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I kind-of like it in some context; there's a scene on Family Guy where it's silence for a couple secs and then a F-bomb, and it's more hilarious with the beep vs uncut 😆 Like this cut/beep vs uncut; the beep with the calm before that is funnier 🤣

And here. Over here they even still beep-out swear words on TV. So your 8 year old can watch something 'sanitised' on TV, then go to their bedroom with their smartphone and access all kinds of toxic crap. The irony is verging on the ludicrous.

Alain De Vos, two suggestions. One is using netcat, e.g., if your printer is at 192.168.1.50 netcat 192.168.1.50 9100 < myfile.pdf That's for pdf files. Secondly I'll spam my own page, which recommends the everywhere driver...

systeutils/reptyr with tmux is probably what you want. Start whatever you're doing in a tmux session make a note of its PID. As I write this, I was thinking that that was what I used to do, but I realize I'm remembering incorrectly. Still, it...

Use tmux

Pirates of Silicon Valley: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/ I saw it at a computer class in high school; I'd love to see more OS/computer movies portrayed like that! (informative, and some engaging drama) Revolution OS is cool too (more...

Oh, well. I know now what I'll be accused of for using it. It's gonna be fun.

That's what's coming, I think. Radio and TV stations needed to be licensed to be on the air. In the future, servers may need to be licensed to be on the internet.

The people wanting net neutrality wanted that; or might have been manipulated to ignore that for free/faster internet :p I'm confused why the solution to bad-actors is still harboring them. "Protect the children", while allowing platforms to...

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/cancel-chatgpt-movement-goes-mainstream-after-openai-closes-deal-with-u-s-department-of-war-as-anthropic-refuses-to-surveil-american-citizens Use of ChatGPT/OpenAI could now be argued to...

It's banned on television in the USA. This leads into my occasional comment that I think, eventually, the internet will be regulated in the same way over-the-air radio and television is today. When radio first came out, it was the wild-wild-west...

That's only because none of this really makes any sense. Putting code into an opensource OS to force things like this in a way that can't be patched around fairly easy, is incredibly difficult.

It requires a change to the license which can be rather complicated when much of the code is coming from a different project. I feel like they will have more luck if it's a click through on their website to download, but I haven't really looked...

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...

Unfortunately all my attempts to do PXE boot in bhyve have failed. Bhyve only has uefi now, and it doesn't contain any PXE implementation. You can bring up iPXE, but that one refuses to accept dhcp reply network packages for reasons unknown.

Maybe a stripped down install that takes everything via nfs... Make a 1st image and when things go wrong, overwrite the partition with the original again. A basic FreeBSD system is +/- 450MB. You can still make a lot of it remote. I think 200MB...

Yeah, also thought about that :) Though it won't be exactly what I'm looking for.

#!/bin/sh if [ ${#} -gt 0 ]; then prefix='yes |' fi eval ${prefix} ./prompt

#!/bin/sh if [ ${#} -gt 0 ]; then prefix='yes |' fi eval ${prefix} ./prompt

I still think if Governor Newsom, who will probably run for president, receives enough intelligent dissent, it might help. Especially if you're in the US and will vote in the next presidential election. https://www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

I tried mkdir /tmp/a && mount_nullfs / /tmp/a && mount_nullfs /tmp/a / Instant hard reset. It wasn't even read-only yet. 😆

Suppose we have two scripts: one that prompts for the input and one that acts as a wrapper for the first one: prompt: #!/bin/sh printf "Enter: " 1>&2 read input echo "You entered: ${input}" wrapper: #!/bin/sh ./prompt Now imagine that we want...

Yes it seems the idiot politicians are cheaply cloned nowadays. Which is real, because environment creates them. American political environment is going increasingly toxic by the year.

Ohhh, I would be very afraid that I damage a ZFS by doing the panic thing often. At some point the lack of fsck can turn into a disadvantage. Resource wise I could handle it.

Ok, I did a bit of web searching and it's been passed in California to take effect January 2027. How do such stupid people get elected? And one will probably run for president. Zare, it seems that if you remove idiots from power, more idiots...

While I certainly don't understand the psychology behind it all, that is the exact reason why I say we shouldn't taint technology with human crap and by crap I don't mean age/genders only, but everything. Same stupid non tech people that thought...

well, so, the issue of "age and identity verification" is also on topic for trans people, considering how difficult it is to get people to understand that we do have identities that are not the ones assigned to us by state-recognized authorities...

I unclocked the bios before (by paying to someone in the msi community to unlock it for me) and I found a setting that only has hybrid mode as the only option (I relocked my bios several monthes ago and I don't have access to the modified bios...

Nothing specific, but: Not sure if it's needed, but I did proc in fstab for Xfce on 16.0 two days ago no problem (iirc proc was mentioned in Handbook for Xfce) I added that too (iirc OpenJDK mentioned to do it somewhere); both cases I didn't...

I need the system in multi user mode with me logged in. The background is that I do very panic()iky kernel work and don't want to go through fsck when I reboot.

Yikes! You chose the dirtiest method. At least try logging off any logged-in user in case your blockage problem is caused by some active user process. And if the problem, whatever it is, is still not fixed, try going single user. Hopefully this...

Solved. I was able to determine that the /etc/pam.d/system was not allowing the jail to connect. To fix, I commented the two lines dealing with opieaccess and then I was able to connect. I'm not sure what caused the issue, but it is resolved.

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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...