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I think most of us agree what that means ;)

MADE to steer, please. The propaganda and gaslighting is huge in that area. People get lied to that it's OK not to care.

So the way C++ and C works are that they compile as units, reducing the overall RAM cost and are quite serviceable on older hardware. C in particular is very light on resources. This is why Rust often struggles on i386 hardware because it can't...

For the record - I quite like the idea of rcd. I had evaluated the possibilities of that myself a long time ago. What I seriously dislike is the inclusion of lua into anything that is that close to PID1 or is running as root if there is no...

Maturin I can not avoid seeing the parallel between the greybeards of old warning about environmental pollution and the greybeards of today warning about AI. I fear this will take a bad end as well.

As a matter of encouragement - years ago, I was trying to produce patch for something in ports, but wording in the Porters Handbook was too generic, because everybody know how to get patch in the right format, right? So I created PR, got my...

A good news for you is that I and many other people I know completely(or at least largely ) agree with you,and we are not greybeards.

Not even need this. Some piece of junk on a collision course is all it needs (a Tesla for example.) Don't underestimate the velocity orbiting objects need to stay there, the kinetic energy they possess and how fragile sattelites or space stations...

Democracy is nothing to do with it. Ask the Chinese how 'propping up certain industries' has worked out for them. Wuhan in 1970. Wuhan today. The lower photo is their new library. When was the last time you got a new library like that...

enjoy drowning in slop i guess, none of these things have been worth a single moment of our time and every piece of software that adopts them immediately gets worse. going to continue writing software like normal here

Even if you ignore AI, you still don't escape the problem of acquiring enough RAM right now.

Yes, there are cheaper online models. I haven't used them so they escaped me in my post. OSS work doesn't need AI coding (outside the odd utility function). But debugging help, code review, making test cases are all areas where it helps being...

I write only for my own amazement. I won’t have AI on my machines nor do I use either the freebie or subscription models. I have zero interest in AI. If you need AI then YouTube is jam packed with AI bullshit.

All this AI craze has a very unfortunate side effect. For 30 years you could do open source development on a potato PC that some windows user put in the trash. If you really wanted to rebuild the godzillas (chromium, rust, electron) you could...

#!/bin/sh starttime=$( /bin/date +%s ) [ ... stuff from original script ..] stoptime=$( /bin/date +%s ) runtime=$( /bin/expr ${stoptime} - ${starttime} ) echo "Runtime: ${runtime} seconds."

In terms of hardware support for modern GPU support FreeBSD trails behind Linux, the errors seems to be related that the display panel pipeline isn't fully implemented yet on the current driver. I would recommend checking out the BSD hardware...

Why should an OS boot slower than needed? I cold boot Linux in about 12 secs, and 3-5 secs Windows. FreeBSD takes like 40 secs if IPv6 is enabled

The commands below were executed at FreeBSD 15 VPS: $ netstat -rn6 Routing tables Internet6: Destination Gateway Flags Netif Expire ::/96 link#2...

$ uname -a FreeBSD xxx-yyy.com 15.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE releng/15.1-n283562-96841ea08dcf GENERIC amd64

@ sanjivkapur Can you enter the command bectl list and zfs list -r -t filesystem zroot and ls -alx /.zfs

Rc.d is similar for what I know. It's the default configuration that takes time but it tries to activate all hardware. It's of not much use on a dedicated system with a clear list of activities. This can start all services much faster than 25...

pkgbase was redundant with freebsd-update from start. 😉 I saw the slides and the video of pkgbase in Production: A Practical Overview but it does not convince me - and not only because Lukas Engelhardt is working in a Powershell 6 (not 7.x) on...

Why are people so focused on boot times? The BIOS post of most of my servers takes well in excess of a minute, it just does not matter if FreeBSD then boots in 25 or 20 seconds. Also, unless there is a kernel upgrade, why reboot a FreeBSD server...

So here comes the question:What do you think is more realistic:Sending people to Mars to establish a colony within the next two decades,building a data center in space for "AI",or SpaceX will soon go bankrupt?

What could be the advantage in orbit? I don't think only the high yield of solar panels makes it worth it. Take ground heat. Significant investment and maintainance but unlimited scalable capacity and barely material requirements.

I have three VPS's which have exactly the same IPv6 configuration in rc.conf. The diagram below shows that they can communicate to each other over IPv6. The one running FreeBSD 15 does not communicate with devices on my home network, but those...

FreeBSD is mostly in C. Now you tell me after doing all my company's web projects in C for 20 years.

I will look into it.

It should be suggested that the OP can write up or offer suggestions to the documentation people as a PR.

Was listening to something on the radio this morning and I'm rather shocked how NPR (National Public Radio in the US) propagated this silliness*. About AI creating things allowing them to take over the world and find humans worthless so they...

Both Teller's and Fermi's calculations I have seen online. Don't remember where but federation of american scientists seems like a good start. Maybe I misremember which element from the atmosphere was in danger of being fused.

Yes, you nailed it. But seriously not everyone knows how to upgrade it so that its linked to the correct ABI's, I'm a bit confused why this very important part is not relayed in the info above, everything else is crystal clear - it would be nice...

Fusing nitrogen? I'd like to see the math behind that proposal.

The most heavy impact is in latinamerica,the hardware is almost unreachable for the %95 of the developers,unless they have a well paid job sorry,the hardware and the subscriptions

Hello. I created some jails by https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/jails/. Part of my jail.conf: wsgi { host.hostname = ${name}; # Hostname path = "/usr/local/jails/containers/${name}"...

Rust is the AI of programming languages. By that I mean no one touched Rust till the US government made a statement about it just recently. Then everyone had to have it and use it for everything. If you didn't, there was something wrong with...

How? Are you going to get the RTL-SDR stick to decode GPS signals?

vermaden has a page on wireless and bhyve. https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/08/18/freebsd-bhyve-virtualization/ Look for the Laptop with NAT section.

My field for the past ten years has been non-terrestrial computers. I design onboard spacecraft systems. Lately I've had some involvement in the LunaNet project (to extend packet data networking to the moon) and a project to specify and build a...

All this AI craze has a very unfortunate side effect. For 30 years you could do open source development on a potato PC that some windows user put in the trash. If you really wanted to rebuild the godzillas (chromium, rust, electron) you could...

Also, last month, the city where I almost passed out after walking a steep hill and not drinking enough water.

Just to clarify, the "I'm sorry" is for me missing to give info on where the information is missing and it's missing from every single upgrade instruction that comes with every new release. :)

Then the issue is very likely not with the FreeBSD host. If your network card (wired or wireless) wasn't working you wouldn't be able to ping your router. That said, you might be missing a gateway address. So you can only ping hosts on the same...

hi, looks like your DNS setup needs some work ! your computer needs a correctly configured Resolver. verify that /etc/resolv.conf contents is as expected.

Not sure about that, do a find/grep of every lib in your system and I am fairly certain that more than 99% of them could be (and originally were) written on a system even lighter than a P4. Even silly bloated stuff like C++ and Qt can quite...

Why?

Sorry to hear that. Note that zfs snapshots are quite cheap and fast. In future you may wish to snapshot frequently (may be from a cron job and another cron job to delete really old ones). Also, a good idea to backup to an external disk or...

One of the reasons why I'm adamant on having IPMI or remote KVM access. Server could also get stuck in single user mode and fail to boot, or a bunch of other reasons that'll make ssh access impossible. I don't want to drive an hour just to press...