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Re:FreeBSD Ate My RAM on Saturday July 04, 2026 @06:24AM (#48784309)
Not after reading this article. :-)
Re:AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks on Saturday June 20, 2026 @07:45AM (#48608517)
Yes, feels like in those cases npm and bun are not far away. Coincidence?
I think Wayland works similarly, in a sense that you open a Unix domain socket and send and receive bytes, see https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/ch04.html.

But I'm pretty sure it's more complicated than I think. :-)

Recently, I tested FreeBSD and it seems one can disable sendmail. See https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/#bsdin....
Re:Modern C for C++ Peeps on Saturday January 07, 2023 @12:34PM (#34290400)
> Especially /W4 on MSVC will generate a lot of fairly pointless spam though, [...]

I think the author meant /Wall.

> The biggest Issue is that error handling is completely broken in POSIX shell scripting (including Bash). Even errexit doesn't work as any normal language would implement it (One could say it is broken by design).

I guess you're referring to http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105. Got recently hit by these as well.