Nia Alarie

I'm a woman who works on NetBSD, specialized in build systems, C, embedded and desktop stuff, cryptography. I'm based in Berlin.

Projects

• aiomixer(1) - TUI mixer for NetBSD audio using the native curses library
• ossaudio(3) - Open Sound System version 4 compatibility layer
• cgdconfig(8), pwhash(1) - Argon2id key derivation function support
• Mozilla Firefox - NetBSD microphone and device selection support for WebRTC. Compatibility with the PaX MPROTECT hardening feature. Maintained the ESR package for ages.
• PortAudio, SDL - Maintain NetBSD audio and microphone support.
• Porting - Ported the Crystal programming language to NetBSD, Wayland windowing system (see swc), MariaDB relational database server, enhanced envsys/proplib support for the htop system monitor.
• Misc - Added Wi-Fi support to sysinst(8), extended button tracking in Synaptics touchpad driver, tons of documentation written over the years
• pkgsrc - tons of work on security features and legacy platform support, see also tigersrc.

Presentations

• NetBSD 10: 3 Years in the Making (EuroBSDCon 2022) [HTML]

Articles

• Sun Blade 150 troubles and solutions (2024)
• Markdown, DocBook, and the quest for semantic documentation on NetBSD.org (2021)
• UEFI support on the Raspberry Pi 3 (2021)
• aiomixer, X/Open Curses and ncurses (2021)
• Wayland on NetBSD - trials and tribulations (2020)
• Running Wine in a 32-bit sandbox on 64-bit NetBSD (2020)
• Code sandboxing techniques compared (2020)
• Running DRM-free indie games on NetBSD using Linux emulation (2020)

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