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Please post an example picture.

I don't understand the goal. Something must happen while obscured to the operator? Why do "agents" need to control everything somehow more than a logged in root? All can be done by only a program, right?

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A start and end date of bigger wholes of tasks or features in a software project.

text How to draw a histogram or a timeline easily. Graphical way is preferred or some simple text file. I wanted something simple to run in FreeBSD. I'll be working with it a time and would like to trust only the workstation.

Rust does not eliminate memory-related bugs in a kernel context; it merely shifts where and how they occur. The moment Rust code interacts with existing C kernel infrastructure through FFI, shared data structures, or unsafe blocks the language’s...

what kind of graphics, exactly? Numerical or text? Can you post an example?

If Firefox was affected by a power-off bad enough to affect forks and reinstalls of it, I doubt it's the only thing on the whole OS broken (I'd do the reinstall :p)

Given things like rowhammer, not even the hardware is too sure what memory it is to touch and which not. We can make stuff hard and harder, but 100% is off the menu.

You said you used fsck to repair filesystems? To rule out any potential permissions, maybe: cd /home chown -R username:groupname homedirectory to walk through your home directory and set all the files and subdirectories as owned by you.

A friend of mine said: "Firefox is completely corrupted, maybe something like a bad sector or similar... You'll have to reinstall the operating system again. But honestly, I don't have enough time for that because it would be way too...

Thanks... I just opened Firefox again, and it closed immediately. I got these errors: $ firefox: console.warn: BackupService: "There was an error while trying to get the Document's directory" [Exception... "Component returned failure code...

Is this why I have to remove py311-cython3 manually because it conflcts with another branch? I don't remember exact details but a Firefox build stops if it exists. It's installed as dependency of something else. I added the "make deinstall " for...

I'm beyond what I can help with (this is where a coredump and source code in a debugger becomes necessary), but that seems like something someone could help with.

I tried these steps, but it still crashes. I remember the main error I kept seeing in the terminal was: Segmentation fault (core dumped) It just happened again. After about a minute of browsing and installing an extension in Firefox, it closed...

hw.snd.default_unit merely changes whatever device /dev/dsp points to. If you paid enough attention to virtual_oss, you might have noticed that -d dsp sets hw.snd.basename_clone=0, removes normal /dev/dsp and replaces it with /dev/dsp controlled...

shkhln, you are correct, it is not needed to change default audio device using: I can use: And it works like a charm. In the other hand when I start virtual_oss service I can see: And -d parameter only indicates the device name: And nothing...

The fact that all Firefox based browsers have the same/similar issue imply a library used. Are you starting it from a term window or clicking on a menu item? Try from a term window, there may be a breadcrumb somewhere. also from a term window...

First off, there's no need for an audio daemon. FreeBSD's OSS implementation can mix multiple clients without any additional software involved. Still it uses the classic OSS interface (consisting of devices like /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer). This...

C++, HML, and inline JavaScript are alive! Take that Qt!! Going to go see if lexbor https://github.com/lexbor/lexbor is in the ports repo so I can add css styling support. Holy cat crap!! Its actually in there! And it s recent version...

Given things like rowhammer, not even the hardware is too sure what memory it is to touch and which not. We can make stuff hard and harder, but 100% is off the menu.

This should include the designs of hardwares. Not OS and/or firmwares alone. Mutual memory safety is so difficult.

The problem is that in a kernel, the unsafe boundary isn’t small or well defined. Hardware, DMA, MMIO, shared buffers, and existing C subsystems all continuously violate the assumptions Rust relies on for memory safety. If the foundation you’re...

Don’t even get me started on crates.io. In my opinion, it’s a prime target for supply-chain attacks along with nodejs and python packages. People often respond with “but the code is open, you can inspect it,” but the xz-utils incident is a...

Benny Siegert, a well known NetBSD developer, gives some reasons why in his opinion Rust will never make it into the NetBSD kernel: First of all: I’m not so sure that Rust in the kernel would have been chosen to cater to a younger developer...

This has been created for a general audience in mind. The use case is largely my own. I wanted a wm that would be simple to maintain (if at all) and simple to extend, ie. a fit-and-forget solution. Something that would effectively be coded in...

Indeed. The problem is that the viral hordes don't see that. This complex and unsafe work is hidden in the depths of all the dependencies that these guys just flippantly pull in from crates.io.

I've already tried all of these steps. I completely removed every Firefox-related file from my system, reinstalled it, but it didn't help. Also, when I ran pkg check -as, the only output I got was: Checking all packages: 100% No errors or...

Rust does not eliminate memory-related bugs in a kernel context; it merely shifts where and how they occur. The moment Rust code interacts with existing C kernel infrastructure through FFI, shared data structures, or unsafe blocks the language’s...

There are a few things I would try: 1) Clearing the startup cache. Type about:support in the address bar and find the button in the top-right box. 2) Completely deleting $HOME/.mozilla and letting Firefox recreate it. 3) Check for damage in any...

For drawing, not painting: xfig I think that is the simplest, the next in the style would be some CAD program.

Agree, long ago I had also been searching for the simplest drawing program and graphics/xpaint is the closest match.

Can anyone tell me why I am unable to boot from this USB stick which is not partitioned? file -s /dev/da0 Automount mounts the device and shows me what is on it.

Agree, long ago I had also been searching for the simplest drawing program and graphics/xpaint is the closest match.

Hi everybody 👋 I'm just getting serious about switching to FreeBSD. :) It's funny, it doesn't feel like I chose it as much as my path led here. It just makes sense for me to move to FreeBSD. It's not my first experience with FreeBSD either. I...

I'm a boy from China who is 14 years old,I used to use Windows11 and Gnu/Linux. I had tried many Linux Distros. It's a big waste of my time and I even installed Gentoo with full disk encryption. Ops! I had also tried OpenBSD , It's simple and...

Perhaps xpaint ?

What is the best tool to create an image of a timeline to add in documents?

Create an .xinitrc in your home directory. Add the executable with file path to your .xinitrc. Presumably you are starting X from a tty? It does work. Clone the most current repo, as there are on-going improvements to the project. The project...

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Is that still acute? And was it also active on FreeBSD?

Try reading its man page. The environment variable PACKAGEROOT specifies an alternate location for pkg_add to fetch from. The fetch URL is built using this environ- ment variable and the automatic directory logic that...

I used to run swap on ZVOL for some years, without ill effects. And I had 4GB of RAM and build from source, ran memory hungry software, ... What made me stop was that swap on ZVOL does not work with kernel core dumps, they will not get written...

I moved commands to shell scripts, that portion of toml was to verbos for my liking and prone to syntax errors. There is also Sqlite FTS5 support so you can do full text search on the ports port.toml file, case you wanted every port that...

/etc/hosts is empty (use DNS), Host keys should have been replaced (it's a new install), so don't care about /etc/ssh. And never modified /etc/rc.shutdown.

The only worthwhile files would be /etc/rc.conf{|.local} (and /etc/rc.conf.d/*) and perhaps /etc/periodic.conf. Those aren't even merged by etcupdate. Everything else should simply be the standard files. What do you intend to merge?

It was just in the news that AI can recognize a person by how he taps the keyboard. It may be in fact insecure to tell keyboard preferences in the public Forum. An addition to a good security practice. Alarming in my opinion is how Youtube...

Try reading its man page. The environment variable PACKAGEROOT specifies an alternate location for pkg_add to fetch from. The fetch URL is built using this environ- ment variable and the automatic directory logic that...