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Announcing #BSDCan 2026 Travel GrantsDeadline: Friday the 19th!To encourage and enable more first-time and returning attendees at BSDCan 2026, this year’s travel grant is a free room for up to five nights in a shared-bathroom private suite at the 90U residences.Full details:https://blog.bsdcan.org/2026/05/14/announcing-bsdcan-2026-travel-grants#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

@duncan_bayne Jabra’s Evolve series is good. I have them for the noise cancelling mic. I could use them in a Disco.

Achievement Unlocked!With the help of the graciously-loaned Ampere system, I have completed a #FreeBSD 15.1-BETA2 Build Option Survey BEFORE the next pre-release landed! It CAN be done!https://callfortesting.org/15.1-BETA2/#LikeABOS** Sorry, I don’t have many B.O.S. jokes or puns but maybe @gumnos can loan some cycles.

🥲 smart(8) made it to #FreeBSd Base!Thank you @ctuffli !https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/contrib/smart?id=68e5b71517e947b4e3f349c970af362b47b45f27️️️

Anne Dickison, Deputy Director of the FreeBSD Foundation, will join Katie Steen-James (Open-Source Initiative) and Margaret Tucker (GitHub) for a GitHub Maintainer Month panel on what age assurance proposals mean for open-source maintainers.The discussion will examine developments in the U.S., Brazil, and Europe, and what developers need to understand as policy conversations evolve.LinkedIn Live on May 22, 2026Learn more and register: https://bit.ly/3Ra8QOY #FreeBSD #OpenSource

Working on a BastilleBSD website refresh this week. The website has been in it's (mostly) current form for probably six years. A lot has changed since then!I'll announce here when the new site is ready to view!#FreeBSD #BastilleBSD

@jhx it definitely is!

New post: FreeBSD resource monitoring and accounting.A practical tour of the base-system toolkit for figuring out *what is actually using my server*: top, vmstat, systat, gstat, netstat/sockstat, procstat, pfctl, and per-jail attribution with kern.racct and rctl.No ports, no agents. Just FreeBSD.https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-resource-monitoring-accounting-and-troubleshooting/#FreeBSD #BSD #Jails #pf #SysAdmin #DevOps #Unix #BSD #Blog

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟱/𝟭𝟭 (Valuable News - 2026/05/11) available. https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/valuable-news-2026-05-11/Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

Seems appropiate.#freebsd #xfce #koss #thinkpad

@pertho it usually does and yes, double writes are bad there.

@mattsheffield Wow. that looks really good for a terminal game.

@lw that's a great trick. Thanks Mary.

BSD-NL Conference - Early 2026 is over, already... We would like to thank all the attendees who made time to visit us in Utrecht.And of course our wonderful speakers: https://exquisite.tube/w/38gDYhMNTNZimk3GcFnHNa https://events.bsdnl.nl/early2026/talk/W9P9RT/ Let's find out how to get predictable IPv6 addresses assigned to OpenBSD VMsby Florian Obser https://exquisite.tube/w/dkV6kWiT9sp2y6xVwkH1iF https://events.bsdnl.nl/early2026/talk/BGGPZQ/ On DOS, floppies, NetBSD and nostalgiaby Eirik ØverbyYou can see older videos at: https://exquisite.tube/c/bsdnlconference/videosSee you next time!#BSDNL #RUNBSD #BSD #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #HardenedBSD #SecBSD #DragonflyBSD

Wireless speeds are acceptable, and not related to WM or DE.

@bsd_nl Three things I'd like to give a talking-and-walking group for: Coordinating GnuPG, How mt76 WiFi, Desktop Bits

I got an email yesterday from my VPS hosting provider recommending I patch the #copyfail vulnerability in my "Linux" distribution.I use #FreeBSD everywhere, but thanks.Good luck to everyone still patching.

@meena this is what I can see:[ 1.430932] Kernel panic - not syncing: System is deadlocked on memory[ 1.431870] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 12 Comm: kworker/u4:0 Not tainted 7.0.2-2-pve #1 PREEMPT(lazy)[ 1.433132] Hardware name: FreeBSD BHYVE/BHYVE, BIOS 14.0 10/17/2021[ 1.434068] Workqueue: async async_run_entry_fn[ 1.434740] Call Trace:[ 1.435111] <TASK>[ 1.435435] dump_stack_lvl+0x5f/0x90[ 1.436010] dump_stack+0x10/0x18[ 1.436509] vpanic+0x227/0x460[ 1.436981] panic+0x67/0x70[ 1.437413] out_of_memory.cold+0x2d/0x8d[ 1.437864] __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x1529/0x1700[ 1.438435] alloc_pages_mpol+0x80/0x180[ 1.438875] folio_alloc_noprof+0x5b/0xc0[ 1.439325] filemap_alloc_folio_noprof+0x61/0x80[ 1.439848] __filemap_get_folio_mpol+0x201/0x340[ 1.440372] simple_write_begin+0x37/0x110[ 1.440830] generic_perform_write+0x137/0x2d0[ 1.441326] ? current_time+0x3b/0x130[ 1.441746] __generic_file_write_iter+0xab/0xd0[ 1.442260] generic_file_write_iter+0x73/0x110[ 1.442765] __kernel_write_iter+0x134/0x280[ 1.443243] kernel_write+0xf9/0x1c0[ 1.443654] xwrite.constprop.0+0x3f/0xd0[ 1.444118] do_copy+0x4c/0x150[ 1.444474] write_buffer+0x2e/0x50[ 1.444864] flush_buffer+0x30/0xa0[ 1.445257] ? __pfx_error+0x10/0x10[ 1.445660] unzstd+0x3b9/0x4b0[ 1.446016] ? __pfx_flush_buffer+0x10/0x10[ 1.446488] ? __pfx_unzstd+0x10/0x10[ 1.446900] unpack_to_rootfs+0x133/0x2d0[ 1.447350] ? __pfx_error+0x10/0x10[ 1.447786] do_populate_rootfs+0x6e/0x190[ 1.448343] async_run_entry_fn+0x35/0x170[ 1.448959] process_one_work+0x1a9/0x3c0[ 1.449557] worker_thread+0x1b8/0x360[ 1.450117] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10[ 1.450753] kthread+0xf7/0x130[ 1.451226] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10[ 1.451787] ret_from_fork+0x2dc/0x3a0[ 1.452348] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10[ 1.452909] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30[ 1.453499] </TASK>[ 1.453927] Kernel Offset: 0x26000000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)[ 1.455499] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: System is deadlocked on memory ]---

Happy Friday #FreeBSD

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