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OpenBSD, the computer appliance maker's secret weapon
Between our ESP32 prokaryotic organisms and our 24/7 Internet-enabled megafauna servers, there exists a vast and loosely-defined ecosystem of things the B2B world likes to call computer appliances. Picture a bespoke Pi 4 packaged up neatly with some Python scripts, a little fancy plastic embossing, and maybe a well-guarded id_ed25519.pub in case you end up in hot water during the (long - very long, stable cash flow for generations long) maintenance contract, and you’re in the ballpark.
Between our ESP32 prokaryotic organisms and our 24/7 Internet-enabled megafauna servers, there exists a vast and loosely-defined ecosystem of things the B2B world likes to call computer appliances. You can’t feed your data into Grafana, but you can tail -f /var/log/syslog and make a tidy profit off of your long-gestating Bash/Perl scripting skills. And for reasons of security: While having the box not physically connected to the Internet creates an activation energy to doing something nasty with them that 99.9% of ne’er-do-wells will ignore, the remaining 0.1% are likely to be really motivated to want to do this.
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