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Many years ago I was using fossil for OpenBSD development to manage my patches. Around that time I tried to import the entire OpenBSD src repository into fossil, by importing the C…

Git is not insufficient. For various reasons, Git is not a good match for what OpenBSD needs. OpenBSD needs an implementation that uses privsep, pledge, unveil, fits the mindset ne…

There is also a more recent presentation about the server implementation: https://www.openbsd.org/papers/fosdem2023-gotd.pdf https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/game_of_trees_da…

Hi, I am the Game of Trees project founder and main author of the code. If there is anyone here who would be interested in seeing this project advance faster and has funding availa…

Hi, I am the person you are accusing of mischief. I didn't break any agreement. I agreed with Mathy on what to do, and that's what I did. The fact that Mathy decided to get CERT in…

OpenBSD wifi maintainer here. I was informed on July 15. The first embargo period was already quite long, until end of August. Then CERT got involved, and the embargo was extended …

Your impression that nothing ever happened does not align with the facts. The project applied 2 years in a row, and mentored several students. Some developers mentored more than on…

> I would have worked on the same project in the summer even if I was not getting paid Yes, this is exactly what GSoC can be good for. Ideally, it allows people like you to spend t…

What I think is unnatural is the situation where the student is being paid, and where the mentor has a formal responsibility for the student and acts as the person who ranks the st…

For this particular open source project GSoC brings no advantage to the table (yes, it may be great for other projects). OpenBSD does not need GSoC to attract contributors. The pro…

+1 -- This is the one and only problem I have to regularly help my non-technical Ubuntu friends (and their friends) with. Every few months they cannot install updates anymore becau…

Thanks!

These look nice but they focus on the physical layer. Do you happen to know any useful English literature that covers the MAC layer of modern wifi standards (n, ac, ax)? Apart from…

I would recommend reading books instead of blogs if you really want to understand this stuff. O'Reilly's "802.11n: A Survival Guide" is fairly OK. If you read German, I highly reco…

There have been follow-up fixes to the script and the link above is now stale. See https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/tools/hook-sc...

Apache Subversion developer here. Andreas Stieger (SUSE, SVN) has written a pre-commit hook script which rejects commits of shattered.io style PDFs https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/su…

Please don't remove your post. Pointing out these issues is very important, and making one donation should not indemnify people who behave in this way.

I won't defend their demeaning public behaviour towards OpenBSD. I find it revolting. But they did make one donation to this OpenBSD developer. They sent me 3 rcc-ve boards which I…

It should probably say "On operating systems which support arbitrary locales, ..."

The photos are all from the area around Calgary, where some of the initial ideas were born during an OpenBSD hackathon. IIRC we disabled Latin1 support during this hackathon. While…

UTF-8 can also be handled in several ways. There is a lot of middle ground between software that handles bytes, and typesetting software which is fully unicode-aware. The small uni…

Yes, rev(1) probably should handle combined characters. But those are a property of Unicode, not UTF-8. UTF-8 encodes code points, and we often try to get away without decoding the…

$ man 2 clone man: No entry for clone in the manual.

There's a lot of security research going on at lots of places in all sorts of ways and that's great. But most of it results in better theoretical understanding. It doesn't result i…