There appears to be a rush a disgruntled Linux users switching to NetBSD:

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/117451701775023949

They even got a ton of new donations (which, funnily, broke their little progress bar):

https://cannot.understand.computer/kunev/p/1791449917.947134

So… donations for @netbsd@netbsd over the last few years look like this:

2020 - $46k
2021 - $52k
2022 - $44k
2023 - $60k
2024 - $40k
2025 - $79k

And in 2026 $120k so far!

And why is all that? Because of this:

Do not commit tainted code to the repository.

If you commit code that was not written by yourself, double check that the license on that code permits import into the NetBSD source repository, and permits free distribution. Check with the author(s) of the code, make sure that they were the sole author of the code and verify with them that they did not copy any other code.

Code generated by a large language model or similar technology, such as GitHub/Microsoft’s Copilot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or Facebook/Meta’s Code Llama, is presumed to be tainted code, and must not be committed without prior written approval by core.

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

This official guideline is much more “tame” and “diplomatic” than the overall “vibe” (sic) on the Fediverse: NetBSD basically says no to AI as much as possible.

And, apparently, this attracts lots of users and donors. Maybe there’s still some hope after all?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I’m way too clumsy to do actual craftsmanship. 😖 I had this janitor / delivery driver job once, that was great, and I’d love to do that again. Doesn’t exist anymore, though, and paid like shit.

FWIW https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/240-men-in-tech-yesallmen

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh wow, molten sky. 😃

Ballonfahrt in den Sonnenuntergang muss auch hübsch sein!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Had a 3D printer for a couple of years now. 😅 I got a used one in 2019. I don’t print that much, mostly just little stuff like this.

The vibration from the desk is so intense because it simply abruptly halts. It doesn’t slow down first – it just stops, NOW. 🤦‍♀️ It’s pretty stupid, but there’s nothing I can do, other than buy a new desk. 🫤

Made some “brackets” that I can use to mount some small speakers on the top of my monitor. That way, they don’t take up any space on the desk.

It’s not perfect and the curvature at the back of the monitor is annoying. But it works.

There’s a fair bit of vibration when I lower/raise the desk (hard to capture on video), and it survives that. 🥳

The speakers are trash, of course. Doesn’t matter. They’re good enough for some light background music. Like an old FM radio. 😅

Let’s see how long it takes until they fall down and break. 🍿

https://movq.de/v/fa5dd44cab/mount%2Dnosound.mkv.mp4

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com I love the Compose Key. 😃 Want that “o” with the slash in it? Type Compose + o + / and there you go: ø. I use it all the time. Also for stuff like → arrows or ™.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Ahhhh, some twt from the future must have snuck in? In my database, “latest twt in feed” had a timestamp of 1814983537 (that’s in July 2027), which made my client ignore any twts older than that. I deleted that from my DB and now it’s working again. 🥳

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Wow. Straight to the wallpaper collection, these go. 😃

@JasonSanta@jasonsanta.xyz What’s your point?

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com

and/or the people in charge realize that “enterprise-class” and “vibe-coded” are mutually exclusive software concepts

I’m really uncertain about this, to be honest. Short-term, you can vibe-code a ton of stuff and get away with it. I think that quality/correctness only matters for a small fraction of software out there. But long-term? I guess that then depends on whether you’re able to still pay the AI bills. Maintenance/refactoring is going to be veeeeeeeeeeery expensive, and virtually no human will be able to do those tasks. Or, you know, just rip off your customers and don’t sell any long-lasting support contracts in the first place.

I dunno. 🤷‍♀️

I hope things get better for you, @movq@www.uninformativ.de (and for anyone else dealing with the same issues).

Thanks! 🙏

@thecanine@twtxt.net I’m so glad that the Microsoft world is the one thing that I’m able to avoid. I didn’t have to touch a Windows server in over a decade.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @david@daiwei.me I suppose the only sane thing you can do is what Lyse said:

I will have been gone in five years. At most. I should start looking for complete alternatives.

I’m looking for alternatives as well, but … what would that be? Not a clue. Actually, no, I have a lot of ideas – there are so many useful things that I would be able and willing to do. Only problem is, those jobs don’t pay the bills. Haha.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

The IT industry is absolutely poisoned and destroyed.

Yes, and here’s an example:

• https://hachyderm.io/@thomaswilburn/117439476156199985
  
• https://chitter.xyz/@gabu/117441628277548428
  

I’m seeing exactly this effect in our stuff at work.

And human PR reviewers (in our company) are already completely burned out, because the AI dudes just dump all their shit on us. AI is an amplifier: If you already didn’t care about good code before AI, then you most certainly won’t start caring with AI, so the result is just a massive dumpster fire.

