New video! - I finally try a Solaris derived OS!

#ILLUMIOS #unix #opensource #garyhtech

https://youtu.be/3WCYq6Y_Pkw?si=1loPcwU3VuNcRXlY

*The Register*:
“#Codeberg beset by #AI bots that now bypass Anubis tarpit”…
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/codeberg_beset_by_ai_bots/
… has *The Register*'s usual click-bait sensationalism title, but the article itself is excellent. I'm glad these attacks on @Codeberg are getting some press coverage. *The Register* asked me for comment; I include my quotes below, but definitely click-through the article — at least to thank *The Register* for covering this important issue that few would cover.
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#OpenSource #FOSS

Want to get more involved with FreeBSD?

There are so many ways to contribute — from testing and documentation to code, advocacy, and helping new users.

Check out our official guide on How to Contribute:
👉 https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/

You can also connect with the community on:

FreeBSD Forums: https://forums.freebsd.org/
FreeBSD Sub-Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/

And if you’d like to help sustain the Foundation's support of FreeBSD:

👉 https://freebsdfoundation.org/donate/

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #Community

New major update to the private, free and open source office suite! #LibreOffice 25.8 is now available, with:

📝 Navigator improvements in Writer
📊 Many new spreadsheet functions
🚀 Faster file loading

Learn more and download it: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/08/20/libreoffice-25-8/ #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware

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LibreOffice 25.8 banner, with "smarter, faster and more reliable"

https://lists.openssf.org/g/openssf-wg-securing-software-repos/message/16

There is a Software Bill of Materials researcher seeking people "with experience or insight into SBOM usage, policy, and implementation to participate in either a short survey or an optional follow-up interview." Recruiting through August 31st.

Independent #opensource #maintainers who find that SBOM compliance constitutes an unfunded mandate, you may be underrepresented in this sample, so consider participating and commenting.

From the FreeBSD Journal archives: ✉️ We Get Letters by Michael W. Lucas

In this edition Michael W. Lucas reflects on what it really means to build something “downstream” from FreeBSD — mixing hard-won lessons, humor, and a reminder that sometimes failure teaches more than success.

Read it here: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/downstreams/we-get-letters-3/

#FreeBSD #FreeBSDJournal #OpenSource #Community

TIL, wget2 is the successor of GNU Wget with much faster download speed due to usage of parallel connections and other such stuff. You can install wget using APT or DNF or package manager of your choice. But they have a web page too https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2

#opensource #gnu #linux

It's quite hard these days to just be "someone that can program" but not a "full time programer" as apparently you're always lacking a lot of knowledge for knowing where you'd even start to tamper with something.

In many cases even if you already by coincidence found the function you want to modify.

Do others that aren't full time programmers and wanting to fix/contribute to #opensource projects "on the side" (or for specific issues) feel the same? Or is this just me?

#developer #programmer

Oh another day another issue within an #opensource project for which my first thought was "it should be easy to just look at the source code, maybe add some debug output and figure out why it is misbehaving" just to be immediately followed up by "I don't even know where the main method is nor how the frameworks involved even remotely work" and "how does this stuff even compile, even without changes?"

and in this case in addition also a "where even is its source code?!?"

This case #Thunderbird

FreeBSD Foundation’s Alice Sowerby and Moin will be speaking at Open Source Summit Europe on August 26 in Amsterdam.

Date: August 26 | Amsterdam

Explore the schedule: https://bit.ly/3NXx5Zp
📌 Register here: https://bit.ly/3yD2c78

This discussion will highlight how data dashboards are helping open-source communities improve transparency, tooling, and decision-making.

Will you be at #OSSummit Europe? Let us know, we would love to connect.

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #OSSummit

List of free, open source and privacy respecting services and alternatives to privative services. https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy

#opensource

This photograph was composed less than 15 minutes ago to portray the heat sink which has now been installed on the Broadcom Wi-Fi integrated circuit

In a passive set up the heat sink does not do much, the temperature drops just with a couple of degrees and the order of two to 3° C

With a fan spinning air on the heat sink the temperature drop is significant

From my experience with electronics I know that heat sinks designed for Passive cooling have longer fins. For example the heat sink that I used to repair my National monochromatic television 12" when I was a kid, had very long fins and the heat sink was about as tall as my thumb {8.5cm}

That analog Integrated Circuit controlled almost everything in the television, which made the circuit board quite Compact and easily maintainable

#Electronics #SBC #ARM #Pie #Raspberry #GPIO #OpenSource #Temperature #Management #passive

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The photograph composed in 85F Warming Light, shows a Raspberry Pi5 board inside a red plastic case. The board is green with various components and labels visible. The central component is a large black chip with a white heatsink above it. There are four USB ports, two micro HDMI ports, and a microSD card slot. The board also features a GPIO header on the right side and a power connector on the left. The Raspberry Pi logo is visible in the center. The board is mounted in a red plastic case with visible screw holes and a spinning fan attached to the right side. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.141 Wh

There is a new Café in town. The illumOS Café

The news is wonderful, the concept interesting, the setup simple.

