Michael Dexter @dexter@bsd.network
Dexter's Law: Only proprietary software vendors want proprietary software and only fascists want fascism. Toots are my own. Self-employed. Father of three.
I aim to keep this to technical topics relating to bhyve and OpenZFS, and the occasional humor and Latvia.
Joined Apr 2018
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Dexter’s second law: The pendulum that swings twice as high lasts half as long.
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Having spent days making PkgBase easy on #FreeBSD…
The (highly opinionated) Sum Total of computer history:
0. BSD Unix
1. Macintosh
2. Packaged Base in Red Hat 5.2
3. Squiggly underline spell check
4. FreeBSD Jail to manage the fustercluck that are RPMs on Red Hat
5. Two-finger scrolling
6. Hardware-assisted virtualization
7. ZFS v28
8. NVMe
TCP/IP is taken for granted, as it is not vendor/platform-specific.
Flat screen displays are a TV crossover technology, as are WiFi, GPS, and fancy batteries.
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Call For Testing: Major #OccamBSD updates
occambsd.sh - More-consistent syntax
propagate.sh - Propagate PkgBase installs
imagine.sh - Image boot images from the others and upstream
sideload.sh - Push (much of) a #FreeBSD configuration to a new installation
rc.local.sh - Semi-idempotently configure basic aspects of a system
They’re never done, never perfect, but they do exactly what I have envisioned in various ways and given talks about for 20+ years.
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Emerging observations on how lockdown was great for #opensource:
Work from home was blessed as a valid thing
Sci-fi-like casual video conferencing without hesitation around the world is now the norm for some of us, only limited by time zones and languages.
Group video chat is equally familiar and commonplace, with excellent self-policing of audio quality and behavior.
Events are focusing on quality over quantity, complimenting the above.
Basically, the “open source seems to be where drunk guys pinch your butt while mansplaining you” factors were globally nipped in the bud.
Good work everyone!
These are delightful times!
❤️❤️❤️
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Repost: It took time, but #bhyve #hypervisor development is back to a robust pace on both #FreeBSD and #illumos with a good balance of new features and subtle refinement.
I have begun posting recordings of the weekly Jails/Zones, #OpenZFS, and bhyve Production Users calls:
https://youtube.com/@callfortesting
The running minutes documents are linked from https://callfortesting.org
Heads-up: There are many ways to participate and lots to do!
globalpol
If I didn’t know better, these ICC talking points just may be courtesy of a foreign nation that has highly-advanced influence over those spouting them.
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Happy Blender 5.2 LTS release day!
Here is the plan of actions to celebrate:
⬇️ Download Blender 5.2 LTS: https://www.blender.org/download/
🎦 Watch the overview: https://youtu.be/g4OXlrxqIx0
📖 Read the release notes: https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-2-lts/
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I hope you kids appreciate what the modern camera phone can do.
In my day…
I only took one nature photo today but OMG WOW the Southern Oregon coast is nice.
Boardman insisted on protecting it. For good reason. At the risk of misspelling Boardman.
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The NASA retro style space exploration poster series is truly fabulous
An Open Source drum module:
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S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB- – only one notch above junk level
S&P Global has downgraded Oracle's rating due to massive AI investments. The company is now only one notch away from the speculative territory.
#CloudComputing #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #OpenAI #Oracle #Rechenzentrum #Wirtschaft #news
What if we had a tech industry where monopoly protection came free of charge?
From: @arstechnica
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116913811642590606
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I care about the problems of my friends who live inside my computer
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Choosing between MikroTik, pfSense, and OPNsense? One quick tip: match your firewall to your team’s skill level and management needs, not just the feature list. Read the full guide to compare them clearly:
#MikroTik #pfSense #OPNsense #Networking #CyberSecurity
Read the full guide
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Reminder: in 2025, the UN estimates that spending $93 B / year would be sufficient to end world hunger by 2030. This is roughly a third of the amount of money that companies have set on fire driving the AI bubble.
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Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke
https://raymyers.org/post/zed-creator-calls-spade-a-spade/
Anthropic is actively campaigning to end software engineering. They need you to believe they can do that. They’ve raised $132 billion in investment and are approaching an IPO valued over $1 trillion. Since they cannot show profitability, this depends on selling their hypothetical future impact. In literary terms, Anthropic is an unreliable narrator.
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The @EUCommission wants to hear "from cybersecurity professionals and SME stakeholders on how #standards can best support real‑world #compliance needs under the Cyber Resilience Act." Let's make sure they hear from plenty of people who understand #OpenSource and the #CRA.
Where Unix Runs Today
https://vivianvoss.net/blog/where-unix-runs-today
My son is taking drum lessons and I have taken a few in his place and I am very concerned that I am the one posting on Reddit about the LIE of the Roland TD-316 set which doesn’t have the components in the photos though maybe they are ashamed because they don’t offer matching black components and please ship me your old electronic set given that this entry level acoustic set drives our youngest crazy and maybe this exercise is just a self-preserving mental distraction…
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This photo must be seen by the entire world so people understand what Russia truly is.
A mother is holding her child as tightly as she can, trying to shield them with her own body while Russia drops guided аerial bоmbs on Sumy.
No child should grow up in a reality like this. No mother should have to become a human shield to protect her child.
Dexter's Law: Only proprietary software vendors want proprietary software and only fascists want fascism. Toots are my own. Self-employed. Father of three.
I aim to keep this to technical topics relating to bhyve and OpenZFS, and the occasional humor and Latvia.
Joined Apr 2018