I suppose you can use AI to produce good code, but this takes so much time, effort, and money, you might as well code it yourself.

AI usage at work has risen to absurd and moronic levels.

Entire dev teams getting dismantled and fired.

The people that work in accounting are expected to write their own accounting software (or rather, let AI do it). Same for marketing. And everybody else.

Former “tech nerds”, whom I used to respect, tell me that they haven’t read any code in months. Let alone written some. They tell me that “AI is really good now”, it’s the future, yadda yadda. At the same time, when I read their code, I want to scream and cry (and most days I do).

Virtually everything is vibe-coded now. Everywhere you look you get to see code that no human will ever be able to maintain. Huge system “designs”, expensive, slow.

At this point, I’m almost hoping for the bubble NOT to burst, because that might very well mean the end of this company (and, thus, my job).

There is no “exit strategy”. We completely depend on AI services now.

At the same time, I’m expected to implement ISO27001.

Everything is vague, chaotic, wonky, shitty, buggy.

People are actively working on making themselves obsolete, and they don’t seem to notice that they’re doing that, because they’re so engulfed with playing with their new AI toy.

I checked job offers, but it looks like every company is like this now. Maybe some are still a bit behind, but sooner or later, they’ll all be like that.

And the worst part is: None of this matters in the slightest, as long as there’s some idiot out there who buys our stuff. Welcome to capitalism.

People keep telling me that you can “use AI responsibly” and “just to some degree, just as a tool”, but they don’t seem to realize that this does not matter in capitalism. Companies don’t need “good products”. They just need to sell something. If you still believe that “doing a good job” matters and that “they still need competent people”, haha, my sweet summer child, nothing you do matters. You just happened to be needed in the past, but those days are gone.

The future is absolutely bleak – assuming there is a future.

@david@daiwei.me That looks spectacular. 😳

@david@daiwei.me It’s the right thread, yeah, and not a jenny thing per se. I used the Vim username completion and didn’t pay attention. 😅

@yarn_police@twtxt.net AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org What is that “tower” in the top left of 05? 🤔 And wow, 20 and 21 are great!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org lol 😅 Nein. :(

@david@collantes.us Oh the joy of getting old(er). 🥲 Close friends – gone. Acquaintances – gone. Former coworkers – gone. They all just disappear at some point …

I follow @aelaraji@aelaraji.com’s feed, but it never updates. 🤔 Manually fetching individual twts works, though. Do you do any aggressive filtering or something like that? 🤔

@oberon@portal.mozz.us Your twt is from 2029 … 🥴

Stellt sich raus, dass ich den Frakturfreitag vergessen hab’.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Awww, so many nice sun shots. 💚

I should give river a try:

https://isaacfreund.com/software/river/

It brings back the old model from X11 where the window manager is a separate program/process.

https://borretti.me/article/no-man-is-an-island

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Folder of text files with auto-generated index by the webserver, yeah, that comes close. Like meillo’s blogs: https://marmaro.de/lue/ https://marmaro.de/apov/

@david@daiwei.me I use OpenBSD’s smtpd, which was super easy to set up. It gets a little bit more complicated these days because you also need a DKIM setup, so every outgoing mail goes from smtpd to dkimproxy and back to smtpd. And then dovecot for POP3/IMAP (has basically nothing to do with the other two).

I’m cheating a bit, though: I use config management on top, which means that all the UNIX users and mailboxes and directories are created by that. If you were to do that manually, it would be a huge pain.

Maybe I’ll write a blog post about this some day, just for fun. 🤔

JMAP? Never heard of it.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Your wish … is my … command … ? 🤣🤣🤣

Hrmpf.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas? Hier plenkt niemand!!1! 😱😱😱

#FrakturFreitag: Jemand hat Geburtstag und hier ist der Draft für die Karte. (Oder – wie beim letzten Mal – die tatsächliche Karte, wenn ich zu faul bin, das nochmal „sauber“ zu machen. 😝)

Das Geschenk ist ein Zeitungsabo, daher dieses äußerst kreative „Gedicht“.

Diesmal auf die Uhr geschaut: Gedauert hat das ~30 Minuten. Und weil ich es wagte, so lange dasselbe Bild auf meinem Monitor anzuzeigen – meine Buchstabenreferenz –, hab’ ich jetzt erstmal für werweißwielange ’ne tolle Image Retention.

Ich brauche einen neuen Monitor.

txt.sour.is is down, huh? 🤔

Haha, indeed:

1. Initial uptime: A bit over 1 minute.
   
2. Changing to serial console, running uptime again: It’s down to 7 seconds.
   
3. Changing back to the VGA console: It’s again down to 1 second.
   

This really doesn’t track the actual uptime, it just happens to “mostly work”. (Like a lot of things in DOS.)

