Post #4849203 · Elektrine

2026-09-25 16:17 UTC

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/117184991521312864 There's no new "life with NetBSD" report due to my semi ongoing health issues, so I'm going to boost the previous one. I'm thinking, when I have time and energy, about a personal project related to surviving in the era of collapse of personal computing. Likely it'll be just a blog about making things cozy for me and my partner, where we would be exploring topics like: building offline-only Debian workstation based off old-stable, and potentially fetching some security fixes from upstreammaking NetBSD a simple desktop OS with minimum slop/no AI-tainted packages coming from upstream some minimal risk evaluation for software we use in terms of "will it bitrot, will it be taken over by fash"exploring alternative OSes more: not just BSD, but Haiku, Redox, FreeDOScollection of links to cool human-made projects etc etc This is a gigantic project that I feel like I have to do for my own sanity. It'll take a long time to even get started.

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@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt 2026-09-25 16:24

While I'm still feeling meh, I want to at least call your attention to some projects that are worth highlighting: cproc C compiler https://sr.ht/~mcf/cproc/ Did you know that GCC allows fully LLM generated tests and some amount of LLM code in codegen? Did you know that LLVM allows even more? That tinycc main branch is free for all with vibe code? That author of chibicc is now full on in vibe coding, and even vintage pcc, watcom and tack might be endangered to slop? It's all very, very sad and scary. Cproc is the only C compiler that I know of that is explicitly not allowing LLM output in its code. It is reasonably mature, as it can compile a Linux distribution called oasis, and it is fairly portable - e.g. I had very little problems of building simple programs with it on NetBSD amd64 - but it is not a drop in replacement for GCC. (I forgot 9front's compiler, it's fine too, but it's not the C flavour I know) 🧵 Continues

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