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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk · Jul 29, 2026

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@rl_dane@polymaths.social #Debian has caught up with that version of #ISC #BIND, as well. https://salsa.debian.org/dns-team/bind9/-/commit/cfc4bd23e8bd21508af8553d853a8974c0cce5f9?file_path=bin%2Ftools%2Fnsec3hash.c#7540f7456b991711c4c6b4efd41fc8b79d2c1174 But its source code repository won't be spotted as LLM-generated software by that WWW site that you are using, because unlike the comparatively diligent M. Zoulas of #NetBSD, Ondrej Sury (of ISC, who also commits directly to Debian) is not copying any of the change descriptions into Debian's source tree changelog, so there is no mention of the word 'Claude' in Debian. https://salsa.debian.org/dns-team/bind9/-/commits/debian%2F9.21/bin/tools/nsec3hash.c @bpl @jaypatelani@bsd.network @corvus@mapstodon.space @cmccullough@polymaths.social @netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org #AIslop

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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk · Jul 29, 2026

Replying to @rl_dane@polymaths.social

@rl_dane@polymaths.social Not as damning as one might think. That's a commit to external/ where Christos Zoulas is importing into NetBSD's mirror all of the changes made to the original ISC BIND in version 9.20.24, en bloc. M. Zoulas didn't use the LLM, and the LLM-generated code is only one of a whole slew of changes made to the BIND source tree in that version. The person who uses the LLMs is Michal Nowak who works for ISC in QA. https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/commit/e13302a6bc9b196564b5e7afe703fae24311ceeb #ISC has an explicitly pro-LLM stance on #BIND, and I wouldn't be surprised if #Kea and DHCP follow suit. https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/merge_requests/12363 https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#contributing-code There have been good reasons not to use ISC BIND for over a quarter of a century (monolithic software, runs with superuser privileges, multiple hats, lots of parsing). Alas, it is an expenditure of time and effort on the #NetBSD people's parts to switch to a non-LLM-generated DNS server software. But it is well past due. @bpl @jaypatelani@bsd.network @corvus@mapstodon.space @cmccullough@polymaths.social @netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org #AIslop

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Windspeaker.com @Windspeaker@mstdn.ca · Jun 29, 2026

“The company’s own estimate is six billion litres of #water each year… Alberta waived the environmental impact assessment. Human beings need water. Data centres should not be taking it from our own mouths.” #Indigenous #FirstNations #BillC37 #cdnpoli #abpoli #ISC https://www.windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/can-bill-c-37-deliver-real-authority-first-nations-over-water

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alip @alip@mastodon.online · Apr 05, 2026

News from #sydbox git: Starting next release, we're going to be signing binary releases with #OpenBSD signify rather than #GnuPG. To enable practical signing in #Exherbo #Gitlab CI, I wrote an #ISC licensed, pure portable #POSIX shell implementation of #OpenBSD signify. signify.sh has no external dependencies and runs with PATH=. It has unit tests embedded which may be run with --test option: https://gitlab.exherbo.org/sydbox/sydbox/-/raw/next/dev/signify.sh #exherbo #linux #security

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