<p>Wondering if I wanna keep the ancient HP as an upgrade test bed for FreeBSD since we've already done 2 upgrades, or use it to try out <a href="/tags/netbsd/" rel="tag">#NetBSD</a> or <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a>? What do you all think?</p>
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<p>Dear friends of the BSD Cafe,</p><p>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.</p><p>So I’m happy to announce a new service: <br>The BSD Cafe Journal - <a href="https://journal.bsd.cafe" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>journal.bsd.cafe</a></p><p>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.</p><p>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.<br>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.</p><p>What it’s not:<br>It’s not here to replace personal blogs, or excellent newsletters like <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@vermaden" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>vermaden</span></a></span> 's. And it’s not an aggregator.</p><p>What it is:<br>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. </p><p>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.<br>Respect, tolerance, and inclusivity are key. Everyone should feel welcome reading the BSD Cafe Journal - never judged, offended, or excluded.</p><p>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.<br>This means every author will have their own identity in the Fediverse (like: <span class="h-card"><a href="https://journal.bsd.cafe/author/stefano/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stefano</span></a></span> ) and can be followed directly, and it’ll also be possible to follow the whole Journal.</p><p>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.</p><p>The goal is simple: a news-oriented site, rich in content, ad-free, respectful of privacy - all under the BSD Cafe umbrella.</p><p>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.</p><p>Of course, I can’t do this alone. A journal with no content is just an empty shell.<br>So here’s my call for action:<br>Who’s ready to lend a hand? If you enjoy writing, explaining, sharing your knowledge - the Journal is waiting for you.</p><p><a href="/tags/bsdcafe/" rel="tag">#BSDCafe</a> <a href="/tags/bsdcafeservices/" rel="tag">#BSDCafeServices</a> <a href="/tags/bsdcafeupdates/" rel="tag">#BSDCafeUpdates</a> <a href="/tags/bsdcafeannouncements/" rel="tag">#BSDCafeAnnouncements</a> <a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#RunBSD</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/netbsd/" rel="tag">#NetBSD</a> <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> <a href="/tags/illumos/" rel="tag">#illumos</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> <a href="/tags/oss/" rel="tag">#OSS</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a> <a href="/tags/bcjournal/" rel="tag">#BCJournal</a> <a href="/tags/bsdcafejournal/" rel="tag">#BSDCafeJournal</a></p>
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@[email protected] <span class="h-card"><a href="https://snac.smithies.me.uk/justine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>justine</span></a></span> With apologies to Pokémon, I think the slogan with the BSDs should be,<br>"Gotta try 'em all!" XD<br><br>I've spent some quality time in <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> and now <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a>, I'd like to try <a href="/tags/netbsd/" rel="tag">#NetBSD</a> and <a href="/tags/dragonflybsd/" rel="tag">#DragonflyBSD</a> next.<br><br>(This is regarding <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/gumnos/statuses/115695846629134863" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/gumnos/statuses/115695846629134863"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/gumnos</span><span class="invisible">/statuses/115695846629134863</span></a>. Not sure why the context got lost XD)<br>
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Hello from <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a>!<br><br><a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#RunBSD</a><br><a href="/tags/gottatrythemall/" rel="tag">#GottaTryThemAll</a><br><a href="/tags/ineedmorethinkpadslol/" rel="tag">#INeedMoreThinkpadsLOL</a><br>
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<p>My RAM-miserly setup on <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a>. XD</p><p>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</p>
<p>self-report</p><p><a href="/tags/unix_surrealism/" rel="tag">#unix_surrealism</a> <a href="/tags/comic/" rel="tag">#comic</a> <a href="/tags/vim/" rel="tag">#vim</a> <a href="/tags/vi/" rel="tag">#vi</a> <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#openbsd</a> <a href="/tags/technomage/" rel="tag">#technomage</a> <a href="/tags/edisthestandardeditor/" rel="tag">#edisthestandardeditor</a></p>
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<p>Goblin happily computing with OpenBSD in a cave.</p><p><a href="/tags/goblinweek/" rel="tag">#GoblinWeek</a> <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#openBSD</a></p>
couldn't find anything better than <a href="/tags/thinkpad/" rel="tag">#thinkpad</a> for <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#openbsd</a>, but still shopping around...<br><br>let me know if you can recommend anything else.<br>
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what is you favorite web browser for <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#openbsd</a>?<br>
<p>dirty dozen</p><p><a href="/tags/japanese_jesus/" rel="tag">#japanese_jesus</a> <a href="/tags/unix_surrealism/" rel="tag">#unix_surrealism</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#linux</a> <a href="/tags/gentoo/" rel="tag">#gentoo</a> <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#openbsd</a> <a href="/tags/fish/" rel="tag">#fish</a> <a href="/tags/mnt/" rel="tag">#mnt</a> <a href="/tags/thinkpad/" rel="tag">#thinkpad</a> <a href="/tags/ibm/" rel="tag">#ibm</a> <a href="/tags/darts/" rel="tag">#darts</a> <a href="/tags/pool/" rel="tag">#pool</a></p>
