The FreeBSD Foundation is seeking a Graphics Stack Developer to join our Laptop Support & Usability Project.

This is a fully remote, 12-month contract role open to candidates worldwide.

Learn more and apply: buff.ly/CVyyCka

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #JobOpportunity #GraphicsDevelopment #Hiring

half of the top few replies start with “brother”, “my friend”, and “homie”

A reminder for those who need it (like me!):

"You can’t be both creative and critical at the same time. They’re opposing forces. Catch a writer between them, and they tear him apart."

—Dwight Swain, Techniques of the Selling Writer

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

please be critical of even your favorite politicians. democracy can only function if we are constantly demanding better.

I’m in 2026 now. It sucks

Miod talks about HP/PA boot blocks https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251231080327 #openbsd #hppa #risc #bootblocks #porting #development #opensource #hp #portablecode

Infrastructure Modernization Commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency

We’ve published an update on the infrastructure program commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency and managed by the FreeBSD Foundation.

Read the full update:
buff.ly/2a0oh7T
#FreeBSD #OpenSource

The architecture of a system follows that of human group - if you put a database guy and the kernel guy in the same room, you'll get database integrated in the kernel.
 
Does it mean we instinctively design computer systems to minimise the number of humans we need to interact when working on them?

Found some prescience in a manual from the 1950s.