Michael Dexter @[email protected]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/common-antidepressant-can-treat-long-covid-fatigue-symptoms-study/

"A common and low-cost antidepressant can successfully treat fatigue associated with long COVID, according to a new study.

Co-led by researchers from McMaster University in Ontario, the study found that the drug fluvoxamine, which is commonly sold under the name Luvox, significantly reduced fatigue symptoms in a clinical trial of 399 adults with long COVID. It is one of the first times a medication has been shown to effectively treat the condition. "

https://doi.org/10.7326/ANNALS-25-03959

Note the irony of an administration banning drones and routers over unsubstantiated security concerns, while promoting White House apps for Android and iOS that look like privacy disasters.

Well there you go, a company is explicitly offering FLOSS licensing math-washing as a service:
https://malus[.]sh/

> Our proprietary AI robots independently recreate any open source project from scratch. The result? Legally distinct code with corporate-friendly licensing. No attribution. No copyleft. No problems.

Congratulations to anyone in the FLOSS community still supporting and promoting genAI "revolution".

#FLOSS #AI

https://sylve.io/

open source: community over code.

ai: what if you could have code without community?

I had to get this idea out of my head. #TheyLive #LLM

So happy to see the new influx of users to https://sylve.io ! We are so, so back folks. 2026 is the year of vanilla FreeBSD in the homelab scene!

Feedback from a new Sylve user (from our discord) 👇🎉

#Sylve #FreeBSD #RunBSD

The existence of Net BSD implies the existence of Gross BSD

Yesterday, 42 days to go to the next BSD-NL Conference - Early 2026 🐡😈⛳

You can still get tickets!
https://tickets.bsdnl.nl/bsdnl/

You can still submit your talk!
https://events.bsdnl.nl/
(CfP closes on 2026-04-12)

📆 2026-05-09 / May 9th 2026
🕐 10:00-23:00 CEST
📍 Brouwerij Maximus (Utrecht)
🌐 https://bsdnl.nl

#BSDNL #RUNBSD #BSD #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #HardenedBSD #SecBSD #DragonflyBSD

Call for testing: #mlmmj 2.0.0
Changes from 1.8.0
- new build system
- by default respect RFC 2919/2369 List-* and Precedence headers generated by default (can be disabled via nolistheaders)
- Subscription follow reply-to for confirmations
- X-Forwarded-To (Gmail forwarding)
- X-Signed-Recipient (DARA/ARC)
- A bit of hardening
- some portability fixes
- archive partitioning option (archive/YYYY/MM) with automatic migration (that's per request of #Gentoo people)

New blog post:

Emulating old OS X versions with QEMU
http://82mhz.net/posts/2026/03/emulating-old-os-x-versions-with-qemu/

#blogging #blog #osx #retrocomputing

Tribblix m39 released

Tribblix, the Illumos distribution focused on giving you a classic UNIX-style experience, has released a new version.

There are several noticeable version updates in this release. The graphical libraries libtiff and OpenEXR have been updated, retaining the old shared library versions for now. OpenSSL is now from the 3.5 series with the 3.0 api by default. Bind is now from the 9.20 series.

https://www.osnews.com/story/144613/tribblix-m39-released/

#Solaris

Reposting this amazing mini-guide on how to write helpful alt text created by @Veron4ica (source: https://veroniiiica.com/how-to-write-alt-text-image-descriptions-visually-impaired/) and found via @karengregory (including Karen's original image description) so that I can pin it.

#AltText #ImageDescription #accessibility #a11y

Next NYC*BUG: Wednesday April 1st
What's Changed Since The Last Time I Came this Way - a talk that was supposed to be about OpenZFS, by Michael W Lucas
2026-04-01 @ 18:45 local (22:45 UTC) - Backroom of Brass Monkey 55 Little West 12th St
https://www.nycbug.org/
Hear how the newest ZFS book is going and what @mwl has planned.

Flyer: https://www.nycbug.org/media/2026-04-01_Lucas_Flyer.pdf

#openzfs #runbsd

The Human Cost of Failing to Name COVID ‘Airborne’

"It’s difficult to know why the word “airborne” is avoided so consistently, but the impact is clear: without that word, occupational health and safety requirements can be evaded."

#COVIDisAirborne #COVIDisNotOver #MaskUp

Source: https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/03/27/Human-Cost-Failing-Name-COVID-Airborne/

A flurry of bets made prior to major announcements about the Iran war has ramped up speculation that individuals or groups with advance knowledge of U.S. military plans are cashing in on insider information.

So far, no American has faced federal charges related to insider trading on event-driven news.

But accusations about questionable trades are mounting. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/insider-trading-prediction-markets-trump-rules-rcna265452?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=69c70299b7d88c00019f89d5&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter