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In early days of Internet for "consumers", the resources allowed were far more limited, and connections were "dial-up" basis. So most "near-open" solution was to connect to more ancient BBS services via telnet access points (i.e., NIFTY serve in Japan which [I heared] is Compu-serve alike), but not all BBS services that anyone can subscribe (with or without fee) provided such an connections. So open communities for open source codes were difficult to start up.

But now, we have excellent services like here.

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).

Note that FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE and later has /lib/libsys.so.7 which is syscalls parts splitted out from /lib/libc.so.7 (and libc depends on libsys).
It would help languages other than C to implement language-specific base libraries independent from whole libc.

Maybe not so useful for many, but some screen editors are not good at handling looooong single line, even if the whole bunch of file size is small.

An example of this situation would be copy (from terminal emulator) and paste to editor window the output from poudriere to see specific ports are included in skipped (or succeeded) ones on building a large number of ports. Built, ignored, failed, skipped ports has single output line respectively.

In this specific cases, editors/leafpad (and IIRC, editors/pluma, too) locks up on horizontal scrolling (in case turned over at right end of window, vertical, too) or searching. devel/geany works fine.
Just examples I've tried before.

It would be nice if...

• Configurable for the instance the user (i.e., me) belong to.
• Automagically converted the URL to use the above, and if the account of the link target is outside the configured instance, convert to double "@" form.

For example, I imagine if anyone belonging to @bsd.cafe pastes some URL from the tab that mastodon client is running, it would be something like ```
https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@User/11111

and if anyone belonging to @bsd.netowork attempts to open the toot via the link, converted to

https://mastodon.bsd.netowork/@User@bsd.cafe/11111

with input to indicate the conversion is wanted or not on click.
Maybe annoying to implement, though.

Basically, Quarterly, the default for *-RELEASE, gets security upgrades, build fixes and fixes for anything stopped working to work again only.

And Quarterly branches from main (aka latest) every quarter (early Jan., Apr., Jul. and Oct.).

Next one (2026Q2) would be branched in early April (soonish).

If you want to use anything new but running supported *-RELEASE, you need to manually switch default pkg repo to latest.

But as it means there could be more breakages on latest, (re-)read Chapter 4 of the handbook, especially Chapter 4.4.2, before trying and decide whether to switch or not.

Thanks for this new place to sit and discuss!
But the opening date was a bit unfortunate, first thought it's April Fools' joke.