Bitslingers-R-Us

Mid September #NetBSD #pkgsrc 2026Q2 binary package count update: 11.0: aarch64eb 26342 (+326) 11.0: alpha 11278 (stopped) 11.0: earmv4 8569 (+1939) 11.0: m68k 18739 (+1793) 11.0: powerpc 24272 (+1393) 11.0: riscv64 21612 (+108) 11.0: sh3el 10417 (+378) 11.0: sparc64 5147 (+2573) 11.0: vax 7646 (+148)

@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange NetBSD on anything, like this running off of a solar panel.

@ppossej@aus.social Work experience: Fluent with OMEGA, with decades of UNIVAC 494 experience. Later worked with UNIVAC 9000 systems.

@scuti@stereophonic.space @fsinn@mas.to @blogdiva@mastodon.social @lf_araujo@mastodon.social GM put a small industrial Isuzu Diesel in to the Chevette. The engine will run forever. If the car weren’t as aerodynamic as a brick, it’d get even better mileage.

@ricci@discuss.systems @sanityinc@hachyderm.io Do you suppose it’s one of those ask for 9 gigawatts, only actually use 5, then say to everyone, “look at how little power we’re using!” cases?

@LALegault The rest of us care, too! Thanks for sharing.

@shieladixon My kitty is fascinated by your Orton 3C music :)

@petrillic @gsuberland @dysfun 12 volts on the tongue isn’t too bad.

@geerlingguy@mastodon.social I’ll be looking for you at NAB :)

@peterbrown @babe Classic cars are museum pieces - increasingly as technology leaves them behind - and it is good that some people are prepared to put in the effort to preserve them. I don’t know if I’d put it quite that way. Technology leaves behind modern cars much, much more rapidly than old cars. Getting controller parts for a ten year old car depends heavily on the popularity of that car. Getting controller parts for a 45 year old car, like mine, is meaningless because the car has no controllers, aside from an analog glow plug controller, which I can diagnose and fix if it ever has trouble. My car is 100% obsolescence proof when it comes to anything related to technology. Newer cars simply aren’t.

@netbsd So I’m not the only person running an Amiga 1200 on the public Internet? Awesome!

#NetBSD #pkgsrc 2026Q1 package counts after the first couple of weeks of building:

pkgsrc-2026Q1
10.0: earmv4 10849 (unchanged - need new SD card)
10.0: m68k 8053 (+135)
10.0: powerpc 20639 (+5046)
10.0: sparc64 14021 (+129)
10.0: vax 7246 (+33)

11.0: aarch64eb 23008 (+12859)
11.0: earmv4 3326
11.0: m68k 7106 (+154)
11.0: mips64eb 2626 (not fixed yet)
11.0: mipsel 697 (+35)
11.0: powerpc 7250 (+5504)
11.0: riscv64 17731 (+2769)
11.0: vax 6334 (+153)

@dan@discuss.systems Sounds like @fredy@tacobelllabs.net would like Seattle.

@futurebird@sauropods.win Where can we preorder this book??

@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org @jperkin@federate.me.uk Whether or not it works now, it’s still good to report the problem so people can look in to the CDN issues. Thanks!

@babe @ColesStreetPothole The most complicated electronics in my car is an analog glow plug controller. I will never get a new car. Things are so much simpler when we can just work on them.

@scuti@stereophonic.space Thanks for sharing! Nice writeup :) That particular email server is doing other work now. I suppose I should’ve been clear that it was set up just for the show…

@fadedoasis All crimes are hypothetical.

@mwl@io.mwl.io Serial consoles make updates so much less worrisome.

@TechTangents@dialup.space That was a tangent.

@TechTangents@dialup.space FYI: Google now blocks Google customers just as much as non-customers these days. I think they’re so AI crazy they’ve forgotten to only apply certain rules to just one party.

@darth@silversword.online Since GPUs have shitty open source support, my main machine in front of my physical self is a MacBook. GPU support is the only reason that’s the case.

@KatCopseyGreens@mastodon.social Applause!

@lopta @jeanyves @mcmartin Microdrives and tapes might not work, but you can use another computer to load and save over RS-232.

@bitinn I wonder how this differs between people on Mastodon versus people on the Fediverse.

@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org @jperkin@federate.me.uk If you don’t mind a recommendation for next time, a little extra information in the PR would be helpful. I have an idea about what you mean from this thread, but reading that without knowing about this thread would leave me a bit confused. For instance, pasting an example or two of the messages you got would be good. I’m not a fan of Fastly. Sometimes we have issues like these, and sometimes fetching just hangs forever. Some source repositories use Fastly, which means I can’t leave bulk building machines to run without occasional hangups, so they need timeouts. Also, I can’t report issues to Fastly as an end user, and upstream doesn’t often care enough to report issues. It’s a real PITA.

@jschauma@mstdn.social Capitalism has trained people that newer is better. I wouldn’t be surprised if people who use these replacements somehow think they’re better.

