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Comunità dedicata alle notizie su astronomia, fisica, biologia, zoologia, geologia e scoperte scientifiche.
Ricordiamo agli appassionati di astronomia che è stata attivata una comunità dedicata: https://feddit.it/c/astronomia
Tutti gli articoli sono graditi, tranne le notizie provenienti da siti sensazionalistici e blog di pseudoscienza!!!
Benvenutə nel Gruppo per la sostenibilità ambientale e la mobilità sostenibile su Diggita
Uno spazio per attivistə, cittadinə, ricercatorə e chiunque non voglia più stare a guardare mentre il pianeta brucia. Qui pensiamo con azione: discutiamo di ecotransizione, conservazione della biodiversità, ma anche di mobilità sostenibile — perché cambiare il modo in cui ci muoviamo è parte fondamentale della rivoluzione climatica. Consigli green su come vivere in spazi verdi giardinaggio: piante, fiori e orti urbani Consapevolezza ambientale: suggerimenti concreti per viaggiare con minor consumo, privilegiando mezzi eco-friendly, valorizzando la biodiversità e contribuendo a tutela del patrimonio naturale e culturale.
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La comunità del Convegno Nazionale sull'Open Source in Italia, il 7 e l'8 luglio 2026
DevConf nasce per dare a tutti gli sviluppatori di applicazioni la possibilità di promuovere le proprie creazioni e i propri progetti e di fare rete, con la possibilità di farle conoscere attraverso la distribuzione italiana Ufficio Zero Linux OS.
Sito web: https://devconf.it
The Discussion on Linux-based Phones.
- Hardware freedom. - Perfect operating-system competition. - Full utilization of specs. - Phone lifespan raises to 10+ years. - Less e-waste.
**Linux Mobile Distros**:- Sailfish🇫🇮 - FuriOS🇺🇸 - Ubuntu Touch🇩🇪 - Postmarket OS🇨🇭 - Mobian - Pure OS🇺🇸 - Plasma Mobile🇩🇪 - LuneOS - openSUSE Mobile🇩🇪 - Nemomobile - Droidian - Mobile NixOS - ExpidusOS - Maemo Leste - Manjaro Arm - Tizen - WebOS
**Linux Mobile Hardware**:- Jolla Phone🇫🇮 - Shift Phone🇩🇪 - FLX1🇺🇸 - Fairphone 5🇳🇱 - Volla Phone🇩🇪 - Librem 5🇺🇸
⚙️Contribute- Sailfish OS - FuriOS - Ubuntu Touch - Postmarket OS - Mobian - Manjaro Arm - Nemo Mobile - Plasma Mobile - LuneOS - Maemo Leste - Librephone
🧼Go Clean From the Duopoly:- !deapple@piefed.social - !deGoogle@lemmy.ca
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The largest art collective of Scientific Operations.
Computing to support life on Earth
Computing in the age of climate crisis is often wasteful and adds nothing useful to our real life communities. Here we try to find out how to change that.
Definition and purpose of permacomputing: viznut.fi/files/texts-en/permacomputing.html
Sister community over at lemmy.sdf.org: !permacomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
There’s also a wiki: permacomputing.net
“In a time where computing epitomizes industrial waste, permacomputing encourages the maximizing of hardware lifespans, minimizing energy use and focussing on the use of already available computational resources.” (from the permacomputing wiki)
See also: !permacomputing@slrpnk.net
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Register LoginFreeBSD 15.2 Will Aim For The Nice KDE Desktop Installation Experience
FreeBSD 15.0 had aimed to provide a KDE desktop install option from its text-based OS installer to make for a more compelling FreeBSD out-of-the-box desktop experience. That was then delayed to FreeBSD 15.1 but that didn't end up materializing. Now the KDE desktop install option is diverted to FreeBSD 15.2...
A follow-up to https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@82mhz/117002938483503805 @82mhz
The linked article (June 2026) began:
The work at Include Security has us working with AI day in and day out (hacking it, using it, training it, etc). ..
– 18–23 minutes, according to Firefox Reader.
I used AI to get a concise timeline. The text below is taken from Claude's response.
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The root of it all is Hola VPN / Luminati (Bright Data's predecessor). In May 2015, it was discovered that Hola — a free "VPN" — was quietly turning users' devices into paid exit nodes sold through a sibling brand, Luminati, at up to $20/GB. The discovery came after 8chan's admin, Frederick Brennan, traced a wave of DDoS/spam attacks against his site back to Hola users being abused as a botnet, and outlets like The Register, Fortune/Motherboard, and TechRadar covered it within days. Hola's Luminati brand was described as "the world's largest VPN network," routing HTTP, HTTPS, or TLS requests through millions of idling end-user devices. Luminati (founded 2014) was Hola's mechanism for selling access to its userbase as exit nodes, charging $20 per gigabyte for bandwidth from its free VPN users, and it later rebranded as Bright Data. So the general "your free app is secretly selling your connection as a proxy" pattern is a 2015 story, not a 2026 one.
