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This misses multiple problems with AI/LLMS: 1. Skill erosion of AI users: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1 2. AI code leading to more bugs even after a human reviews it...

I will say more go to local bank. Ask a little bit of money, for house with your wife. They will ask. What do you make net new on your account. Each month with proof. If not ok, see you later alligator. Come back later. But AI companies are...

You cannot escape. Its called "quantitative easining". Its money which does not exists goes to big banks then to small banks to investors. Who have big ideas but not for your good. The problem is inherit in economic system. And its not ai to...

Without digging on with this discussion too much, I would like to present a third option: Running Blender ~2.8 at full speed on even an ageing Pentium 4 workstation. It would give the better experience and allow you to get relatively large work...

All I can say is: - Don't take anything for granted. Things are a lot more unpredictable now. - Always strive to have an open mind. This is hard to do because our natural tendency is to have an opinion before getting all the facts, which is...

There are lots of (mostly Linux) how-tos out there about how to do this which instruct you to replace ${LOCALBASE}/share/icons/gnome/24x24/places/distributor-logo.png. This, of course requires root access and will make pkg_delete complain about...

Going a bit off topic briefly. Ubuntu adopted PA back around 2010 which broke all of my audio apps because they could no longer directly access the audio hardware. All apps had to link to the PA library and share the hardware through the PA...

ESR's still not available on CURRENT; anyone happen to know why? Main Firefox's "revamped" settings page is as-bad as Win11 with hiding stuff in hidden tab views and almost making Chromium look interesting... Like, seriously? What's the block...

I have never run PulseAudio. What does it give me? Can I enable it and disable it as and when I want to try it?

Have you tried using the onboard GPU to determine if the machine can still work?

I think the best way to build MFS images is poudriere image. Since it is simply a set of scripts it can be easily modified to suit your needs. https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=poudriere-image...

Kind-of raises a question of open-source vs proprietary: Being a dev and accepting contributions also needs checks to avoid questionable code, whereas the time to cross-check "other's" code could be spent on dev. If I coded something, I could...

This misses multiple problems with AI/LLMS: 1. Skill erosion of AI users: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1 2. AI code leading to more bugs even after a human reviews it...

Kind-of raises a question of open-source vs proprietary: Being a dev and accepting contributions also needs checks to avoid questionable code, whereas the time to cross-check "other's" code could be spent on dev. If I coded something, I could...

How can you tell what submissions have been coded using LLMs? If you forbid that people will just stop disclosing that fact.

I'd see driver bug, motherboard firmware bug, and device firmware issue as possibilities always worth considering too. If a device has issues only on USB3 for any reason, you can 'slowly' plug in the drive which will electrically connect only...

What file did you download to write to the USB stick and what software/steps did you use to write it? Anything else strange about the stick like it showing up as multiple USB devices to computers or have any passthrough USB ports on it? I've had...

I finished up work on my Quarter Wave Antenna with interchangeable elements. Soldering SMA element to tube tonight. Shown here with three short ground plane elements for pictures. These will be 48" long for start. Maybe 2 different sets of three.

Klara will be hosting a live Ask Me Anything (AMA) webinar session on June 30th at 11am EDT with Kyle Evans (FreeBSD Core team), Colin Percival (FreeBSD Release Engineer), and myself, Allan Jude (FreeBSD/ZFS developer). If you have questions...

C is already uncomfortably restricted, No sense crippling it any further. IMHO

The ideas of Solaris from the turn of the century (zfs, zones, smf...) remain an inexhaustible source of inspiration for FreeBSD....and there is nothing wrong with that. :-/

That's systemd. Not what FreeBSD is planning. With systemd they've been moving functions from the kernel into systemd. Sometimes this makes sense, i.e. TLS negotiation. Many times not. And, systemd has taken on a life of its own, like managing...

What in particular? I run everything as root. I am the only user. Tell me which program will specifically not run under root?

I misunderstood something about dbus. I have started it now. My RTL-SDR v4 dongle is detected and I can run rtl_fm and listen to a radio station. With dbus started I get:- W520# gqrx gr-osmosdr 0.2.0.0 (0.2.0) gnuradio...

