oxy
@oxy@social.bsdlab.au
Antipodean Unix/BSD nerd. Linux when poked with a sufficiently sharp stick. Budding rustacean and gopher. Have done various infosec and network/sys admin things in the past. Awk is the answer to every question. https://doomunit.bandcamp.com/ Contactable on Signal/Matrix/Threema. For the details @ me (banner image from https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/ArtworkByTaylorMade)
social.bsdlab.au
oxy
@oxy@social.bsdlab.au
Antipodean Unix/BSD nerd. Linux when poked with a sufficiently sharp stick. Budding rustacean and gopher. Have done various infosec and network/sys admin things in the past. Awk is the answer to every question. https://doomunit.bandcamp.com/ Contactable on Signal/Matrix/Threema. For the details @ me (banner image from https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/ArtworkByTaylorMade)
social.bsdlab.au
@oxy@social.bsdlab.au
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ᴏᴏᴍ-ᴋɪʟʟᴇʀ: 333
@jae@mastodon.bsd.cafe
unix - это церковь, в которой мы молимся - unix researcher and archivist - freebsd daily driver (brakes don't work) - linux breaker - works in security/password manger => pastebin
mastodon.bsd.cafe
ᴏᴏᴍ-ᴋɪʟʟᴇʀ: 333
@jae@mastodon.bsd.cafe
unix - это церковь, в которой мы молимся - unix researcher and archivist - freebsd daily driver (brakes don't work) - linux breaker - works in security/password manger => pastebin
mastodon.bsd.cafe
@jae@mastodon.bsd.cafe
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17h ago
#kubernetes on #freebsd is rocking like...
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Amber Screen
@ascreen@mastodon.sdf.org
mastodon.sdf.org
Amber Screen
@ascreen@mastodon.sdf.org
mastodon.sdf.org
@ascreen@mastodon.sdf.org
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1d ago
pkg is lovely to update #freebsd boxes quickly, but I wish that wasn't necessary as often as these days 😬
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/
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Lobsters
@lobsters@mastodon.social
Feed for stories that have reached the front page of lobste.rs.
mastodon.social
FreeBSD privilege escalation out-of-the-box https://lobste.rs/s/4lsunk #video #freebsd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA-TNsVG9IY
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Lobsters
@lobsters@mastodon.social
Feed for stories that have reached the front page of lobste.rs.
mastodon.social
FreeBSD Device Driver Book https://lobste.rs/s/bwm12z #book #c #freebsd
https://github.com/ebrandi/FDD-book
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nixCraft 🐧
@nixCraft@mastodon.social
Enjoy Linux & Unix-like systems, open-source software, and programming? Into Sysadmin & DevOps? Follow us to make the most of your IT career! Discover new tools, IT news, and apps daily, plus a dose of humor.
mastodon.social
nixCraft 🐧
@nixCraft@mastodon.social
Enjoy Linux & Unix-like systems, open-source software, and programming? Into Sysadmin & DevOps? Follow us to make the most of your IT career! Discover new tools, IT news, and apps daily, plus a dose of humor.
