David Cross @david@mastodon.crossfamilyweb.com

I hope this FreeBSD Foundation effort bears sweet ripe fruit: https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/why-laptop-support-why-now-freebsds-strategic-move-toward-broader-adoption/ (I want a supported FreeBSD Laptop! EVEN IF IT IS A DELL)

The #FreeBSD DevSummit stream can be viewed at:

https://www.youtube.com/live/oNQLhcn5gvE

Last talk today: @stefano making important points about why to use BSD on the server.
#EuroBSDCon2024

Sovereign Tech Fund to Invest €686,400 in FreeBSD Infrastructure Modernization – @FreeBSDFoundation

<https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/sovereign-tech-fund-to-invest-e686400-in-freebsd-infrastructure-modernization/>

<https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/tech/freebsd>

「Improving the infrastructure, security, regulatory compliance, and developer experience of an open source operating system」

<https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/>

#FreeBSD #infrastructre #compliance #security

The existence of ViKings implies the existence of EmacsQueens

#Vi #Emacs #Vim #Linux

Using #Poudriere on #FreeBSD?

These screen hosts show the soon-to-be-released data you can display within @LibreNMS using snmpd.

I hope these scale well.

I’ve fired up my Commander X16. Time to do SCIENCE!

Do/Have you used a CD/DVD/Bluray in a while?

What about burning a disk?

I'm surveying modern day awareness/usage of optical media, mostly to confirm some demographic theories, so if you know what a CD/DVD is, please help me (and maybe others) out by answering some ~10 questions here:

https://optical-media-survey.benjojo.co.uk/

And then please boost for better visibility! Thank you!

Hey, #retrocomputing folks. Is there a common name for this category of wedge-shaped toggle switch, as found on the PDP-11/70 and other machines of that era?

Well, I sure did not expect this game to be a text adventure...

Picked up a new dad trick:

Every time I tell my child I'll explain something to her when she's older, I write it down. On her 18th birthday I will painstakingly explain every item on this list to her.

"In 2028 I made a joke about 'golden showers.' That means--"

"I KNOW!"

Just built FreeBSD 14.1-STABLE. First thing I tested was my USB earbuds. Plugging in changes hw.snd.default_auto from 1 to 0. Audio works - tested with spotifyd and Firefox/Youtube. Unplugging the earbuds results in hw.snd.default_auto going back to 1, and audio is then coming from my laptop's speakers - as you'd expect. And if I plug them back in, the audio is back in my earbuds, even in Firefox/Youtube - this definitely did not work before!

So, maybe a small step for mankind, but a giant leap for audio-related usability on desktop FreeBSD.

Thank you, @FreeBSDFoundation for sponsoring the work on the audio stack! https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2024-01-2024-03/#_audio_stack_improvements
(I don't know if it was this work or something else that did the trick, but still!)