Stéphane HUC :: Echoes Weekly IT
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Thanks. The reason I asked was, #hashtags are visible but not clickable.
The reason I asked was, #hashtags are visible but not clickable.
Indeed!
It's more like “semantic” help… not really usefull (?!)
Right now, I'm wondering whether I should get rid of them,… in the context of the SGG, what is their real purpose? -
Weekly Echoes #2026W24: IT news, round-up, week 24; from 06/08 to 06/14.
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Weekly Echoes #2026W26: IT news, round-up, week 26; from 06/22 to 06/28.
Weekly Echoes #2026W26: IT news, round-up, week 26; from 06/22 to 06/28.
⇒ Commission selects EUROPA consortium as the winner of the Frontier AI Grand Challenge, a project to build European open-source frontier AI model in all 24 EU languages
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116776972203072635
Some unhappy responses.
https://mastodon.luca-alloatti.eu/@luca/116777720487706865 about inaccuracy, and so on.
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Weekly Echoes #2026W27: IT news, round-up, week 27; from 06/29 to 07/05.
A nit, at https://huc.fr.eu.org/en/news/week-27-2026/#it20260629:
- https://dan.langille.org/2026/06/29/running-pkgbasify-on-freebsd-15-1/ redirects to https://dan.langille.org/2026/06/29/running-pkgbasify-on-freebsd-15-0/ and it was on 15.0 (not 15.1).
The SLOP AI heading is a turn-off, for me.
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A nit, at https://huc.fr.eu.org/en/news/week-27-2026/#it20260629:
- https://dan.langille.org/2026/06/29/running-pkgbasify-on-freebsd-15-1/ redirects to https://dan.langille.org/2026/06/29/running-pkgbasify-on-freebsd-15-0/ and it was on 15.0 (not 15.1).
The SLOP AI heading is a turn-off, for me.
@grahamperrin Ty!
I rectify for the Dan Languille link. <= done!
The SLOP AI heading is a turn-off, for me.
I understand, but what else can we use that everyone agrees on?
Enjoy-ID!
Enjoy-IT!> Per terminus, ad terminal
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@grahamperrin Ty!
I rectify for the Dan Languille link. <= done!
The SLOP AI heading is a turn-off, for me.
I understand, but what else can we use that everyone agrees on?
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@CiotBSD "AI"
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⇒ Weekly Echoes #2026W28: IT news, round-up, week 28; from 07/06 to 07/12.
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⇒ Weekly Echoes #2026W29: IT news, round-up, week 29; from 07/13 to 07/19.
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⇒ Weekly Echoes #2026W30: IT news, round-up, week 30; from 07/20 to 07/26.
Enjoy-ID!
Enjoy-IT!> Per terminus, ad terminal
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⇒ Weekly Echoes #2026W30: IT news, round-up, week 30; from 07/20 to 07/26.
⇒ Anti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing else
https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116987441637631045 quotes https://mastodon.social/@buckfiftyseven/116980631827143297 with comments from @lproven@social.vivaldi.net (and I'll have more for @buckfiftyseven@mastodon.social later) …
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⇒ Weekly Echoes #2026W30: IT news, round-up, week 30; from 07/20 to 07/26.
⇒ Dev accidentally commits Copilot binary to FreeBSD ports repo
https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116980725539794502 with a link to discussion in r/freebsd.
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⇒ Weekly Echoes #2026W31: IT news, round-up, week 31; from 07/27 to 08/02.
⇒ GCC AI Policy Announcement
The announcement leads to source code, but not a normal view of the Policy.
Here's the Policy:
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⇒ GCC AI Policy Announcement
The announcement leads to source code, but not a normal view of the Policy.
Here's the Policy:
@grahamperrin link added!
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⇒ Weekly Echoes #2026W32: IT news, round-up, week 32; from 08/03 to 08/09.
Enjoy-ID!
Enjoy-IT!> Per terminus, ad terminal
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⇒ Weekly Echoes #2026W32: IT news, round-up, week 32; from 08/03 to 08/09.
"… VIDAR, a FreeBSD-based automatic firewall program. … The announcement doesn’t mention streaming so you may need to be in-person."
The event was streamed, there was a Streaming link at the head of the announcement. Follow-up:
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⇒ Weekly Echoes #2026W32: IT news, round-up, week 32; from 08/03 to 08/09.
⇒ According to Statcounter, Linux on the desktop crossed over 7% globally
Also, FreeBSD has returned (at 0%). It comes and goes. It was absent a year ago, for example:
- 9.62% unknown (mid-August 2025)
- 21.45% unknown, 56.61% Windows (27th July 2026)
- FreeBSD present, nothing unknown, 72% Windows (31st July)
- https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
OpenBSD is more popular in the US (FreeBSD is absent).
FreeBSD is more popular in the UK (OpenBSD is absent).
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