Hey #FreeBSD folks! 🐡

I recently, as of yesterday, installed FreeBSD on my ThinkPad E14 Gen 4, and will document my journey coming from Debian GNU/Linux over to something that is BSD.

I’ve had some knowledge of FreeBSD from past interactions here on Mastodon, as well as from YouTube and other social media platforms. My ThinkPad also has two ssd drives, so I decided to wipe one of them and install FreeBSD, and using it as my daily driver.

I used to be on kolektiva.social a while back. Not sure how long I’ll stick around on this one either, but I came across bsd.cafe while reading through some FreeBSD documentation and figured I’d join.

Feel free to boost me if you remember me, or not, no worries!

Also, here are some relevant and useful links to check out:

https://www.freebsd.org/
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/

#BSD #OpenBSD #GhostBSD #Unix #Linux #Midtsveen

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Screenshot of the LXQt desktop environment with a fullscreen terminal window displaying the output of fastfetch, a command-line utility that shows system information such as the operating system, hardware, kernel, and desktop environment.

Hi #FreeBSD, how’s development going on the MediaTek MT7921 Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) driver? Is there currently any progress toward getting it supported?

#Wifi #Unix #BSD #OpenBSD #Linux #MediaTek #MT7921

Slackware AArch64 world rebuild ongoing, across 76 cores.

#slackware #linux

WebGPU Benchmark Report mesure les capacités brutes de la carte graphique directement dans le navigateur, sans installation : bande passante mémoire, FLOPS fp32/fp16/int8 et autres métriques bas niveau, pratique pour comparer des devices sans profiler natif. ⬇️
https://web3dsurvey.com/benchmark

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Sing-song encode des clés hexadécimales en syllabes prononçables, genre kalo-tadu-komu-tigi au lieu de 51ac0759fc4d, pour les dicter au téléphone sans erreur. 64 syllabes CV, déterministe, préfixes communs préservés entre valeurs proches. ⬇️
https://blog.vrypan.net/2026/08/19/260819-sing-song/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Un article de blog présentant "Sing-song", une méthode pour convertir des nombres hexadécimaux longs en chaînes de caractères mémorables et chantonnables, comme transformer 51ac0759fc4d en kalo-tadu-komu-tigi.

Hunk : un diff viewer terminal pensé pour la review de changesets générés par des agents IA. Stream multi-fichiers, annotations inline du raisonnement de l'agent, coloration syntaxique, dizaines de thèmes, extensions en TypeScript, intégration Git et Jujutsu. ⬇️
https://www.hunk.dev/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟵/𝟬𝟳 (Valuable News - 2026/09/07) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/09/07/valuable-news-2026-09-07/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟵/𝟬𝟳 (Valuable News - 2026/09/07) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/09/07/valuable-news-2026-09-07/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

Que faire quand le langage qu'on adore a un problème de fascisme : DHH, créateur de Rails, tient des propos fascistes sur Twitter et détient toujours la marque. Les forks restent marginaux, Hanami ne convainc pas, aucun langage ne remplace vraiment Ruby. ⬇️
https://codeandcake.dev/posts/2026-09-03-what-do-you-do

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Capture d'écran d'un article de blog datant du 3 septembre 2026 qui aborde la question de ce qu'il faut faire quand son langage de programmation préféré est confronté à un problème de fascisme, en référence à la controverse impliquant le créateur de Ruby on Rails.

My daughter went to a #Linux install party this week-end. And came back home with a Thinkcentre running #YunoHost and a will to selfhost stuff at her home.

