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 @as400 @mudala @VeroniqueB99 Understood. But I"m still curious about that claim (not made by you) that LLM slop has already made it to FreeBSD.
Eugene :freebsd: :emacslogo: (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image LOL, the first vibe-coded commit landed in the FreeBSD. The fun part â€” in this commit was changed literally one line in one file. And this required the use of LLM, LMAO?! :drgn_blush_giggle: :drgn_blush_giggle::drgn_blush_giggle: #FreeBSD #LLM

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@lattera @as400 @mudala @VeroniqueB99 well, i can verify that 6495dafd58b94a44fc9bc966ef47d6bc6916f5b9 exists in my local git checkout and does include "Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <[email protected]>".