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Never seen pkg install ending with "not found" only. pkg install lkjfsalf Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up to date. All repositories are up to date. pkg: No packages available to install matching 'lkjfsalf' have...

I've been running into the same issue, but I'm a bit confused. My /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf reads FreeBSD: { url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest", mirror_type: "srv", signature_type: "fingerprints", fingerprints...

What's the explanation for "not found" while it exists? Can you dowload it manually with fetch? Or put the pkg files in /var/cache/pkg some other way...

Actually the street address and postcode don't match up. There is no PR4 9WS. https://www.doogal.co.uk/UKPostcodes?Search=PR4%209

That's a great find! The two things which stood out for me were their false UK Companies House certificate and their non-existant addresses.

Being hardnose can be more fun :p (Friendica requires php-posix but I wanted it on a Windows stack) Intermingling Linux commands through wsl through batch files and scheduling through Task Scheduler vs systemd/cron was Hank Hill converting a...

This is the first I've heard of any hacker groups on YouTube. Do you have a link to any? The person that introduced me to them went to a conference of their's three years ago in Florida. That person lives in LA. One of the addresses they claim...

How about testing a few days by repeating all or part of the DB2 mutations on a isolated box and see if the results have interesting differences with the existing configuration?

Another thought on the OS as a tool discussion... I was just reading a blog, I won't embarrass the guy by linking to it, but he said his company wanted to use DB2 for a new web project, because it is easy to install, is reliable, and runs well...

I'd totally do something like that in production :p What's the on-prem sysadmin for if there's IBM support? Who's administrating the systems? If support from IBM is required, cloning to a temp Linux box might be considered.

Putting language grammers and ecosystems aside. Considering current toolchain of FreeBSD is basically LLVM / Clang, any new languages introduced into base should be implemented by LLVM project and shipped as part of LLVM. This way, what...

Well found! Actually that's me ;)

I can try and get them closed down if they are operating illegally, which they clearly are.

The chromium port distributes a software vulkan implementation called swiftshader (not to be confused with the old Cedega/WineX OpenGL technology). It might be worth trying that ICD out? %%NOT_AARCH64%%%%DATADIR%%/libvk_swiftshader.so...

kent_dorfman766 you'd be surprised how hard some companies make that. "I'm sorry, we can't take cash, only credit or debit." Not that infrequent. Sometimes there are reasons, I remember my local Trader Joe's master cash register computer or...

Live a cash lifestyle...and be safe. (let the flames begin, LOL)

Scams happen daily in physical world just via other methods. In some countries of Europe right now the fake deaf scammers hassle tourists, to give 20eur "donation" to a fictitious fake union, and put a signature on it. That is petty fraud...

OK. Lemme answer your question from my POV. At the end of the day a programming language must produce machine code that works and is optimized for a particular CPU. The C language very elegantly allows programmers to produce human-readable...

Scams happen daily in physical world just via other methods. In some countries of Europe right now the fake deaf scammers hassle tourists, to give 20eur "donation" to a fictitious fake union, and put a signature on it. That is petty fraud...

Same here. My "mancave" starts when you walk through my front door.

C came from a time where compilers needed maybe 7 passes to do anything (and then assemble), keeping this well defined was not easy then. Also, it was not required. They treated C as a portable assembler, statements pretty much had a 1:1 pattern...

The ability to shoot yourself in the foot when using C is a feature and not a fault. C doesn't hold you back from doing what you want to do. C doesn't prevent you from doing what you want to do. A language that holds you back is a fault, not a...

Either through tools like MSYS2 or through the Visual Studio Tools installers, you can get perfectly fine LLVM/Clang toolchains on Windows. That said, Rust can bring its own tools, at least in part. Rust specifically leverages LLVM's...

I'm running stock 15-RELEASE, and the amdgpu drivers with drm-kmod and all the vulkan packages. llama-cpp runs from pkg using the vulkan backend. It runs well. I have compiled stable-diffusion.cpp from source and using it to run a number of DiT...

Maybe fling some emails at their "partners"; Intel and BlueCross probably don't play around with scam artists (or at least wouldn't want to be publicly associated with em :p) I'm not too sure what to suggest, but that website to me screams not...

This is a low effort scam. The logo appears AI-generated, and the site itself is clearly cloned. If you check the source: view-source:https://grandaccessinvestment.com/ You’ll find this: <!-- Mirrored from grandincomeaccess.com/ by HTTrack...

I tried compiling something with different calling conventions in MSVC (cdecl, stdcall, fastcall, vectorcall); I think vectorcall sounded better going directly to a CPU thing, but could only successfully build with stdcall (something like one...

Move semantics want a word with you :) They have multiple full books about it.

bgavin do you use guards for checking what CPU is installed? I once had a tool where some cool haxor used inline assembly, for x86, without guards. Because all the world is a vax, you know? And it was only one instruction. Running that on a big...

Inline assembly is not a tool, it is a 50 push-up offense.

Worked for Rollercoaster Tycoon :p One coder and 2 years for one of the funnest games!

This has already been covered in the thread.

Therefore, all programs should be written in assembly. QED

I heard of that, but the VX1120 I got was apparently used at a nearby bank for years before I got it out the computer repair shop for $5 :p (didn't see any burn in or notice any my use)

Don’t forget that CRTs can suffer from burn-in if you display the same image (like a login screen) for long periods of time. One of the money transferring networks, I think it was Fedwire, but I may be wrong, had a cool screensaver that comprised...

Maybe you're just contrary. :)

FWIW, the only times I have needed memtest86+ (it is a very good tool, you need to let it run long enough, preferably over night) was with machines so unstable that the operating system itself (FreeBSD) would crash and that crash could not be...

Use pkg prime-list for this.

There are companies that still make CRTs. They are not in the consumer market, though, so you'd probably have to order a production run. If this is really something that you want, you can try a campaign on drop.com.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo4fRy4zGK4&list=RDJo4fRy4zGK4&start_radio=1 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KsiNFZ_YpI&list=RD_KsiNFZ_YpI&start_radio=1

Phoronix went a little overboard interpreting the 2025Q4 status report: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Q4-2025-Status-Report "FreeBSD's Rust Kernel Support Could Be Stable Enough To Try This Year" ETA: link to that status report...

Since Crivens mentioned the Z1: I had the luck to hear a speech of Konrad Zuse life.

S3 seemingly worked on a Dell Latitude 5591 on 15.0 (I don't usually suspend and tried it on a whim :p) It suspended and woke quick no problem like other OSs. I'm thinking it'd vary on similar laptop models depending on hardware configs (stuff...

S3 seemingly worked on a Dell Latitude 5591 on 15.0 (I don't usually suspend and tried it on a whim :p) It suspended and woke quick no problem like other OSs. I'm thinking it'd vary on similar laptop models depending on hardware configs (stuff...

How reliable is suspend on FreeBSD 15.0 on a ThinkPad W520? and how well does resume work?

Does anyone make CRTs with modern-tech today? I'm convinced CRT latency is unmatchable (LCDs keep trying by throwing Hz at it :p), true-blacks with no OLED ghosting/burn downsides, and I'd totally use one today :D I had a Gateway VX1120 around...

My NEC MultiSync XP37 Plus - a 37" CRT. It supports resolution of up to 2048×1536. That's more than Full HD, even though it dates back to the dawn of DVD. Interestingly, for a new one you could buy, in my country, an apartment or new VW Golf...

Not really, then again the early C specs didn't define much as formally defined behavior. It was defined by a few vendor specific compilers (talking DOS era here) possibly as extensions (arguably similar to gcc's -fno-strict-aliasing)...

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