C is already uncomfortably restricted, No sense crippling it any further. IMHO

Popularity and wide range of tools is indeed a large reason people choose git I suspect. That said, a small light standalone server like svnserve does tend to be lacking in the Git ecosystem (gitdaemon is close but has no authentication) and...

It is, but given how easy it is to self host just in a directory or via gitea and one of the other clone webservers, I'm not sure there's much of a reason not to use git at this point. There is a bit of a learning curve, but there are some...

Thank you so much for guiding and sharing excellent and helpful tips and information. I anticipate that this blunder of mine will help others to setup snapshots and cronjob even before they initiate any project. These truly are not optional if...

Ultimately, what's done is done. One of the banes of my experience is working out how to keep track of the data integrity and existence of files that I want. While modern computers are better than ever in terms of searching for things, file...

If the filesystem is using ZFS, I'd first check whether there are any snapshots available before trying more recovery tools. If there aren't any snapshots or backups, the chances of recovering a deleted SQLite database become much lower...

If you now have this working, please mark the thread as solved, It helps others who have the same problem. I never used to do this, but now, when I encounter old problems of mine which I come across occasionaly I see if the problem was solved...

I just checked and it isn't. I normally do. Do I need to reboot after adding this?

The problem with OO isn't OO but how even not so average programmers treat it. I've seen an open source 3D engine that used C++ OO hierarchy and patterns for its internal model. When you have to look up a float through the shitstorm of class...

Indeed. And no risk of a user coming back to you citing an error from "${INCOMPATIBLE_JRE}" Backwards / forwards compatibility is a little bit of a minefield with the large Java VM's that ultimately run the bytecode. I guess it all starts here...

If you're unsure about it, stick to the default options.

Thats mad. I recently bought 25x 2200uf capacitors to fix some old parts that suffered from the great capacitor plague. I was thinking to myself how expensive they were since a year ago and thought it was weird that stocks were so low from my...

Forget RAMageddon, now it's CAPageddon! 200-400% price rise this year for SMD MLCC caps. https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3357603/tiny-capacitor-huge-demand-ai-frenzy-driving-mlcc-prices-higher...

The Raspberry Pi can run the UI... What about the rest of it? The actual 3D viewport ;) Try it out. Look around some forums, you will see it can't run a recent Blender. You would know this if you tried. The error you would get is: So the best...

try "Human-readable": ls -lah somefile | awk '{print $5}' (21:51)-[Darwin@home ~]% ls -lah somefile | awk '{print $5}' 3,2M

I had the same problem after updating from 15.0 to 15.1.These are the errors that devd displays during startup. I deleted all OSS configuration files from devd (moved to another place, then delete it from configuration directory). After...

There also is a norwegian movie about convoys in ww2, "the convoy" from the same timeframe. I liked it better than Greyhound.

Yes cause the 9600GT I had in my current machine was pulled from a Gateway P4. But I pulled it from my machine cause I found out that the Intel processor I have could do better web graphics processing than the Nvidia card could.

It usually means that you have tried to run a Xorg command from a shell which was not started from Xorg (like a console terminal). Xorg sets the DISPLAY variable, like this tingo@kg-core2:~ $ echo $DISPLAY :0.0 If I do the same from a root...

Greyhound with Tom Hanks

So the VideoCore XII doesn't support OpenGL 3.3+. Games aside, I don't believe it can even run Blender. You need to fall back to a software renderer on the weak bean 4 core ARM CPU. Also, OpenCL doesn't look possible. Unlike a Pentium 4...

I tried on a different laptop and got the following output when running gqrx:-

Default version of Python is now switched to 3.12 on main (aka latest) branch of ports tree. Note that next quarterly 2026Q3 would be branched from main on early July, so I think it wouldn't be merged into 2026Q2.

Interesting. Since you do have better machines, its probably not worth exploring but I did get similar with OpenBSD. I had to disable ACPI, APM and radeon during the install. Only after I installed the firmware did the radeon not cause a panic...

I do tend to agree. Git is absolute overkill for many scale projects and teams. Yes the branching is still a little easier than SVN 1.6 but frankly, that could be integrated. It doesn't need to be a distributed VCS for that. I think Epic and...