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by ben_bai 10y ago
I thank you for your wise decision. The question gets old, but CVS fits their development style and release cycle fine. Yes it's ancient but the-known-evil (against the unknown-evil), and it's the whole CVS, AnonCVS, Patch, Mail,
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by ben_bai 10y ago
I'm assuming you run 5.9. There is only one entry in http://www.openbsd.org/plus60.html so I would assume you don't have to change your rules. Also pfctl -n should tell you. "In pf.conf(5), change the parser
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by ben_bai 10y ago
The "old" compiler is for compiling the base system and xenocara. There are gcc4 and clang packages available. Some packages are build using those more modern compilers. I.e. Chromium is build with clang (3.8) if I'm not mist
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by ben_bai 10y ago
The ports tree is obviously not audited by OpenBSD. The code comes from all over the net and the only thing OpenBSD does is enforce security mitigations/64bit time_t/arc4random/other coding practices in the base system, fix b
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by ben_bai 10y ago
The point is "optional security is bad security" because when stuff doesn't work it gets turned off. So _nobody_ turns those things on. In OpenBSD all the mitigations are enabled all the time, and with pledge beeing the respo
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by ben_bai 10y ago
doas(1), sudo(8), hotplugd(8), ...
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by ben_bai 10y ago
a 26inch wheel when spinning at 80 roations per minute (20km/h or 12mph) will have a Centripetal Acceleration of about 5g (G-Force) on the outermost spot. That does not make the wheel "heavier", but due to the gyroscopic effe
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by ben_bai 10y ago
FPGA? ASIC? Sure it's possible, but really only done in highly specialized environments, like bitcoin mining.
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by ben_bai 10y ago
And the newest SROP (Signal based Return Oriented Programming) mitigation. No misuse of the Signal Stack Frame possible.
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by ben_bai 10y ago
Since /usr/local is where all the packages are installed and by default it is a separate mount point, this is a acceptable first step. A ELF-header-flag to allow W|X on a per binary basis is in the works.
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by ben_bai 10y ago
Since you mentioned Tanenbaum. What about Minix 3, It's basically a new/modern Microkernel with the NetBSD userland.
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by ben_bai 10y ago
Be more specific with your question or give an example where it is too slow. In general: In userland yes, in kernel yes and no and working on whatever seems too slow.
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by ben_bai 10y ago
http://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html AnonCVS, OpenNTPd, OpenSMTPd, ...
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by ben_bai 11y ago
Don't worry. There are still PDP-11 controlled nuclear power plants out there with custom software built in the 70s. Hope you feel better now!?
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by ben_bai 11y ago
it runs on some very underpowered machines, so i guess it's not that much of a performance hit.
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by ben_bai 11y ago
From my point of view it's the "measure before you optimize" mantra. Now with 10Gbit cards a single threaded pf and network stack could no longer keep up with the throughput of the NICs, so something had to be done
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by ben_bai 11y ago
None of these mitigations is perfect. But how do you combine a exploit that has to deal with W^X, ASLR, randomized stack gap, stack cookie, randomized location of shared libraries and static programs. Seems pretty hard to me.
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by ben_bai 11y ago
On a german keyboard Z and Y are switched, and all the punctuation character are all wrong. So much better to program with a US keyboard than a german one!
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by ben_bai 11y ago
Nice catch. 1st: not a unified diff, 2nd: not a bug but a feature, so I didn't even get to 3rd: wrong quote.
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by ben_bai 11y ago
The denomination has nothing to do with it. one 500EUR bill or five 100EUR bills, the extra weight of this transaction will not stop alleged criminal activities. I vote for a 1000EUR bill!
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by ben_bai 11y ago
The only legal tender is cash (and coins). Bank accounts are not, they are just claims for legal tender. If Banks close or go bankrupt you have no way to get to your money quickly or painlessly. But Apple Generation does not care. We are us
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by ben_bai 11y ago
I like the concept of small and cheap houses, unfortunately in my country, Europe/Germany this would not qualify as a house built to the newest regulations. It's just a shack.
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by ben_bai 11y ago
The good old days... where text documents where ".txt" I've seen pure text mails of mine getting copied into ".ppt" with horrible formatting an then getting send around by e-mail. And I just had some plain text-only
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by ben_bai 11y ago
The problem with compression is, it's everywhere. Sending a jpeg, over compressed http(s), throught a compressed and encrypted VPN is too much compression. Then the client may save the jpeg to a local compressed NTFS cache... This is j
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by ben_bai 11y ago
http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/lessons-learned-about-TR... I do believe it supports trim, since 2011. Need to check the code if and how it's implemented today. I'm using 2 SSDs in a RAID-0 with Open
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by ben_bai 11y ago
The buttons are still there, just hidden under a cover. If not your building has a serious fire safety problem.
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by ben_bai 11y ago
I'm a supporter, mailing list reader and send in occasional patches here and there. Whenever Theo speaks about OpenBSD he uses the words "research OS". For every developer this might be different, but it's still worked o
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by ben_bai 11y ago
That's the price to pay for correctness and all those mitigation technics. Also microbenchmarks are meaningless. My OpenBSD laptop writes 1GB of data in a few seconds to disk (RAID 0 with 2 SSDs). And the reason Linux is faster with me
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by ben_bai 11y ago
Have looked it up once, for me Bitrig is about better ARM support and using LLVM. Both desirable. Am I still correct? Am I missing something?
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by ben_bai 11y ago
Also, somebody is porting WAPBL for FFS from NetBSD to OpenBSD. [Edit] add a link: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=144561370912073&w=2

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