So I was testing to see if the MidnightBSD install image would blow up on my Framework 13A and I am happy to report that it did not. I did not start the installer but switched to the LiveCD and as all of the system messages popped up successfully the last message before the login was the start of the aged service. Very sad considering that this project was the first to resist age attestation by prohibiting its license in states/countries where age attestation laws exist.

https://opensource.org/blog/open-source-organizations-weigh-in-on-age-attestation

https://mastodon.social/@FreeBSDFoundation/116676767603367392

The FreeBSD Foundation has joined the Open Source Initiative (OSI), the Apereo Foundation, and the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) in issuing a joint statement on age-attestation requirements for operating systems.

Cross-posted to Reddit.

Home pages of the four signatories:

• Apereo Foundation
• FreeBSD Foundation
• Open Source Initiative – The steward of the Open Source Definition, setting the foundation for the Open Source Software ecosystem.
• OSTIF.org – Securing Open Source for the World

The Apero Foundation presents the statement as HTML, alongside a link to the PDF. Quoted below.

https://www.blackduck.com/content/dam/black-duck/en-us/reports/rep-ossra.pdf

The “Open Source Security and Risk Analysis” (OSSRA) report has been the industry’s definitive look at the state of open source code for a decade. Each year, we analyze anonymized findings from commercial codebases audited by the Black Duck Audit Services team, and this provides an unmatched, real-world view of how open source is used—and sometimes misused—across every major industry. This year’s findings document a pivotal moment: The explosion of AI-assisted development has fundamentally altered the risk landscape for software and the baseline for compliance with new regulatory initiatives such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).

PDF, 44 pages.

Context

Open source organisations weigh in on age attestation

Availability

Noted in Reddit:

… easily found with Google – without completing Black Duck's form, which requires a business email address:

• https://www.google.com/search?q="2026+Open+Source+Security+and+Risk+Analysis+Report"+PDF&udm=14

…

Of course, there's an argument to be made that talking about SPARC ought to live in the Retrocomputing section.

But I still work on SPARC, have a small number of servers (a T4-1 and a couple of T5140s) that support the work. I don't expect this to be of major interest to most, but possibly the most visible part of the SPARC work I do is the OpenJDK port, which supports SPARC and x86 on Solaris and illumos. While the x86 port is current (so supports 17, 21, 25 LTS and everything in between and up to the current development of 27), SPARC goes up to JDK18 at the moment. Fortunately it's good enough to run Jenkins, which has bought people a little bit of time, although the minimum version will get bumped at some point.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/generative-ai

• not dated
• first captured in the Wayback Machine in October 2023
• mentioned in Policy for AI/LLM contributions (#697) · Issue · alpine/council

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

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

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).