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I got another complaint about this from a Mac user. I'll switch back to pre-Anubis and will just make the Anubis bot active under attack.

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/forums-under-ddos-attack.103826/

Yes, it seems to be better now. DutchDaemon, thanks for your efforts. This forum is a valuable resource, and I suspect most of us, including me, don't usually appreciate your efforts.

It's fine. Just try some of the Chinese LLMs. They are the block that is cheaper. But keep in mind that even the $20 are heavily subsidized. It costs the AI company way more than they charge if you use your subscription to the max.

But there is nothing to be gained from attacking this forum which is why it must be kids or a disgruntled former member although I guess I can see it as some criminal element testing their latest attempt before sending it out elsewhere. After...

500 years ago, there is limited number of books. People have little or no information, myths and legends are spreading. Now we have abundance of information and statements generated by AI. The final result becomes similar to the lack of...

I love Infected Mushroom. It's one of my favorite bands. View: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JQmvPQ0MmiY

As you will have noticed, the Forums are either very hard to reach or very hard to use. The Forums server in itself is entirely functional, but the 'front door' is being hammered by many thousands of IP addresses opening and closing the Forums...

Update: the DDoS has passed, but this line of defense will stay in place for the time being. We can switch back and forth between the two setups (with and without Anubis) and will probably make that happen in the near future.

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Your father freely gave his time to help others and was careful and prudent. I remember a comment from him that the bots that were crawling the site were consuming bandwidth; bandwidth he had to pay for. I offered to chip in with some monetary...

Seriously??? Why would someone want to acquire an old CRT Monitor nowadays??? Or am I missing something here? I think I still have one or two around somewhere, so could I really still get any money for that?

It is not meant to be one, but a friendly reminder that not everything goes.

Short gist of it, a jail is basically an OS level virtualization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-level_virtualization Depends on your application, but it's very much possible to only start your application in a jail without all the other OS...

When I setup jails, I have traditionally always used: exec.start = "/bin/sh /etc/rc"; exec.stop = "/bin/sh /etc/rc.shutdown"; Then service jail start ..., setup an rc service for my app/daemon, and service start it. What am I actually...

We would assume you use your common decency here as well. If someone feels the urge to talk about things that warrant a 4AM no-knock visit, get help. But don't try to air your thoughts about everything here. This is not reddit, and it certainly...

Right... There's no such thing as "someone else's math'. Everybody kind of has to agree that 2+2=4, y'know. When I say "Check someone else's math", I really mean, "Check someone else's calculation steps". If you arrive at different results, one...

Certainly not. It may contain AI, some AI slop which needs to be tolerated, but it is by no means "an AI forum". Whatever? Certainly not.

I've been a computer programmer for more than 30 years.

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I'd switch to Intel DDX (did this on i5-6400T iirc HD 530 and UHD 630): pkg install xf86-video-intel mkdir -p '/usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d' && ee '/usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-graphics-custom.conf' Section "OutputClass" Identifier...

You don't want root running your desktop. Are you saying there is a .xinitrc in / ? Is there a .xinitrc in your home directory? What is its contents? Is there a .serverauth.2511 in your home directory? That is /home/myname/ If so, are there any...

I will get back to this later. Is it possible based on the symptoms that the hardware could be broken? The laptop has opened itself from the corner and some thin connectors could be loose. At the same time there was an accident with a memory...

You don't want root running your desktop. Are you saying there is a .xinitrc in / ? Is there a .xinitrc in your home directory? What is its contents? Is there a .serverauth.2511 in your home directory? That is /home/myname/ If so, are there any...

Yes, I'm using both IPFW and PF. PF for NAT traslations, and IPFW for simple allows/denies. Jellyfin is installed on FreeBSD host, no jail nor bhyve. No bridge. And the host connects to internet by PPPoE with mpd5.

Deepseek. It is no API use, but a fraction of what the American companies charge.

No, I don't have to run as root.

Yes, but apparently there are a few points that I didn't understand, or some random typo in editing a .conf file. I'll keep at it until I get it right. Right now: my user couldn't "startx" at all, returned an error: xauth: file...

Greetings. Have you followed the "8.2.4.4. Start MATE" handbook chapter? Use a display manger, or manually invoke startx, with ~/.xinitrc configured as described.

Your father freely gave his time to help others and was careful and prudent. I remember a comment from him that the bots that were crawling the site were consuming bandwidth; bandwidth he had to pay for. I offered to chip in with some monetary...

I think the implication that it should be 1 of both can't have valid arguments. X.org, Wayland or anything else are graphical programs that have no business with any system-wide configuration and can start and exit like any other program, only...

Hi all, I’m the daughter of the daemonforums.org administrator j65nko. I can confirm that my dad is terminally ill and no longer able to maintain the forum. His condition has deteriorated significantly over the past six weeks, and he is...

X.org is 6MB and Wayland less than 1. There's no serious situation that demands 1 of both. To save storage space? Can you even run any program in Wayland without starting X? I never tried because I never had a reason. But many things depend on it...

Ok, that made me laugh. :)

scottro We socialize enough here, as in a crowd, to touch elbows and, therefore, the intelligence rubs off on each other. You twit.

There has to be a joke there, but I'm too sleepy to think of it. :) Anyway, thanks again.

scottro That's why we rub elbows so often.

drhowarddrfine, the reason for my thanks above is because I just learned something. I always thought (using bash as shell) though I see it doesn't matter whether I use bash, sh, or zsh that one had to do ls -a .xinitrc to see a .<file> and just...

startx is not a user so I don't know how that got in there. Do you have a file in your /home marked .xinitrc? ls -l .xinitrc

It is fine for me now, firefox, FreeBSD-15.1-RELEASE.

Hi, as being one of the people who helped to create DaemonForums.org ... and talking to j65nko multiple times in the past even in the older BSDForums.org page before DaemonForums.org happened ... its very sad to hear that. I mean ... we all are...

startx is not a user so I don't know how that got in there. Do you have a file in your /home marked .xinitrc? ls -l .xinitrc

I think we'd all like to add our personal condolences and good wishes, if he's in a mood to hear them.

Oh, I stuck my finger in alright.

For an old and long-time daemonforums.org user like myself (and likely loads of us), that's sad and bad news -- most of all for J65nko himself, who posted a lot here in the early days, and one last time in 2022. I'm sure everyone here who knows...

Carpetsmoker

That is very sad news. He was incredibly helpful on those forums, not to mention it's a horrible thing to happen to anyone. arp242, as you say, around 2008, so my memory might be hazy, but a member called DrJ and I were friendly and I think it...

To add to drhowarddrfine's comment, at the old BSDforums, the owner became quite ill. Some other members wanted to buy it from him, don't know the story of what happened, I think said owner was either being coy, or maybe just too ill to do...

Only j65nko was running the site. I talked to him briefly at the start of the year and he was dealing with terminal cancer. I don't have the details right now as they were in a PM on daemonforums, but I seem to recall "a year and a half at the...

I think we'd all like to add our personal condolences and good wishes, if he's in a mood to hear them.