It's not getting enough attention that the Trump administration has banned the sale of ALL WiFi routers made outside of the US. It's one of the first steps required to control Americans' use of the Internet, to spy on what you're doing online, to suppress information they don't want you to see and to even turn off the Internet at their discretion.

This is looking increasingly like a trap.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/trump-fcc-prohibits-import-and-sale-of-new-wi-fi-routers-made-outside-us/

FCC imposes sweeping ban on foreign-made routers, affecting all new models

Trump admin to decide which router makers get exemptions from FCC import ban.

Ars Technica

@VeroniqueB99
One might run OpenBSD / FreeBSD / NetBSD and free himself. Or maybe use pfsense as a commercial product you can trust.

#openbsd #freeb #netbsd #pfsense

@mudala @VeroniqueB99

#freebsd is already accepting LLM slop ...

@as400 @mudala @VeroniqueB99 Last I knew, #FreeBSD adopted an official policy rejecting AI/LLM patch submissions. They announced that policy last year at the FreeBSD Developer Summit.

Can you provide a git commit hash or a link to LLM slop in FreeBSD?

@lattera @as400 @mudala @VeroniqueB99 there is no such policy. core is currently considering what our LLM policy should be, they did not announce it yet.

@lw @as400 @mudala @VeroniqueB99 I remember seeing #FreeBSD branded slides and a presentation at #BSDCan last year regarding LLM/AI use in FreeBSD source.

Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the slides, but I'm sure they do exist.

@lattera @as400 @mudala @VeroniqueB99 there is no such policy. there was some sort of pre-announcement of "we are working on a policy" which bad news organisations like heise.de reported as "FreeBSD rejects LLM code contributions".

@lw @as400 @mudala @VeroniqueB99 It's possible I might be misremembering or misunderstanding the presentation.

If I get some spare time this weekend, I'll dig deeper for that presentation.

@lattera @as400 @mudala @VeroniqueB99 i don't doubt your claim there was some sort of presentation related to this (i would be interested to know the details, actually) but as a FreeBSD committer, i can tell you, 100% for sure, we do not have a policy forbidding LLM-assisted commits.
@lw @lattera @as400 @VeroniqueB99
Is it even possible to review all code? How can core take care of all this? It would be a tremendous burden I think.
@mudala @lw @as400 @VeroniqueB99 I generally pay attention to the #FreeBSD src tree commit-by-commit. I've found a few vulnerabilities that way. I'm aware of at least three threat actors at the nation state level that do the same. :-)

@mudala

core doesn't review all code. if they adopted an anti-LLM policy, it would be something akin to a "don't commit code you plagiarised from a commercial project" policy, i.e. we can't prove it, but it's bad and please don't do it... and if you do, we'll probably revoke your commit bit.

@lattera @as400 @VeroniqueB99

@lw @lattera @as400 @VeroniqueB99

Hiding from the world <--- Me like

(src: https://www.tierwelt.ch)

@mudala @lattera @as400 @VeroniqueB99 uhh i'm sorry did you just send me a picture of a weird three-legged butt? i am so confused :-d