⇒ (06/05) Aggressive caching for a Mastodon reverse proxy: what to cache, what to never cache, and why content negotiation will eventually betray you how to cache Mastodon with nginx on FreeBSD while handling content negotiation correctly, covering cache keys for HTML/ActivityPub/JSON variants, bypass rules for private traffic, and TTL strategies for assets, media, and dynamic pages. The guide includes production-tested configurations for thundering-herd protection, failover, and logging to verify cache behavior. https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/06/05/aggressive_caching_for_a_mastodon_reverse_proxy/

⇒ (06/05) FreeBSD Jails The classic system administration changed a lot in a decade. Virtualization and container technology went through a remarkable improvement. (…) FreeBSD Jails don’t compete with containers. They don’t substitute virtual machines. Jails just fill a gap. https://tomsitcafe.com/2026/06/05/freebsd-jails/

I agree and this is what politicians don't get.

ping @ronnie_bonkers@mastodon.social | https://mastodon.social/@ronnie_bonkers/116663563828564182

Latest Production Branch of NVIDIA GPU driver 595.80 and latest New Feature Branch of NVIDIA GPU driver 610.43.02 -devel variants just landed onto latest (aka main) branch of FreeBSD ports tree. https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=e94bcef6b11d8e72392600b83d9a5b0de0a15fed https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=fd3541282146dacd8fe86c3eec81e34dedf5d683

Ah, okay. It's a known bug. I was doing everything right. I don't have a way to recompile so I'll have to wait until 5.1-release. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=291461

The updates are now landed on latest (main) branch of ports tree. https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=536352bd7c13b49c985d0e07474d7258ba793fbe

https://github.com/maxsteciuk/freebsd-rtl8821ae … 802.11ac WiFi — PCIe kernel driver extending the rtwn(4) framework Bluetooth 4.0 — setup automation for the ng_ubt(4) / rtlbtfw(8) stack (RTL8821AE only; RTL8812AE is WiFi-only) … Please note, testing does not mention wake from sleep (resume from suspend). #AI

Thanks! Shared in Reddit (with a link back to Billboard): An AI audit of FreeBSD - Calif : r/freebsd Since we started this campaign of hacking the Internet with AI, we’ve learned something many of you already knew: the Internet runs on volunteers. … We feel like we owe these maintainers something. … … Thanks To the FreeBSD team, for working with us and for taking the work seriously. To OpenAI and Anthropic, for the tokens. And to all maintainers who keep the Internet running with very little credit and very few hands: thank you.

mdo on FreeBSD 15: Base-System Privilege Delegation with mac_do FreeBSD 15 ships mdo(1) and the mac_do(4) policy module in the base system. It replaces sudo and doas for most of my hosts, needs no ports, and configures with a single sysctl. This article walks t... https://blog.hofstede.it/mdo-on-freebsd-15-base-system-privilege-delegation-with-mac_do/

Thanks! Also: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@crocidb/116611958551695049 from the author @crocidb@mastodon.gamedev.place followed by links to Reddit, Lobsters and Hacker News https://mstdn.social/@osnews/116619768376945905 @thomholwerda@exquisite.social https://fosstodon.org/@governa/116621801865414113

I built a native ambient sound generator … : r/freebsd https://github.com/elytraVIII/ElytAmbience a native ambient sound generator built for the BSD desktop. It is a high-performance rewrite of the popular Blanket application, specifically optimized for FreeBSD and GhostBSD. On an old train, listening to birdsong. Perfect. [image: 1779517938538-f481c96c-ccac-4503-a48e-c763242ab1bc-image.jpeg]

Listing block devices on FreeBSD FreeBSD newcomers regularly ask me “what’s the equivalent to this Linux command?”. The most common of said commands is lsblk(8) that lists block devices. https://www.rubenerd.au/listing-block-devices-in-freebsd/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@emaste/116597496244280489We booted Debian and FreeBSD 15 using QEMU accelerated with bhyve/vmm for the first time. This is an epic milestone for the FreeBSD community and beyond ! : r/freebsd <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tk0eja/we_booted_debian_and_freebsd_15_using_qemu/> – Mario Zio.＂Further development is needed...a lot of development...but anyway this is a storic moment....we can use another hypervisor. This time in cooperation with the storic and mature QEMU. FreeBSD is second to none.This success has been possible thanks to the competence of Abhinav Chavali who started this project for the GSOC 2025 ; thanks bro.It's built on top of dumrich's work. …＂#FreeBSD #bhyve #QEMU #Linux #Debian @freebsd SummerOfCode2025Projects/VMMAcceleratorSupportForQEMU - FreeBSD Wiki — <https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2025Projects/VMMAcceleratorSupportForQEMU>Cc @stefano @dexter @seanwbruno @dch

An overview, including clickable links to CVE records: https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tjaceg/20260520_freebsd_errata_notice_and_seven_security/ Via https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116611475150461633

@gta1998 We have an issue with a realtek device and vnet/bridges starting with FreeBSD 14.4, maybe try ifconfig re0 -txcsum -rxcsumand see if this helps.

@grahamperrin said: I get the same (and don't intend to log in, although I do have an account) Me too!

dhcpd and unbound in FreeBSD jails The other day, I used FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi card to get a redundant DHCP server and DNS resolver working together with an OpenBSD server. It works great. But another FreeBSD server is available and I don’t really need yet another gadget powered on. So I moved both the DHCP and DNS services to this machine. While I was there, I took the opportunity to put them into their own jails. Because, you know, privilege escalation… https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/dhcpd-and-unbound-in-freebsd-jails/ ping: https://framapiaf.org/@joel@tumfatig.net/116599962350361525

https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/pages/src/branch/main/FreeBSD and Plasma 6 install - a log @thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza wrote: I got triggered to revive my description on how to get a KDE Wayland session on FreeBSD up and running. … From line 105 onwards it handles the Big K and how to run a Wayland session. This is what you'll end up with: [image: 1779173184669-0e77c797-b26f-48da-8be5-9a23f2ede523-image.jpeg]

Thanks. Less formally: https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1t7mzw1/comment/okqt36w/?context=1 …