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Oh boy. I'll make the popcorn.

The latest would be that it's deprecated and will eventually be replaced: https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260415050032 I personally enable do hw.smt=1 when rebuilding base as it finishes about twice as fast, but I don't notice performance differences other than in compilation.

As another data point in comparing how different editors work, here's an old one by the author of the very undervalued joe editor. In general, there's nothing preventing screen editors from working properly and fast here, it's just not something they optimized for. If they did it at all, internal editor data structures tend to be quite simple these days, as virtual memory works for most cases. People had to get a lot more tricky on smaller devices (or they gave up early, cf. Windows Notepad). Heretically, I'd also like to say that a lot of files that aren't binary and huge, different tools often wouldn't point at e.g. sed, as you're running into the old "Now they have two problems." issue then.

In Japanese, though, possibly you'll be interested. I myself never tried, but there's LUNA 68k/88k emulator, nono introduced here. Upstream here (Japanese site).

See: https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260415050032

Linux kernel czar says AI bug reports aren't slop anymore • The Register (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, 2026-03-26) – interview Greg Kroah-Hartman can't explain the inflection point, but it's not slowing down or going away … "Something happened a month ago, and the world switched. Now we have real reports." It's not just Linux, he continued. … Two weeks later from SJVN: Project Glasswing and open source software: The good, the bad, and the ugly – opinion Just what FOSS developers need – a flood of AI-discovered vulnerabilities He quotes David Wheeler, director of Open Source Supply Chain Security at the Linux Foundation (LF), which supports Glasswing: … "Is there a risk of lock-in? Yes, that's always a risk. That said, I don't think the risk is as bad and we're working on ways to address this. … "… the new open source software cyber reasoning system (OSS-CRS) emerged from AIxCC and is a standard orchestration framework for building and running LLM-based autonomous bug-finding and bug-fixing systems." The second part was new to me. AIxCC: AI Cyber Challenge | DARPA Launched in 2023, the Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) is a two-year competition that brings together the best and brightest in AI and cybersecurity to safeguard the software critical to all Americans. … In the penultimate paragraph, SJVN agrees with the CFO of the Linux Foundation. There's real urgency.

See: https://pixelcluster.github.io/VRAM-Mgmt-fixed/

See: https://frame.work/be/en/blog/framework-next-gen-event-is-live-on-april-21

See: https://interfacecraft.online/blog/2026/desktop-phone-connected-to-freebsd-server/

See: https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/redundant-dhcp-server-and-dns-resolver-using-openbsd-and-freebsd/

Hi! I hope you are all doing well. This is just a quick introduction! I'm a Senior Cloud Consultant for a multinational corporation. First UNIX systems for me were SunOS, IRIX and AIX back in the day. I moved over to Linux very shortly in the late-90s and then OpenBSD. Around 2001 I moved over to FreeBSD and stayed. I use FreeBSD on all my servers and I used FreeBSD as a primary desktop at work from 2009 to 2013. I'm getting back into FreeBSD after a bit of a hiatus, let's see where it takes me. Kind regards....

See: https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260413055845 #ai

See: https://www.dwarmstrong.org/netbsd-encrypt-install/ src: https://fosstodon.org/@dwarmstrong/116392209156044836

See: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-7-features-changes https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Hardware-Errors-AMD-Zen-3 https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Linux-Libre-7.0 https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-kernel-7-0-release/

See: https://blog.hofstede.it/automating-freebsd-jails-with-cdist-zero-dependencies-inside-the-jail/