Ed Maste

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2026-06-24 17:38:28 GMT

Many side quests at the #FreeBSD Halifax Hackathon. I found we had a longstanding issue with the uncaught exception diagnostic handler in libcxxrt, now fixed. https://reviews.freebsd.org/D57822

2026-05-18 20:36:40 GMT

Interesting #FreeBSD Forums post:
> We have booted Debian with qemu accelerated with bhyve/vmm for the first time.
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/we-have-booted-debian-with-qemu-accelerated-with-bhyve-vmm-for-the-first-time-this-is-an-epic-milestone-for-the-community.102735/#post-760324

2026-01-22 15:27:12 GMT

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The FreeBSD Foundation''s laptop support project started with a focus on drivers and low-level things. We've made good progress there and are now starting to look at a roadmap for effort further up the stack.

2026-01-22 15:23:26 GMT

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No surprise, the main problem is not a technical one :)
I'm discussing the login/session management topic with some FreeBSD folks, and there are lots of different paths to investigate (which could include adding new FreeBSD kernel or library functionality, adding FreeBSD support to existing daemons, etc.).

2026-01-21 19:07:02 GMT

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I see this prompted a bunch of spicy takes, so to be clear -- in the near term, 🤷. SDDM will continue to work as it does now.
Why the 😞? It's about uncertainty. Is a significant amount of SDDM development and maintenance effort coming from KDE folks, who will now be working on PLM instead? Are Linux distributions migrating from SDDM to PLM?
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/2148

2026-01-20 18:59:59 GMT

https://github.com/KDE/plasma-login-manager/commit/e78f33aefd6512b542af21c3542516f38cbf678d 😞

2025-02-10 17:22:50 GMT

Support for DSA keys to be removed from #FreeBSD's copy of OpenSSH: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-security/2025-February/000350.html

2024-09-11 00:48:53 GMT

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Buck Martinez, colour commentator. Along with play by play from Dan Shulman the #BlueJays might just have the best broadcast team around.

2024-09-06 21:13:28 GMT

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can't like this enough

2024-08-08 12:54:17 GMT

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What grep behaviour difference did you find?

2024-06-19 14:01:31 GMT

#FreeBSD commit "Add an implementation of the 9P filesystem"
https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=e97ad33a89a78f55280b0485b3249ee9b907a718