TIL about wcurl, a wget/BSD fetch-like wrapper that's included with curl https://curl.se/wcurl/

/via @yaakov and https://floss.social/@omgubuntu/114965266421438259

I have something else to be thankful for today. At this moment in time I am busy restoring functionality on systems so that I will be able to resume important remote tasks, which shall enable me to restore the level that I am used to, when it comes down to actual value of goods

This work is highly specialized and needs a set of computing systems, communication systems which use GSM messaging systems and other means of signalling, in order to properly Act, monitor react and deploy the remote systems, of which a set of those are managed deployed monitored and configured through Proxmox.

@gyptazy has made incredibly wonderful contributions to the community of Open Source and I'm specifically highlighting his work in for example the great Proxmox load balancer.

Through the Work Of Him and other hundreds to thousands nameless Open Source coders, programmers en hackers am I able to do this work.

I am fortunate enough to have virtually met him here on the FediVerse through a beautiful forward that @stefano has made.

Without the work of this incredible people none of this would have been possible. I would be sitting watching this beautiful scenery that I would have made myself with props

There would not be any Open Source Operating System driving the displays.

Being Grateful is important. Giving Thanks sends a beautifully modulated Pulse of Energy through the Universe to everyone.

I am thankful to you all

#ecl #commonLisp #openbsd #port - a #Cxx #programming openbsd port (i.e. #ports #bsd #Makefile ). Discussion of #OS ports and the role of underlying operating systems in lisp, and a little about embedding embeddable common lisp in C++ and embedding C++ in embeddable common lisp.

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/fundamental/cxx-ecl-openbsd-port/

Get ready for the European *BSD event of 2025!

54 days to go!

BSDCan Videos are being published. It can give you a taste of the great content you can witness live in Zagreb.

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

The schedule is at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/schedule/

For everything else, peek at https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/
More information is added all the time.

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia
September 25-28, 2025

First release:

I wrote an Ansible connection-plugin to automate FreeBSD Jails via their host, by utilizing jls and jexec to run automation via a SSH connection to the FreeBSD host.

I released that on GitHub https://github.com/chofstede/ansible_jailexec
And on my Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/ansible_jailexec

Released under a BSD license.

This enables seamless automation of FreeBSD jails without needing a SSH connection to the Jails themselves.

Do I go full scorched earth and nuke my Proxmox install for FreeBSD and utilize Jails?

Project reveal:

For the past couple of weeks, I was working on a modern Ansible connection plugin for FreeBSD Jails: jailexec.py

It utilizes the SSH connection to the host-system and jexec to execute Ansible automation within FreeBSD jails.

Makes it even possible to automate jails, that aren't reachable via SSH themselves (or even have no IP address).

Bonus features:

- Connection pooling and persistence for improved performance

- Efficient file transfer with proper permission handling

- Jail command execution via jexec with privilege escalation (doas/sudo)

- Comprehensive error handling and logging with multiple log-levels (-v -vv and -vvv)

After some polishing and testing, I will publish that under a BSD 2-Clause license on my Codeberg repositories and GitHub (Likely during the weekend)

#freebsd #bsd #ansible #automation #python #devops @vermaden

Hello Fedi - what is your most used *BSD service that is builtin to the OS?
From Jails to Pledge, name your favorite!

New Kitten Release

To GNU tar or not to GNU tar?

• Installing Kitten on Linux should no longer display a screenful of gibberish from the tar command.

You see, macOS, being special, includes BSD tar, not GNU tar, and adds a bunch of Mac-specific metadata and extended header keywords to archives that GNU tar on Linux machines then chokes on and regurgitates onto your screen as warnings.

With this release, Kitten’s packaging script expects GNU tar to be available on macOS and uses that instead of BSD tar.

The latest release of Kitten now installs without any warnings on Linux (at least on my Fedora Silverblue box).

Enjoy!

https://kitten.small-web.org

Is there anyone hosting a #chatmail instance on a #BSD?

If yes, how was your experience setting it up and maintaining it?

FreeBSD: Shorter support for the professional focus

From FreeBSD 15 onwards, there will only be four years of support, but more updates are planned. Several teams in the project need some relief.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/FreeBSD-Shorter-support-for-the-professional-focus-9801104.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

chown user.user

was the syntax until until I recently noticed that it was changed to

chown user:user

I have to check out why that occurred. I also have to check if they only changed it in the Linux version of the command or if the change was also propagated to the BSD flavors of operating systems

Message in a bottle time again #GetFediHired (not a peep from anyone yet).

Growing desperate in search for (remote) software developer work in the #Ottawa #Montreal areas. #C C# #Erlang #Java #NodeJS #Shell #SQL #BSD #Linux #English #French and more. Very versatile, adaptable, experienced.

http://www.snert.com/resume/

Hey! If its remote, its possible to work world wide too!

I like to say 'C' started out as a failed Fortran compiler.

http://cm.bell-labs.co/who/dmr/chist.html

Has anyone else noticed now, in the end stages of #capitalism, that you really don't own anything anymore? You now purchase a revocable license to use a product or service, you don't own it. And when revoked, you are not entitled to a refund. This is why I choose to use #Linux, #BSD, and #opensource software. But in these times, it's impossible to avoid the trap completely.

$ curl wttr.in/nieuw_amsterdam_suriname|lolcat

gives the followin output here

I love the power of curl combined with wttr.in

Giving this example for those of us who love to use true free services for our work / live flow

I've been using wttr for decade(s)

Read here for more examples.

https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in?tab=readme-ov-file