Are you in <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> and running your own <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> instance? You might want to join an Activity Pub relay instance!<br><br>My relay at <a href="https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>fedi-relay.gyptazy.com</a> has currently 139 instances connected, mostly tech related sharing the same mindset and interests like <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a>, <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a>, <a href="/tags/ansible/" rel="tag">#Ansible</a>, <a href="/tags/proxmox/" rel="tag">#Proxmox</a>, <a href="/tags/coding/" rel="tag">#Coding</a>, and many more! You can easily join from your instance when using <a href="/tags/pleroma/" rel="tag">#Pleroma</a>, <a href="/tags/snac/" rel="tag">#snac</a> (<a href="/tags/snac2/" rel="tag">#snac2</a>), <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> and its forks 🙂<br><br><a href="/tags/fedi/" rel="tag">#fedi</a> <a href="/tags/fediworld/" rel="tag">#fediworld</a> <a href="/tags/fedicommunity/" rel="tag">#fedicommunity</a> <a href="/tags/community/" rel="tag">#community</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> <a href="/tags/netbsd/" rel="tag">#NetBSD</a> <a href="/tags/homelab/" rel="tag">#homelab</a> <a href="/tags/python/" rel="tag">#Python</a> <a href="/tags/debian/" rel="tag">#Debian</a> <a href="/tags/rockylinux/" rel="tag">#RockyLinux</a> <a href="/tags/feditips/" rel="tag">#Feditips</a><br>
Really nice to see this: Game of Trees Hub (GOT)<br>A Git hosting service built on OpenBSD and Game of Trees, transparently funded via Open Collective.<br><br>Small, boring, security-first, and run by people who actually care about infrastructure.<br>Feels like one of the first real BSD-native Git hosting services.<br><br>This is the kind of thing BSD folks quietly smile about. 🐡<br><br>👉 <a href="https://gothub.org/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gothub.org/</a><br><br><a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a> <a href="/tags/gameoftrees/" rel="tag">#GameOfTrees</a> <a href="/tags/git/" rel="tag">#Git</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a><br>
manpageblog v1.6 just got released. It is a static blog engine concept that treats written content like classic Unix man pages. It puts content first without sacrificing style and delivers a clean, elegant reading experience free from JavaScript, infinite scrolling, and other distracting clutter. The result is a fast, focused, and genuinely enjoyable way to consume high-quality content which can easily be served on very low power systems and follows the pure minimalism concept.<br><br>manpageblog is written in Python and available for many systems, including <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a>, <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a>, <a href="/tags/netbsd/" rel="tag">#NetBSD</a> or <a href="/tags/solaris/" rel="tag">#Solaris</a> based ones like <a href="/tags/illumos/" rel="tag">#Illumos</a> but also on <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> like <a href="/tags/debian/" rel="tag">#Debian</a> or <a href="/tags/ubuntu/" rel="tag">#Ubuntu</a>.<br><br>Changelog v1.6:<br><p>Pagination support added<br>Sitemap support added<br>SEO optimized<br>LD+JSON support added</p>manpageblog was initially crafted by me to match the minimalism on FreeBSD and you can directly start with it from the ports:
<a href="https://www.freshports.org/www/manpageblog/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.freshports.org/www/manpageblog/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.freshports.org/www/manpage</span><span class="invisible">blog/</span></a><br><br>The project source is available on GitHub at:
<a href="https://github.com/gyptazy/manpageblog" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>github.com/gyptazy/manpageblog</a><br>You can find a real-life demo on my website at <a href="https://gyptazy.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gyptazy.com</a><br><br><a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#opensource</a> <a href="/tags/devops/" rel="tag">#devops</a> <a href="/tags/minimalism/" rel="tag">#minimalism</a> <a href="/tags/purism/" rel="tag">#purism</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a> <a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a> <a href="/tags/blogengine/" rel="tag">#blogengine</a> <a href="/tags/blogging/" rel="tag">#blogging</a> <a href="/tags/coding/" rel="tag">#coding</a> <a href="/tags/python/" rel="tag">#python</a> <a href="/tags/website/" rel="tag">#website</a> <a href="/tags/manpageblog/" rel="tag">#manpageblog</a><br>
<p>For those of you interested in my <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> stories, what kind of content would you prefer?</p>
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Strange! I have exactly the sane configs on both <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> and <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/qutebrowser/" rel="tag">#Qutebrowser</a> yet FreeBSD displays the pages differently to OpenBSD. The zeros on webpages on OpenBSD have no internal marks yet FreeBSD zeros have a dot inside them. Fonts are different between the two. Also on FreeBSD I have to run qutebrowser with the nogpu option so it'll run under <a href="/tags/wayland/" rel="tag">#Wayland</a>. I never noticed differences like this before on 14.3 but on 15.0 I'm not quite sure what's different yet ?<br>
<p>Someone was wondering about color emoji support in terminal using <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a>. I never really checked before but on 7.8, it does work OOTB.</p><p>This is <a href="/tags/neomutt/" rel="tag">#Neomutt</a> inside a <a href="/tags/tmux/" rel="tag">#tmux</a> session ran from <a href="/tags/xfce/" rel="tag">#Xfce</a> terminal. But it also works in plain <a href="/tags/xterm/" rel="tag">#Xterm</a>; since you have it render UTF-8 characters with DejaVu Sans for example.</p>
