As we celebrate FreeBSD Week, we’re sharing some of the top resources every beginner should know about. These tools can help you get started with confidence:
📘 FreeBSD Handbook – https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/
📗 Absolute FreeBSD by Michael W. Lucas
📙 Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System
📙FreeBSD forums- https://forums.freebsd.org/
What helped you when you were first starting out? Drop your favorite resources below ⬇️
#FreeBSD #NewToFreeBSD
SecBSD: a free, multi-platform Operating System based on OpenBSD engineered for Cybersecurity Professionals, Ethical Hackers, and Penetration Testers #OpenBSD #Pentest #Infosec https://secbsd.org/
We did perform some maintenance last night :flan_hacker: @h3artbl33d's Unix beard did grow a bit by that; @mischa is extremely skilled but prefers to obfuscate it by not wearing his beard :flan_XD:
This round of maintenance includes:
Happy tooting, happy streaming, happy hacking and have a lovely day you all! :flan_guns:
Wenn sich ein Elefant freut 🐘
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"Where have you been for the last 20 years?" - The question that changed everything. This isn't a BSDCan report, but a personal reflection on how impostor syndrome stole decades from me, and why it's never too late to find your community and live life fully.
https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/06/17/where-have-you-been-for-the-last-20-years/
#BSDCan #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #MyNotes #Life #LifeReflections #LiveLife #Community #OpenSource #OSS #EuroBSDCon
#OpenBSD filesystem performance tuning in 2025: dirhash and hope 🤞
New blog post on the one optimization that actually works:
Whenever a big company tells me my complex and long password "has expired and needs to be changed" and there was never any hint of password expiration periods before - I will automatically assume they have been breached and aren't admitting it.
#Monopoly wasn't invented by the Parker Brothers, nor the man they gave it credit for. In 1904, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord's Game, and was invented by a radical woman. Elizabeth Magie's original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from.
One was called "#Prosperity", where every player won money anytime another gained a property. And the game was won by everyone playing only when the person with the least doubled their resources. A game of collaboration and social good.
The second set of rules was called "Monopoly", where players succeeded by taking properties and rent from those with less luck rolling the dice. The winner was the person eliminating everyone else.
Magie's mission was to teach us how different we feel when playing Prosperity vs Monopoly, hoping that it would one day change national policies.
When the Parker Bros adopted the game, they erased the "Prosperity" rules & celebrated "Monopoly".
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/ruthless-monopolys-secret-history/
Thank you, @MarkHoltom.
I have just a single dragonfruit seedling left from the couple dozen i sprouted last year. All the rest were eaten by bugs other than one that overheated on a hot day.
I have this one protected in a screened planter and at far that's kept it safe from munching insects. Now that we're getting towards summer it's doing really well.
I'm rooting for it. Let's all root for it. It can make it. It has to.
Nowadays, the concept of privacy is really distorted. It's strange if you're not online. It's strange if you don't use WhatsApp. It's strange if you're not on Facebook. It's strange if your instant messenger's privacy settings are set up properly and other participant doesn't see your read receipt.
Soon it will be strange if you don't hand over your data to artificial intelligence.
Damn modern times.
Lazy Sunday vibe: zero thoughts, just float
Should I bring my cat with me? 🥺
Those of you who use an *open* text chat solution at work, what protocol is it based on?
Select multiple options only if you use more than one of these with some regularity, please.
Boosts appreciated.
(For avoidance of doubt, "something else" does *not* include proprietary solutions like Slack. If all the chat options you have at work are proprietary, you're not an intended respondent. 🙂 But you can still boost!)
@xahteiwi
+DeltaChat
⚠️ sysupgrade complete announcement ⚠️
All hosts, other peoples hardware, have been upgraded to OpenBSD 7.7, including the latest syspatch.
https://www.openbsd.org/77.html
If you haven't upgraded your VM yet, have a look at:
https://openbsd.amsterdam/upgrade.html
And of course the official documentation.
#fedihired #GetFediHired #fediHire #FediWork #HireMe
For the past several years I ran a project at a multinational entertainment company that is being shuttered b/c of a pull-back on #DEI initiatives (!) & I find myself with time on my hands. I work in HTML & CSS, Wordpress, eCommerce, print design (esp. books).
If you need help or know anyone who might, please peek at my portfolio. It looks sparse b/c most of the past 6 years are covered by an NDA…thanks for sharing.
Countries on the edge of the Sahara desert are reversing desertification by just digging half circles.
The ground in these places is too compact for water to soak in during wet season which leads to flooding but digging these holes gives the water a place to stop and soak in. And they’re pushing back the desert with this. By just digging holes.
via what-even-is-thiss
