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Ammunition is the thing to hoard. It will be excellent trade material by itself. Just beware secondary explosions when your place is hit.

Usually no, not unless you get extremely lucky and the mini dump has all the relevant information. To some extent, FreeBSD has a similar issue in terms of modern core dumps being too large to send over the net, except that developers will just...

Original article here. Consider this when replying. The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 15.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv7, aarch64, powerpc64, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are FreeBSD mirror sites...

An unnamed self-driving car manufacturer has decided to adopt FreeBSD for their embedded in-car systems. Their new slogan ... "The Power to Swerve"

Faces View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF7rmKJEmXI

Absolutely, but not being tied to a cloud company is still something to avoid. I've known people that work at MS and a real problem is that they literally can't fix bugs because they don't have a test lab and the software is so bloated that...

It may be my prejudice, but I don't think we are looking at a general cloud problem here. Microsoft is just not very good at this computer thing. Never has been. Just look at their cloud security incidents. They just don't reach the level of...

I mean, it says what's up pretty clearly. It is probably encrypted.

For personal use, I've been toying around with using a 5kb header to store the name of the file and some other key bits with a bunch of zeros appended with truncate to fill out the 5kb with the actual file attached afterwards and the entire thing...

Yep, and that's where reservations and quotas can be rather helpful. But, that's something best to consider putting in ahead of time to keep you under generally 80% for appropriate wiggle room to fix things if need be.

I don't think that's really necessary. Most of the cloud stuff is just nonsense anyways. Having your files encrypted on a fileserver is as close to the cloud as people typically benefit from. I personally, am more concerned by the lack of good...

Another advantage of using Microsoft cloud crap is that if you miss responsibilities because your comm systems are down you can just say that your outage is in worldwide news. If you fail because of (the same length) outage in a smaller system...

Don't want to jinx it, but it is Friday the 13th.

Honestly... my stance is simple: most people always remember the outage(s), but then also easily ignore all those days things just worked(tm). Something which every tech that's worth his money knows isn't always something you should take for...

Kind-of interesting UK would rely on cloud services from US with core services. GitHub's outage was more noticeable :p

I don't have personal experience, but 2 years ago wasn't that long :p (CrowdStrike)

X11 ftw but only Windows knows what they're doing :cool:

At least in terms of my shell I've settled on having a .bash_profile and a .bashrc that is the same across all systems and then source a .bash_profile_local and a .bashrc_local. There's surprising little that has to be the in the _local files...

Been MS free since early 2000s, simple is better.

"Put it all in the cloud" they said. "Use MS Office 365 online" they said. I wonder if MS insurance covers paying the businesses that use their online stuff or if that is covered in the EULA.

did they try to turn the servers off and back on ? or ask copilot to fix them ?

if you have a working backlight(8) you can look at /dev/ttyv0 mtime and use backlight from a script or cron

Hi guys, i have noticed something on that front. Some old Xorg programs (in my case xclip) wanted to pull 6.6.6 LTS. If you run in that problem, try to housekeep your X11 programs, if you really need them, or if they can go. Quite a few caveats...

I've got a few servers I'm looking to tighten security a bit more on in regards to Apache HTTPD and Postfix. Primarily I'd like to shut out the drive-by vulnerability scans. I currently use modsecurity and I have a number of the firehole lists...

Thank You for sharing - added to next VN :)

i tried the patch from the PR and it seems to work. Tested it on a small disk image created on a mac. Write support is not implemented so not very useful in thread's context.

To risk the rhetorical "I told you so", I've been raging for years against cloud based infrastructure, in favor of self-hosting critical services.

If took way too long to be real. Suspecting age verification/digital ID lobby.

did they try to turn the servers off and back on ? or ask copilot to fix them ?

Wayland is a garbage heap and no amount of dev time will ever make it good. Of course, any time this is pointed out you'll get the old "it's just a protocol!" and "security!" responses from the drones that do not have a right to have an opinion...

I agree with what You wrote. It will get worse - in many areas - I plan to do what I am already doing since 20+ years - maybe I will need to 'adapt' or be more flexible in the future - but I am not going anywhere - we will see how it will go...

Well, at least that does no harm to older emacsens.

ShruggingAtlas I think this PR is also relevant to you (if you want to access the card from the linux compat layer).

You can submit a MR for this here: https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod explain the use case what it does and it may get merged.

Someone added the signature bytes of some DOS aera virus as a comment to the bitcoin ledger, leading to delition of said ledger, forcing the bitcoin client to re-download that thing again, only to fail the virus scan again...

You mean: ;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*- It took so long for GNU to make a real LISP in Emacs LISP!!!!

I use ionos for mail and I can neither send nor receive. I have a gmail account that is working.

Hello, Design question: I currently have a BSD device acting as a router/firewall providing our connectivity. This server runs BGP via OpenBGPD to advertise our resources allocated by LACNIC: Our own ASN One IPv4 /22 block One IPv6 /48 block...

Version control and the ability to go back to previous versions is essential for multi-machine dotfile keeping. It is way too easy to do something for a new emacs that breaks when logging in to a machine with the old emacs.

What does `dmesg` say?

That will depend, the main time that it's super worth it to use revision control is for when you're working out configuration. Personally though, the not dotfiles in places like /etc are more likely to be an issue.

Someone found an old copy of Kournikova and accidentally activated it 😁

For those interested, I think I have found part of the solution. My server has four discrete cards and a built in ASPEED vga adapter. The vga adapter does not generate a hw.dri.X sysctl but in the bus order it sits as the second card, and it...

Don't want to jinx it, but it is Friday the 13th.

Yeah, no thanks. Still have a Microsoft account linked to my hotmail address. Never use it except to occasionally look things up.

Jensen Huang resigns as CEO of Nividia, whose products pretty much run all data centers in the world, then on the same day many cloud providers start having outage problems? Coincidence????? :-/

did they try to turn the servers off and back on ? or ask copilot to fix them ?

Here's a video similar to some workplaces as the problem progressed. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc0FeUMQIA4

Still waiting for that confirmation code they've sent me. But I suspect that's not going to happen any time soon. Can't login without it.

I think (but do not rely on me!) that the main issue occurs if you have mod_http2 enabled, which is not the default. This will list all the modules you have built-in or loaded: # httpd -t -D DUMP_MODULES This line would be active in your...