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Just finished updating my OpenBSD setup on "Tianve", my HP 250 G3 notebook by syspatching to 79-034 && pkg_add -ui.All is well. As usual my thanks to anyone working on the various BSDs. Great job!#RunBSD #OpenBSD #Fishlinux #Unix https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@Tionisla/116636336058010823

@cartertemm @TheQuinbox Thank you so much for the kind words and the follow! I know the Apex is an older, discontinued device, but for now I'm using it as a simple Braille terminal to read and write text through my computer. It's helping me experiment and develop the Braille subsystem for FreeBSD. Hopefully, in the future, I'll be able to reach out to some organizations and borrow more recent devices to test and expand support. There's still a lot to explore, and I'm excited to see how far this can go!

@ragb @TheQuinbox My mistake! I probably looked in the wrong directories. I had only come across GPL-licensed code, so I avoided reading it. I did find the protocol documentation in BRLTTY, though.I figured out the key press protocol by analyzing the bytes sent to the serial port. The prpblem was sending characters to the Braille display. It seems the data needs to be preceded by "escape+ B".I eventually figured out what was happening on Windows. It doesn't seem to be a screen reader issue, but rather that Windows immediately detaches the device from COM3 for some reason. I don't know why, as I haven't used Windows in about 25 years! It would be interesting to investigate this further at some point, though.By the way, are you the author of the BRLTTY and NVDA drivers for the Apex?

If you are a #Wikipedia editor and you are interested in #indieweb(aka #smallweb), there are many articles which could enjoy improvement in the English Wikipedia. Or you could translate them into your native language. These articles are available only in a handful of Wikipediashttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginalia_(search_engine)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndieWebhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_web_pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDF_Public_Access_Unix_Systemhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_(search_engine)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_web_browserhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_accountBoosts appreciated!#smollweb #unix

@wearetheprojekt I haven't left yet; I'll be leaving in the coming weeks.

@benedikt_lauenburg FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and alike, are a family of Unix-like operating systems derived from the original Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) developed at the University of California, Berkeley.

[Stéphane HUC :: Revues] Promotion de la revue à-propos de : “Amiga Unix ⇒ AMIX"> Amiga 68040 et 68060 ont enfin, en 2026, un environnement moderne : AMIX, un dérivé moderne de l'historique Amiga Unix.- https://huc.fr.eu.org/fr/revues/2026/09/22/amix/#Amiga #Unix #AMIX

@wearetheprojekt Yeah, I was actually thinking about this hybrid approach today. FreeBSD already uses something quite similar for graphics drivers.If BRLTTY had a BSD-like license, I would have imported it into the FreeBSD base system. The problem is that its license doesn't allow that. So anything we use from BRLTTY would have to be installed manually by the user, `pkg install brltty`.For speech synthesis, there shouldn't be any licensing issues. We already have some proof-of-concept work showing that the virtual console can communicate with a speech synthesizer, and there are several synthesizers with BSD-like licenses that we could use.So they could potentially be available starting from the OS installer.

"pkg upgraded -f" "Zaonce", my old ancient core2duo Dell Notebook I ususally use for couch surfing to GhostBSD 26.1-R15.0p13. Also using a great new pixelated artwork as wallpaper by @orbite All went well. Thanks to all the people who make the BSDs and make my Desktop such a good experience. Really appreciated.#RunBSD #GhostBSD #FreeBSD #Unix

@ratfactor@mastodon.art @r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe ah, oops, thanks for the correction, and thanks for sharing anyway