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Post #3851458

2026-07-16 05:49 UTC

RE: https://floss.social/@doctormo/116927739358578223 So serious question... What is #OpenBSD's take on AI? (in general and as a whole, i imagine individual contributors have their own stances of course). I'm running out of places to run to (and I'm already standing and fighting as much as I am able).

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  • @0x09@hachyderm.io 2026-07-16 05:52

    @tinker@infosec.exchange I haven’t seen an official statement about AI code generation. I can’t imagine any of the openbsd devs wanting to use that stuff—they care about quality, even when they have to choose it over practicality.

    Open ##3851640

  • @tinker@infosec.exchange 2026-07-16 06:16

    As pointed out by awesome folks in the thread and as I'm looking things up in my half awake state of mind in the middle of the night... - OpenBSD doesn't really use systemd - It has an awesome approach to development - I can run Bash on it (I live in Bash) - Most of my common pentest tools run on it, often maintain in native packages - Most of my common household tools run on it (looking up how many are maintained in packages) - I can run my favorite Desktop Environments in it. I guess the last question would be what's the state of OpenBSD gaming and is this the year of OpenBSD Desktop?! 😂 (No, seriously, can I run Steam in OpenBSD? Is there Proton or Proton-like emulation / compatibility layer for running Windows games in OpenBSD?!?!?!) #openbsd

    Open ##3852065

  • @syhr@mastodon.art 2026-07-16 06:48

    @tinker@infosec.exchange OpenBSD has a permissive AI policy and condones AI ingestion: https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware#bsd-based HyperbolaBSD and MirBSD have anti-AI policies. NetBSD allows core maintainers to sign off on LLM generated code, but to date they have not yet.

    Open ##3852864

  • @RussSharek@mastodon.art 2026-07-16 08:05

    @tinker@infosec.exchange Openbsd has not made a formal policy. There was some chatter about it on the -misc list, but no formal statement made. It's been a frustration for those of us already running #openbsd who wanted a safe home from the slop-pocalypse. That said, it's a terrific os. I daily drive it on several machines, including my laptop. #runbsd tagged, in hopes of summoning the fanbase.

    Open ##3856852