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Don't use mergemaster(8), it is removed on >=15.0: mergemaster(8) FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE DESCRIPTION The mergemaster utility is deprecated and may not be available in FreeBSD 15.0 or later. Users are advised to use...

If you really want to stick to sendmail I would suggest migrating to the port instead; mail/sendmail. The sendmail in the base OS is slated to be removed (although it's still included with 15).

Well... there are 2 answers to that for me. First is simple & obvious: "because it gets the job done", the power to serve is strong within this one. But my personal reasons... go a bit deeper. To me, personally (!), FreeBSD is the true...

This doesn't seems to be a permissions issue on the host side. I have full access on "virtio-9p" shared sub-directories and files as any non-privileged user (users not present on the host) on a Linux Mint bhyve (vm-bhyve configured) guest, with...

Simple as that.

I'm just trying to write something to a USB stick. This seems to do what I want. if ! usbconfig | grep 'DISK USB' ; then...

Apart from aforementioned Olivetti machine bought around 1990, none of my computers have been OEM. All were built by hand. I had couple of 486s before first Pentium in 1997, and then I moved through P2s and Celerons onto P4 around 2002. Core Quad...

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...

I avoid gmake natively, but ofc using it on Linux from cmake targets. I have some toy projects I'm doing for FreeBSD, and I've switched them from cmake to our make. There is no need to use absolutely anything else if the product is destined for...

CMake or Meson simply because homegrown configure scripts and makefiles are a pita and prone to break on various platforms when packaging but to answer if you can do with (b)make compatibility that's great.

At most you'd be able to test for the existence of the device file. But you need to know the device in advance. [ -c /dev/da0] for example. And the "USB device" needs to create a /dev/ device node, certainly not all "USB devices" do. Are you...

That symbol seems to come from graphics/libepoxy. Is it installed? Maybe a required dependency was used but failed to register somehow and it got removed when you reinstalled your ports/packages (you're required to do after a major version upgrade).

Good bread is like wine or cheese: The same ingredients can lead to completely different results, depending on the fermentation's conditions. And it needs ripeness (the unbaked dough, of course.) Not weeks, or months, like wine or cheese, but...

There is no way to run test ?

dmesg and usbconfig for example.

It's, at most, some capacitive charge you're discharging by holding down the power button (or short-circuiting various power connections). Static charge doesn't build up inside electrical components, that's impossible. You know what static...

What is the recommend way of testing for the presence of a USB device? gpart only displays partitioned media AFAICS.

Try a different browser? Or some browser plugin in chrome that's interfering? In any case, if you get a successful connection but the browser reports it took too long to respond, you might want to have a closer look at the PHP page or whatever...

That works. I can also connect with lynx so there must be something be wrong with chrome.

That's not how static charge works.

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Better test, nc -zv 192.168.1.20 80. Does that get you a connection refused, timed out or successful? Refused would mean there's nothing listening on that port, timed out might indicate some networking or firewall issues, and connection...

It's not an error and you don't actually need it for Apache to function properly. None of the messages balanga posted are errors that need fixing. The first one is a warning, the second and third are informational. And none of them are the...

No you can't.

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.