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com I’m not a hardcore OS/2 fan, either, but it does spark a great deal of nostalgia for me. 😍 For example: https://movq.de/blog/postings/2024-12-25/0/POSTING-en.html

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

Crazy, who comes up with things like that?

I didn’t come up with it, but I was close, I guess. DOS is so small, you don’t have much of a choice but to search for “anything related to time”. There aren’t that many syscalls/functions. You’ll quickly notice that there’s no global tick counter. So what else is there? Hmm, “get the mtime of a file” is pretty much the only other time-related thing. And which file is “stable”, probably allocated just once at boot? Mark Aitchison tried to use NUL, which is a pretty good idea. Thinking about it in retrospect, stdin does indeed make more sense, though, because that object really does get allocated just once at “boot” and then it stays the same. That’s not guaranteed for NUL (although just as likely).

But, it is possible in DOS to move “the console” to a serial port:

I wonder what that does to my little uptime program. :-)

Today, I also learned that -R is an alias for -r in rm.

Ah, I remember that. Dug it up and saved it in the blog: -R is more portable/consistent: http://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-09-30/0/POSTING-en.html

@prologic@twtxt.net Oh gosh, that looks wonderful. 😍

Made a little program to print the system’s uptime on DOS, OS/2, and Windows NT:

https://movq.de/git/retrouptime/

(Release pending.)

This was pretty easy to do on Windows, a bit harder on OS/2 (because documentation is scarce), and quite the mess on DOS. DOS doesn’t explicitly keep track of the system’s uptime, so you have to resort to tricks like “give me the mtime of stdin”, which probably works … Yeah.

@prologic@twtxt.net Right, sorry!

It’s a video filmed by a person standing on a beach. The hero of this little movie is a guy on a stand-up paddle board: He’s out on the ocean and tries to reach his air mattress, which is floating on the ocean next to him. But it’s a cloudy and windy day, and he can’t quite reach it. So he keeps paddling and paddling, until he almost got it. Then, another gust of wind – the mattress is gone again. But he doesn’t give up! He keeps paddling, almost reaches it – and another gust of wind. This keeps going for quite a while. Eventually, he is so close to his air mattress that he jumps off his board and tries to truly grab the mattress. And he aaaaaaalllllmooooooooost got it! But then, of course, another big gust of wind and the mattress gets pushed far, far away. Probably gone for good. 🥲

Did I post this here already?

“A short film about hope”

https://movq.de/v/eb0675d4ce/a-short-film-about-hope.mp4

Source: https://social.tchncs.de/@grumpy_copi/117257509153287572

@prologic@twtxt.net Let’s hope there are no more … ahem … party poopers. 🤣

That was an interesting read about C:

https://pikuma.com/blog/c-integer-sizes-not-a-mistake

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Might be because the typical “German Fraktur” (this isn’t a thing) uses very unusual uppercase letters. And “k” is just weird. And “f” and “ſ” (long “s”) are very close together.

This is “Luther’sche Fraktur” from around 1708 (a photo from the book “Fraktur” by Albert Kapr), the book says this was one of the most popular ones:

I have lots of trouble deciphering those uppercase letters.

By the way, this is worth mentioning: Fraktur fonts are often associated with Nazi Germany, but did you know that the Nazis eventually banned these fonts in 1941?

Yeah. Typical Nazi stuff.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Coloring wasn’t too bad, I did it in Inkscape where I can easily move those rectangles around. 😅

Oh, and only 29 clients have requested the actual image:

29 movq.de/blog/postings/2026-09-25/0/bine-initial.png

Assuming that that’s an actual human being who’s interested in the content, then it’d be less than 1% of the hits that I get.

I’d estimate that ~90% of the traffic I get is some kind of non-human / non-browser thing.

Here are some numbers on the recent blog post:

3804 movq.de/blog/postings/2026-09-25/0/POSTING-en.html
 404 movq.de/blog/postings/2026-09-25/0/t/bine-initial.png.jpg

The HTML page is obviously the blog post itself. The image is the thumbnail of the “opener” image: That’s the thing that you’re pretty much guaranteed to see when you open the post in a browser.

But out of the 3800 hits on the HTML page, only 400 (~10%) are also requesting that image.

So … it’s ~90% noise, right?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks. 😅 I didn’t check the time, but I guess something between 15 and 30 minutes? 🤔

@david@daiwei.me The “e” in “tired” and the “a” in “that”. 🥴

🫩🫠 #FrakturFreitag