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

Closed. Result: 3% Windows 22% macOS 32% BSD (see the responses in Mastodon) 43% Linux. [image: 1776459246089-97c873d0-8fd9-45d3-ad89-80033e7d6b95-image.jpeg] Additional responses in Reddit: Daily driver: macOS, BSD, Linux, or Windows? : r/freebsd

Oh boy. I'll make the popcorn.

It would be nice if... Configurable for the instance the user (i.e., me) belong to. Automagically converted the URL to use the above, and if the account of the link target is outside the configured instance, convert to double "@" form. For example, I imagine if anyone belonging to @bsd.cafe pastes some URL from the tab that mastodon client is running, it would be something like ``` https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@User/11111 and if anyone belonging to @bsd.netowork attempts to open the toot via the link, converted to https://mastodon.bsd.netowork/@User@bsd.cafe/11111 with input to indicate the conversion is wanted or not on click. Maybe annoying to implement, though.

Stating the obvious: there'll always be work within professions such as plumbing, carpentry, and building. Hands-on building. Hands-off building, with code as a virtual construction material: there's no obvious niche. I would not know where to start, or finish. I should optimtimistally assume that the vast majority of niches will be short-lived, compared to the lifetime of a human. I'm not a developer, but over the years I have thrown (or crowbarred) myself into various niches. Chandler was my favourite. I knew that development had ceased, but it was the best tool for the purpose at the time. Good luck!

Firefox automatically offers to translate this Italian JPEG.That's wonderful, but not as wonderful as knowing neither the meaning of the imagery, nor why.@bsdcafelounge #arch #Italy #art #Mozilla #Firefox #translate #Wikipedia