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After a career as a webdev using the things we were supposed to use, going through PHP, then Ruby on Rails, then Node.js, then Golang, then Python/Flask - and the same on frontend: Mootools, then jQuery, then Angular, then React… I took the...

It's not the sky is falling. It's just that it could simply be packaged into an optional base pkg or port for people to use it they want. Rather than just code gone. It doesn't have to be removed so if people want to use it they can. It's...

The sky may not be falling but the concept of the FreeBSD 'base' sure is ;)

I see this will lead to even more cleaning house. This is how it starts. I can't just hard fork FreeBSD either because then age verification will be my problem. Humanity is doomed.

The last time I used these was at University (and to schedule/play music during a hackathon rather than print documents). I am surprised these are any less maintained than much of the BSD userland to be fair.

And if you concerned about security just don't install it? Why does the rest of the world who doesn't care have to suffer?

No big secret. I was doing karate and became interested in Japanese culture and language. At that time, mid 1990's I made many Japanese friends as there were, more than now, a lot of Japanese large and small businesses. (I worked in an office...

Yes, Chinese would be VERY helpful for kanji. Back when I could read a lot more of it, I remember trying to figure out a martial arts book, and a friend's Chinese friend saw some of it and was able to explain it to us (my friend couldn't figure...

It's not finished software if it still has security issues.

Yes and yes.

Yes and yes.

Yes, Chinese would be VERY helpful for kanji. Back when I could read a lot more of it, I remember trying to figure out a martial arts book, and a friend's Chinese friend saw some of it and was able to explain it to us (my friend couldn't figure...

No big secret. I was doing karate and became interested in Japanese culture and language. At that time, mid 1990's I made many Japanese friends as there were, more than now, a lot of Japanese large and small businesses. (I worked in an office...

Preface: I'm not talking about dietary habits related to religous reasons. Kind of tied into ralphbsz I think one can do everything possible from birth to "be clean/eat clean". Eat this don't eat this don't drink this drink only that...

That was a common ad for Keto :p I think stevia might be natural, but I usually avoid any sweeteners if reasonable. Sparkling water's just carbonated water and pinch of flavor, no sugar, and some's half the price of traditional sugar water :p

I eat sushi almost every day. Except on weekends, when I'm not working.

This is what I tried to stick, the lists were reviewed by me several times. ## Low‑FODMAP, gluten‑free, diabetes‑friendly foods — expanded and double‑checked Notes: I used Monash-tested/accepted low‑FODMAP choices and excluded high‑glycemic...

Does CURRENT roll into new versions automatically (16 -> 17)? If so, is running CURRENT like rolling-release bleeding-edge FreeBSD?

The Virginia version seemingly got blocked because it included certain categories but not others (addictive games): https://cbsaustin.com/resources/pdf/70c794d9-f8d7-489d-b4d0-9409fd2d36fb-189114911210.pdf Blocking everything "nefarious" would...

There is a show on Netflix, I think, about the New Yorker where they talk about how they spell things and how they put periods after abbreviations when no one else does.

Wasn't there some kind of "obscene pr0n" ban which was shelved after people started to flock to the police stations with suitcases and kept asking the constables if this exhibit A was illegal or legal to own after that deadline? DDOS by porn...

Why do they need removed? Just don't install them for pkg base so those who still want them can install. I get annoyed with this and this needs to be removed because of security. Sure let's be like Linux and just rewrite everything and stop...

Hi gang, What is mtree? mtree is a utility included in the base system (/usr/sbin/mtree) and can be used to compare two directory structures thus allowing you to spot any kind of difference. By default it does this by comparing file size (in...

I just learned (searched the web) what Hiragana and Katakana are. I knew Japanese had three alphabets and what Kanji was, but that was it. Learning Git is also something that doesn't appeal to me. We had our own version system in my company, so...

I deploy stuff on backend :p Mostly PHP; Joomla uses Node.js (didn't work last time on FreeBSD with sass or Cypress but I have ideas to try soon) Bun.js support on FreeBSD would be nice! https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/1524

I learned Hiragana and Katakana back when I was into Anime :p Stopped at Kanji though, but I'm more interested in Chinese nowadays so maybe that'll be helpful for Kanji later. I thought about trying to translate Runescape by tossing characters...

So mysterious... The reason why you are familiar with the Japanese language remains unsaid. Is scottro Japanese? Is his wife Japanese? Are they not but one of them or they both speak Japanese? Why do they? Did they work in Japan? Are they art...

Cups uses /usr/local/bin which, at least sometimes, gets superseded by lp's /usr/bin I say sometimes because I've found if I'm printing from firefox, it uses cups without me needing to specify the path. I dunno if this is what caused your...

I remember when I first put up my page on Japanese in Linux/*BSD a lot of things were harder. I had a separate section on printing--I don't remember what the steps were, but I think I used openoffice and had a convoluted way of getting there. I...

I remember when I first put up my page on Japanese in Linux/*BSD a lot of things were harder. I had a separate section on printing--I don't remember what the steps were, but I think I used openoffice and had a convoluted way of getting there. I...

yes, on older agents evething work fine, even an update puppet code... but new modules does not deploy to clients On new client directory /var/puppet/lib always empty, and and errors like "Resource type '...' was not found" occur.

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...