Turns out that I can just disable the workflows from github

Author: rapier1

.github/workflows/selfhosted.yml

@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ name: CI self-hosted
 
 on:
   push:
-# don't run anything
-#    paths: [ '**.c', '**.h', '**.m4', '**.sh', '**/Makefile.in', 'configure.ac', '.github/configs', '.github/run_tests.sh', '.github/workflows/selfhosted.yml' ]
+    paths: [ '**.c', '**.h', '**.m4', '**.sh', '**/Makefile.in', 'configure.ac', '.github/configs', '.github/run_tests.sh', '.github/workflows/selfhosted.yml' ]
 
 jobs:
   selfhosted:

.github/workflows/upstream.yml

@@ -2,9 +2,8 @@ name: OpenBSD
 
 on:
   push:
-#don't run anything
-#    branches: [ master ]
-#    paths: [ '**.c', '**.h', '**.sh', '.github/configs', '.github/workflows/upstream.yml' ]
+    branches: [ master ]
+    paths: [ '**.c', '**.h', '**.sh', '.github/configs', '.github/workflows/upstream.yml' ]
 
 jobs:
   selfhosted:

.github/workflows/vm.yml

@@ -10,11 +10,10 @@
 
 name: CI VM
 on:
-# don't run anything
   push:
-#    paths: [ '**.c', '**.h', '**.m4', '**.sh', '**/Makefile.in', 'configure.ac', '.github/configs', '.github/workflows/vm.yml' ]
+    paths: [ '**.c', '**.h', '**.m4', '**.sh', '**/Makefile.in', 'configure.ac', '.github/configs', '.github/workflows/vm.yml' ]
   pull_request:
-#    paths: [ '**.c', '**.h', '**.m4', '**.sh', '**/Makefile.in', 'configure.ac', '.github/configs', '.github/workflows/vm.yml' ]
+    paths: [ '**.c', '**.h', '**.m4', '**.sh', '**/Makefile.in', 'configure.ac', '.github/configs', '.github/workflows/vm.yml' ]
 
 jobs:
   dragonflybsd: