Posts by mason@partychickens.net
(DIR) Post #B0K7wIXC6BXTI7otNo by mason@partychickens.net
2025-11-17T03:16:08Z
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@Nonilex Wait, I thought they were going to finish redefining childhood first.
(DIR) Post #B0UTnGSDFLDG252vdg by mason@partychickens.net
2025-11-22T03:05:25Z
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@internetarchive And a lovely PDF:https://dn790000.ca.archive.org/0/items/wonderfulwizardo00baumiala/wonderfulwizardo00baumiala.pdf
(DIR) Post #B0cRVj0B0jeso5zycq by mason@partychickens.net
2025-11-25T19:45:30Z
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Oh, I forgot to mention... Videochat on FreeBSD/Firefox ends up not being half as painful as I made it. I assumed I needed sndoid but I couldn't see microphones... Digging some more the other day, it turned out that the base OSS actually works out better.So I simplified, and the default FreeBSD simply works. I've tested with Jitsi and Zoom. GMeet worked before l. If I can figure out how I'll test Teams. (Caveat: I haven't tested screen-sharing in either direction with any of them.)#freebsd
(DIR) Post #B0kSIRobFn2WxQUoG8 by mason@partychickens.net
2025-11-29T20:06:25Z
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@evgandr Are you aware of this? https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=backlight&sektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+14.3-RELEASE+and+Ports
(DIR) Post #B0l7OzCi7jVcMy0gUK by mason@partychickens.net
2025-11-25T18:52:40Z
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I run FreeBSD but I don't tend to build it. I consume binaries. So sometimes I make assumptions based on its similarities to NetBSD, which was the first free Unix I ran.Today I read that FreeBSD finally does unprivileged builds, to which I thought, "What? It didn't before?"https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-now-builds-reproducibly-and-without-root-privilege/Meanwhile, NetBSD has been incredibly sleek in this department for many years now:https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-build.htmlI should get back into NetBSD. I was initially enthralled by VNET jails but lately I find myself using simpler configs. I might find that I'm okay going back to running things in chroots. And it's not like I'd stop running FreeBSD.#netbsd #freebsd
(DIR) Post #B0lTUFGE3CqkbkZDCy by mason@partychickens.net
2025-11-29T17:53:35Z
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@stefano Are you saying the fan is driven harder under Linux? That would be an interesting reversal.
(DIR) Post #B0lZPqlRmkpzCTSSYa by mason@partychickens.net
2025-11-30T09:01:05Z
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@stefano Lower load under FreeBSD is still interesting. I thought Linux still had a serious advantage with fancier interrupt handling in it's tickless kernel, timer coalescing, etc., but maybe I'm behind the times. Is it apples to apples in terms of what's running in userland under each of Linux and FreeBSD?
(DIR) Post #B10RZbyjjCYNydDUcC by mason@partychickens.net
2025-12-07T13:13:39Z
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@spaceraser @jlw_the_jobber I've only ever used base FreeBSD and I've encountered some absolutely horrific, destructive errors over the years, and certainly desktop use is a challenge, even if it's as good as it's ever been. (There are still a wheelbarrow of issues I could bring up.) Honestly I used to use NetBSD as my desktop in the 90s and I had less pain.Nowadays, maybe try OpenBSD? It won't get you ZFS and that's a showstopper for me, of course. What's at the core of your wanting to really try FreeBSD? Maybe there are other ways to scratch the itch. For me, the perfect OS was Debian before the systemd cult dominated the project. My most common desktop in the house today is Debian on ZFS with sysvinit. The six of us here use it as our primary workstations. We do have two FreeBSD desktops used regularly for various purposes, and it's getting better, but the regular bleeding over it is a challenge. In the end, use something that gives you pleasure. Life's too short.
(DIR) Post #B12ehc3F1s0uEtOBn6 by mason@partychickens.net
2025-12-08T14:50:00Z
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@dzwiedziu One of my projects is rewriting my installer. It works but requires more handholding than is ideal. But it's what I use for all the systems here that aren't running FreeBSD.https://github.com/ChibaPet/install-debian-zfs-sysvinit
(DIR) Post #B1Tum98H5WBf02bGCW by mason@partychickens.net
2025-12-21T18:27:51Z
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@publius @r1w1s1 I'd look at shifting off of KDE in that situation. I've been using Openbox ever since I transitioned to it from TWM in the nineties, and I've never regretted it. (Although some folks want me to dig into Fluxbox, and I'm considering it. The integrated tabbing support is compelling.)
