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My renderer is hybrid: Vulkan, OpenGL, or CPU can be selected per configuration depending on workload and hardware. The render path is retained mode with explicit control over frame submission, damage regions, and synchronization. For fullscreen...

Looks good enough. It assumes a native reinstall. Use make installworld DESTDIR=<dir> to put everything somewhere else and not touch the host installation.

My renderer is hybrid: Vulkan, OpenGL, or CPU can be selected per configuration depending on workload and hardware. The render path is retained mode with explicit control over frame submission, damage regions, and synchronization. For fullscreen...

Meh, I create wild lines fine :p (I'd be interested in seeing more unique msbuild/clang use anywhere else) "%ProgramFiles%\CMake\bin\cmake.exe" -S "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\src" -B "%UserProfile%\Projects\TrinityCore-335\build" -G...

Doesn't the Handbook cover this? At one time it was considered a right of passage to build from source.

Since LLMs get all their info from the internet, I wonder if the first major attack will be on them by evil forces feeding them false information. I wonder if the attack will be constructed using AI itself.

That's what I'd do! Cloudflare's implementation is cool: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption/

I used once some very old web camera for this. It was very bad camera - a lot of noise. Just capture raw image, concatenate with timestamp (higher resolution as possible), hash it, and use it as the key to encrypt something (/dev/zero or...

I'm interested in the fastest performance for fullscreen games and lowest-latency everywhere. I found GNOME 48+ slower with default GSK_RENDERER=vulkan (DE + GTK apps like Text Edit all GPU-rendering) vs cairo not GPU accelerating. I get better...

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=random&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+13.1-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html https://www.schneier.com/academic/fortuna/

It's been a while since I did this, but that looks about right. If you're on ZFS, make sure to get a snapshot before installing anything. Don't go too crazy with optimization flags the first time you do it, you can always make customization on...

Thank you for the compliment. It’s not really a learning curve so much as a huge amount of work and figuring out how to work around the limitations of GPU support and tooling that come with developing on FreeBSD. Fortunately, I do have some help...

If it must be as random as possible, what about radio noise as input? Never tried anything related. but a wifi-controller that's able to show binary receiver noise that's entirely unpredictable would be useable. And a soundcard? Can we get highly...

If absolute trust is not an issue for seeding, I use the ANU's online Quantum Random Number Generator, which measures "the quantum fluctuations of the vacuum".alias -x anuentropy="curl -k...

I'm not at all familiarabou building FreeBSD from source although I may have tried it once or twice over the last ten years, but I think I would like to become more familiar with the process and am trying to follow a guide:-...

Actually, I would contend that 99% of humans only need a browser. It's perfectly feasible to do documents (a.k.a. Word), spreadsheets (a.k.a. Excel), and mail within a browser. Same with e-mail. The remaining 1% is gaming, graphics (not CPU!)...

I had a few old games working with Wine but its on the wrong level. Why can't Virtualbox or Qemu have the required virtual logic that enables Wine to do it? (different for every game because it depends on dll versions)

I think IMG's problem is that he has a too old NVidia card. And since we have no control of the binary driver...

I have 1.27 notes! It ran easy with Wine on 14.2 (15+ pkg32-old notes) -opengl probably could be used with MESA_OVERRIDE Zink for Vulkan (if OGL by itself might be non-ideal) D3D mode was unstable on Intel UHD 630 (not sure a benefit over OGL...

Nowadays it doesn't really matter if Git supports Windows, because every Windows comes shipped with WSL.

And if you can, consider installing a UPS. Even the most basic ones will give you enough time to save whatever you're currently working on, shut down the machine properly and some more. They will also protect you from power surges.

When op clarified "loudness or muteness of the source" that precludes "kernel event trapping" and moved into the realm of DSP programming and pattern filtering of PCM data. loudness of a PCM signal is directly related to the amplitude of the PCM...

Consider these styles for a single source file program. Form 1 void A(int x, int y); int B(float x); int main(int argc, const char *argv[]) { A(1, 2); return B(3.f); } void A(int x, int y) { // some code goes here. } int B(float...