Yes… the same little girl that was having heart attacks every time she saw my Xterm outputs… 🤷‍♂️

Time change.

dedicated to @ozzelot@mstdn.social

#ai #claude #chatgpt #vibecoding #programming #linux #kitty_odysseus

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Data Science for Beginners : curriculum gratuit de Microsoft en 20 leçons sur 10 semaines pour apprendre la data science par la pratique. Quiz, corrigés et exercices à chaque leçon, aucune expérience préalable requise. Plus de 36 000 étoiles sur GitHub. ⬇️
https://github.com/microsoft/data-science-for-beginners

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Kern : sandbox pour exécuter du code non fiable ou généré par IA dans un container isolé au niveau kernel, en 3,5 ms. Binaire statique, sans démon, rootless, 0 Ram au repos. SDK Python et Node, serveur MCP pour Claude Desktop et Cursor, open source Apache-2.0. ⬇️
https://getkern.dev/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Présentation de Kern, un runtime sandbox rootless et sans daemon qui exécute du code non fiable et généré par IA en 2.0 ms avec un temps de démarrage très rapide, compatible avec Linux, Windows WSL2, Raspberry Pi, Jetson et Arduino UNO Q. L'installation se fait via une simple commande curl.

The Linux mainline kernel itself contains AI code now. It's officially allowed as long as it's disclosed as such. Thus, you will have to avoid literally all servers running on Linux.

https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-assistants.html

https://www.neowin.net/news/linus-torvalds-declares-massive-ai-fueled-code-surges-as-the-new-normal-for-linux/

NetBSD has very strict rules regarding AI-generated code. But it doesn't rule AI-generated code out out of principle because it's AI-generated; it only wants to be safe that nothing that's actually GPL-licensed is slipped in. So, if you're an 100%, ultra-hardcode anti-AI extremist, avoid what few servers run on NetBSD.

https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

OpenBSD contains AI-generated code, too. And it has no official stance regarding it. So servers running on OpenBSD are taboo, too.

https://www.osnews.com/story/144935/openbsd-and-slopcode-raindrop-to-a-torrent/

FreeBSD has no stance on AI whatsoever that I could find. However, apparently, the FreeBSD community loves to integrate Claude Code into their systems for automation purposes:

https://aumont.fr/posts/claude-code-freebsd/

https://discoverbsd.com/p/8a7660c31b

But you'll also have to look at the userland, the Web server, the database driver etc.

MariaDB allows AI code. You can safely assume that all MySQL databases on Web servers out there are actually powered by MariaDB.

https://mariadb.org/governance/governance-ai-policy/

Oracle MySQL can integrate AI, so it's safe to assume it contains AI-generated code.

https://blogs.oracle.com/mysql/announcing-mysql-ai

PostgreSQL probably allows AI code, too. There are even tools for it.

https://github.com/timescale/pg-aiguide

SQLite is very popular amongst AI users while not having any rules on AI-generated code. Assume it to be tainted.

This leaves you with only one choice: Self-hosting a personal, single-user snac2 server because snac2 doesn't need any database whatsoever. In fact, snac2 is staunchly against AI. And it runs on NetBSD.

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

But then there's the Web server. Apache may allow AI-generated code if it has been reviewed and made sure that it does not contain anything that's incompatible with the Apache-2.0 license.

https://www.apache.org/legal/generative-tooling.html

nginx welcomes AI and advertises itself as ready for AI, and it takes no anti-AI-code stance. It's most likely already tainted.

https://www.f5.com/de_de/products/nginx.

This basically leaves you with no Web server guaranteed to be 100% free from AI-generated code to run snac2 on. But that doesn't matter because it's impossible to build a Web server devoid of any AI code to install snac2 on.

By the way: Mastodon itself explicitly allows AI code if it's disclosed as such, and if its contributor understands it.

https://github.com/mastodon/.github/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md

In other words, next to all Mastodon servers are running

• AI-generated Mastodon code
• on an AI-generated Web server
• with an AI-generated database driver
• on an AI-generated operating system kernel

Makepad : plateforme de dev créatif en Rust, compile vers wasm/webGL, macOS/Metal, Windows/DX11 et Linux/OpenGL. UI runtime performant, DSL live-editable, backends IA intégrés pour LLM et modèles génératifs en local. ⬇️
https://github.com/makepad/makepad

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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With the whole AI/no AI discussion on Linux distros, how would you run Arrr stack + Jellyfin on your homelab?

#runbsd #NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #linux #debian #homelab

XyGrib / OpenGribs -what’s happening with GRIB downloads?

