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https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2026-05/msg07614.html Until now QEMU's code provenance policy declined any contribution believed to include or derive from AI-generated content. A blanket ban was easy to maintain while LLM output was rarely usable on its own, but as the tools improved an absolute prohibition has become harder to justify. … Via QEMU Shifting On AI Policy To Allow Some AI/LLM-Generated Contributions - Phoronix comments discussion in r/linux – the first comment was popular but confused, I responded mentioned in Policy for AI/LLM contributions (#697) · Issue · alpine/council boosted in BSD Cafe Mastodon. The email was copied to Warner Losh (FreeBSD), Alistair Francis (WD), Alex Bennée and Peter Maydell (Linaro), and three people at Red Hat.

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https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/ This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development and deployment. While these technologies promise sophisticated automation and efficiency, they rely on data collection and model training practices that abuse privacy rights, enable discrimination, and threaten freedom of expression and thought. Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems. PDF, 44 pages.

The problem is this, and this will always be the answer a member gives you: if the port doesn't exist, create it; otherwise, do without it until someone else does it someday—if ever. That sets the tone; if that's okay with you, great… As you can see on: https://www.openbsd.org/mail.html ports@openbsd.org (Archive) Discussions about using and contributing to the ports tree. (Archive: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports) Browse the archive and you'll see…

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

@stefano hi, do you have any thoughts on allowing two-character tags? The Newsmast AI Channel – https://newsmast.community/@ai – automatically boosts posts with the #AI tag. Automation is impossible for posts such as the one below, because I could not add a suitable tag in NodeBB: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin@billboard.bsd.cafe/116661000862569351 Thanks

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.

Linux Foundation Releases OpenMDW-1.1; NVIDIA Adopts OpenMDW for Cosmos, Isaac GR00T, Ising and Nemotron, AI Model Families Updated OpenMDW-1.1 license advances open model ecosystem through permissive licensing and intellectual property protections https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-releases-openmdw-1.1-nvidia-adopts-openmdw-for-cosmos-isaac-gr00t-ising-and-nemotron-ai-model-families

Thanks for sharing, I will need this soon!

I came across this [1] nice post detailing how to customize the ksh(1) experience. I came for the tab completions but it has some general ksh wisdom. Sharing it as ksh(1) is the default shell on OpenBSD and it's a great shell in general. [1] https://www.vincentdelft.be/post/post_20210102

Let's Learn Linux: Customize and use the shell environment — Lesson 3/3 Learn how to customize and use the shell environment in Bash — this is lesson 105.1 from the LPIC-1 exam curriculum (102-500). https://watch.linuxrenaissance.com/w/dP34rjVzPGEVThnJgEQjc6

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

https://engineering.oregonstate.edu/all-stories/future-software-when-ai-writes-code-what-do-humans-do Below the four key takeaways, which I'll not quote here: At Oregon State University’s AI Week in mid-April, a panel of academic and industry experts, … confronted a question increasingly central to computing, education, and industry: If artificial intelligence writes most of the code, what role remains for human software engineers? The conversation blended historical reflection, a realistic outlook on the trajectory of technology, and a candid discussion about jobs, changes to university curricula, and public anxiety surrounding AI’s rapid advance. … Additional tag: #AI (can not be entered in NodeBB).

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]

Not a showstopper, as far as I can tell. If I use the File menu of Firefox to Find in Page… Ctrl+F – without using the keyboard shortcut – then a match is found but may be invisible, and Control-G advances to the next match. In the screenshot below, the matched word is not either of the pink highlights. The match should be visible with a green highlight. [image: 1779446124270-5d953904-e611-475a-b78a-72d540242090-image.jpeg] It's weird, but usable.

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/