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@thorpej I took a picture.

I’ve got to figure out how to make high density floppy images work properly on the smaller 32K SRAM AT32F415 based Gotek.

#NetBSD #pkgsrc 2026Q2 is now fully underway.

There’s no easy way to move a kernel from NetBSD to an AmigaOS partition, so I had to xz it, split it, copy it over using MS-DOS disk images using a Gotek with FlashFloppy, then join and xz -d on the Amiga side.

#m68k is really taking off! The virt68k port that @thorpej has made is nothing short of amazing. It can now compile practically anything in a VM with 3 gigs of memory and 4 gigs of swap, faster than a real m68060.

This lets us compile large packages that weren’t previously possible or that required a lot of manual tweaking, like llvm-21.1.8, clang-21.1.8, webkit-gtk-2.36.8nb29.

More to come!

The last two weeks of changes have brought us many new sensor drivers for the Sun Ultra 45, and a new audio driver for the SGI Iris Indigo.

Also, initial support for the PowerPC 440 core and 460EX SoC, used on ACube Systems embedded hardware.

In less retro news, a ~1% performance for some ARM platforms. The -11 release is pending on security issues in OpenSSL, expat, and unbound, since our day keeps getting ruined.

pkgsrc-2026Q2 will be coming soon!

My brain saw this and processed it as “time and money”.

Did some yak shaving today.

I want to use a USB to TTL serial adapter to let one Rasbperry Pi handle the serial console of another Raspberry Pi. But I’m using my USB to TTL serial adapter to talk to my Plextor PX-EH25L (SuperH machine) because the IDE disk in it died.

I found a couple of USB / Firewire IDE enclosures, but couldn’t find the PSUs. I tried an old AMD motherboard with IDE (and floppy!), but that POSTed once and never again.

I looked everywhere for something with IDE. My Amigas are busy, so I decided to set up a Cobalt Raq (MIPS). In order to use that to install NetBSD to an IDE disk for the Plextor, I first had to install NetBSD on it. However, NetBSD’s infrastructure was down, so I had to find a copy of the NetBSD Cobalt restore CD ISO elsewhere.

But I finally got #NetBSD installed on the Cobalt, which allowed me to install NetBSD for SuperH on the IDE disk for the Plextor, which freed up the USB to TTL serial for the Raspberry Pis, which I’m finally setting up now :)

SuperH binary pkgsrc building will resume soon!

systemd is so laughably bloated that it's almost a parody at this point.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-261-rc1

My first job was building out the first mega-datacenters. 2005-2007, I was a datacenter assistant monkey working from Google working somewhere in the Chicago suburbs, swapping out hard drives and ram and writing shell scripts, as myself and my friends unknowingly laid down the prototype for the kinds of datacenters we all see today.

And so it is with some significant expertise that I say:

Fuck datacenters. Datacenters are an anti-pattern.

Working in that environment, seeing as Google rolled out the idea of "cloud computing" meaning "you have no involvement or agency in your computing because we do it for you" radicalized me for much of the work of my career.

It was one thing to run a datacenter to index the world's public web information. I understood that, it made sense.

But watching as Google and Apple co-developed the idea that computers, which I cared about, got abstracted into toys and jewelry that had all your key computing done in a way you had no agency over... where I saw firsthand the kinds of churn of resources necessary to keep these things going, it made me want to fight for a different computing future.

RE: https://masto.deoan.org/@neurovagrant/116569138539026520

If you go through Google for 'booter services' or booters (DDoS), almost all of them are Cloudflare customers - you literally use Cloudflare to reach their service to order a DDoS, which businesses then pay Cloudflare to protect against.

Part of the reason I left my prior employer is the UK side of the business purchased Cloudflare, so I said yep, I'm out

If anybody is wondering- I've talked to CF before, I gave them a list of the crime groups using their service.. they kept them as customers.

Cloudflare continues to push the worst shit combination of centralization of the internet and genAI bullshit but congratulations, they've hit a new combo so bad I didn't even consider it possible https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/

That's right! Your agents can now provision servers, spend money, and do everything for you!

You don't even need to hand them a credit card!

What's that? Why's that?

Because they've teamed up with Stripe! Why yes, if you've signed up with Stripe Atlas (don't "shrug" this Atlas off, friends!), which is Stripe's "launch a startup for you" company-to-make-companies, they'll give you $100k of FREE credits!!!

That first hit! It's free! Hey!

I bet all the future hits will be too, right? And uh, who will be left holding that bill after you've established this nice dependency?

Vibe coding? That's nothing! Time to go all in on Vibe Founding!

I’d rather have S100 than $100.

default values for 68010 come directly from sun2, but will be suitable for any additional 68010 systems that may appear in the future.

This is from yesterday’s commit from @thorpej.

This is part of NetBSD’s magic - the possibility of things that people would be afraid to discuss in other projects.

It makes me wonder whether NetBSD could show up on Adrian’s Plexus P/20, should the 8 meg RAM card be made to work :)