i'm thinking of organising a two day hackathon on 3/4 November 2026 (preceding https://freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/event-calendar/november-2026-freebsd-vendor-summit/) - somewhere in the south bay. Who's up for a BSD focused hackathon/lightning talk thing?
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@erikarn@mstdn.social
mastodon 4.7.2I have some code and radio stuff. https://erikarn.github.io.
I'm on twitter. https://twitter.com/erikarn .
I do FreeBSD related stuff. https://people.freebsd.org/~adrian/
I dunno, what else? You can just find me via google. I've been on the internet since the 90s.
I'm KK6VQK when I talk on the radio.
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Here's my wall of text post explaining why expecting to switcharoo your raspberry PI DDR4 RAM and expecting it to always work isn't always such a hot idea (and kinda why I agree with the RPI foundation here, sorry y'all.)
https://adrianchadd.blogspot.com/2026/09/why-just-switcharooing-ram-on-rpi-isnt.html
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And "your active developers retire or die out" is not a new problem.
It's a general project health/sustaining problem to solve.
You can't solve this with only users who don't donate code or money.
So to finish - if you're trying to use open source and it's not a well funded project. Donate. Like, right now. Shit's not getting cheaper any time soon.
If it's a no-LLM project then they triply need your help now. Code or money. Your choice. Using it isn't enough.
Code or money.
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Note this isn't because the "projects embracing AI are getting AI money." Only a small amount of them are.
This is just me reiterating that software doesn't evolve with only users. Someone has to improve it, fix bugs, contribute new features.
The internet is full of open source projects dying a slow death because people keep using them and they keep ticking along, and it's nice to see new users come on board. But if your developer base is aging out .. you're eventually going to see them die.
A story from my past - when I "took down a data centre" by plugging in a Dell:
https://adrianchadd.blogspot.com/2026/02/being-accused-of-taking-down-data.html
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@encthenet@flyovercountry.social @seuros@mastodon.bsd.cafe We'll tackle that eventually, there's a lot of cleanup to do and both seuros and i have plenty of device<->device setups to test this on.
(I've already found lols when doing iperf between FW connected devices so that's on my plate to fix..)
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@0xabad1dea i bet i know what's going on here
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@stux@mstdn.social @paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange it was a very fruitful exercise in dogfooding. i bet they fixed a lot of shortcomings.
(IOCP was the shit back then, but deploying it and stability was not. But zero copy IO on correctly written stuff spanked freebsd/linux.)
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@parikhparth23 @tante (linguistics doing parts of speech tagging enter the chat and all rub their hands together saying "YESSSSSSSS")
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@parikhparth23@mastodon.social if only we had a way of classifying text as different language/dialects based on some sort of rules and bayesian statistical based processing, then a way to apply different subsets of regular expression tables based on this
(sorry as a programmer and a linguistics graduate, i can not resist)