Finally got around to Pixel mapping my friend's Pixelblaze-controlled Christmas tree using @themariday 's video pixel mapping tool (https://github.com/TheMariday/marimapper), and it was fantastic! I could never have mapped the 600 LEDs on this tree without it.
Happy to provide you all slowly your #BSD based free Boxes (VPS instances) after a pause of one week again :)
The small amount of boxes has been provisioned, offering #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, #DragonFlyBSD, #MidnightBSD and many more - including #illumos for our #Solaris friends!
Provisioning is #Matrix only and is done by our new Bot. @gyptazy took the time to write and adjust all the things in a great way - #RUNBSD
#hosting #ipv6 #opensource #community #homelab #lab #dev #testing
- I want console busybox!
- We have console busybox at home...
Also, 13th of December 124 ("Y2K was never a problem!!!").
Also, it is ironic that I cannot start Andrew Batmail graphical mail client because it requires emacs to be installed. :D
Firefox ditches Do Not Track because nobody was listening anyway
Few websites actually respect the option, says Mozilla When Firefox 135 is released in February, it'll ship with one less feature: Mozilla plans to remove the Do Not Track toggle from its Privacy and Security settings. …
#theregister #IT
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/12/firefox_do_not_track/
CAUTION: the new kernel management/backup system has landed in https://github.com/chimera-linux/cports/compare/a40feaf75b9c...b0dd53277ee4
this will result in your most recent kernel before the updated one disappearing due to package hooks going away
also be extra careful everything is intact after upgrade especially if you use out of tree modules (e.g. zfs) and report issues if you run into any
i tried my best to iron out any edge cases, so hopefully i got it all right, but still
Super-Lightweight Operating System boots off a 1.44MB Floppy Disk. 💾
[KolibriOS lets you do simple tasks and even play games on your legacy PC.]
While most operating systems are written in C and C++, KolibriOS is written in pure x86 assembly and as a result small and lightweight enough to run off a standard 1.44 MB floppy disk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolibriOS
#kolibrios #floppydisk #x86 #assembler #code #programming #retrocomputing #retro #gaming #it #engineer #media #tech #news
SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Price Lowered, Ubuntu 24.04 Support Ready
Going back to April 2024, SiFive announced the HiFive Premier P550 as an interesting RISC-V developer board to succeed their HiFive Unleashed that was a nice little RISC-V board. There were delays in shipping the HiFive Premier P550 but they have been making progress and are now ready to ship Ubuntu 24.04 LTS pre-installed on this RISC-V board. They have also lower…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/HiFive-Premier-P550-Drop
Plans to build a “super prison” in Russia’s Far East, have been shelved due to a lack of funding, Governor Alexey Tsydenov said, adding that the project was no longer urgent as, “for obvious reasons, the prisons are now mostly empty.”
https://buff.ly/49xwOsv
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