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@etrigan63 Yes, I have replied

… Let's move on. It's still quite newsworthy; Cody Franklin used the phrase "recently". Until yesterday, I never heard anyone from TrueNAS or IXsystems talk about the transition. I learnt something new.

@Jan ohhh, interesting! The only question left is whether it's possible to install it from Fuguita. At the very least, this should let you know which devices are being detected correctly.

My posts: can not be edited under https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/602 can be edited here, for example.

Since it is schedule for a June 16 release (more or less), I am going to wait till then to give it a whirl with my test NUC before going on to my Framework 13A. Omfreebdy looks like it will set up most of the stuff I wanted, so let's see what happens.

@grahamperrin That was poorly written. Better said that a whole lot of money is being dumped into marketing these product before they are fully baked.

For the record: I don't use Bitcoin, or anything like it. I learnt of the organisation through Git commit log messages for an open source project – OpenSats Initiative is a sponsor.

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1ty5njr/pkgbase_major_upgrade_from_freebsd_144_to_151rc2/ This upgrade blended: part of the official announcement for 15.1-RC2 – altered for compatibility with the major upgrade part of Emrion's https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/762515 – adapted for my preferred shell, /bin/tcsh. … Packages for the third release candidate, RC3, were not available at the time.

⇒ (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/

Many scholarly works on modern politics (real ones, not the ones focusing on the trends being artificially promoted by one side or the other) draw the political spectrum as a line graph with moderates in the middle and the left/right heading off in their respective directions. My personal observation is that this graph should not be a line but a circle. Starting with moderates and branching off as before, but both sides ending up at absolute totalitarianism regardless of which side you take. @tomaoki your model is correct and on my graph the ideals would be located at the 90 degree and 270 degree positions with anarchy at the 135 and 225 positions.

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

https://www.blackduck.com/content/dam/black-duck/en-us/reports/rep-ossra.pdf The “Open Source Security and Risk Analysis” (OSSRA) report has been the industry’s definitive look at the state of open source code for a decade. Each year, we analyze anonymized findings from commercial codebases audited by the Black Duck Audit Services team, and this provides an unmatched, real-world view of how open source is used—and sometimes misused—across every major industry. This year’s findings document a pivotal moment: The explosion of AI-assisted development has fundamentally altered the risk landscape for software and the baseline for compliance with new regulatory initiatives such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). PDF, 44 pages. Context Open source organisations weigh in on age attestation Availability Noted in Reddit: … easily found with Google – without completing Black Duck's form, which requires a business email address: https://www.google.com/search?q="2026+Open+Source+Security+and+Risk+Analysis+Report"+PDF&udm=14 …

One thing about Tribblix on SPARC is that it tracks x86 pretty closely, but actual releases come at different times. What this means right now is that while Tribblix on x86 is effectively in freeze while I work through a bunch of breaking changes, many of those changes are now available on SPARC. While this may seem a bit odd, the reality is that not all the breaking changes apply to SPARC at all (I'm not planning to update perl or gcc there, even though I want to, because the updates won't even build properly), and even those that do are less appropriate (such as desktop updates like bumping the Xfce version). The one visible change that people might see is the python switch from 3.12 to 3.13.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/generative-ai not dated first captured in the Wayback Machine in October 2023 mentioned in Policy for AI/LLM contributions (#697) · Issue · alpine/council

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