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Just had a look at the "goto"s introduced by the patch. They're fine, following your typical "goto cleanup"/"goto failed" idiom. A lot of C code needs this kind of goto for a clean and readable structure, possible alternatives are much worse.

I don't think it's that simple. My understanding is that the filtering rules are evaluated only if there is no matching state entry. And from what pf.conf tells, such states are created automatically from translation aka NAT rules: TRANSLATION...

World and kernel should always match up. When you start mix and matching kernel versions with userland versions then you could potentially fall in the same trap. Which is why this sort of set up isn't supported, kernel and world should always...

I never used a GUI mail client, except for testing out of curiosity. And yes, from time to time do I use Web-Mail, some mails are so corrupted with html-tagging, that there is no alternative. What you call a strength is no strength, but normal...

Thanks for the hint. I will if I discover one again. On this one, security/vault (version 1.4.1), I stumbled by accident because of 76557, swills@ joined that thread, and upgraded after request on quarterly on the same day . But the question...

3390 ports for a single person is way too much.

A considerable number of companies are not supporting IMAP or SMTP or the secure variants of it. Instead favoring this web-style oauth stuff that is basically a mess. There are a few proxies you could consider such as davmail...

It seems there were several attempts in Neomutt to support this, see for example https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues/2004 The reason I don't really care is that my IMAP is on my LAN anyways. But obviously some would consider it a valuable...

OT, but I'd like to comment on this: IMHO a major reason for this is the lack of maintainers. Far too many desktop ports do not even have one; i.e. the ports' (linux'ish) defaults apply with some minimal, general FreeBSD patches. I.e...

I don't think it's that simple. My understanding is that the filtering rules are evaluated only if there is no matching state entry. And from what pf.conf tells, such states are created automatically from translation aka NAT rules: TRANSLATION...

The reason I prefer my solution is that I have all the mail storage internal. My cheap VPS doesn't even offer a simple backup solution, and I also want to easily delete it, maybe rent a different one, without losing anything.

There is quality info there, and it started out that way, but I noticed its downfall when it got noticed on reddit. Then there was a large influx of those type of people who just want "give me teh codez" type questions. Those who fought back...

PMc you are spot on with moderation. It is the job of each and every member of a group to police that group. People may join, change, and become valuable members. That can't happen when they get booted off by some perimeter guard. But we need...

When they understand what bloat is, then their comments can mean something. As long as the structure is there, more users can't harm the system. The base system of FreeBSD is really good. For ports, there needs to be a best practices, which is...

To be fair, that isn't a bad solution. Though I would still like to free up the VPS for more important things than email passing. Such as torrents ;) For a while I ran an incoming-only SMTP/IMAP server on my internal home server, and then just...

Agreed. I believe some of those proxies actually end up working by scraping web output which makes me shudder a bit. Well this is kind of the issue preventing us from hosting our own on our own physical servers (from home anyway). I personally...

IPv6 itself is not complicated, but its numerical representation is rather cryptic and scary. Also, it's (rather) new. Hence less people are willing to deep dive into subject, thus there's less written article/content on the internet.

A considerable number of companies are not supporting IMAP or SMTP or the secure variants of it. Instead favoring this web-style oauth stuff that is basically a mess. There are a few proxies you could consider such as davmail...

Years ago, there was a self-proclaimed security expert, who accused Microsoft of implementing a Backdoor into the WMF. A few days later, he got hosed. It was a public embracement. He was an early example/product of "self-esteem movement".

Does smartctl -X device stop it?

I have a slightly weird one with Firefox that maybe is what the OP is experiencing. Whenever I go on a site utilising a Canvas or WebGL with a "loop" via requestAnimationFrame. My hard-drive goes 100%. I think potentially it is creating error...

No it is not. Does Firefox have malware in it? No. Look elsewhere. Many of us run Firefox as our daily driver with no such issues. The problem is neither Firefox or FreeBSD.

Until I sold my businesses, I used text messaging with sendmail and mutt multiple times a day communicating with co-workers and hosting providers. It's faster, needs nothing else and contains the information we need. Text trumps everything. And...

AFAIR uploading m4a to LBRY is possible. Not sure, though!

We have an idiom for this: "Da staunt der Laie und der Fachmann wundert sich". Loosely translated: "You must be pulling my leg!". Literally it would be: "The layman marvels and the expert is surprised".

