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I know everyone here loves to configure every darn bit about FreeBSD so much that everyone breaks out in hives when "what will be the default UI" conversations come out, but out there in the world of The Computer Is A Tool That Better Do Useful...

It's not about being old, it's more about accepting the reality that blind faith in AI changes the whole employment game. Hell, I still agree with Isaac Asimov's rather astute observation from 1980s about the cult of ignorance being a rather...

What I expect is that it's going to be in hardware. AI and age verification, and a few other recent OS-related implementations are all about the same goal: create an anvironment in software that is 100% abstracted from the hardware to seize the...

FreeBSD with JWM as the desktop environment uses very little 283 MiB and is very lightweight.

Why isn't code contributions from other people from AI rejected on the basis that the project could run AI and get the code themselves? Why are users trying to be middle-man, or rather, why would projects accept it? Maybe there's more to it, but...

What about PCVR? (post)

I go into every OS like that: Set it up good, but I know it'll get reinstalled better soon enough :p Enough instances of that and I can have Windows, FreeBSD, and various Linux distros up from wiped disks up and productive in about an hour. For...

The tension is rising. Waiting for the first open source operating systems to sell their soul for a lot of money. Imagine Red Hat and Ubuntu taking government money to introduce the mandated standards. It wouldn't surprise me at all. The...

Sadly, drm-612 panics (without a dump) my HP 840. Details are in a PR. I suspect it's not initializing a GPU register.

FreeBSD with JWM as the desktop environment uses very little 283 MiB and is very lightweight.

Well, this is a good topic. The only thing we don't see is the policy from the core team. "The suspense is terrible, I hope it'll last." The wise words of Willy Wonka.

With QEMU on top, bhyve will gain : advanced BIOS/UEFI modern virtual device sophisticated PCI topology evoluted virtio a serious USB emulation advanced NVMe advanced snapshot migration advanced block...

Luckily, what does that mean? Android? drm layer? SSH? Gnome? Bash? Linuxulator? They have no chance to try to create whitelists. We can dump a tiny Linux kernel in any software to become exempt :) ... emacs is dying to have that excuse.

It's a little late. If they pass this change to the law in California in June it will take other states who have copy'n'pasted the original CA law longer than 2026 to pass the change. So the law without the change will be in effect for a while in...

I used PowerPoint (or LibreOffice Impress) a lot for teaching, so I'm used to it. For a poster like you're showing, you can just define a slide size of 40" X 30" or whatever your needed size is, then paste in text blocks and graphics as desired...

devmach:~ % llama-bench -fa 1 -ngl 999 -m /zfast/llm/coding/llama-2-7b.Q4_0.gguf ggml_vulkan: Found 1 Vulkan devices: ggml_vulkan: 0 = AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (RADV NAVI31) (radv) | uma: 0 | fp16: 1 | bf16: 0 | warp size: 64 | shared memory: 65536...

As long as it's opt-in and fully documented, no problem. I'm not expecting they will allow supported hardware or programs in the base that do obscure data-exchange with online AI services. How is a firewall going to explain that?

Almost every good job I ever had I got through talking directly to someone in charge. Sometimes I'd fake the reason I was calling just to get through to personnel or the guy doing the hiring. It often works or at least they help point me in the...

I had the FreeBSD 15 handbook printed from lulu.com. To the people that have worked on this very useful and valuable operation system, the documentation writers, the people answering questions in the FreeBSD forums and the wallpaper designers...

According to that, there's an amendment, so much of open source should be ok. It has to do with operating sytems with open source licenses. Linux is mentioned, bc it's a popular example.

Does this mean only Linux is exempt...

I would say that those lawmakers are not computer scientists. They likely don't have all the information they would need to make an effective law that won't have a large number unintended consequences.

---> You can also passthru single USB device with QEMU thanks to this feature,I'm working on a parallel project that will fix once for all the problems that FreeBSD has with most (if not all) BT chipsets. I had an idea and I'm developing it...

Fixed the issue I had (my own stupid mistake, duh). Now I need to clean up a bit and can submit a patch to get fs-uae updated. Also had a look at fs-uae-launcher but I'm getting a bunch of missing dependency issues there, so I need to spend a...

When I did a poster presentation in college as an undergrad, I just used PowerPoint. And frankly, the important thing is not even the tool you use, but having an idea in mind, and what you want to show on the poster. The stuff that OP showed in...

