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Moving this to off-topic, guys.

I wonder how many of those decisions are made based on familiarity alone.

Nowadays people are only concerned about the money as in profits. The guys who made Unix were just trying to make a better OS for the company's sake. No outside investors. No thoughts of profit/loss when it was sold. No concern with how fast they...

Funding. Profits. The todays research is not research, todays research are step 0 towards profit. Look at OpenAI, they called themselves "Open" so they can get the funding, scrape the open resources, and then they closed down into a proprietary...

So I've been using and working with UNIX and Linux for a long time... I guess what I find confusing is -- that no one is stopping anyone from doing research. The original "UNIX teams" were all doing research projects - Palo Alto Research Labs...

Yes. P3 was a userland update only. Except for ARM64, that did have a kernel issue that got patched. https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:03.blocklistd.asc https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-26:04.arm64.asc

I've only run into this on Linux, and I think it was with firefox esr, though my memory is hazy. I see that I have the x265 package installed on this machine and the only other x265 package I see is gstreamer1-plugins-x265. I use mpv and have no...

Here is a couple demo's of the Graphics2D module.

I was talking about the economic "advantage" that it takes if all independent developers are artificially forced to rely on a commercial entity. Phones are already done. If your software isn't in an appstore, nobody will see it, use it or buy it...

I would be far more concerned with how c developers who use FreeBSD feel about it, because they are the ones who contribute back to FreeBSD.

Hey!! Don't judge me just because I can't read!! Most companies are investing in AI to maintain and extend the software they already have most of it wasn’t written in Rust. And, the vast majority of development is happening in areas where Rust...

zfs create the datasets then put files into them. It requires a little extra planning. Yes, one can create the datasets and move the files after the fact, if one is ok with the PITA. If you want to do this after the fact, zfs create the...

I don't think end-users care which language is used to write the kernel or other utilities. Users care that it works, it's secure, is free of bugs, and is affordable. For instance, when I put the key in my car's ignition to start it that I expect...

While I don't know Rust at all and I'm not involved in any system development, I think everything goes downhill at the moment C complains about an illegal operation when you store a byte on a memory address with no visible context in the program...

They are not rewriting the Linux kernel in Rust. There aren’t even that many people writing Rust code for the kernel. In the last five years, only about 25,000 lines of Rust have been added to the Linux kernel that’s nothing. I could write 25,000...

I think there isn't any driver for FreeBSD yet. But this is what I plan to do. Since at the moment I'm trying to port the panfrost driver from Linux to FreeBSD 15.0 as a separate module /s/, I suspect that the same process can be repeated for the...

l have issue on 14.3 unable to run games after installed. I just lazy troubleshooting and install straight from guthub.

Realforce Topre 45g

What if you add analog circuitry? I don't think it's possible to somehow map a device and predict a variating binary number from a digital voltmeter between 2 points. Quite sure that's 0 success rate.

I'd like to see a tool that examines a running system to identify loaded but unused kernel modules. Use that to build a custom kernel.

If you're still having problems, see this bug report: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=291768 since you seem to have an EPYC machine. See if the fix in comment 12 helps.

What you're looking for is a cloak (it's an ircd feature meant for masking IP). Libera.chat, if that's the server you're on, is offering them. Apparently, from that documentation page, new accounts now have them automatically activated: You can...

I liked the way the first looked at first, but like the idea of specifying private stuff more! Not sure I'm a fan of the strut word vs class at the beginning of code, but that's nothing :p

This is something I do that I am sure will drive some people nuts. In C++, struct and class are basically synonyms. The only difference is class defaults to private members while struct defaults to public members. You might expect something...

I thought mine was heavy :p (Hi75 at 1.2kg)

The weight of my keyboard is 2kg, metal.

Short answer is yes. Ideally the maintainer catches this. There are too many ports for committers to know how to test every one.

Generally #freebsd is relatively quiet though it will have around 700 people on. Keep in mind that many are just logged on and not watching, but in my experience, if you have a reasonable question, you'll get an answer fairly quickly.

You can always get one of those gadgets that is a wifi client and provides a couple eth ports.

You’re still arguing from a premise I don’t accept. I am not required to be affiliated with the FreeBSD Foundation, nor to design around the historical constraints of ports/pkg, in order to build an alternative system. That premise alone is...

They are project management tools. Talking about software. Just to draw a timeline graphics would be nice. Like historical events. For example the presidents of the USA: a line with a name label pointing to a year for example. Or a bar covering...

Yes, antennas are key. The tiny USB WIfi adapters don't have any to speak of. You can buy wifi USB adapters with bigger antennas. But a dedicated device is even better.

I assume this is going to stay this way for the duration of the 15 branch, commit - 2025-11-15: Add pkgbase signing keys for FreeBSD 15 These keys were generated by cperciva@ using the AWS Key Management Service. They will not be used for...

I'd wondered about this as well, but I can say that when I did a fresh install of a 15.0-STABLE snapshot last month the path in the fingerprints lines is /usr/share/keys/pkg.

The pkg tool and ports system are now fully functional, its just a matter of adding more ports, and fixing any edge cases or bugs that show up. FreeBSD can now become a fully immutable operating system if someone wanted that option. I have some...

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Can package updates be pushed to repos without testing? Fedora's OBS ordeal had me asking questions :p obs-studio started fine for me on 16.0-CURRENT too a few days ago (March 2026; streamed Runescape)

Seems like i's trying to imitate online discussions :p And could make a double-edged sword; if something breaks because of incorrect AI response, one might hopefully be motivated to do traditional troubleshooting! Pft (I use Windows today...

Indeed, for some areas of the house I do recommend using these (until you can pass through some proper cables). They typically run embedded Linux but tend to be far faster than i.e Desktop Linux/Windows with a wifi card (and certainly, usb...

People are often so worried about "hiding your IP". I consider that to be similar to "hiding your residential address" or "hiding your phone number". Fact is, for almost everyone (at least in the western world), this is publicly accessible...

Invited adversaries might have more motivation after a while (banks/healthcare get paid to deal with that stuff uninvited :p)

A PC Gamer magazine got me to try Ubuntu 6.06, and I stayed for Compiz cube :p I'm curious how others switch OSs: Even when I tried Ubuntu 6.06 and messed with Hackintosh Tiger-SL, I still returned to a main OS eventually (Windows). I used...

That's a bit wild, but maybe they have high-end chassis and plate/rubber tech? I'd be fine with a $50 GMK60 and a spare box of Cherry MX switches ($20) :p

You can always get one of those gadgets that is a wifi client and provides a couple eth ports.

There are many packages to run AI locally. For LLMs, too, starting with ollama. On FreeBSD you can't get CUDA for NVidia, though, although AMD hardware acceleration works.

I use a Perixx Periboard 524 with Neo Bone layout (setxkbmap -layout de -variant bone) at home and a Logitech ERGO K860 for Business at work. The rubber dome keys on both boards are not as good as mechanical keys but I get a better angle for my...

Probably, but some homes have the internet coming in in a less than convenient spot with limited ability to run wire. Personally, I'm going to be getting a fiber optic kit as some of those these days can be run discretely along corners, but...

who cares about an advertising platform that always has been intentionally the most developer-hostile environment? If someone chooses to suffer with that junk, it's on them how to get basic tools working.

For NetBSD people for example it matters, because they are supporting platforms on which Rust does not exist yet, but they might need/want a working git.

Call the priest with holy water, another AI lover boy