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landing D56087 tomorrow. i don't care if someone finds a bug that causes your computer to explode when updating, this shit is going in the tree. #freebsd

@lapo @hayzam for some specific setups, you probably could

Thank you! I blocked five of the respondents in the Fediverse https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116462528458368843 ＂Power is the ability to do good things for others.＂ … https://mstdn.social/@happinessbot/116461840153065036 Think of the last person you interacted with. How happy do you think you are relative to them? (I ask this question every day to gauge how happy the Fediverse is.) #happiness #poll #mentalhealth #psychology

@mro hello Marcus! I'm not aware of any of them, but boosting your post so maybe other will be able to help!

@BastilleBSD this is a mission for zfs rollback I’ve installed adguardhome-0.107.69_4 less than 2 weeks ago in my first Bastille Jail, as a replacement for a pihole inside a Linux bhyve VM… What you describe is worrying

using genAI to make an image for an article about sustainability sounds like satire. I didn't think I'd actually see it

Added 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝟭 - 𝗔𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 [UPDATE 1 - Additional Features and Clarification] to the 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿/𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗴(𝟴) 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹 article.https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/freebsd-image-builder-installer-verimg-tool#UPDATE1#verblog #freebsd #verimg

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟰/𝟮𝟬 (Valuable News - 2026/04/20) available. https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/valuable-news-2026-04-20/Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

Episode 13 of Dark Blue Weekly releasedhttps://darkblueproject.com/sites/news/dbw-e13.php#darkblueweekly #darkblueproject #linux #bsd #freebsd #ghostbsd #solusos #linuxkernel #openssl #opensource #freesoftware

One of my biggest "frustrations" when migrating from OpenBSD to FreeBSD as my daily driver, was the loss of of working media keys on my Das Keyboard - especially the very convenient volume jog wheel. After some poking around i confirmed that the usbhid driver was working - and also default enabled in FreeBSD15 kernel. Xev tool printed the correct keycode events keycode 122 = XF86AudioLowerVolume keycode 123 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume keycode 172 = XF86AudioPlay The problem narrowed down to how to map these event to something useful I found a working solution in this discussion thread, by using the x11/sxhkd daemon to pass the events to mixer(8) https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/howto-enabling-multimedia-keys-gamepads-joysticks-for-desktop-usbhid.84464/ I had to tweak the sxhkd config a bit to work properly with mixer ~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc XF86Audio{Play,LowerVolume,RaiseVolume} mixer {vol.mute="toggle",vol="-3%", vol="+3%"} Then I invoke the sxhkd daemon from my ~/.xsession file sxhkd & exec /usr/local/bin/fvwm3 Viola! #FreeBSD #Solved #X11 #FVWM3 #Xorg #AskFedi

Part1: Running Your Own AS: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing: https://blog.hofstede.it/running-your-own-as-bgp-on-freebsd-with-frr-gre-tunnels-and-policy-routing/ Part2: Running Your Own AS: Going Multi-Homed with iBGP and three Transits: https://blog.hofstede.it/running-your-own-as-going-multi-homed-with-ibgp-and-three-transits/ Part3: Running Your Own AS: Joining an IXP with a Third Edge Router: https://blog.hofstede.it/running-your-own-as-joining-an-ixp-with-a-third-edge-router/ Part4: Running Your Own AS: Direct Hetzner Peering, a Fourth Edge, and Bringing the Home LAN into the Fabric: https://blog.hofstede.it/running-your-own-as-direct-hetzner-peering-a-fourth-edge-and-bringing-the-home-lan-into-the-fabric/

From the "That only took 36 years" department:With #FreeBSD jail, #OpenZFS, 'makefs -t zfs', root on p9fs, packaged base, and #bhyve/ARM64 in place, let's pull them all together:https://github.com/michaeldexter/occambsd#imagine-and-propagate-scenariosThat is, generate a 15.0 installer image, push that hardware, push that further to VMs, and then further to STABLE and CURRENT boot environments.All updatable with pkg(8)This may contain bugs, but it's forcing me to exercise it.

@stefano I’ll show it to you in Brussels eurobsdcon 26, better not worry about them and stay positive.

@rl_dane @darth I think one reason BSD don't get much attention is right about this mindset, and the impression that a chunk devs don't really like it very much.Surely not the people in Red Hat.There isn't much heat for desktop BSD branches as far I see, beside because rarely succeded, and in part because "desktop" became synonymous of "linux mess", things that is very far from what BSD try to stay.I cannot blame the feeling. Some decisions in the linux space makes me facepalm.

See: https://interfacecraft.online/blog/2026/desktop-phone-connected-to-freebsd-server/

@philvuchetich , you bring up a good point and a problem we have solved at other conferences. For OpenZFS Portland 2025 myself, @dexter and additional AV volunteers put together a very smooth solution and had very happy Europeans and an Aussie fully participating to the point that it felt like they were in the room with us. We had break out sessions led by an offsite person and it was all very effective. It also takes lots of management,setup time, hardware, and effort however. While I am not at all opposed to the idea of streaming the tutorial(s), we would Need to have a full (er)AV team onsite days earlier than we have already have planned and purchased tickets for and we would certainly need additional hardware. Especially since we are supporting 2 Dev Summits @bsdcan this year: @FreeBSDFoundation and @netbsd @oxyhyxo @pitrh #runbsd #netbsd #freebsd

See: https://blog.hofstede.it/automating-freebsd-jails-with-cdist-zero-dependencies-inside-the-jail/

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-04-11-20-years-on-AWS-and-never-not-my-job.html I created my first AWS account at 10:31 PM on April 10th, 2006. I had seen the announcement of Amazon S3 and had been thinking vaguely about the problem of secure backups — even though I didn't start Tarsnap until several months later — and the idea of an online storage service appealed to me. The fact that it was a web service made it even more appealing; I had been building web services since 1998, … – 24–30 minutes reading time, according to Firefox. Time well spent, IMHO, especially with security vulnerabilities for various operating systems recently in a spotlight. Also: to Mastodon @cperciva@mastodon.social @stefano and to Lobsters. Background: Colin Percival was, for many years, the FreeBSD Security Officer. He is now the FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead. You can show your appreciation for today's blog post at his shares in Reddit, in Hacker News, or in LinkedIn. A thought: AWS has its heroes. Tarsnap has given 2^18 dollars to open source – for this, and for what's described in today's blog post, it's probably fair to describe Colin as a hero in more ways than one.

@naltun said: This is an excellent post. Thank you for the share! e: It'd be cool to have this as a manual page, all of the syscalls laid out in a table with code references. I'm keeping this in mind as an OpenBSD user. It wouldn't be too hard to generate one, but it could lead to confusion for people if they use random internet manpages because the syscall codes are not guaranteed to be stable across versions on OpenBSD and syscalls get added/removed/deprecated sometimes.