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@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org · 3d ago
Something I discovered recently: https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/ This is a blog, hosted on a Nintendo Wii running #netbsd ... Pretty cool! :netbsd: Hat tip to: https://caolan.uk/links/servers/ And: https://sunny.garden/@kaimac/116459990980227925
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@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org · 2d ago
And... When the guy^W dev^W madman^W Absolute Programming God who is responsible for the Wii port of #NetBSD actually likes your post about running a blog on a Wii with NetBSD, you have reached a level of Meta-information I did not think was possible. 😂 Thanks for everything @jmcneill@mstdn.ca !! (Now, where the heck did I put my Nintendo Wii...?)
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@sborrill@justfollow.me.uk · Apr 20, 2026
@jaypatelani@bsd.network Here's my Acorn RiscPC booting #NetBSD 8.3. The computer is from 1994 so almost the same age as NetBSD itself. Also quick plug, if you want to hear more about this history, come to my talk at @bsdcan@bsd.network this June #BSDCan
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@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 01, 2026
#CaliforniaLaw is written by people who are either very ignorant or very incompetent. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043 They have assumed that all operating systems are like Microsoft Windows 11, Android, or iOS; and have written legislation for operating systems where people download glorified WWW client 'apps', from 'stores', which use 'accounts' that they have with vendors or Microsoft/Google/Apple. But the legislation *as worded* *also* covers everything from #Debian and #Ubuntu through #Arch Linux and #MobaXTerm to #FreeBSD and #NetBSD and #OpenBSD; where users anonymously use package managers or ports systems to install applications, written by developers, on operating systems, from 'publicly available internet website' repositories. There is no age field in the GECOS data in master.passwd(5) of course, and the reality is that no BSD or Linux-based operating system has this concept of apps/stores/accounts. #MidnightBSD #FreeSoftware #Unix #California #USLaw #AgeVerification #GDPR
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@photex@icosahedron.website · Apr 18, 2026
Ok #netbsd fans. I have an x1 carbon from 2023. It’s running Arch and that’s all good. But I’m very very motivated to swim in the waters of a bsd system. My interests and uses normally involve games and graphics explorations. I just want to be able to use the intel gpu with sdl3 basically. And sadly this is a hidpi system so I’m always worried whether getting a usable display for my aging eyesight is achievable. Does anyone have words of caution here for me? Is it known to not work in some capacity? I’ve seen the wiki/docs and it sure seems doable but maybe someone has personal experience they can share? cc: @netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org @d6@merveilles.town
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@lkundrak@metalhead.club · Apr 17, 2026
lot to love about #netbsd and missing surprisingly little. real annoying things: find requires a path. "find ." instead of "find", i'm getting it wrong every time. no "sort -h". how do people sort "du -sh" output? are they content with seeing their file is 173666 blocks big? anybody knows if patches for these would've been accepted or if they'd be shunned off as gnu-isms?
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@matthew@social.retroedge.tech · Apr 15, 2026
Or older desktop PC #netBSD RT: https://mstdn.jp/users/landley/statuses/116409848816616141
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@landley@mstdn.jp · Apr 15, 2026
@matthew@social.retroedge.tech How is #netBSD going to deal with https://social.coop/@cwebber/116408556882122186 do you think?
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@lobsters@mastodon.social · Apr 14, 2026
NetBSD Installation with Disk Encryption https://lobste.rs/s/vcmggk #netbsd https://www.dwarmstrong.org/netbsd-encrypt-install/
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@thelastpsion@oldbytes.space · Apr 12, 2026
One of my many sidequests is to try to get #NetBSD running on one of my #Psion Series 5mx machines. But I have a few issues/thoughts: I'm struggling to find instructions on how to do this. (Can you help, @netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org ?)Because I can't find any instructions (granted, I was very tired when I tried last night), I'm a little worried that no one has tried this for quite some time.Both of my 5mx units and my working S5 are refusing to read any of my seven Compact Flash cards. Including the one that the netBook uses to boot. I have no idea how to fix that, and I don't really want to buy another 5mx as they ain't cheap.The winning 5mx will get a RAM upgrade to 32MB. (Yes, that's doable.) If I can get something working, then that will encourage others in the #PsionCommunity to try. So we might actually get people running a modern OS on Series 5 machines. Also, as there are a good number of programmers in that community, we might get more eyes on the code. Finally, if that all works out, then it might be possible to get it running on the (currently unsupported) netBook, too. #Psion5mx #retrocomputing
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@release_candidate@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Apr 14, 2026
Anyone here has experience doing a "Wi-Fi box" in NetBSD? I wonder how big is the overhead. Both in user effort and computer resources. When I was younger I used to run a *very slow* virtual machine with Windows XP while daily-driving Linux. So I could interact with government webpages, banks, University software, etc. Anything that I couldn't do in Linux was done in this winXP VM. Now I'm getting close to do something similar. A light VM with linux to do anything that I can't in NetBSD. I still don't truly daily-drive NetBSD: I'm writing this tooth from my Linux Mint laptop, for example. To use the Wi-Fi from this machine, I still need a Linux driver, but I'm starting to pet the idea of a small VM + PCI passthrough to setup Wi-Fi, and use that VM as a router. Something tells me that battery life will be even shorter than it is now. But it would be better to hear that from people who have actually done something like that. #wifi #wifibox #NetBSD #runbsd