Want to learn more? Surf to this link

Thank you 💕 @stefano

#Networking #programming #OpenSource #FediVerse #decentralized #illumOS

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/08/18/introducing-the-illumos-cafe/

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The screencap displays a webpage titled "The illumos Cafe Project" with a dark background and white text. The content explains that the illumos Cafe is a project similar to the BSD Cafe, focusing on positivity and inclusivity. It aims to provide services running on illumos-based operating systems to demonstrate their reliability and resilience. The text emphasizes the importance of diversifying operating systems to improve the Internet's reliability and resilience, noting that the Internet was originally decentralized but has become a tool for big players. The section titled "Community and Philosophy" highlights the desire to connect and build relationships. The webpage's URL is "it-notes.dragas.net," and the page is viewed on a mobile device with a battery level of 80%. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.185 Wh

My friends, I'm so excited and happy to introduce a new project: the illumos Cafe!

The positive and constructive spirit of the BSD Cafe, created and maintained by all the friends who participated from day one in building a strong and friendly community, deserves to spread to other operating systems. Because there are other OSes that deserve attention, certainly more than they're getting right now.

Operating systems based on illumos (like SmartOS, OmniOS, Tribblix, OpenIndiana, etc.) are mature, stable, secure, and perfectly usable for a wide range of tasks. ZFS is native, zones are an excellent method for containerization, and bhyve and kvm coexist beautifully - and so much more, too much to list in a single post.

So from today, the illumos Cafe will stand alongside the BSD Cafe in creating a positive, respectful, and growth-oriented (but also relaxing!) environment, starting right here in the Fediverse with a Mastodon instance and a snac one.

I've written an introductory article about the project, including some technical details. I invite everyone interested to read it: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/08/18/introducing-the-illumos-cafe/

Choose your table, take a seat and enjoy your time at the illumos Cafe!

#SysAdmin #IT #BSDCafe #illumosCafe #Community #OpenSource #OSS #illumos #SmartOS #OpenIndiana #ZFS #bhyve #kvm #Fediverse #Mastodon #snac #ITNotes

History seems to (almost) repeat itself, so reprising my *2008* piece "Does anybody here remember Artie Eff?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/does_anybody_here_remember_artie_eff_2008.html #ooxml #xml #documentfoundation #documentformats #libreoffice #opensource #libresoftware #freesoftware #microsoft #office @tdforg

Finally PuTTY, a popular Windows and Unix terminal emulator, serial console, and network file transfer application has a new website. This is a good news. Now just optimized for SEO 😉 and we hope it will be #1 result on search engine.

https://putty.software/

#opensource

Getting a bit tired of simplistic “pay the maintainers” discourse when there is so much diversity in what constitutes #OpenSource and the complex tapestry of very different nuanced social relationships that it comprises. But also—and this is very important—pay the maintainers

Hey, Linux people: a LOT of folks are screaming off Windows right now.

Be. Kind. To. Them.

They don't know much yet, so they are going to ask really basic questions. If you're KIND, you might get some to give it a try and stick to it bc they know they can ask for help. If you're unkind, you're showing them using Linux will be *worse* than Windows. If you can't bring yourself to be kind, then SAY NOTHING. Let others pick up that slack.

#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Linux #Ubuntu #Debian #LinuxMint

#ThrowbackThursday

BastilleBSD started as an experiment.
Now it’s my default starting point for any serious project.

#BastilleBSD #FreeBSD #OpenSource

@bagder

I wish there was an open-source license that had an ‘if you are a company with over $<X> revenue, then you owe <Y>% of it to the project’ type of clause.

Wouldn't that mostly fix the problem? Is there such a license available now? #openSource

[ Addendum: I'm still compelled by this idea. But, here is an important differing point of view: https://thenewstack.io/open-source-is-too-important-to-dilute/ ]

Maybe with this I can finally stop explaining to people that Prusa has no #opensource credibility in #3dPrinting.

https://hackaday.com/2025/08/13/josef-prusa-warns-open-hardware-3d-printing-is-dead/

A new #blog post appears!

I discovered that the GNU D compiler has been broken on FreeBSD 14 for over a year and it seems no one noticed. Let's discover the issue and brainstorm some solutions to it.

