Step 1: Open terminal
Step 2: Type `alias nano='vim -c "smile"'`
Step 3: Enjoy this whenever someone type `nano`!

#SysAdmin #Linux #FreeBSD

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This screenshot shows green ASCII art of the Vim ester eggs on a dark retro terminal screen, with the "Press ENTER or type command to continue" prompt displayed at the bottom when you type nano at the cli via bash alias: alias nano='vim -c "smile"'

Sorry I missed the release of FreeBSD 15.1 that happened yesterday. I'm downloading the release now to prepare the magnet links. They should be ready in the next hour.

#FreeBSD

https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=9010

Ok, this is funny...

I launched #tut with #vi as my default editor instead of #ed, because I just wanted to fire off a quick toot without having to put my brain in ed mode, and yet I kept...

Starting toots with a instead of o

Ending toots with \n.\nwq\n instead of [esc]:wq

😆

Sent from ed on my #FreeBSD #Thinkpad. 😁

@funkylab

For #FreeBSD (on that same box), I found a shell script that uses sysctl to get the ACPI name for the battery, and runs acpi_call from ports to set the thresholds, which survives a reboot.
On #OpenBSD, I believe you set the thresholds directly through sysctl.
On #Linux, you set it with something like echo 80 > /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_stop_threshold

#FreeBSD Receives Funding To Launch AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-AI-Bug-Discovery

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/116702145454686241

The world-wide #chatmail relay network is growing in various wonderful ways. #freebsd joined the world-wide federated secure communication party and BSD cafe offers a public relay at https://chatmail.bsd.cafe :) Thanks @stefano @feld and @outofcreativity !

Stefano Marinelli » 🌐 2026-06-06
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Dear friends of the BSD Cafe,
One of the principles this place was built on has always been free communication. Whether on the Fediverse or on Matrix, the goal is the same: open, secure, private, decentralized tools. Because we know, from experience, that anything centralized will sooner or later come to an end.
Matrix is great, and we like it. But it's tied to its server - you can't migrate away (easily). It does its job well, yet sometimes it asks for more than a conversation should: heavy to host, hard to leave.
So when my friend @outofcreativity brought it up again at EuroBSDCon, I decided to give Delta Chat another try after many years. And yes - its philosophy fits mine, and the Cafe’s, well.

For a few months we ran a relay - a chatmail server - but it was on Debian, and I didn't want to make an official service that runs on Debian. Not because it doesn't work: it works perfectly. But because it wouldn't be in the spirit of this place.

Thanks to @feld 's excellent cookbook recipe, I also kept a private relay of my own running for months, just to test it. It held up beautifully. So yesterday, with the help of some friends in the cookbook chat, I migrated the Debian server to FreeBSD - accounts and data included - and I can finally call it a stable, official Cafe service.

Our chatmail relay - https://chatmail.bsd.cafe - runs on FreeBSD, in a jail. Which means it gets everything the other services get: hourly backups via zfs send and receive, FreeBSD's security, and all the rest.

I'd encourage everyone to try Delta Chat. Secure, decentralized communication built on protocols we already know and trust: the ones behind email. And the development is moving fast. Multi-relay is no longer a promise - it's here, and it's solid: a single profile can use several relays at once, so your account and your reachability survive even if one of them goes down and disappears. That's real resilience. The real decentralization, the one we love.

Because Signal is great. But Signal, too, is centralized. And we happen to like the true spirit of the Internet.

#BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeAnnouncements #DeltaChat #ChatMail #Communication #OwnYourData

Couldn't seem to get #VimClassic to compile on #FreeBSD.

But then I realized the only thing I used it for is sncli, because it does something funny with the terminal when it hands it off to nvi, such that the cursor becomes invisible. But then, it's just a !reset to fix it, so I might as well just stick with nvi. ;)

#vi #vim #nvi #TextEditors #PlainText

@nixCraft

No hate towards my BTW brethren, but this is why I bounced from CachyOS to #Devuan on my laptop last night.

Planning on switching this laptop from #FreeBSD to #NetBSD soon.

Does the video streaming CDN that #Netflix uses run 100% on #FreeBSD?