@mook Well, in this case, I have a #NetBSD image (armv7.img.gz) that I would really like to write onto there.

@trashheap @grahamperrin I don't know about #FreeBSD but #NetBSD has policy of not accepting AI/LLM generated code

https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

@bytebro

It's very unlikely that anything of the sort will occur. There is simply a complete disconnect between Microsoft/Google/Apple user accounts anything that firmware can record in persistent storage before an operating system has even started up.

I predicted, as you probably saw, the form that the compliance measures would take for #Unix and Unix-like operating systems on 2026-03-01, and both 11 hours and about 4 days later they took that form from two different people. One with pull requests on GitHub, one in the very FediVerse thread that I began.

It is operating systems that will see (and indeed have seen) the updates bringing this. Not firmwares.

#AgeVerification #systemd #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #MidnightBSD

#NetBSD and #PA-Risc friends

after installing the #hppa version on 10.1

I am trying to get a ssh tunnel going across the Atlantic
Works fantastic if i DON'T use -N flag
Tunnel goes down after 30sec

so
ssh -C -R port:blabla:port user@server
work flawless

any ideas why?

maybe i am betting too much on my HP715 beast 🤣

#TIL that you can install #NetBSD over serial port

@scott @nuintari Probably, fot #NetBSD the next analog of FreshPorts could be used: https://www.pkgsrc.se/

Big kudos to the person testing #NetBSD 11.0 RC2 on an i386, loading the system from floppy disks. Gracias!

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2026/03/26/msg004230.html

A successful boot is often just beyond the moment you feel like giving up on that obscure piece of hardware. Keep hacking—the moment you can finally say, 'Of course it runs NetBSD,' is closer than you think.
#NetBSD 🚩 #RunBSD #Unix #Linux

curl

Daniël Stenberg

facts and praise

I'm fortunate that I am allowed to follow Daniël, lead programmer of the mightycurl. The reason I formulated the line in this way, is because only through the power of the FediVerse I've gotten a boost from someone I follow, who found a post of the lead programmer or curl interesting

stats:

install base => 20000*10

6

devices

20 billion+ installations!

curl is used in command lines or scripts to transfer data. curl is also libcurl, used in:

• cars
• television sets
• routers
• printers
• audio equipment
• mobile phones
• tablets
• medical devices
• settop boxes
• computer games
• media players

Curl is THE Internet transfer engine for countless software applications in over twenty billion installations!

curl is used daily by virtually every Internet-using human on the globe!

curl is 30 years old

Let that sink in!

Opinion

curl is mature critical network infrastructure software that we all need to have our internet powered software / hardware to function in respect to data transfer.

The syntax to use curl in simple implementations is IMHO quite easy. In case you need to know an extra option, the executable and libcurl have excellent documentation. End users normally interact with curl using the (elf) binary on Linux based POSIX operating systems. The more mature BSDs have another binary format

Just type curl to get an initial output which looks like this on my current system

curl
curl: try 'curl --help' or 'curl --manual' for more information

then type

curl --help
Usage: curl [options...] <url>
 -d, --data <data>           HTTP POST data
 -f, --fail                  Fail fast with no output on HTTP errors
 -h, --help <subject>        Get help for commands
 -o, --output <file>         Write to file instead of stdout
 -O, --remote-name           Write output to file named as remote file
 -i, --show-headers          Show response headers in output
 -s, --silent                Silent mode
 -T, --upload-file <file>    Transfer local FILE to destination
 -u, --user <user:password>  Server user and password
 -A, --user-agent <name>     Send User-Agent <name> to server
 -v, --verbose               Make the operation more talkative
 -V, --version               Show version number and quit
This is not the full help; this menu is split into categories.
Use "--help category" to get an overview of all categories, which are:
auth, connection, curl, deprecated, dns, file, ftp, global, http, imap, ldap, output, pop3, post, proxy, 
scp, sftp, smtp, ssh, telnet, tftp, timeout, tls, upload, verbose.
Use "--help all" to list all options
Use "--help [option]" to view documentation for a given option

When you type curl --manual|less you get the manpages which I delimited with less through a vertical pipe

