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We'll add an AI module.

If it was previously installed as a package all its run and library dependencies should already be in place. What will definitely get pulled in are the build dependencies, make install-missing-packages is very useful...

I see quite an improvement today. Taking a much harder approach against useless crawlers and bots, and some crap from the attack may have timed out of Redis, cleaning up the db queries.

We're done here. Back to your regular program.

Wrap your heads around this. Now imagine standing in the park, trying to have a smoke, and you are sourranded by crows harassing you for the cig?

We're done here. Back to your regular program.

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I think the admins/moderators of this forum aren't properly appreciated. They are VOLUNTEERS. They invest their own time to make sure this forum functions. DutchDaemon is always looking after the technical aspects of the thing. SirDice answers A...

Today's smbc-comics.com made me laugh. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/1789334195-20260915.png

From the photo, I thought they were crows. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/similar-species-crows-and-ravens In Manhattan crows used to be very visible. Now, (I think because of the West Nile disease), they seem far less common. Though in my...

Sorry not sorry, that is exactly what IMHO has to happen. The internet is, by now, a critical infrastructure because it is used to control critical infrastructure. Messing with the internet should be seen on the same level as messing with the...

Thanks everyone for all the help. I successfully upgraded to 15.1 tonight and everything is working great.

Maybe not as visible but danger@ makes sure the forums keep running.

This sounds really nice indeed. Not tested it yet, but is there also a option like systemd template function, that would be very nice.

I think the admins/moderators of this forum aren't properly appreciated. They are VOLUNTEERS. They invest their own time to make sure this forum functions. DutchDaemon is always looking after the technical aspects of the thing. SirDice answers A...

Unfortunately such large machines are difficult to own unless you have space dedicated for it. Good thing it wasn't dumped or price scalped and it found a good new owner :) I learned BASIC as my first language on the M19, GW-BASIC in...

Recently acquired a G3 iMac in absolute mint condition. It was in a little "museum" at $DAYJOB. They're clearing out because we'll be moving to a different location some time soon. If I had said no, it would have ended up on a landfill, couldn't...

Why assume that people who utilize AI always do so to be lazy? Don't get me wrong, I fully agree with you here. Thing is though, a decent AI agent can do much more than that. Allowing it to parse your code and provide suggestions on how might...

Thanks everyone for all the help. I successfully upgraded to 15.1 tonight and everything is working great.

imagine paying money to use slop

So it was some immature childish mind ("script kiddy") who did it just because it could, to gave it a believe in having some power, while in fact it was nothing but a savage toddler smashing things. The fact this forums is of no political...

Just to clear one thing up: these weren't AI/LLM crawlers, or crawlers per se. These were bots requesting the front page (GET /) and immediately closing the connection to do it again and again and again. This was done by several thousand IP...

I have added Turing Complete Mini Language to axx general assembler's binary generating part. That makes any kind of binary generating will be done in axx's binary_list (with axx's Free Syntax DSL in instruction) Commited to GitHub, plase take a...

Heads up: version 8895 of llama.cpp has been committed to ports. This changes the location where llama.cpp stores models automatically downloaded from huggingface (as in post #1 here). Old cache: ~/.cache/llama.cpp/ New cache...

This is a continuation on my local LLM thread, which is hard to reply to. This one might be easier. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/running-a-gpu-accelerated-llm-on-freebsd-2-line-howto.102445/ I wanted to waffle a bit more about the...

"Hey, ChatGPT, I read-------"Ha, ha, ha, what a load! that AI will erase-----------How shall this work?" humankind."

I'm not much into old computers - except Lisp machines. The Unix+C world is OK, and reasonably productive. It is nothing compared to what Common Lisp and some of the Lisp machines offered.

I came across this and thought it might fit well in the old computers thread: https://virtualosmuseum.org/ https://gitlab.com/virtualosmuseum/ It is called the Virtual OS Museum. The project provides a downloadable VM with a large collection of...

All of them get that wrong. I've been correcting them for years. They are so apologetic but continue to fail at it.

Bad Attitude Spaghetti Interpreter Code ;)

My introduction to programming wasn't it tho. It was shell first, simple batch files, then at lower grades of elementary school we had Logo, the turtle graphics system. Turtle is a pen and one inputs commands to draw something. Very nice for kids...

Then I guess they made changes because I sure had 0 problems with this. In fact... I even got it to help me explain certain issues/warnings trigged by VS Code extensions; it didn't even flinch (in specific: I've started relying on ShellCheck, but...

beginners all-purpose symbolic instruction code

I quit the $10 guthub copilot subscription when it started refusing to answer questions that were not about code on github. They didn't refuse just non-code questions, the code has to be on github.

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...

I've became quite fond (and impressed) with the combination of both Copilot (365) as well as GitHub Copilot. Both can be used for free but obviously you'll get better results with a subscription. I've had a Microsoft 365 Personal subscription...

So mv instead of cp? And then chmod if needed.

What performs better if you start a game in X only from a vt terminal? That rules out other causes. Is it xfwm or xfsession? Can't happen anymore.

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...

Ugh, although I would like to do conspiracy stuff as for sure Microsoft did them (a plenty) I don't think they had power or the need to do anything of the sorts. There are many angles to this story. I think these are most relevant - BASIC is...

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

That was all it took, my user is “in business “! So I should switch to root and rm -f ~/.xinitrc.

If the user has not configured a /home/user/.xinitrc file, startx defaults to x11-wm/twm. You may have a /root/.xinitrc configured for root user, you can try copying it into the user's home directory and try startx again. cp /root/.xinitrc...

People would soon realise that having a transparent monitor would have little use. You would have to place it in front of a very blank (preferably white) wall, to be able to make out any of the text on it.

It's not from heavy metal standpoint but glam/hair rock/metal standpoint. I've skimmed through the video, it's a compilation of Loudwire's "Wikipedia: fact or fiction" series where they bring a notable/famous musician and run down their Wikipedia...

All MS BASIC interpreters stayed with legacy SVGA while Windows software was already into much higher display standards and 3d accelleration. I think it was an artificial limitation to avoid superior graphics that's developed at home for almost...

siladi The luggable :) I wonder why there is not such a modern concept. No battery saves a ton of space and thermal emission even today. Why not make a bigger better laptop in the same form factor, with a tiny cellphone battery in it just to...