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/

Spun off from (Linux) Fedora Verified: Help Shape a New Way to Recognize Fedora Contributors | BSD Cafe Billboard

FreeBSD Project

https://framapiaf.org/@tubsta@bsdlab.au/116478621827645455

– redirects to https://social.bsdlab.au/notice/B5jMI1FY3WtTTWqvNA:

Something the #FreeBSD core team could consider. This is something that has probably been needed for a while @dch@bsd.network

My initial thoughts:

• it's an awful lot to think about for a project, or team (Core, for example), that already has, I think, too much to think about.

Fedora Project

From the Proposal:

Unanswered Questions for the Fedora Community

While we have a framework, there are several major questions we need the community to answer before we move forward. Specifically, we want to know:

• Validation: Should applicants be approved by grassroots peer vouches, or an elected committee?
• Fairness: Does this model truly value non-code contributions equally?
• Progression: How strictly structured should the path to becoming “Verified” be?
• Maintenance: Should the status expire after 12 months of inactivity?

Of those four questions, the first two are huge.

https://mastodon.social/@mxenbionix/116478348932821730:

… I do have to echo some of the concerns people seem to be raising about being unclear to what this is actually solving. …

Also, the commentary at and under https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/188603/3.

We are happy to announce that The NetBSD Foundation will participate in Google Summer of Code 2026 with 5 projects!

• https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_welcome_contributors

I recently relocated to a place with no local BSD/Linux/Unix user group. There is a burgeoning IT scene of local geeks and professionals and I think it's a ripe environment for a Unix user group.

My motivation: I'm passionate about discussing ethics in IT, teaching Unix-fu, and helping people install free/open Unix (install fests let's gooo).

Does anyone have any experience with running a user group? What feedback do you have?

Long live liberated Unix

RE: https://mastodon.social/@allaboutsecurity/116516280099667572

CHERI memory safety mitigates LLM-discovered vulnerability in FreeBSD – CHERI Alliance

<https://cheri-alliance.org/cheri-memory-safety-mitigates-llm-discovered-vulnerability-in-freebsd/>

＂… CHERI trivially blocks this attack and likely many others. As LLM-driven discovery accelerates, the case for memory safety by design becomes stronger.＂

@freebsd #FreeBSD @FreeBSDFoundation

Crossposted from https://mander.xyz/post/51058528

https://hackaday.com/2026/04/23/wsl9x-add-an-entire-windows-9x-subsystem-to-your-linux/

The site logo (also used for a couple of forums, like this one) loads slow enough that I can see it show up. I checked and https://billboard.bsd.cafe/assets/uploads/system/site-logo.png (with some cache-busting ?v=... suffix) is 2MB!

I'm not sure if it really needs to be a 2048x2048 pixels, 24bit PNG. Same size as a 16 colors PNG: virtually identical, 390kb. Same size, but jpg: 297kb. And even that seems excessive to me for a logo that's usually scaled down to thumbnail size.

There are many guides on setting up / hardening your server. Books, the manual, all good resources.

I don't expect you to reproduce full books worth of content, or dump a lifetime of experience into a single post - but certainly anything you think important, under-covered or underappreciated in the "usual" resources, would be keen to know!

To start, if I had to call out one best practice that stuck on me, it would be keeping the base system minimal, and putting services into jails (or, maybe daemonless going forward).

New book, released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license: "Don't Get Hacked! Protecting Yourself at Home"

• https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/homesec/index.html

ping: https://framapiaf.org/@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange/116495725390179210

Why the Best Systems Are the Ones You Don't Notice

FreeBSD, from philosophy to practice.

https://vivianvoss.net/print/integrated-by-design

From Integrated by Design — Launch Day (23rd April):

… Five months of writing. Three weeks of final proofs. Then the last 72 hours, dedicated entirely to problems one does not anticipate. In the interest of transparency, and in the hope that it spares somebody else a week of the same, here are the four of them. …

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928554 – please note the author's comments.

Vivian Voss — System Architect & Software Developer

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vvoss/

Also in Reddit: https://redd.it/1t1u1os

Setting up a WireGuard Tunnel on FreeBSD 15

• https://ianwwagner.com//setting-up-a-wireguard-tunnel-on-freebsd-15.html

Overview of my New Homelab Setup

• https://ianwwagner.com//overview-of-my-new-homelab-setup.html

A TLS Terminating Reverse Proxy with OpenBSD

• https://ianwwagner.com//a-tls-terminating-reverse-proxy-with-openbsd.html

ping: https://framapiaf.org/@ianthetechie@fosstodon.org/116499327407801906

Recently posted to Artificial Intelligence Made Simple by Devansh:

• Anthropic's Claude Mythos Launch Is Built on Misinformation

He misinforms his readers:

… Nicholas Carlini published a 15-round reverse shell exploit here, …

– false. Devansh:

• links to the post-CVE work by Calif
• misattributes the work to Carlini.

Carlini used Claude Mythos before publication of CVE-2026-4747. The work by Anthropic is properly described here:

• Claude Mythos Preview \ red.anthropic.com (2026-04-07)

– unfortunately, not referenced at https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-4747.

As a direct consequence of misinformation by Devansh, we have a somewhat misleading article by Jessica Lyons:

• Anthropic Mythos shaping up as nothingburger • The Register

– and so on, and (sigh) I see the word "slop" in response to the article …

Credit to @bigsneakyduck for observing the mistake in Substack.

#AI

At OCX 2026, the Eclipse Foundation highlighted the growing role of open source in embedded and IoT development, with Eclipse ThreadX and RISC-V at the center of the conversation.

• https://www.efficientlyconnected.com/open-source-supply-chain-sustainability-threadx-risc-v-ocx-2026/

If you have been on the verge of checking-out OpenBSD, be it for your laptop, desktop, or a home server, but you were afraid that the install-difficulty may be out of your league - watch this video to gain confidence.

• https://watch.linuxrenaissance.com/w/vwUQ9YZQNjNWfQqLv3LBiD

ping: https://framapiaf.org/@darth@watch.linuxrenaissance.com/116493233947855331

See:

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Embed-Crates-LTS
• https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-On-FreeBSD

ping: https://framapiaf.org/@jbz@indieweb.social/116498971896054525

See:

• https://github.com/Romagnetics/Midynamite
  License: MIT

See:

• https://github.com/uint23/parados

ping: https://fe.disroot.org/objects/32b5871f-7e86-4baa-bc01-b30b3446db59