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Exactly. It is so far down the line that I don't want to waste my time worrying about something that isn't going to affect me. I don't worry about the Sun expanding and engulfing the Earth in millions of years either. History will do what it...

libxcrypt seems to depend on lang/perl5.42: ports/security/libxcrypt % make all-depends-list | grep perl5 /usr/ports/lang/perl5.42 Perhaps force delete libxcrypt, upgrade to perl5.42, install libxcrypt.

"crypt.h" seems to origin from security/libxcrypt. Try to upgrade that port first. A test run (in a VM) of ports-mgmt/portmaster upgrade of perl5.40 to perl5.42 (with only build dependencies devel/ccache and ports-mgmt/pkg installed) doesn't...

Original article here. Consider this when replying. The second release candidate build for the FreeBSD 15.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv7, aarch64, powerpc64, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are FreeBSD...

I don't necessarily agree, after more than 40 years dealing with computers and about 30 in the industry I found that having a system with almost everything preconfigured for you is a nice touch. That's why I use FreeBSD and KDE. pkg install kde...

The simplicity is its strength.

The simplicity is its strength.

Colleagues, could you please tell me what I'm doing wrong? I have a Huawei E1550 USB GSM modem. When turned on, it creates three COM ports. I want the names of the special files to be unique and not change their order when connecting other...

To put so much faith into the underlying technology, something that did not exist and become well known till a couple of years ago, is staggering in itself. It is unproven and immature technology with little history to prove itself. I find it...

Find the corefile. Call `gdb - rustc.core` (or whatever it is named. Type `bt` inside gdb.

Can you get a backtrace from that corefile?

Actually, I didn't know about two-finger scroll and wasn't sure how to do it, but with a little practice it does work. That is, in LXDE.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD5aAd8Oy84&t=86s

It's real!! LGR did a youtube video of it five years ago :) View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1csOOMXANI

Because this picture was taken on December 7, 1972, so before the bypass was built, it shows the Mark I.

Its operating system has a lot of bugs. Last time i checked it was about 8,338,067,691.

Since also imaginary computers are allowed, and Douglas Adams was already mentioned, let me throw in another weird computer, to continue on the actual topic:

Currently programmers are the only people who understand the limitations of tools and why AI code generators are not going to exist in our lifetime. When I was a kid, I enjoyed code generators. I made loads of fun little games with Games Maker...

Ah, I will correct myself. They *will* exist but they won't actually be useful. ;) They will be similar to some of the "low code" gimmicks the industry has been flirting with for decades.

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I still can't figure out how to run this, but what do I need to run from a (sh) command prompt? Do I need to run bash first? Can you give me a command to run to get this started? I've tried all sorts, but I'm not familiar with bash even though...

Many years ago, when I designed medical computers for Bausch & Lomb, I would come home from work with code on my mind. I'd walk around the house and talk about a problem with my wife who knows nuthin' 'bout 'nuthin 'bout electronics or...

Unfortunately, they WILL EXIST, because we live in a world where sanity plays second fiddle to mass-hype and the promise of making money. You are thinking rationally. Stop that!

Ah, I will correct myself. They *will* exist but they won't actually be useful. ;) They will be similar to some of the "low code" gimmicks the industry has been flirting with for decades.

Currently programmers are the only people who understand the limitations of tools and why AI code generators are not going to exist in our lifetime. When I was a kid, I enjoyed code generators. I made loads of fun little games with Games Maker...

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-screen-shots.8877/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy7vrd8k4eo

No offense, but I'm calling BS on this. I've been around long enough to have experienced a lot of autogenerated software. automake, autoconf? someone writes rules and a tool turns those rules into software. Old fashioned CORBA, DCE...

True, but it's far easier to skim an article than a video. Even with my method of running the video at 2x and just reading the captions, I can get the gist of a written article far more quickly.

Anything with a node / graph structure will require this (i.e XML, DOM). Likewise anything with the observer pattern will (Cache, Pool, most types of aggregation). So ultimately it will be present in pretty much any non-trivial codebase. Same as...

A pox on all your rusts! According to the register, all the rust developers are burnt out and leaving the project:- https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/22/rust_project_burnout/ My vote goes to C, anyway. Back in 1997 'they' were telling me...

scottro A lot of written articles are like that,too. The title may be interesting but they go through a complete history of the subject along with a lot of direction to other related subjects--mostly links to other articles on the site for SEO...

eternal_noob. I have to jump on the video thing. Last night, bored, I was going through youtube--I sometimes watch various old boxing matches. Anyway, someone had a video, over an hour long, that was just a still photo or two, telling the story...

eternal_noob. I have to jump on the video thing. Last night, bored, I was going through youtube--I sometimes watch various old boxing matches. Anyway, someone had a video, over an hour long, that was just a still photo or two, telling the story...

I remembered this thread today. Just in case someone ever needs this... pkg install kiconvtool /etc/rc.conf: kld_list="... libiconv msdosfs_iconv" kiconv_preload="YES" kiconv_local_charsets="UTF-8" kiconv_foreign_charsets="UTF-16BE UTF-8"...

Not entirely sure, but the keyboard layout might be different too. Some characters might be swapped or have entirely different characters. For example, on a US keyboard the @ is above the 2, SHIFT-2. But on a Dutch layout SHIFT-2 gets you a "...

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Well, I am downloading Google Antigravity right now. An entire IDE dedicated to vibe coding. Cover me, I'm going in.

Another one bites the Rust: https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

Can somebody explain what scrollable history means if it isn't the history in a pager?

You are correct about the trajectory of this thread, though. The goalposts were shifted quite a bit on the way from the thread title to where we are now.

There just was a landmark court decision in Germany that said that current LLMs reproduce song lyrics so accurately that it counts as copying and is hence NOT fair game. That line of decision making could go all the way to the problem of using...

That's pretty much the algorithm. Also not an expert (since AI has only been a hype for ~3 years, very few are). The neural network design is fairly old but this weighting / feedback ("training") approach has been used for OCR / dictating...

It's supposed to be a more complex thing. I'm not an expert, but basically each cell of a neural network has multiple inputs and a single output. During it's "learning" process the weight of each input changes, hence the "decision making" gets...

Yes, exactly. Even a good framing hammer won't help someone with two left hands. Just like a good car doesn't make you a good driver.

What marketers are currently calling AI is really just a group of algorithms dealing with clever processing of text. Since software is generally written with text, it makes sense for these algorithms to be relevant in this area. To...

It is impossible to enforce a complete ban on AI generated code (or any text).

insufficient! we should be doing the handoff on skateboard in the middle of the night, like in Hackers

I'm going to take the time to recommend another Mike Lucas book. A relatively short (and relatively inexpensive one) on ZFS. Though it's a bit old now, the information, IMO, is still valuable. It answers some basic ZFS questions...