Since Sept. 2, GRIB downloads from OpenGribs appear to be failing.
I'm using XyGrib 1.2.6 on antiX 26 (Linux). The request reaches the server, but I get “Error: Request failed” after “Preparing file on server…”.
Is this temporary? What solutions are being considered? Restore the server, new infrastructure, or direct downloads from NOAA/DWD?

#XyGrib #OpenGribs #GRIB #Meteorology #antix #linux

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XyGrib / OpenGribs -what’s happening with GRIB downloads? Since Sept. 2, GRIB downloads from OpenGribs appear to be failing. I'm using XyGrib 1.2.6 on antiX 26 (Linux). The request reaches the server, but I get “Error: Request failed” after “Preparing file on server…”. Is this temporary? What solutions are being considered? Restore the server, new infrastructure, or direct downloads from NOAA/DWD? #XyGrib #OpenGribs #GRIB #Meteorology #antix #linux

Ho incontrato dei problemi nel compilare due applicazioni che uso, Vice e Luanti, immagino che abbia bisogno di fare un po' di setup extra per la mia distro. Tuttavia non me ne preoccupo più di tanto perché non intendo usarlo realmente su Linux, ma imparare come funziona.

E' davvero comodo se avete bisogno di compilare un certo software: pkgsrc vi gestisce sorgenti e dipendenze in automatico, e la repository è davvero vasta.
Dategli un'occhiata.

@computer @linux

#bsd #netbsd #foss #linux

Sto provando per curiosità pkgsrc su Devuan. Creato per NetBSD, può essere usato anche su altri sistemi operativi come package manager e repository alternativi come Flatpak, ma a differenza di quest'ultimo è più semplice, tipo non crea sandbox o setup complicati.
E' un po' come avere un assaggio di Gentoo senza le complicazioni di Emerge: scarica e compila i sorgenti che puoi personalizzare come opzioni.

@computer
@linux

https://www.pkgsrc.org/

#bsd #netbsd #foss #linux

One of the main problem with #Slackware #Linux is that it is rock solid. Why is this a problem? Because I never feel like doing updates!

If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.

Fini le nil et les crashs cachés : dans Revo, langage dynamique open source, les erreurs sont des valeurs explicites. Pattern matching, macros sur l'AST et des fibers qui rendent n'importe quel code bloquant async avec un simple spawn. ⬇️
https://revo.lung.fyi/

#Programming #WebDev #Linux #FOSS

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Page d'accueil de Revo, un langage de programmation dynamique présenté avec des exemples de code, une description des fonctionnalités (notamment le système de pipes) et des liens d'accès à la documentation et communauté.

Next Saturday at #EuroBSDCon 2026, I'll tell the story of one of the longest nights of my career.

On 10 March 2021, I had just fallen asleep when the alerts started arriving. One server down. Then another. And another.
Different servers, different workloads, one thing in common: the OVHcloud Strasbourg data centre.

Then came the news: SBG2 was on fire.

I had 142 servers there.

The mission for the night was simple to state: bring the critical services back before 8, then recover everything else as quickly as possible.

This talk is about what happened next. The things that worked, the architectural choices that saved us, and especially the ones that failed when we needed them most.

And it's also the story of why that night changed the way I design infrastructure, and why BSD systems became such an important part of it.

The night 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. Physically.

📅 Saturday 12 September, 11:15
📍 EuroBSDCon 2026, D.0.02

#BSD #FreeBSD #EuroBSDCon #Sysadmin #Infrastructure #RunBSD #NetBSD #OwnYourData #Linux #DisasterRecovery

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Cover slide for Stefano Marinelli’s EuroBSDCon 2026 presentation. A nighttime photo shows the OVHcloud Strasbourg data centre engulfed in flames and thick smoke. A huge orange "142" overlays the fire. Below, on a black background, the title reads: "The night 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. Physically." In the top-right corner: "Stefano Marinelli · EuroBSDCon 2026 · Saturday 12 September, 11:15 · D.0.02."

CERN is dropping #RHEL for #Debian. All 2200+ systems by the end of the year.

