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We - a group of people involved with the FreeBSD community - would like to propose the formation of a new working group dedicated to improving the functionality and usage of FreeBSD on desktop and laptop environments. Objective The primary goal...

While I have a custom USB release, I have had no idea what pkgbase is... Looked it up. Not a port. A system that treats system userland components as packages to have a modular base? Interesting...

I can't get rid of it, right click on clock -> configure digital clock -> Show seconds is "Never". On 15, Xorg. Edit : eventually it yielded, but not on the first DE restart

It might depend on what drm-kmod version is used; with UHD 630 I found drm-61-kmod the best (newer/latest had random crashes and sometimes random lag not with TTY). 515 was also fine (used it during 14.* but only tried 61+ on 15.0+)

Looks like all the girls are having a "big hair day", not only Christina. 😁 View: https://youtu.be/yfmG9qmZn6Y I guess it can't be a safety risk... despite how it looks! I'm wondering if it's going to start a new fashion trend down here on...

Is that a bug with abnormally-high CPU use, or just that showing seconds is high CPU for some reason on Plasma? Windows 11 has a toggle to show seconds in taskbar but also notes it increases power use; I figured it would interact with screen PSR...

Last one... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n0IjWSug1k

One more... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JRL1TdK1Bg

py311-html3 seems like a likely package you might miss based on your error message. However, I just installed yt-dlp on a machine that previously didn't have it and it works and it doesn't have py311-html3. I'd say reinstall yt-dlp and see...

Have you been able to reproduce this problem outside of syslog-ng? Of course the kernel won't return any errors. It's UDP BTW. Does it work with syslogd in FreeBSD base? You cannot narrow it down to the app, kernel or network based on...

I'm thinking a bit of both, maybe biased towards hype. Honestly, look at NFS. Does anyone run NFS over the public internet or do you use it on your home network (isolated) or work network (again isolated)? If an exploit is not a "remote"...

"i have a scary bogeyman of an AI that will end computer security!!" okay, can we see it? "no". again, this is just corporate asswipes trying to force their way in to make you pay attention to their slop. it's a show of force by technocratic...

That's not a accurate description at all. FreeBSD's pf is indeed based on an OpenBSD version prior to their syntax change, which we've not imported (because, you know, breaking user configurations is bad), but pf in FreeBSD is maintained, and...

The xf86-input-libinput was blocking my usb mouse and keyboard from working in afterstep (15.0-Release). Removing it fixed my problem. Thanks for pointing me to that conflict.

Thank you for opening a PR. I didn't know the right procedure.

Clearly aliens.. So technically that danger would be back to flying? :D

The Bermuda Triangle ! 😯

It turned out useful for me. But this touches on the biggest problem I see with this style of code review: context size in the LLM in use. I find that even moderately-low-mid size files overrun the context window with too many input tokens. A...

Yes and no. Judging by the /output the process is also ran as root, so this is possibly on a disposable VM instance.

Very good point, those things consume huge amounts of power. And the huge installation cost of the compute hardware and data centers to do the work. It's a high cost game, you need deep pockets to play. The real risk is from other major...

That's the bit that they can't get to work...

Yes. This hasn't been an issue on FreeBSD for more than 10 - 15 years now, perhaps even longer.

That OpenZFS docs are 99% (or more) Linux'ish, so there's always uncertainty if the informations therein aply to FreeBSD, too, or if there're slight but important differences to the behaviour implemented on FreeBSD.

Well, ZFS implementation of currently supported releases are OpenZFS and upstream has this.

/boot/zfs/zpool.cache was the previous default that pre-OpenZFS (aka ZoF: ZFS on FreeBSD) implementation used, and kept for compatibility.

The next questions derive: are /boot/zfs/zpool.cache and /etc/zfs/zpool.cache hardlinked to the same file, is one a symlink to the other, or are they two distinct files? How can I create these files? Simply by touch'ing an empty file? When I...

Ceph can be very slow. NFS is actually close to wire speed most of the time.

This is RTFSD and not documentation. Docs are the manpages, since they are installed on most systems, and optionally the handbook.

FYI: Read /etc/rc.d/zpool.

Dear ZFS gurus, before filing in a bug report, I'd like to make sure that I'm not missing a piece of documentation. I couldn't find any documentation about the default location of the system's zpool cachefile yet, which would mean this is a...

This is a risk you run when using Latest package repository. I swear, almost every "X package got deleted!!!!" post would not be needed if people were using Quarterly. If you can't handle things occasionally breaking, or don't want to put in...

DON'T BLINDLY HIT "Y" KEY ON UPGRADES! Always confirm carefully to see there are no unintentional deletions before hitting "y" on upgrades. If you're specifying "-y" option for pkg upgrade, never attempt to use the terrible option! Even think of...

I find this conclusion dead wrong. And this one is very right. Any kind of software with multiple packages is susceptible to fallout. KDE being big and with quite a few packages, the chance increases.

Why use the -p flag if you want human-readable numbers? zpool-list without any arguments shows all numbers with M/G/T[...] suffixes. And to answer your question: as pretty much any other tool, zpool- p also uses bytes as the standard...

I will now have to send a copy of my Drivers License to adduser on FreeBSD?? https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Undecided-Age-Laws

I find this conclusion dead wrong. And this one is very right. Any kind of software with multiple packages is susceptible to fallout. KDE being big and with quite a few packages, the chance increases.

When big $ is involved, I always keep my tinfoil hat on. If we move to PQC soon the powers will lose the potential future or current-hypothesized encryption breaking infrastructure. They are already losing their illicit data "ownership" through...

Bold claim: AI companies will solve all security problems within 2028. Proof: a system without disks and RAM cannot be exploited :-)

Timelord from The Future™ here with an important safety tip: don't rely exclusively on your firewall rules to protect against the types of attacks described above against mail or DNS. It's important to make sure that you know what services are...

pf is a last-match evaluator, unless you use the quick keyword — evaluations aren't a security metric, they're a performance metric. close. what we understand these to mean is that evaluations indicate that a packet was checked by that rule...

Well... what's the opposite of PRO-gress?

Performance wise it's not going to matter except when the partition is misaligned. For your own sanity however it might be useful to create partitions, with labels, it'll make it easier to identify individual disks.

RIP Lance Taylor aka Afrika Bambaataa View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J3lwZjHenA

Metal music of every genre, from hair metal to grindcore, and anything related (stories about concerts, pictures from concerts, open love letters to Alissa White-Gluz, benevolent interpretations of Cannibal Corpse's lyrics, etc.). All genres and...

I recently got the following error when running service pf reload: #service pf reload /usr/local/etc/pf.conf:36: cannot define table ddos: Cannot allocate memory pfctl: Syntax error in config file: pf rules not loaded So I increased and tuned...

What does vm datastore list output?

LLM's came here to stay and the sooner we accept the new normal the better. Right now there are 3 types of people: 1. Those who use LLM's and are transparent about it. 2. Those who use LLM's and don't disclose it. 3. Those who only complain...

The project most memorable to me was the JES/2 dynamic proclib project in 1989-1990. It was a key 0 supervisor state (kernel mode) extension to IBM's JES/2, part of MVS (mainframe O/S). It was over 100K lines of IBM mainframe assembler.

If user John mounted any filesystem and shares content in it using nfs, no other nfs user of that server can have more permissions on it than John has. The security on the level of both services stays the same. Hence, running services on top of...

It's called memory leak. 😆