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… Neither Ivy nor George had children. After George's death, I heard his voice in conversation with Anne and Rose. All three of them were alive. Can you guess the hidden history that explains the voice? It was not a voice from beyond the grave. Not quite. It was George's son, whose existence had been hidden from George's sisters (Anne and Rose) and everyone else in the known family, as far as we could tell. Barnardo's – things were very different in the 1950s. Fast-forward to when Anne (my mum) and Rose met my cousin for the first time. I stood in my mum's kitchen, making a pot of tea for him and his newfound family, listening to them in the front room, thinking: "it's George". George's son spoke like him, despite them never meeting each other (in living memory), and the resemblance was more than just a regional accent. Mysterious and lovely. Hidden histories …

https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/504 mentioned Framaforms. From the same period in my Firefox history (July 2025): Yakforms. Related: Oubliez Framaforms, faites de la place à Yakforms ! Forget Framaforms, make some room for Yakforms ! I don't have a saved password, I do have this in my Firefox history: Work items · Yakforms Docs · GitLab – which probably means that I was unable to use Yakforms at the time. An intention to report an issue. https://redd.it/1m973go (July 2025) reminds me: I chose to use a CryptPad instance. Specifically: https://pad.envs.net/

Hmm. @Darknessraptor@bsd.cafe does not work as a link. Copied after double-clicking his ID at his profile in BSD Cafe Mastodon: [image: 1779268634080-ef539131-574e-4fbc-9720-19adaa79749a-image.jpeg] If, instead, I begin typing @dark then he's found. A menu of matching IDs: [image: 1779268827076-b93b77c8-36a9-4341-9a2f-5f104b8c9537-image.jpeg] @darknessraptor@mastodon.bsd.cafe Maybe I have forgotten part of how this part of the Fediverse works

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

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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]

TBH some were quite usable. I converted one to use as an icon for OpenBSD on my personal startpage. [image: 1779160607261-openbsd_right.png]

Hi. About Nginx: Rift vulnerability: On my OpenBSD (actually on 7.8) server, I use Nginx (v1.28.x) ­— I known, normally tomorrow, in few hours, v7.9 will be release, and Nginx will release with 1.30.1 — and I've some rewrite rules. As we can see on this page, I rewroted my rules. Is-it needed on OpenBSD? Your opinion about, plz. In any case, I think — maybe I'm wrong?! — that it's a good idea to get into the habit of “filtering” rewrite rules this way, don't you think? is-not-it?

Retro Connoisseur is building the Amiga 4000 into a LEGO block case, and the project already feels like the kind of wonderfully unlikely machine that could https://www.generationamiga.com/2026/05/17/lego-amiga-4000-build-commodore-classic-reimagined-as-the-amiga-cd3200/

Today on undeadly log: Migrating mail servers from exim to OpenSMTPD (smtpd) is fun and useful Like (we suspect) quite a few of our readers, undeadly.org co-editor Peter Hansteen runs a mail service and settled on exim as the reasonable alternative to the classic sendmail way back when. However, that software has had its share of security issues over the years, and during the preparations for the OpenBSD 7.9 release, the ports maintainers decided that… https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260516064650

Linked from the commentary, the gov.uk domain: Our evaluation of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 cyber capabilities | AISI Work

No problem with the vote @grahamperrin said: For what it's worth, I think: don't delete it from BSD Cafe Billboard. It's good to raise awareness of the reputation. I hadn't thought of it that way. Interesting!

See: https://minwm.btxx.org/ ping: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@bt/116573608067727480

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the fourth (and this time hopefully final) release candidate of the upcoming 11.0 release, please help testing! See the release announcement for details. https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_rc4_available https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html ping: https://framapiaf.org/@jaypatelani@bsd.network/116570729312543808

FreeBSD Foundation Laptop Update: https://freebsdfoundation.github.io/proj-laptop/monthly-updates/2026-04 or https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/blob/main/monthly-updates/2026-04.md Cross-post: https://redd.it/1tc70zr

An open invitation to Linux users across the board, offering a closer look at the penguin and its iceberg, a walk across the ecosystems that make it possible, an exploration beyond one’s biome. https://club.unix.rocks/commentary/under-linux/ ping: https://framapiaf.org/@fcambus@mastodon.sdf.org/116557961134185563

Every single software product is dealing with the question about what to do with “AI”-generated code, but the question is particularly difficult to answer for open source operating systems like Linux distributions and the various BSDs, which often consist of a wide variety of software packages from hundreds to thousands of different developers. On top of that, they also have to ask the “AI” question for every layer of their offering, from the base install, to the official repositories, to community-run ones… https://www.osnews.com/story/144935/openbsd-and-slopcode-raindrop-to-a-torrent/ ping: https://framapiaf.org/@osnews@mstdn.social/116558432820118949

Florian Obser (florian@) recently gave a BSD-NL talk entitled "Let's find out how to get predictable IPv6 addresses assigned to OpenBSD VMs". Florian takes us on a guided tour of how inet6 autoconf actually works, with enlightening and entertaining peeks into selected piece of OpenBSD source. At the end, we are asked to "now, draw the rest of the owl". https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260512115225 slides: https://www.openbsd.org/events.html#bsdnl2026 video: https://exquisite.tube/w/38gDYhMNTNZimk3GcFnHNa

OK, today, we've news about this! Due to hardware failure, the machine hosting undeadly has gone down last week. Thanks to the kind and swift help from OpenBSD.amsterdam, we're now back online. We will source new hardware for the original machine and hopefully move back again soon. https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260511202034 PS : The show must go-in on…