OpenBSD man pages are the Sistine Chapel ceiling of man pages. Just glorious.

Nice! Think there was a gap in release-accompanying songs from 7.4 to 7.8 or I missed them. Seems they are back on track now.

It lost one eye, but that's ok, it still has two left.

Just as cringeworthy as the QT4 dance

Is it a pun?

The Simps on AI

The Simpson AI?

And then the 3 eyes fish makes a reference to Blinky

https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Two_Cars_in_Every_Garage_an...

“Back in my day we didn't have artificial intelligence, we had real stupidity - and we liked it.”

Man, I love the spirit of the blinkenlights warning, but the "cotten-pickenen hans" bit makes it hard to use the original for anything.

Or merely a single portrayal of a puffer subject to the socio-technological forces of this generation.

You are not supposed to, it is intended to represent(and probably is) a machine generated image.

I have not really formalized my thoughts on the matter, but it boils down to. It feels great to get the machine to generate a thing for you but it feels terrible to receive a thing from somebody that is machine generated.

The worse part is the paranoia, Now I am seeing "tells" of machine generated content, and it may or may not be. But I have already lost interest.

The real irony would be that it is a hand drawn image carefully animated to feel machine generated.

To be fair, I'm reading it as satire of AI. So not liking it is kind of the point.

I mainly don't like the self-destructive aspect. Even if it's a spoof.

Especially when I see all the self-destructive goings-on in the world, based on senselessly divisive beliefs or just the power-seeking that generates them to divide and conquer.

I once met Ken Bering, "The Wheelchair Guy" whose foundation provided wheelchairs for people who could not afford them. The wheels weren't spiked, nor were they like a Seinfeld episode, where George donates a cheap wheelchair with poor brakes that sends its occupant down a steep hill.

Oh well.

They're just showing humility. Give them a break.

It's satire

that's the point

And a reference to a meme of someone sticking a pipe into their own bike and complaining about someone else.

We need to find out which LLM was used to generate this benchmark image, it is the frontier now!

The theme this time is from The Simpsons, so yeah that is where they got it from. https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html

Wow, that’s a weird coincidence.

Don't forget: doas syspatch. They tend to find some minor issues rather quickly after release.

Since I maintain my own custom patch set under OpenBSD, this is also usually when I need to vendor in the new release and update all of my patches.

> The upgrade mechanism from 7.9 to 8.0 is still gloriously simple, and exactly the same as it has been for many years

The upgrade mechanism on a typical Linux distribution is _even more_ gloriously simple, and exactly the same as it has been for many years.

  # Fedora/RHEL
  $ sudo dnf upgrade -y

  # Debian/Ubuntu
  $ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

  # Arch Linux
  $ sudo pacman -Syu

The false distinction between the OS packages and user local (/usr/local) packages during upgrade causes much unneeded complexity. FreeBSD is making this go away which is welcome.

    # Debian/Ubuntu
    $ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

  guix pull && guix system reconfigure

  guix roll-back

"Wireframe Puffy" T-shirt design with the 'human lips' was always my favorite. Hope they bring it back.

https://www.openbsd.org/tshirts.html

I love it too. It's nice to be able to enjoy some art with personality when everything out there is inoffensive and bland art.

that's the gif loading, it should be fast once it's done

Agreed. Lowering yourself to the level of the AI drones is the first step to becoming one of them.

I don’t think the theme is “anti‐AI.” I think what it’s trying to express is something along the lines of “take responsibility for your code,” where one’s code is the code one unleashes upon the world.

But that’s just my interpretation.

It's not that they were anti VM, they just didn't think it was a proper security boundary.

By default, OpenBSD uses FFS / FFS2. There is an effort in place to port GeFS (from 9front) to OpenBSD. It's unlikely that ZFS will be ported to OpenBSD, due to licensing incompatibilities. For the same reason, btrfs is also unlikely. That's why I run FreeBSD on my big server, and OpenBSD on my laptop and other edge devices. I don't really have any issues running FFS on a laptop; it seems overkill to run anything more advanced than that.

I'd recommend taking a look on forums to see what other folks are running. If it's a modern Lenovo with integrated graphics or an AMD GPU, it will be supported before others. OpenBSD folks tend to use Lenovos. My best recommendation is to pick a laptop that a core maintainer is using, unless you feel comfortable making your own patches. They have AMD GPU support via DRM from Linux. Intel graphics typically works alright.

OpenBSD works well with relatively recent versions of Chromium and Firefox. That being said, they are on a six month release cycle. The Chromium port can fall behind if you stick to -stable or releases. Building Chromium or Firefox from source is... well, I have a 2012 laptop, so that's not something I am going to do. Regardless, you'd need to be pretty comfortable with applying OpenBSD specific patches to one of these browsers, which isn't always obvious, especially since they are moving targets.

If you're used to being on a rolling release Linux, this will be a bit disorienting. But, in my opinion, it's significantly more stable and better thought out.

GeFS is in the works. I hope it gets into the tree some day:

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260918115729

OpenBSD usually has far fewer hoops than Linux on laptops - IME, either it works or it doesn't. Pretty much any x86 machine that isn't bleeding edge is going to work.

He ran out of fingers and toes to count on. (Wait, what comes after 19.19, or 20.19, 20.20, then what?)

Did they ever have a Linux 6.9?

It is largely if there is someone interested in maintaining the port. My favorite port is the luna88k an obscure Japanese unix workstation/server from the early 90's. I don't know how common they were in Japan, rare is my guess, and non-existent elsewhere, but there is one(only one as far as I can tell) dedicated Japanese developer willing to put the work in to keep it current. and every release a month or two after the official release he announces that the package build is done(it takes that long on the hardware).

I don't know how many users of luna88k there are, I don't frequent anywhere near the same ecosystem they would, but have never seen one, So from my point of view it is one person making releases for himself and I love that dedication. I don't have, nor do I want a luna88k, but it great that it exists.

So as far as I can tell that is all it takes to have a published obsd port, one person willing to put the work in.

That's pushing the timelines a bit. I had more than one early Ubuntu completely hose itself on dist-upgrade pre 16.04, despite it being based on Debian for which such things have never been a problem for me. Until 22.04->24.04 my rule was always to reinstall as a result.

Zero configuration conflicts/issues the whole time?

Thank you. Was just wondering because the items in the Changelog look.... LLMish. Not something I'd have expected from OpenBSD. On the other hand, it looks like they've done a bunch of improvements I'd have assumed they'd done years ago. I wouldn't blame them.

I haven’t. Has that worked for you?

I'm smoking natural gas to move the turbine that generates electricity so an overpriced GPU filled up with overpriced memory can give an interesting answer to this post :)

Wait... I thought you were one??!!!

Humans make predictable mistakes, AI makes unpredictable mistakes. Hallucination occurs where you least expected for ANY reason. Can you say the same about humans? Unless the human in question is mentally ill.

The loudmouths who think I'm wrong are simply not sophisticated enough to realize how LLMs actually work. It's just pattern-matching and heuristics-based at that. The day AI produces a painting like a famous human painter, I'd be impressed. Until then, it's meh.