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Garrett Wollman
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I fix networks and other stuff with computers inside for MIT CSAIL. Bi cyclist, cis male. More frequency = better mobility. Formerly @garrett_wollman on Twitter, still @gwollman.bsky.social on the other site.
Did my first #FreeBSD 14.4 upgrade this afternoon. It went pretty easily, as expected. Now I need to update my package builder so I can get kernel modules for my two workstations, and after that I'll start planning upgrades on the work fleet to take place during our June outage.
Wondering if anything other than commenting out the call to `/etc/pccard_ether` in devd.conf is necessary to stop devd from screwing with the network on a server. I'm getting unexplained `route: message indicates error: File exists` after devd starts, which indicate that lo0 is being configured twice when it should not be.
stephenjahlIf you thought cloud cost optimization was a big industry… just you wait for the AI agent premium request optimization grifters
I installed the "community" version of VM that's in ELPA and it worked first time, better than the 15-year-old version I've been building, so they definitely fixed some things. Next step is to try re-enabling native extensions in Emacs.
One of the most annoying things about NFSv4 is how it's no longer possible to tell which clients have which filesystems mounted.
🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@EugeneMcParland Wake me up when the world starts using 中华人民共和国 (or at the very least 中国) when referring to the country they call "China" (which has absolutely *zero* cognates with any form the country is named natively).
Hell, I'd even go with the painfully parochial Zhongguo.
What's that? Spelling matters ... for a select set of nations only? Thought so.
This appears to have been broken in editors/emacs commit bc45b7ec889c7 and appears to have come completely out of the blue with no warning. VM comes with its own build system to properly compile, just running (byte-compile-file) does not work. (Native compilation doesn't work either.)
There's a project to bring VM's code base up to modern Emacs but it seems to be filling up with LLM slop (at the moment only unit tests) but not encouraging.
Super-weird #FreeBSD #Emacs issue: When starting up, suddenly after a minor update, Emacs now creates a .emacs.d/freebsd-elc-cache directory with lots of miscompiled files for VM which is installed as a package. Subsequent invocations of VM error out due to the miscompilation. There are *.elc files installed by the package, which have the same mtime as the corresponding *.el files.
I haven't followed Emacs development closely in recent years; I just want my mail to work.
Every time I start looking at a migration, I run keama and get complete crap, then decide to work on something more pressing.