lot to love about #netbsd and missing surprisingly little.

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@lkundrak i'm p sure gnu find works there

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@lkundrak otherwise autoconf was for nothing

[mxk@hachyderm.io]

@poni @lkundrak was about to ask, but obviously fd-find officially supports FreeBSD and OpenBSD, but not netbsd.
From my experience with a certain bsd-like closed source OS I can say, using rust rewrites is a pretty good way to get sane cmdline utilities.

[lkundrak@metalhead.club]

@hipsterelectron gnu versions are in pkgsrc and i ended up with many unix aliases already, even

alias make=gmake
alias sed=gsed
alias awk=gawk

first is obvious of no fault of bsd, the second two i don't remember why any more (does bsd awk have gsub()??). i'm sure bsd versions are okay, blaming this on years on gnu

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@lkundrak you can also build them to use that g binary prefix

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@lkundrak blaming gnu always a good strategy although i'm kind of a gnu apologist

[lkundrak@metalhead.club]

@hipsterelectron it's making things portable*

*to osf/1 on alpha, not a perfectly fine future risc plaform with a perfectly standard modern c compiler

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@lkundrak i'm a HUGE autoconf apologist

[lkundrak@metalhead.club]

@hipsterelectron sorry to hear, hope you get better

[mathieu@fosstodon.org]

@lkundrak Haha I come from the BSD, and TIL that you can omit the path in gnu find xD.

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@lkundrak i will literally make fixes for things. i'm currently working on an improved help output including ~colors~

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@lkundrak i fear it may be terminal

[lkundrak@metalhead.club]

@mathieu omg do not get used to it, it's a trap!!

[lkundrak@metalhead.club]

@mathieu it's how gnu vendor locks you

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@lkundrak funniest joke i've ever made in my entire life

[lkundrak@metalhead.club]

@mathieu do you know research shows that if you learn to ride a reverse bike, your ability to steer a normal bike will get measurably slower

that is how using gnu impairs everybody's ability to use a normal computer

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@lkundrak
"si non confectus, non reficiat" -theo de vetinari

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@lkundrak
(yes, netbsd is the one that theo famously left, i know)

[lkundrak@metalhead.club]

@ozzelot the story i remember is that he left the same way kent left

[jmcneill@mstdn.ca]

@lkundrak I didn’t know “sort -h” was a thing! I always use “du -sk”