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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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!
I am not on board with the graphic, whatever the heck it is.
https://www.openbsd.org/images/blowfishonbike-s.gif
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
“Back in my day we didn't have artificial intelligence, we had real stupidity - and we liked it.”
Before they were anti-AI edgelords, they were anti-VM edgelords.
Now they ship their own hypervisor in the base system.
It's not that they were anti VM, they just didn't think it was a proper security boundary.
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.
I suspect it is social commentary on the dangers of letting the machine do all your thinking for you.
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.
I would just like to say that the Simpsons Already Did It: https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Blinky
The theme this time is from The Simpsons, so yeah that is where they got it from. https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html
Wow, that’s a weird coincidence.
It's not a coincidence. The song is called "The Simps on AI". They're definitely referencing Blinky.
The art is credited to yvaneht nioj, another simpsons reference.
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
"Wireframe Puffy" T-shirt design with the 'human lips' was always my favorite. Hope they bring it back.
https://www.openbsd.org/tshirts.html
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.
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.
Credit is given to yvaneht nioj and clanker
To be fair, I'm reading it as satire of AI. So not liking it is kind of the point.
They're just showing humility. Give them a break.
that's the point
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.
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.
They come out approximately every May and October, and have for quite a while: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD#Releases
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?
No, the major number has no special significance to OpenBSD. 8.0 is just what comes after 7.9.
as linus torvalds puts it: big numbers confuse me, so the next kernel version will be 7.0
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?
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.