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Dear friends of the BSD Cafe,
This idea has been in my mind since the very beginning of this adventure, almost two years ago. Over time, several people have suggested it. But until recently, I felt the timing just wasn’t right - for many reasons. Today, I believe it finally is.
So I’m happy to announce a new service:
The BSD Cafe Journal - https://journal.bsd.cafe
At first, I thought I’d use BSSG for it (I even added multi-author support with this in mind), but in the end, it didn’t feel like the right tool for the job.
The idea is to create a multi-author space, with content published on a fairly regular basis. A reference point for news, updates, tutorials, technical articles - a place to inform and connect.
Just like people in Italy used to stop by cafes to read the newspaper and chat about the day’s news, the BSD Cafe Journal aims to be a space for reading, sharing, and staying informed - all in the spirit of the BSD Cafe.
What it’s not:
It’s not here to replace personal blogs, or excellent newsletters like @vermaden 's. And it’s not an aggregator.
What it is:
A place where authors can write original content, share links to posts on their own blogs or elsewhere, publish guides, offer insights, or dive into technical explanations.
The guiding principles are the same as always: positivity, constructive discussion, promoting BSDs and open source in general. No hype (sharing a cool new service is fine, posting non-stop about the latest trend is not), no drama, no politics. The goal is to bring people together, not divide them. To inform, not inflame.
Respect, tolerance, and inclusivity are key. Everyone should feel welcome reading the BSD Cafe Journal - never judged, offended, or excluded.
The platform I’ve chosen is WordPress, for several reasons: it’s portable (runs well on all BSDs), has great built-in role management (contributors, authors, etc.), and - last but not least - supports ActivityPub.
This means every author will have their own identity in the Fediverse (like: @stefano ) and can be followed directly, and it’ll also be possible to follow the whole Journal.
Original and educational content is encouraged, but it’s also perfectly fine to link to existing articles elsewhere. Personally, I’ll link my technical posts from ITNotes whenever I publish them there.
The goal is simple: a news-oriented site, rich in content, ad-free, respectful of privacy - all under the BSD Cafe umbrella.
Content coordination will happen in a dedicated Matrix room for authors. There’ll also be a public room for discussing ideas, giving feedback, and sharing suggestions.
Of course, I can’t do this alone. A journal with no content is just an empty shell.
So here’s my call for action:
Who’s ready to lend a hand? If you enjoy writing, explaining, sharing your knowledge - the Journal is waiting for you.
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates #BSDCafeAnnouncements #RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #illumos #Linux #OSS #OpenSource #BCJournal #BSDCafeJournal
"Gotta try 'em all!" XD
I've spent some quality time in #OpenBSD and now #FreeBSD, I'd like to try #NetBSD and #DragonflyBSD next.
(This is regarding https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/gumnos/statuses/115695846629134863. Not sure why the context got lost XD)
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My RAM-miserly setup on #OpenBSD. XD
rld@falcon:~$ free total used freeMem: 3.7G 2.4G 1.3GSwap: 4.0G 0B 4.0Grld@falcon:~$ top -bn1 |grep ^MemoryMemory: Real: 304M/2209M act/tot Free: 1473M Cache: 948M Swap: 0K/4071Mrld@falcon:~$ uname -srmOpenBSD 7.8 amd64rld@falcon:~$ ps wwaux |sort -nsk6 |awk '$6/=1024 {printf "%5.02f %s\n", $6, $11}' |tail 6.85 i3bar 8.89 xenodm:10.71 /usr/local/bin/i312.84 syncthing15.81 /sbin/mount_mfs16.67 dunst63.16 alacritty63.23 alacritty67.93 /usr/X11R6/bin/X88.31 /usr/local/bin/syncthing
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#fedi #fediworld #fedicommunity #community #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #homelab #Python #Debian #RockyLinux #Feditips
A Git hosting service built on OpenBSD and Game of Trees, transparently funded via Open Collective.
Small, boring, security-first, and run by people who actually care about infrastructure.
Feels like one of the first real BSD-native Git hosting services.
This is the kind of thing BSD folks quietly smile about. 🐡
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#OpenBSD #BSD #GameOfTrees #Git #FOSS
manpageblog is written in Python and available for many systems, including #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD or #Solaris based ones like #Illumos but also on #Linux like #Debian or #Ubuntu.