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@AnachronistJohn@zia.io · Mar 08, 2026
Here’re some pictures from #NetBSD at SCALE There’s a lot of interest in NetBSD :) First is a Raspberry Pi 400 with ctwm running as a stratum 2 NTP server. Our neighbors just happen to be the Network Time Foundation. @socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizza
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@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk · Apr 09, 2026
Here are some things that one can add to the analysis of the MacOS TCP timeout clock freeze bug. The code for calculate_tcp_clock() in XNU was changed in May 2025. Older versions of this function (e.g. in xnu-11417) worked quite differently and wouldn't have stopped ticking the clock at 32-bit unsigned integer wraparound. None of #NetBSD, #FreeBSD, nor #OpenBSD share this exact way of doing TCP timeout processing with #XNU. FreeBSD does not have a tcp_now and works off the global 32-bit ticks variable. OpenBSD effectively works off the kernel's system clock, too, but with a randomized offset, and does 64-bit unsigned modular arithmetic. NetBSD uses a distinct 32-bit unsigned tcp_now counter that it simply increments by 1 at regular intervals, and does modular arithmetic subtraction. https://photon.codes/blog/we-found-a-ticking-time-bomb-in-macos-tcp-networking #TCP #MacOS
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@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk · Apr 08, 2026
The new way of selling 'AI' seems to be to push it as a bugfinder. The latest example being waved around as of yesterday includes, as one of its non-embargoed examples, what is patched by this #OpenBSD patch. https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.8/common/025_sack.patch.sig The problematic thing is that this sort of bugfixing hasn't changed the commentary in the code, which stated that p points to the last linked list entry at the point of the added null check and can never be null. But it actually can be, if there was a sole linked list entry that ended up being fully encompassed and thus deleted. So this kind of 'AI' use is going to give us a lot more comments-do-not-match-code maintenance headaches down the road. (Both #NetBSD and #FreeBSD factor this out into a separate tcp_sack.c and do the linked list handling slightly differently without a 'previous' pointer.) #AI
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@lobsters@mastodon.social · Apr 07, 2026
[discussion] the BSDs in the AI Age via @lattera@bsd.network https://lobste.rs/s/pdhar1 #culture #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd https://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/talk/2026-April/018894.html
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@netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 03, 2026
#NetBSD 11.0 RC3 was tagged and will soon be shipped to a http or ftp server near you. The decision was made to delay the release and make another RC because of a number of important fixes being pulled up. This included ZFS and swap reliability fixes, improvements to support for allwinner risc-v hardware, and a curses compatibility fix.
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@JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 05, 2026
Another 2nd chance to tell legislators that the mechanisms that we have inherited from #Unix, and used in loads of #FreeSoftware operating systems from #NetBSD to #Tribblix, do not have date of birth/age fields for user accounts, is #Illinois, where HB5511 is the very same text as #California's, too. https://my.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocTypeID=HB&DocNum=5511&GAID=18&LegID=167486 It really does seem at this point that this is model legislation. Sponsors in Illionois are Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, Margaret Croke, Janet Yang, Rohr, Kimberly Du Buclet, Natalie A. Manley, Angelica Guerrero-Cuellar, Rick Ryan, Michelle Mussman, Martha Deuter and Tracy Katz Muhl. The bill is in the judiciary–civil committee as of yesterday. It was introduced last month, 1 day after it was introduced in Colorado. I wonder in what other states it has just turned up. A lobby organization handing pre-drafted bills to multiple sets of legislators is not unknown. @nileane@nileane.fr @RunxiYu@social.treehouse.systems #CaliforniaLaw #USLaw #IllinoisLaw #FreeSoftware #AgeVerification
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@JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 02, 2026
@reallyflygreg@mstdn.ca @toddalio@mstdn.ca I'm inclined to believe that it is indeed the people who don't understand technology (specifically: they think that everything works like their smart 'phone or Microsoft Windows 11 PC do) making policy; or that they did understand the technology and were just crap at drafting legislation such that it could distinguish the Microsoft Store, Google Play, the Apple App Store, et al. from #Ubuntu's package repository and #OpenBSD's ports tree. And that distinguishing criterion is not #FreeSoftware. Given the aims, the #California legislators would want #FDroid to be required to hand over #AgeVerification data to free-software apps that F-Droid allows, that themselves want to impose age restrictions (on, say, showing certain content to minors) via the route of getting the account holder's age (bracket) information from the operating system via a 'signal' from the 'store'. https://monitor.f-droid.org/anti-features #FreeBSD #NetBSD #Debian #CaliforniaLaw #USLaw
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@hbrpgm@adalta.social · Feb 12, 2026

📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/qce11wDNyBC78tLqnRKmds 🔗 🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷

La configuration d’un système NetBSD en lecture seule atténue un point de vulnérabilité critique souvent négligé : la corruption du système de fichiers sur des supports de stockage peu fiables.

#vulnerability #netbsd #runbsd #ownyourdata #itnotes

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@hbrpgm@adalta.social · Feb 12, 2026

📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/nQCwqAv8Gf7ahWVFEfdz2R 🔗 🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷

A practical guide to hardening embedded systems by eliminating file system write vulnerabilities through a memory-backed root configuration.

#vulnerability #netbsd #runbsd #ownyourdata #itnotes

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