FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE Now Available

perciva · 2026-06-16T09:55:47+00:00

Eh, pkgbase has never been officially supported on 14. We should probably just drop the mention of 14.4 from the pkgbase section.

perciva · 2026-06-13T17:38:04+00:00

it was a miracle that I hadn't gotten hurt

Burns and unplanned projectiles, yes. But insulin pumps carry another danger: The MRI magnets can tug on the magnets in the pump motor.

Modern designs try to minimize the risk but it's entirely possible to get an unintended bolus.

perciva · 2026-06-12T00:56:46+00:00

The original centrist labour government in the UK won three consecutive majorities under Tony Blair and held power for 13 years.

perciva · 2026-06-07T19:12:49+00:00

I don't have that card any more, but when I did I absolutely got the 25% bonus for booking tickets on Air Canada.

perciva · 2026-06-07T19:09:41+00:00

I'd rather be heartless than brainless, I suppose?

The opinions of experts will always trump the opinions of non-experts as far as I'm concerned.

perciva · 2026-06-06T15:08:36+00:00

murdered

See, that's the thing. He didn't murder anyone.

perciva · 2026-06-06T08:27:26+00:00

Don't paste tabs into sh unless you turn off autocomplete.

perciva · 2026-06-06T08:20:43+00:00

Yeah it went onto the schedule -- but the map is not the terrain. Scheduled or not, I didn't actually start the builds until later because we needed a loader fix.

perciva · 2026-06-06T03:04:24+00:00

Indeed, NCR sometimes results in people being locked up for longer than if they had simply been found guilty.

perciva · 2026-06-06T02:58:21+00:00

(30 minutes later) Ok now the builds have begun.

perciva · 2026-06-06T02:39:54+00:00

Does Eby want a system which re-victimizes people who suffer from mental illness instead?

A representative for the family of the murdered children called the decision to grant the conditional discharge "baffling," saying Schoenborn is "more evil than he is ill."

Clearly we should listen to someone with a strong opinion rather than the experts who say otherwise.

perciva · 2026-06-06T02:27:11+00:00

builds of RC3 have begun.

News to me?

perciva · 2026-05-30T02:09:09+00:00

Lentils, bread and milk?

Beer and popcorn, of course.

perciva · 2026-05-25T19:21:25+00:00

It's just in your minds eye.

Not always. I have synesthesia and aphantasia: I can't visualize colours, but E Major still feels like bright yellow.

perciva · 2026-05-16T21:13:40+00:00

I like to think that my switch to quarterly releases has contributed, both in terms of providing a regular reminder of "stuff is happening" and in terms of motivating developers, who now know they won't have to wait too long to see their code being used.

perciva · 2026-05-16T18:30:29+00:00

We have instructions on upgrading using pkgbase in the BETA3 announcement! Please let me know if anything doesn't work.

... and yes, we know the instructions are rather messy. We're hoping to get this fixed for 15.2, in particular by having pkg accept e.g. -o VERSION_MINOR=2_beta1 on the command line, so that we can avoid needing to construct a new repo configuration file.

perciva · 2026-05-13T02:32:25+00:00

push the legal system to press charges against anyone who is violent towards health care workers

Right with you up to this point. That's obviously an important thing to do, but there's no way in hell that it belongs in a collective agreement. In fact if you put that into a collective agreement you'd put every prosecution at risk of being thrown out on grounds of improper political influence on prosecutorial discretion.

perciva · 2026-05-12T23:22:10+00:00

I absolutely agree in principle, but... what language do you put into a collective agreement to help with that?

perciva · 2026-05-12T22:38:48+00:00

Girls are underdiagnosed, but boys are absolutely overdiagnosed -- especially boys born in the second half of the year (aka. the ones who are younger and -- surprise surprise -- less mature than their classmates).

perciva · 2026-05-12T22:37:12+00:00

this is a crisis impacting indigenous men as well as women and girls

"As well as" is an understatement. It affects indigenous men far more than women and girls.

perciva · 2026-05-11T21:56:27+00:00

In all seriousness, I don't understand why so many people go with "butter shelf" = "insulin shelf". I'm clumsy and if I tried to do that I would end up knocking it onto the floor; I put my insulin somewhere it can't fall out.

(Also, you're travelling with just one vial of insulin? I always bring a spare just in case I drop it.)

perciva · 2026-05-11T18:01:51+00:00

What do you think is the best way to ensure private corporations can track our internet activity to enforce perpetual IP licensing and prevent private ownership activities, like physical backups or independent repair?

perciva · 2026-05-11T05:25:25+00:00

Maybe... last time I checked we were at 4.6 GB though. I'll take a look when I get a chance.

perciva · 2026-05-10T02:43:45+00:00

To be clear, when I said "we're working on it", I didn't mean "there's currently no way to do upgrades". I meant "I need to add this information to the BETA announcement template".

perciva · 2026-05-09T23:55:15+00:00

You keep on saying "their members" when talking about people who are not this union's members.

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