Notices by Stefano Marinelli (stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe)

It's only eight in the morning and it's already brutally hot.
I barely slept and not very well, the day started with an irritating email and other annoyances.

Let's hope the day goes better than it started!

#GoodMorning

@xenotar sure. My head is sensitive to the sun, I'd be burnt immediately.

The best thing to do with 36 C degrees outside: a nice walk.

#Photography #Photo #Picture #Spring #HotWave

My City

I spent years trying to return to my city, only to understand that what I was looking for had disappeared long before I did.

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2026/05/22/my-city/

#MyNotes #Blogging #Life #Reflections #Memories

So, #GitHub has been hacked.

Own Your Data!

#OwnYourData

My wife turned on the hair dryer. The kitchen light stayed perfectly steady.
Yes, the electrical system needed to be redone. It cost an arm and a leg, but now I feel safe.

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/

by @geerlingguy

Sooner or later, I'll buy a 3D printer. But, after this, I think I'll look at other brands.

#OpenSource

Today I spoke with someone I've known for a very long time. We have a relationship of mutual trust, and when I can, I answer his questions about technology. Today he managed to put me in a difficult position.

He is going through a hard time and would like to do something, but doing it would require him to join a club. This club, although legitimate, legal, and in my eyes perfectly acceptable, could cause him some trouble at work if that information ever came out. Not so much in today's world, but in the world tomorrow may turn into.

Five years ago I would have told him to go ahead, without hesitation. Today, I truly could not reassure him. On the one hand, there is nothing bad or wrong about it. On the other, I no longer trust those who manage our personal data.

A provider has already notified me three times in the past year that my data was involved in a breach. Because of a particular relationship I have with them, I asked for clarification, and they explained that development, which is not managed by them, has become lower quality and that changing company is difficult. At the same time, they are worried about the repercussions.

Now: the fact that I am a customer of that company is not a problem. Even less so my email address, or the hash of my unique password. But if this acquaintance of mine were to be affected by a data breach in that context, he would be taking a serious risk. Much greater than he suspects.

So tonight I'm in limbo. He thanked me and decided not to sign up. I feel guilty, perhaps, for having been overly cautious.

#Security

My week starts with a request: "I need a server to deploy to production, but the devs have no idea how to do it. They don't know how to use the terminal, they don’t know how to handle certificates, nothing. They need to be able to click a few buttons and deploy directly to production. They're Vibe Coding experts."

Welcome to 2026.

#SysAdmin #IT

While I've been fine for some days, now my wife has the flu, and I took her to the doctor for a check-up. She heard me cough once and wanted to examine me too.

The result: even though I feel fine, my bronchi are putting on a "concert", and I have bronchospasm.

In other words, antibiotics and aerosol therapy for a week.

At least... I feel fine.

The morning when the technician came to carry out the inspection for my last FTTC line, it became clear that COVID would not be a contained problem.

This morning the technician came to carry out the inspection for the activation of the FTTH.

I’m not activating any more fixed connections...

#hantavirus #covid

Yesterday, one of the younger electricians was telling me about the beauty of the new alarm systems he installs. While acknowledging the quality of my current one, he said, "It uses a SIM card and calls you. The new ones are 4G or Wi-Fi and use the cloud, so notifications go straight to your smartphone, it's not calling anymore."

I asked him, "And what if the cloud stops working? Why should I have to depend on the company’s cloud to receive alerts from my alarm? My alarm is 10 years old and works perfectly. Can you say with certainty that the company’s cloud will still be effective 10 years from now?"

He looked puzzled for a moment, then admitted he had never thought about it.

The real problem is that people do not realize what this means until things actually happen.

#OwnYourData

Alex Zanardi has died.
I met him once by chance, many years ago, in Bologna. That man was pure energy.
The news saddens me.

Good morning, world!
Situation update:

* The electrical work has started. I think we’re about one third of the way through. I’m worried by the impossibility of getting a precise estimate, though I understand the reasons for it, and I have a feeling that the rough one we sketched out won’t be enough.
* I’m more anxious about this than about many other things. For the past three days I’ve had a heavy head and a general sense of feeling unwell, which I’m sure is tied to the stress of the situation. My body temperature is 35.5C
* Today I’ll have some time to catch up on things that were left behind, since the work is paused until tomorrow morning.
* I have tons of taxes to pay.
* I need to check whether the invoices have been paid, and I have serious doubts about that. This conflicts with the previous point.
* I need to shave. My beard is long. Today I’m a true Unix Greybeard.

Let’s begin!

#GoodMorning

17 days since the last pizza.
This problem needs to be solved.

A wolf just crossed the road. We were less than 10 meters away…

I'm BSD - Barista Slicing Desserts

In general, I've never had much sympathy for lawyers.
Then I met @neil on the Fediverse and decided they can actually be fantastic.

Something curious is happening: I had already prepared the entire "kit" to do a live demo of my setup at BSDCan, which I unfortunately had to cancel.
The strange thing is that I can't find anything anymore. Neither the kit itself (made up of a Raspberry Pi Zero W, switch, temperature sensor, SD card with NetBSD and all the software, power supply), nor the adapted software (of course I still have the original, running in production here).
I'm sure it will turn up. But for now, it's a mystery.

Today, we're introducing three things.

The first one is a forum. A real forum - with categories, threads, and actual conversations that don't disappear in a timeline after six minutes.

The second is a Fediverse platform. Fully federated, ActivityPub-native. Your posts go out, the world's posts come in. No walled gardens, no algorithms, no tricks.

The third is a Bar. A place to sit down, talk to strangers who happen to care about the same weird things you do, and stay as long as you want.

A forum. A Fediverse platform. A bar.

Are you getting it?
These are not three separate things. This is one thing.

And we're calling it Billboard.

https://billboard.bsd.cafe

And no, we checked the calendar. We know. This is not an April Fools' joke.

We're just really bad at timing.

#BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices