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I mentioned this in the CA thread, but there's an article about some System76 people having discussions with lawmakers. https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/10/foss_age_verification_2/

For what it's worth, I saw an article (The register? I can't find it now though) how in Colorado, EFF or someone had opened a discussion with a lawmaker who hadn't considered such a thing. AHA! Found it...

If it angers you, then it might mean it's about you. Reminds me of an old Margaret Cho routine, Then there's the tramp (she uses a meaner word). She goes on about how in every dramatic portrayal of women, one is usually playing such a role. Then...

The updates and patches are downloaded and stored in /var/db/freebsd-update/. The install phase loads them from there. Saying 'no' to the proposed changes stops the entire upgrade process. Your freebsd-update .... upgrade never "finished", so...

Thanks, saying 'yes' to the proposed changes of /etc/dma/auth.conf solved the issue. I was trying to keep my settings not overwritten!

Did you recently upgrade? Are you increasing privilege with su or similar from a normal user or are you logged in as root? What's the output of these commands: freebsd-version -kru mount ls -ld /var/db/pkg

View: https://bsky.app/profile/freebsdfoundation.bsky.social/post/3mgsap7yaca2h

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They are. But there is small room for meta jokes, so jokes about jokes could sometimes be tolerated.

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We are still missing your last payment for the service contract.

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I appreciate the answer. We can continue this discussion elsewhere when it is appropriate :)

Plus, I don't think there is reason to be suspicious, it's following the exact same hype cycle all trendy techs have done before. It always peaks with people being frankly fanatical about their tech, until comes the time where it's not new...

You generally won't see Rust on many job apps during our lifetime. But there is still a push by small but vocal companies to "sell" you new products (IDEs, books, courses) because there is less market competition compared to industry standard...

I have no interest in pushing my views on anyone but you asked me a question, so here it goes: To me, the nanny state is obsessed over our personal lives wasting resources on victimless crimes. As I age, I lean more and more to anarchist views...

If it's a Java application, why run it on a Linux OpenJDK when there's a 'native' OpenJDK available? Or am I misunderstanding something here?

the new revision of bi came up. try it. tuned some points.

Is the drive itself still good?

To be honest, that CPU never had its time. It was utterly under powered from the start. The only positive thing it had was its power consumption.

This is iconic. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrcbCW4y9Dw

That's not humorous.

We found this spoon. (I wonder, how would a coop of Monty Python and Mel Brooks have worked out? Or is that the lethal joke that sketch is about?)

I don't understand the persistent desire of it being in the base system. It makes me suspect corporate involvement. What exactly is it supposed to do, that apparently isn't possible while it's an external program? Are we sure that no other...

Is there such a thing?

AlfredoLlaquet that's the guy who does various movie pitch meetings, which can be funny. But that one was more scary. :)

The updates and patches are downloaded and stored in /var/db/freebsd-update/. The install phase loads them from there. Saying 'no' to the proposed changes stops the entire upgrade process. Your freebsd-update .... upgrade never "finished", so...

From The dead Internet is not a theory anymore:

Given that you've already identified it as an untrustworthy machine, I don't really think it matters. Just properly isolate/firewall it, so that it cannot be used as a spearhead for further incursions.

I don't understand the persistent desire of it being in the base system. It makes me suspect corporate involvement. What exactly is it supposed to do, that apparently isn't possible while it's an external program? Are we sure that no other...

They probably are thinking comparatively to Rails or Node.js, as many on-premise webapps in the self-hosting circles are written with those. Lemmy is an ActivityPub-based software, for which the big dominant big brother, Mastodon, is a Rails app...

It looks to be more than that. Knock yourself out :cool:

CONFIGURE_ARGS are arguments for a ./configure script.

Port is unmaintained. Open a PR, attach a patch that updates it and ask a committer to have a look.

They probably are thinking comparatively to Rails or Node.js, as many on-premise webapps in the self-hosting circles are written with those. Lemmy is an ActivityPub-based software, for which the big dominant big brother, Mastodon, is a Rails app...

They probably are thinking comparatively to Rails or Node.js, as many on-premise webapps in the self-hosting circles are written with those. Lemmy is an ActivityPub-based software, for which the big dominant big brother, Mastodon, is a Rails app...

FreeBSD actually works fine with readonly filesystems, Things like logging will fail. It can't write a new /etc/resolv.conf etc but it will still run fine. With my NFS boot readonly would be easy to implement. But I don't want to cripple the...

It exposes a bunch of stuff in /proc that FreeBSD's /proc does not. Can be useful for FreeBSD programs, too.

Hmmm, this is no good. Some random binary gunk should not block ZFS from initializing. Much less with a useless error message.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgqVBNlbgbM

CPU time is pretty low although not as low as a good C or C++ program. The way that linking works makes the binaries bigger than C. C++ of course can be bloaty. Off-hand I don't know whether a modern C++ program or a Rust program come out bigger.

Maybe run: geli list

CPU time is pretty low although not as low as a good C or C++ program. The way that linking works makes the binaries bigger than C. C++ of course can be bloaty. Off-hand I don't know whether a modern C++ program or a Rust program come out bigger.

There shouldn't be any significant overhead. Can you run a program that prints the size of the eli block device?

Does Rust have a lower footprint than alternatives? https://join-lemmy.org/ mentions:

FreeBSD actually works fine with readonly filesystems, Things like logging will fail. It can't write a new /etc/resolv.conf etc but it will still run fine. With my NFS boot readonly would be easy to implement. But I don't want to cripple the...

Looking at the mailing list, I think they are deciding what "shot" is the correct one. So far two things: Overly modularise and reduce things. Typical developer mindset which creates DIY Linux-like platforms rather than operating systems...

Oh they did that, big time, in the railcars carrying mail between BRD/DDR and back, so you could have letters which were opened twice in transit. And of course you can depend on telephones being listened to. I always joke that the internet...

Our local TelCo is floating plans to have AI agents in all calls which you can summon by saying "Hello Magenta" which is supposed to help you with matters. I just hope we are not so far up idiocracy creek that people can't vote with their wallet...

That may be the goal for some companies involved. Because parents are the administrators, and administrators must be trusted to do "the right thing". So, with great sadness, it will be decided that nobody can be the admin on their own system...