Latest activity

Buy components, build your own. Most of my computers over the years have been self-built. And only decommissioned because they got too old (5-10 years) and couldn't keep up any more, not because something broke. Never had that happen. Did have a...

(Laughs in german) seperate forum, you mean.

For some reason I get this error on a particular laptop. I do not have this problem accessing the same web server in a jail from three other laptops so have no idea what is going on. It obviously is not a problem in the apache configuration...

I still doesn't get what's causing this. I have a script running every 15 minutes, adding new DDoS IP addresses, and there still are some sporadic errors about allocating memory. It doesn't seem to be related to RAM, as adding more RAM to the...

Agreed. Ten year old stuff usually has one foot in the grave, though. Yes, even Apple stuff. The Macbook Air I bought my mom about 6 years ago just bit the dust. And a replacement might not be readily available at a reasonable price depending on...

Some co-workers ran into this very problem today.

Very true. Both sides are more similar than they think. For AI - Bullsh*tting that AI will take over the world. Against AI: Bullsh*tting that AI will take over the world.

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...

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

llama.cpp from pkg. It is compiled wiith vulkan support. NVidia drivers from ports. They have perfectly usable Vulkan. On Linux Vulkan is about 8% slower than CUDA. FreeBSD/Vulkan is 4% slower than Linux Vulkan. No problems observed. I run...

llama.cpp from pkg. It is compiled wiith vulkan support. NVidia drivers from ports. They have perfectly usable Vulkan. On Linux Vulkan is about 8% slower than CUDA. FreeBSD/Vulkan is 4% slower than Linux Vulkan. No problems observed. I run...

What exactly do you mean?

It makes me wonder what the elementary operations of the process are. Is it binary instructions on a very wide register like GPU's have, and Nvidia keeps it proprietary and obscure? It must be possible to replace that with simple logic. Do we...

Could you please clarify a few points based on your experience: Toolchain: Do you run llama.cpp directly (as a server/CLI) or have you managed to build the Ollama wrapper on FreeBSD with Vulkan support? Drivers: Are you using the standard...

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"...

My .02$; Anthropic is spamming FUD all over the place, the handling of the new model is a clear proof. Check out their papers, those are not scientific papers, they literally write like they're in awe of the output. The progress curve is...

counterpoint: this is marketing bullshit by a company that lies to prop up its value, and acts like a protection racket https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/116370960046107139 they are drowning us in slop reports, and then trying to sell us...

llama.cpp with Vulkan on NVidia's binary drivers works just fine for me. No Linuxulator involved.

SirDice, thank you for the reply, but I am already using the -n option for the mountd daemon, so I don't think that is the problem. T-Daemon, also thank you for the reply ... Here are some details of my configuration: I am using Bastille to...

I've been doing this with plain Git for at least ten years. Sigh, nobody appreciates the finely curated commits in my merge requests. I try to group changes thematically so they're easier to review. I'm literally the only person who does that...

I find the terms in git just wrong. I think the verb tense direction is often wrong. I've had Swedish and Finnish flatmates use the English phase "Will you borrow me 20 dollars?" enough times to lock it in my head as a verb direction issue. Git...

I'll do it for $9 million.

OK, give ME the $10 million and I'll write it for you and save you 7 mil.

Having used a bunch of different "code configuration things" over the years, they all suck at some (most) things and are tolerable at others. Size/scale/scope tends to bring out the bad things. Terminology also gets confusing when switching...

I didn't understand what the real problem is with Git? Sounds like bullshit to me.

It does look like more of a replacement for github and gitlab.

lul wat?

Correct me if I'm wrong. This is a front-end for actual git.

That is impressive, especially if it's an x86 box. I need something with better reliability and availability than old second hand hardware, though.

I was pleasantly surprised that an old mac mini I bought uses 6 watts when idle. No external power adapter, i915 graphics, can add a thunderbird ethernet adapter, if I want to build a router, solid build, fan, rtc, etc made it a much better...

I promised myself to not waste any more money on aarch64 hardware that tends to lose support the day its released. ... so naturally I recently bought an E20C. Why this stands out is that it is listed as officially supported on OpenBSD's...

anything that has mainline u-boot with efi fb will work with a fb. there is wip for rk356x u-boot + efi fb i tried the patches and it worked on radxa 3e. building ports on arm sucks, you need apple silicon mac + vm to build ports with reasonable...

Or because the non-defaults are not considered as perfectly reliable and well-tested as the defaults.

Colleagues, could you please tell me if it's currently possible to use the FreeBSD platform to effectively deploy LLM models? That is, use the GPU not through some emulators or hacks, but with the help of native code? It seems to me that there is...

Correct me if I'm wrong. This is a front-end for actual git.

Hello all, I want to share that it is possible to enjoy Widevine protect content on Firefox (possibly derivatives also) in addition to what is possible currently with chromium. This will be L3 decode (i.e. software) but in any case it's better...

You're not wrong. For Go tests there's https://github.com/cweill/gotests to generate the skeleton. I think I experienced the whole spectrum of reactions towards LLM's except for the true believer. From outright rejection to agnosticism I'm now...

Oh, and by uneducated, I don't mean no college, this level of English is learned, or should be learned, well before then. And college doesn't guarantee education or brains. Lots of stupid people with college degrees are posting their ignorance...

I was looking for info about dynamic ticks on Windows and stumbled on some patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6506148B2/en I gotta read more details to see how that might be used or what defense there'd be for that (wonder if HDCP is...

For non native speakers, a lot of grammar rules seem to be ignored these days, as language becomes more casual and more stupid people get into positions of power, mocking those who know English grammar as being intellectual and saying how they...

I had uncased RPis (2 model B) on-top of drop ceiling tiles for security cameras and whole-house music for a couple years no problem not even SD corruption. I'd use one for a NAS but I only had up to model 3 and iirc it didn't have native SATA...

This is a fun project even with all the caveats! I'm really hoping rPi prices come down again soon.

Having some fun trying to configure mango to work like dwm and dwl. The tricky part (for me) is figuring out which command does what. This site https://www.tonybtw.com/tutorial/mangowc/ has the keybindings I want for switching windows but he...

I also always use a UPS

I can't find details about what it is. Any English txt file that covers that? For open source, they seem to love branding. No wikipedia entry? It can be used offline without any paid AI service? I would like that, a decentral distributed learning...

OpenCode also has an interesting approach to security: https://infosec.exchange/@keisatsu/116398148089359297 https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/10939?issue=anomalyco%7Copencode%7C22191

Opencode needs Bun and Bun does not support FreeBSD. There was preliminary support for FreeBSD being added to Bun back in November, but it wasn't functional and just messed up their CI so they ripped it out. I've tried to patch it back in but it...

Yeah, everyone had a stint with bread making like 10 years ago via the small kitchen appliance. Yep the bread comes out good, you can make varieties of it the way you like, but in the end, bakery bread is fine enough. I don't doubt that...

For non native speakers, a lot of grammar rules seem to be ignored these days, as language becomes more casual and more stupid people get into positions of power, mocking those who know English grammar as being intellectual and saying how they...