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[?]Krishean Draconis » 🌐
@krishean@tech.lgbt

has freebsd taken a stance on ai? at a glance i'm not seeing references to systemd in their documentation pages

    [?]Graham Perrin » 🌐
    @grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe

    Contributions to FreeBSD: LLMs and AI

    From <github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src> for the src tree:

    "Do not submit a pull request for … changes generated by AI tools without substantial human review and validation."

    Comparable lines from a July 2025 edition:

    <github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src>

    Back to June 2025, the Core Team Update at the FreeBSD Developer Summit, <reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/> includes links to:

    ― part of the recording

    ― <reviews.freebsd.org/D50650> @dch – ⚙ D50650 committers: add AI policy.

    The more recent review – accepted:

    ⚙ D54817 Committer's Guide: Add project's AI policy and link to AI guide

    <reviews.freebsd.org/D54817>

    Related:

    <freebsd.org/projects/summerofc>

    @krishean

      [?]roman » 🌐
      @hi@romanzolotarev.com

      do you mean , , and ?

        Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

        [?]FreeBSD Foundation » 🌐
        @FreeBSDFoundation@mastodon.social

        FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE is now available.

        The FreeBSD Project has announced the release of FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE, the fifth release from the stable/14 branch. FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE is available for multiple architectures and can be installed via ISO, USB, VM images, cloud platforms, and OCI containers.
        Download and release information:
        freebsd.org/releases/14.4R/ann

        Thank you to the Release Engineering Team and the many contributors who make each release possible.

          [?]Peter N. M. Hansteen » 🌐
          @pitrh@mastodon.social

          The Book of PF, 4th Edition: It's Here, It's Real nxdomain.no/~peter/its_real_it - now that I have physical copies, I'll bring some to the upcoming conferences such as @EuroBSDCon @nostarch

            dejarW boosted

            [?]Marek Zarychta :antiverified: » 🌐
            @mzar@fosstodon.org

            ’s entry-level ee(1) text editor recently gained full support 🎉
            Huge thanks to @_bapt_
            - much appreciated!

            One more step toward making FreeBSD even more welcoming… , we’re ready for you :freebsd:

            GenZ - we are ready !

            Alt...GenZ - we are ready !

              Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

              [?]Matthias Petermann » 🌐
              @mpeterma@mastodon.bsd.cafe

              Thanks everyone for the constructive discussion and participation in the naming poll over the past days. It was really helpful.

              The former "Jails for NetBSD" project will move forward under the name "Cells for NetBSD".

              New project page:
              netbsd-cells.petermann-digital

              Next steps will focus on stabilizing the current prototype, testing it with real-world workloads, and exploring further ideas around a NetBSD-native container technology.

                Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                [?]Wesley » 🌐
                @obj@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                Just stumbled on bsdsec.net and damn, it’s perfect.All the security advisories & errata from , , , and the rest… all in one dead-simple page.
                👉bsdsec.net

                bsdsec.net

                Alt...bsdsec.net

                  [?]Jay 🚩 :runbsd: » 🌐
                  @jaypatelani@bsd.network

                  @superuserdo is it a login screen?

                    [?]Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire: » 🌐
                    @mwl@io.mwl.io

                    Hey users!

                    I'm trying to test draid virtually for , because nobody's gonna give me a shelf of 60 disks to play with. I set everything up like:

                    disk35_name="disk35"
                    disk35_type="ahci-hd"
                    disk35_dev="sparse-zvol"

                    Seems that if I have 35 ahci-hd entries, disk0 through disk34, bhyve and freebsd works. At disk35, the host panics on boot.

                    Is this expected with bhyve? Or does FreeBSD need a special tweak with 36 disks?

                      [?]Peter N. M. Hansteen » 🌐
                      @pitrh@mastodon.social

                      🗳

                      [?]Matthias Petermann » 🌐
                      @mpeterma@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                      I’ve been following the discussions about the name of my NetBSD project ("Jails for NetBSD") across a few platforms over the past days and really appreciate the thoughtful feedback.

