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What does it really take to fund and execute a successful security audit in open source?
In this newly released talk from the Open Source Summit North America, FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Deb Goodkin and Alpha-Omega’s Michael Winser walk through the full lifecycle of FreeBSD’s third-party audit—from funding and planning to outcomes and lessons learned.
Watch the full talk here:
👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7_0aKMs6zs
#FreeBSD #OpenSource #AlphaOmegaProject #TechLeadership #OSSummit
We're thrilled to welcome Tina Krauss to the Rust Foundation team as our new Program Manager. Learn more about Tina in our latest blog post: https://rustfoundation.org/media/welcoming-tina-krauss-the-rust-foundations-new-program-manager/
Okay people. I know the government is burning down, and the internet is burning down, and everything is burning down, but I'm going to play College Football 26 and that's just the way it is.
避けさせて🥺
パスキーの仕組み：避けられないパスワードレスの未来を徹底解説 - ZDNET Japan
https://japan.zdnet.com/article/35235352/
A video of a sound engineer and a Disney nerd walking through Disneyland was fascinating. I thought I already knew a shit ton about Disneyland but I had no idea there were so many hidden speakers around the park, hiding in plain sight in fake windows and trees! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhtpMwjvWSI
Still no luck finding the Safenet HSM CDs [1] but we did stumble upon some other gems. #FreeBSD #Solaris #retrocomputing [1] https://social.nlnetlabs.nl/@nlnetlabs/114822757727528094
Geminiアプリがsuidありで動いてるってこと？
「Gemini」が他アプリのデータにアクセス--「Android」ユーザーが今すぐできる対策とは - ZDNET Japan
https://japan.zdnet.com/article/35235285/
I think the 
@BoxyBSD project is one of the best ideas for the #opensource community. Providing real and completely free #VPS instances (#VMs) with #IPv6 is really great for testing and learning.
I really love this project and if you are into #FreeBSD or any other #BSD this might be interesting for you. Just as it is also a #free alternative to bigger hostels like #Hetzner #OVH or #Netcup. I really love the philosophy and idea behind it
drop your pet pics 👇
anyone know where one could order some #freebsd laptop stickers?
ok I think it's time for someone to make a mobile app equivalent of deer.social
not necessarily on the app store, but published through something like @altstore.io and whatever the android open source app store is...
disabling DMs for ppl that don't wanna verify their identity (or are under 18!)
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4hawmtgzjx3vclfyphbhfn7v/post/3ltmznlyeg22v
a new rabbit appears
muahahahah what's the uk government gonna do about me using third party bluesky clients/appviews/relays, and my own mastodon instnace? yeah fuck you hahaha
⚠️ Later today I will migrate the mstdn.social server to its own, new dedicated server with plenty of room to grow!
The server will be offline for some time so please be patient in the meanwhile while I set everything up.
The goal is to launch with the latest version of Mastodon with a ton of improvements
I will post an exact time later!♥️😸
You’re the best!
Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland's coast is a breakthrough
Link: https://apnews.com/article/tidal-energy-turbine-marine-meygen-scotland-ffff3a7082205b33b612a1417e1ec6d6
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44521457
A Raspberry Pi CM5 laptop. Would you like to know more?
Thursday. What a concept.
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
shared the below article:
julian @julian@community.nodebb.org
<p>Can we just take a beat and acknowledge that some of the presenters at FediCon this August probably wouldn't be there if they hadn't gotten a chance to lead a session or two at <a href="https://j12t.social/@j12t">@<bdi>j12t@j12t.social</bdi></a>'s FediForum unconference?</p> <p>Way to go!</p>
Read more →A Raspberry Pi CM5 laptop. Would you like to know more?
#bhyve ALERT!
Hans R has made excellent progress porting the 0xide bhyve CPU ID code to #FreeBSD and gave a demo on today's call, which I hope to have posted within the day.
While we are discussing formal fundraising, PLEASE consider support him directly via PayPal at rosenfeld AT grumpf.hope-2000.org
This is the foundation for live migration work and hand-crafted virtual hardware.
THIS IS YEARS OVERDUE
THANK YOU HANS! Danke!
PARDON MY YELLING WHILE EXCIDED!
Windows 11’s new Black Screen of Death is now rolling out. The Blue Screen of Death is disappearing after nearly 40 years, and the replacement is now available to Release Preview testers www.theverge.com/news/704536/...
Windows 11’s new Black Screen ...
@debacle 
@shriramkShriram Krishnamurthi 
@GeorgWeissenbacher 
@bremnerDavid Bremner Would be curious to know more about the difficulties. Is it about managing dependencies used inside a Rust project?
