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by stsp 3y ago
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 CVS-to-git conversion of src, as published on Github. I was
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by stsp 3y ago
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 needed for Theo to accept running it on his own infrastructure
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by stsp 3y ago
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_daemon&#x
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by stsp 3y ago
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 available, please talk to me. I am a freelancer with an EU VAT ID
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by stsp 9y ago
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 involved and subsequently had to extend the embargo
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by stsp 9y ago
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 until today. You can connect the dots. I doubt that I knew s
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by stsp 9y ago
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 one student. https://www.google-melange.com/ar
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by stsp 9y ago
> 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 time doing what they love doing instead of working for cra
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by stsp 9y ago
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 student and thus decides upon their salary (fail the student -
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by stsp 9y ago
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 project gets a good amount of new contributors on a regular bas
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by stsp 9y ago
+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 because their /boot fills up and apt fails to install a new
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by stsp 10y ago
Thanks!
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by stsp 10y ago
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 the 802.11 standards, of course.
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by stsp 10y ago
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 recommend "Wireless LANs" by autho
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by stsp 10y ago
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...
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by stsp 10y ago
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/subversion/trunk/tools/hoo
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by stsp 10y ago
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.
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by stsp 10y ago
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 am still using for development: http://cvsw
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OpenBSD 6.0 CD Set – Limited Edition signed by 40 developers(ebay.com)
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by stsp 10y ago
It should probably say "On operating systems which support arbitrary locales, ..."
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by stsp 10y ago
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 giving this talk in Belgrade, Ingo apologized he didn'
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by stsp 10y ago
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 unix utilities fall somewhere in there.
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by stsp 10y ago
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 them. Of course the resulting Unicode can change its meaning bu
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by stsp 10y ago
$ man 2 clone man: No entry for clone in the manual.
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by stsp 10y ago
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 in an OS that can be used on commodity hardwar
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by stsp 10y ago
Additional reading material: http://questioncopyright.org/learn
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by stsp 10y ago
3/4? There's 5 books in the series. Are you in book 4? I had to crawl my way through book 4 a bit, but once you get to book 5 it is well worth it.
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by stsp 10y ago
There's also an audio version of the book read by Adams himself, called "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (read by Douglas Adams)" Try to track it down. I found it very enjoyable to listen to.
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by stsp 10y ago
An AP cannot prioritize 5 GHz over 2 GHz. It's up to the client to decide what to connect to.
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by stsp 10y ago
Hi neeels :)

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