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@lanodan @quad @ptribble We get occasional interest and patches for pkgsrc on HP-UX and AIX. More for HP-UX than AIX, but I suspect that's because AIX has wider support (making pkgsrc less necessary) and has a weirder toolchain (making using pkgsrc harder)

@bentsukun Ah yes, Kubernetes for an internal HTTP server serving only static files.

Spotted in a PlayStation Portable game manual... (from Reddit)

for Reasons™, I spent a day or so making an unofficial port of the Pale Moon web browser to NetBSD

I patched in all the goodies I've worked on for Firefox on NetBSD over the years, including our MPROTECT security enhancement, which at some point stopped working with mainline Firefox

Nick Hudson writes that the latest release of rpi5-uefi allows NetBSD to boot on the Raspberry Pi 5: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2024/07/24/msg008841.html

Preferring a board-neutral standardized way to detect devices allows many ARM boards to be supported with a single image.

Security advisory for sshd. https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2024-002.txt.asc

@drscream Does it still count if I wrote the defaults?

@onepict i've probably said this 100+ times now - this policy is for committers (foundation members) only, who've all _already_ signed contracts with a clause about tainted code.

the policy is for base only, which has strict rules about copyright for Reasons™[0]. We are not opting out of running any third-party code that might have used an auto-completion tool. Since the BSD license requires strict attribution, our code in base can't be used to train LLMs either.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories%2C_Inc._v._Berkeley_Software_Design%2C_Inc.

@onepict Also way too many people confusing "tainted" for "poor quality".

@iwein This is a hiring policy - it's part of the developer contract that all new members of the Foundation are required to sign. Foundation membership is required for commit access.

@mark This is one of the sets of rules that every person with commit access has to follow. Becoming a committer is not easy, it requires joining the Foundation and signing various contracts that place the burden of responsibility on the member. It's a fairly reasonable assumption that we should be able to trust our members, and if not they shouldn't be members.

@daniel_collin @asmodai This is one of the sets of rules that every person with commit access has to follow. Becoming a committer is not easy, it requires joining the Foundation and signing various contracts that place the burden of responsibility on the member. It's a fairly reasonable assumption that we should be able to trust our members, and if not they shouldn't be members.

New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.

https://www.NetBSD.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

@phf just alan coopersmith, who works on x.org for oracle solaris, and has been prompt in merging BSD patches

It turns out we have been secretly maintaining X.Org over the years and nobody noticed.

(The number of not-yet-upstreamed patches in our xsrc tree is fairly huge, working on fixing that...)

@distrowatch Someone keeps a careful eye on HTTP directories, it's not announced yet 😜

@ParadeGrotesque In Germany, instead of crossing their fingers, people press their thumbs in a clenched fist. Very aggressive!

I usually try to keep you informed about interesting commits that are happening, but we're all clenching for NetBSD 10 right now...

Regardless, nat committed a new audio driver...

... for Motorola 68000 Macintoshes. enjoy!

@ParadeGrotesque Fifth time's the charm