, food, transportation and general luxury, where someone fresh out of college could usually get a good job and work really did pay.

Conservatives have attacked unions, workers rights and generally weakened the economic purchasing power of ordinary people so much since the 80s that lots of people just don't have children anymore. Instead of fixing their mess, they scapegoat trans people and continue cutting education.

It's pride month, and I intend to do at least the minimum amount required in order to celebrate it; perhaps I may attend a march this year. I usually can't be bothered as I'm quite anti-social most of the time, but given recent events, I may go to one. Silence is death, afterall.

I'm trans. Yes. I also have a sexual orientation that fluctuates wildly, sometimes I'm basically ace and other times bisexual.

I live in a country where I'm still allowed to be these things, in relative safety. I don't take such safety for granted, for I know that there are always those who seek to erase my existence entirely. Take the far right, who recently won local government elections in my area. Upon assuming office, they mandated that all local libraries remove Pride flags and generally abstain from promoting anything LGBTQ-related. It is a harbinger of future attrocity, if the Reform party gains more serious power in my country, the UK.

I've also noticed that mas.to lets me type longer messages now.

@thomholwerda Hopefully it'll be merged in ports proper, soon. I know that the ports team is currently inundated, uppdating everything after 7.9 came out.

FUN FACT: Yesterday, I updated my LibreWolf OpenBSD port to version 151.0.1-2. Please read: https://codeberg.org/vimuser/librewolf-openbsd-port

LibreWolf is a privacy- and security-hardened fork of Mozilla Firefox. It removes telemetry otherwise present in Firefox, attempts to resist fingerprinting techniques, and so on.

My current thread on the mailing list is quite large, and I've made several design changes throughout; I will start a new thread for my port, which I intend to have merged before OpenBSD 8.0 is released.

@joel gonna update the port this weekend probably. working on other stuff at the moment.

FUN FACT:

A record 20 million tourists, 13% of them Germans, visited Morroco in the past 12 months, alongside a general windfall of tourists, visiting the country of Morocco.

I heard this on tagesschau24 just now. My German language learning has not stopped whatsoever since November last year. I watch the news while working (currently working on Minifree orders).

I'm getting to a point now where most of the time, unless I'm really tired or distracted, I understand every sentence I hear on TV.

FUN FACT:

A record number of approximately 20 million tourists visited Morocco in the past year, a 13% increase compared to the previous year. A large number of German tourists.

I heard this on tagesschau24 today. My German language learning has not stopped whatsoever since November last year. I watch the news while working (currently working on Minifree orders).

I'm getting to a point now where most of the time, unless I'm really tired or distracted, I understand every sentence I hear on TV.

i know of previous large scale distributed computing projects for years and years ago. e.g. see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home

is there existing research for something like this but with LLM tech? not just using pre-trained models, but actual training. actually crawling the internet. participants can volunteer some of their computing capacity to run the network.

that's how i think LLM-based tech should be implemented. don't have llots of big datacentres. do it open source, and run everything p2p.

i know of previous large scale distributed computing projects from years and years ago. e.g. see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home

is there existing research for something like this but with LLM tech? not just using pre-trained models, but actual training. actually crawling the internet. participants can volunteer some of their computing capacity to run the network.

that's how i think LLM-based tech should be implemented. don't have llots of big datacentres. do it open source, and run everything p2p.

this annoys me

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/18/uk-datacentres-plan-to-burn-gas-to-generate-electricity

ai could be wonderful, if implemented soundly and used responsibly, if you need to double the world's electricity usage, then centralised AI tech is unsustainable.

if everyone had solar/wind on their roofs, and batteries, it would greatly reduce baseload demand, and we could have a fully open source, democratically operated AI network. everything including training done p2p - is this possible?

we should write to our governments and demand such research.

@Hello @kaidenshi @MaddieM4 seems i'm dehydrated. i neglected to realise you already mentioned tweaking apmd/obsdfreqd

yeah, openbsd runs hot. just something you have to accept. it's not as power-efficient as linux. but it is better in lots of other ways :)

@Hello @kaidenshi @MaddieM4 You can control CPU frequency, check apmd manual. Or use obsdfreqd (i think it's called that). Probably still not as efficient as Linux, but you can get pretty close. I use the latter on laptops, when I'm out and about. obsdfreqd is in ports. You have to reconfigure apmd to disable some of its automation; check both manuals. Or just disable apmd when using obsdfreqd.

Also, I'll update librewolf soon. Got other work on at the moment. But will update the port after 7.9

@moses_izumi the libreboot documentation needs a massive audit and cleanup, and add a few missing bits.

i did this for the libreboot build system from 2023-2025, essentially re-writing it incrementally over a two-year period. that same obsessive love is needed for lbwww.git i think

@evangeligal correct! i've fixed this now. i simply put it in the title of each product page. i don't even think about screen sizes myself, easy to overlook.

@moses_izumi i mean, i didn't do that, someone else did and i merged their patche. making your own battery packs should be feasible. e.g. a bunch of lipo batteries wired in parallel for amperage. there are probably already solutions for this that you can just buy. generic portable power supplies. for a high power desktop, yeah get a large UPS (that's what i use at home and at the lab)

so long as the voltages match you should be fine

@wombatpandaa If free boot firmware were supported, you could just use whatever they/someone provides. As I said, I'm almost certainly not touching Framework at all. I don't want to be associated with that company in any way whatsoever.

@wombatpandaa I have no such plans, and I'm aware that the company responsible for Framework products has made some rather problematic political choices as of late; if a Libreboot port were to become technically viable, I still very likely would not touch Framework with a fourty-kilometer barge pole.