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NetBSD developer, Googler. I like trains.

Blog: https://bentsukun.ch
Github: https://github.com/bsiegert/

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2026-10-16 19:34:00 GMT

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I think what all these projects mean when they say "serious contributions only", is "please don't send us slop". The Go project is going through the same thing -- many of the core contributors use LLMs in their daily work, but they do not want contributors to blindly send them LLM output they do not understand.

2026-10-15 13:09:37 GMT

Considering taking the old Samsung Chromebook Pro, installing UEFI firmware on it and then either Linux or NetBSD.
Downsides: no way back (the device is AUE, so I cannot get a new recovery firmware), thus the device might be bricked. Also, I would need to open the device to remove the write protect screw.
Should I?

2026-10-06 19:33:01 GMT

Ice Cubes has been very crashy for me lately, so I am going to give Mona for Mastodon a try (on iOS). Anyone have tried it? If so, do you like the app?

2026-09-21 19:09:19 GMT

I just branched the pkgsrc-2026Q3 release. Announcement forthcoming.
I hope I did everything right this time.

2026-09-21 19:05:17 GMT

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This is what I should have done.

2026-09-21 18:59:01 GMT

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Yes. I took a detour via the north sea coast (which was lovely) but forgot my bag in the very first train of the day, when changing in Gent. Luckily, there were mostly clothes inside, no valuables.

2026-09-21 11:53:35 GMT

E-mail from SNCB:
"Le 14.09.2026, vous nous avez communiqué la perte de votre objet: Lost&Found Categorization - Found: Sacs/valises > Autres… > Autre marque.
Nous n’avons malheureusement pas encore retrouvé votre objet, mais nous continuons nos recherches."
Translation: I won't see my luggage again.

2026-09-16 20:18:12 GMT

Downloading a game on Steam. The download takes a while. When I come back to the PC, Windows has decided to go to sleep – in the middle of the download. Thanks, I guess.

2026-09-16 09:49:23 GMT

OH: "Practice safe snacking. Use a condiment."

2026-09-11 09:21:41 GMT

The #EuroBSDCon conference Wi-Fi does not allow SSH. Working is obviously impossible under such conditions.

2026-09-11 04:57:42 GMT

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Guten Morgen Köln!
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2026-09-11 04:15:41 GMT

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Eine gute und eine schlechte Nachricht zum NJ402. Die gute: ich konnte eine Stunde länger schlafen ...

2026-09-10 20:05:01 GMT

Kurz mit dem Velo an den Zürcher Hauptbahnhof, und los geht die wilde Fahrt!
Mein Schlafwagen ist Baujahr 2004, das ist schon mal besser als letztes Mal, wo es ein 60 Jahre älter ex-CIWL war.
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2026-09-10 15:43:07 GMT

4 Stunden bis zum Nachtzug nach Brüssel (nicht von European Sleeper).
Zeit anzufangen mit dem Packen.

2026-09-07 19:52:59 GMT

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You could use mksh by [@mirabilos](https://toot.mirbsd.org/@mirabilos ). It's under a BSD-like license and runs on a ton of OSes.

2026-09-06 10:21:59 GMT

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I used KDE 1 and 2 a lot, then moved away from it because I thought the Audi was too overloaded. The newer Plasma versions have done a great job to strip it down to essentials IMHO.

2026-09-06 09:49:09 GMT

I am back on KDE on my laptop, and suddenly I feel a lot more productive 🥰

2026-09-01 19:06:59 GMT

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Mayhe it's a "Schale", a Swiss Café au lait. But then, Mocha means that there's added chocolate? I don't know man.

2026-09-01 19:00:14 GMT

RE: https://mastodon.social/@EricAlper/117197203201477382
What the HELL is a "Swiss Mocha"?

2026-08-24 16:18:17 GMT

Anyway, the #golang #NetBSD #aarch64 builder now runs NetBSD 11 and Python 3.14!

