gyptazy.com is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
The bear is friendly. Think of honey, if you can.
For anyone who wonders why tags included #FreeBSD, it's because – in addition to the write-up of CVE-2026-58083 and CVE-2026-58084 (July 2026) – I assume that Hazley Samsudin might also choose Blimpers for CVE-2026-58092 (August).
<https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-58092>
<https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-58092>
<https://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:59.mac_do.asc>
<https://defcon.social/@charlesrocket/116714325230546417> @charlesrocket re: LLM shaming.
Main: "Tionisla - Dell Latitude e6540
Kernel: 15.1-RELEASE-p1 amd64
Operating System: FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p2
Desktop: LXQT 2.4.0
Windowmanager: XFWM4
Qt Version: 6.11.1
Graphics Platform: X11/xorg 7.7
https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7e1c664559
#runbsd #freebsd #unix #foss #lxqt #desktop #screenshot #shareyourdesktop
https://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:60.ppp.asc
Décio Brandão is amongst the credits, however their name is misrepresented as Décio Brandão
Noted on Kubuntu 26.04 in Microsoft Edge 152.0.4191.41, Firefox 154.0.1, NetSurf 3.11. No problem in lynx. I can't test some of the other installed browsers.
How does the FreeBSD Foundation Board fit into the broader FreeBSD ecosystem?
Following our annual meeting and Board elections at BSDCan, we’re taking a closer look at the role of the FreeBSD Foundation Board and how it differs from that of Foundation staff and FreeBSD Project leadership.
The Timer That Fired Too Soon — FreeBSD 15.1 Local Privilege Escalation · Blimpers
https://blimpers.dev/research/freebsd15-kqueue-cof-uaf/
Credit: Hazley Samsudin, GovTech CSG
A group of interesting people with the chilly interest in AI and cybersecurity – doing CTFs in our free time, and some vulnerability research on the side.
#AI #cybersecurity #vulnerability #FreeBSD #Oracle #VirtualBox
Looks like this FreeBSD vuln is going to keep on giving for a while.
FreeBSD-SA-26:57.unix
[...]
III. Impact
An unprivileged local user can exploit this use-after-free to escalate privileges.IV. Workaround
No workaround is available.
I posted my first #FreeBSD-related blurb on my #WriteFreely instance. It's about how I run "wrapped jails" at work and at home:
https://scrolls.anduin.net/bsd/freebsd-wrapped-jails
You can follow @bsd in case I post more in the future - but I'll probably shamelessly promote anything I write there from this account anyway. :)
(Federation from WriteFreely is still a bit wonky, so please bear with the slightly mangled quote post here..)
RT: https://scrolls.anduin.net/api/posts/hhqqk96cbo
15.1-RELEASE-p3 😃@laz000.bsky.social it's possible that AI used official documentation, which is wrong for users of freebsd-update.
Cc @junkman
dropQbsd has been moved from GitHub – where a copy will remain – to Sourcehut, its natural home.
I’d like to thank Drew DeVault for welcoming my project onto his platform.
For free spirits, dropQbsd — compartmentalization without virtualization, based on BSD — can be found here: https://git.sr.ht/~nobraininside/dropQbsd
#OpenBSD #freebsd #netbsd #openSource #privacy #sourcehut #digitalsovereignty
Today I found this driver to have graphics on #FreeBSD in #UTM on #MacOS.
https://www.freshports.org/graphics/virtio-gpu-qemu-kmod/
It is only added a few weeks ago. Lucky me. 🍀
Do you use #OpenZFS? Do you ship a product or service with #ZFS in it? Do you work on a storage- or filesystem-related project and are interested in how ZFS could make it better? Are you interested in the future of software-defined storage?
If any of these are you, you should consider presenting at the OpenZFS User and Developer Summit 2026! Our CfP is open until September 11, and we'd love to hear from you!
https://openzfs.org/wiki/OpenZFS_User_and_Developer_Summit_2026
FreeBSD Foundation Lunch & Learn: Transitioning the FreeBSD Vulnerability Database from VuXML to OSV
Join Tuukka Pasanen for our next Lunch & Learn as he explores the work underway to transition the FreeBSD Vulnerability Database from VuXML to OSV, a widely used vulnerability format that officially supports FreeBSD in its schema.
📅 Wednesday, September 2 | 11:00 AM CDT / 16:00 UTC
Speaker: Tuukka Pasanen | FreeBSD Foundation Lunch & Learn
YouTube Live Link:
https://www.youtube.com/live/is5SnmHuTu0?si=SsDKy5jPxqZcB_8G
*frustration intensifies*
#slopification once again I am thwarted in doing fun #freebsd stuff because LLM scrapers are screwing with our bugzilla:
Error 503 Backend fetch failed
BastilleBSD now has a community on Reddit.
