https://posixcafe.org/blogs/2024/01/05/0/ @moody@hj.9fs.net I recently had a discussion with a friend of mine about some talking points that Jonathan Blow made regarding the "UNIX Philosophy" during his interview on Oxide's On The Metal podcast. I'll place an excerpt of the provided transcript here. … … There is this idea that to be UNIX means you have multiple tiny programs talking to each other over pipes, and some even take it further to implicate that this communication must be plain text. This classification is a deep misunderstanding of the ideas put forward by UNIX, and yet is a position I see many of my peers share. … Also: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@jutty/113028308196028999 @jutty@tilde.zone https://lobste.rs/s/dysrh2 Misconceptions about the UNIX Philosophy – Jacob Moody, Posixcafe : r/unix

Exactly! Its goal is to reduce GAFAM's dominance (particularly: Google) It "launch" another excellente/amazing/terrible initiative named "Les Chatons" (real FR term, translated too in EN) : CHATONS – kittens in french – is the Collective of Hosters Alternative, Transparent, Open, Neutral and Solidarity. This collective aims to bring together structures offering free, ethical and decentralised online services in order to allow users to quickly find alternatives that respect their data and privacy to the services offered by GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft). CHATONS is a collective initiated by the association Framasoft in 2016 following the success of its campaign De-google-ify Internet. See: https://www.chatons.org/en

https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/504 mentioned Framaforms. From the same period in my Firefox history (July 2025): Yakforms. Related: Oubliez Framaforms, faites de la place à Yakforms ! Forget Framaforms, make some room for Yakforms ! I don't have a saved password, I do have this in my Firefox history: Work items · Yakforms Docs · GitLab – which probably means that I was unable to use Yakforms at the time. An intention to report an issue. https://redd.it/1m973go (July 2025) reminds me: I chose to use a CryptPad instance. Specifically: https://pad.envs.net/

Linked from the commentary, the gov.uk domain: Our evaluation of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 cyber capabilities | AISI Work

OK, today, we've news about this! Due to hardware failure, the machine hosting undeadly has gone down last week. Thanks to the kind and swift help from OpenBSD.amsterdam, we're now back online. We will source new hardware for the original machine and hopefully move back again soon. https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260511202034 PS : The show must go-in on…

We’re releasing a brand new, open-source mouse design: the Bean, which is a pointing stick mouse (also called a nub mouse). (…) As with all of our other kits, the Bean is 3D-printed and fully open-source. Mechanical files, electrical files, and firmware have all been released, along with documentation on how to make and modify your own. It’s all on Github! https://ploopy.co/bean/ https://blog.ploopy.co/the-bean-is-here-435 https://github.com/ploopyco/bean-pointing-stick/

See: https://www.rubenerd.au/bsd-bottles-of-water-and-positive-habits/

In the world of open source, trust is our most valuable currency. ONAP is a “collection of individual, semi-standalone network automation functions that provide design, orchestration, observability, and automation of network and edge services for operators, cloud providers, and enterprises” (per ONAP). When we build software that powers global telecommunications, “good enough” isn’t an option… https://openssf.org/blog/2026/05/07/the-road-to-gold-how-cps-set-a-new-standard-for-security-and-quality-in-open-source/

⇒ Open Infrastructure is Not Free: A Joint Statement on Sustainable Stewardship (2025/09/23) An Open Letter from the Stewards of Public Open Source Infrastructure Over the past two decades, open source has revolutionized the way software is developed. Every modern application, whether written in Java, JavaScript, Python, Rust, PHP, or beyond, depends on public package registries like Maven Central, PyPI, crates.io, Packagist and open-vsx to retrieve, share, and validate dependencies. These registries have become foundational digital infrastructure – not just for open source, but for the global software supply chain… https://openssf.org/blog/2025/09/23/open-infrastructure-is-not-free-a-joint-statement-on-sustainable-stewardship/ ⇒ Open Infrastructure Is Not Free, Part II: The Hidden Cost of Running Package Registries (2026/05/06) The September 2025 Working Together Towards Sustainable Open Source open letter raised the alarm about the economic sustainability of open source package registries, highlighting how rising adoption and the pace of innovation are placing new and growing pressures on open source package registries. Those pressures have only accelerated in the time since the letter, amplified by the adoption of AI coding agents and tools… https://openssf.org/blog/2026/05/06/open-infrastructure-is-not-free-part-ii-the-hidden-cost-of-running-package-registries/

Cybersecurity is often blamed for slowing projects down. But in the field, what really blocks projects is unclear rules, opaque processes, unknown timelines, and poorly defined responsibilities. https://tferdinand.net/en/security-does-not-block-projects.-ambiguity-does./

See: https://os-sci.com/event/lomiri-tech-meeting-24/register https://itsfoss.com/news/lomiri-tech-meeting/

See: https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/digital-camera.html ping: https://mstdn.social/@conansysadmin/116526569283523139

SOVEREIGNTY, RESILIENCE AND INNOVATION The must-attend event for open source and digital sovereignty: https://www.opensource-experience.com/en/

Parallel discussions: Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community | Lobsters Open source does not imply open community | Hacker News Nit: I don't like the Douglas Adams pretence. The heart of the problem isn't at the GitHub level; it's people, at any level. One or two bad eggs can spoil an omelette. … No "community". No politics. No Code of Conduct. No pull requests or issues. No wiki. No core team. … Worth reading (the author is a FreeBSD ports committer): HowToBe/CoreMember - FreeBSD Wiki Eggs [image: 1777824019418-38e5b338-7998-4508-8deb-74b7a11f8ded-image.jpeg] – Doorverts – SDDC

Valuable book. Thank you for sharing

I've been getting into RISC-V by working on a fork of xv6 [0]. I started following RISC-V development from the beginning, but am only now writing code targeting the ISA -- and it's been fun! [0] https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-riscv

See: https://github.com/Romagnetics/Midynamite License: MIT

On mastodon, it seems BastilleBSD team search to hire a FreeBSD and Bastille sysadmin: https://framapiaf.org/@BastilleBSD@fosstodon.org/116451340855476657

At work we are uing BSDs extensivly for almost all aspects, except as hardware crypto modules (HSMs). We are also using BSDs as workstations for the daily toil. This of course require a set of usage policies to formalise what is accepted and not. I'm glad we managed to get NetBSD into the official company policy with the following condition Must run on workstation/laptop hardware. Coffee brewers, toasters or other household appliances are explicitly forbidden from accessing production network. On a sader note, OpenBSD is no longer allowed access, when 7.7 goes out of official support in a few weeks time, due to the decision to remove yubikey-otp keyboard support in the kernel from 7.8. Oh well Cheers and RunBSD!

Lost and found in MastodonTIL: when the Back button in Mastodon can not take me back to something, I can use the web browser to browse back.Why has it taken more than two years for me to discover something so obvious? #Mastodon #obvious #TIL @bsdcafelounge