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"AI and LLMs on FreeBSD"?

Any suggestions for the forum's title? Will probably add this in the "Server and Network" category but need a short and clear title, it's quite a broad topic. And yes, this won't be a section for "AI told me this, is that correct" type of...

Slop copy and pasting shouldn't be allowed in a dedicated AI subforum either. We have serious business to discuss.

Change the terminal settings in your Gnome terminal. Set it to xterm-256color if you want to keep using 256 color mode. The terminal setting from Gnome terminal is passed on over the ssh connection to the 'other' side.

i propose that it be called the Slop Trough

That might be off topic as it's not a FreeBSD issue directly. And it wouldn't be a forum. This whole place is a forum

Can't find it now - maybe one of our friends from that area can help out. But from me as a german engineer this warranted a respectful tip of the hat.

Well, the main reason why I keep on using it is because it was the de-facto standard within Sun Solaris. So when I stopped using Solaris and moved on I wanted to hold on to that familiar environment. Or maybe I'm just not open to change... I...

I heard that there is an art form in japan that works by coloring a thread, part by part, so it will result in a complete picture when it is used to weave a belt for a kimino.

Oh, right! I always forget about that one. I had to configure it for my fibre connection at home too. mpd_enable="YES" netwait_if="ng0" rtsold_enable="YES" ipv6_cpe_wanif="ng0" ipv6_defaultrouter="-iface ng0" dhcp6c_interfaces="ng0"...

problem was solved ... ipv6_cpe_wanif="public" .the is core thanks for all

pdksh is something I have never used, but I imagine it is used by aficionados ;).

There is an ongoing thread on recent ProLiant Gen11 issues or in the FreeBSD bugtracker.

https://www.freedos.org/download/ FreeDOS 1.4 just came out last week. You'll be the first in this group to try it.

Interestingly, I was able to log in with incognito mode but that doesn't transfer to the regular tab. When I exit incognito, I have to log in again when I go back to it.

Tried that. Didn't work.

Had an issue and deleted all my cookies and history. Now, when I try to log into Facebook, I can't get past the image verification to log in. The one where you have to click on the picture of a motorcycle and so on. It keeps cycling through more...

I know I'm very late to the party, but I have another take on this... I'm sure many of you won't like it but many shells also support the so called vi mode (set -o vi). Now, I don't use Bash myself but its manualpage does mention this option (I...

One of the younger engineers where I worked called us over. "Hey, guys! Come here. Look at this!". He had wired a tantalum capacitor in backwards and the top popped off with a little candle like flame on top. Only a hardware engineer would get...

Reddit calls them sub-reddits. The forum I used to mod called them sub-forums. I've always known them as sub-forums elsewhere. It's not a first occurance.

Sub-forums.

You can believe whatever you want, doesn't make it true though.

Some company online once said they had to switch to git because it's what the people they were trying to hire were used to, not because they liked it. Again, based on popularity Microsoft wants to have their hands where people are and where the...

Please learn the difference between & and && in a shell context. Also, no need for the redirection to an intermediate file; history | vim -R -

Should we then have subforums for everything on FreshPorts? I believe we call them a subforum for a reason.

Fair enough, but then again... the FreeBSD foundation also followed suit, even though one could argue that this decision was a bit controversial considering the license (GPL3). I still recall (and support) the active movement to get rid of GCC in...

scfb is an Xorg driver, not a FreeBSD driver. It's one of two Xorg uses as a fallback if no other drivers can be detected. scfb uses the EFI framebuffer, which only exist if you UEFI boot. For old school BIOS boots Xorg will fallback on the vesa...

Because Linux told Linux users he uses it and so should they and then Linux and everything related switched to it cause Linus did. It's 90% of the reason. If Linus switched to Mercurial, everyone would be using Mercurial. If Linux switched to...

Good call, but I'd also suggest adding -x so that you don't have to type out the full name.

I see where you're coming from, but that's the whole point; something covered in "other ways", amongst which sticky bits but mostly mtree.

So many options. For example: "history > /tmp/foo", then use whatever tool you want on /tmp/foo. That tool might be grep, sed, and such. Or use an editor on /tmp/foo. If you like to work in an editor: most modern ones (like emacs and vim) have...

i don't think the Bourne shell has a feature like that, but ChatGPT will only confuse the matter further tbh.

Next time, think to use pkg info -l NameOfThePackage.

For future reference, you can use pkg info -l <pkgname> to see which files it contains. Sometimes the actual name of the executable isn't obvious. -l, --list-files Display all files installed by pkg-name. pkg-info

Actually I'm trying to do two different things which may be causing some confusion. 1. I'm trying to create a USB stick to apply the Middleton BIOS, which apparently can only be done using a 32-bit version of Windows which I don't have. 2. Get...

hstr was a program that I liked the look of but it didn't work with sh's history file. I didn't want to use bash, but now I have adopted zsh and have h as an alias for hstr an it works the way I want. And yes I am enjoying my unix trip, but...

It's all smoke and mirrors that indicates symptoms of a much larger problem: the quest to relegate programmers to being interchangeable mindless cogs that can be assigned any task that comes along in a CI pipeline and expect it to be done in the...

It was Mencken who wrote “No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people”. Clearly an elitist! “Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.” -- Mark...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250/all-info

MidnightBSD has already decided to change their license to prohibit use in California due to the Digital Age Assurance Act. Will FreeBSD be doing the same? https://ostechnix.com/midnightbsd-excludes-california-digital-age-assurance-act/

I can definitely respect that, but at the same time you can also turn this around: if Git wasn't all that great then why did it gain such a massive userbase? Now, I obviously don't know how you guys are using Git but as a die-hard Git fan(boy?)...

What does pkg repos show?

Might be a good idea indeed. Really? So this doesn't exist? misc/claude-code, or misc/ollama, or misc/comfyui? Actually, every section is a forum on its own, this place is called "forums" (plural) for a reason.

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

I have always considered git to be a pain in the rear. We used it cause others used it and we had to interface to them. I think "them" used it for the same reason--other people used it, not because they liked it. If git was that good, why are...

What does Hiram give me when it is on USB? I can boot from the ISO using Ventoy if it is included on the first Ventoy partition. Can it provide additional functionality if it has RW access? I don't really know much about the program but use it...

What version are you running? So, 2 followed by 6 zeros fails, but 45 followed by 5 zeros works? That is a very strange one. Unless my math is failing 2,000,000 < 4,500,000 so that is very odd.

Yes that's right, but because pf couldn't reload, it couldn't set the new limit, I realize that now. But the problem persists - and I have no idea what to do. It might be on my end I'm afraid, since no one having/had these issues. I have found...

mkntfs creates an NTFS partition.

Does this patch need to be applied for things to work?