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I beg to differ, Linux is a target of corporate hit and go for decades now. Linus did meticulously scrutinize many of those commits back then, but with Microsoft, Intel and every second company directly contributing to the project. Besides, CVE...

Maybe that is when people started using LLMs to generate code?

Little something I've been chopping together - forked hikari and brought to wlroots 0.20 and forked rofi to get that layer-shell action which hikari was lacking It's honestly pretty amateur stuff but I really like it - links if you wanna use -...

Google for the developer and critics. I just downloaded that github archive. What's going on? It contains apparent binary /bin/sh/sh but it can't be accessed. I can't determine the binary format. It feels like a borked archive. The sh manpage...

When I start up LXDE using startx it comes up eventually after sever minutes but the right controls, ie min, max etc are missing and the system is very unresposive. I have made no changes to the system that I am aware of. Incidentally...

Yeez. I'll go through this later.

Yes. As EM DASH (U+2014 in Unicode code point) is mapped to 3bytes region of UTF-8 (0xE2 0x80 0x94), not all non-CJK fonts would have its gryph. And basically unrelated with anyone who doesn't read/write Japanese, but EM DASH has compatibility...

It must be the environment of the logged-in user responsible for not showing the character in question. A new created, un-customized user account (on 15.1) shows the character ("short**—the") correctly, in console (default console font...

This is highly relevant to FreeBSD. It is unlikely that the number of bugs per line is significantly different between Linux and FreeBSD's kernel.

Does "export LANG=en_US.UTF-8" or equivalent for UTF8 for your country help? If that doesn't help show us $TERM and output of "stty all".

In such cases, you can also use Emacs (provided the font is installed). env LANG=C.UTF-8 emacs -e term

No. It's NOT single byte 0xE2, but a part of 3bytes UTF-8. Opening the attached file in leafpad, select the offending character and pasting it into search window of gucharmap states So, is your terminal(s) configured for UTF-8 and having...

It must be the environment of the logged-in user responsible for not showing the character in question. A new created, un-customized user account (on 15.1) shows the character ("short**—the") correctly, in console (default console font...

Version 149.0.7827.200 (Official Build) (64-bit) Just noticed that it comes up ok on a different laptop but that is running:- Version 149.0.7827.114 (Official Build) (64-bit)

It always worked until today.

Actually I'm using LXDE on the radxa zero and on the radxa cubie. But it's temporary. Soon I will port some components of Plasma Mobile with the goal to create a WM tailored for a phone. Since I'm building a phone,it should have a proper WM...

You may want to look at the official conformance test https://registry.khronos.org/webgl/sdk/tests/webgl-conformance-tests.html

I guess certain things never change. OP is still spreading Linux news on FreeBSD forum in 2026 ... one must love controversies and scandals.

Did it work before this?

The install phase(s) don't require network access, at all.

With the proliferation of AI/LLM models analyzing the Linux kernel's vast codebase, there has been a surge in the number of CVEs per kernel release. After typically being around 500 CVEs fixed per release, we are now approaching 2,000 CVEs fixed...

Maybe that is when people started using LLMs to generate code?

Three people including a developer have found the behaviour changed with the upgrade to 2.8.4 yet you continue to insist nothing has changed. Why? What are you trying to prove? I set the mirror type to http because that's what the handbook...

Maybe that is when people started using LLMs to generate code?

Starting Flightradar24 this morning I got:- What to do?

Good thing FreeBSD doesn't have that many bugs per line. Cough.

Should it be explicitly stated that this project has been clearly vibe coded? To spot that you don't even need to look at the commit log (which I did). The website is 100% similar to all the slop we see everywhere nowadays: huge amounts of...

I have something like that on one machine. I had to put in /boot/loader.conf # Prevent message at boot due to Bug #229190: # 'hdac0: Unexpected unsolicited response from address 0: 00000000' compat.linuxkpi.i915_disable_power_well="0"

There must be a somehow constant feed of "value data" that comes from people donating their creative thoughts by publication on AI think-services. If you rely on AI-generated knowledge for everything, you're losing points at originality and value...

