- tiltowaitZFS will happilly (and intentionally) gobble up available RAM for ARC. On my 64GB system, ARC is using 42.4GB, but this memory is quickly reclaimable if it's needed. That said, I had very bad experiences trying to run ZFS on an underprovisioned system.
- Traffic fatalities increased during the pandemic[1]. AAA released a study examining the effects in 2024[2].
[1]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10149345/ [2]: https://newsroom.aaa.com/2024/08/the-pandemics-tenacious-gri...
- > The vast majority of humans are not benefiting from it and are therefore motivated against it.
The vast majority of humans do not benefit from you, personally, owning a car, but that doesn't mean we're all motivated to call a towing company to your house.
- > Rust has a standard library that looks an awful lot like Python or Ruby, with similarly named methods.
Can you elaborate? While they obviously have overlap, Rust's stdlib is deliberately minimal (you don't even get RNG without hitting crates.io), whereas Python's is gigantic. And in actual use, they tend to feel extremely different.
- If it gets abandoned—so what? Switching browsers is trivial.
- > Of the top of my head, I can't think of a single feature that MacOS has shipped since 2020 that I care about.
They all kind of blend together, so I asked Claude to give me a list of major features since 2020. Here are those that I've enjoyed:
* Universal control * iPhone mirroring * Stage Manager * Container CLI
Granted it's not a giant list, but each release does have little refinements here and there, and Claude may have missed some (it didn't mention container CLI, for instance; that was from my memory). I also omitted some features I don't care about (like Safari profiles and some other window management stuff).
What features are you hoping for? Aside from a tiling WM, which won't happen, I'd be happy just with refinements and bug fixes.
- I've used password-encrypted keys on a Mac plenty of times. It was easy to add them to the SSH agent to not require a password after initial authorization, if that's what I wanted. What is the issue I'm not seeing?
- I recently started a blog to document some service migrations and other random musings as I adopt FreeBSD (after a decade-long hiatus). It's fun to write and think about this stuff in a shareable way, even though I expect no one[0] to ever read it. It's also been fun using a new-to-me SSG (Hugo).
[0] Correction: I have had three visitors, not including myself.
- You can test for existence:
https://go.dev/blog/maps#working-with-mapsval, ok := my_map[123] if ok { ... } - People are worried about half-assed[0] rewrites that break functionality and introduce exciting, new vulnerabilities due to improper implementation. And they aren't wrong to fear that, given the multiple issues we've seen in just the past week with Ubuntu's Rust overhaul.
[0]: Or even whole-assed. Memory (un)safety is only one form of vulnerability.
- I've found Claude 4.5 Sonnet to be great with FreeBSD stuff. Very occasionally it'll hallucinate a sysctl argument, but that's been about the extent of my issues.
- I've noticed the same. At first, I thought it was Baader-Meinhof, since I recently decided to set up a FreeBSD server after over a decade since I last used it, but it's definitely hitting the news more (15.0-RELEASE comes soon, and a Swift build was just announced), which I guess naturally leads to more discussion.
Would love to see it surge in popularity. Underrated OS.
- I'm glad I'm not the only person with similar feelings. I'm perfectly comfortable in Linux, but there's a certain ... uncanniness to it that's hard to pin down. FreeBSD (and, I suspect, the other BSDs as well) just feels more coherent.
- I work in DevSecOps, and devs sometimes come to us with AI-slop summaries and writeups about our own tooling. Any time I see emojis in a message, I know I'm about to have a laugh.
- I kind of dig this. It seems like it might look good on an ereader. Might have to upload it to my kobo!
- Is it doable on a VPS? The documentation made it sound like it was for dedicated only. I went with OVH for this reason (which was cheaper anyway).
- The idea is fine, though the execution seems obnoxious for getting your writing out of your system. The trouble is, depending on what you’re writing, Tilde might be a massive downgrade. For novels, I find something like Scrivener essential.
I’ve looked into a few options like this over the years (e.g. the Freewrite, or even an old Alphasmart), but always came to the conclusion they added more friction to my writing process, not less.
- It’s not super popular, but support is necessary to make it so. There are some well-regarded frameworks, like Vapor, that are written in Swift.
- Bastille is very nice to use. You can spin up a jail with a simple `doas bastille create myjail 10.0.0.1` or whatever. Bastillefiles stand in as Dockerfile analogs, if you want to go that route (you have to create the jail, then apply the template, rather than doing it in a single command).
One nice thing is cloning a jail (which can be done live if using ZFS) to spin up a dev/test environment on a different IP. Or setting up a jail to try some different configurations and not having to worry about resetting things on your main host.
I've set up a storage jail with no network access, then a couple of service jails that dip into it at various mount points/permissions. It's total overkill for what I'm doing, but the point is to learn, tinker, and have fun.
- Just two weeks ago, I spun up a FreeBSD server on OVH and migrated a service to it from Railway. Playing with jails, pf, ZFS, and some other goodies has been a lot of fun. Since I (massively) over-provisioned, I also spun up Gitea, Woodpecker CI (and agent; blazing fast CICD is so nice), and a personal blog. Been a great learning project.
[] It's not my first time with FreeBSD. I first ran it in ~2004. But it's been over 10 years since I last ran it, and I'd forgotten a decent bit. The last time I ran it, I just set up a couple of jails for NAS and Plex and proceeded to not touch it until I moved.