The reason being is that the "-march=x86-64-v2" compiler flag default as "forced obsolescence" for old hardware.

It's not without headaches, mostly due to "the lack of standard tooling for automated building and publishing of packages - a lot of gaps in the official tooling. There are also a number of tools not supporting multiple versions of the same packages."

https://www.phoronix.com/news/CERN-Goes-Debian-Leaving-RHEL

#linux

Veronica Explains is a series of really fun and useful videos about computing, technology, self-hosting, FOSS, Linux, retro computing and assorted other stuff. You can follow at:

➡️ @vkc

(Don't worry if it looks blank to you, that just means no one from your server has followed it yet. Follow the account and its videos will start gradually showing up on your server too.)

You can also follow Veronica's non-video account at @veronica

#FeaturedPeerTube #Tech #FOSS #Linux #PeerTube

@dnkl Now that #fuzzel 1.15 is out for #Linux I'm working on on a micro-app that uses it as a frontend for a todo.txt TODO file.

Using the features like custom keybindings, prompt-only mode and the new header and emoji support, a small script is able to display, prioritize, add, edit and check off a todo list.

Still not sure if I'll prefer it over the CLI interface for todo.sh, but it's nice the Fuzzel UI is always one keybinding away.

Once I've fixed the obvious bugs, I'll share it.

Hey look at that! cyberpunk dot lol running just fine on qutebrowser (Chimera #Linux)

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I am finding Chimera #Linux quite spiffy and to my liking. I got both X11 (fvwm3) and Wayland (Xfce4 and LXQt) desktops working, but switched back to #NetBSD for the wee hours.

More on KDE's fight for #efficiency: We have driven down the number of unconfirmed #bug reports to its lowest levels in over a decade and are managing to keep it there.

To improve that number further, we need your help:

https://pointieststick.com/2026/09/03/bug-triaging-help-needed/
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Keep KDE funded💲! Become a Supporter! Adopt an App! All at once!:

https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/?mtm_campaign=SupportingMemberDrive&mtm_kwd=m#become-a-member-and-build-a-better-world

#bugs #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #desktop #Linux #BSD

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A graph showing a dramatic drop in the number of unconfirmed bugs (red curve) over the last 5 years. This is important because unconfirmed bugs cannot be fixed, because we don't know if they are real or not.

bash: 20 minutes
ksh: 8 seconds

whatever optimizations ksh93 has, they are insane.
#ksh #bash #linux #unix

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time bash -c 'for ((i=0;i<1000000;i++)) do foo=$(printf var); done' real 20m12.13s time ksh -c 'for ((i=0;i<1000000;i++)) do foo=$(printf var); done' real 0m08.40s

Phosh's caffeine quick setting (☕) can be used to prevent the system from going idle and from suspending.

This can be tweaked now so that one can have the system go idle but not suspend.

Very useful on Qualcomm based 📱 so one can prevent the system from suspending (to receive incoming phone calls and SMS) but still have blank and lock work as expected.

#phosh #LinuxMobile #linux #mobile #gtk #caffeine

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A screenshot from a phosh session. The mobile settings app is open and shows the caffeine prefs. The user can tweak inhibit idle and inhibit suspend via two separate toggles.

Also been introducing more local people to the DeltaChat privacy messenger.

Don't hesitate to message me, especially if you are wanting to buy a ThinkCentre mini PC with Linux. I still have some available.

#Fediverse #DeltaChat #privacy #Linux

#linux #distros #casuarina

I've been using Chimera Linux for some time now, and it's great. (The maintainer of it is a bit of a strange one, but hey-ho).

Chimera Linux is the Linux based on musl using the freebsd userspace. (This isn't anything new, Debian had an attempt at this with Debian-freebsd).

@wezm has created Casuarina which is essentially Chimera Linux with glibc rather than musl.

Very cool. I'll be looking into this!

https://casuarina.org

Oh. A casuarina is a type of Australian Pine; I've never seen one (they're native to Australia), but thanks to all the #crypticcrossword puzzles I solve, I've heard of one. ;P

tHe MeTRiC SySTEm iS BetTeR BEcUz iTS MoaR PreCiSE

#meme #html #webdev #linux #css #funny

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borgbackup 2.0.0b24 was just released!

