Post #2766035

2026-05-12 10:17 UTC

@kaidenshi@exquisite.social FWIW, there are multiple alternatives to tmux, and I did a round-up of them a year ago: https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/06/24/tiling-terminal-multiplexers-for-the-console-connoisseur/283658 Of them all, `dvtm` is much smaller and more minimal than tmux, and might be a suitable replacement. https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/

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@kaidenshi@exquisite.social 2026-05-12 11:13

@lproven@social.vivaldi.net Thanks, I'm aware, and when I'm SSH'd into a server I usually use screen since it's damn near universal. This isn't about tmux itself though, it's about the silence on the part of the OpenBSD leadership on the move to slopcoding in a project they have in base. I feel it's a serious issue especially regarding copyright and licenses; there's no way to guarantee that the code used by the LLM in this commit is not from a GPL'd or otherwise problematic source. Even putting my own misgivings about vibecoding and "AI" aside, the license issue alone should be enough to ask the tmux devs to revert this commit, or else drop the tmux project from base entirely in favor of something that isn't potentially polluting OpenBSD with code of questionable origin.

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