Working on next month's #FreeBSDJournal column.

'Don’t get me started on your car. Requiring everyone in the United States to borrow, purchase, or otherwise “acquire” a multi-ton kinetic energy weapon was bad enough, but add in separate computers for the brakes and the accelerator and the climate control and congratulations! You’ve built a Rolling Debacle. The only question is who gets debacled, you or bystanders. I would say “innocent bystanders” but nowadays everybody uses a computer so nobody is innocent.'

From the FreeBSD Journal archives: ✉️ We Get Letters by Michael W. Lucas

In this edition Michael W. Lucas reflects on what it really means to build something “downstream” from FreeBSD — mixing hard-won lessons, humor, and a reminder that sometimes failure teaches more than success.

Read it here: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/downstreams/we-get-letters-3/

#FreeBSD #FreeBSDJournal #OpenSource #Community

In this FreeBSD Journal article, Randall Stewart and Michael Tüxen walk through how SYN segments are processed during TCP’s three-way handshake—crucial for establishing reliable connections.

Learn how FreeBSD handles the client-server exchange and what happens behind the scenes during SYN, SYN-ACK, and ACK.

Read the full article:

https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/downstreams/the-handling-of-syn-segments-in-freebsd/

#FreeBSD #Networking #TCP #OpenSource #SystemInternals #FreeBSDJournal #TechInsights

Working on my next #freebsdjournal column.

"Each disaster has unique qualities that might make you choose it over the alternative."

My new #freebsdjournal column escaped while I wasn't looking!

"I bet you're young enough to remember hope."

https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/downstreams/

One of the rules of writing editorial nonfiction is to not say anything in a column that you wouldn't say to the person's face, so I should probably find @lattera and quote my next #freebsdjournal Letters column, on downstreams:

"Keep in mind that I was only trying to integrate contributed software. I wasn’t doing anything like, say, those HardenedBSD maniacs trying to change core kernel code while simultaneously maintaining synchronization with FreeBSD itself. On the other hand, HardenedBSD has the “advantage” of using git rather than CVS. (Simplifying forks might be git’s greatest crime, but anyway.)"

#writing my next #freebsdjournal column

"Source code makes you ambitious. Source code makes you think you can do anything. The world is stuffed with people who discovered they could read the source code and suddenly thought they could do anything, like innovate Internet payments or reinvent automobile drivetrains or build actual 1950s-style rocket ships or reconstruct government without understanding anything about any of these. They sometimes make fortunes on the way, but inevitably fail in vituperious disgrace and vitriolated shame, because being smart enough to read source code has absolutely nothing to do with competence or being a worthy human being."

Very interesting article about the creation of #wifibox on #FreeBSD https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/virtualization-2/

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