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OpenBSD 8.0

137 points privong 3 hours ago 35 comments

k310 2 hours ago | parent

I am not on board with the graphic, whatever the heck it is.

https://www.openbsd.org/images/blowfishonbike-s.gif

Guestmodinfo 2 hours ago | parent

I really like OpenBSD. I have used it for years. I feel the folks there are very helpful and awesome but I also do not like that graphic.

samtheprogram 1 hour ago | parent

To be fair, I'm reading it as satire of AI. So not liking it is kind of the point.

somat 1 hour ago | parent

You are not supposed to, it is intended to represent(and probably is) a machine generated image.

I have not really formalized my thoughts on the matter, but it boils down to. It feels great to get the machine to generate a thing for you but it feels terrible to receive a thing from somebody that is machine generated.

The worse part is the paranoia, Now I am seeing "tells" of machine generated content, and it may or may not be. But I have already lost interest.

The real irony would be that it is a hand drawn image carefully animated to feel machine generated.

sroerick 1 hour ago | parent

Credit is given to yvaneht nioj and clanker

GalaxyNova 1 hour ago | parent

that's the point

jart 1 hour ago | parent

They're just showing humility. Give them a break.

rektlessness 2 hours ago | parent

Forget the artwork and check out the accompanying song and lyrics for the new release. I think it's one of the funnier ones so far. https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#80

Bankq 1 hour ago | parent

“Back in my day we didn't have artificial intelligence, we had real stupidity - and we liked it.”

somat 1 hour ago | parent

I suspect it is social commentary on the dangers of letting the machine do all your thinking for you.

exhilaration 1 hour ago | parent

I would just like to say that the Simpsons Already Did It: https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Blinky

bentley 1 hour ago | parent

Wow, that’s a weird coincidence.

GeorgeWBasic 51 minutes ago | parent

It's not a coincidence. The song is called "The Simps on AI". They're definitely referencing Blinky.

messe 37 minutes ago | parent

The art is credited to yvaneht nioj, another simpsons reference.

zote 35 minutes ago | parent

The theme this time is from The Simpsons, so yeah that is where they got it from. https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html

colesantiago 1 hour ago | parent

And so it begins.

SlopenBSD.

Disappointing OpenBSD is and all of software is descending into slop.

Don't care if it is satire or not.

jamal-kumar 1 hour ago | parent

Puffy's always looked kind of weird. I remember when they gave the damn fish human lips a few times and it always put me off

rektlessness 52 minutes ago | parent

"Wireframe Puffy" T-shirt design with the 'human lips' was always my favorite. Hope they bring it back.

https://www.openbsd.org/tshirts.html

sippingabonedry 1 hour ago | parent

Before they were anti-AI edgelords, they were anti-VM edgelords.

Now they ship their own hypervisor in the base system.

bentley 1 hour ago | parent

I don’t think the theme is “anti‐AI.” I think what it’s trying to express is something along the lines of “take responsibility for your code,” where one’s code is the code one unleashes upon the world.

But that’s just my interpretation.

QwenGlazer9000 43 minutes ago | parent

It's not that they were anti VM, they just didn't think it was a proper security boundary.

Cordiali 1 hour ago | parent

It's a reference to your basic 'Baton Roue' meme.

I assume it's meant to represent the perspective of pro-AI people, but it's ambiguous.

benrutter 18 minutes ago | parent

This is an amazing image, I am fully on board with whatever it is.

Is the animation comically slow for anyone else?

jeffrallen 15 minutes ago | parent

[delayed]

zdw 2 hours ago | parent

In recent past releases there was a noticeable improvement to SMP related networking bits.

Does anyone have benchmarks between 8.0 and previous releases in that department?

gucci-on-fleek 1 hour ago | parent

Does the version number going from v7.X->v8.0 mean that this is a larger update than v7.8->v7.9, or does the numbering just automatically roll over to the next major version when it reaches vX.9?

himata4113 1 hour ago | parent

as linus torvalds puts it: big numbers confuse me, so the next kernel version will be 7.0

synack 1 hour ago | parent

No, the major number has no special significance to OpenBSD. 8.0 is just what comes after 7.9.

MycroftJones 53 minutes ago | parent

When I read the Changelog I had to check if it was April Fools day. Is this a real OpenBSD release? Feels early. Also, many of those changes don't sound like real OpenBSD changes.

kstrauser 46 minutes ago | parent

They come out approximately every May and October, and have for quite a while: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD#Releases

jan_m_savage 47 minutes ago | parent

like a virus, slop will infect the techsphere, and it will become a real pain in the bollocks to siftt thru the mountains of semi-slop just to get to the real, reliable and human-made stuff.

idatum 47 minutes ago | parent

I have a Lenovo laptop running OpenBSD 8.0.

What I really appreciate about it is I started with OpenBSD 7.6. Using sysupgrade, I went through every release (and syspatch) and just now successfully upgraded to 8.0. It still works great!

kstrauser 37 minutes ago | parent

Anyone managed to get this running on a 2018 (Intel) Mac Mini? I tried 7.8 or 7.9, I forget which, not long ago and was flummoxed.