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A Marathi AI researcher was super excited when his grandmother visited him. AGI is here
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1/ We have a very poor understanding of privilege in India. This has far-reaching effects on the products we design and build. I am writing this in English. You are able to read it. Congrats - we are both privileged.
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pd@ modified usr.sbin/vm*: vmd: start vms defined in vm.conf in a staggered fashion This addresses 'thundering herd' problem when a lot of vms are configured in vm.conf. A lot of vms booting in parallel can overload the host and also mess up tsc calibration in openbsd guests a...
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Pratik Vyas retweeted
(ERRATA) ld .so may fail to remove the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable for set-user-ID and set-group-ID executables in low memory conditions. openbsd.org/errata66.html
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Pratik Vyas retweeted
On our platform, we have 30M monthly traffic 1.4M MAUs 80% Monthly Retention Yet ain't nobody got funds for us. Sincerely, Dadar Railway Station #mumbai #localtrain
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Just got the console output working on FreeBSD EC2 i3.metal instances. The problem which blocked me for 8 months? Turns out that there's a bug in the ACPI SPCR table on that hardware. (SerialPort.AccessSize is set to 0, meaning "undefined". It should be set to 1.)
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#OpenBSD is not a main-floor operating system. 😂🤣 marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=1…
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Out with the old ftp(1), in with the new ftp(1)! Thanks to kmos@ and sunil@ ☺️ marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=1…
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pd@ modified a few things: vmm: add a x86 page table walker Add a first cut of x86 page table walker to vmd(8) and vmm(4). This function is not used right now but is a building block for future features like HPET, OUTSB and INSB emulation, nested virtualisation support, etc. W...
#OpenBSD 6.5 artwork by "Hans Tseng, Efrain Farias, and Natasha Allegri." nationalpost.com/news/world/…
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#OpenBSD vmd(8) gained support for the qcow2 (QEMU) disk image format, from Ori Bernstein and Carlos Cardenas (ccardenas@): marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=1…
ccardenas@ changed usr.sbin/vm*: Add initial qcow2 image support. Users are able to declare disk images as 'raw' or 'qcow2' using either vmctl and vm.conf. The default disk image format is 'raw' if not specified. Examples of using disk format: vmctl start bsd -Lc -r cd64.iso -...
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#OpenBSD #vmm/vmd(8) should now work much better on certain AMD machines with SVM, thanks to work by Pratik Vyas (pd@)! 😎 marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=1… nitter.cf/OpenBSD_src/status/986…
pd@ modified sys/arch/amd64: vmm: Fix interrupt window exiting for AMD / SVM * define V_IGN_TPR (ignore virtual TPR) * set V_IGN_TPR while configuring window exiting (was missed in one location along with setting of the intr vector) This should fix unresponsive network / conso...
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Pratik Vyas retweeted
Final month for the #OpenBSD foundation to achieve their 2017 fund-raising goal. For those that have donated, thanks. For those that haven't, please consider donating. Your donations help fund important development efforts! openbsdfoundation.org/campai…
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CentOS7 on #OpenBSD vmm(4). Network still has some issues but it successfully installed. CentOS Linux 7 (Core) Kernel 3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64 on an x86_64 localhost login:
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The #OpenBSD foundation is only $30K shy of its 2017 fundraising campaign goal! December is next month.. openbsdfoundation.org/campai… openbsdfoundation.org/donati…