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As was said towards the beginning of this thread, the bill's already passed. On Governor Newsom's site you can't even leave a comment about it that I saw, there are limited means of web commumication. I do wonder if it's worth writing a snail...

Dr Who - you are like them or you are hate them. There are no other options. I think I saw so so many...but I didn't miss any episode of The Black Adder.

Weeell, hold on a second. Some of us use open source software specifically because this cannot happen against the will of a sufficient fanbase of such software. You can never really take it away. The issue at hand here is that software with...

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

we don't install pkgbase

Rust would make them so much better

Nice video. I am annoyed that the role of systemd in this hack is not highlighted more, though. Openssh did not actually link to XZ.

Nice video. I am annoyed that the role of systemd in this hack is not highlighted more, though. Openssh did not actually link to XZ.

fernandel, Yes, that's a classic. I saw it quite awhile ago, when I was still doing martial arts. One of my favorites of his was Yojimbo. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055630/ Trailer View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_1iT_GmHTE I saw many...

The computer manufacturer providing the way?

It is currently being discussed, in the freebsd-hackers@ public mailing list. https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2026-February/005867.html

Well, Newsom ain't gettin' my vote for president now. And seriously folks, that might matter enough to him so that if enough of us protest against this, he might be against it too. (I don't even know what Newsom's view on it is.) blackbird9 from...

I was too brief in my post. Yes, you can run claude code in emacs terminal. But I was talking about gptel, which is its own interface for integrating LLMs with Emacs, and to use it with Anthropic you have to use the API...

Ok. Here's a Japanese film. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455577/ kame wa igai to hayaku oyogu Youtube calls it, Turtles are Fast Swimmers, I'd add in Surprisingly Fast, but it doesn't matter. My wife asked me to watch it, I thought I'd be...

Well, I'm in there. Cover me. I am moderately miffed that they effectively restrict my choice of IDE. If I use one of their UIs or Visual Studio then I can run off the monthly plan. If I want Emacs I have to use their API plan.

I agree that a trailer is usually more informative than IMDB. But, I'm no movie buff, and IMDB might have more information for those who can tell a director's or actor's style. And as I type, I realize I haven't seen too many movies I'd share...

Netcraft confirms it!

I cringe when I hear the word woke. What is "being woke"? Is it putting a convicted felon in power, thinking he won't felon and being surprised when he does? That's certainly woke. Is it having empathy for people of other races, sexes, sexual...

So now you have a job in FreeBSD in Ghana, if I understood you correctly. Tell us more!

Well, at least it is safe against an event like that $83000 charge on a Google API key.

The AIrmageddon! It can't come fast enough. Classic drug dealer marketing: Get you completely dependent on the product by offering it for free or well below cost Jack up the price

sounds like making a contract to the devil to me.

BSD is dying!

you also didn't argue from anything other than how you feel when you get random text back from chatgpt. it's impossible to find things on the internet now because every query results in slop.

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...

Why can't the AI figure out how to do a port of itself?

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Hello, I've been using Linux and BSD since the early 2000s. I would really like to thank the entire FreeBSD 15 team for delivering such a high-quality desktop system. I run FreeBSD 15 with Wayland (Plasma), and it absolutely screams. There is no...

Hi, I'm runit. Also Ashley. I've recently gotten into the BSD family of unixes after a long history with mostly Debian and Fedora (10+ years) primarily because I am concerned with security issues (that I perceive) in the Debian project, as well...

This is a weird way of investing the little developing power these fellows (OpenIndiana's developers) have: https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenIndiana-Next-Gen-IPS

I believe I am ready to submit the ports... 🙏

I saw this recent video mentioned on HN and (having watched it) thought it was pretty good: The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew Just to add the HN link: Related HN thread

That option enables a very small set of code paths for compatibility with the newer NVIDIA driver ABIs, nothing substantial is added to the resulting packages, but the X server driver ABI is changed. You could disable it if you are running on a...

Just when you think things can't get more ironic.... https://ewontfix.com/14/

Let's give it a whirl. The maintainer, Yuri, seems to be keeping this very updated.

! VIOLATION ! This thread would have accepted either 11 or 3

Incorrect. I gave "The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" therefore it is never wrong.

The modern stuff is woke crap. You have to watch the 60's and 70s stuff. The recent BBC/disney series from Russel T Davies are rubbish, and their audience figures have cratered; it's unwatchable now, imho; I can't stand what they've done to it...

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

C++ is the favored language of pedantic language laywers

we are arguing about gotos 57 years after Dijkstra’s “Go to statement considered harmful”? Real programmers don’t waste time discussing such tired old topics; they write working code! I once wrote an emulator for motorola 68hc11 in C. Using gnu...

But that is like a label and a goto!!!!

I can't stand Dr. Who. One of the worst shows I've ever attempted to watch.

sounds like making a contract to the devil to me.

So for Anthropic Claude it is like this: - No API keys at all for the monthly plans. You pay extra for API key usage - Monthly plans can only be used from provided interfaces, hence no API keys - usage limits for plans are undocumented, flexible...

I still use the algorithms published in the Journal of Applied Statistics, mainly for the code quality and robustness - all the mathematical issues, convergence, handling of floating point, etc, have been carefully thought through...

C and C++ have goto. Pascal and Object Pascal do as well. It's sometimes useful (Oh, no! Sacrilege!).

Or they are back at their old desk two month later for twice the bucks as a freelancer. That happend to a coworker of my dad. You can say about banks what you want, but they have a better sense of risk-down-the-road than the run-off-the-mill...