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The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 15 May, 2026

This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum.

Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.

It’s your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.

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The install description for a KDE Wayland session on FreeBSD has been updated with some additional software choices. The page on Codeberg is up to date also.
#freebsd #kde
thesaigoneer.bearblog.dev/free…


Today the FreeBSD project published a number of security advisories and updates.

These include updates for components like: ptrace, file, fusefs, bsdinstall, libcasper, cap_net, and secretd.

Be sure to update your systems using `freebsd-update`, `freebsd-rustdate` (a bit faster) or `pkg update` if you're on pkgbase.

Also patch your jails using `bastille update 15.0-RELEASE`

#FreeBSD #BastilleBSD #CVE


Pro tip: set `UseDNS no` in your sshd_config to disable reverse DNS lookups for every single ssh connection to your host.

It provides no filtering or validation purpose, afaik, and seems to only generate excess DNS traffic.

This lesson brought to you by the 66k DNS lookups in the past 24hrs from a single public facing forgejo jail.

#FreeBSD #SSH #DNS


We’re proud to share that Deb Goodkin, Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation, will be speaking at Open-Source Summit North America, hosted by the Linux Foundation.

📍 Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 11:00am – 11:40am CDT | Room 101H

View the full schedule here:
events.linuxfoundation.org/ope…

Deb's talk: osselcna2026.sched.com/event/2…

We look forward to seeing you there.

#FreeBSD #OpenSourceSummit #LinuxFoundation #OpenSource