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OpenBSD Leftovers
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Miod Vallat ☛ The story of Propolice
As you may remember, during a good 15 years, every OpenBSD release came with one or sometimes a few songs or musical pieces. If you have been enjoying these songs, you might remember a line, near the beginning of the 5.7 song, ``Source fish'', which says: ``Got the Propolice in the GCC''.
Come to think of it, while old-timers will immediately recognize what the lyrics are referring to, the name ``Propolice'' has slowly fallen into oblivion, and I wouldn't be surprised if many people, nowadays, do not have a clue about this.
Allow me to fill the gaps.
Behold, the story of Propolice.
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Undeadly ☛ The story of Propolice, the OpenBSD stack protector
In a fascinating retrospective titled The story of Propolice, longtime OpenBSD developer Miod Vallat (miod@) tells the story of the early stack protection work on OpenBSD.
This is also part of the early history of OpenBSD development, when Miod relates that the project
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Brad Taunt ☛ Thoughts on Technological Purity
I slowly started moving over some of my devices piece-by-piece. Since I use an iPhone, returning to the M2 MacBook Air (which still is an incredible feat of hardware/software design) for my personal computing device just made sense. Apple is far from a perfect company, but their ecosystem between iOS and macOS is objectively solid.
My website and projects were moved away from my OpenBSD VPS back over to NearlyFreeSpeech. I explain the main reasoning for this in my other post: What Happens After I’m Gone? The Future of the Online Me, if you’re interested. In a nutshell, ease-of-use, future-proofing my online presence (as much as one can) and better productivity won out.