That was a good find, shkhln 👍 Well that says all. When I find Dell computers/workstations, I normally gut them for parts, because of their PSUs. They are utter crap imho, the inside is so cramped that maintenance, even only cleaning, is an...

I find it interesting that you get the buzzing on all of your computers. So, did you examine the cables? Without making sure the cables are actually shielded, all this experimenting might be of no use. This will become more and more of an issue...

At least the FreeBSD firewall templates implement a few IPv6 rules. Below is the output of the firewall_type="workstation" setting activated in /etc/rc.conf. # ipfw list|grep ipv6 00600 allow ipv6-icmp from :: to ff02::/16 00700 allow ipv6-icmp...

Hi all, A pkg upgrade I did yesterday broke my net-p2p/deluge-cli installation. pkg/py37-openssl was upgraded from v19.1.0 to v20.1.0. A dependency of the latter is security/py-cryptography py37-openssl v20 requires v3.2 or higher of the latter...

I am a mutt user since years. A strength of this kind of readers is that they do not follow each link automagically in a html mail.

In addtion to scottro post, I am not sure why Iridium is no more in the ports tree. But sometimes I might be too stupid to use www.freshports.org. I am sure that there has been an Iridium clone at the time when Iridium itself has disappeared...

NCND * Create new profile, start firefox with that, and inspect its behaviour. * Use about:performance to check tab performance. * Use about:memory to check memory usage. * Use about:networking to monitor networking information * Limit the...

This is a continuation of: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/sending-mail-from-terminal.16268/ It seems there are few mail programs for the command line. And for today's chaotic use of mail (html mail, attachments, etc), much less. In my...

* You're not using Xorg. Therefore, you can use sc, and it can run screen saver. * AFIAK sc doesn't support KVM. I only use it in the VM. I didn't test it recently. Related Manual Pages, and threads: "Screen Saver" section of the sc, and splash...

A few comments on that: I get from Your intro that You seem to be a moderator on that stack-overflow thing. My observation of that SO is that it does not produce quality info, but reputation: just like people on YT strive to boost followers, on...

PMc you are spot on with moderation. It is the job of each and every member of a group to police that group. People may join, change, and become valuable members. That can't happen when they get booted off by some perimeter guard. But we need...

I think they are all too busy juggling their ~16 different versions of JQuery to reflect on such things ;)

No, you still need a firewall. With IPv4, most households or small organizations are NATed, meaning inside hosts are not reachable from the outside. With IPv6, if you get a large enough address range, by default all your inside hosts are suddenly...

So I'm working to improve stability of some software. Suddenly my disk light starts working hard I can hear it, from years of experience I know it's not "cron running find". I check my ps list and the only possibility is firefox (which I set to...

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/book.html#makefile-master_sites-github

I think they are all too busy juggling their ~16 different versions of JQuery to reflect on such things ;)

I remarked to a friend, a couple of weeks ago, that there were a lot of questions being asked on Stack Overflow by new people that are not allowed and I spent far more and too much time helping to get them removed (as one with moderator...

What makes you think that sysctl is used to make changes in rc.local? That's incorrect, it's only used to set kernel parameters, and when you use it those changes will only last for as long as the system is up, they do not retain. You're...

Worked for me. I seriously doubt this. If it did happen, I suggest moderating your language and trying again.

So why exactly does someone need a patch to do something that should be easily achieved just by adding static-port to the nat rule? And why should such behaviour then be forced upon just about everyone else, by making it the default behaviour? I...

So why exactly does someone need a patch to do something that should be easily achieved just by adding static-port to the nat rule? And why should such behaviour then be forced upon just about everyone else, by making it the default behaviour? I...

I use Webrtc just fine even with my insecure, evil "symmetric" NAT. This feature is not necessary. I reiterate my preference that there be a way to turn this off if the patch is accepted. I guess it won't really affect me if it is because I use...

They look correct on my system clang -dM -E -march=native - < /dev/null | grep -i avx #define __AVX2__ 1 #define __AVX__ 1

After first install I installed gnome, failed (X not yet installed - dependencies were not pulled in, newbie mistake). For that and disk other reason I fresh re-intalled freeBSD12.2. I installed X, the nvidia driver, XFCE4, firefox. As close...

I think they are all too busy juggling their ~16 different versions of JQuery to reflect on such things ;)