Contains a few new features and a lot of fixes, please check the change log and help testing:

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases/tag/2.0.0b24

#linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #macOS #windows #python

How do you name your variables?

#programming #askfedi #softwareengineering #linux #windows #macos

Upgrade complete! We can now build pmOS #duranium images for more devices. Starting slow to monitor builder scalability, so only going to add a few more initially.

More devices mean more chances to try immutable #Linux on phones. More testers means faster bug spotting & feedback ❤

Which device do you want to test? Only pmOS supported devices with EFI boot can be added. Have another in mind that's not in the poll? Let us know!

The current list of devices/images is here: https://duranium.postmarketos.org/

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@dnkl/117200282565531061

My fav Linux launcher / menu tool has a new release.

I contributed IME support for easier input of alternate character sets.

#Linux #Fuzzel

dnkl » 🌐 2026-09-02
@dnkl@social.treehouse.systems

#fuzzel 1.15.0 has been released! 🥳

Fuzzel is a wayland native application launcher and a dmenu-like general-purpose picker.

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fuzzel/releases/tag/1.15.0

I noticed today that an update to the #Linux #Zoom client has made it start proactively reading _everything_ written to the X11 clipboard.

If you keep interesting secrets in your clipboard – particularly, if a password manager uses it as a means of getting the password to where it needs to be – this might be a thing you need to know about!

@purple

Some people say they were ditching @debian, just like before after our #systemd #GR. But I where are they migrating to? #Linux distributions are out, if it's about #LLMs. Hurd? BSD? Haiku?

#Debian #AI

@debacle @purple @debian
For the kernel:
#Linux❗
#Hurd❗
#FreeBSD❔(probably ☑️ soon)
#NetBSD ☑️
#OpenBSD❔
#DragonflyBSD❔
#KolibriOS❗
#RedoxOS ✅
#Haiku ☑️
❗LLMs used
❔Unknown or unclear position about LLMs but I didn't found any LLM generated commits
☑️ LLM use forbidden or limited for the code
✅ LLM use forbidden

ah la la la #linux #mao
https://www.tone3000.com/plugin

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can i allow a program running as another user to connect to my jackd? #lang_en #linux #linuxAudio

(this is a question about realistic possibility and methods, not theoretical possibility)

After all these discussions about using BSD systems instead of Linux, I very quickly found myself reading the FreeBSD installation guide. I believe it could definitely be my new operating system to replace Windows 10. In fact, I’m already on their IRC channel, although that doesn’t necessarily mean I’ll post anything there (I’m not entirely confident about writing, and often the solution to a problem presents itself after the third or fourth sentence while I’m trying to explain it)
#freebsd #linux #windows10 #justatool

Every few years I'm like "whose DHH" and every fucking time I go and flip that log over I remember why I closed the page on that chapter.

I think https://omarchy.org is a HELL fucking no for me.

Fucking fascist prick slopware purveyor.

I might have a wait and see on Debian but I definitely have seen enough of this omarchy AI VC homeypot. Fuck that fascist shit.

#DHH #Fascist #Linux #AI #slopware

Cool talk on feasability of making it possible to build an IPv6-only version of the Linux kernel with no IPv4 support:

https://netdevconf.info/0x1A/sessions/bof/could-an-ipv6-only-kernel-be-a-reality-an-architectural-and-performance-evaluation.html

#Linux #IPv6 #IPv4 #IPv6only

Whats the standard procedure for Manual pages that reference an old email that clearly no longer works in the Author section? Yes, it was the authors email at the time of the commit, but the domain is no longer theirs.. Just leave it be, track down the email they use now, remove it for security reasons? #FreeBSD #Linux #InfoSec

Dear #Linux,

SIGINFO is incredibly useful, especially when capturing packets with tcpdump.

Continuously annoyed,

He who has been spoiled by the BSDs