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While this article is about OpenBSD's floppy support, if you already had OpenBSD on the machine and working networking, upgrading it without any external devices is as easy as:

    ftp -o /bsd.rd https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.7/i386/bsd.rd

Then reboot and at the boot> prompt, just type "bsd.rd".

On 6.6 and newer, just type sysupgrade and that's it.

Seems like the FTC or some other government agency could save a lot of people a lot of heartache with a PSA targeted at elderly people. Commercials during daytime TV basically saying no one will ever legitimately call you and ask you to buy gift cards as a method of payment.

I think we're supposed to call them "allowlists" now.

I've tried Haiku a few times and liked it, but it feels like the beta label has been around forever and is not doing them any favors. It's 2020, you're not publishing software as a big-box release in stores, just cut a release already and then keep iterating!

From Wikipedia:

It wasn't until September, 2009 that Haiku reached its first milestone with the release of Haiku R1/Alpha 1. Then in November, 2012 the R1/Alpha 4.1 was released, while work continued on nightly builds.[8] On September 28, 2018, the Haiku R1/Beta 1 was released.[9] On June 9, 2020, Haiku R1/Beta 2 was released.

Almost 11 years and it's still not out of beta?!

Google is king of NIH.

So one hack that forks a project and just changes the name on everything to call it their own, talking about a browser fork that did the same thing. Do these people actually contribute any useful code?

Seems like having to use a bunch of popular patches is counter to the author's other praises about how simple and minimal the software is. Why doesn't upstream integrate them and let everyone use them without having to patch?

Which of the hundreds of Linux distributions that have free/volunteer resources split amongst them do you run?