Any #Server folks out there care to comment: the big, used server resellers on eBay: are they worth the higher prices than the small sellers?

If you are using Matrix on the official central server, note that there are going to be restrictions very soon on the attachment size you can share with people. Because the org is losing money fast.
#matrix #server #linux #operations #policy

New Kitten Release

• Improved Markdown parser

Kitten’s JavaScript tagged template strings (`kitten.html`) no longer fail to render as expected when interpolated values are used inside of Markdown where the Markdown render changes source order.

So, for example, the following will now work correctly, whereas, previously, the link source and link text would have been erroneously flipped:

kitten.html`
<markdown>
[${linkText}](${linkSource})
</markdown>
`

To implement the fix, I’ve moved Markdown rendering outside of the main render loop and into a pre-render stage and implemented a simple Markdown render tree that non-recursively handles all Markdown region renders.

More details: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#2025-07-21

Run `kitten update` to update your dev machines. Your deployment servers will automatically update in the next few hours.

You can learn more about and install Kitten from the Kitten web site:
https://kitten.small-web.org/

Enjoy!

New 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗣𝗞𝗚𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗽𝗸𝗴𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗳𝘆(𝟴) 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹 [FreeBSD PKGBASE pkgbasify(8) Tool] article on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/07/20/freebsd-pkgbase-pkgbasify-tool/

Added 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝟭 - 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝟭𝟰.𝟯 𝗭𝗙𝗦 𝗥𝗔𝗪 𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 [UPDATE 1 - FreeBSD 14.3 ZFS RAW Image] to 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 [Install FreeBSD with One Command] article.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/11/10/install-freebsd-with-one-command/

Signups are currently deactivated!

We're now slightly below 1000 free VPS instances!

Within the last few weeks, coming with new locations around the world, we got more and more signups, where people can also test their setups across different geo locations @BoxyBSD.

Unfortunately, this also increases the required support which is really time consuming and only handled by @gyptazy. While everything is fully automated, support is another thing and I need a short break. Hope to open the signups quickly again.

PS: This project is completely free, not even any donation possibilities etc - just imagine a box would only cost 1$.

#Nvidia's Arm chips rapidly gain share in #server market as #AI booms — Nvidia's Arm-powered #GB200 servers surge as market reaches a record $95 billion in the first quarter
It appears that the vast majority of these Arm-powered machines are Nvidia's #GB200 #NVL72 #rackscale solution, based on the Grace Blackwell platform, which features an Nvidia Grace CPU and eight B200 AI GPUs per server.
https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/servers/nvidias-arm-chips-rapidly-gain-share-in-server-market-as-ai-booms-nvidias-arm-powered-gb200-servers-surge-as-market-reaches-a-record-usd95-billion-in-the-first-quarter

Does anyone have ideas or implementations on how to operate a #BIOS without sighted help? I keep having the problem of changing BIOS settings or boot sequences and always need someone to help me with the settings. I've also tried the video recognition of #ChatGPT or #Gemini, but both were way too imprecise and often just made up what it read to me or recommended for control. #accessibility #linux #server

New 𝗣𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗩𝗡𝗘𝗧 𝗝𝗮𝗶𝗹 [Poudriere Inside FreeBSD VNET Jail] article available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/poudriere-inside-freebsd-vnet-jail/

How to install FreeBSD on providers that don't support it with mfsBSD

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/02/install_freebsd_providers_mfsbsd/

Performance & Power Of The Low-Cost #EPYC4005 "Grado" vs. Original #EPYC7601 Zen 1 Flagship CPU Review
Can an entry-level brand new #Zen5 Grado #server processor with dual channel DDR5 memory outpace an original #EPYC server with twice the core/thread counts and eight channel DDR4 server memory? Yes, with huge gains in performance and power efficiency.
Across HPC, compilation, video encoding, and a variety of other workloads, #EPYC4585PX processor was at 2.69x performance
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-4005-server

Nano-Vllm: lightweight vLLM implementation built from scratch: https://github.com/GeeeekExplorer/nano-vllm
#linux #update #release #foss #nanovllm #llm #server

New 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗞𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗸𝗴(𝟴) 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 [FreeBSD Kernel Modules pkg(8) Repositories] article ready.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/06/22/freebsd-kernel-modules-pkg8-repositories/

32 years ago today, #FreeBSD was announced for the first time. I haven't tried this OS yet but I can assure you that I will because I want Quark, my OpenSource reverse proxy, to be supported on other Unix systems than Linux.

For this special occasion, I drew this little picture on #Krita