OK Not that I have anything against <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> but I'm going to install <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> 15.0 onto my <a href="/tags/thinkpad/" rel="tag">#ThinkPad</a> again as I do miss ZFS and the extensive <a href="/tags/wayland/" rel="tag">#Wayland</a> selection of apps too. Ok I miss full color emoji in the terminal too you got me. But I do still have OpenBSD running on my Dell Optiplex 3080 Tower so I can keep up with developments as I do still like what it is and what they stand for. I guess I'm just a <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a> girl and I like them all. <a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#RunBSD</a> <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/snac.smithies.me.uk/runbsd.jpg" class="emoji" alt=":runbsd:" title=":runbsd:"> <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/snac.smithies.me.uk/openbsd.png" class="emoji" alt=":openbsd:" title=":openbsd:"> <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/snac.smithies.me.uk/freebsd.png" class="emoji" alt=":freebsd:" title=":freebsd:"><br>
<p>Installing <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#openbsd</a> 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.</p><p>But in the meantime, I'll install some software and try it out.</p><p>The first thing I notice is only 14 of the 28 cores are active.</p><p>Is this a feature where it turns off hyperthreading on vulnerable systems?</p>
I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' signify to 1.62 here:<br><br><a href="https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/31080" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/31080"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/macports/macports-p</span><span class="invisible">orts/pull/31080</span></a><br><br>GitHub Continuous Integration checks queued.<br><br>Hopefully they will run without issue?<br><br>If so, it's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.<br><br>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:<br><br>MacPorts' signify's version is now in alignment with upstream's versioning!<br><br>Yay!<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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?<br><br><a href="/tags/signify/" rel="tag">#signify</a> <a href="/tags/macports/" rel="tag">#MacPorts</a> <a href="/tags/macos/" rel="tag">#macOS</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a> <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> <a href="/tags/cryptography/" rel="tag">#cryptography</a><br>
<p>Anyone got some good accounts to follow for <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> and <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> related stuff? <a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#askfedi</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> 5.4 on a Sharp Zaurus SL-C3100. <br>While 6.0 was the last version to support Zaurus, X breaks in 5.5. I don't have a working network card yet, but hopefully will soon. <br><a href="/tags/netbsd/" rel="tag">#NetBSD</a> still supports the Zaurus, but I wasn't able to install it.</p>
Right I'm not interested in starting a flame war but I am interested to see how many folk in 2026 use <a href="/tags/wayland/" rel="tag">#Wayland</a> or <a href="/tags/wayback/" rel="tag">#Wayback</a> and how many use <a href="/tags/x11/" rel="tag">#X11</a> or even <a href="/tags/xlibre/" rel="tag">#Xlibre</a> . Feel free if you wish to say what OS/Distribution you use and which window manager or desktop environment below. <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> <a href="/tags/netbsd/" rel="tag">#NetBSD</a><br>Please boost and thanks in advance.<br>
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<p>Heads up for Firefox users on <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> -current, landry@ the mozilla port maintainer has committed a new policy configuration file which changes some (annoying) default behaviour.</p><p><p>landry@ modified ports/www/mozilla-firefox/*: Install a policy configuration file</p><p>mostly taken from <a href="https://justthebrowser.com/firefox/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>justthebrowser.com/firefox/</a>, Disables:</p><p>Firefox Studies<br>Checking if firefox is the default browser<br>Sponsored stuff on the home page<br>GenAI features<br>PerplexityAI from the default search engines</p><p>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.</p><p>cf <a href="https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/#gotointranetsiteforsinglewordentryinaddressbar" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/#gotointranetsiteforsinglewordentryinaddressbar"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mozilla.github.io/policy-templ</span><span class="invisible">ates/#gotointranetsiteforsinglewordentryinaddressbar</span></a></p><p>many knobs to frob, but those seem to be a decent baseline to fight against enshittification.</p></p>
<p>It has been so long since I ran a <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a> that I don't even remember which BSD it was. (I could probably dig up that info...)</p><p>Circa 20 years ago I used to run BSD gateway/router machines.</p><p>I think I'd like to do this again, for a variety of reasons.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.)</p><p>So, what OS should I run on my network gateway: <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a>, <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a>, <a href="/tags/netbsd/" rel="tag">#NetBSD</a></p>
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This <a href="/tags/libreoffice/" rel="tag">#LibreOffice</a> bug, where trying to create or open a password-protected file crashes the application, is what kept me from running <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> on my laptop (before that hardware died last month). I was able to keep running <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> (where LibreOffice doesn't crash) until the laptop gave up and wouldn't run at all. <a href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=289266" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=289266"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show</span><span class="invisible">_bug.cgi?id=289266</span></a><br>
Edited 54d ago