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by anjbe 7y ago
You’re still missing what’s been stated elsewhere in the thread: that OpenBSD’s review process is VCS‐agnostic, that the project officially mirrors to GitHub, and that many developers and external contributors use the Git mirror for their w
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by anjbe 7y ago
Theo, commenting on OpenBSD’s attempted move from GCC to the BSD‐licensed PCC: > What other hurdles remain in replacing GPL-licensed programs in OpenBSD? > TdR: But that's never really been the agenda, see. Some people think we h
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by anjbe 7y ago
OpenBSD manpages are written in a semantic format, -mdoc, that readily converts to HTML with inter‐ and intra‐document hyperlinks, and facilitates searching and hyperlinking even from within the terminal (via more(1)’s tags support).
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by anjbe 7y ago
“Disingenous” suggests malice. That is both unkind and untrue. I had simply forgotten. In any case, the info page is far larger than the already‐large manual page, which I think only further illustrates one of my points, that the software i
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by anjbe 7y ago
The main page https://www.openbsd.org/ describes OpenBSD as UNIX-like. If OpenBSD is UNIX, it’s in the ship of Theseus sense: the outcome of the BSDi lawsuit demonstrated that almost the whole operating system had in fact b
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by anjbe 7y ago
I’d say it’s not just that OpenBSD’s manpages are written well (though they are), but that the userland tools are simpler and have a better interface. For example, people often bring up tar as a tool with a less‐than‐intuitive interface. Co
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by anjbe 8y ago
Not derived from the existing code. The reason it’s mentioned is to assert that openrsync is not subject to the original rsync’s GPL.
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by anjbe 8y ago
> My question is that the README implies that pledge() and unveil() are required for functionality , to the point that porting to an OS without support for that is an inherently questionable idea. Knowing Kristaps, he probably considers
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by anjbe 8y ago
Fun bit of history: the “Open” here comes from OpenBSD; but the “Open” in OpenBSD came from the development process, not the license. Before Git and SVN, we had CVS, and to check out code from a CVS repository you needed to have an account
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by anjbe 8y ago
I’m trying to understand your question. Typically, a process once compromised can do all sorts of things: touch files, access the network, execute programs, and so on. Among other things, OpenBSD’s security culture focuses on mitigating the
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by anjbe 8y ago
I want my code to be usable by anyone developing free software of their own. I want them to be able to integrate it, modify it, redistribute their modified copies, and more. The GPL, being long and complicated (over 5000 words, and that’s
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by anjbe 8y ago
Reportedly you can max out gigabit AT&T even if you proxy the authentication bits through the router: https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/aaz2rf/openbsd_rou...
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by anjbe 8y ago
After reading Stardock’s lawsuit ( https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.320268... ) and Paul and Fred’s response ( https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.320268... ) se
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by anjbe 8y ago
The rights for Star Control have historically been seen as follows: • Reiche and Ford own the entire copyright on Star Control I and II, including code, story, universe, etc. • Reiche and Ford own copyright in the characters reused in Star
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by anjbe 8y ago
To be precise, the DMCA takedown wasn’t ordered by a court, but rather, a preliminary injunction (from Stardock) to prohibit such a takedown was rejected by the court. https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourt
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by anjbe 8y ago
That questioning of creatorship has been going on for months, and even more blatantly. In November of 2017, Stardock made an anniversary blog post downplaying Paul and Fred’s involvement as creators of Star Control 2. https://www
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by anjbe 8y ago
Yes, but only because the Supreme Court ruled that there’s no way to enforce the Flag Code without violating the First Amendment, a part of the Constitution, the supreme law of the land. That’s not the usual case for laws that are on the bo
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by anjbe 8y ago
> No one expect it. There are people in this thread who seem to. > But that doesn't mean the opposite; that there is nothing about Jesus doesn't become somehow a proof of his existence. And nobody has argued otherwise, merel
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by anjbe 8y ago
The various miracles in the gospel narratives are obviously not given credence by secular historians. The existence and crucifixion of Jesus, on the other hand, is, primarily since there are non‐gospel and non‐Christian references to it wit
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by anjbe 8y ago
Crucifixion was indeed common. What I’m referring to as bizarre is the idea of the Messiah being subject to such a degrading, humiliating, torturous death, which ran totally counter to Jewish thought at the time (and indeed Jewish thought e
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by anjbe 8y ago
> There should be more proof then there is. Julius Caesar was a military and political leader of a whole empire. The contemporaries who discussed him (namely Cicero and Sallust) were themselves influential Roman politicians living at the
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by anjbe 8y ago
> What's the consensus view of homeopathy scholars on the efficacy of homeopathic "medicine"? Near East historians have an agenda? News to me. What’s the proportion of Christians versus non‐Christians in that field? Even
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by anjbe 8y ago
Crucifixion was a degrading and viscerally disturbing form of execution, with connotations not unlike hanging or the electric chair today. It was not the kind of thing to centralize one’s messianic cult around. The fact that it happened onc
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by anjbe 8y ago
What, then, is the consensus view among New Testament scholars and Near East historians of the historicity of Jesus?
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by anjbe 8y ago
There is no evidence for nearly any human being from that time period, barring descriptions of them after their death. And in contrast, there’s as much evidence of Jesus’ life within 100 years of his death as almost anyone else historians
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by anjbe 8y ago
> The only reason the researcher gave permission was because the OpenBSD devs said that they were going to release on the original embargo date instead of extending out to 90 days like everyone else agreed to. “Said that they were going
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by anjbe 8y ago
OpenBSD has that, but X was still kept setuid so the non-modesetting drivers would still work. Well, since yesterday obviously: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=154050453117246&w=2
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by anjbe 8y ago
Kristaps Dzonsons released a great and well researched history of roff derivatives and manpages in general: https://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html
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by anjbe 8y ago
The FSF claims to care about EDA, but contributes to the problem by pushing strong copyleft at any cost. Like the time Stallman refused to relicense LibreDWG (GPLv3) so that LibreCAD (GPLv2) could add support for Autodesk DWG files. ( http:
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by anjbe 9y ago
Another great console talk: Breaking the 3DS, from 2015. https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7240-console_hacking

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