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I can’t do any of my daily work on FBSD so I will keep FBSD for what it does best: my NAS

In emacs org mode it is possible create structural blocks within documention which can be converted to program code using something like: https://orgmode.org/manual/Structure-Templates.html These can be further enhanced to suit personal...

All ventures throughout history were made in the attempt to make money. That a person or company can make lots of money is a result of the value people place on that product. To scorn a person for making a lot of money ignores the fact that the...

Suggestion to all newbies: keep notes on everything you learn. One note for every specific “how to do …” question and write down what you learned as clearly and without fluff as you can. Also remember that the best way to learn is to try to teach!

You don't actually need to read everything, but I plan to when it's official. It seems you have an opinion on the matter but did you read it all?

These are mine 'latest' contents from about 2000 when I was using them :) autoexec.bat SET TEMP=F:\TEMP LH C:\CDROM\MSCDEX /D:MSCD000 mode con codepage prepare=((852) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega.cpi) mode con codepage select=852 keyb...

Hello :D So I wanted to share something I've been working on called PaxOS, a FreeBSD-based distro that attempts to run BSD, Linux and Windows. I created PaxOS out of curiosity after trying "ReactOS" and I thought: "I wonder if there is a distro...

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Once I blew up a Raspberry TFT screen. I had no power supply, so I thought let's connect both computer and display on 1 PSU and balance out the intake with a potmeter according to U=IxR. I didn't realize tat the device has to receive a signal...

What are your autoexec.bat contents then? :)

vermaden has a post about this. https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/03/01/uplift-privileges-on-freebsd/

We start warm, soft, and lightly with the alas in 2022 deceased analog Grand Master Klaus Schulze: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYq7JlosULc&list=RDUYq7JlosULc&start_radio=1 Ok. Now the comfy time is over. Get your arse up, and hit the...

I'm pretty sure that all those $20/month plans don't make any money, at least not for power users. Maybe they have a lot of people who subscribe and then don't use it.

Note that that site is not official FreeBSD.

I would create a Virtualbox vm on the good laptop and let it share a directory on nfs so you can store everything remote. That's really a few commands... create /etc/exports, rpcbind, nfsd -t -u, mountd -r. Tnen mount_nfs on remote system.

vermaden has a post about this. https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/03/01/uplift-privileges-on-freebsd/

I use the pf firewall to maintain a table of blocked IPs. The firewall has a rule that adds new IPs to the blocklist based on criteria I set. That happens in memory in an ongoing fashion. Then using a cron job (crontab) the memory-based table is...

fwiw pointless and bloviating genericity is, like, the name of the LLM game

It seems more educational than ruling to me, yes.

It seems more educational than ruling to me, yes.

LLMs aside, is this proposal interesting? It seems a little generic and pointless. As an example, where is the proposal for "A developers guide to putting their shoes on in the morning"?

How much RAM you need depends on how many cores your CPU(s) has as compiles run 1 per hardware thread. How many cores and how much RAM do you have? Did you turn on DEBUG in the LLVM build?

Found in the Internet: "Metalheads are nice people cosplaying as mean, while hippies are mean people cosplaying as nice."

I use ipfw tables in conjunction with a couple of FireHOL.org lists and some IP's I've collected from my logs. Works great. ipfw has rules to block anything from or to a table of subnets. Effectively download the list, use a script to load a...

pfctl -t badguys -T test 203.0.113.1 will show "1/1 addresses match". You can put in more than one address. If you want that to be even simpler you could do another script, say, blackhole-test: #!/bin/sh pfctl -t badguys -T test "$@"

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSWv1iVRu1M View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJF9oCNNWFY View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPU7PWgTI9I View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmk9BAnqFOw Also, on them being disco in the 70s...

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From a great album of Dio covers. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXaMFKTgBB0

Woah! I didn't know this band. They sound pretty good. I'll add them to my playlists. Yes, Bruce Dickinson's Chemical Wedding album is very good.

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/topics-about-unsupported-freebsd-versions.40469/

I finally found out that the secret to getting auto configuration of a usb dac when you plug it in and pull it out is to set hw.snd.default_auto=2. It is actually documented in the "sound" manpage. If you set this in /etc/sysctl.conf, you no...

I finally found out that the secret to getting auto configuration of a usb dac when you plug it in and pull it out is to set hw.snd.default_auto=2. It is actually documented in the "sound" manpage. If you set this in /etc/sysctl.conf, you no...

Well, the great thing about the Metal community is how chill the audiences are and how well they get along. Normally...

I use ipfw tables in conjunction with a couple of FireHOL.org lists and some IP's I've collected from my logs. Works great. ipfw has rules to block anything from or to a table of subnets. Effectively download the list, use a script to load a...

The support is for the software to connect/sync to/from the device. Not what you can run on the device itself.

I read a similar statement elsewhere and I thoroughly agree with it. Another thought as an example, how could AI write a novel without feeling or understanding human emotion?

I have a Trekstor Breeze 10.1 Quad Tablet, which after years of not using it is not capable of signing into a Google account (Android 4.x) anymore. Anyway, I did a factory reset and now I do not even get passed to connecting that thing to my wifi...

From a great album of Dio covers. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXaMFKTgBB0

Then we will begin seeing wonderful FreeBSD distributions.

Hello brothers, here's an older song you may've not heard but I consider it one of the best View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL4MYl3o1cs

I actually plan to post-train a local llm (probably nemotron) specifically on the BSDs. But since I can't train a model from scratch all the GPL code from my base model will still be in there.

Yes, that's the only constant, people will lie. Until we, as the Human race, don't have truly independent AI (Culture series for example) it's the meat bag that prompted the LLM (or generic assisted development solution) that is responsible for...

I’ve run into a real issue with generative AI: the models think too much. Sure, the reasoning capacity is better, but the problem is that GPT‑5.4, which I’m using, gets lost in details I didn’t ask for and misses key points. In the end, I’d...

Miss World Chile contestant Ignacia Fernández View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwbZrdSGlmE

Still have to meet a situation where any kind of AI does things better than just functional software. There' s no application. You have a large obscure function for what? There are probably small transparent functions that can do everything you...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDeZdtO5rC0

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

To get back a bit more on topic: I like what Linus says about the issue: those who want to use LLMs to write code they contribute will do so either way. If it is not allowed they will just not admit it.

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