https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2026-05/msg07614.html

Until now QEMU's code provenance policy declined any contribution believed to include or derive from AI-generated content. A blanket ban was easy to maintain while LLM output was rarely usable on its own, but as the tools improved an absolute prohibition has become harder to justify.

…

Via QEMU Shifting On AI Policy To Allow Some AI/LLM-Generated Contributions - Phoronix

• comments
• discussion in r/linux – the first comment was popular but confused, I responded
• mentioned in Policy for AI/LLM contributions (#697) · Issue · alpine/council
• boosted in BSD Cafe Mastodon.

The email was copied to Warner Losh (FreeBSD), Alistair Francis (WD), Alex Bennée and Peter Maydell (Linaro), and three people at Red Hat.

Migrate TrueNAS Core to Sylve

For years I ran TrueNAS Core on my home fileserver. This was an awesome, easy way of running FreeBSD + ZFS + tools without a lot of manual maintenance. Unfortunately TrueNAS decided to start using Linux as the basis of TrueNAS and I love using FreeBSD. Fortunately a new project is on the horizon which looks promising

• https://blog.klop.ws/2026/03/migrate-truenas-core-to-sylve.html

ping: https://mastodon.social/@ronnie_bonkers/116663563828564182

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/

This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development and deployment. While these technologies promise sophisticated automation and efficiency, they rely on data collection and model training practices that abuse privacy rights, enable discrimination, and threaten freedom of expression and thought. Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems.

PDF, 44 pages.

There is an alternative to niri called scroll (https://github.com/dawsers/scroll) which is a fork of sway. Sway is in the OpenBSD repos so it stands to reason that scroll should work on OpenBSD. How do I request that this package be added? I am not familiar with the packaging procedures of any of the BSD's.

Latest Production Branch of NVIDIA GPU driver 595.80 and latest New Feature Branch of NVIDIA GPU driver 610.43.02 -devel variants just landed onto latest (aka main) branch of FreeBSD ports tree.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=e94bcef6b11d8e72392600b83d9a5b0de0a15fed
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=fd3541282146dacd8fe86c3eec81e34dedf5d683

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.

A set of NVIDIA counterpart of graphics/drm-612-kmod are under review as D57206.
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D57206

Also available via Bug295519 (actually the same patch).
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=295519

Anyone having issues with graphics/nvidia-drm-66-kmod{-580|-devel} or previous version (at DRM6.9) of graphics/nvidia-drm-latest-kmod{-580|-devel} and not hesitating to build ports locally can try my above-mentioned patch if you're on 15.1{-BETA*|-RC*} or upcoming -RELEASE, or recent enough stable/15 and main.

Note that, as graphics/drm-612-kmod and graphics/drm-latest-kmod bumped to DRM6.12 are NOT available on 2026Q2 quarterly, NVIDIA counterparts shouldn't appear on 2026Q2 even after the patch lands onto main (aka latest) branch (would appear on upcoming 2026Q3).

Generally, the value of two-character tags is questionable.

That said, can an exception be made? As a tag:

• ai

Topics such as https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/227 would fit.

The alternative, twenty-three characters, is way beyond the fifteen-character maximum:

• artificial intelligence

Thanks

Elsewhere, https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/544567 drily noted that "… Any suggestions to implement a two-char search limit will be met with a ban …" however that was with regard to searching within body text, not metadata. XenForo with MySQL.

https://github.com/maxsteciuk/freebsd-rtl8821ae

…

• 802.11ac WiFi — PCIe kernel driver extending the rtwn(4) framework
• Bluetooth 4.0 — setup automation for the ng_ubt(4) / rtlbtfw(8) stack (RTL8821AE only; RTL8812AE is WiFi-only)

…

Please note, testing does not mention wake from sleep (resume from suspend).

#AI

An AI audit of FreeBSD

15 kernel bugs, including 3 RCEs, 5 LPEs, and 1 bhyve escape.

