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You make a false assumption. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964185 for the same article.

> … hostile to security researchers who report these issues. Do you have an example?

I'm glad to see their sense of humour :-) https://nitter.net/ffmpeg/status/2039115531744334180

That's unfortunate. jruohonen the Bonnie Tyler face (GIF) is for the linked item, not at you :-)

What, this tired old crap again? How many more times? https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExcXhvaXZydG...

> anxiety around AI replacing developers For the benefit of people who don't absorb the entire article (spoiler alert): >> … AI didn't take our jobs. Greed did. …

> all hail u/cperciva Colin Percival (FreeBSD Primary Release Engineering Team Lead) longer uses that ID in Reddit. Instead: /u/perciva Most recently, in /r/freebsd https://www.red…

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Rust for Rust seems to be stale, but not yet categorised as such – https://wiki.freebsd.org/CategoryStale In https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hac…

> FreeBsd is Systemd free. https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/96pm7w/benno_rice_... > Benno Rice: The Tragedy of systemd – BSDCan 2018 : r/freebsd Don't be misled by the tit…

> … I think I'd want to switch to pkgbase but that makes me nervous. … There has been a disproportionate amount of negative noise from people who know too little about pkgbase. pkg…

> … the kernel shrinker API which has historically been a problem. … Is that still a problem? A few weeks ago I noted a change in ARC-related documentation for OpenZFS on Linux. I …

> … Stable documentation allows time for it to be edited and revised to become better documentation, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47407895 Part of the problem is, too few c…

> … For those that aren't familiar, ZFS isn't part of mainline Linux because of licensing incompatibility (and general distrust of Oracle). … It's probably fair to say that trust i…

The condescending attitude of a minority of FreeBSD users is never an incentive to engage.

> … Yes, as a comment in this sub-thread stated, jails exist … https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116168374700889783 > Would anyone like to say something? > > …

> … stable … about every 6 months. Maybe slightly optimistic. https://bokut.in/freebsd-patch-level-table/#stable/13 https://bokut.in/freebsd-patch-level-table/#stable/14 https://bo…

> … ZFS was a huge selling point, but I heard that it works quite well on Linux, these days. … True. I have OpenZFS-native encrypted root-on-ZFS for Kubuntu 25.10, made ultra-simpl…

> Regarding guides specifically, FreeBSD has exceptional resources: FreeBSD Handbook … Ahem. https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1rpnd05/comment/o9... > for the ZFS chapter "…

Anything more recent than a 2023 blog post?

> The truth is that FreeBSD doesn't want casual users, … I shouldn't overgeneralise. https://github.com/orgs/FreeBSDFoundation/projects/1/views/3... … and so on.

The current expectation is that the desktop script, which was originally scheduled for inclusion with FreeBSD Installer for 15.0, will be included with 15.1. A blocker, although th…

No, it's not done. You forgot configuration.

> yagni TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_compared_to_other_dist... exists, but probably does not answer your question. For Arch users of KDE Plasma and applications, are essential pac…

That's a tad dramatic, Daphne.