BSD Cafe Billboard

We’re releasing a brand new, open-source mouse design: the Bean, which is a pointing stick mouse (also called a nub mouse). (…) As with all of our other kits, the Bean is 3D-printed and fully open-source. Mechanical files, electrical files, and firmware have all been released, along with documentation on how to make and modify your own. It’s all on Github! https://ploopy.co/bean/ https://blog.ploopy.co/the-bean-is-here-435 https://github.com/ploopyco/bean-pointing-stick/

"A balloon ! Mum, I want this balloonnnn…"

See: https://exquisite.tube/w/dkV6kWiT9sp2y6xVwkH1iF

A guide on deploying a lightweight, C-based ActivityPub instance using snac2 on an OpenBSD stack. https://geekyschmidt.com/post/2026-05-05-snac2openbsd/

Wouldn’t you believe it, this site is running off my special home server: a Nintendo Wii with a 729 MHz PowerPC CPU and a whopping 64 MB usable RAM! It runs NetBSD 10.1 and serves this site exclusively over IPv6 – clients connecting through IPv4 are proxied via another server… http://wii.sjmulder.nl/

After the Copy Fail, here the Dirty Frag: https://dirtyfrag.io https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8 ping: https://framapiaf.org/@galaxis@mastodon.infra.de/116535002101324675

See: https://www.rubenerd.au/bsd-bottles-of-water-and-positive-habits/

In the world of open source, trust is our most valuable currency. ONAP is a “collection of individual, semi-standalone network automation functions that provide design, orchestration, observability, and automation of network and edge services for operators, cloud providers, and enterprises” (per ONAP). When we build software that powers global telecommunications, “good enough” isn’t an option… https://openssf.org/blog/2026/05/07/the-road-to-gold-how-cps-set-a-new-standard-for-security-and-quality-in-open-source/

⇒ Open Infrastructure is Not Free: A Joint Statement on Sustainable Stewardship (2025/09/23) An Open Letter from the Stewards of Public Open Source Infrastructure Over the past two decades, open source has revolutionized the way software is developed. Every modern application, whether written in Java, JavaScript, Python, Rust, PHP, or beyond, depends on public package registries like Maven Central, PyPI, crates.io, Packagist and open-vsx to retrieve, share, and validate dependencies. These registries have become foundational digital infrastructure – not just for open source, but for the global software supply chain… https://openssf.org/blog/2025/09/23/open-infrastructure-is-not-free-a-joint-statement-on-sustainable-stewardship/ ⇒ Open Infrastructure Is Not Free, Part II: The Hidden Cost of Running Package Registries (2026/05/06) The September 2025 Working Together Towards Sustainable Open Source open letter raised the alarm about the economic sustainability of open source package registries, highlighting how rising adoption and the pace of innovation are placing new and growing pressures on open source package registries. Those pressures have only accelerated in the time since the letter, amplified by the adoption of AI coding agents and tools… https://openssf.org/blog/2026/05/06/open-infrastructure-is-not-free-part-ii-the-hidden-cost-of-running-package-registries/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/more-retro-goodies-microsoft-open-sources-86-dos-and-pc-dos/ Crossposted from https://lemmy.zip/post/63417296

@stefano there's even a port & pkg

FreeBSD: After the First Boot https://www.dwarmstrong.org/freebsd-after-install/ ping: https://framapiaf.org/@dwarmstrong@fosstodon.org/116530466697991937

Cybersecurity is often blamed for slowing projects down. But in the field, what really blocks projects is unclear rules, opaque processes, unknown timelines, and poorly defined responsibilities. https://tferdinand.net/en/security-does-not-block-projects.-ambiguity-does./

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I’d like to start here (as opposed to somewhere else?) by putting something on the record. Or the cassette tape, or whatever. Travan tape? LTO? https://www.rubenerd.au/a-hypothetical-netbsd-cyberdeck/

SDDM with X11Libre: [image: 1778056057056-dbab3a96-681c-4f93-aad6-abd36c721c89-image.jpeg] Sorry. I couldn't resist the urge to replace x11/xorg with x11/xlibre, in a test environment, after someone made a throwaway comment: Wayland is very bad shit. XLibre wins Fixed by reinstalling x11/xorg

See: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-45-x86-64-v3-Undecided https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Build_x86-64-v3_Packages

See: https://os-sci.com/event/lomiri-tech-meeting-24/register https://itsfoss.com/news/lomiri-tech-meeting/

See: https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/digital-camera.html ping: https://mstdn.social/@conansysadmin/116526569283523139

SOVEREIGNTY, RESILIENCE AND INNOVATION The must-attend event for open source and digital sovereignty: https://www.opensource-experience.com/en/