Notes

look at this frickin thing

Indie app developers: do you localize your app's strings and if so, what service do you use for translation? They all seem to be using AI or are $999/month.

Also, have you found that having a localized app causes users to expect/demand support in those languages?

OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250(XY)

For #marchintosh I finally put my Macintosh away

I just realized I've committed changes to both /bin and /sbin this week

> Once the telnet connection opens, /bin/login tries to print the localized prompt but gettext [..] calls iconv_open() to parse the gconv-modules file in the directory referenced by the injected path before loading the shared object that turns cash ($) to trash (#).

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/02/24/1

i guess openbsd no longer wins the code golf for echo(1) :(

sry

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3290683/bloated-echo-command

https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/d2b25f5d22f25f55c67336d11899675cb1deeadf

https://vladimir.varank.in/notes/2026/02/freebsd-brcmfmac/

Claude taking a month to port a Linux driver was easier than just porting the OpenBSD driver patrick@ wrote like a decade ago?

https://github.com/openbsd/src/commits/master/sys/dev/ic/bwfm.c

moggin'

If you use @tailscale.com on OpenBSD, here is preliminary exit-node support to test:

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/pull/18784

i trust this is a card game of who can make the best awk one-liner

## Build Instructions

Run `claude "compile this"` and let it figure out what to do on your system.

Happy Liberation Day

sorry for the noise @tangled.org

big if true

Post from ventura telesis:

ok damn this BlueSCSI thing is crazy. what do you mean we got modern wireless networking on the PowerBook

the year is 2030

TLS certs have a max lifetime of 24 hours

all major browsers refuse to talk plaintext HTTP with no override

ISPs filter port 80 like port 25

a DDoS takes out LetsEncrypt for days, no one can renew their certs

the web dies, no one minds

gopher rises

I added some appropriate speakers to my iMac G4(K)

oh sure but when i ask the internet to cater to my 8mhz computer by serving markdown when i ask for it, nobody wants to do it

https://jcs.org/2021/01/06/plaintext#a-rant-about-gemini

Post from Ernie Smith:

This seems like a clever solution to the LLMs drowning websites in requests—auto-convert the content to markdown, which is what they’re doing anyway, and just give them the data.A good middle ground for folks who don’t mind their info getting plundered by bots.blog.cloudflare.com/markdown-for...