AI
AI:2026/07/07
⇒ Avoid AI atrophy - new tool promises to reverse vibe coding skills decay
Want big muscles? Keep working out. Want big coding skillsets? Flex your dev skills with the Atrophy CLI app before they wither away
AI:2026/07/09
⇒ Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Launch Open Health Stack Software Foundation to Advance Open Source Digital Health Innovation
Google, WHO and a global coalition support new Foundation designed to close health equity gaps through open, AI-ready infrastructure
Domotic
Domotic:2026/07/09
⇒ IoTorero joins Works with Home Assistant
The Works with Home Assistant program powers up this month as we welcome our new partner, IoTorero! 🎉 Experts in pre-flashed smart home hardware, IoTorero bring the very first ESPHome-ready smart plugs and relays to the program (and that’s not all).
IT
IT:2026/07/06
⇒ During a power outage, how do the three servers in the basement react?
Over the weekend, some branches fell on a neighbor’s power service line. They still had power, but the branches had to be removed. That removal occurred this morning. I saw the trucks at about 6:45 AM as I walked past. I suspected I might lose power, and I did. This post records the shutdown and power on times/sequences. I might find this useful should I need to reevaluate the power-outage procedures.
- https://dan.langille.org/2026/07/06/during-a-power-outage-how-do-the-three-servers-in-the-basement-react/
#FreeBSD #nut
⇒ Secure Unix ancestor KSOS did type safety before Rust made it cool
Modula-based source code resurfaces after nearly four decades
IT:2026/07/07
⇒ Companion app: Changing support for Apple platforms
We’re updating which Apple platforms the Home Assistant Companion app supports, and because transparency is core to how we work, we want to be upfront about what’s changing. Starting with version 2026.8.0 of the Companion app, we will no longer support iOS 15, watchOS 8, or macOS 11. The last supported version for these platforms will be 2026.7.1.
- https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/07/07/companion-app-changing-support-for-apple-platforms/
#domotic #Home-Assistant #Apple
IT:2026/07/08
⇒ OpenBSD’s pledge(2) and unveil(2) are developer-friendly, study finds
Academic studies of OpenBSD’s features and their practical impact on security are somewhat rare, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the recent paper A Measurement Study on the Adoption of Pledges and Unveils in the OpenBSD Operating System, by Jukka Ruohonen, Krzysztof Sierszecki, Abhishek Tiwari (all at University of Southern Denmark).
IT:2026/07/09
⇒ BSD Now—671: Rage Against the Machine
The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech, ZFS vs Cep, Detecting and removing dangerous secrets on dev workstations before Shai-Hulud does and more…
⇒ GitLab on FreeBSD
Today I will share how to install and setup a GitLab server on FreeBSD. Most people just use Microslopft GitHub these days but this approach has one big drawback – its cloud only solution. When it comes to on premise solutions there are GitLab and there is also Gitea. GitLab is closest to what GitHub provides while Gitea is very light and smaller brother trying to achieve the same goals by doing less. Good to have alternatives.
- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/07/09/gitlab-on-freebsd/
#FreeBSD #Gitlab
IT:2026/07/10
⇒ Linux Mint Now Considers Wayland Stable
Cinnamon will fully support both X11 and Wayland sessions starting with Mint’s next release
⇒ Wayland No Longer Considered Experimental For Linux Mint’s Next Cinnamon Release
The Linux Mint distribution has published their June development summary that most notably includes work on Cinnamon’s Wayland support where it’s now ready to graduate.
IT:2026/07/12
⇒ Leanpub Book LAUNCH 🚀 Three Essays on NetBSD by Chris Pinnock
This book collects three essays I wrote in 2022 about the NetBSD operating system.
Release
Release:2026/07/06
⇒ OpenSSH 10.4/10.4p1 released!
The OpenSSH project has released OpenSSH 10.4.
- https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260706190144
- https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.4
- https://www.openssh.com/
Society
Society:2026/07/08
⇒ Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ditches SharePoint while Bavaria also mulls Microsoft alternatives
Society:2026/07/11
⇒ Jails, Not Containers: FreeBSD Isolation Done Right
Containers play a major role in modern infrastructure, but they are not the right answer for every workload. This article explores how FreeBSD jails provide purpose-built isolation, predictable security boundaries, and deep ZFS integration—making them ideal infrastructure-grade services where stability is essential.
- https://klarasystems.com/articles/jails-not-containers-freebsd-isolation-done-right/
#FreeBSD #jails
Security
Security:2026/07/07
⇒ Januscape: Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86
This document describes the Januscape (CVE-2026-53359) vulnerability discovered and reported by Hyunwoo Kim (@v4bel). It is a KVM escape vulnerability that lets a guest escape to the host in a KVM/x86 environment. To the best of public knowledge, this is the first guest-to-host exploit research triggerable on both Intel and AMD rather than being limited to a single architecture.
Security:2026/07/10
⇒ Email Passwords Keep Getting Stolen
A recent headline tells us that millions of email passwords were recently stolen from six ISPs. Security wonks like to exclaim that this is a failure by the admins at those companies, but the reality is more nuanced than that. I think their inability to escape storing plaintext passwords is directly a result of failures by standards bodies and the fact that email is so old of a technology that it has survived multiple paradigm shifts in internet security practices. Let’s take a brief and likely innaccurate trip through time to see how we got to where we are today.