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I think the motivation is to delete private control of computers for commercial reasons. Using a computer with full privilege is a problem because it doesn't require a company.

Its this one: - https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/jails/#creating-thin-jail-nullfs

Seems like the privacylife.info site is down.

(1) Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the user’s age bracket to applications...

Is X already running on boot? If no and you are using xdm see /etc/ttys. If you are using something like lightdm it starts X for you when the service starts if it is enabled as a service. If X is already running you want it to start xfce when...

Make sure to enable X11Forwarding in your sshd_config. Additionally, if its a jail/chroot on the same host, you can use direct X11 access via sharing the the AF_UNIX socket. Make sure Jail and /tmp is on the same FS and use ln (not -s) to...

I've not read much about this elsewhere. Is this a law that's going to pass or something some idiot wants or feels that their voters want that will have noise made about it, then ignored? At any rate, it doesn't seem like it will effect that...

I think malicious compliance is a good way to tackle dumb/criminal rules made by dumb/criminal people. Open-source should not engage with this stuff. For one we don't have the legal infrastructure to even attempt.

Will FreeBSD be available in California in 2027? Wait, doesn't freebsd come FROM california? As in "Berkeley software distribution"... ?!

The iink doesn't work here. What are the demands to become legal?

That comes all by cludging, fighting symptoms, postponing, hive off,...always chosing the cheapest, easiest ways instead of actually solving problems. drhowarddrfine already said it: You don't need to forbid, if you have educated, maybe even...

CCD (the raid framework) also went away. Mostly replaced by GEOM modules, but not e.g. to read Linux md RAID.

Are you using GNOME or Xfce? It is no clear! Instead of reinventing the wheel, why not to use .xprofile. x11/gnome-shell provides this file, read pkg-message everything is explained. And .xinitrc is not used by GNOME for long time, neither by...

Well that is a very ambitious task as FreeBSD is 33 years old and a lot of stuff has been deprecated. There were some major and some minor changes along the way. Some stuff can be changed painlessly - remember we used bzip2 for packages and not...

There are sooooooooo many sites I get linked to about somebody's software where the page gives no explanation whatsoever as to what it does and what it's for. It tells you how to install it and how to set it up and how to use it but for what I...

On HN I just stumbled over one of the better texts I read for quite some time: The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers "There is no substitute for understanding." A technical tool of any kind may help you on creating...

That comes all by cludging, fighting symptoms, postponing, hive off,...always chosing the cheapest, easiest ways instead of actually solving problems. drhowarddrfine already said it: You don't need to forbid, if you have educated, maybe even...

No. You do not want to live in Berkeley.

As for meowing, I think that some species do, but it's mostly towards their mothers. The meow of a domestic cat shows that it looks at us as a mother replacement. (I'm leaving Siamese out of this, they just like to make noise).

Unfortunately they do. There is an user on ML. If there are users, it shouldn't be discarded just like that.

Just FYI, lpd/lpr (the printer tools) will be removed. They are insecure and nobody volunteered to rewrite them.

Well, they can just ban your access to a C compiler, can't they. I'm going to shut up now, I don't want to give them any ideas... 😂

You might have had a slightly different opinion, if you were a saxon peasant around the year 1100..!

https://www.berkeley-castle.com/ Might be a bit cold in winter, looking at those 10-feet thick stone walls. If they re-started the NPP it might provide enough power to warm it up...

https://www.kolesnik.es/ It's not any useful yet, but is running Apache on FreeBSD.

hedwards Yes, possibly. However I remember this direct connect approach working for some time now. Time flies; don't want to put time on it. :) I answered it in the context of balanga's initial question. In my case restored structures were being...

That's always a consideration, it may not be the right way to go for the OP, but right now I'm seeing a ripple effect on a lot of systems, some of which might be appropriate. Certainly, some caution is always a good idea with respect to used...

One caution about used systems from eBay...for a while, I was buying Checkpoint 4600 devices from eBay to run the OPNsense firewall on. They were not very expensive, and they had eight Ethernet ports built in. I got three of them, and all of them...

Just as an FYI. Right now there's an absolute flood of used business systems and the like on eBay right now that might be worth considering. I picked one up to run Linux on for use with Crashplan, but the prices right now are massively depressed...

FreeBSD does NOT have nouveau driver ported. (If I recall correctly, someone once tried and created ports, but never worked well and removed.) So if you try this way, in the mentioned config for NVIDIA dGPU, Driver line should be "nvidia"...

I thought about having a server in a basement and Sunshine/Moonlight with mini PCs :p Not sure how multi-head would work, but a quick idea is either 1 host GPU that can present itself as a single GPU to VMs with passthrough (like 5 VMs would see...

This lspci looks like it's muxless (Intel on main VGA/NVIDIA on 3D) I had this years ago for a 1060 laptop and Linux (nothing special iirc but forces specific DDX instead of modesetting): Section "OutputClass" Identifier "Intel Graphics"...

I'd avoid Ryzen 400-500 series (I had issues X470 PCVR and heard of other's having similar 500). Ryzen CPU and chipset USB would randomly disconnect Rift CV1 sensors or the HMD, but luckily my X470 board also had a separate ASMedia controller and...

Just FYI, lpd/lpr (the printer tools) will be removed. They are insecure and nobody volunteered to rewrite them.

MidnightBSD has already decided to change their license to prohibit use in California due to the Digital Age Assurance Act. Will FreeBSD be doing the same? https://ostechnix.com/midnightbsd-excludes-california-digital-age-assurance-act/

On a forum I posted a member introduction post (bit about myself), and at the bottom was a "allow AI responses" check; I had multiple paragraphs of info, hit post, and literally a second later a AI response came in also with a couple paragraphs...

There may have been changes in the mean time. That works on my system as well, but from what I can tell it does the same thing as pkg prime-list except that it will work if it's not the installed database.

It's a suburb of St Louis, Missouri

Well, I don't know what insecurities specifically are behind this. But FreeBSD is not in the habit of making new ports of vulnerable software.

It won't ever be complete in the way that normal users want because there's stuff that they refuse to implement themselves and refuse to accept patches to implement. It's stuff like the lack of support for multiple monitors making it a bit of...

One of the comments mentioned lprng

It's one of the reason I cannot say Wayland is complete.

How about Berkeley, Missouri? Home of the Mercury and Gemini space capsules and Boeing F-15EX Eagle II****T-7A Red Hawk trainer MQ-25 Stingray refueling drone, and formerly the F/A-18 Super Hornet. .

Mass surveillance is not the direction of travel in EU, but EU citizens are already mass-surveiled by American corporations through social network and the internet. Chat control (I don't agree with it not in a slightest) is one bad part of EU...

CUPS will definitely not end up in base.

As a FreeBSD user in California, things here have gotten pretty insane. FreeBSD is open source. On all the OSS OSs, this can be ripped out easily enough by the users who know how to do it, so the law now becomes unenforceable and it will make...

Original article here. Consider this when replying. The first release candidate build for the FreeBSD 14.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64...

IANAL and this isn't advice to anybody. But, the whole thing is a mess, any copies of the OS that were downloaded and installed prior to the law being enacted are likely grandfathered in due to not generally being able to ban things...

I have a much better and free solution. Better parenting. Forbid your child from accessing the things this is attempting to protect them from. Things like Reddit.

Will FreeBSD be available in California in 2027? Wait, doesn't freebsd come FROM california? As in "Berkeley software distribution"... ?!