                      The short version: the current prototype is probably closer to a cell or a cage than a strict jail, so the name might indeed not be perfect. The project originally started as an experiment inspired by FreeBSD jails, but while exploring NetBSD internals it evolved into something slightly different: controlled process isolation built around the secmodel framework, a different approach for the tool chain and configuration, and without resource limits and network virtualization.

                      Because of that, I’m open to renaming the project at this stage.

                      I’ve attached a small poll with a few candidate names — please vote if you like.
                      And if the right name isn’t listed yet, feel free to drop suggestions in the comments 🙂

                      Project site: netbsd-jails.petermann-digital

                      Jails (current name):11
                      Cells:14
                      Realms:5
                      Domains (clash with Xen):0
                      Enclaves:4
                      Cages:9

                        [?]Jay 🚩 :runbsd: » 🌐
                        @jaypatelani@bsd.network

                        [?]Peter N. M. Hansteen » 🌐
                        @pitrh@mastodon.social

                        The 2026 Call for Papers is open!

                        2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/

                        Submit by June 20th, come to Brussels September 9-13 and mingle with people!

                        We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see within.

                        Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd

                        @EuroBSDCon

                          ltning boosted

                          [?]Peter N. M. Hansteen » 🌐
                          @pitrh@mastodon.social

                          Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                          [?]Jay 🚩 :runbsd: » 🌐
                          @jaypatelani@bsd.network

                          [?]Anders Gulden Olstad » 🌐
                          @andersgo@infosec.exchange

                          CDE… But how to live it?

                            [?]Ricardo Martín :bsdhead: » 🌐
                            @ricardo@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                            HTTP/3 on FreeBSD: Getting QUIC Working with nginx in a Bastille Jail | Larvitz Blog

                            blog.hofstede.it/http3-on-free

                              [?]Justine Smithies [She / Her] » 🌐
                              @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

                              I love my P14s Gen 1 AMD and running it sleeps and wakes from sleep without issue. But when I try on it, It does sleep you see the ThinkPad LED pulsing indicating sleep. But when I go to wake, It just sits on a blank screen and all you can do is force it off and on again. Anybody have similar experiences ??

                                Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                I just wrapped up an interesting call that was originally scheduled for last week but rescheduled for today. The client is looking for a unique setup, and thanks to having an early re-read of the fantastic The Book of PF - 4th Edition, I was able to propose some configurations that had completely slipped my mind. The client is extremely curious, and this will likely lead to a new OpenBSD deployment in an interesting environment.

                                At the same time, I received an email from a professor at an Italian university whom I had encouraged to extend his lectures to include BSDs. I piqued his curiosity as well and proposed a session specifically on firewalls, focusing on OpenBSD and pf. He will be reading The Book of PF soon and will likely add it to his students' recommended reading list. I'll probably present them, too.

                                In short - one book, a thousand new possibilities. Infinite thanks to @pitrh for the massive and wonderful work behind it.

                                nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-ed

                                 

                                  Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                  [?]Jay 🚩 :runbsd: » 🌐
                                  @jaypatelani@bsd.network

                                  [?]dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker: » 🌐
                                  @dch@bsd.network

                                  anybody know how to tell what the *actual* checksum chosen by OpenZFS is, on FreeBSD?

                                  When a zpool is created by bsdinstall, it defaults to checksum=on, and a micro benchmark is done to choose the appropriate checksum (from fletcher4, sha256, sha512, skein, blake3).

                                  I would like to know what that chosen checksum is.

                                  openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs provides instructions for ZoL but its not matched on FreeBSD.
                                  Sysctl shows only:

                                  $ sysctl -a |egrep -i 'blake3|fletcher|sha2|sha5'
                                  vfs.zfs.fletcher_4_impl: [fastest] scalar superscalar superscalar4 sse2 ssse3 avx2 avx512f avx512bw
                                  vfs.zfs.sha512_impl: cycle [fastest] generic x64 avx avx2
                                  vfs.zfs.sha256_impl: cycle [fastest] generic x64 ssse3 avx avx2 shani
                                  vfs.zfs.blake3_impl: cycle [fastest] generic sse2 sse41 avx2 avx512

                                  Which is not very helpful!

