I started reading about netgraph on FreeBSD.

I think I understood the basic theory of what nodes, hooks and edges are and a bit on how ngctl can be used to configure those.

I definitely still have enough questions about it, which will hopefully be able to be resolved by just playing with it. Gotta spin up a VM and break some stuff.

I wanna skip tools like ngbuddy, because at first glance they seem like they are opinionated in ways that don’t match what I want to do, but I‘m used to that. After all I had the same „problem“ with Bastille and vm-bhyve :D

Any academics I follow interested in moving to Europe? My department here in Maastricht, Netherlands, is hiring:

Associate Professor in System and Network Security, open until May 10, 2026
https://vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht-Associate-Professor-in-System-and-Network-Security/1357701057/

Assistant Professor in Computer Systems, open until May 10, 2026
https://vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht-Assistant-Professor-in-Computer-Systems/1357700157/

Both of these are for the equivalent of tenure-track, i.e. after a 18-month probationary period, you have a permanent contract.

I'm happy to tell anyone interested about the university, the department, the role, the city of Maastricht, or about moving to the Netherlands as an English-speaker.

#GetFediHired #Vacancy #Jobs #Hiring #AcademicChatter

Today I learned that rsync is slop now.

https://drewdevault.com/blog/rsync-without-rsync/

This is going to cause some extra work to move away from it.

There's openrsync, but they suggest they're not yet ready:

https://www.openrsync.org/

I need to spend more time reading through the openslopware site.

https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware

I wonder if there's tooling to identify slop on my system. Probably be worth writing some up and contributing if I have time. It should be easy enough to parse data from the repo. Might already exist even.

And OMG, the typos, "typing" this on my phone. Autocorrect eats me alive.

DIY Nuclear Battery with PV Cells and Tritium

https://hackaday.com/2026/04/20/diy-nuclear-battery-with-pv-cells-and-tritium/

I'm considering bumping the macOS requirements for my binary package repository available at https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-macos/ again.

There's already a bunch of packages missing because they have newer C++ requirements than Xcode 15.4 supports.

What OS are folks running?

#pkgsrc #macos