I prefer form 3 as well, but to each their own. There are people who can't look at their code without getting mad if functions are not sorted alphabetically (for binary search). Others who just love to have references in a legible list and see no...

This project is available https://www.crowdsupply.com/leetronics/infinite-noise-trng and supposedly has open source software which works on FreeBSD...

Danny Collins was fun Jay Kelly was the best

By Drew Gallatin, reproduced with permission. In Memoriam: Kenneth N. Smith I recently found out that Ken Smith (kensmith) recently passed away. Ken was on the RE team for many years, and was the lead RE for several releases around the...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/freebsd-linux-review/

BSD-3-Clause for most projects. Use Apache 2.0 when patent rights are a potential concern or when accepting contributions that may include patentable work.

Decades ago, Byte magazine had an article on building a noise generator that fed into a computer for giving a random number. Someone can search for that. Probably before 2000 but not sure. Another article I read where the time it took between...

How can I install and play Warcraft 3 Trozen Throne in a vm or emulator on FreeBSD? It needs an old Nvidia driver and DirectX 9. Extra nice would be if a method exists that can be reproduced without needing something proprietary. It's like 25...

POSIX.1 sorry, but I disagree. If someone is new, they may not realize what to look for. In my arrogant opinion, each case is different.

3D graphics work on FreeBSD. It is compute on GPUs for NVidia hardware (CUDA) that is a problem.

I have PXE running on servers, but how do I configure the in-bhyve dhcp server? What exactly is it built into?

I think it has a commercial problem. If your prompt-service actually provides constructive information that has a market value, you're giving away profit.

That sure is possible in bhyve (example options: 34.10.1. Setting Up the PXE Environment, 34.10.2. Configuring the DHCP Server ). I was able to run a PXE / dhcp server and clients, but since sysutils/edk2 (amd64) was upgraded [1] from version...

That sure is possible in bhyve (example options: 34.10.1. Setting Up the PXE Environment, 34.10.2. Configuring the DHCP Server ). I was able to run a PXE / dhcp server and clients, but since sysutils/edk2 (amd64) was upgraded [1] from version...

Wait, did you fix the source url? I was preparing to try this but it works again. 😆

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Everything works except 3d accellerated graphics. Gamers should cancel it. We just need fast enough computers to do the same.

And if you can, consider installing a UPS. Even the most basic ones will give you enough time to save whatever you're currently working on, shut down the machine properly and some more. They will also protect you from power surges.

Today I had some time available and tried again to solve the boot problem. Finally I was able to create an sdcard to automatically boot from a different drive.So it will boot from the sdcard as USB (as drive C) and during boot stage 2 (boot2) it...

Form 3 glitches to xml code tags for some reason, in my Firefox. Is this thing injection proof? 😆

Hi all, I just started using sysutils/iocage to manage my jails. So far so good, networking is fine, I get an IPv4 and IPv6 address, I can resolve DNS queries with a local_unbound service on my host, everyone's happy. However, running jails that...

Please remove those, in particular if_iwm0_load=YES". According to the attached image you provided, the PCI wifi device is a Intel Cannon Point-LP CNVi [Wireless-AC] (PCI vendor/device ID 8086:9df0). This adapter apparently requires the...

POSIX.1 already said, but but to slightly elaborate, you can run, for example wpa -ddd -i <interfacename> -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf For example: wpa -ddd -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf The extra d's give you more debugging...

Technically, if a machine has ever booted Windows with malware you cannot use it for secure computing under any OS ever again. There are way too many places to compromise firmware in a modern computer.

Why buy new RAM when billions of PCs are being decommissioned due to Windows 11 requirements? I recently purchased four HP EliteDesk 800 G3 Minis, each equipped with a 7th-gen Intel Core i5-7500, 16 GB of RAM, and a 500 GB SSD for $100 USD total...

ASN.1 is a real pain to program for, though. As most Telekom formats.