I reverse engineered the firmware loading utility of a $17 beauty salon spectrophotometer to load the firmware of its "big boy" sibling:
https://adam.zeloof.xyz/2025/07/10/x-rite-pantone-spectrophotometer-unlock/
When the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy movie came out, I grabbed a towel and went to see it, but the showing was about an hour and a half after I bought the ticket.
So I went to a coffee shop near the movie theater where I ran into a beautiful girl who was waiting for the same showing, and she had also brought her towel.
So we decided to go see the movie together.
It turns out she hated the film, and I loved it, and we never saw each other again. (ste) #StillABetterLoveStoryThanTwilight #H2G2
When the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy movie came out, I grabbed a towel and went to see it, but the showing was about an hour and a half after I bought the ticket.
So I went to a coffee shop near the movie theater where I ran into a beautiful girl who was waiting for the same showing, and she had also brought her towel.
So we decided to go see the movie together.
It turns out she hated the film, and I loved it, and we never saw each other again. (ste) #StillABetterLoveStoryThanTwilight #H2G2
anyone know where one could order some #freebsd laptop stickers?
Remember kids:
You can be an Electrical Engineer
You can be a Train Conductor
But try not to be an Electrical Conductor!
Mastodon 4.4, now available, has a small setting that’s a big deal. See Administration/Server Settings/Discovery, “Allow external sites to see your Mastodon server as a traffic source”.
It means that every time you post a link to a site, that site is going to see as many hits as the number of instances that you have followers on, and those hits are going to be labeled as coming from Mastodon.
This is going to seriously increase Fediverse visibility. Get your instance admin to turn it on!
We're hereWe're queerConnection reset by peer
@cadeyXe 
んなあああああ
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
"When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%."
Like so many papers on AI, this ignores the ethical aspects and any power analysis -- which would be just as problematic if AI tools actually made experienced developers faster. So it's the gap between perception and reality that I find most interesting. Keep that in mind when you see developers -- or anybody else -- talking about how amazingly more productive they are thanks to AI!
Fragmentation on the Fediverse is a real problem.
Hypothetically, let’s say I’m an admin. I don’t like "John Doe" (just a random example). Instead of simply blocking John Doe myself, I demand that "Billy Bob" — the admin of his instance — remove him entirely.
Billy Bob refuses, because John Doe hasn’t broken any rules. So, being an egotistical maniac, I blacklist Billy Bob’s entire instance — 5,000+ innocent users who had nothing to do with anything.
I also have 5,000+ users on my instance. Now you’ve got over 10,000 people who can’t communicate, all because of a personal disagreement.
This kind of thing happens far too often on the Fediverse. If you create more than one account (on different instances), you’ll likely discover people you didn’t even know existed — people you’d want to follow but previously couldn’t, due to the growing fragmentation across the network.
The scale of the problem becomes even more obvious when you move to a different instance. You’ll likely find that not everyone you currently follow can be followed from the new site.
The solution?
Right now, it means having more than one account just to keep in touch with everyone you want to follow.
How crazy is that?
ねっむときのふわふわなかんかくすき
Believe it or not these things were for sale in Spain during the 80s. At that time everything was new, possible, amazing,...
As a kid think about having an arcade like machine in your bedroom connected to your computer or console. It was also a computer desk. I've never met anyone with one of these but it looked, and still looks, cool 🤓
おやすみ…
うぅぅ
んぅ
ねむ
anti-trans ideology
Sometimes so-called gender-critical "feminists" make statements that sound completely logical and relatable to many, especially cisgender people. These statements are more dangerous than the other ones that are obviously aggressive and against fundamental human rights.
FediCon is a new #Fediverse conference in Vancouver, Canada, taking place on August 1st and 2nd, 2025. So far, there’s an impressive lineup of attendees and speakers!
Sean Tilley and Damon Outlaw are making an effort to get to Canada, and we hope to host an IRL panel there!
For more information, check out the FediCon site: https://fedicon.ca/
The U.S. Department of Energy has a nuclear microreactor, and they’re looking for suggestions of experiments to conduct with it. They’re looking for projects in electricity generation, industrial process heat for chemical plants, and advanced controls and safeguard systems for reactor designs.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/marvel-microreactor-department-of-energy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
ねむいよう
This is what a human hand looks like under a microscope.
Any Wemo switch is now #crippleware
Instead of opening up the source code, #Belkin has decided to brick every device you're already paid for.
@pluralisticCory Doctorow was right...any company that does not support interop should not be trusted.
フォロイーの知識を吸収して完璧になろう計画をする必要が
なにもわかんない
セキュリティなべんきょうもするべきかな
@evanEvan Prodromou @reiver@reiver ⊼ (Charles) I don't think I can make it. I hope there will be more!
Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language
Link: https://flix.dev/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44521224
Stefano Marinelli
leyrer
くろでん
