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With drones being so much in the news these days, I wondered what OS they tend to use. From what I have heard a swarm of drones create a mesh network to identify targets and share information among themselves. This sounds fairly sophisticated...

Exactly!

I tried signing up to AWS but get errors in the process once I've submitted my email address and password Then I get:- There is something wrong with your request. Clear your cookies, check your request, and try again. If this issue continues...

I have a cheap VPS with ionos, but I cannot run FreeBSD or OpenBSD there because of the disk controller. They did not want to set it as SAS "only for me". It is good to know that you found a cheap one that supports *BSD. I am now in the process...

The more I read the more confused I get. Do you haveany recommendations? I had to laugh when I read that. I'm connected to the Internet by a USB Tether from my phone and when I go out I take my phone with me.

hruodr No but I would never use such a thing and I definitely wouldn't use Linux. I'm paying $2/month for a FreeBSD installation with two IPV4 addresses and 16 IPv6 addresses with RamNode. For my personal server it's all I need but my first three...

It will never happen. Maybe freebsd-update in the way we use it, will disappear. Maybe pkgbase will die, maybe its successor will die too. Never the source build will. After all, it's the Source, isn't it? So, why such a discussion?

hruodr No but I would never use such a thing and I definitely wouldn't use Linux. I'm paying $2/month for a FreeBSD installation with two IPV4 addresses and 16 IPv6 addresses with RamNode. For my personal server it's all I need but my first three...

Maybe you aren't aware that support for this version is over, including in this forum.

I have just subscribed to Oracle "free tier", just to test it, in spite that I fear such surprises. Supposedly one does not get surprises unless one upgrade to "pay as you go". I will use it with oracle linux, I do not want to invest too much...

VPNs are not for privacy.

The ZFS raid10 equivalent is probably more performant than raidz2, but only survives 1 disk failure guaranteed and a second one maybe.

I use both. AWS EC2 can be expensive when you need some steam behind computation or RAM. For basic networking services in an almost-free instance it is quite OK. I like Amazon's elastic storage.

I think it's only possible for profane language and spam. Everything is scraped non-stop. There can't be a selective treatment based on opinion or attitude. It will be noticed and made public. Users can ignore others, I believe but who does that?

rmomota freebsd-update is much more complex than pkg. Look into the source. The security patches coming for 15.0 are applied in under a minute on the pkg run. Whoever has ran freebsd-update, knows it runs for long. Why? Because it is a complex...

Too often I read about people who get surprised by hundreds and thousands of dollar bills by surprise when their site gets temporary high usage. It just seems too complicated for a simple site. Changing providers is no more difficult than...

Really? You know better than the BBC staff? https://institute.aljazeera.net/en/ajr/article/3250 About free VPN: proton offers WireGuard and it works with FreeBSD, I tested it. But I do not know how private it is, but in any case usable.

It's an Iranian version of the BBC which provides Iranian propaganda the same way that the BBC provides western propaganda. At least if you watch both you should be able to determine the truth as somewhere in between. Having said that the BBC...

If you are using tcsh, use env DISPLAY=:0 chrome. DISPLAY=:0 chrome applies to shells such as sh and bash.

No I wasn't making any large assumptions, I just didn't catch the last reply you sent me, sorry about that. Your choice is ZFS, point up from me :) "Assumption" that you will do main fs on RAID is not important, the gist of my post was pick...

Too often I read about people who get surprised by hundreds and thousands of dollar bills by surprise when their site gets temporary high usage. It just seems too complicated for a simple site. Changing providers is no more difficult than...

relysam does not set rules but is a platform with a set of public domain tools for assessments like FMEA, reliability analysis, human reliability analysis. the ai/ml layer provide parallel insights/ recommendations vs the deterministic or...

Not sure what you mean by <command> I'm running chromium and have been doing so for many years.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Otvhv4bmGw&list=RD-Otvhv4bmGw&start_radio=1 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCB2eDF3jBM&list=RDgCB2eDF3jBM&start_radio=1

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You can use `lsof` to see whether the samba/smb/nmb processes currently hold a database file open.

I have been running FreeBSD with LXDE for many years, but I suddenly get an error msg when trying to start chrome from the command line Missing X server or $DISPLAY. I using the command line to find out what is going wrong. This is on a...

So if I, using my Webbrowser on FreeBSD, instruct "my" AI chatbot to analyze 1000 different news outlet's latest articles for some content, it'll spam 1000 requests (and thousands more to proccess the assets and ajax content) using my...

Initially I just want to establish my own FreeBSD presence on the Internet at minimal cost. I think I can use AWS for free to start with BICBW. I assume I can move my site from one host to another without difficulty if I find the provider is...

I've heard a popular MMORPG having higher latency during Prime Days since it uses AWS (Amazon probably prioritizes their stuff before others). In-house is cooler :cool:, but I like Vultr for VPS (ref); not sure how other platforms are but in the...

If I want to have my own FreeBSD host on the Internet, is there any significant difference between using a VPS as opposed to using a Cloud service such as AWS? And is there much difference between Cloud providers? Any recommendations?

This project seems to implement a framework for Reliability Engineering, capitalized because it is a proper category. The stuff listed in "Key Features" describes terminology from that framework. This is all very abstract if you haven't worked...

relysam does not set rules but is a platform with a set of public domain tools for assessments like FMEA, reliability analysis, human reliability analysis. the ai/ml layer provide parallel insights/ recommendations vs the deterministic or...

Fossil has a binary called "fossil" for everything. Not very unix, but easy to deal with. Keeping it up to date very easy. A repository is also a single file, technically a sqlite3 db. The cgi-script, let us call the file "repositories"...

I'm lazy. Most of my repositories are local, ssh-only. For those that I want public with history, bug tracker etc I still use github.

https://github.com/b-aaz/bmake-extravaganza This is a Mandelbrot set renderer, written in pure BSD Makefiles, with no calls to ANY external binaries. This project started after I was reading a bunch of the port system's Makefiles, and I realized...

I'm lazy. Most of my repositories are local, ssh-only. For those that I want public with history, bug tracker etc I still use github.

BBN News is geooblocked? Why?

HOST 1: I got a host running 1 bastille jail and a couple of services (3 or so, nothing heavy) however while ssh'ing into the host and/or jail and listing dirs or editing files, i noticed the host(and/or jail) would randomly hang for a couple...

It's a black box as much as freebsd-update is, the source is available. No one is forced to use packages, source builds will continue to work. If one doesn't want base as packages just build from source. In fact I bet someone will reintroduce the...

This project was basically just delving in that 1% XD. Floating point arithmetic, infinite loops, arbitrary calculations ... But bmake also has some hidden, unique, solutions for some problems, I for one didn't know that you could print out a...

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I do not listem them a lot, too much ambient

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I have been wanting to build a robot. I started with aspirations of an autonomous Radio Controlled boat back many moons ago. Well ArduPilot has a module called ROVER. Made for autopiloting Boats and Rolling Vehicles. It should fit the bill. I...

The BBC is also one of the least reliable sources of information about the Middle East being thoroughly owned by Israel.