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FreeBSD: icons are broken in Geany, GIMP, HandBrake, PDF Arranger, Remmina, and various other applications.

In addition to the four screenshots here in Mastodon:

― https://i.imgur.com/iJ2eKe6.png – the Save As dialogue in Firefox (the File Open dialogue is similarly broken)

― https://i.imgur.com/j3LVxGP.png – Geany

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Breakage was first observed following an upgrade on 28th April. Broken again with the most recent round of updates, a few hours ago.

I can reactivate a boot environment that has recent base packages alongside increasingly outdated port packages, however this is far from ideal.

Can anyone explain the breakage?

Thanks

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1k9wjv5/comment/

Postscript: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/114567643239283752

#FreeBSD

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Progress!! I managed to get the #PinePhonePro screen working on #FreeBSD 🎉 Long way to go yet, but this is a massive step forward for making FreeBSD usable on the device.

https://tobykurien.com/images/microblog/post-1736141510-0.jpg

To generate background color (for "xterm(1)"), I use the #Perl (was 5.3[68]; is 5.40) program on #FreeBSD (was 13; is 14) …

use strict; use warnings;

my @red = qw[ 05 15 20 25 30 ];
my @green = qw[ 00 05 10 15 ];
my @blue = qw[ 00 10 15 16 ];

print join( q[/],
$red[ rand @red ],
$green[ rand @green ],
$blue[ rand @blue ]
);

Rarely the FIRST time is the color other than same shade of brown. Because "@red" is longer? Some initial state?

#notVery #random

Some technical details for those interested:
The entire FediMeteo setup runs on a FreeBSD VM costing around 4 euros per month. It supports almost all major EU countries (plus the UK), with just a few left to complete. Currently, there are 25 separate jails, each running its own instance of snac, totaling 25 instances. The VM load typically stays around 10%, which increases to 30% when updates are published for countries with larger numbers of cities (currently Germany and Italy). The only time the load spikes is when new countries are announced; during that time, all remote instances connect to all cities to download their details.
As for RAM usage, excluding the ZFS cache, it's currently a total of 213 MB. Yes, MB.

#FreeBSD #FediMeteo #snac #Fediverse #Efficiency #RunBSD

@dvl can Seriously Motivate a person.

#SixWordStories #FreeBSD

I have some strange and annoying problem with my @frameworkcomputer #Framework 16 notebook: Since a few months, when the notebook is running non-stop for a few days, the touchpad and the keyboard stop responding. The keyboard is responding again after a few seconds but not the touchpad.

Only after the notebook has been shut down for a day or so, the touchpad starts responding again but not if it is powered down only for a few minutes.

Framework support has sent a replacement touchpad which shows the same behaviour and they otherwise are not helpful at all. They just keep asking the same questions, do not care to read my replies and tell me it is because I am running #FreeBSD and this is "not a supported Linux distro" (sigh...).

Does anybody have any idea what could be the problem?

I have been quite happy with the notebook but this kind of customer support experience is really frustrating...

Code - OSS

Visual Studio Code – Open Source

Paste seems to be bugged in editors/vscode 1.96.4_2 and greater on FreeBSD.

If you have 1.96.4_1: consider locking it before your next upgrade of packages.

<https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1igc6is/editorsvscode_1964_2_paste_not_working/mde5u33/>

<https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1gzcbbl/electron_and_related_ports/> Electron 34 is not yet ported.

#Electron #VSCode #FreeBSD

Is everything terrible again? Let's focus on something completely different. Do you write amazing, perfect code on Linux or the BSDs? Well stop reading and get out. For the rest of us, how do we secure our systems? I've put together a survey on Source Code Sandboxing, https://kristaps.bsd.lv/devsecflops, which surveys the practical complexity and uptake of sandbox tools like seccomp, landlock, pledge, and capsicum.

If you've ever interfaced any of the tools I've mentioned, or want to mention another, head on over to https://github.com/kristapsdz/dev_sec_flops and make a pull request.

Enjoy! #Linux #openbsd #freebsd #programming

Shots 1 and 2: I forced a series of errors by running pkbasify (in Konsole, alongside various other applications) with insufficient free memory and insufficient swap space.

Shots 3 and 4: the second run completed without error.

Cool.

<https://github.com/ifreund/pkgbasify?tab=readme-ov-file#pkgbasify>

– convert a FreeBSD system to use pkgbase.

Thanks to Isaac Freund @ifreund and the FreeBSD Foundation @FreeBSDFoundation

#FreeBSD #pkg #pkgbase #pkgbasify

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Dear #FreeBSD users,

What shell(as in text shell in the Terminal) do you use?

Best Regards,
Farooq the Chickenkiller.

#BSD #Linux #FOSS #opensource #freesoftware

Hmmm, on a #FreeBSD 14.2 host, running a 14.1 jail, is there any reason that 14.1 jail could not run a 14.2 jail?

I already run jails in jails...