@mayintoronto I’d love to meet @MLE_online and @fredy :D

Alpha will be back soon, I hope, as I’ll be heading to the coast where my AlphaServer DS25 lives. The SuperH build machine might have a failing disk, and if that’s the case, that’ll be replaced during that trip. The Cobalt RAQ2 used to build mipsel binary packages has had its power supply replaced, and so far it has been compiling for several days without issues. I hope this makes it happy. I haven’t quite figured out the issue with the Ubiquiti Edgerouter ERLite. It could be the SSD. That’s in the queue to test. NetBSD-11 PowerPC binaries are being built in a chroot on a Nintendo Wii U. Because NetBSD 11 doesn’t know about the SMP issues on the Wii U, it’s running with just -j 1, but the speed is still excellent. Having 2 gigs of memory certainly helps.

@jeanyves@mastodonapp.uk @mcmartin@mastodon.gamedev.place @lopta@mastodon.social One of these days I want to image all of my Sinclair QL floppies… The 68K-MBC looks fun!

@futurebird@sauropods.win I want to see this action narrated by Lucy Worsley. Queens of a different sort are her specialty, but I’m sure she’d bring the same verve.

@nik@toot.teckids.org This is what corporations do.

@malwaretech@infosec.exchange I wonder how much more difficult it is now to report vulnerabilities now that everyone is using “AI” to generate so much crap.

@furicle @babe @peterbrown That’s what part cross referencing is for. Luckily, my car doesn’t have a pitman arm, and the ball joints are used on lots of other kinds of cars. The one thing I can’t fix is the rust - I might need a new body for my drivetrain. But even if I get something much newer, the engine will remain 100% mechanical.

@pino@social.cologne @eldritch48@mastodon.social @jschauma@mstdn.social Bye!

@cwebber@social.coop This reminds me of Google’s marketing around how the then world record Pi calculation can be done on Google Cloud. They completely failed to mention how much it’d cost. Someone did an estimate based on then current prices, and I estimated I could buy an over-specced Epyc server, stay with it at a fancy hotel for the whole time it’d take to run the calculation, and pay myself $20k, and it’d still be cheaper than Google Cloud. And I could keep the Epyc. I’d love to know how much work like this would cost if paid for by a customer.

@petrillic @1000millimeter You can tell lots from whether a company considers their customers the primary actor in their threat models.

Here're #NetBSD #pkgsrc 2026Q1 initial package counts. These are the packages from 2025Q4 that haven't changed.

pkgsrc-2026Q1

10.0: earmv4 10847 (-1958)
10.0: m68k 7918 (-1755)
10.0: powerpc 15593 (-8318)
10.0: sparc64 13892 (-4103)
10.0: vax 7213 (-1345)

11.0: aarch64eb 10149 (-13904)
11.0: m68k 6952 (-1583)
11.0: mipsel 662 (-227)
11.0: powerpc 1746 (-2806)
11.0: riscv64 14962 (-6566)
11.0: vax 6181 (-1047)

@pino@social.cologne @eldritch48@mastodon.social @jschauma@mstdn.social Not liking your comparison doesn’t mean that anyone is necessarily fine with F***book. Those are two separate and totally unrelated things.

The general acceptance of “AI” and the general acceptance of F***book as the new AOL have plenty in common. It most certainly was a topic, and still is. None of the people I know here on the fediverse thought or think it was OK.

And I wholeheartedly don’t agree that it’s “less annoying” - whereas Fbook tried to force as many people as possible to use their bull, “AI” is being foisted on us by pretty much every megacorp out there at the same time. It’s super annoying, and it’s even more destructive than Fbook.

@tewha@appdot.net He looks and acts like that in person, too.

@ifin@infosec.exchange Just curious: what’re the cookies on your web site used for, aside for saving cookie preferences?

@kevinrns@mstdn.social @tod@hci.social I bet someone in the asshole regime is going to want to send a bill for the cleanup of the plane wreckage to Canada.

@tayfonay Someone can just go in and do a headcount. That’s not that difficult.

@StaceyCornelius@zeroes.ca I’ve worked on many older MacBooks. You need some special screwdrivers, but the kits of them aren’t all that expensive, plus they’re useful for other small electronics. Depending on your model, I might even have extra parts, although if you’re replacing the keyboard, it’s a bit of work with a ton of tiny screws. The headphone jack is soldered on, IIRC, but it could just need a good cleaning / dust removal, or fixing of a solder joint. ifixit.com has guides for all the models of MacBook.

@pino@social.cologne @eldritch48@mastodon.social @jschauma@mstdn.social You’re not convincing anyone of anything here. I’m not even sure what you’re trying to do here, but it’s not good faith discussion, so let’s just end this here.

pkgsrc-2025Q4 11.0: aarch64eb 24053 (+4012) 11.0: earmv4 6252 (+2502) 11.0: m68k 8535 (+1674) 11.0: mips64eb 3852 (+363) 11.0: mipsel 889 (+449) 11.0: powerpc 4552 (0 - hardware issues) 11.0: riscv64 21528 (+6145) 11.0: sh3el 11294 (+3485) 11.0: vax 7228 (+1983)

@catsalad@infosec.exchange @nwbt@social.nearerandfarther.com @alice@lgbtqia.space #NetBSD! And ants! And bikes! And ceramics! And science! And authors! And #monsterdon! And retrocomputers! And cats! And salad!

@purple@nya.social @tisba@ruby.social @cwebber@social.coop You might be kidding, but: https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/m68k/11.0_2026Q2/All/ffmpeg8-8.1.1nb1.tgz How is it that NetBSD/m68k keeping up better than Guix?