Posts by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
(DIR) Post #AbPCqAyRbjdV9s8NMH by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
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Belated Introductory Post:I'm a Bay Area SRE, with specializations in Security, Unix Internals and Virtualization/Containerization.I've been running Linux for 25 years, and have been playing with #NetBSD more in the last few years as it's resparking what I have always loved about computers.I will mostly stick to computer nerdery here, but I may post race pictures at some point.I don't have mastodon on my phone, so I may take multiple days to see your toot. I like the slower pace though.
(DIR) Post #AbPCqBmmaZtzfzgZou by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
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`tho` is a tell. If I use it in a toot, I'm shitposting. You've been warned.
(DIR) Post #B4HzPyVUWxuhOUkhbk by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
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@ed1conf @tux0r Huh. This is what I see:$ edaNever gonna give you ^[[ANever gonna let you ^[[B
(DIR) Post #B4QOk8FA5l8NVBVBTs by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
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@mwl You need to edit this to be meaner to oracle, right?Like, one of the big consulting opportunities in the mid 2030s* is going to be migrating people from Solaris 11 to one of the Illumos distros, because the latter is the _actual_ upgrade over Solaris 10.[*] Because, of course, rather than fixing their timestamps, oracle is ending support in 2036.
(DIR) Post #B4Ybu4UBlqH7PdHQ2K by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
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@q66 If you're subtooting me, supervision systems are something I'm going to follow up about. "traditional init is all we need" wasn't my point (and honestly, you weren't my target audience, you are one of the small number of people who knows more about init than I do).At the same time, BSD inits work great for my needs. They're consistent and predictable, which is more important to me than flexible.(dinit is pretty nice. I wish it wasn't C++, but nothing's perfect.)
(DIR) Post #B4rYAVIR9LPVNqbN8y by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
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@d6 It's a pleasant codebase to learn those skills.@khm what's missing on it? (The reform is somewhere on my "to buy" list.)
(DIR) Post #B57G5gkMSbdynpZmuu by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
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There's still an option available to get a defenestrated edition after @mwl's kickstarter closes.It's still open tho. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/mwls-1-april-2026-book
(DIR) Post #B5WdXtA33LrTJL0NnM by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
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@mwl I mean. I'm going to call it that.
(DIR) Post #B6KME8300r40N4hEeG by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
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@mwl It's surprising that you'd have to create a new EFI partition. If you were using EFI boot blocks previously, that FS should already be in place somewhere. I'd be surprised at that getting stomped by an upgrade.To check if @encthenet is onto it being a firmware config problem, you can try pulling up the boot menu, it's usually F12 (IIRC). If you can figure out what nda0 is according to the firmware, select that. Otherwise, there might be clues in there to where your EFI partition is.
(DIR) Post #B8loJ8pq3np4cMDkVE by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
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@CursedSilicon That has an MMU. It will run NetBSD. Just sayin.
(DIR) Post #B9kIPn9M6UrGW8gEbY by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
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@ed1conf alternatively: printf "%x(1)\n" $(date +%j)
(DIR) Post #BAEpVgrzfN6pAIVJGi by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
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@JdeBP @nafmo @mirabilos @rl_dane So, NetBSD's Almquist shell supports it, but its ksh (pdksh) does not. OpenBSD ships its pdksh (oksh) as /bin/sh, and does not ship an almquist shell in the default install AFAIK. OpenBSD's ksh fails this test too. NetBSD's sh manpage has ;& documented, ksh does not. ;% is unimplemented on both, as well.I checked on an nb10.1 server and this ob7.9 laptop (I just packed up my nb11 box to move it).