The TV angle specifically is much newer, and predates the IncludeSecurity teardown by about three and a half months. Independent tech journalist Janko Roettgers broke it in his Lowpass newsletter (syndicated by The Verge) in late February 2026: with Bright's SDK, a viewer's smart TV becomes part of a massive global proxy network that crawls and scrapes the web, alongside apps on desktop PCs and mobile devices, with the company claiming roughly 150 million such residential proxies worldwide, gathering data later resold to train AI models. Multiple later write-ups explicitly credit this as the origin point: "Lowpass, syndicated by The Verge, first surfaced the smart-TV angle in February, and this is the technical teardown."
Around the same period, the broader AI-scraping-via-residential-proxy story was already building: Krebs reported in October 2025 on botnets like Aisuru fueling large-scale AI data harvesting, and Google dismantled the criminal IPIDEA proxy network in January 2026. By April 2026, FlatpanelsHD was reporting that Amazon, Google and Roku had restricted Bright Data and similar residential proxy networks from their app SDKs (Fire TV, Google TV, Roku OS), while Bright Data continued listing LG's webOS and Samsung's Tizen as partners, with over 200 apps on webOS alone.
The IncludeSecurity/Buchodi post you linked was the first to actually reverse-engineer the SDK rather than just report on the business model — documenting the peer channel's weak authentication and the iOS VPN bypass — which is why it got picked up so widely (Hacker News, Krebs, CyberSecurityNews, etc.) even though the underlying phenomenon was already known.
A follow-up Spur.us platform scan in June 2026 quantified the scale: Bright Data, Bright Data Ltd, and Bright SDK accounted for 367 proxy-flagged apps in their dataset, with residential proxy SDKs found in nearly half of scanned LG webOS apps and over a quarter of Samsung Tizen apps. And just last week, Krebs on Security reported LG moving to ban these SDKs from its smart TV apps entirely.
So the short answer: the general practice (apps quietly monetizing users' devices as residential proxy exit nodes) was first exposed in 2015 with Hola/Luminati; the smart-TV-specific version of that story broke in February 2026 via Lowpass/The Verge; and your June 2026 link is the deep technical forensic follow-up, not the original discovery.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/04/22/high-quality-chaos/ via https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116448188069484288 (2026-04-22) – not recent, but it's news to me.
From today's post about last month's Ottawa FreeBSD Developer Summit:
Michael Winser – Alpha Omega – The Changing Landscape of Open Source Software Security
AI has entered the chat
A frame from Winser's presentation:
Daniel Stenberg on AI in security ― sentiment over time
From Stenberg's blog post:
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Everything is AI now
Almost every security report now uses AI to various degrees. You can tell by the way they are worded, how the report is phrased and also by the fact that they now easily get very detailed duplicates in ways that can’t be done had they been written by humans.
The difference now compared to before however, is that they are mostly very high quality.
The reporters rarely mention exactly which AI tool or model they used (and really, we don’t care), but the evidence is strong that they used such help.
We are not unique
I did a quick unscientific poll on Mastodon to see if other Open Source projects see the same trends and man, do they! Friends from the following projects confirmed that they too see this trend. …
― #ai is currently not possible in (NodeBB) BSD Cafe Billboard.
https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/202606
LLM-driven kernel vulnerability research – Nicholas Carlini, Anthropic
Michael Winser – Alpha Omega – The Changing Landscape of Open Source Software Security
AI has entered the chat
FreeBSD Foundation Technology Team Update – Joe Mingrone
AI-assisted Vulnerability Discovery – Ed Maste
The Cloud Exists – Colin Percival and Gordon Tetlow
The Wine 11.14 development release is officially out now bringing with it an assortment of new features to improve Windows apps / games on other platforms.
New WoW64 mode supported on FreeBSD.
No response to normal keyboard or mouse input at ttyv8, so login to a desktop environment is impossible.
Using Virtual Machine Manager to key Ctrl+Alt+F2 (pictured below) does not switch to ttyv1.
Weird.
This machine did previously work.
I'm reminded of a bug that sometimes prevents use of vt(4) in VirtualBox, however I doubt that the root causes are the same:
True enlightment only comes from a truly free computing experience, probably! And while there is no nerd who lacks an opinion on Richard Stallman personally, likewise let none claim he does not practice what he preaches. Why, the very laptop in front of him was selected deliberately because it can operate with no binary blobs and no firmware you couldn't examine or replace with your own, and runs his choice of fully libre operating systems. The fact it has a Chinese MIPS64 derivative in it was undoubtedly just more compound on the heat spreader.
A sequence of commands:
pkg upgrade -Fqypkg upgrade -Upkg updatepkg upgrade -Fqypkg upgrade -UIf updates are available – and if there are no solver conflicts in response to the first command:
The second command is followed by:
pkg update– and the packages are not necessarily up-to-date.