mastodon.social
@nixCraft@mastodon.social
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3d ago
FreeBSD Device Drivers: From First Steps to Kernel Mastery by Edson Brandi · Version 2.0 (April 2026) https://github.com/ebrandi/FDD-book
#freebsd #unix #books
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Peter N. M. Hansteen
@pitrh@mastodon.social
Occasional rants about IT with an OpenBSD slant at http://bsdly.blogspot.com If you're new to the fediverse or Mastodon, please take a peek at https://fedi.tips/ for tips on fediverse netizenship. I'm usually located in Bergen, Norway (AKA The Other West Coast)
mastodon.social
Peter N. M. Hansteen
@pitrh@mastodon.social
Occasional rants about IT with an OpenBSD slant at http://bsdly.blogspot.com If you're new to the fediverse or Mastodon, please take a peek at https://fedi.tips/ for tips on fediverse netizenship. I'm usually located in Bergen, Norway (AKA The Other West Coast)
mastodon.social
@pitrh@mastodon.social
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4d ago
BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Saturday 2026-06-20: 15:45 - 16:35 DMS 1120
A Two-Step FreeBSD Installer: Current Status and Future Plans
Alfonso Sabato Siciliano
https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-A-Two-Step-FreeBSD.html
To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan #freebsd #installer
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James Seward
@jamesoff@mastodon.jamesoff.net
I write a bunch of code (mainly Python), have cats, tinker with and detail cars, and fiddle with FreeBSD. I like making photos. Playing with Internet stuff since '96. Interested in kernels, protocols, and inner workings in general. Intermittent cyclist. Cloudy Amazonian, and they tell me my opinions are my own. Jeg lærer norsk. Profile pic: white male with grey hair and glasses, pixel art style. Banner: selfie-style photo of a ginger cat sitting on a human’s lap at a desk.
mastodon.jamesoff.net
James Seward
@jamesoff@mastodon.jamesoff.net
I write a bunch of code (mainly Python), have cats, tinker with and detail cars, and fiddle with FreeBSD. I like making photos. Playing with Internet stuff since '96. Interested in kernels, protocols, and inner workings in general. Intermittent cyclist. Cloudy Amazonian, and they tell me my opinions are my own. Jeg lærer norsk. Profile pic: white male with grey hair and glasses, pixel art style. Banner: selfie-style photo of a ginger cat sitting on a human’s lap at a desk.
mastodon.jamesoff.net
@jamesoff@mastodon.jamesoff.net
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4d ago
On a roll, my second contribution to ports was just committed :) #FreeBSD
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=69b05d1c9fc09863d064a98ddf392a991eb4e770
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Lobsters
@lobsters@mastodon.social
Feed for stories that have reached the front page of lobste.rs.
mastodon.social
HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle by @lattera@bsd.network https://lobste.rs/s/5dbg0u #freebsd #vcs
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2026-04-26/hardenedbsd-officially-radicle
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Matthew Sheffield
@mattsheffield@mastodon.social
🟦 Editing @discoverflux 🟦 Writer, web developer, and AI researcher 🟦 Host, Theory of Change podcast 🟦 Words in Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Daily Beast, and elsewhere 🟦 Posts about politics, cognitive science, technology, religion, and media, with occasional memes Signal: matthewsheffield.01
mastodon.social
Matthew Sheffield
@mattsheffield@mastodon.social
🟦 Editing @discoverflux 🟦 Writer, web developer, and AI researcher 🟦 Host, Theory of Change podcast 🟦 Words in Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Daily Beast, and elsewhere 🟦 Posts about politics, cognitive science, technology, religion, and media, with occasional memes Signal: matthewsheffield.01
mastodon.social
@mattsheffield@mastodon.social
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4d ago
The scheduling service Cal has shut down its #opensource program because it views it as a security risk now that LLMs are much more capable and can be deployed to scan the code base 24/7 https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-security-worries-force-company-to-abandon-open-source/
#linux #freebsd
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James Seward
@jamesoff@mastodon.jamesoff.net
I write a bunch of code (mainly Python), have cats, tinker with and detail cars, and fiddle with FreeBSD. I like making photos. Playing with Internet stuff since '96. Interested in kernels, protocols, and inner workings in general. Intermittent cyclist. Cloudy Amazonian, and they tell me my opinions are my own. Jeg lærer norsk. Profile pic: white male with grey hair and glasses, pixel art style. Banner: selfie-style photo of a ginger cat sitting on a human’s lap at a desk.
mastodon.jamesoff.net
James Seward
@jamesoff@mastodon.jamesoff.net
I write a bunch of code (mainly Python), have cats, tinker with and detail cars, and fiddle with FreeBSD. I like making photos. Playing with Internet stuff since '96. Interested in kernels, protocols, and inner workings in general. Intermittent cyclist. Cloudy Amazonian, and they tell me my opinions are my own. Jeg lærer norsk. Profile pic: white male with grey hair and glasses, pixel art style. Banner: selfie-style photo of a ginger cat sitting on a human’s lap at a desk.
mastodon.jamesoff.net
@jamesoff@mastodon.jamesoff.net
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5d ago
Yay my patch to the Amazon SSM Agent port was committed to #FreeBSD ports - if you use it then please be sure to update soon as changes to the service mean the old one will stop working in June!
