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Echoes #202618: y2026, w18

Weekly Echoes #2026W18: IT news, round-up, week 18; from 04/27 to 05/03.

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Agenda

⇒ (27/04) BSDCan Tuesday 2026-06

⇒ (28/04) Social anarchic, mad, and misbehaving agents collaboratively solving tasks

We will look at the core concepts of how an agentic AI system works through an experiment in applying social and collaborative theory. The main focus of the talk will be a walkthrough of around 1500 lines of Python with minimal dependencies outside of the standard library.

Hardware

⇒ (30/04) Romagnetics Midynamite—The Open Source MIDI Multi-Effects Pedal

The Romagnetics Midynamite is a compact, battery-powered MIDI multi-effects pedal with three physical MIDI DIN 5-pin connectors and USB MIDI device support.

IT

⇒ (27/04) The Hail Mary Cloud And The Lessons Learned (updated)

Against ridiculous odds and even after gaining some media focus, the botnet dubbed The Hail Mary Cloud apparently succeeded in staying under the radar and kept compromising Linux machines for several years. This article, based on my BSDCan 2013 talk, sums up known facts about the botnet and suggests some common-sense measures to be taken going forward.

⇒ (27/04) DaVinci Resolve on Debian Linux – Install and Make Your First Video

Installing Davinci Resolve on Debian with MakeResolveDeb + basic usage

⇒ (29/04) OpenBSD stories—SPARC frame buffers

Around the year 2000, OpenBSD/i386 was still using the pcvt virtual terminal code, and I was considering porting it to sparc as ``sparcvt’’, in order to get virtual console terminals and better keyboard support, as the existing sparc console code only supported a subset of the keyboard keys, from which the arrows keys and the numeric keypad of Sun type 4 and 5 keyboards were missing.

⇒ (29/04) My Two Months With OpenBSD

I used it on two laptops and I will tell you how it went

⇒ (30/04) Servo Browser Engine Seeing Progress On FreeBSD Support

Following the recent Servo 0.1 release, the Servo project has published their latest monthly status report to highlight recent development efforts around this modern open-source browser engine.

⇒ (30/04) Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community

Open source software has existed long before the invention of the (D)VCS. The author likely hosted a barebones HTML webpage or a txt file describing the project. There definitely was an FTP server somewhere with tarballs. The author may have been reachable by email.

⇒ (30/04) OpenBSD Super-Easy INSTALL

If you have been on the verge of checking-out OpenBSD, be it for your laptop, desktop, or a home server, but you were afraid that the install-difficulty may be out of your league - watch this video to gain confidence.

⇒ (30/04) How To Install Steam On Debian Linux

⇒ (30/04) Don’t Get Hacked!

Most books on cybersecurity suffer from one or more of three flaws. The most common books are those aimed at professionals: programmers, system administrators, their managers, and so on, up to the Chief Information Security Officer, a high-level corporate executive who reports to the CEO and the Board of Directors. There’s nothing wrong with such books—I’ve written or co-written three of them myself—but the advice in such books isn’t very helpful to home users. (My last book contained passages like “The solution is a technology known as fuzzy extractors. Without going into the details, a fuzzy extractor generates a uniformly random string from noisy input; this string is suitable for use as a cryptographic key.” This is, shall we say, not very useful (or even comprehensible) advice for ordinary users.)

⇒ (30/04) 661: Break up Big Tech

Breaking up Big Tech, Porting MacOS to the Nintendo Wii, OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250, Postgres is your friend and more…

⇒ (30/04) NetBSD—Welcome to Google Summer of Code 2026 contributors!

We are happy to announce that The NetBSD Foundation will participate in Google Summer of Code 2026 with 5 projects!

Society

⇒ (27/04) Launch a FreeBSD 15 VPS Server from Rad Web Hosting.

This post provides a guide for how to launch a FreeBSD 15 VPS server from Rad Web Hosting.

⇒ (29/04) Eclipse ThreadX and RISC-V Advance the Open Embedded Stack

At OCX 2026, the Eclipse Foundation highlighted the growing role of open source in embedded and IoT development, with Eclipse ThreadX and RISC-V at the center of the conversation. Frederic Desbiens, project lead for Eclipse ThreadX, framed the opportunity clearly: embedded systems are becoming more complex, more connected, and more software-defined. As devices add more sensors, real-time processing, and AI capabilities, organizations need software stacks that are fast, predictable, safe, and easier to control over the long term.

⇒ (01/05) AMD Posts HDMI 2.1 FRL Patches For Their AMDGPU Linux Driver

It’s not complete HDMI 2.1 support but to much surprise hitting the mailing list today were official patches from AMD for implementing HDMI Fixed Rate Link “FRL” support for their kernel graphics driver. HDMI FRL as part of HDMI 2.1+ allows for higher bandwidth to support higher refresh rates and resolutions.

⇒ (01/05) Beneath the Linux surface: the UNIX legacy, a lively ecology

An open invitation to Linux users across the board, offering a closer look at the penguin and its iceberg, a walk across the ecosystems that make it possible, an exploration beyond one’s biome.

Security

⇒ (27/04) Fast16: Pre-Stuxnet malware that targeted precision engineering software

Fast16 is a pre-Stuxnet malware that tampered with precision software and spread itself. Evidence suggests links to U.S. operations during early cyber tensions.

⇒ (29/04) Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution.

Most Linux LPEs need a race window or a kernel-specific offset. Copy Fail is a straight-line logic flaw—it needs neither. The same 732-byte Python script roots every Linux distribution shipped since 2017.