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by stsp 10y ago
I'm happy to hear you like the shirt. A friend of mine (not an OpenBSD committer) rendered this shirt with a few hundred lines of python. So... one way to get an OpenBSD hackathon shirt without actually attending a hackathon is to de
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by stsp 10y ago
The mupdf PDF reader has been patched to make use of pledge on OpenBSD.
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by stsp 11y ago
Your reasoning doesn't make much sense to me. Companies are temporary entities, even though they don't like to think of themselves as such. Companies get bought or go bankrupt. So when I buy a device which only loads signed code,
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by stsp 11y ago
Wow, so much doubt. I'd normally link Wikipedia, but this is HN so let's just quote the spec to clear this up once and for all. Legend: PHY: think of this as "wifi radio" HT: "High Throughput" aka 802.11n &quot
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by stsp 11y ago
Not really. Most OpenBSD developers run OpenBSD on their laptops which of course includes wifi. The real reasons are that 11a is still good enough for many use cases, and that OpenBSD's wireless developer department is seriously unders
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by stsp 11y ago
There's a lot more work to do for 802.11n in future releases (e.g. MIMO support). So putting 802.11ac on the roadmap doesn't make much sense at this stage.
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by stsp 11y ago
But there's an infinite number of bugs!
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by stsp 11y ago
There is no clear line where total privacy starts and ends with technology currently available on the consumer market. Even if you don't use any proprietary software at all (which is very difficult to do for most people), your privacy
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by stsp 11y ago
OpenBSD purged many webapps from its ports tree one or two releaeses ago for this reason (too many security problems to keep up with). Most such packages didn't do much else than extracting .php files to somewhere in /var/www
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by stsp 11y ago
Some laptops check wifi minipci cards against a PCI ID device whitelist in the BIOS. For instance, all Thinkpads do this. It's seriously annoying and means that the OS must support a very specific set of devices or wifi won't work
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by stsp 11y ago
In Germany you can get sealant applied once a year or so as part of standard health care until 18 years of age. IIRC each application takes about 15 minutes at the dentist and one hour of no eating or drinking afterwards. I had this done du
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by stsp 11y ago
Come on. Don't blame refugees. Normal people are refugees. Refugees are normal people. Their problems are rooted in abuse of power. http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/nov/11/..
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by stsp 11y ago
> Basically, the French security system has been revealed as completely ineffective. That is what matters. The attacks are horrible and a security system which effectively prevents them would be just as horrible. This problem won't
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by stsp 11y ago
It's not true that openbsd devs don't care about battery life. Check the recent C-state work by guenther@. apmd and cpu freq scaling has recently been fixed for multiprocessor system. But these things can take time to work on new
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by stsp 11y ago
Why would it not be? One of the project goals is to "Provide the best development platform possible." http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html
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by stsp 11y ago
This network performance question, phrased in the way you did here, comes up a lot. I heard it a couple of times during q&a after talks at EuroBSDcon. I wonder what answer you expect. A "yes"/"no" answer? How co
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by stsp 11y ago
If you want to build ports on a machine, you should add a large (several dozen GB at least) /usr/ports partition. Keep in mind that monsters like firefox and libreoffice have insane space requirements. Diverting ports builds to &#
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by stsp 11y ago
But Jason did send diffs, and we are discussing his situation as an example. Anyway, like it or not, in the OpenBSD community, working diffs, especially ones that fix a security issue, are the best way of winning an argument. You can try to
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by stsp 11y ago
Find out who's been involved with the area of the code base recently, and mail all their @openbsd.org addresses directly in one mail. If they don't reply after a few attempts, or give unsatisfactory answers, try mailing Theo. He a
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by stsp 11y ago
Assuming you're tracking -current sources, it's usually possible to just run the published binary packages from mirrors on top of your own base builds. If library bumps happened, the packages might take a while to catch up, though
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by stsp 11y ago
Did you try to tell gilles, eric, and some other committers about your concerns in private, before posting on a public mailing list and then submitting your own post to HN?
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by stsp 11y ago
gilles operates in a community where problems like this are taken very seriously, and where enough developer resources exist to sweep the smtp code base several times over. I expect a lot of fixes coming up over the next few weeks. The real
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by stsp 11y ago
"The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system." You can't really divorce UNIX from C. The only other language option for an smtpd server in OpenBSD base would have been Perl, and
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by stsp 11y ago
"Linear Algebra Done Right" helped me with getting through college :) I can highly recommend it.
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by stsp 11y ago
qemu runs as a userspace process so it is relatively slow. Essentially, vmm is to OpenBSD what KVM is to Linux. And yes, a KVM compatible interface can be built, as Mike mentioned.
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by stsp 11y ago
s/really works/is being ruled/
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by stsp 11y ago
I spoke to several Japanese OpenBSD developers about this. They told me UTF-8 is not perfect but it's the least of available evils. They'd be more happy with a UTF-8 capable base system than with the current state of things where
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by stsp 11y ago
It was in fact intentionally broken to find out where removing single-byte locales hurts our users most. We have a hackathon coming up with devs committed to making UTF-8 work in more base utilities. If that works out, and the most sore poi
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TPP likely to undo New Zealand's ban on software patents(zdnet.com)
6 points by stsp 11y ago|1 comments
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by stsp 11y ago
Better documentation link which shows how to set it all up: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man8/...

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