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Henry
@hl@social.lol
I am, or have been, in no particular order, a: parent, data analyst, aircraft designer, guitarist, project manager, chartered mechanical engineer, chorus member, tinkerer, programmer, music fan, executive assistant, traveller, glider pilot, concert promoter, crowd herder and supermarket cashier.
social.lol
Henry
@hl@social.lol
I am, or have been, in no particular order, a: parent, data analyst, aircraft designer, guitarist, project manager, chartered mechanical engineer, chorus member, tinkerer, programmer, music fan, executive assistant, traveller, glider pilot, concert promoter, crowd herder and supermarket cashier.
social.lol
@hl@social.lol
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6d ago
Not me, every time I set off a zpool scrub (with apologies to TLC):
🎵
Yes, I just want to scrub,
A scrub is a kind of check that gets love from me,
Countin’ out the checksum of your best friend’s drive,
Trying to verify at me
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FreeBSD Foundation
@FreeBSDFoundation@mastodon.social
The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the FreeBSD Project
mastodon.social
FreeBSD Foundation
@FreeBSDFoundation@mastodon.social
The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the FreeBSD Project
mastodon.social
@FreeBSDFoundation@mastodon.social
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Apr 23, 2026
How the Foundation’s Laptop Support & Usability Project Came Together
In this article from the Q1 2026 FreeBSD Journal, Deb Goodkin, Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation, explains how the Foundation turned recurring community feedback about FreeBSD on laptops into a structured, funded initiative with long-term impact.
Read more:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/laptop-desktop/how-the-foundations-laptop-support-usability-project-came-together/
#FreeBSD #OpenSource #Usability #LaptopSupport
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Dan Langille
@dvl@bsd.network
dvl@FreeBSD.org I've been contributing to open source since 1998.
bsd.network
Dan Langille
@dvl@bsd.network
dvl@FreeBSD.org I've been contributing to open source since 1998.
bsd.network
@dvl@bsd.network
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Apr 21, 2026
Let's see what happens if I reboot all my hosts at the same time...
#FreeBSD
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Michael Dexter
@dexter@bsd.network
Dexter's Law: Only proprietary software vendors want proprietary software and only fascists want fascism. Toots are my own. Self-employed. Father of three. I aim to keep this to technical topics relating to bhyve and OpenZFS, and the occasional humor and Latvia.
bsd.network
Michael Dexter
@dexter@bsd.network
Dexter's Law: Only proprietary software vendors want proprietary software and only fascists want fascism. Toots are my own. Self-employed. Father of three. I aim to keep this to technical topics relating to bhyve and OpenZFS, and the occasional humor and Latvia.
bsd.network
@dexter@bsd.network
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Apr 22, 2026
That would be crazy if someone imported tmux, doas, tmux, and openrsync into #FreeBSD base. Like , crazy.
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JdeBP
@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk
This is a general, but non-politics, account covering everything from computer programming to supermarket meal deals; any politics will be taken up by @JdeBP. For #senryu and #SlowLife tasks, see @JdeBP. For the command-line and system tools (including #nosh and #djbwares), specifically, see @JdeBP.
mastodonapp.uk
JdeBP
@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk
This is a general, but non-politics, account covering everything from computer programming to supermarket meal deals; any politics will be taken up by @JdeBP. For #senryu and #SlowLife tasks, see @JdeBP. For the command-line and system tools (including #nosh and #djbwares), specifically, see @JdeBP.
mastodonapp.uk
@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk
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Mar 01, 2026
#CaliforniaLaw is written by people who are either very ignorant or very incompetent.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043
They have assumed that all operating systems are like Microsoft Windows 11, Android, or iOS; and have written legislation for operating systems where people download glorified WWW client 'apps', from 'stores', which use 'accounts' that they have with vendors or Microsoft/Google/Apple.
