OpenBSD 6.8 introduces a new hardware database client program reddit / BSD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- kmos-ports · 2020-10-19 15:28 OpenBSD 6.8 doesn't introduce this. This is a port someone submitted. It's not affiliated with OpenBSD. It is not "the new hardware database". This is someone's data gathering project. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mcnst · 2020-10-19 18:31 OP, it looks like the thread got deleted by /r/openbsd; may I suggest you report any instructions here directly? Perhaps as just a link to your website to avoid any confusion with affiliation with OpenBSD? Is the web-site part OSS as well at all? Also, by looking at the site, I'd strongly suggest you avoid using cookies for URL context, because that makes the URLs non-share- friendly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mcnst · 2020-10-20 02:12 I think it'd be great if over at /r/openbsd the mods wouldn't just lock AND delete such announcements merely because non-official. Did the guy got banned as well? I didn't see any notice that they're free to repost under a different title; in fact, there's no `[M]` comments in the thread at all -- just a silent lock and delete -- https://archive.is/81Nl3. Just because you can ban, lock and delete threads on Reddit much easier than on `misc@` -- I don't even recall anyone ever getting banned from Misc -- doesn't mean you should. In fact, the number of threads recently deleted is ridiculous; this looks like a sub takeover at this point -- quite a bunch of threads about random OpenBSD-related issues -- not much worse than what gets posted to misc@ daily -- are locked and deleted by the moderators for no reason: https://snew.notabug.io/r/openbsd --- But back to the topic. On the surface, the project seems pretty interesting. I wish the web-interface had less pagination; the stripping of model names where both `T490 and `T495` show up as `T49...` is a misfeature as well; but overall it looks pretty cool! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- linuxbuild · 2020-10-20 04:42 >OP, it looks like the thread got deleted by [r/openbsd](https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/); may I suggest you report any instructions here directly? Perhaps as just a link to your website to avoid any confusion with affiliation with OpenBSD? Very disappointing(. Working hard, but got such a negative reaction from particular OpenBSD guys. Maybe this is the reason of limited popularity of the system nowadays? Anyway, I've added a note to avoid this (not obvious for me) confusion. >Is the web-site part OSS as well at all? Yep, everything is dumped to [https://github.com/bsdhw?tab=repositorie s](https://github.com/bsdhw?tab=repositories) >Also, by looking at the site, I'd strongly suggest you avoid using cookies for URL context, because that makes the URLs non-share- friendly. Choice of a BSD variant and some other things should be saved somewhere. I'm working now on a share button to include all saved URL parameters into it. Thanks.