Michael Dexter

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Dexter's Law: Only proprietary software vendors want proprietary software and only fascists want fascism. Toots are my own. Self-employed. Father of three.

I aim to keep this to technical topics relating to bhyve and OpenZFS, and the occasional humor and Latvia.

Note the irony of an administration banning drones and routers over unsubstantiated security concerns, while promoting White House apps for Android and iOS that look like privacy disasters.

Well there you go, a company is explicitly offering FLOSS licensing math-washing as a service:
https://malus[.]sh/

> Our proprietary AI robots independently recreate any open source project from scratch. The result? Legally distinct code with corporate-friendly licensing. No attribution. No copyleft. No problems.

Congratulations to anyone in the FLOSS community still supporting and promoting genAI "revolution".

#FLOSS #AI

Sylve - Management Plane for FreeBSD

Modern web interface for FreeBSD. Unified management of Bhyve VMs, Jails, ZFS storage, networking, and system monitoring.

I had to get this idea out of my head. #TheyLive #LLM

So happy to see the new influx of users to https://sylve.io ! We are so, so back folks. 2026 is the year of vanilla FreeBSD in the homelab scene!

Feedback from a new Sylve user (from our discord) πŸ‘‡πŸŽ‰

#Sylve #FreeBSD #RunBSD

The existence of Net BSD implies the existence of Gross BSD
Sure, Proxmox is one way. For FreeBSD and bhyve and jails, you might want to have a look at Sylve

See also https://gyptazy.com/blog/sylve-a-proxmox-alike-webui-for-bhyve-on-freebsd/

Yesterday, 42 days to go to the next BSD-NL Conference - Early 2026 πŸ‘πŸ˜ˆβ›³

You can still get tickets!
https://tickets.bsdnl.nl/bsdnl/

You can still submit your talk!
https://events.bsdnl.nl/
(CfP closes on 2026-04-12)

πŸ“† 2026-05-09 / May 9th 2026
πŸ• 10:00-23:00 CEST
πŸ“ Brouwerij Maximus (Utrecht)
🌐 https://bsdnl.nl

#BSDNL #RUNBSD #BSD #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #HardenedBSD #SecBSD #DragonflyBSD

Call for testing: #mlmmj 2.0.0
Changes from 1.8.0
- new build system
- by default respect RFC 2919/2369 List-* and Precedence headers generated by default (can be disabled via nolistheaders)
- Subscription follow reply-to for confirmations
- X-Forwarded-To (Gmail forwarding)
- X-Signed-Recipient (DARA/ARC)
- A bit of hardening
- some portability fixes
- archive partitioning option (archive/YYYY/MM) with automatic migration (that's per request of #Gentoo people)
Emulating old OS X versions with QEMU - 82MHz