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The core problem of age verification is that it requires a kind of authority above the operator of a system. It's basically hijacking the permission system like what's done to all smartphones. OS-provider is root, the owner of the hardware is...

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TePpbNriH00

In addition to the 2TB issue, is your 8TB hard drive CMR or SMR? It is a complete waste of time using ZFS on a shingled drive. I did it once on a laptop with a brand new 1TB 2.5" SMR HD before I knew anything about SMR. Write performance got...

Latest iteration of my freebsd 'hifi' music listening setup. What you can see, from left to right, is as follows:- audio stack comprising: HD8-A1 headphone amp at the bottom of the stack, then a Mofi C3850 SMT preamp, then on the top a Lite...

Sounds like the beginning of a joke. Can't think of a clever punchline though, or even a stupid one.

Wow! Once again this reminds me of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia in how any simple thing can turn into a rather nasty argument. mer I also don't like ricing (and I'm old too, I'm a boomer, actually). Sometimes, if you like what a desktop...

Not sure about the reason but It used to be a habit against malware because the Windows system that's running the browser or Outlook can be made to anticipate on particular filename extensions by spyware-like programs. Many sites started offering...

Latest iteration of my freebsd 'hifi' music listening setup. What you can see, from left to right, is as follows:- audio stack comprising: HD8-A1 headphone amp at the bottom of the stack, then a Mofi C3850 SMT preamp, then on the top a Lite...

they are plaintext so why dont just allow it just as .txt

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I bought that book somewhere in silicon valley in 1992 and it's still on my bookshelf

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It looks like the "ls" command is aliased to "ls -l" change the "ls" to "/bin/ls"

I think this is a VERY positive development for both the French and German governments. They are both going to have to experiment with this, and they may make some missteps along the way. But this is a step in the right direction.

The xterm application is in essence a terminal emulator.

I believe this is only needed if you want some sort of hardware acceleration. I don't need that, and don't install those drivers, and it is working well for basic access. I didn't see anything in the xorg log that clued me in on a problem, but...

You might want to read pkg info -D xrdp

I use xrdp regularly, and it has worked for me with minimal fuss. Let's start with some basics: Are you using xorg, xlibre, or Wayland? Things should work the same with xorg or xlibre, but there may be enough differences to matter. Did you...

Bootloaders are starting from block 40 and sized 512k right now. MBR vs. GPT has nothing to do with this. And the master boot record itself will be at block 0, always. FreeBSD's PMBR will load the bootcode from freebsd-boot (well within reach of...

Don't think net/realtek-re-kmod is actually needed. I mean it works if the OP configures the network card from the command line. In other words, re seems to work but for some reason it's not configured after a boot.

Remove that netif_enable="YES" line. It's already enabled in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. Speaking of /etc/defaults/rc.conf, you haven't modified it I hope?

13 has a newer version of ZFS than 12, the bootloaders are backwards compatible, not forward.

What's wrong with xterm termcap?

What's in rc.conf?

This project is more pragmatic. The aim is to establish sovereign IT systems for civil employees while simultaneously reducing costs. The first step is to reduce reliance on Microsoft. This was already done since 2008 by the National Gendarmerie...

They did, I belive. Especially the cloud act is a huge c.f. waiting to happen. Looking at the treatment of judges and prosecutors at the ICC, you simply can not tolerate having mission critical things relying on anything that can be tampered with...

Yes and this reduce admin costs. These are the two main reasons why the government chose NixOS. Here, the choice of NixOS is only for desktop computers. Real-time systems are of little or no interest in this case.

The input file has UTF8 encoded chars. If you set env.var LANG to en_GB.ISO8859-1, less will show "â<80><94>" but if you set it to "", you will see "<E2><80><94>". If you set LANG to en_US.UTF-8 or something UTF-8, you will indeed see "—".

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A Pi, FreeBSD, and whatever I can get away with over GPIO and nginx webserver :p

EM DASH is a very mainstream word-processing character. If it were really expecting UTF-8, I would expect a character that can't be printed to be displayed as <E2><80><92> . There is no single byte UTF-8 character with the high bit set, but in...

No. At work, you're paid to do what your boss tells you, whether you like it or not, period. If you choose a hobby, it's only because you like doing it. If you choose programming as a hobby, it's because you like programming, and the last thing...

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An old laptop running mate + numix-gtk-theme + numix-icon-theme + lightdm, customized so that a Windows user would barely notice he's using FreeBSD, so wouldn't complain about the change. ;) :)

Mouse eating cheese... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmqK1EKcvCs

This is pretty nice... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK56CNj4Mro

If someone want a pdf for GIMP 3 manual you can downloaded from: https://archive.org/details/gimp-3.0-user-manual/

You do realise that this is broken behaviour and should be fixed on application level?

Yes, I want only be sure that this broken behaviour was not due to my misconfiguration. However I will open a bug report as soon as I can

Whether you still need swapspace with 96 GB RAM depends entirely on what you do on the machine, I can't say whether swao to a file in ZFS in FreeBSD is safe or not. All I am saying is that a decades old Oracle comment froom Solaris is no indication.

In case of it running on a PC, I think you should wonder what's the cruicial "payload" knowledge that binds this particular software solution to 1 particular operating system configuration. Even while its content is beyond what's already part of...

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Only based on what I have observed at $work: the "lure" of NixOS is that you can have reproducible, known-state installs, in a way that you would never invest enough time in if you were trying to do the same with Ansible. Known-state install is...

Ah, BayTrail and the famous "32 bit UEFI". Read these threads https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-on-intel-compute-stick.79771/ https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/a-tablet-running-freebsd.72498/

A Pi, FreeBSD, and whatever I can get away with over GPIO and nginx webserver :p

I saw a post today where someone wrote "lk what if i wanted to go down there..." I had to reread and think about that line for a minute to finally figure out "lk" was "like".

A lot of this is just electrical interface and nothing to do with FreeBSD. Once you have a method of obtaining the data, the rest is just writing the program to analyze and display it.