>Currently only supported on Old Reddit.
Credit: u/Littux
It's true that browsers such as Mozilla Firefox have integral support for automated translation, however Reddit's translations are often superior.
With this script: a translate button appears beneath each post and comment.
Video, seventeen minutes, 2026-05-26.
>DJ Ware demonstrates how to configure thin and thick jails on FreeBSD. The guide covers essential prerequisites, including ZFS snapshots and PF firewall network setup, while utilizing the Bastile management tool to streamline the deployment process. Viewers learn the architectural distinctions between these two container types and how to implement them effectively.
In this deep dive we explore the real differences between Thin and Thick Jails on FreeBSD 15.0 using Bastille an easier and more widely used method of creating jails on FreeBSD.
Video, twelve minutes, 2026-08-17
>DJ Ware explores the performance characteristics of Btrfs, ext4, F2FS, XFS, and ZFS using IOzone3 on an MSI Prestige 16 AI EVO. By benchmarking these systems across various workloads like gaming, workstations, and servers, DJ Ware provides a technical starting point for users deciding which filesystem best suits their specific computing needs.
I tested ext4, XFS, Btrfs, ZFS, and F2FS on the same hardware to answer a more useful question than simply, “Which filesystem is fastest?”
Instead of dragging you through 26 benchmark charts, I distilled the results into four real-world workloads:
The testing includes small and medium workloads, single-user and multi-user behavior, and several different kinds of read and write activity.
But graphs are never the full story.
A filesystem may win a throughput benchmark while consuming more memory or CPU, behaving differently as the workload grows, or introducing operational tradeoffs that matter more than a few percent of performance. Your workload may also be very different from mine.
The workload model used in this video is new, and it needs more data points before I’m comfortable treating it as anything more than a useful decision-making tool.
So this isn’t “here’s the winner.”
It’s what do you gain, what do you give up, and which filesystem makes sense for what you actually do?
If you want to see the raw benchmark charts and the work behind the scoring model, let me know in the comments. I may do a behind-the-scenes or live session and go through the data.
>I have recently put a fair amount of work into refining the www/linux-brave port on FreeBSD to make it DRM-ready out of the box.
Out of the box means 1 command on a vanilla FreeBSD desktop and you are ready to go:
pkg install linux-brave linux-widevine-cdm
…
⚙ D58784 www/linux-brave: DRM out of the box, GPU auto-detection
Work in progress
> An interactive ncurses Wi-Fi controller for the terminal. It scans nearby access points, connects to open and secured networks, supports hidden and custom SSIDs, and displays the current IPv4 address, netmask, gateway and DNS servers.
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> There are two builds. They present the same interface and the same key bindings; they differ only in what they drive underneath. …
>I was planning to write a little about my usage of LLMs while building xfwl4 as a small section of a larger blog post, but I decided I’d rather get it out of the way on its own. …
Video, ninety minutes. Streamed live from New York City *BSD User Group (NYC*BUG) a few days ago.
>Vidar is a combination of programs, a PostgreSQL database, and the SEC correlator engine that reads logfiles from authentication, email (postfix), and web server (nginx), (and potentially any other logs) and takes action based on SEC rules to add entries to an IPFW firewall. In concept it is similar to fail2ban and has some features in common with blocklistd.
SEC reads the logs in real time and based on its rules and correlations, outputs metadata that is piped to a process that inserts the events into a PostgreSQL database and further pipes the offending IP address to a script that updates a table named “BAD” in IPFW. This table is read by IPFW rules to block offending external systems from wreaking havoc on a FreeBSD host.
A corresponding table named GOOD contains whitelisted IP addresses so you don’t accidentally lock yourself out.
SEC - open source and platform independent event correlation tool
Closed captions/subtitles unavailable. Related:
I tried old Reddit first:
– then the new Reddit URL (www) for the same post:
– then the old Reddit URL for a recent profile post:
For all three, the status was 403.
Please, can there be an exception for VirusTotal?
Thanks.
There's an exception for the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Confirmed working, yesterday, with a capture of the profile post above.
I'm aware of, and don't disagree with, the general need for users of old Reddit to be logged in. Please, no arguments about that.
This post is – specifically – a plea for an exception for VirusTotal.
An Ars Technica article two days ago publicly threw a spotlight on automated removals affecting the domain for Rare Historical Photos.
https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/117060103411513870 includes search queries, from which it seems that the last unaffected comment was made on 2026-04-13.
https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/117060193842963024 shows that removals are hard, not soft. Normal moderator approval is not an option.
Is it reasonable to assume that something within the domain, maybe posted during April 2026, triggered a site-wide block of the domain by Reddit?
If so, I don't wish to argue the pros or cons of whatever triggered the block, but it'll be nice to:
Noted in Ars Technica: "Reddit has not responded to a request for comment." – so I don't expect an official response here (and for what it's worth, I do like that Ars Technica is not a vehicle for Reddit to discuss special cases).
Thanks, and with respect
Graham
Video, five minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/@GreyProtocolSecurity – Grey Protocol Security
>… A stable, well-documented FreeBSD base with an XFCE-derived desktop and SDDM login.
Full Red Team Toolkit
Wireless attacks, C2 frameworks, AD exploitation, OSINT, and more — pre-installed and organized. …
Quick Install Video + Email Heads-Up - RedBSD
>A quick install walkthrough for RedBSD is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/F4zpeeOO78g — it covers booting the installer ISO and getting through the first-login provisioning step. Check it out if you are getting started. Also, a quick note on support emails: we have been told that some people are not receiving replies from shane@greyprotocolsecurity.com. If you have reached out and not heard back, please check your spam or junk folder — emails from greyprotocolsecurity.com are occasionally filtered there. Mark the address as safe and try again if needed.
>Nexus-attached driver that discovers and parses coreboot's LBIO tables from physical memory. Exposes firmware metadata (version, build info, mainboard, serial config, TSC frequency, CBMEM entries) via sysctl hw.coreboot.*, the firmware console ring buffer via /dev/coreboot_console, and structured CBMEM entry access via /dev/cbmem ioctl interface.
From https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@seuros/117005041183414323
>… Normally, the kernel log starts when the kernel boots. Everything that happened before that is a mystery. You can make educated guesses, but that's all they are.
With this driver, FreeBSD can read the Coreboot log. You get to see what happened from the very first moment the machine powered on.
That is exactly how I tracked down systems where RAM training was taking far too long because of defective memory chips.
None of this would have been possible without the amazing work of the Coreboot team.
As far as I know, FreeBSD is now the first operating system with this driver.
DragonFlyBSD is next.
This month:
https://bsd.network/@lattera/117005862989735083 u/shawn_webb notes:
> #FreeBSD CVE-2026-58088 is mitigated by default in #HardenedBSD since core dumping is disabled by default. > > #infosec
This news is a complement to the recent community highlight that correctly reported the initial understanding of things (based on the review in Phabricator) – thanks again, u/BigSneakyDuck 👍
Thanks to Michael Larabel for publishing the clarification; and to Ed Maste for updating the FreeBSD wiki 👍
NYC*BUG talk
>Vidar is a combination of programs, a PostgreSQL database, and the SEC correlator engine that reads logfiles from authentication, email (postfix), and web server (nginx), (and potentially any other logs) and takes action based on SEC rules to add entries to an IPFW firewall. In concept it is similar to fail2ban and has some features in common with blocklistd. …