If you're a Reddit user feel free to join and share Bastille related posts, questions, tips, tricks, etc.
#borgbackup 2.0.0b23 was just released!
With a ton of new features and some fixes, please check the change log and help testing:
Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟴/𝟮𝟰 (Valuable News - 2026/08/24) available.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/24/valuable-news-2026-08-24/
Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/
#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday
We are counting down to the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡
Big thank you to our partner sponsors:
- Skylime - https://www.skylime.net/
- Netzkommune - https://www.netzkommune.de/
- OpenBSD Amsterdam - https://openbsd.amsterdam/
- LAYLO - https://laylo.io/
- The Lightbird - https://thelightbird.com/
If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/
📅 You can check out the program at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/
EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
September 09-13, 2026
#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD
Has anyone tried the new FreeBSD Desktop Installer? I've tried to get it to work multiple times but it just doesn't, for me, at least. After completing the install of Xfce, there's no display manager (I've tried both options) and there's no desktop. When I watch a video from the FreeBSD Foundation on the installer, it seems to work flawlessly for them. I think this is supposed to be built-in to 15.2 when released. Maybe I'll have better luck then?
Without any intentional change to the system, one of my #FreeBSD hosts recently changed its SLAC-generated IPv6 address after a reboot. I am a bit baffled.
Minimal Sway setup on FreeBSD 15.1:
# Wayland
doas pkg install wayland seatd
doas sysrc seatd_enable="YES"
doas service seatd start
# Sway
doas pkg install sway foot wlmenu noto-basic
mkdir ~/.config/sway
cp /usr/local/etc/sway/config ~/.config/sway
vi ~/.config/sway/config
input * xkb_rules evdev
input type:touchpad {
dwt enabled
tap enabled
natural_scroll enabled
}
input type:keyboard {
xkb_layout "dk"
}
# Foot
mkdir ~/.config/foot
vi ~/.config/foot/foot.ini
font=monospace:size=14
And another #FreeBSD host installed successfully. 😁 After I retired the Proxmox VE host at my parent's house, all services ran on the FreeBSD NAS, but now the secondary DNS jails run on their own thin client once more.
VNET with bridging didn't work, so I used Netgraph instead.
The realtek re0 driver received all of the ethernet frames addressed to the VNET jails, but the bridge0 interface (I tried the new VLAN aware bridging) didn't receive them from their parent interface.
Luckily, I can just create VLAN interfaces on re0 and use Netgraph together with Bastille to create netgrap bridges and netgraph eiface interfaces, which do not require driver support, as they directly hook into the network card's send/receive buffer.
I have seen Omarchy Linux ... but for some reason I missed Omfreebdy FreeBSD based alternative.
I personally use X11 and prefer it over Wayland - but I now know that Omfreebdy comes with X11 version as well.
Great to see such option available.
I had been wanting to look into #wine gaming on #FreeBSD again. I had spotted a blog post: https://www.freebsdsoftware.org/blog/freebsd-gaming-2026.html
It seems inaccurate. For example, some of it suggests you install 'dxvk' with pkg install. Also references a "mesa-vulkan-intel" package.
Neither of those packages even exist!
Is https://www.freebsdsoftware.org some kind of AI slop factory of blog posts or something? The text looks very "AI" generated. Some truthful some utterly false.
*SIGH* This is the internet in 2026.
One good thing I noticed though: The latest wine-devel package: 11.5,1 does WOW64 support so no more of that pkg32.sh install --old nonsense to do.
Have yet to test anything but will do in the future.
Start your weekend with a new #OpenZFS release!
2.4.4 and 2.3.9 are the new Stable and LTS releases. Loads of interesting bugfixes, and support for Linux 7.2.0. Meanwhile, 2.2.11 gets a small number of the most important fixes.
Get them via the links below, or look for them in OS repositories in the next few days. Thanks to everyone who contributed!
https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.4.4
https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.3.9
https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.2.11
RE: https://retro-gaiden.com/@raster/117131848428928329
I found out something interesting.
I lacked of DXVK on my installation on GhostBSD, and once set up, the lighting glitch and micro-strutter are solved.
It works flawless as much you would play on Linux, if not appear even smoother somehow.
I ran then NV on Linux without DXVK active, and the performance is worse than on FreeBSD without it.
Amazing because on top of wine, you have a layer also for the GPU drivers (unfortunately).
#bsd #freebsd #ghostbsd #pcgaming
AodeRelay boostedRan Fallout: New Vegas with it and the performance doesn't differs from Linux, except I got a black screen with the video, and there is a small graphical glitch related to lighting, but could be a regression.
