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💻 My Journey to FreeBSD: Building a 'Just Focus' Laptop | @sgharms

「 In an age where hardware is looking to become more expensive due to tariff régimes implemented by the Trump (2.0) administration, who (else) is ready to say that they have more than enough computation for personal use, thankyouverymuch?

It’s also a great punk-rock way to just say: No, I prefer not to 」

stevengharms.com/longform/my-f

stevengharms.comMy Journey to FreeBSD: Building a 'Just Focus' LaptopExploring FreeBSD as a minimalist, distraction-free computing environment

📦 Are FreeBSD Jails a Containers? | @vermaden

「 IMHO the term Containers is not reserved to Linux Podman/Docker solutions. The term Containers was in the BSD/UNIX land long before Docker or Podman saw any light of day – and yet – now the new kids on the block are to decide what to call a Container or not?

The FreeBSD Jails were introduced in year 2000 as a Container technology – some called it improved chroot(8) on steroids also 」

vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04

𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚗 · Are FreeBSD Jails a Containers?I believe its not the first time – that when I post some article and it contains FreeBSD Jails and Containers in one sentence – it sparks vigorous discussions about it. They were these …

Just ran a basic nmap scan on GhostBSD — not a single open port.

Now it's time to dig deeper:
sudo nmap -sS -Pn -n -f -T4 -D RND:50 -p- -v

Stealth scan, fragmentation, 50 random decoys, full port sweep…

Estimated time: 3 hours.

Let’s see if GhostBSD is truly bulletproof or just hiding something behind the welcome mat.

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playing around with #BSSG. It is much more mature than I expected and amazed me about what bare #Bash scripts are capable of. I am really considering migrate! But I am seeing an error with scripts/edit.sh:

sed: can't read s/^lastmod:.*/lastmod: 2025-04-15 21:21:19 -0500/: No such file or directory
Seems like #BSSG requires #BSD flavored #sed ? I am using #Debian so #GNU flavored #sed (GNU sed) 4.9

🔐 DragonFlyBSD Lands "Next-Gen" Disk Encryption Code - Phoronix

"As it's been over two years since the previous release of this operating system, DragonFlyBSD 6.4, hopefully the next release will get wrapped up soon with this next-generation DM-crypt target and the many other enhancements that have queued up over this time."

phoronix.com/news/DragonFlyBSD

www.phoronix.comDragonFlyBSD Lands "Next-Gen" Disk Encryption Code
Sugestão pessoal para #TerSoftware sobre #PDF: qPDF Decode (GPLv3+), conjunto de scripts com o único propósito de facilitar salvar versão decifrada de PDF com senha, sem outras alterações.

Como sou uma pessoa metódica que arquiva contas e comprovantes, achava muito incômodo o fluxo de trabalho necessário para isso a cada vez que recebia uma fatura em PDF cifrado: tinha que "salvar como PDF" o PDF aberto com a senha e, mesmo assim, o resultado não era satisfatório. Durante muito tempo, procurei por programas nesse sentido, porém não encontrei algo a contento. Então, decidi programar isso ao mesmo tempo em que aprendia um pouco de #POSIX #Shell.

Agora, basta mandar abrir o PDF com qpdf-decode-gui, escolher onde salvar o resultado — ou o padrão será o mesmo nome do original com o sufixo _decrypted —, informar a senha esperada e pronto: está salvo. 💾

Só testei em :gnu: GNU/Linux, mas é para funcionar em qualquer sistema operacional que implemente POSIX, tenha o programa qpdf (licença Apache2) e, se desejar interface gráfica, também yad (GPLv3). Pode ser integrado aos diversos ambientes desktop mais comuns, seguindo especificações do XDG.

#GNU #Unix #BSD #SoftwareLivre
Summary card of repository daltux/qpdf-decode
Codeberg.orgqpdf-decodeShell scripts for easy decrypting PDF files with password using qpdf and a GUI version with YAD

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I'm trying out GhostBSD.
So far, I have one audio device working. The problem is I have 3 audio devices I use.
M-Audio Revo 5.1 sound card
Tigertronics SignaLink
USB soundcard for a Rigblaster NoMic

So far, just the M-Audio is somewhat functional
I really would like to the other two assigned ,but enabling all as default isn't the answer.
They are seen by sndstat and various sound mixers, but not loading as pcm0 pcm4 pcm5 only pcm0.
They mention default hints ?
More to do
#BSD
#geeks