David Cross @david@mastodon.crossfamilyweb.com

I’ve fired up my Commander X16. Time to do SCIENCE!

Do/Have you used a CD/DVD/Bluray in a while?

What about burning a disk?

I'm surveying modern day awareness/usage of optical media, mostly to confirm some demographic theories, so if you know what a CD/DVD is, please help me (and maybe others) out by answering some ~10 questions here:

https://optical-media-survey.benjojo.co.uk/

And then please boost for better visibility! Thank you!

Hey, #retrocomputing folks. Is there a common name for this category of wedge-shaped toggle switch, as found on the PDP-11/70 and other machines of that era?

Well, I sure did not expect this game to be a text adventure...

Picked up a new dad trick:

Every time I tell my child I'll explain something to her when she's older, I write it down. On her 18th birthday I will painstakingly explain every item on this list to her.

"In 2028 I made a joke about 'golden showers.' That means--"

"I KNOW!"

Just built FreeBSD 14.1-STABLE. First thing I tested was my USB earbuds. Plugging in changes hw.snd.default_auto from 1 to 0. Audio works - tested with spotifyd and Firefox/Youtube. Unplugging the earbuds results in hw.snd.default_auto going back to 1, and audio is then coming from my laptop's speakers - as you'd expect. And if I plug them back in, the audio is back in my earbuds, even in Firefox/Youtube - this definitely did not work before!

So, maybe a small step for mankind, but a giant leap for audio-related usability on desktop FreeBSD.

Thank you, @FreeBSDFoundation for sponsoring the work on the audio stack! https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2024-01-2024-03/#_audio_stack_improvements
(I don't know if it was this work or something else that did the trick, but still!)

@david https://wallpapercave.com/freebsd-wallpaper

@david https://cdn.wallpapersafari.com/99/88/CpW0Mz.jpg

#UnixPr0n

I am very very pleased to report that I updated my Thinkpad running 14.0-R, mesa drivers version went up from 24.0.0. to 24.0.6 I can now use an Apple Studio Display with FreeBSD!

Developer accused of unreadable code refuses to comment

FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE has been released

From the official announcement by Colin Percival:

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the
availability of FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release of the
stable/13 branch.

Some of the highlights:

* LLVM and the clang compiler have been updated to version 17.0.6.

* OpenSSH has been updated to version 9.6p1.

* Sendmail has been updated to version 8.18.1.

* ZFS has been updated to OpenZFS 2.1.14.

* There have been many stability fixes to native and LinuxKPI-based
WiFi drivers.

* The NFS server can now run in an appropriately configured vnet jail.

* And much more…​

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the
online release notes and errata list, available at:

* https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/13.3R/relnotes/

* https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/13.3R/errata/

For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please
see:

* https://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/

Dedication

The FreeBSD Project dedicates the FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE to Glen Barber,
with thanks for his many years of contributions as Release Engineer.

@freebsd
#FreeBSD

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