Original article here. Consider this when replying. For University of Waterloo student Sourojeet Adhikari, an early interest in understanding how computers work eventually grew into a summer spent helping bring AMD’s ROCm GPU computing platform...

I never liked these huge 170W PSU bricks ... so I moved 'back' to use the 135W PSU from ThinkPad W510 ... they still work like a charm. To be honest ... I never needed that NopeVidia bullshit they put into these W520 - I just wanted CPU cores...

After "short". This is a dash, but not the 7-bit minus sign. Hex code is E2. The fault is not in my terminal or my font, the same display shows up in xterm and kitty.

I never liked these huge 170W PSU bricks ... so I moved 'back' to use the 135W PSU from ThinkPad W510 ... they still work like a charm. To be honest ... I never needed that NopeVidia bullshit they put into these W520 - I just wanted CPU cores...

I've been looking at FreeBSD on this machine on and off for a bit now, fortunately someone shared some good help in the freebsd-desktop mailing list a while ago. Seems like there's more activity here though. As of right now, this is about as...

vermaden wrote a really good article on freebsd on the W520, here :- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2022/04/14/freebsd-13-1-on-thinkpad-w520/

Maybe they all had the same MTBF and were manufactured at the same time.

I agree with this, i.e. also start supporting nouveau and nvk, it would mean a more consistent support starting with g80 cards (point at which modesetting works fine). NVK is also progressing nicely. The performance is not on par with the...

Then you haven't been paying attention: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/could-not-retrieve-mirror-list-with-pkg-2-8-4-and-custom-repository.103677/

[no affiliation, I just spotted this] https://www.5bsd.org/ Webpage is a little pretty and light on technical detail. Better info is on Linkedin in the author's posts: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kory-heard/ The source code is forked from...

Not convinced of that. Look up the core figures and public crtitics. I might be superstitious but it has the smell of a digital ID / age veficitation platform trying to become lawful "OS provider" next year with a special security infrastructure...

I got me the "Complete Edition" (~twenty years ago.) 3 & 4 are trivial to get them running on VirtualBox. (While I prefer to play 3 over 4.) Alas for 3 the DVD must be in drive; tried with some dd made iso image, but I guess the copy protection...

I think we need to get better information from the OP for what they are actually trying to do.

Yeah, that's not the change, but it does explain why leaving the line out is equivalent to "none", which is the particular question I had. It confirms there are defaults. I don't know what has changed in 2.8.4 but something has. Now I need to...

And the answer is here: static struct pkg_repo * pkg_repo_new(const char *name, const char *url, const char *type) { struct pkg_repo *r; r = xcalloc(1, sizeof(struct pkg_repo)); r->dfd = -1; r->ops = pkg_repo_find_type(type)...

if (mirror_type != NULL) { if (STRIEQ(mirror_type, "srv")) r->mirror_type = SRV; else if (STRIEQ(mirror_type, "http")) r->mirror_type = HTTP; else r->mirror_type = NOMIRROR; } In...

The current version is 2.8.4 and that is where the behaviour has changed since 2.8.1, so what the code was in 2.7.5 is not relevant. It is the code in 2.8.4 we need to see. I'm struggling to find where I can download or see that.

The wireless LinuxKPI shim works because we have the source code to the Linux iwlwifi driver. Shims don't unfortunately work with blobs. Otherwise I would agree this is the way forward. In light of this, I'd recommend give up and go full in with...

Look at the rcorder of the scripts; rcorder /etc/rc.d/*. You'll notice /etc/rc.d/cron is somewhere at the bottom, way later than mountcritlocal, FILESYSTEMS, NETWORKING, mountcritremote, automountd and mountlate.

I was just surprise to see such an error given that I am not aware of any process which uses sound.