For the truth, you must run pkg update and then again pkg upgrade …
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I used RedBSD-1.20260713-amd64-installer.iso with Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.14 r174565 on Kubuntu 26.04:
shutdown -r now/boot/loader.conf and /etc/rc.conf to make SDDM and the desktop environment work with VirtualBox instead of VMwareservice sddm restartRedBSD's provisioning scripts make choices that are convenient for an isolated lab but are not safe on an untrusted or internet-facing network:
…
Six Reddit posts:
Thanks to @jbz@indieweb.social for the Mastodon post that sparked my interest in RedBSD.
Read these 2 announcements to see what was happening and what to do afterwards for fixups.
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2026-July/000294.html
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2026-July/000295.html
⇒ Jails, Not Containers: FreeBSD Isolation Done Right
Containers play a major role in modern infrastructure, but they are not the right answer for every workload. This article explores how FreeBSD jails provide purpose-built isolation, predictable security boundaries, and deep ZFS integration—making them ideal infrastructure-grade services where stability is essential.
FreeBSD becoming NIST FIPS 140-3 compliant
A key component for FreeBSD becoming NIST FIPS 140-3 compliant was completed when FreeBSD upgraded from OpenSSL 3.0 to 3.5. One of the other requirements for FIPS 140-3 (and post-quantum cryptography) is having sufficient random entropy in the system to generate sufficiently random numbers. NIST SP800-90B provides some guidelines on how to achieve that…
PS: This strikes me as a significant development, which is why I am posting it here 
⇒ Linux 7.2 Will Be Able To Boot On Apple M3 Macs - But Far From Useful For End-Users
The upcoming Linux 7.2 mainline kernel is expected to be able to boot on Apple M3 devices including the M3-powered iMac and MacBook products. But before getting too excited it's still a long ways to go before it will actually be useful for any Apple M3 daily usage under Linux with the overall support at this stage still being very limited for these 2~3 year old Apple Macs…
⇒ Linux 7.2 Continues Improving AMDGPU Support On POWER, ARM
In addition to AMDGPU finally seeing HDMI 2.1 FRL support in Linux 7.2, another change worth noting in this week's AMDGPU pull request is the continued work on enhancing the AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver support for non-4K page size kernel builds. In particular this helps out with AMD graphics and ROCm for the likes of ARM and POWER…
⇒ NVIDIA's Nova Driver Continues Being Built Up In Linux 7.2 Along With Other DRM Rust Code
Danilo Krummrich sent out the main set of DRM Rust subsystem changes on Thursday that are targeting the Linux 7.2 kernel. NVIDIA's open-source Nova driver continues seeing a bulk of the DRM Rust work as this modern successor to Nouveau continues taking shape.
⇒ More SpacemiT K3 & K1 Support Landing In Upstream Linux 7.2
In addition to Apple M3 Device Trees for Linux 7.2, the SpacemiT RISC-V SoCs are seeing some notable Device Tree improvements with this next version of the Linux kernel.
Gentlefolk,
I brought myself back up to speed on FreeBSD by installing it on a T430 - ZFS and pkg install worked beautifully. Got Wayfire working, set up a jail to run a Luanti (Minetest) server. So far so good.
Now I'm working on the real challenge, bringing up a Poweredge R540 which will have raid-3 ZFS and many jails. And my first problem is right at the very beginning. I can install FreeBSD (15.0) from a USB stick just fine, but when I try to get the machine to boot...
(1) If I configure the 540 to boot from UEFI it cannot find the boot disk.
(2) If I configure the 540 to boot from BIOS, it finds the disk and boots just fine.
The Handbook is perhaps a bit out of date on this as it assumes BIOS, with a nod towards the possibility of UEFI. I'm guessing this problem has been solved many times over - could someone point me towards the solution?
Many thanks,
---WBTD.
⇒ Running pkgbasify on FreeBSD 15.1
At BSDCan 2026, I attended the pkgbase in Production: A Practical Overview talk. What impressed me was the ease with which one could upgrade from 15.0 to 15.1 etc. Included in the demonstration was pkgbasify (“Automatically convert a FreeBSD system to use pkgbase”).
I recently visited a local YMCA branch and spotted a treadmill booting up... powered by OpenBSD.
A crazy discovery xD If I can power a treadmill with OpenBSD then I'll attempt any embedded project with it.
I have requested deletion of my Bugzilla accounts. I expect my name to change to devnull – not to be confused with other devnull users, at least one of whom has devnull in their email address.
In the Lounge in April:
… We're pro, not against. Supporters, not haters. Builders, not destroyers. …
With the same spirit of positivity, in May I wrote:
I'll continue to support users of FreeBSD in Mastodon, in r/freebsd, and elsewhere.
