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I don't think there are multiple controllers on there.

Yes. Those services typically create specific user accounts; www for example. No, they're typically locked. And usually have their login shell set to /usr/sbin/nologin. Why would you allow an account like www to login via ssh? You seem to be...

Hi, i would like to report my finding for maybe they will be of use to others. i am using a FreeBSD 14.3 as my main desktop machine since a few months. One of the few problems i found is that Thunderbird hangs miserably, and when it does it...

It's even worse than that, because they are going to be the next senior devs, no matter what. I'm already annoyed by how much my generation, becoming professional in the mid-2000, lost from previous ones by going all in on the web and forgetting...

Thanks Alfredo. I found myself having a bit deeper thoughts on the subject after I posted the "fk them do nothing" bit.

Zare, I agree. You express your ideas very clearly and they make much sense. 👍

Sadly, I do agree. However I still think we should ring all bells about it. We are protecting the children, lawmakers aren't. FreeBSD and alike enable self-sufficient technical users that control 100% of their hardware. Those users can set up...

Agencies? In California, the laws were passed by the legislature. It can only be changed by the legislature. So you need to contact about 120 elected legislators. Note that because of short term limits (6 years for the lower house, 12 for the...

We have a saying about this. When "the children" are mentioned by lobbyists or law makers, put firmly one hand on your rights and one on your wallet.

By my heart, I would still do that. But from my current perspective, which is an outsider one. I decided post this from a more even perspective, realizing I may not know the (financial) consequences on the project. Example, a big funder of...

graphics/drm-61-kmod isn't supported on i386.

The Intel Atom N270 is a CPU that supports Intel 64, why is it running on 32 bit?

I switched my webserver to TLS 1.3 a while back (exclusive for a while but later alongside 1.2; FF still defaulted 1.3) and haven't seen any issues any OS. On my router with OpenWRT I think I had oddities if I messed with hardware offload or...

Indeed. This happens when computers are seen as completely black box. People does not know for what lpd or cups is there, only know that they must do something with them for printing, and if lpd is not there, then cups must be there. Cups...

Also cups needs ppd drivers for your specific printer. If no ppd driver exists , problem. For intelligent printers you can use netcat , nc. How i currently print : gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pxlmono \ -dDuplex=true -dTumble=false \...

when you need to install a web interface for something as simple as sending a document to a printer, something is wrong. It feels like systemd...

No, it is not. Period. It is perhaps easiest only for people that do want to take a little of time and learn before configuring. That user should be using MS Windows, not FreeBSD. I will not bloat my system for doing something like: cat...

The whole bare metal is an isolated install. It also has snapshots that cannot be reached from said machine. A jail wouldn't help with the sudo question, unless you opt to never sudo in the jail at all. Which might or might not be doable but...

No, these problems for me are very consistent and very specific to two entities. Everything else works like clockwork. So I am sure this is not "shit happens" type of a thing. Cookie containerization wasn't the issue, it seems. I'm now gonna...

Say you have a dedicated machine to run risky applications, e.g. Chinese LLMs. Would you make sudo for that machine passwordless or passwordy? Passwordy obviously has the advantage of delaying an attacker when they want to do system changes...

I'd sooner have everyone with LibreOffice to a shared FTP NAS drive :p I'd use Collabora (iirc their Android app was offered as a fork of LO before LO had a reader app). Does NextCloud offer anything that can't be done with separate apps?

I used to initiate scans from printer webUI. Never faxed, but my printer had a touchscreen to presumably do it from there. I only ever used CUPS since like 2016 and took it for granted allowing easy printing to printers on wifi with IPP. On...

A lot of people just will not run an x.0 release on production servers, instead waiting until any unforeseen issues are reveled and resolved...

Hi All The issue solved at 293399. Thanks all.

It's also not scalable. You can make experience engineers from scratch, they are a limited resource. And if you set things up this way the intermediate devs don't gain the experience to become senior devs.

freebsd-update only operates on the base OS, not ports/packages (i.e. third party software). In between the second and third freebsd-udate install you are instructed to reinstall your ports/packages. The third freebsd-update install actually...

Firefox and other Mozilla products use their own ssl, name nss. The original problem sounds like something the extension could cause.

Another article from Germany's largest IT magazine: https://www.heise.de/en/news/FreeBSD-14-4-runs-much-better-in-the-cloud-and-on-notebooks-11206384.html

Installing Windows and popping in the printer driver CD is certainly easier. Especially for bargain bin printers like most consumers have. However as per this forums, we tend to like FreeBSD and software that aligns to the same UNIXy / light...

It says it can be integrated with Nextcloud. I don't know if anything else can. Maybe Collabra.... https://help.nextcloud.com/t/collabora-vs-onlyoffice/134994

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ8R7HITios View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qtCePhydAI

Apparently the source is available for the community edition, although I guess it is full of Linuxisms.

Indeed. This happens when computers are seen as completely black box. People does not know for what lpd or cups is there, only know that they must do something with them for printing, and if lpd is not there, then cups must be there. Cups...

when you need to install a web interface for something as simple as sending a document to a printer, something is wrong. It feels like systemd...

No, it is not. Period. It is perhaps easiest only for people that do want to take a little of time and learn before configuring. That user should be using MS Windows, not FreeBSD. I will not bloat my system for doing something like: cat...

I'm trying to get the install script from https://github.com/tschettervictor/bsd-apps/tree/main/nextcloud working but could do with some clarification if anyone is familiar with it...

php84-pgsql is installed. I presume it was pulled in by www/nextcloud

I guess you should install php module for postgresql. databases/phpXX-pgsql

Does anyone have any experience with OnlyOffice ? Does it work on FreeBSD?

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...

Here is what I do. I maintain a jail template that is never directly used as a jail. The jails merely mount it either read-only using nullfs or mount unionfs filesystems on top of it. Any local jail modifications written to the unionfs...

Hi All The issue solved at 293399. Thanks all.

I did acknowledge this earlier when I presented my case.

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Help needed for getting Nextcloud working with PostgreSQL.... The docs linked to do not mention PostgreSQL/ Initial page provides this:-

Here is a read on AI screwing up for Amazon: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/after-outages-amazon-to-make-senior-engineers-sign-off-on-ai-assisted-changes/

What I had proposed earlier was moving it to a base pkg. I’ll go deeper in the example call it FreeBSD-printing if it doesn’t have its own already. Then just don’t install it. Make a set for optional.txz for future things like this and so on...

As the response to that states, possibly its worth discussing with the OpenBSD guys why they themselves don't see it fit for removal in an OS focused on security. Hopefully he does and they have some good insight.

I missed this. I don't know if OpenBSD's implementation of lpd is vulnerable. Perhaps a quicker fix would be to import that. Looking at the code (and noting last commit message), I don't immediately spot anything that is very unportable. des@...