          _   _ ____  _
      ___| | | |  _ \| |
     / __| | | | |_) | |
    | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
     \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
NAME
    curl - transfer a URL
SYNOPSIS
    curl [options / URLs]
DESCRIPTION
    curl is a tool  for transferring data  from or to a  server using URLs.  It
    supports these protocols:  DICT, FILE,  FTP, FTPS,  GOPHER, GOPHERS,  HTTP,
    HTTPS, IMAP,  IMAPS, LDAP,  LDAPS, MQTT,  POP3, POP3S,  RTMP, RTMPS,  RTSP,
    SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS.
    curl  is  powered  by  libcurl  for  all  transfer-related  features.   See
    libcurl(3) for details.
URL
    The URL syntax is  protocol-dependent. You find  a detailed description  in
    RFC 3986.

I can also type man curl to get a nice output:

curl(1)                                         curl Manual                                        curl(1)
NAME
       curl - transfer a URL
SYNOPSIS
       curl [options / URLs]
DESCRIPTION
       curl  is  a tool for transferring data from or to a server using URLs. It supports these protocols:
       DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT,  POP3,  POP3S,
       RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS.
       curl is powered by libcurl for all transfer-related features. See libcurl(3) for details.
URL
       The URL syntax is protocol-dependent. You find a detailed description in RFC 3986.
       If  you provide a URL without a leading protocol:// scheme, curl guesses what protocol you want. It
       then defaults to HTTP but assumes others based on often-used hostname prefixes.  For  example,  for
       hostnames starting with "ftp."  curl assumes you want FTP.
       You  can specify any amount of URLs on the command line. They are fetched in a sequential manner in
       the specified order unless you use -Z, --parallel. You can specify command line  options  and  URLs
 Manual page curl(1) line 1 (press h for help or q to quit)

The reasoning behind curl --manual is simple. On a machine without the manual system you still need access to the full manual. This is one of the reasons why man curl is also implemented as curl --manual

An important RFC is echoed to my terminal in the man curl output which is RFC 3986

A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a compact sequence of
characters that identifies an abstract or physical resource. This
specification defines the generic URI syntax and a process for
resolving URI references that might be in relative form, along with
guidelines and security considerations for the use of URIs on the
Internet. The URI syntax defines a grammar that is a superset of all
valid URIs, allowing an implementation to parse the common components
of a URI reference without knowing the scheme-specific requirements
of every possible identifier. This specification does not define a
generative grammar for URIs; that task is performed by the individual
specifications of each URI scheme.

I shall not quote the whole RFC 3986 here. You can read all about it on the RFC site (see sources)

As you can see curl is thorougly documented, has all the features a simple end user needs to fetch all kind of data, scaled up all the way to the extensive complex features router hardware et all, needs to transfer data.

programming route

I came to this toot when I saw that certain external feature code, which lives in stable external libraries, is now being removed from curl. I should say the code is depreciated then phased out.

This is a logical step

• It takes resources to maintain external code
• If the (shared) libraries are stable and mature, it's much better to just call those libraries and be done.
• The more external code you can remove from your project the better it is for all the programmers

The same is also happening in the Linux kernel, they are following in the footsteps of curl

Conclusion

There is a treasure trove of information in the sources. Just reading the pages on RFC 3986 will keep you occupied for hours.
Have fun and keep reading / learning and programming!

sources:

https://curl.se/

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986

https://curl.se/mail/lib-2026-03/0026.html

#curl #programming #mathematics #linear #algebra #libcurl #Linux #BSD #freeBSD #openBSD #netBSD #POSIX #bash #csh #ksh #sh #fish #radio #TV #smartTV #router

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https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986

The European BSD conference, EuroBSDcon 2026 will be in Brussels, 9-13 September 2026.

You can send your talk, tutorial, BOF or other session submission to our program committee before June 2oth, see https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/

For more about the BSD conferences, see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #development #programming #devops #bsd #conference

@nuintari I think your mirror idea would work, but keep in mind that if you reach the maximum depth of your write cache, the physical disk will hold up writes to the RAM disk until things get caught up.