(DIR) Post #B1X5mL1gY7RMrDgwkK by mason@partychickens.net
2025-12-23T07:15:15Z
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@rms I read that when it came out, and what struck me is that the biggest visible contributor is damming.If only we'd stop bombing each other we might have the time and resources to tackle global warming and pollution and get adequate food and water to every human.
(DIR) Post #B1X6Nt3H0Py36IL5Qe by mason@partychickens.net
2025-12-23T07:22:04Z
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@rms Richard, it's a good idea to tell them how as well. I like linking this site for the purpose:https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-memberA very good throw-in is "stop sanctioning members of the ICC and of the UN human rights apparatus."
(DIR) Post #B1g7DXMEeqeRIYTbVo by mason@partychickens.net
2025-12-27T15:43:44Z
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@futurebird Am I the only one nervous about that fireplace?
(DIR) Post #B1hZ6opWI0gDKqid3A by mason@partychickens.net
2025-12-27T19:04:16Z
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@sb The biggest issue for me, all the very real technical issues aside, is that the systemd developers want systemd to do everything, and they abhor standards in their ever-growing monolithic architecture. Here's an example. In the free software world, if you want to write a new logging daemon, you implement RFC 5424 and you're good to go. In the systemd world, you use systemd-journald. Can you replace it? Extend it? Modify it? How do you centralize logging?The scope creep means that as time passes there are fewer and fewer opportunities for free software authors to write standards-compliant free software. Conversely, the more software uses systemd mechanisms, the less portable it becomes, and the fewer systems it runs on without significant effort.systemd is bad for the free software world, and it's an attack on portability and standards. There are a great many fundamental technical issues too, but frankly those are the less important argument. What systemd is trying to do to the free software ecosystem is the problem. It's an ethical issue more than a technical one, and it's an issue they could have addressed early on with standards compliance and scoped components if they wanted to.
(DIR) Post #B1kSEuVgwDoj41EejQ by mason@partychickens.net
2025-12-29T17:58:09Z
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@futurebird Those images are eerie!
(DIR) Post #B1pHdy4kguqlekBE6C by mason@partychickens.net
2026-01-01T00:30:42Z
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@lxo Warm rain is always invigorating to me. I am not surprised you came out of that with more energy.What kind of fruit was falling?
(DIR) Post #B2IGr8qcAK0bVpRHnc by mason@partychickens.net
2026-01-15T01:30:49Z
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@futurebird I like this. When I teach people about bases, I try to break them free from the symbols having values, and we often end up having them do something in base 3 with circles, squares, and triangles.
(DIR) Post #B2ISgGvsxqCEqtUJc0 by mason@partychickens.net
2026-01-15T03:43:19Z
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@futurebird I don't see a way to determine if ■ is two or three, and ▣ is whichever of those that ■ is not. ▷ is zero. □ is one. Thus, depending on how you assign the two filled-in squares, the order is either▷ □■ ▣□ ▷□ □□ ■ □ ▣ ■ ▷■ □■ ■■ ▣▣ ▷▣ □▣ ■▣ ▣□ ▷ ▷□ ▷ □□ ▷ ■□ ▷ ▣□ □ ▷□ □ □□ □ ■□ □ ▣or▷ □ ▣ ■ □ ▷ □ □□ ▣□ ■▣ ▷▣ □▣ ▣▣ ■■ ▷ ■ □■ ▣ ■ ■□ ▷ ▷□ ▷ □□ ▷ ▣□ ▷ ■□ □ ▷□ □ □□ □ ▣□ □ ■I suspect the ordering of ■ and ▣ is arbitrary given that □ is definitely 1, which makes them all somewhat out of order if we consider the unicode values.▷ 25b7□ 25a1■ 25a0▣ 25a3I like patterns. Thank you again.
(DIR) Post #B2et0szLUiFa0joLWi by mason@partychickens.net
2026-01-25T23:22:01Z
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@futurebird I'm going to go with the prescriptivist "it has no meaning and can be safely ignored," which serves me well with so much new usage.Yes, I read the other replies and I'll concede that some people say it and others hear it and interpret it in the intended way, but I feel safe rejecting and/or ignoring it, as appropriate, and I invite you to join me. If we ignore it long enough, it might go away.
(DIR) Post #B2fGRbeKMlrT01gqye by mason@partychickens.net
2026-01-26T03:44:35Z
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@futurebird Hm, hm. I suppose that's more civilized than corporal punishment.My seven year old came out with, "Why is 6 afraid of 7?" tonight. Cannibalism jokes are okay.Why'd the punk chicken cross the road? Because it was stapled to the other chicken.