2026-08-20 19:04:48 GMT

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Dismissing a whole open source project as soon as there is any AI code in it is overly zealous, in my opinion.

2026-08-20 08:55:35 GMT

Wenn dir die Tenebrae Sorgen machen, dann geh doch zum Autohändler und kauf dir einen Fiat Lux.

2026-08-12 19:47:58 GMT

#Eclipse
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2026-08-11 14:09:59 GMT

"Is the point of life merely to stockpile accomplishments? If that is what Silicon Valley believes, no wonder all the billionaires seem so unhappy all the time! They have traded experience for accomplishment, and cheated themselves out of their own lives in the process. They keep chasing more money and more power, because they think that will finally be enough — but as long as they do not experience things themselves, nothing will ever be enough."
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/977623/mark-zuckerberg-ai-manifesto-dim-vision

2026-08-09 17:58:10 GMT

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Giana Sisters!

2026-08-04 13:01:12 GMT

The quintessential Finnish #fika: Coffee, a sandwich and a Korvapuusti (cinnamon roll).
The best Korvapuusti in #Helsinki are at Café Succès, my friends told me. It's true! These are enormous and oh so fluffy.
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2026-08-02 14:42:30 GMT

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The tram museum in the former workshop of the Töölö depot is small but interesting and free :)
I learned that when the first Valmet trams were introduced, there were three proposed liveries: the classic green/gold plus blue/white (like in Zurich) and orange/gray (which later became the colors of the metro).
Also, lines only have numbers since about 1950. Before, too many users were illiterate, so they used colors instead.
#Finland #ratikka
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2026-07-29 18:14:46 GMT

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And still on, the eternal classic: the pub tram! Zurich has a fondue tram, so it is only fitting that Helsinki has a tram where you can have a beer.
#ratikka
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2026-07-29 18:12:46 GMT

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What is super cool though is that there is also a "transitional" livery on some of the Artic XL trams, with white fronts and the classic green/gold in the middle. Really well done in my opinion.
#ratikka
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2026-07-29 18:09:10 GMT

There is some new stuff in #Helsinki trams!
The old Valmet trams are still running, sometimes. I rode on one today! It was running as a line H (Historic?).
There were some tweaks to the network as every year, resulting in better connections.
The new Artic XL trams are running now! They follow the white/turquoise color scheme of the fast tram (line 15) instead of the classic green/gold though. They can go in both directions and have doors on both sides. The seats are yellow leather. They are nice and comfortable trams, but the windows are not aligned with the seats.
In the unified HSL color scheme, vehicles are white plus an accent color: blue (bus), orange (trunk bus line), turquoise (tram) or purple (commuter train).
#ratikka
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2026-07-07 15:53:16 GMT

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We're never going to release, are we

2026-05-26 17:23:14 GMT

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Palemoon?

2026-05-24 07:16:02 GMT

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As if Chromium ever had BSD support out of the box 🤣 And I have not forgotten how hard it was to get those patches for OpenBSD support into Firefox. They had an explicit policy of "we don't support minority platforms other than Windows, Mac and Linux".

2026-05-13 12:10:06 GMT

#NetBSD 11.0 RC4 just dropped!
"We found a few more issues to fix in RC4, and also updated a lot
of bundled third party code due to security issues, including
OpenSSH, OpenSSL, Postfix, bind, xz and more.
"We would love to release this state as 11.0 soonish and hope no big
fallout will be found in this RC."
https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-11.0_RC4/

2026-05-06 19:15:02 GMT

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There was this internship in 2001 where I replaced AIX on an obsolete RS/6000 with a hacked up Linux and ran a DNS server on it. That was all the experience I had with AIX.
The RS/6000 has a PowerPC 604e (PReP). At some point, I realized that the office printer *also* had a PPC 604e but a faster one 🤣

2026-05-06 19:10:23 GMT

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I feel vindicated for having stayed with #NetBSD for the last 15+ years.