A great case study for why operating system package maintainers matter.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250813.html

#dlang #dlanguage #freebsd #bsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #unix #gcc #gdc #gnu #compiler #compilers #d #linux #opensource #freesoftware

The BSDCan 2025 FreeBSD Developer Summit Core Team Update is now available to watch on YouTube.

This session offers a look at the ongoing work and discussions shaping FreeBSD’s direction, including:

-Planning for FreeBSD 15.0 and beyond
-Improving package delivery speeds via CDN
-Strengthening documentation and modernizing the wiki
-Ideas for smoother core team transitions and contributor engagement

Watch the full update here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ace0C_wXII&t=958s

#FreeBSD #BSDCan2025 #OpenSource

I've never hidden my admiration for #illumos-based systems. I have a few setups based on #OmniOS and #SmartOS, and they're solid as a rock. I like them both: OmniOS is more "malleable", while SmartOS is more of a hypervisor like #xcp-ng or #xen - meaning you install it on the host and delegate everything else to the zones.

I also love #FreeBSD jails, but zones sometimes cover use cases that jails can't (and vice versa). For example, imposing RAM limits in jails works, but it effectively "denies more ram" to a process when it requests more memory. The end user doesn't see this directly. On illumos, the user sees everything. I have some `lx` zones with Debian and Virtualmin, and users have never noticed that they aren't really on #Linux. A free or top will show only the assigned RAM.

And that's one of the biggest problems with open-source operating systems: they all have something good, and I always feel the urge to use them all! 🙂

#OpenSource #IT #SysAdmin

NEW VIDEO - How Easy is it to set up an OpenBSD Desktop for a FreeBSD user?

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Unix #opensource #garyhtech

https://youtu.be/ATnMPOg_k6E?si=vgbEYyOk_E3VovLw via @YouTube

NEW VIDEO - How Easy is it to set up an OpenBSD Desktop for a FreeBSD user?

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Unix #opensource #garyhtech

https://youtu.be/ATnMPOg_k6E?si=vgbEYyOk_E3VovLw via @YouTube

"Look around you. Do you feel like maybe it would be nice to be able to have relational databases in your nice safe DVCS? What about streaming releases? What about coders who might be scared about screwing up?..."

https://heidiwaterhouse.com/git-along-now/ by @wiredferret

Discussion also at https://lobste.rs/s/bguepr/desired_features_git_killer_next and https://www.metafilter.com/209936/toward-the-next-widely-used-distributed-version-control-system

And: as I discussed in https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2021/what-would-open-source-look-like-if-it-were-healthy-video-transcript/ , different project types likely need forges with different structures and features. True in #opensource and elsewhere.

🤖 You can now block many #AI websites & content from your search engine results!

✅ Step 1 - Add this free & open source #Adblocker to your #browser: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

✅ Step 2 - Open the setting "dashboard" of the plugin, go to "filter lists" > at the bottom "import"

✅ Step 3 - Add this list there & apply: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist/main/list.txt

🥳 Done 🥳

PS Opted for the oldschool #guide look, hope you like it too <3

#artificialintelligence #ublockorigin #tech #technology #foss #opensource #ki #web

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A visual guide on how to install the uBlock Origin (uBO) plugin to a browser and then add an AI Blocklist to Ublock's filters.

Looking for a new job? Got experience with C++? Join the #LibreOffice team: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/08/07/join-the-libreoffice-team-as-a-paid-developer-focusing-on-ui-with-initial-emphasis-on-macos-preferably-full-time-remote-m-f-d/ #foss #OpenSource

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Just a periodic reminder that Forgejo, the software that powers the open-source GitHub alternative Codeberg, has been working towards implementing federation.

https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/

Might be worth contributing, if you have the time and skills!

#forgejo #codeberg #opensource #github

If you are interested in making #OpenSource contributions, and the project that you are contributing to has gating CI checks, please do your best to ensure that *all* tests are passing whenever you submit something for review. Some of the steps may seem bureaucratic or unnecessary to you, but if they were put in place, they're there for *some* reason. A ready "X" on a PR is an indication that you're not really putting in the effort on your end to ensure your change is of acceptable quality.

As I am browsing through the settings in firefox I see the odd setting of using it's own DNS over https enabled. My settings should be copied over from the account I use and I know that I've **never** turned this setting on.

I'm now on the SBC Pi5 running MX Linux Pi respin.

My own dns config is perfectly fine and Im changing it back to my own local DNS.

Why is the firefox team doing this? IS there any protective benifit from having this setting on? Are they snooping my data?

The help file is here

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/dns-over-https?as=u&utm_source=inproduct#w_what-is-a-local-provider

#InfoSec #AskFediverse #firefox #DNS #https #port443 #settings #OpenSource

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