Kristof Provost @kp@bsd.network

📢 EuroBSDCon2026: The Schedule is Here! 😈⛳️🐡

The schedule is now published!!
You can find it at: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/

Grab your tickets 🎟️ at https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/

For everything else, peek at https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/
More information is added all the time.

EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
September 09-13, 2026

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD #Conference #Register

I have, after two years, allowed myself to talk about my experiences with AI madness again, this time with the benefit of speaking to people all around the world, including Fortune 500 executives. This one is on my regular blog for casual readers, and cross-posted to the company blog if you need to share this with someone and have it look official.

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/

https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decisionmaking

“Very few companies are so good at shipping software that they can afford the extra risk profile.” (of #AI)

From:

https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decisionmaking

On 10 March 2021, I had only just fallen asleep when my phone started buzzing. Then another notification, and another. In a matter of minutes, 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. And not the cloud-computing kind.

Most of them were physically going up in a column of smoke in Strasbourg.

My wife looked at me and asked if I wanted a coffee. I nodded. It was going to be a very long day.

At EuroBSDCon 2026, I won't be giving a theoretical lecture on high availability. Instead, I’m going to tell the raw story of that night: the emergency recovery, the architectural choices that actually saved us, and the ones that crumbled under pressure (because we rarely talk about what fails).

Most of all, I’ll explain why that night changed my perspective, and why I’ve come to see BSD systems not just as operating systems, but as essential, practical tools for building simpler, more resilient infrastructure.

The official schedule is now live. If you want to hear a real-world post-mortem, join me on Saturday, 12 Sept at 11:15 (Room D.0.02).

EuroBSDCon Full schedule: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/
See you there! ☕️

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD #RunBSD #EuroBSDCon #SysAdmin #SelfHosted #IT #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSDCon

The EuroBSDcon 2026 program is published: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/

See https://2026.eurobsdcon.org for more info

To register https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/

@eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon #netbsd #freebsd #openbsd #conference #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

This Wednesday is the "EU Day for the Victims of the Global Climate Crisis"

10,000 more people in Europe have just been added to that sad toll

European governments and the EU are still not doing enough to slow the climate crisis, or to protect vulnerable people from the disasters already coming

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/europe-recorded-10000-excess-deaths-during-late-june-heatwave-data-show-2026-07-12/

❤️

Tips for ethical AI use:

1. Don't

The #exim project got it right (emphasis mine):

https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20260702.154351.3598aba6.en.html

Reports we believe are LLM generated will either be rejected outright or if thought to be plausible will be credited to the unnamed and uncredited authors whose works were ingested as the training corpus.

De krant (en/of de regering?) rekent zich weer rijk.

Als de "managementvennootschappen" (een zeer vaag concept, waar ze blijkbaar alle freelancers mee onder groeperen) geviseerd gaan worden en belast zouden worden als loon, dan zijn er twee opties:

1. de prijzen gaan omhoog om het inkomenverlies te compenseren;

2. we gaan in loondienst aan een veel lager loon en de staat verliest inkomsten, want niemand betaalt personeel zoveel als ze freelancers betalen.

https://www.tijd.be/dossiers/de-miljardenjacht-van-de-wever/hoe-groot-is-het-lek-van-managementvennootschappen-en-flexi-jobs/10677332.html

Merci De Ridder. Nog minder openbaar vervoer. Dit beleid duwt iedereen de auto in. Stop met het kapot maken van de Lijn. Meer OV, niet minder. We moeten dringend minder CO2 uitstoten, meer groen planten, fietspaden verbeteren, voetgangers plaats geven. Maar met dit beleid is er enkel plaats voor de auto. Dikke buis!
De Lijn schrapt 40 buslijnen vanaf 1 juli: wat verandert er precies in jouw regio?
https://vrtnws.be/p.lOqR0Oxqq

Burgemeester laat weten dat Antwerpen "Noord Korea niet is", terwijl ze haar politie Noord Koreaanse tactieken laat uitvoeren. Gemaskerde stoertjes die ongewapende mensen bij de keel grijpen. Burgemeester kan maar beter de eer aan zichzelf houden en opstappen. Volstrekt onaanbaardbaar om dat goed te praten.

https://www.hln.be/antwerpen/beelden-tonen-hoe-groen-voorzitter-aimen-horch-door-gemaskerde-agenten-wordt-weggesleurd-tijdens-pro-palestijnse-protestactie-in-antwerpen~ada5b6a4/

Beelden die werden gemaakt van de arrestatie van Groen-voorzitter Aimen Horch tijdens een pro-Palestijnse betoging gisteren weerleggen de versie van politie en burgemeester Els Van Doesburg (N-VA). Ze tonen hoe de voorzitter zeer gericht uit de betoging werd geplukt door een arrestatieteam.

https://apache.be/2026/06/30/beelden-arrestatie-groen-voorzitter-spreken-versie-van-antwerpse-politie-tegen?mtm_campaign=Mastodon

Accepts and otherwise for EuroBSDcon 2026 sent.

If you submitted, check your mail.

I hope to see you in Brussels in September!

https://2026.eurobsdcon.org

@eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon #conference #bsd #openbsd #freebsd #netbsdd #networking #security #informationtechnology #it #brussels #bruxelles

And talking about EuroBSDCon: have you already gotten your ticket? Will you be there in Brussels?

If not: check out this years edition. It is going to be effin awesome - like very year. Again and again.

🚨 Good news everybody! 🚨

Our amazing Organizing Committee managed to have the hotel extend the block booking!

https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/accomodation.html

Now you can book even longer!

https://www.warwickhotels.com/hotel-barsey-by-warwick/book/dates-of-stay?domain=2026.eurobsdcon.org&groupID=4846572

Hotel Barsey by Warwick
Louizalaan 381-383, 1050 Brussel

Located near the Flagey area, know for its restaurants and bars.

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD

Open source projects will tell you they have no choice but to allow slop, because doing anything else is a form of gatekeeping that will exclude too many potential contributors.

Nothing could be further than the truth, though. When the review queue is a non-stop machine gun of giant, bogus drive-by patches, the good contributions will inevitably fall through the cracks.

Eventually, the contributors you actually want—those who care about the long-term health of the code base, building institutional knowledge, improving their craft, mentorship—will simply leave, because they will realize their limited time and energy is better spent elsewhere.

A blanket ban on LLM contributions is not impractical, idealistic, or too radical—it's just common sense.