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Run Linux command line and gui applications on FreeBSD with full Nvidia Cuda hardware acceleration. I have also posted this in the how to section But that has comments disabled by default from memory mods i created another thread so people...

This is pure bullshit on Mozilla's part, the internal PDF.js should only be used if there is no MIME handler for PDF in the OS. PDF.js is damn slow. Most of my PDF consumption is spec sheets, manuals and digitized documentation, and PDF.js is so...

The problem is that google result is not the URL to PDF file but google's result link which redirects to pdf.

https://github.com/nomnivore/ollama.nvim

Good plan.

That is correct. For example, FreeBSD uses block pointers (see qsort_b for an example). This has been sponsored by Apple for clang. Gcc does not support this. (If you’re not familiar with the concept: It can be used in similar ways as lambda...

That is correct. For example, FreeBSD uses block pointers (see qsort_b for an example). This has been sponsored by Apple for clang. Gcc does not support this. (If you’re not familiar with the concept: It can be used in similar ways as lambda...

STABLE versions are supported on this forum. It's the CURRENT and EOL ones that aren't.

I’ve read through the documentation of jwm. Apparently, it has a few features that ctwm is lacking (like snap-to-border / snap-to-screen). On the other hand, it’s missing some features, for example, it has no “workspace manager” (in ctwm terms...

The cost and accountability I mentioned earlier are not only the impact on craftmanship or the slop produced, but environmental impact. Also the price for memory and other hardware is spiking. That's what you are paying out of pocket. The other...

Watching some old In Living Color, they ended one show with Monie Love doing this song. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwOzqLYM6S8&list=RDMwOzqLYM6S8&start_radio=1 Made me nostalgic, as part of it was about writing notes to each other...

Pink Floyd - Echoes - Live at Pompeii (1972) View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsZfSy4UJoE Pink Floyd - Set the Controls to the Heart for the Sun - Live at Pompeii (1972) View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjAym6Z5hS8 All India Radio -...

Just finished reading an article about how AI cannot replace one's use of craftsmanship which, coincidentally, is a tag in my byline. A point briefly mentioned, but not dwelt on, made me ask, "Will AI stop us from asking questions? If you don't...

That's generally speaking how most ports started.

Currently, AI looks like it delivers nine fives. AI is not a person, it can not make a decision. It can only roll a dice with weighted outcomes. As this, it is absolutely NECESSARY that AI is checked by a human being, as it can not be resonsible...

Currently, AI looks like it delivers nine fives. AI is not a person, it can not make a decision. It can only roll a dice with weighted outcomes. As this, it is absolutely NECESSARY that AI is checked by a human being, as it can not be resonsible...

(La)TeX, Inkscape and scribus are three different programs for different kind of tasks. They could complement one another, they could in some cases solve the same task, but they do not substitute one another. How? With what app? You can tell us...

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Simple trick, cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | nc termbin.com 9999 That will upload it to a pastebin type website and return a simple, and easy, URL.

FreeBSD doesn’t have time for beauty; it has work to do. That’s why it’s so powerful. Honestly, even a polarizing design is a sign of life, and I’m glad they’re at least trying to bridge the gap. Appreciate.

Some guy in my town was concerned because his 4-year old son didn't pass the test for the gifted program for kindergarten. He said he wanted his two kids to go to the same school. I'm wondering how that even happens. I found out that some of...

It's 2026 now. Time to close this thread?

Does vim have some package to interface to LLMs for coding and things like GPTel for Emacs?

Bhyve isn't that incomplete.

I use Google slides, the presentation component in Google docs. Web browser based, cloud stored. Full defeat.

What? We need a decent flamewar here.

your code ain’t getting merged without three years of mailing list hazing, ai or not

your code ain’t getting merged without three years of mailing list hazing, ai or not

Metal all day

And then there was this, in 1975... ah, yeah... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXdNnw99-Ic

You are done or the task?

The amd64 instruction set never used SIMD instructions that were i386 specific. Intel dumping AVX512 on desktop threw quite a wrench into the SIMD gears.

As of today, both lists are out of date. Qemu is looking to accept LLM generated code: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2026-05/msg07614.html

Hi, I wrote new article, guide to installing self-hosted n8n on a FreeBSD server. I describe step-by-step the process of configuring a highly efficient and secure system environment. The technologies used include: FreeBSD, PF firewall, Nginx as a...

mm yes i sure love asking my document questions that it will gladly provide wrong answers to, that i then have to go and verify. are you people fucking serious

fundamentally speaking they aren't at all like indent. indent works on a deterministic parser. the LLM is fundamentally a probabilistic algorithm. slop-purveyors try and handwave around this by claiming that being able to set a seed/temperature...

So is it irony that this discussion is being discussed in a thread where Ai was being employed for a task as mundane as writing down what someone's program does? There is validity in what atax1a is saying; if you've lost the abilty and/or desire...

except it can't do any of that, because the only thing it can do is, given a prompt, produce a likely sequence of words. sorry to break it to you, but this is not intelligence, and having the machine do it for you causes your intelligence to...

the output of an AI cannot be copyrighted, therefore it cannot be licensed, therefore there is no point in having AI do work that will have to be redone by a human. the entire endeavor is a waste of time that obfuscates information. the chatbot...

For a professional programmer, documenting is not wasted time. It is not as fun as coding, but if you are trying to deliver a product that people can actually use, it can be as important as the code. And I have run into projects that really...

What's the point to ask an AI to write something that you'll need te re-read and correct ? I still don't understand the hype around this thing, just losing time and giving money to tech merchants. Writing docs IS part of the coding/operating a...

There is no software patent problem here. It is all about data theft. The algorithms and structures behind LLMs are free and open, it is the paid models and everything around them that is gaslit intentionally because the models are full of...

and do what with it, exactly? it generates pleasantly-shaped random output, strictly based on its input, that may or may not resemble reality. what's the point?

have you considered finding a friend to talk to instead?

I dunno. I think I'd have to go with atax1a on this one. (s)he offered their code for the AI to document, and that documentation would/could have been checked against something they already wrote, by us. Seems a more fair challenge to me.

agree about that, is not fine blocking or ignore someone only for a word and asume the class of people he are for that, maybe is a good person but..is AI lover, and they are a virus, today is a post,tomorrow another,and again..and again..and...

They always add complexity to avoid repetition. Like, zstd compression underperforms on FreeBSD but other compression doesn't? The combination of things blocks any deeper research.

well, we rose to your challenge (reading your tcl, on an empty stomach, on a monday morning), but instead of demonstrating that your system is able to produce good documentation for something nontrivial, you chose to insult us. i think that...

there's also a confounding factor in this experiment: the quality of that tcl suggests that you also prompted it out of chatgpt, whereas our documentation and code, none of which you have even seen, is all handwritten, but ok, go off.