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I really hope the calculators were correct. I left everything slightly long so I can trim my first J-Pole antenna for 156.800Mhz. Hopefully it gets 162.550 too. 5/16" Aluminum Roundstock with a Delrin mount/stiffner. Two #8-32 S/S screws. Heated...

Run Linux command line and gui applications on FreeBSD with full Nvidia Cuda hardware acceleration. https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/freebsd-cuda Mounts the Linuxulator libraries from Freebsd into the Podman containers, so you dont need to...

I will sheepishly admit OpenWRT forced me to learn vi. It doesn't hurt as bad now. Not including nano in base OpenWRT was the slap in the head I needed.

Hey folks. I just managed to create a port for talosctl. It's a bit of a niche thing for managing Talos Linux clusters. Talos is a specialty Linux distribution aimed squarely at running Kubernetes in a very lean-and-mean 100% API-driven...

From the freshports dependency list it seems to use gtk3.

After some tinkering around, a simple pkg upgrade -f fixed the Plasma Wayland issue for me (Intel GPU).

I do my letterhead and business cards in Postscript directly. I also generated Postscript from a table-making C program.

Encapsulate all data traffic to the Internet through a local proxy application like Squid to log every Internet access and read the logs with the SARG application, so you can see the data consumption in detail.

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

Man, I gotta read better when I'm trying to be helpful. Sorry. 😏

I do my letterhead and business cards in Postscript directly. I also generated Postscript from a table-making C program.

Agreed. Below is a script I use to add a swap, should I need it, to a zpool. This is typically used on machines with internal SSDs, where I put swap on an external device or spinning disk to avoid unnecessary writes to SSD. #!/bin/sh - # -b...

One thing I saw with firefox, it's in a SELKS dedicated machine that watch my network. The configuration is such that SELKS log also its own packets. When I used firefox (esr IIRC) in the SELKS machine itself (it's installed by default) to...

It is not so bad, much easier than programming an old HP calculator. Filling squares with images and eps text from tex and dvips -E is a simple task.

I absolutely love FreeBSD and i still feel the same way. The forum is really helpful, so i am definitely thankful for this place. You have also helped me early on, so i still remember your advice. And you continue to offer advice, which i also...

Good for you. People are paying with increased energy costs, noise, pollution, hardware costs, ... Our children and grandchildren will pay for this with more global warming, storms, forced migration, ... It is not so much the AI slop that is...

One could do it also by coding directly in postscript, perhaps with little AI help. I am coming to the conclusion that that is the best solution if one does not like bloat.

It's not that bad, I've done it a couple of times now. It was for PuppetDB though, but that shouldn't really matter. One thing I can recommend, upgrade to a newer PostgreSQL before the old version disappears from the ports tree (and there are...

Not for the fainth of harth (SirDice will know this). A bit incomplete here or redundanded (excuse me) cat doit* #!/bin/sh # 1. Maak de private map aan in je eigen directory mkdir -p ~/pg17_engine # 2. Haal het package op pkg fetch -y...

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...

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