                                  Inspecting zdb shows that the überblock uses fletcher4, if so that's a bad choice for almost all the machines I have, vs one of the more modern CPU-accelerated ones.

                                  Uberblock:
                                  magic = 0000000000bab10c
                                  version = 5000
                                  txg = 29818863
                                  guid_sum = 12865431551488305392
                                  timestamp = 1770722160 UTC = Tue Feb 10 11:16:00 2026
                                  bp = DVA[0]=<0:1ef37817000:1000> DVA[1]=<0:1f26e5c1000:1000> DVA[2]=<0:8c341bf000:1000> [L0 DMU objset] fletcher4 uncompressed unencrypted LE contiguous unique triple size=1000L/1000P birth=29818863L/29818863P fill=75881 cksum=00000003035e0207:00000baf31d8f848:0016adf241101a15:1d6126f678dd7a91

                                    Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                    [?]Peter N. M. Hansteen » 🌐
                                    @pitrh@mastodon.social

                                    [?]Peter N. M. Hansteen » 🌐
                                    @pitrh@mastodon.social

                                    "The Rest Is Trash"

                                    We are now halfway through the nineteenth year of greytrapping, still tracking and collecting from the wealth of imbecility out there

                                    nxdomain.no/~peter/the_rest_is (tracked bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/02/the)

                                      Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                      [?]KaiXin » 🌐
                                      @kaixin@snac.bsd.cafe

                                      Every now and then when I come back to use my daily driver running , I got surprised why still does not provided short-formed commands like in and in do such as:

                                      # FreeBSD
                                      pkg ins vim # same as pkg install vim
                                      pkg sea vim # same as pkg search vim

                                      # NetBSD
                                      pkgin in vim # same as pkgin install vim
                                      pkgin se vim # same as pkgin search vim

                                      # while in Debian
                                      apt search vim # no apt se/sea
                                      apt install vim # no apt in/ins


                                        Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                        [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                        @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                        My BSDCan submission has been approved!

                                        It will be wonderful to be back in Ottawa, meet again all the "old" (and new) friends from the BSD world and, this time, present something that has saved me more than once... and it’s based on NetBSD!

                                          Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                          [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                          @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                          This morning I was thinking about something: one of the reasons why every enthusiast should consider going to a BSDCon is simple.

                                          I eat a lot and I still come back slimmer 😄

                                          2024 - EuroBSDCon: ate twice as much as usual, came back from Dublin 1 kg lighter.
                                          2025 - BSDCan: breakfasts that could cover a whole day’s calories, huge delicious meals... came back from Ottawa 0.5 kg lighter.
                                          2025 - EuroBSDCon: double breakfast (sweet + savory), massive lunches, delicious dinners (including a huge pizza, as @outofcreativity, @angie and @mwl can confirm) and still came back 0.5 kg lighter.

                                          Positive emotions burn calories.

                                          So come to BSDCons: you’ll come back happy and slimmer!

                                            Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                            [?]Peter N. M. Hansteen » 🌐
                                            @pitrh@mastodon.social

                                            Deadline this weekend - apply by Feb 1st, 2026!

                                            Do you want to go to EuroBSDCon 2026.eurobsdcon.org/ but need support to do so?

                                            Or do you know someone in that situation? Apply for the Paul Schenkeveld Travel Grant before February 1st, 2026!

                                            eurobsdconfoundation.org/trave

                                              [?]Peter N. M. Hansteen » 🌐
                                              @pitrh@mastodon.social

                                              Oh, I suppose I have been slacking and not telling you that if you order The Book of PF, 4th ed nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-ed now, you will get the *final version* ebook (print is still in progress) @nostarch

                                              Also see nxdomain.no/~peter/yes_the_boo

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