Tootfinder

@… thanks!
ALT text here includes two commands (without the breakage that's difficult to avoid in Mastodon).
#FreeBSD #patch

Quick history of process isolation on unix
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Somehow we ended up with an overengineered mess of leaky abstractions for cloud-based, vendor-locked infrastructure.
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https://hypha.pub/back-to-freebsd-part-1

@… I respectfully disagree with a blanket multi-tree ban, for reasons that I should not discuss in public.
A line has been crossed, repeatedly, in the past.
#FreeBSD

Getting there. Obviously I had a headstart running it on Slackware. And FreeBSD has the best Wayland wm repos, bar none. Also: gnarly things in FreeBSD: bluetooth, how to get that Linux application running, Linuxalators et al, sound and keymappings. But the Handbook is superb, just work my way through it over the days.
#freebsd

@… confirmed:
– the bug is reproducible without the desktop script.
#FreeBSD #bug

Tarides | Porting OBuilder to FreeBSD
#ocaml

Porting OBuilder to FreeBSD
Tarides successfully integrated FreeBSD support into OBuilder's architecture, enhancing OCaml CI for FreeBSD through tailored Fetcher and Sandbox modules.

That cage-break, a ratpoison inspired wayland compositor, is available in the ports collection tells you all about the sublime 'windowmanagers on Wayland' array that is available on FreeBSD.
#freebsd

@… I am not "offended" by the five characters in this screenshot.
Also, I trust the Senior Director of Technology for The FreeBSD Foundation to do what's appropriate in extreme cases such as this.
#FreeBSD

Back to FreeBSD: Part 1 | Roman Zaiev, Hypha
#FreeBSD #Docker

#FreeBSD #Linux #kernel #jails

On the FreeBSD front: volumekeys working. Sound output fixed. Ubuntu subsystem installed (installing the rpm of Filen didn't work, so I'm gonna have a go at the deb). Librewolf all good. This all took just around 35 minutes.
Then I spend around 2 hours jerking around with the waybar and alacritty configs, theming Gruvbox. Time well spent 😂 😆
#freebsd

#FreeBSD #HotTake: Even though everyone with deeper #firewall juju than myself says #pf is better than

<https://redd.it/1rgx8ts> … thirty-six hours later, no-one has spotted the two deliberate mistakes.
Note to self: be genuinely careless more often. Much more. Especially at weekends, when no-one's paying attention 🙃

In the end it has become MangoWM on FreeBSD. That was literally low hanging fruit, since I've been dabbling in it for a couple of months now, on Slackware. So, all that keybind and tags kind of stuff is basically all there, ready to use. Off we go!
#Freebsd

I sometimes believe that Phabricator is AI
― active impediment.
Like, where documentation goes to die.
Process without progress.
<#FreeBSD

pkg upgrade
– fetched, then checked integrity.
Nothing more. The checked packages were not installed.
No error.
I guess, a coincidental lock on the package database was not reported as a lock.
pkg 2.5.1, FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT, aarch64.
#FreeBSD

Plasma: high CPU usage whilst the screen is locked
<#FreeBSD

@… I heard the fan spin up on the host after I logged out from Plasma (X11) on a FreeBSD guest.
Pictured: excessive use of the CPU by sddm-greeter-qt6.
A separate bug, with the same underlying cause? I wonder.
#FreeBSD

With all the love that OpenBSD is getting now (and rightly so!), and my good ol' Slackware KDE back on the main NUC, I feel the time is right to finally spent serious time in FreeBSD. Let's install it on the hybrid graphics laptop and use it as my daily work driver for the next month at least? I'll report about the trials and tribulations over here.
River, Mango, Niri. Let's go!
#freebsd

FreeBSD base package downgrades in response to a forced upgrade of all packages.
I might take a closer look at the weekend, if the typescript file for the session is available.
#FreeBSD #pkgbase

FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p3 on ARM64 in QEMU:
― SDDM, pictured, is barely usable.
After login to Plasma (X11), resolution is limited to 800 x 600.
How can I avoid the issue with SDDM?
Host: Kubuntu 25.10, Virtual Machine Manager with Ramfb for video. Guest: non-base packages from the latest repos.
Not reproducible with FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT on ARM64 in QEMU on the same host.
#FreeBSD

@… whilst logged in with the screen locked, the issue seems to be with (or affecting) kscreenlocker_greet – installed by security/plasma6-kscreenlocker.
I wonder why I didn't notice this when I made the bug report.
#FreeBSD

@… also, for convenience, the overview page:
<https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.4R/>

FreeBSD desktop installer script test: quick start
#FreeBSD

Out with the old.
In with the new.
<#FreeBSD

@… can you recall how the corruption occurred?
Post-recovery, I see the absence of free space before the ESP; and the change in free space after partition 4.
#FreeBSD

@… what's the systemd context?
#systemd #FreeBSD

@… thanks.
<https://bsdsec.net/tags/freebsd> nits:
― 'Security Advisories' is the wrong generic heading for an array that includes errata notices
― a qu…

RE: #FreeBSD

@… video group membership is certainly not required to start X.
#FreeBSD #documentation

@… better with 16.0-CURRENT?
(As if you have nothing better to do with your time.)
#FreeBSD #NVIDIA

@… what's the breakage?
#libvirt #FreeBSD

@…
pkg info drm-66-kmod | grep -i -e repos -e version
pkg info drm-latest-kmod | grep -i -e repos -e version
Working from memory, I hope that's correct.
#FreeBSD

pkg upgrade -Fqy
For a single run, with conflicts, there may be multiple prompts for one more solver iteration.
I think this is negligible, not worth reporting as an issue. @… do you agree?
Thanks
#FreeBSD

@… for ZFS (the default),
zfs mount -a
@…
#FreeBSD