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#opensource #devops #minimalism #purism #web #blog #blogengine #blogging #coding #python #website #manpageblog
For those of you interested in my #OpenBSD stories, what kind of content would you prefer?
Options: (choose one)
Someone was wondering about color emoji support in terminal using #OpenBSD. I never really checked before but on 7.8, it does work OOTB.
This is #Neomutt inside a #tmux session ran from #Xfce terminal. But it also works in plain #Xterm; since you have it render UTF-8 characters with DejaVu Sans for example.
Installing #openbsd can be quite easy with one exception. The disklabel setup uses sectors as the size unit and I misinterpreted the size and chose the 1TB NVME drive by mistake instead of the 16GB SATA drive. Nothing important was lost but still a mistake I wouldn't want to make again.
But in the meantime, I'll install some software and try it out.
The first thing I notice is only 14 of the 28 cores are active.
Is this a feature where it turns off hyperthreading on vulnerable systems?
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/31080
GitHub Continuous Integration checks queued.
Hopefully they will run without issue?
If so, it's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.
This isn't very significant from the last PR I submitted from late October 2025 (upstream has a commit from early September 2025 so I am trailing by many months with this one) however, remarkable to me:
MacPorts' signify's version is now in alignment with upstream's versioning!
Yay!
I have no idea if that was true previously? My guess is: no, since I think jpouellet/Jean-Philippe Ouellet branched that out a long time ago and seemed to have iterated version tags haphazardly? Maybe I am mistaken though! There's a completely different Linuxism fork of signify which seems to have evolved (and versioned) very differently too.
That in particular has confused me with spurious repology.org out of date error messages for many months. I dunno if it has confused others, or if this version sync will make things less confusing, but hopefully? It makes things less confusing for me at least.
In tangential news, since I saw tedu in the man page, someone was wondering where he got off to a while ago and I don't think I saw a response. Hopefully he's doin OK? Please?
#signify #MacPorts #macOS #OpenSource #OpenBSD #cryptography
Please boost and thanks in advance.
Options: (choose one)
Heads up for Firefox users on #OpenBSD -current, landry@ the mozilla port maintainer has committed a new policy configuration file which changes some (annoying) default behaviour.
landry@ modified ports/www/mozilla-firefox/*: Install a policy configuration file
mostly taken from https://justthebrowser.com/firefox/, Disables:
Firefox Studies
Checking if firefox is the default browser
Sponsored stuff on the home page
GenAI features
PerplexityAI from the default search engines
in addition, frob GoToIntranetSiteForSingleWordEntryInAddressBar, which forces firefox to ask your dns first if you enter a single word in the address bar, useful to access local sites on your network instead of sending your internal dns entries to $searchengine.
cf https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/#gotointranetsiteforsinglewordentryinaddressbar
many knobs to frob, but those seem to be a decent baseline to fight against enshittification.
It has been so long since I ran a #BSD that I don't even remember which BSD it was. (I could probably dig up that info...)
Circa 20 years ago I used to run BSD gateway/router machines.
I think I'd like to do this again, for a variety of reasons.
But which BSD should I run for this kind of network gateway. It won't host any applications, it won't be a NAS, it'll purely be network/gateway... it'll have the telco router on one side, internal network on another, and one or two DMZ/separate type networks (one for hosting external facing things like Mastodon, the other for untrusted IoT stuff.) It'll run dhcp, dns, and probably be a VPN endpoint.
I do not want to run some specialist gateway adapted customised thing with dashboards etc, just want a plain vanilla OS. (And no bullcrap like containers, docker, etc. Just an OS running on a physical box.)
So, what OS should I run on my network gateway: #OpenBSD, #FreeBSD, #NetBSD
Options: (choose one)
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/31141
GitHub Continuous Integration checks passed OK.
It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it!
#Got #GameOfTrees #MacPorts #VersionControl #OpenBSD #Git #Development #FreeSoftware #LibreSoftware
There are obvious missing platforms in the #offpunk packages:
https://repology.org/project/offpunk/versions
No #openbsd ! 
No #fedora ! 
No #opensuse !
and probably several other missing. If you are doing package for one of the missing platforms, join us on the dedicated mailing-list: