Notices by Ricardo Martín (ricardo@mastodon.bsd.cafe)

@nixCraft Users.

Fediverse servers could very well benefit from an additional information tab that admins could enable to display the running costs of the instance for transparency and donation purposes 🤔

#fediverse #activitypub #mastodon #pixelfed

Wouldn't it be incredibly ironic if the strongest selling point of EU tech services to the rest of the world turned out to be its privacy and user protection?

#europe #eu #tech #internet #gdpr

2026’s gonna be the year when phone makers stop being dicks and start actually making phones that play nice with open-source operating systems 😭

Disable Auto MDI-X!

#networking

BastilleBSD can now create jails with static MAC addresses, and finally got rid of that pfctl call when NAT wasn't use 🎉

But that's not all, https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/releases/tag/0.12.20250111

#freebsd #jails #bastillebsd

@thanius I wouldn't mind compiling from sources without any AI 🤷♂️

@xenotar This installation is for a family member 😅

@xenotar I've been hunting for a solid guide to turn off all the junk, and it's been exhausting. Especially on a Windows machine, there's no way I'd blindly run some random third-party PowerShell script 😕

@jschwart Wow, Windows 7, connected to the internet?

Apparently, I’ve been procrastinating on installing Windows 11 since last year. I’m out of any reasonable excuses, and honestly, a little terrified.

Et tu, VLC?
AI generated subtitles? ... ffs 🤦

#vlc #vlcmediaplayer

This afternoon, while walking my dog in the park, I bumped into a friendly German couple. We chatted about their experiences in Spain, and they were surprised to admit that they had no idea bullfighting was still taking place here. They mentioned that, had they known, they might have chosen a different destination for their vacation.
This made me wonder: If so many people are opposed to animal cruelty, why do they spend their money traveling to countries that uphold such shitty traditions, specially in Europe?

#AnimalWelfare #Bullfighting #AnimalCruelty #Spain #Europe

Current mood 😑

#CultureOfNoise #firecrackers #fireworks #NewYear

What global issues could we tackle if we allocated the entertainment industry's 2025 budgets? You know, TVs, movies, music, sports... 🤔

No comments required 🤷♂️

#wikimedia #wikipedia

BSD UNIX on a PDP-11 with a TELETYPE MODEL 33
https://youtu.be/frMwsDTjmAs

#unix #bsd #history

An open source virtual hand-drawn style whiteboard.
https://excalidraw.com/

The FreeBSD man pages never fail to impress.

Apparently, some people have a real tough time just checking out https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/leadership and doing a simple cross-check search on the web between those companies and their supposed GPL issues.

Sometimes fact-checking without prejudice is hard.