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0PHO - MFA saying no soup for me

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Okay, folks, gather 'round, because you are not going to believe this one. My friend who is working at NASA told me this confidential news , but i can finally spill the beans: NASA is officially running NetBSD.

Yeah, you heard that right. Turns out, when you need an OS that can literally run on a potato *and* survive the vacuum of space without a hiccup, you do not mess around. They have been working under wraps with their deep space division on something they are calling "AstroBSD."

Apparently, the Perseverance rover on Mars? Yeah, it is not just taking pretty pictures; it is crunching data with a custom NetBSD kernel.

This just proves what foundation has been saying forever: "Of course it runs NetBSD!" From your ancient router to a rover on another planet.

#NetBSD #NASA #AstroBSD #AprilFools #OpenSource #Portability #MarsRover #SpaceTech #GeekHumor

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Richard Penner Mar 23

@ra6bit @soatok And lo, the number 42 arrived with wit from a very clever man. And from then on, we agreed our random seed would be 42 so that we too might be clever men. And the API key shall be checked into the public repo lest we lose it in our sticky notes ....

#SecurityAntiPatterns #AntiPatterns #GeekHumor

Jochen Wolters Mar 3

This is exactly the kind of #GeekHumor that literally makes me chuckle out loud. Thanks @rafa! And thank you for a nifty little utility that revives that nostalgic vibe of good old Xeyes and its siblings-in-spirit. 🤓 😎