But the legislation *as worded* *also* covers everything from #Debian and #Ubuntu through #Arch Linux and #MobaXTerm to #FreeBSD and #NetBSD and #OpenBSD; where users anonymously use package managers or ports systems to install applications, written by developers, on operating systems, from 'publicly available internet website' repositories.
There is no age field in the GECOS data in master.passwd(5) of course, and the reality is that no BSD or Linux-based operating system has this concept of apps/stores/accounts.
#MidnightBSD #FreeSoftware #Unix #California #USLaw #AgeVerification #GDPR
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waffles 🇨🇦
@waffles@masto.yttrx.com
I grew up with BBSs, forums and small internet. usenet, fidonet, etc. I miss small internet. I love small internet. I post about the people and things that bring me joy. sysop of yttrx. 🇨🇦 living in 🇺🇸
masto.yttrx.com
waffles 🇨🇦
@waffles@masto.yttrx.com
I grew up with BBSs, forums and small internet. usenet, fidonet, etc. I miss small internet. I love small internet. I post about the people and things that bring me joy. sysop of yttrx. 🇨🇦 living in 🇺🇸
masto.yttrx.com
@waffles@masto.yttrx.com
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Apr 17, 2026
I have a physical #freebsd server that I use to host my email. Today I felt a little homepage nostalgic, so I configured a jail on it to serve up some static html
https://peteftw.com/~pete/
1990s me never could’ve afforded a TLS cert 😆
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Lobsters
@lobsters@mastodon.social
Feed for stories that have reached the front page of lobste.rs.
mastodon.social
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Larvitz
@Larvitz@mastodon.bsd.cafe
Linux pays the bills, FreeBSD feeds the soul. FreeBSD on servers, Linux on workstations, terminals everywhere. Networking, IPv6, firewalls, jails, and all things cleanly engineered.
mastodon.bsd.cafe
Latest quarterly FreeBSD package upgrade broke my Nextcloud 😮💨
Post mortem: The new version of php85-pdo_pgsql is now compiled against PostgreSQL 18, not 17. So pkg upgrade removed postgresql17-server, leaving Nextcloud dysfunctional without a database.
Solution:
- Reinstalled postgresql17-server
- Dumped the db with pg_dump
- Installed postgresql18-server & php85-pdo_pgsql
- Copied over pg_hba.conf & postgresql.conf
- Created empty db/user in PG18
- Imported the db dump
- Ran occ maintenance:data-fingerprint
Restarted php-fpm & nginx
All fine again. But that was unpleasant 🙂
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Matthew Sheffield
@mattsheffield@mastodon.social
🟦 Editing @discoverflux 🟦 Writer, web developer, and AI researcher 🟦 Host, Theory of Change podcast 🟦 Words in Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Daily Beast, and elsewhere 🟦 Posts about politics, cognitive science, technology, religion, and media, with occasional memes Signal: matthewsheffield.01
mastodon.social
Matthew Sheffield
@mattsheffield@mastodon.social
🟦 Editing @discoverflux 🟦 Writer, web developer, and AI researcher 🟦 Host, Theory of Change podcast 🟦 Words in Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Daily Beast, and elsewhere 🟦 Posts about politics, cognitive science, technology, religion, and media, with occasional memes Signal: matthewsheffield.01
mastodon.social
@mattsheffield@mastodon.social
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Apr 14, 2026
RE: https://social.erambert.me/@macthemes/116401059227383720
Operating systems used to be so personalizable. This is absolutely garish, but it would be great if everyone could do this besides the hardcore #Linux and #freebsd userbase.
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