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UK OFCOM only applies to online platforms (internet services; social media among others), not operating systems.

Well.......back in my day.......... I didn't hang out anywhere. Had my head buried in the docs, online articles about new stuff and blogs. The FreeBSD mailing list and on this forum. I often talked to the W3C and WHATWG people directly cause I...

You can change the terms on licences issued in future. You obviously can't change them on ones already issued, which means you can't simply replace the licence with an updated one because the one stored on any machine has to match the one under...

Nope. Yes, because children can get their hands on it, unsupervised, and could potentially die taking those meds. No such risk exist if a child could get their grubby little hands on FreeBSD or the package repository. What's the worst that could...

I wouldn't want to run into free hotspot content blocks while trying to look at FreshPorts because of it being an adult website :p

He had one or two collaborators specifically on the MidnightBSD portion of the code (that the aforementioned license change aims to cover) almost 20 years ago. I bet those were not informed. What code still belongs to them is also a difficult...

Might programmers hang out on VRChat? It seems like there'd be an overlap with VR, custom worlds/code with VRChat, and being able to freely express yourself with avatars

I think you all try to solve this with the wrong tools. You try to use sense when it is about law and lawyers. As long as we can weasel out of this in any way, do that and don't change a line. As long as the web page says f.e. "No account...

I think you all try to solve this with the wrong tools. You try to use sense when it is about law and lawyers. As long as we can weasel out of this in any way, do that and don't change a line. As long as the web page says f.e. "No account...

I had once the chance to work with Fortran on a Cray, and the debugger was absolute gold. Old f77 and before were really constrained when it came to flexibility, as there was no dynamic memory to have. You just make the arrays big enough. How it...

LibreOffice has no direct dependency on PulseAudio. editors/libreoffice (USE_QT6; multimedia) -> multimedia/qt6-multimedia (PULSEAUDIO=on) -> audio/pulseaudio

It is my understanding that so long as they continue with the terms #1 and #2 laid out in the BSD license (retain copyright notices); they can certainly add their own terms, providing they do not conflict. If you can make the code proprietary...

Well, no. Quite the opposite. Fortran is actually way easier to learn and use compared to most languages, including C or C++. And that without losing any functionality, other than shooting your own feet - that, you can't do in modern Fortran (no...

Mine started acting odd one day and I had to discover some arcane knob twist trick to recalibrate it :p That washer's annoying; apparently it's smart to lock the lid relentlessly (gotta wait a minute to open lid after spin cycle fully...

So is being prosecuted because you didn't understand the law.

You can insert multimedia files into documents/spreadsheets. I guess also audio notifications is a possibility. If you only need a word processor and a spreadsheet editor, may I recommend editors/abiword and math/gnumeric. These are quite good...

In a meeting yesterday I heard from somebody who had to wait a while every time he hit a limit. They can also downgrade you to cheaper models. And restrict you during rush hours so that users of more expensive plans come first. Generally there...

FreeBSD isn't aimed at, or likely to be accessed by, children.

Admittedly, these are puppet agents that have been running for at least a decade. Changes in hieradata and/or puppet code on the server get applied to my clients though. I've dug around trying to find the cause of the error, but haven't been able...

It's available in the ports tree (x11/bitmap).

Use the mailing lists. There are very few developers here.

What's running usually? It sounds like a memory leak. Process growing over time until everything clogs by out of memory and swapspace.

It's coming. I quit throwing away old computers. The old hardwired stuff like AT and 8-bit machines are even more special now. In Europe it's too silent around this. Quite sure they are all in to protect US big tech, what this is about. Most...

yes, but only clients, who already get configuration before error. my new clients fail apply config :(

There's a thread on something similar going on in Brazil. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/practical-suggestions-for-resolving-the-brazilian-problem.101913/ I kind of think as has been said earlier in this thread, it's MS and friends...

I have a Laptop with an Intel Atom Z3735F CPU and since FreeBSD now supports installation for 32-bit UEFI, it is installable on that machine and actually works like a charm, booting fast and using few resources. Unfortunately, FreeBSD does...

My great-grandfather sadly died at the age of 99-3/4. He had lived by himself (in a 5th floor apartment) for dozens of years. He liked to drink Schnapps (old German), smoke cigars, and play the guitar. And make dirty jokes. He hated most of the...

Dijkstra was all about putting more rigor into programming. Harlan D. Mills, too. The current trend of vibe coding would have driven them nuts.

I don't feel this law is truly enforceable but if they do, our packages system (being a centralised system) could be at risk but our ports collection would not be considering FreeBSD as a vendor so likely to be fine?

I've seen that error too. But it doesn't prevent puppet from working though.

FreeBSD and most *NIX operating systems doesn't have accounts, just users/groups and home folders. The term "account creation" is meaningless in this context.

Clean install of puppetserver8-8.7.0_2, default config, our poudriere repo... installed with `pkg install puppetserver8` uname: FreeBSD vm-puppet 13.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE releng/13.5-n259162-882b9f3f2218 GENERIC amd64 Any request from...

FreeBSD and most *NIX operating systems doesn't have accounts, just users/groups and home folders. The term "account creation" is meaningless in this context.

Hello world :-) For anyone having this issue some hints below, this may not be related to packages but local configuration :-) I hope this helps and if you find any information incomplete let me know. It would be nice to add PulseAudio section...

It is worth noting that the same mechanism which prevents misuse of minority owned business tags by racists will also prevent the misuse of this mandate by pedophiles in search of verified children.

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Thanks this did not fix my problem but it did lead me to this: build@daredevil:/usr $ ls -la lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18 Feb 23 15:14 bin -> /.bastille/usr/bin I'm guessing that /usr/bin/ being a symlink my be the issue as mdo is actually at...

And super-charged exo blasters!!!

The folks at Fedora have some interesting comments at https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/california-age-verification/. Canonical had released a statement that they were implementing age verification then retracted it. As I said in the...

So does it just stop when you run out till you pay up?

My personal favorite; install x11/slim and x11-themes/slim-themes. Edit /usr/local/etc/slim.conf, change current_theme: # current theme, use comma separated list to specify a set to # randomly choose from current_theme fbsd Because we...

How to use mdo(1) in scripts: % cat /var/log/auth.log cat: /var/log/auth.log: Permission denied % mdo -i cat /var/log/auth.log | tail -3 Mar 4 16:04:00 f25 doas[23632]: vermaden ran command sysctl dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan_level=2 as root...

It's just the f-word, unlike the s-word that has killed so many people across history.

And it is still lure-in prices, they're still supported by state grants and whatnot. I will gladly use them for sporadic stuff in their online chat form as long as they're free. I have a hunch that people who overly rely on agent-assisted...

I saw that earlier, but didn't have a chance to get a source for it. This is in some ways a much bigger deal than in the US where the laws are likely to get tossed. I'm pretty ignorant about how exactly the legal system down there works as it's...

Like I said, IANAL, but it is worth keeping in mind that it's unlikely that this will actually be constitutional in the US. And it's questionable as to whether they could extend it to developers that are writing code on other sections of the OS...

I just started with Anthropic myself, so I do not know yet. They certainly don't bump you up to the higher plan automatically. In github copilot (now canceled) I had surprise extra charges from when I apparently selected premium models to answer...

Yep. The key word here is moderation.

As my grandfather said (he made it 101): a little bit of everything. Basically don't over indulge in anything. You want cake? Have slice of cake not the whole thing. Wine? have a glass, not a bottle.