• https://blog.calif.io/p/an-ai-audit-of-freebsd

Linux Foundation Releases OpenMDW-1.1; NVIDIA Adopts OpenMDW for Cosmos, Isaac GR00T, Ising and Nemotron, AI Model Families

Updated OpenMDW-1.1 license advances open model ecosystem through permissive licensing and intellectual property protections

• https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-releases-openmdw-1.1-nvidia-adopts-openmdw-for-cosmos-isaac-gr00t-ising-and-nemotron-ai-model-families

I'm looking to set up a WireGuard VPN on OpenBSD and found this helpful article: https://www.n3s0.tech/feed/build/wireguard/personal-wireguard-server-on-openbsd/

My use case: I am exposing some local/home services to the Internet but want added security, so I am placing them behind a wg(4) VPN. I've never done this so I am sharing this in case one finds it useful.

Happy hacking

I came across this [1] nice post detailing how to customize the ksh(1) experience. I came for the tab completions but it has some general ksh wisdom.

Sharing it as ksh(1) is the default shell on OpenBSD and it's a great shell in general.

[1] https://www.vincentdelft.be/post/post_20210102

Let's Learn Linux: Customize and use the shell environment

• https://watch.linuxrenaissance.com/w/gzg5J3EN5XCvT472GAvniS
• https://linuxrenaissance.com/courses/LPI-Learning-Material-102-500-en.pdf

Let's Learn Linux: Customize and use the shell environment — Lesson 2/3

Learn how to customize and use the shell environment in Bash — this is lesson 105.1 from the LPIC-1 exam curriculum (102-500).

• https://watch.linuxrenaissance.com/w/1oraSgNwmyFBKWSaYv54ib
• https://linuxrenaissance.com/courses/LPI-Learning-Material-102-500-en.pdf

ping: https://framapiaf.org/@darth@watch.linuxrenaissance.com/116592507515831960

“The server feels slow.” It is the most common ticket text in the world, and the least useful. Before you can fix anything you need to know whether the box is CPU bound, memory pressured, waiting on disk, saturating a NIC, or simply running a runaway process in one jail that is starving everyone else. On jail hosts, the second half of the problem is attribution: not just what is overloaded, but which jail is responsible…

• https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-resource-monitoring-accounting-and-troubleshooting/

ping: https://framapiaf.org/@Larvitz@burningboard.net/116560508989633469

This blog has been running on a Digital Ocean VPS for over ten years. A machine hosted in New York City, running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. An LTS that hasn’t been in support for at least 5 years. It was about time to change it. After some considerations, I migrated to a Hetzner virtual machine that is way better than my old Ubuntu one, less than half the price of what I used to pay, and just across the country from me. Not only that, but I took the challenge to move my stack to FreeBSD. It’s a long text, but stay for a cool introduction of FreeBSD Jails with Bastille and some interesting site load benchmarks.

• https://crocidb.com/post/this-blog-ran-on-ubuntu-16-04-for-10-years-i-migrated-it-to-freebsd/

https://engineering.oregonstate.edu/all-stories/future-software-when-ai-writes-code-what-do-humans-do

Below the four key takeaways, which I'll not quote here:

At Oregon State University’s AI Week in mid-April, a panel of academic and industry experts, … confronted a question increasingly central to computing, education, and industry: If artificial intelligence writes most of the code, what role remains for human software engineers?

The conversation blended historical reflection, a realistic outlook on the trajectory of technology, and a candid discussion about jobs, changes to university curricula, and public anxiety surrounding AI’s rapid advance. …

Additional tag: #AI (can not be entered in NodeBB).

I built a native ambient sound generator … : r/freebsd

https://github.com/elytraVIII/ElytAmbience

a native ambient sound generator built for the BSD desktop. It is a high-performance rewrite of the popular Blanket application, specifically optimized for FreeBSD and GhostBSD.

On an old train, listening to birdsong. Perfect.

grahamperrin said:

… searching within a page (Control-F) is very weird, I can not yet understand what's going on.

Part of the disorientation is when content can not be found.

For example, the third paragraph of https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/https%3A%2F%2Finfosec.exchange%2Fusers%2Ftinker%2Fstatuses%2F116340133804624101 (Mastodon original: https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/116340133804624101) begins with the word:

Nextcloud

BSD Cafe Billboard can not find the word:

@stefano does something in or around NodeBB needs a nudge? Or is this, maybe, a limitation of NodeBB?

Thanks

Cc @ciotbsd @tinker@infosec.exchange

Call to undefined function filter_var() on FreeBSD

• https://www.rubenerd.au/call-to-undefined-function-filter-var/