FreeBSD Foundation and Digital Security by Design (DSbD)

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❝… CHERI and CheriBSD, developed to revolutionize hardware-based protection against memory safety vulnerabilities, were developed by a collaboration from researchers from the University of Cambridge, alongside corporate partners such as Google, Microsoft, Arm, and SRI International, and with support from the UK government. …❞

#FreeBSD #ARM #security

FreeBSD Foundation and Digital Security by Design (DSbD) Announce Beacon Award Winners for Innovations and Improvements to CheriBSD

Winning Projects Highlight CheriBSD's Role in Advancing Digital Security...

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I'm still wondering whether I should install KDE Connect or not. On the one hand, great smartphone integration on the computer, on the other hand: do I really need it? Longer battery life is more important to me, and for the few times I want to transfer photos to the computer, I can also connect the USB cable.

#grapheneos #kdeconnect #kde #kdeplasma #degoogled #pixel #privacy #surveillance #linux #bigdata #fedora #unix #freebsd

Ok, long story short: I'm going back to macOS on this Late 2012 MacBookAir.

I love #Enlightenment (especially #E26 with #EFL 1.27.0) but I am not going through the hassle of all that apt/dpkg-crap again on a desktop machine. It is enough if I have to do that on my servers.

I just started "Restore from Internet" on the MacBookAir.

And I dunno, I really have to defend Apple here: I only had to restart the laptop and hold down CMD-r during restart. It then started an EFI-ROM-boot, which offered a way of joining my WiFi.

Then, it connected to an Apple-Server to download a restoration-preparation disk image, mounted and booted from that. After that I could start the Disk Utility to prepare the disk and now ... well, now it is downloading a full macOS disk image from one of Apple's servers and will then install it.

Mind you, it found OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) for download onto this laptop, which means, I need to do many upgrades afterwards to get it to 10.15.7 (macOS Catalina), but hey:

1. This is a 12-year old laptop
2. There **IS** still an Apple-Server where it can download a macOS
3. It is still supported with some security updates
4. It just friggin' works!

Yes, it will take hours and hours, but it works... And I'm sure I can still find download a development-environment for it and get brew installed.

Well, yeah, no! I think this was the last time I tried a Linux on desktop.

Until #FreeBSD runs on one of my old Apple MacBook (Air), I won't be deleting macOS from it anymore.

(I actually even have a MacBookPro or so, which can still run 32-Bit macOS-Software, but I don't really use that at all, so I might as well try installing FreeBSD on that one because ... it has an Ethernet-Port :)

Good question.

The only person I know that is even remotely into that stuff may be @ncommander.

After all, #backporting #curl to legacy #FreeBSD sounds like the kind of #SoftwareGore and #DigitalMasochism he's likes to showcase on his #YouTube channel...

Anyone happen to know anything about #FreeBSD (legacy) header files and wants to help us out with a #curl build issue?

https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/12109

curl.h: only include "osreldate.h" on pre v8 FreeBSD by bagder · Pull Request #12109 · curl/curl

Follow-up to b89789d. This header does not exist in all modern versions. Fixes #12107 Reported-by: Faraz Fallahi

^GitHub