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Ok. I mean it's not ok, but it is circumventable. Because you can use this device when you need it, to perform a banking operation or access e-government and then shut it down. As far as I know EU is not doing anything about FOSS and we can...

I have done this and I have tried it with some ordinary level-1 trivia questions and it started hallucinating hard, inventing stuff along the way.

The so called "vibe coding" is just a step up from presenting a Figma mockup as the application demo. (Figma is something I detest more than AI)

In the same manner that all worldwide radio and television frequencies are regulated now. In the USA that might be under the FCC. I forgot which organization manages international frequencies. EDIT: Oh. Of course. It's the ITU but I'm not sure...

LLM is good at googling while Google is bad at it. It has been, for years. SEO has shafted any perspective of google giving relevant results.

Never tried "vibe coding". I hope I never have to. So far, I've escaped it.

OK, so for as anti-AI as I am, I've come to appreciate the AI based quick google search. It's usually just me trying to remember some obscure shell progamming thing and a quick query "usually" returns something useful. Just today I needed to...

they suck ass can't wait for the all the crap to go away

No. However, I tried numerous USB class compliant devices on FreeBSD and they worked fine. Basically if it says it is iPad compatible it will probably work.

Are you getting useful things out of LLMs (AI chatbots)? I spent some time making a serious run with both web-based (ChatGPT and Claude via Github copilot) and local ones (ollma). The main reason is that they do things that I wouldn't have...

Issue fixed by modified php-fpm.d/pool..conf request_terminate_timeout and re-configuration of httpd.conf and every-vhosts.conf removed php-fpm options from main httpd.conf added request_terminate_timeout=610 to every pool config...

Package? You can write code (usually Python) around a LLM in ollama.

You can use ollama and then downloads LLMs of your choice for purely local interaction. AFAIK the models don't have the ability to call home when running in ollama.

i think you mean the System V R4 binary compatibility? this seems to have been removed around -12 or perhaps the `pecoff` image loader briefly in 5?

If humanity were intelligent, it would have been contacted long ago.

It is not plan9, but ported programs from plan9 user space. The behave slightly different than in plan9. I installed once plan9 in an old computer and never managed to do it again. It does not run in any hardware. Perhaps it would be interesting...

I think the more salient question is, is there intelligent life here on Earth? Looking at the state of affairs on multiple issues, we have good reason to think not.

Never tried "vibe coding". I hope I never have to. So far, I've escaped it.

Yeah, I suspect ZFS people were already expecting this change once the two last mainline users were gone. Nice timing BTW, kernel 6.18 which will be 2025LTS unless someting strange happens between now and December.

It's not. It's not the first time there something like this happens and it won't be the last. They removed an exported symbol and the replacement one (writeback_iter) is marked EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL and thus ZFS cannot use it.

Yeah, but ZFS is not BSD-licensed.

Well, it's your time of course. But it's an exercise in futility. It's the exact same version of FreeBSD and the packages on the DVD are now almost three months old and outdated. The installer won't magically configure XFCE for you and you end up...

I'll just drop this here... View: https://youtu.be/sCfAk7E1E4g?si=MZmk4i_KYmVwLDS2 Have fun.

From Phoronix: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-write-cache-pages GPL in full throttle mode.

There certainly was, but I can't remember it. It's not COMPAT_43 (compatible with BSD 4.3), is it?

No, it was an actual kernel module, keep thinking it was something IBM, AIX maybe?

Nope. What you might be thinking of was the change of ZFS to OpenZFS with 13. On FreeBSD 12 (and before) ZFS depended on opensolaris.ko, that dependency is gone when 13 switched to OpenZFS. There's been a svr4 but it got removed a long time...

By which entity?

At the turn of the century, radio stations would pop up all over the place by anyone who knew how to throw up an antenna. This caused problems with interference and every crazy around. I am of the strong opinion that eventually the web will...

That's the million dollar question, people don't even read the "Forum Rules and Guidelines (REQUIRED READING)" :rolleyes:

We had more ability to travel to the West, so it was easy to smuggle in computers, few companies had license deals with DEC and Honeywell-Bull, and we were better at stealing – even our school computer TIM011 was actually copy of Steve Ciarcia's...

Like european citizen still fight against this: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ . Maybe we lose but not because have not tried.

I would like to see a special edition using KDE Trinity, honestly it has not so very problems and is very light using memory ans resources in general.

No. Nostalgia, as his Uncle Joshua had said, ain’t what it used to be. Which made it pretty complete. Nothing was what it used to be — not even nostalgia. -- Peter De Vries (in his "The Tents of Wickedness" novel) [one of my favorite authors]

They do.

I'm very skillful with ANSI ^[ and in crafting useful and beautiful prompts, both with tcsh set prompt and with bash export PS1 Sorry, couldn't help myself 🤪 Seriously now, I only used Copilot, and it helped me in at least two instances –...

This one? https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/package-for-xyz-doesnt-exist-cannot-be-found.94582/

I'm very skillful with ANSI ^[ and in crafting useful and beautiful prompts, both with tcsh set prompt and with bash export PS1 Sorry, couldn't help myself 🤪 Seriously now, I only used Copilot, and it helped me in at least two instances –...

Are you getting useful things out of LLMs (AI chatbots)? I spent some time making a serious run with both web-based (ChatGPT and Claude via Github copilot) and local ones (ollma). The main reason is that they do things that I wouldn't have...

nm: 'abstractCompiler.o': Invalid argument gmake[3]: *** [lib/JvmMapfile.gmk:135: /wrkdirs/usr/ports/java/openjdk17/work/jdk17u-jdk-17.0.16-8-1/build/bsd-x86_64-server-release/hotspot/variant-server/libjvm/symbols-objects] Error 141 Strange...

So I got myself a cheap (well, everything is relative) Apple MacBook Air 13.6 M2, this is comparable to the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge - everything is soldered in. Of course I had to try booting FreeBSD on it for fun. I used the...

Looks like something got fixed, last build for latest on 14.2 was started Tue, 09 Sep 2025 01:01:51 GMT and took 29+ hours to complete. It shows a success for LibreOffice. Those builds may not have been synced to the package mirrors yet, but...

Why would you want the NSA to profile you?

With my little experiment with tree different LLM-s, I got a working C code out. Different LLM-s approached the task differently. Liked the Claude the best, but I have only free accounts in all all of them. Also, the task I gave was...

I am skeptical about AI, even though my son is a professional AI engineer (he recently published a book, see picture)

It's because java/openjdk17 has been failing to build for some time now. So everything that depends on it has gone missing. https://portsfallout.com/fallout?port=java%2Fopenjdk17%24 It's been failing on 13 and 14, so both versions are equally...

Not really uplifting, indeed. What made me chuckle was things I thought when reading/watching Harry Potter and there are so many "and now reality comes and everything goes pear shaped" moments.

OK, so for as anti-AI as I am, I've come to appreciate the AI based quick google search. It's usually just me trying to remember some obscure shell progamming thing and a quick query "usually" returns something useful. Just today I needed to...

Near the end I started looking for alternatives and had found NetBSD. Unfortunately my 4000/030 has a 68EC030, which lacked the MMU required to run NetBSD :( Have looked at it a couple of times over the years but never actually installed it on...

There's Plan9 that works this way. There are two packages/ports which each comes with a whole set of programs in their own directories: devel/plan9base & devel/plan9port. Many overlap with what's in here. There's a screenshot of one of these...