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Artificial (Un)Intelligence and other Woes

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

i propose that it be called the Slop Trough

The AI discussion is seeping into most forums. It does seem like a major topic of interest to many, to warrant its own forum. Thanks!

solstis use top -osize and top -ores to see what is using that memory. Look at the top users and look up those processes on google to see what they are and if they are actually taking an unreasonable amount of RAM for what they're doing. It is...

Regardless of the goal, the important thing is the journey, what matters is what we've learned.

ok so as usual I found the issue after I posted this, keeping here for posterity: virtual_oss actually presents a little UI on the address and port specified, the stream itself is actually at http://<host>port/stream.wav which is given in the...

-l not -d virtual_oss -C 2 -c 2 -r 48000 -b 16 -s 1024 -f /dev/null -H 192.168.137.39 -o 9080 -l dsp ffplay -f s16le -ar 48000 -ac 2 http://192.168.137.39:9080

Original article here. Consider this when replying. I was fortunate to receive travel sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation to attend the AsiaBSDCon 2026 conference and the FreeBSD Developer Summit in Taipei. The event was held over four days...

so, you have a program that gets, say, login requests, and you want to firewall off users who make too many bad requests in a timespan? you can use the Blocklist functions —...

Not a lot of info. Ipfw? When did this happen? Delete the line, reboot, and see it if happens again?

I do not use NTFS too much and i've just tried automount some time ago. MNT_PREFIX='/mnt' USER='your_user' (who is 1000?) group='your group' (which group is 1000?) Please launch /usr/local/sbin/automount without any argument to read the manual...

fan controller - I think the fan regulation is not working working properly. Yes, the fan runs (which is good) but it runs all the time. This output root@devpi5:~ # sysctl hw.rpi5.fan hw.rpi5.fan.current_state: 0 hw.rpi5.fan.cpu_temp: 47400...

Wait a second, and excuse me if I'm wrong about something here. This requires manually moving the pkg source to latest, and then using pkg without confirmation. Right? I do not care if Debian, RHEL, Suse don't have as much fallout on their...

I'm just doing this and I haven't had any issues. The strict distinction did not come from pkg/freebsd-update separation but hier(7). And that will never change. pkg is a system component, not a third party tool. Now, apart from managing 3rd...

It looks like there is a conf file where these things can be set. I never noticed that before. What would I need to put in this file to get ntfs-3g -o rw,uid=1000,gid=1000 /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ntfs

Not really, that is: assuming that pf isn't relying on anything else. But even then it shouldn't matter all that much. Definitely /boot/loader.conf, you'll want such system settings to become active as soon as possible; so it makes sense to do...

I just tend to pay attention if "Packages to be REMOVED" entry appears when doing pkg update && pkg upgrade If this text appears, then I need to pay a little bit more attention and read what is it trying to do. Some day in April (or...

Same here :) I remember I wrote a bunch of C programs for converting pounds to kilos, gallons to liters, etc before I even realized units exists. I also wrote a C program for 'multiple mv', which allows you to perform multiple mv in one...

Yes, much of my early C programming progress is rooted in useless programs.

When I came to Unix my programming ability was ahead of my ability to appreciate the existing tools and libraries. I wrote many a naive replacement for existing stuff, usually crippled versions.

Start here: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/ Then here: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/wayland/

Probably a good idea to point to https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2025-01-2025-03/sylve/ Because I initially had no idea what you were talking about, so I suspect other people might not know it either.

This script keeps the amount of /dev/ada* devices on a computer visible from far away, #!/usr/local/bin/bash while [ : ] do clear (ls /dev/ada? /dev/ada?? 2>/dev/null | sort -V ) | while read l do echo "$l" done figlet "$(ls...

It's been a while ago, and I don't quite remember the details anymore. But I've also had a few issues when using the RC structure for "firewall control". pf_reload() { echo "Reloading pf rules." pf_resync } pf_resync() {...

Thanks for sharing. I'm going to change the script and make some new tests. I'm not sure exactly how rc works, but I always thought that rc commands invoked pfctl in the end. Another problem is that pf can't load the rules/tables during boot, I...

What can be expected varies extremely I dare say, from <1 up to >500 MB/s any kind of drives are sold. While the ones without any rates named in their specs are mostly in the lower rates below 15 MB/s. Yes, of course it can be measured. And you...

I've recently found that writing to NTFS partition has not worked. This may be because I'm using very excellent filesystems/automount by vermaden which automatically mounts NTFS partitions but not in RW mode AFAICS. Can someone confirm this and...

This is the most useless code ever: :rolleyes:

High-performance computing/HPC? It could cover CUDA/OpenCL on GPUs (Folding@home, AI GPU-accelerated, etc)

It takes a while to find a local LLM to "fit" you. I use a dense variant of Qwen. It competes well with online LLMs. Of course it can't do live web search and it has a hard cutoff date for the data inside. And you need some serious computing...

I never did anything with it. Sounds like you need at least 30TB storage or so to start with. And it grows of usage? Some distributed system must be possible. Periodically sync the nodes with all new collected LLM data that's shared in p2p-style...

Like title says. I tried the following on my FreeBSD machine: sudo virtual_oss -C 2 -c 2 -r 48000 -b 16 -s 1024 -f /dev/null -H 192.168.137.39 -o 9080 -d dsp $ cat /dev/sndstat No devices installed. Installed devices from userspace: dsp...

I'm not sure that understanding is correct but I haven't had a chance to read much about pkgbase, either. I believe pkgbase will be an installation tool only and is indifferent to what it installs. That is, it installs parts of the OS in the same...

Why don't you ask AI?

Maybe HAL's corner? and expect a lot of "I'm sorry Dave, but that is a really really lame idea"

Slapping all AI related stuff in it's own subforum doesn't solve the "seeping" problem and creates a new problem of encouraging AI posting. Considering the project has disallowed most LLM contributions, it seems reasonable to not encourage...

Not supported here. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/ghostbsd-pfsense-truenas-and-all-other-freebsd-derivatives.7290/ Unused memory is useless. So you're going to find all your memory being used after a while. Mostly caches (process cache...

You can also change the name later. No reason to get into parliament to pick one.

Original article here. Consider this when replying. I was fortunate to receive travel sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation to attend the AsiaBSDCon 2026 conference and the FreeBSD Developer Summit in Taipei. The event was held over four days...

Don't do thumb drives, especially not when you care about speed. Get a M.2 to USB enclosure and a matching M.2 drive,

Don't do thumb drives, especially not when you care about speed. Get a M.2 to USB enclosure and a matching M.2 drive,

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

Any recommendations for PEN drives? What sort of through put can be expected and is there any way to measure how fast they are?

That's not very useful, I want tool calls, LSP, and MCP integrations. That's way more powerful. I need to get back and finish it, but I had a development method where I was working on a partially broken audio driver (snd_hda) in FreeBSD where...

To get started I would simply install a base FreeBSD system the add a minimal GUI. I started with XFCE as I think most people do but realised it had too much stuff which I didn't need. Nowadays I just install xorg, lxde-meta and chromium. That...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA5YNb3hlKI

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyY7aT9-ZW8

You don't need opencode. You can just use a LLM in a web browser. Upload your code through the browser. clipboard gets code out.

ADHD organization skills 😁