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    kpedersen replied to the thread UK Age verification..
    GCHQ do some impressive work, primarily focused on global (overseas) rather than domestic surveillance (supposedly). That said, in the UK, getting public funding for anything is a struggle (DERA -> PDERA -> QinetiQ possibly didn't help). Perhaps...
  • K
    kpedersen replied to the thread Request for advice about VPN.
    I tend to agree plus its much harder to guarantee there is no leakage outside of the VPN. Having a separate box providing i.e only a SOCKS5h gateway through the VPN ensures either there is no leakage or there is simply no connection.
  • tembun
    POSIX™ doesn’t require /etc/passwd, but yeah: At least anchor username, i. e. ^username:; username alone may inadvertently match multiple times. Primarily because MG knows said users exist – ~existent_user is sufficient (assuming portable user...
  • tembun
    That's what I'd do: # grep "username" /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{print $6}' It searches the passwd files for the given user and prints the home directory for it. Since we're already using root to run this, I don't see any good reason to do it a...
  • SirDice
    SirDice replied to the thread Boot failure.
    I'd remove these, at least temporarily, to see if the booting situation improves. cpu_microcode_load="YES" cpu_microcode_name="/boot/firmware/intel-ucode.bin" # AHCI POWER MANAGEMENT FOR EVERY USED CHANNEL (ahcich 0-7)...
  • Zare
    Zare replied to the thread FreeBSD website redesign....
    I know you said you are logging off from discussion, but I just want to respond, be careful about presuming the use cases. GUI is definitely not just for graphical design stuff. There are hundreds of GUI applications on FreeBSD/UNIX I mean real...
  • D
    I see what others are saying about design issues. I'm on vacation and can only look at my phone. A number of years ago I had offered to have the people at my Web dev company look at a redesign but from what we were told we thought it was more...
  • SirDice
    SirDice replied to the thread Boot failure.
    Ok, so system is booted now? What else is in /boot/loader.conf, and are you loading any kernel modules through kld_list in rc.conf?
  • Zare
    Zare replied to the thread FreeBSD website redesign....
    I think the question is misplaced, every user has right to complain about the product or the service regardless of his background. Especially when the changes are purely cosmetic. I get your angle tho, but I don't think it's applicable here...
  • Zare
    Zare reacted to hardworkingnewbie's post in the thread FreeBSD website redesign... with Thanks Thanks.
    It looks like somebody living under a rock discovered Bootstrap, decided to get funky with it and failed.
  • SirDice
    SirDice replied to the thread freebsd 15 32 bit wine issues.
    The version of the OS has nothing to do with the versions of ports/packages.
  • SirDice
    SirDice replied to the thread Tmux has AI generated code?.
    An LLM is basically a fuzzy search engine on steroids.
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    scottro reacted to mer's post in the thread FreeBSD website redesign... with Thanks Thanks.
    I'm using waterfox; it seems to be a size related issue. If the horizontal dimension is less than about 970 you get the hamburger, above that you get the old style menu.
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    scottro replied to the thread Tmux has AI generated code?.
    I agree. I think this is a big part of it Firstly, I feel AI is an incorrect name, it's more of a REALLY big database.
  • S
    scottro replied to the thread Tmux has AI generated code?.
    It's sad, but I'm pretty sure you're right, and I'm just telling myself they're more ethical so I feel better.
  • Crivens
    Crivens replied to the thread Tmux has AI generated code?.
    Larry Niven had a story about an AI that, when powered on, rapidly learned everything that there was to be known. But before you could ask it any questions, it had realized that from now on it was only to be boredom, and it had killed itself.
  • SirDice
    When the system boots in single user mode only the root filesystem is mounted and will be read-only.
  • K
    kpedersen replied to the thread UK Age verification..
    True but luckily this is the UK. They can make laws and apply social restrictions but do not have infrastructure for that kind of domestic (consumer) surveillance. In part because the vast majority of UK internet providers are owned by foreign...
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    kpedersen reacted to Crivens's post in the thread UK Age verification. with Like Like.
    That is what I hope, too. My generation does, but we had first hand experience with supressive regimes. You know, when you told a good joke over the phone you heard someone chuckle? When you told a bad joke, you went missing? Those who came...
  • robroy
    robroy reacted to vermaden's post in the thread Valuable News – 2026/05/18 with Thanks Thanks.
    Original article here. Consider this when replying. FreeBSD, The FreeBSD Foundation, and The FreeBSD Forums are not associated with the content of this article.
  • Espionage724
    Excellent write up. With the latest Version, I do get with npm -g update npm warn Conflicting peer dependency: openai@4.104.0 npm warn node_modules/openai npm warn peer openai@"^4.62.1" from @browserbasehq/stagehand@1.14.0 npm warn...
  • Espionage724
    Espionage724 replied to the thread FreeBSD website redesign....
    Looks good! The donate button top-right looks out-of-place though; maybe have it the same size, margins, and color-shade as the search box?
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    drhowarddrfine reacted to Maturin's post in the thread FreeBSD website redesign... with Like Like.
    That's the whole point: Designing an UI is about functionality and efficiency in usage, not to look pretty. A functional and efficient in usage UI is automatically pretty, while a primarily designed to be pretty one is not good in funcionality...
  • Espionage724
    Espionage724 reacted to mer's post in the thread FreeBSD website redesign... with Like Like.
    But to me that top menu is only exposed when you click on the hamburger at the right side. What gets exposed is what used to be across the top on the old website. For me, part of the problem is I never look at the 3 lines as a clickable item...
  • Crivens
    Crivens replied to the thread UK Age verification..