In many ways I hope people don't declare the AI they used. It opens the code up for potential later legal issues if "people" do decide that GPL virality does extend to LLM training data. I think you describe the situation and the problem very...

A kind user of Linuxmusicians.com has posted this most epic link and I thought it may be of interest. https://codeberg.org/brib/slopfree-software-index I am a moderator on Linuxmusicians.com and have been since 2008, though I no longer use Linux. 😄

Yes, something like that. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_desktop_publishing_software The problem I have with scribus, lyx, libreoffice et al. is their size. To do it with TeX is perhaps not for the OP.

People submitting AI generated code will just not declare the code as such. But submit anyway. I'm with Torvalds on this one.

Hello, I've modified a popular script (https://github.com/lukesmithxyz/emailwiz) which installs a complete mail server on Debian servers to install a complete mail server in FreeBSD using OpenSMTPd, Dovecot, OpenDKIM and rspamd Link...

It seems that some have strong views on this topic. I have strong speculation. 😄

I mean it's a problem of civil governments not having a bloody clue about "IT" although we've been firmly in computer age for 25 years. In this time they haven't even defined what a software is. It is a product, is it a service, is a piece, like...

I'm basing my assumptions on the blog post linked a few weeks before, "who owns the code claude wrote". I believe the author mostly refers to court cases in US. The way different jurisdictions tackle this could definitely be a problem.

Due to nature of the beast the LLM cannot backtrack an output to sources of initial training data. Consider this, in a classical tooling scenario. You have deterministic tools that strip out code blocks from LGPL software, rename the symbols and...

The notion that LLM derived code should not be suspect to licensing hangs on a thin thread where AI is taken as such, as something intelligent, and then human 'laws' can apply to it - you saw the code, you understood it, you can reproduce it...

QEMU has many features that Bhyve does not have. For example with QEMU you can change ISO on the fly: - https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Change_cdrom You may even connect USB devices over IP network from other computers with QEMU: -...

Then you should open a PR, let the developers have a look at the problem on your system. If there’s an issue (which I haven’t been able to reproduce, perhaps I mad a mistake somewhere), that’s the best way to make sure it gets fixed.

I am currently on linux, which has officially opened the floodgates for vibe-coding, that is, coding with AI and using AI for bug fixes, and sure they have to specify it, but like with the crowd that forked GZDoom to UZDoom; once it's in the...

psarapkin in addition to what T-Daemon said which covers the drm side (i.e. software) you may need a newer version of gpu-firmware-amd-kmod that includes required firmware.

Same here. Have you checked if /etc/rc.resume is executable? % ls -l /etc/rc.resume -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2407 May 26 10:25 /etc/rc.resume In my test setup the custom entries are logged: /etc/rc.resume 28 /usr/bin/logger -t TRACER: C...

I am currently installing NetBSD on a system in preparation for the possibility that the FreeBSD core team “AI” policy does not closely reflect section 2 of the NetBSD commit policy. I figure I should learn NetBSD now so that moving all my...

Being a fervent document writer myself I wholeheartedly agree: FreeBSD's documentation (and its quality!) is nearly unmatched. No offense intended (!), but if you compare the FreeBSD documentation with the stuff that Linux provides then...

Hence, a real printed poster, no image to be shown with a beamer or slide to be shown with a reflector. Forget html. In html is difficult to set sizes, you give structured info, the browser decides format.

Hello to everyone. After 3 days of full work,we have booted Debian and FreeBSD with qemu accelerated with bhyve/vmm for the first time. This is an epic milestone. Further development is needed...a lot of development...but anyway this is...

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My 2 cents in this conversation: A job in IT, particularly in UNIX/Linux administration is probably unrealistic these days. Even if you get lucky enough to talk with a human being, most of the tech jobs postings in US are mass-produced by...

I'm confused... why bother with a local repository in the first place? You can easily tell pkg to install a specific package by specifying the pkg file directly, no need for overhead. Obviously if you use chroot you're restricting the scope of...

I was in similar trouble a week ago. It's a mess of build requirements. They should sandbox all pyrhon deps and refuse them as individual packages because it changes too much causing missing dependencies and version conflicts. Rebuilt everything...

Late reaction, but... first of all I'd like to wish you guys all the best, tough times and I'm really hoping for the best... 😥 Anyway, I'm actually a systems administrator by profession and I've always had a strong personal interest in "I(C)T"...

Also, don't go creating "partitions" any more when using ZFS. Create another filesystem to store your data files. Study zfs. It's very fun and well designed.