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I've been using OpenBSD for my projects for the last few release cycles and I feel comfortable upgrading, etc. but I'll keep this for sharing with others. Great post.

@BastilleBSD I hope you have a great Easter weekend

@Tionisla Welcome!!!

@cardozQ Iirc acpi_ibm loaded in rc.conf or loader.conf is needed for those "special" keys to work anybody feel free to correct me. I am on my OpenBSD box, I can't check myself here, atm. /e: as follow-up: @evgandr@mastodon.bsd.cafe recently made this blogpost on Thinkpad specific keys too. hope it helps and as always ymmv #freebsd #thinkpad #keyboard #indicators

We have a Kiwix server at home for offline reference, and with NetBSD on an old iMac it's blazingly fast compared to Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi Model B. The internet here is slow, and I think Kiwix rate limits direct downloads. I'd like to set up torrenting to make the download for Wikipedia take less than an estimated 3 days, and so that peers can do the same. Even scp-ing what I have from another node seems it will take a while, so I just have Wiktionary at the moment. I see a handful of CLI BitTorrent clients packaged for NetBSD: btget, dtorrent, btpd, rtorrent, transmission. I have experience only with transmission, though if there's a "better" stable, small package, I'd prefer learning a second option. I will look into these myself in the meantime, but I'm posting here if anyone has experience or opinions, I would love to hear them, and posting here to share a NetBSD project.

New Podcast: FreeBSD with John BaldwinIn this episode of Software Engineering Daily, FreeBSD developer and contributor John Baldwin joins Gregor Vand to explore the origins of FreeBSD, how its governance model differs from other open-source projects, its role inside systems like Netflix’s CDN and PlayStation 4, and the challenges of maintaining a 30-year-old codebase. Listen here:https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/03/31/freebsd-with-john-baldwin/#FreeBSD #OpenSource #BSD

@Edent @stefano I spotted you within 2 seconds ​

@rl_dane @arosano @ndanes @jjannie @justine Dane as a programmable agent? Agentic Dane?

@ruben@kedara.social said: Sysadmin tasks will be performed (remotely) Maybe difficult with OpenZFS-encrypted root-on-ZFS. Will your mom be prepared to enter the passphrase when a task requires a restart of the OS?

Ole Asteo / nodebb-plugin-shortcuts · GitLab If I understand correctly, the plugin will allow shortcuts such as Control-I and Control-B. Whilst I love the idea, you might want to hesitate before plugging things such as this into a nice new instance. See, for example, https://community.nodebb.org/post/96744 (2023) …

The Billboard just got a hallway track. We've added a Conferences section with dedicated subcategories for the three major BSD conferences: EuroBSDCon, BSDCan, and AsiaBSDCon. Whether you're preparing a talk proposal, looking for travel tips, writing a trip report, or trying to figure out who's going this year - now there's a place for that conversation to live longer than a Fediverse thread. More conferences may be added over time based on community interest. If you think something is missing, let us know.

grahamperrin said: the horse or the otter … I guess that other random animals can appear at the Not Found screen.

Thanks. Maybe NodeBB defaults to strictness for new users, which would make sense. If so: leave it as is, I guess that I'll be able to edit the subject line there when I become a trusted user (I'm in no rush).

https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-exinst.html#fig-inst-mainmenu

EuroBSDcon 2026's call for papers is open, see https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/ Here is a direct link to the submissions form https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/submit/ew426G/info/@eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #conference #development #devops #sysadmin #freesoftware #libresoftware