@wezm Interesting - the pkgsrc metdata files (DESCR, PLIST) are still in the pkg/ subdirectory, before they were moved to the main directory. Takes me back 👍 Thanks for the memories, and sorry to hear about the PC’s memory

@sborrill Wanna get a band together?

@Nerdfest @codinghorror I took a different approach when I retired, and informed LinkedIn that the place I now worked was called “NULL”. A few years later, I was surprised to receive some email through LinkedIn from a financial consultant, offering me some financial advice, and explaining that they’d “worked with a number of your colleagues at NULL”. 🤷 🤦

I couldn’t get the embedded link to work, but found the blog at https://machaddr.substack.com/p/why-some-satellites-use-netbsd Why some satellites use #NetBSD https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://machaddr.substack.com/p/why-some-satellites-use-netbsd

@rhialto @rohare I had a quick look at this, and I think it can be fixed by converting all the "=+" increments to "+=" in both em1.c and em2.c. (Works for me, just checking that that is indeed the fix now.) Searching with a decent engine tells me that the =+ form was a holdover from B, deprecated in 1976, as it's prone to errors in parsing (i.e. is that i = +4 or i += 4). There's more in DMR's paper on the evolution of C (page 5) at https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/chist.pdf

@rohare @rhialto I must apologize - looking at repo history, I see I added the source code from freeshell to pkgsrc in 2013 - it's 1995-era C, and includes open-coded regexp and stdio functions, ...but the stuff I've been talking are my own efforts to bring to more recent C, which I don't see committed anywhere in pkgsrc or NetBSD. Rhialto's sources are different again, being 1 file, and with further modifications. I'll look around for the version I had. Once again, apologies

@rohare Yeah, sorry, I should have read what you posted, sorry. My money's still on missing flushes, though

@rohare Thanks, maybe ^R will repeat the output to the current position (that's from memory, so totally suspect, I'd go by the help menu 😀) Might have been the shell 🤷‍♂️

Also I strongly suspect flushing stdout wasn't a thing in v6. I'll have another look RSN

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@rohare I’ll take a look at it, but I’d be willing to bet it’s a bug I introduced somewhere.

Kinda difficult to remember, after almost 50 years, the key combinations for open mode 🤷, although ^W to advance to next word might be one of them?

@rohare em was the first editor I ever used, so I updated the sources from v6 to modernish (the last argument to seek(2) originally used options to work in blocks, not bytes, for example). I added em to #pkgsrc a while ago, so it should be avalable for all platforms that pkgsrc supports

@abs0 yes, a small benefit, probably. You could also gain a small tech debt win by using a single large guest image on the hypervisor to provide a consistent set of network interfaces across a range of diverse hardware (🤷manufacturers who change specs in same model, or acquisitions and mergers) i.e. use the vm host to insulate against hardware differences. Performance should be in the “almost there” range. Purely theoretical, of course 😁😁😁

#NetBSD growing into that sixth bit
https://mastodon.social/@0xKaishakunin/114364354352389691

@koakuma Kind of ironic as the Extreme used to run NetBSD internally. 🥺 Gotta say I usually run MacOS, and have VMs running NetBSD on top. I understand the purists don’t like that, but I have no hardware support issues 🤷

Well done, #apple ! Some bright spark forgot to whitelist ~/Music/Audio Music Apps/Project Templates, and now I am unable to save any changes to my #LogicPro templates. I've been com.apple.macl'ed.

M4 #Macbook pro, Sequoia 15.3.2.

com.apple.macl summary:

Automatic Addition: macOS automatically adds e.g. when the Open dialog is used

Undeletable Nature: Attempts to remove the attribute typically result in it being immediately restored by the system's sandbox mechanism

#macl #musicproduction

@jperkin Not related, but I’ve been using #Therm quite happily since #iTerm2 hit the fan - so much so that I’d completely forgotten the mad scramble when it happened. I understand it’s not for everyone though

@todayilearned and the people who guard it are called the Thott police?

@cstross @fleeky Must admit I thought the term was vastectomy - I now see the light

#factcheckasong Stawberry Letter 22.999998

@tiredhorizon A couple of years ago, I bought a Dunlop variety pack. The results really surprised me - I now play with a #Petrucci signature, a much smaller, less flexible one than I used to (although for bass I still use a thin flexible one)

Small article on how to make your own CDN with NetBSD
https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@release_candidate/113097075044759583