    That is what I hope, too. My generation does, but we had first hand experience with supressive regimes. You know, when you told a good joke over the phone you heard someone chuckle? When you told a bad joke, you went missing? Those who came...
  • gpw928
    gpw928 reacted to vermaden's post in the thread Valuable News – 2026/05/18 with Thanks Thanks.
    Original article here. Consider this when replying. FreeBSD, The FreeBSD Foundation, and The FreeBSD Forums are not associated with the content of this article.
  • P
    I'm pretty new to zfs, but this is how I've done it to fix the named BE below (from a known working BE) when needed: doas bectl mount 16.0-CURRENT-wip /tmp/up doas mount -t devfs devfs /tmp/up/dev doas pkg -c /tmp/up update doas pkg -c /tmp/up...
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    roper replied to the thread FreeBSD website redesign....
    I noticed immediately big icons, then that the big icons do nothing, then that I saw no links in the text associated to the big icons which do nothing. I read enough of the text associated with the big icons which do nothing to ascertain that...
  • bjs
    bjs reacted to AlfredoLlaquet's post in the thread Music… with Like Like.
    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EBvXpjudf8
  • bjs
    bjs reacted to blackbird9's post in the thread Music… with Like Like.
    1972... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD2FHqIwUU8
  • Jose
    Jose reacted to Zare's post in the thread FreeBSD website redesign... with Like Like.
    The new design is horrible, I need to scroll around to get to the content. I know I'm on FreeBSD.org - I don't need to have a huge billboard shown to me.
  • Jose
    Jose reacted to ralphbsz's post in the thread FreeBSD website redesign... with Like Like.
    Why is the top of the page wasted on advertising copy explaining how great FreeBSD is? Is this some sort of advertising? Who is the target audience of the ads? Why is there both a hamburger menu (at the top right) and a bottom set of links that...
  • S
    scottro replied to the thread FreeBSD website redesign....
    I don't see a hamburger menu (using waterfox on a desktop computer).
  • S
    scottro replied to the thread Music….
    1965. Thought I was cool because I could play it. Though that was probably in 67 or 68. Anyway, it still holds up in my opinion. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62XRy-jFCm8&list=RD62XRy-jFCm8&start_radio=1
  • MG
    What's the performance loss if you do this with both FreeBSD host and VM guest? And what's left of the graphics inside the VM?
  • MG
    Peace...
  • freethread
    freethread reacted to Crivens's post in the thread FreeBSD website redesign... with Like Like.
    That attitude has killed people already... From an engineering standpoint : "form follows function". And whoever complains, wait till they are done. They seem to be ironing out some things. If it stays in a fisher price mode, you may continue to...
  • S
    scottro replied to the thread Tmux has AI generated code?.
    Judging from what blackbird9 posted, it doesn't so much scare me as make me thing something I've said here before--that AI, or LLMs or whatever the accurate term for it is, is tempting--that is, if I have something like a .mailfilter file that...
  • freethread
    freethread reacted to SirDice's post in the thread FreeBSD website redesign... with Like Like.
    Top menu, "Get FreeBSD" -> "Release information". For the current releases. Top menu, "Get FreeBSD" -> "Release engineering". For the upcoming release schedules, older releases, etc.
  • MG
    MG replied to the thread FreeBSD website redesign....
    Since the org owns the freebsd.org TLD, that has to be a different OS release with website. But I think keeping that ad-network association is a bad idea. Did this exist on the previous page? I never noticed. I Use the page to check available...
  • MG
    MG replied to the thread UK Age verification..
    It still depends a lot on the right of direct encrypted communication. Tor and similar networks will have to generate a constant flow of random network data to hide the clients in. The problem starts when participation becomes suspicion
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    tingo reacted to vermaden's post in the thread Valuable News – 2026/05/18 with Like Like.
    Original article here. Consider this when replying. FreeBSD, The FreeBSD Foundation, and The FreeBSD Forums are not associated with the content of this article.
  • S
    I looks like your network isn't reaching the outside. Could you show us your /etc/rc.conf (just the lines showing the interface and router, it will look something like (on a home network) ifconfig_re0="192.168.1.40" or might just say dhcp...
  • vermaden
    vermaden replied to the thread FreeBSD website redesign....
    Its not bad - but few things could have been done better: - add 'The Power to Serve!' as its main motto - use nice Beastie Daemon image - move 'dark/light' switch to top with rest of the settings My version below:
    • freebsd.new.page.vermaden.png
  • K
    kpedersen replied to the thread FreeBSD website redesign....
    Is "powerful" a nod towards the original "The power to serve" slogan? I wonder why not just keep that? Its a good niche. Not even Windows aims to "serve" the user anymore.
  • K
    kpedersen replied to the thread UK Age verification..
    I personally think this law is (indirectly) good. Its going to forcibly create an entire generation who know how to anonymise and protect themselves online. My generation don't seem to care. However being disallowed access to sites is a great...
  • K
    kpedersen reacted to eternal_noob's post in the thread UK Age verification. with Like Like.
    The intention is bad; it's all about surveillance and the real-name requirement. The children are just being used as a pretext.
  • K
    kpedersen replied to the thread FreeBSD website redesign....
    In general it looks nice enough. Closer now to the handbook style, creating some consistency. It also looks too polished like a product. It will give distro hoppers the wrong idea because they will still need to open a text editor and actually...
  • SirDice
    SirDice replied to the thread ZFS How to set up ashift?.
    Old one, should still work though. New one is vfs.zfs.vdev.min_auto_ashift
  • SirDice
    SirDice replied to the thread ZFS How to set up ashift?.
    16K is a multiple of 4K, so it should be fine.
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