Pretty much as I thought, games work better through Wine than Linuxulator because of the shader support.
At the moment on FreeBSD (and GhostBSD) is better use Wine-devel package than the stable one for some issues with the 32bit support.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@hwangbokgukho/117131870124784860
@hwangbokgukho Yes, I told him it was shit, because it was shit.
I did not chase him across Mastodon or Reddit. I did not dig into his personal life. He posted his work in Discord, and I told him plainly that RAM running at 33 MB/s is shit. That is technical criticism. If you publish technical work, people are allowed to tell you when it performs terribly.
Your group did something entirely different.
You did not bring technical arguments. You harassed people.
You went after developers personally. You posted their pictures. You tried to dox them. You posted about them on Reddit. You circulated screenshots, including fake screenshots, and dragged technical disagreements into people’s personal lives. Developers left the scene because dealing with your group was no longer worth it.
That is not criticism. That is harassment.
You also copied my code without attribution, used AI to repackage it, and then went on the web presenting the work as yours. So spare me the lecture about open-source ethics.
Most of your group hides behind nicknames while screenshotting people, following them across platforms, manufacturing screenshots, and using AI to generate endless personal attacks. You have plenty of energy for drama and remarkably little for engineering.
You also tried to pressure me into releasing my #FreeBSD work for the PS4 on your terms. Then you hit the wall called the BSD license. I am not your employee, your upstream department, or your personal FreeBSD porter.
I already told you this on Discord: open source is cool exactly because if you want something and the code is available, you can do the work yourself.
Our interests are fundamentally different anyway. Your group is interested in pirating Sony games. I am interested in liberating the hardware, understanding it, documenting it, and making the hardware useful beyond Sony's intended ecosystem.
So go back to your friends, laugh about this, screenshot it, crop it, fabricate another screenshot if the real one is not exciting enough, and repost whatever fragment gives you the story you want.
I do not owe your group an explanation, a proof package, an apology, a release schedule, or access to my work.
If you want to challenge my work, bring code, benchmarks, traces, documentation, or technical arguments.
If all you have are people’s photographs, fake screenshots, doxing attempts, and personal harassment, you are not participating in a technical dispute.
You are just harassing developers.
And your group stays banned until the dead of the universe.
And don't start pretending to defend Deb either. When he unveiled an experimental feature he had worked on, you told him: "Deb , this is shit. LOL". And when he asked how to make it better, you went on a rant about AI. Have you seen your own website? "seuros.com" There's nothing that isn't AI-generated there. You're just being hypocritical.
I wish this platform's post restrictions weren't so tight. There's a lot more that I'd like to share, but I don't feel like making 50 posts.
Ran Fallout: New Vegas with it and the performance doesn't differs from Linux, except I got a black screen with the video, and there is a small graphical glitch related to lighting, but could be a regression.
Pretty much as I thought, games work better through Wine than Linuxulator because of the shader support.
At the moment on FreeBSD (and GhostBSD) is better use Wine-devel package than the stable one for some issues with the 32bit support.
Ran Neverwinter Nights 1, Beamdog edition, they do a Linux native version, I had a strange issue.
The game launches without the graphic issues I had with others, sound fine, and I think the picture quality on BSD is better honestly.
However the program hung a lot of times when I just selected a campaign.
Somehow, after have launch the game dozen of time, and ran the intro videos once, it works now?
What made it work? Somehow has an idea?
I believe to sort out the reason.
Somehow the game breaks when it search the available modules, and something most time causes it to hang.
Same also if you click some buttons before it has finished the checks.
You can load saves with no issues.
It is the only blocker, because if it manages to find the modules, the game runs... ok? It strutters, not badly as others, and you need to disable various graphic options to reduce the visual issue.
In general seems the compatibility layer doesn't digest well a lot of graphical filters and options, they cause a devastating performance hit despite everything else, sounds and engine, works pretty well.
Seems depends also from game to game: UT at max setting runs pretty smooth, with a minuscule stutter in comparison run it native under Linux, but not to compromise gameplay.
Some ideas how improve things on NWN? I could try a bit.
I run most of my stuff on Debian LXCs inside Proxmox.
For some things I would like a VM more, but since Debian 10 I have not had a Debian Upgrade that didn't broke my installation.
I am now looking at FreeBSD for VMs, trying out a lot, and seeing that most of my usecases work flawless.
Will upgrades for FreeBSD still brick my installs?
#FreeBSD jail
trying to update - upgrade pkg, get new package FreeBSD-clibs-lib32: 15.1p2 [FreeBSD-base]
oke nice, lets start...then
pkg: Failed to create temporary file for /usr/lib32/libc++.so.1:Read-only file system
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