Something I don’t get: how can it take 40 to 45 minutes to back up, say, 128 gigs? That’s only slightly faster than free-128-gig-USB-stick-from-Microcenter speeds. With a decent NVMe SSD, that should take, say, 128 seconds or so.

RAM disks are great for certain uses. I’ve booted machines with no disks, create a RAM disk, installed #NetBSD on to it, chrooted to it, then run entirely in the RAM disk for months. It’s a great solution to certain problems.

(edit: RAM disk <-> physical disk hold up)

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟯/𝟮𝟯 (Valuable News - 2026/03/23) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/valuable-news-2026-03-23/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

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#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

New #blog post alert!

I muse about research some of my grad students and I did around independently evaluating some #OpenBSD anti-ROP mitigations, and I bid farewell to being an OpenBSD developer.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260322.html

#freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #bsd #unix #linux #compiler #compilers #rop #research

Toot from #pkgsrc/www/firefox-149.0b10 in my local pkgsrc tree on #NetBSD/amd64-current...

My #NetBSD web server is up for now
#hppa arch
HP 715/100XC anno 1995

i remind you i am not a web developer 🤣

paj.realnovum.com

@jlw_the_jobber #NetBSD for sure ;)

Happy International Day of Forests. 🌲

While the tech industry burns megawatts and boils millions of gallons of water just to run the latest AI hype-machine, NetBSD🚩 is about extreme efficiency. Writing tight code that keeps the hardware you already own running for decades means less e-waste in the ground and less power pulled from the grid.

You don't need to drain a lake to run a server. Keep your old machines alive. Protect the forests. 💧🌳

#NetBSD #InternationalForestDay #FOSS #GreenTech #Sustainability #NoAI #RightToRepair #Ewaste

Photo By: Andrea Villarreal Rodríguez
“The legacy of the forest”
Country: United States of America

BSDCan 2026 is June 19-20, with tutorials 17-18. If you register before May 1, the closing reception is free!

Register at https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html

#bsdcan #conference #bsd #unix #development #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #sysadmin #devops

Talks day 1 of #asiabsdcon is about to start #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #development #unixlike #freesoftware #libresoftware #opensource

Wow! After we temporary opened the gates for free VPS instances, we got more than 80 new registrations and already shipped more than 50 new, completely free #BSD bases VPS instances.

Thanks to @gyptazy for making this possible!

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #freeVPS #VPS #hosting #RUNBSD #education #opensource

@DrInterpreter @AnachronistJohn @jns

@AnachronistJohn @jns @rl_dane I'm looking for an AI-free, secure OS that will let me pretend to be on Windows when I need to and still run ad blocking Chromium browsers, Zoom and solid free video editing.

I think all three major BSDs can run Chromium. I know for certain #OpenBSD can, pretty sure #FreeBSD can as well. My experience with #NetBSD is very limited, though, but probably.

As far as zoom, I'm afraid that's currently out of the picture on the BSDs, to the best of my knowledge. They used to have a web app, but I think that's gone, as well.

Among the Linux distros, Gentoo seems to have a pretty strongly anti-AI stance.

@Zenie @justine @prahou I find #NetBSD/evbarm works on the 32-bit boards. People tell me it (partially) works on some 64-bit boards but not mine. In fairness I think there's a lack of documentation for the SoCs.

@nuintari @mwl

A lot of the sysop infrastructure on the BSDs seems to still have the old reporting model of undergraduates running the occasional password cracker who need to be discovered first thing in the morning and told off by lunchtime, rather than an entire planet of malefactors attacking everything that they can reach all of the time, that one lone sysop cannot do anything to halt.

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

Some 2026 issues are fun.
Trying to host a simple webpage on my #HP #pa-risc
It crashes when i hit reload a few times on Firefox

What variables can i tune to make it a bit more stable?
#NetBSD #vintagecomputers

Here's my setup: https://schmonz.com/2025/11/12/small-macs/

(Writing... muscles... loosening.)

#macos #linux #netbsd

You should know #pkgsrc 2025Q3 was released yesterday:

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2025/09/25/msg042016.html

#netbsd