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  #FreeBSD #Portslife #NodeJS any nodejs users could help me out and test https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=300001 https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/october-2026-security-releases that would be great, just to have a few more eyes on it than just myself.

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  It's that time of year, that the birds come to my window, to tell me that the bird feeder is out of seeds! How cool is that? Greedy little chirpers.

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  Ive had long COVID now for 57 months. Some stray thoughts emerged today. The first 3 years were the worst. Exhausted, debilitated, unable to work, struggling to deal with a medical system that still has no fucking clue. Scared AF that it would be permanent. Not much of that has changed. In Nov 2024 I gave up the pretence of working, spent 3 months researching everything about Long COVID, and built myself a treatment plan to target all known theories. https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/pot...

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  #PortsLife #FreeBSD I spent another morning updating and patching a bunch of stuff. I have a couple of new interesting ports to share: PatDiff: diffs for the discerning developer - https://github.com/janestreet/patdiff textproc/patdiff is one of my favourite command line tools, your diffs never look so good and clean! Gorgeous output, written in #OCaml markpdf / markterm: PDFs from markdown - https://github.com/ralsina/markterm ported mainly because it provides a great markdown->PDF tool,...

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  These days, instead of screaming into the void, I just sit down beside it, and say "I know, Void, I know". Even voids need to be comforted occasionally, everybody screams at them and nobody's giving back.

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  lol Devil Linux was an actual thing a decade ago. Sadly the domain name lapsed and has been bought by spammers.

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  Are there good examples of *accessible-first* #CSS frameworks, with common components/widgets? I'm looking for something that is well regarded by its users, and has enough installed base that it's not going to disappear overnight. This is intended for a possible replacement for a tailwind project, inside a #Phoenix #LiveView app. https://darekkay.com/blog/accessible-ui-frameworks/ already has a lot of links, I'll dig through them over the next few days. Bonus points if it doesn&#...

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  Just remember anybody who says Remigration without recalling its Nazi roots is a modern day Fascist and they will come for you and yours.

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  #unFollowFriday: https://DigitalOcean.com/ for supporting Fascist #Omarchy. I just cancelled my account there, I've been a user/customer since very early days. So disappointed. I repeatedly linked to https://stopomarchy.org/ in my "Customer Satisfaction Survey". You can too.

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  For all the AI slop coders and writers out there, there is a moment of sadness, of pity, when I excitedly read your post or code, and then realise there was no human involved. And I just … walk away. I stop. It fills me with sadness and pity for you, and grief for the loss of our creativity. By all means slop at work, they’re paying you for it. But declare it in your open source, your art, and writing. At the top, and in the toot. Because there is nothing from you in it, that I can learn.

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  I wonder how many people who dumped on Ed Sheeran have actually done anything substantive for #Gaza. Donations, protests, contacting MPs, helping refugees, whatever. Anything at all other than RTing and dumping on him.

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  @stsp@bsd.network these days I think there’s just a handful of people doing free software drivers and everybody depends on them but nobody realises this. It’s scary AF.

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  Fucking fascists https://linuxiac.com/omarchy-funding-surges-to-18-5m-with-digitaloceans-3m-pledge/ also 50$/month from Digital Ocean to GNOME? I personally give more than that to CouchDB project. It’s fucking fucked up, for fucks sake.

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  #EuroBSDcon is over, safe travels on your return home.

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  #EuroBSDcon @allanjude@mastodon.social founder at http://klarasystems.com looking at the perils and pitfalls of Enterprise #FreeBSD to maintain security validations and patch consistency. He has 3 doors in choose your own adventure!

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  Boots On The Ground https://massiveattack.bandcamp.com/album/boots-on-the-ground https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57FrioeuE #MassiveAttack #TomWaits

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  Go to #EuroBSDcon and learn how the experts pronounce ICMP and strchar in real life... :flan_laugh:

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  Anybody recommending cable manufacturers of quality USB-C cable that supports both #PowerDelivery / PD at 100W and #DisplayPort Alt Mode?

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  #silo so good I’m still bingeing episodes at almost 3am I should have started earlier

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  *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

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  Whoops it's 14h00 and still no coffee.. but I did get a hair cut. :flan_coffee: *beans* *beans* :rb_coffee: *beans* *beans* ☕️

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  More 502 preventing me doing #FreeBSD stuff due to #LLM scraper abuse. This pillaging of the commons means LLMs are *not* neutral tech! So burn it down with 🔥

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  Crisis #fediHelp I’m searching fruitlessly for a short comedy video from LionField who are a couple of Italians doing clips about #PastaCrimes. This specific one starts off with a woman taking minced beef and wrapping the pasta inside it and then drenching it in barbecue sauce. They react screaming in Italian and then play 3 grandmas appalled at it. Anybody got a link to this one? [EDIT] https://youtube.com/shorts/_w-cwXhm9TM

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  Once again, critical services used by the human #FreeBSD community are either down, or so degraded they are mostly unusable, by AI scrapers. We're not the only ones! Surely this sort of long-term deliberate *abuse* falls into DDoS attacks? e.g. under CFAA 18 USC 1030 viz https://iclg.com/practice-areas/cybersecurity-laws-and-regulations/usa and similar EU legislation?

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  OH: from yet another programmer I used to respect “I stopped reading the actual code about 6 months or so ago…” Like what are we actually here for?

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  Trying an alcohol free #Pilsner #Urquell and I’m sorry but it’s just not the same. If I’m having one beer a week I want it to taste great.

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  I don't run a web GUI for my firewall, but if I did, I would want it to look like this https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/gui.html #opnSense has a slick new look. Great work!

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  #BSDCan2026 #Ottawa exploring

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  #FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE is out! https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/relnotes/ https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/announce/ There are too many people to thank individually here but big shout-outs go to: Colin Percival, Release Engineer Extraordinaire and Professional Cat Herder. You wrangle the zoo like you were born to it. The security team who rightly shoveled as many fixes from upstream projects and internal ones into this release so we don't have to patch it. Your efforts are sub...

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  #Microsoft #Github what even does "security" mean to you anymore? Something like this https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/08/github-nukes-70-microsoft-repos-amid-suspected-worm-attack/5252169 should have a front page announcement and an SVP or C-level person giving clear, regular, and prompt updates. Instead, https://github.blog/security/ is devoid of any news and you've dropped the ball *again*. Maybe this is a trivial issue, and no client exposure, but this is not the...