The EU will not pay subsidies for transporting #grain from #Ukraine through #Baltic #ports, European Commission Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis stated. He said that the EU may provide financing for removing administrative or infrastructure bottlenecks, however.

https://viabaltica.fi/baltic-no-eu-subsidies-for-ukrainian-grain-transport-eu-commissioner/

@ramin_hal9001 This commit history doesn't look promising. First the original maintainer abandoned it, later someone else marked it broken.

But talking about reproducible builds, you get that with #poudriere (enabling a few options that avoid surpising sources of inconsistencies) and the #ports tree as well. Poudriere builds every package in a clean #jail that only gets the named dependencies installed. Official #FreeBSD packages are built that way.

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#ANDROID $users, do these before #charging in #public #ports :

1) #Disable #USB #debugging in #Developer #settings( it's off by #default, but if u have #enabled it previously, better turn it off)
Q: What if I already turned it on?
A: It's not much of a #problem if u didn't give 'Allow' #permission on asking for USB #debugging #permissions when u #connect to a #charging port(usually the permission won't #popup if it's just a charging port)

@vermaden IBTD ... #Unicode has been around for long enough and the #UTF8 representation became the de-facto standard everywhere. The #FreeBSD #ports tree is not restricted to #ASCII, but anything outside ASCII needs to be UTF8 to ensure interoperability. What you see here is, well, a bug 🙈

I'm going to be talking about the #ports in #LosAngeles / #LongBeach at 3pm Pacific on Saturday, Sept 9 as part of a daylong event: "Delivering the Goods: A Socialist Day School on #Logistics", organized by #DSA-LA:

https://actionnetwork.org/events/delivering-the-goods-a-socialist-day-school-on-logistics

I'm not sure of the, uh, logistics for remote participation, if that is offered, but I can share organizers' contact info if anyone wants to ask. (I'll be remote myself)

I'm going to be talking about the #ports in #LosAngeles / #LongBeach at 3pm Pacific on Saturday, Sept 9 as part of a daylong event: "Delivering the Goods: A Socialist Day School on Logistics", organized by #DSA-LA:

https://actionnetwork.org/events/delivering-the-goods-a-socialist-day-school-on-logistics

I'm not sure of the, uh, logistics for remote participation, if that is offered, but I can share organizers' contact info if anyone wants to ask. (I'll be remote myself)

Userland built from source for #FreeBSD's #Linuxulator is making progress again (and yes, my branch builds and works again!)

☑️ Metaports "linuxsrc_base" for a minimal base userland and "linuxsrc-devtools" for minimal basic tools needed to build #Linux software (just C and C++ and some common tools)
☑️ Automatic selection of the Linux kernel version based on target FreeBSD version, overridable in DEFAULT_VERSIONS (but checked for compatibility of course)
☑️ A new "USES=linuxsrc" to do all the ugly "plumbing" needed for building Linux software using FreeBSD #ports, offering different configurations.

Guess now I could start adding some optional packages and try to get some *real* Linux application working 😎

https://github.com/Zirias/zfbsd-ports/blob/linux/Mk/Uses/linuxsrc.mk

@evilham It is, mostly (from my experience running -CURRENT just for test-building #FreeBSD #ports)

BUT: Its ABI is a moving target, which can be quite a hassle. Hit me recently when base #OpenSSL was updated to 3.x, but packages in the official repo were still trying to link some 1.x.

My recommendation would be: For a "daily driver", always go with -RELEASE unless there's indeed something in -CURRENT (like newer drivers) you absolutely need...

So far, looks like officials are not predicting much disruption from the tropical storm at the ports in LA/Long Beach. No mention of impacts on fueling or refining in this, either:

https://lbbusinessjournal.com/business/san-pedro-bay-ports-brace-for-hurricane-hilary/

#ClimateChange #California #ports #SupplyChain #HurricaneHilary

Keby niekto nevedel #tech #ports

@thindil I'm actually using #LFS as a reference to get around the weirdest issues "bootstrapping" some #GNU toolchain at all. But of course it can't be used as is, LFS expects to be built on some Linux system and even uses #chroot to build some packages, definitely impossible using #FreeBSD #ports.

I certainly don't want two package managers on my system. Plus, a #Linuxulator userland should only install what's *different* from the normal FreeBSD userland, because /compat/linux works as an "overlay".

Trying to create new ports/packages for the Linuxulator userland is cumbersome, first you have to rely on what the repackaged distro offers, second you have to understand the special repackaging magic used.... that's exactly what I *hope* to improve by just building from source. No, I'm not convinced myself yet this is a good idea, I have to try!

The eternal #game port struggle. #serenityos #ports #sdl #sdl2

courtesy of @akaster

@emaste @Tubsta @herrbischoff too late for me, my 14-CURRENT on #ZFS in #Oracle cloud for testing #FreeBSD #ports is up and running 🙈 But still great news! 👍

@jhx I'm already having doubts that was a good idea ... but will have to invest quite some more time until I can be sure 🙈

I would effectively turn #FreeBSD #ports into yet another #Linux #distribution (minus Linux itself except for the headers, because the FreeBSD kernel will be used of course).... 🤔

@jhx I have so many ideas (not only, but also for #FreeBSD), but always too little time 😞

One thing I'd really love to try is to come up with a new set of #linux #ports that don't re-package some dist but instead build from source, using some #GNU cross-toolchain (which *can* be bootstrapped on FreeBSD, BTDT when it was once required for #MakeMKV). In a perfect world, this could maybe enable to create slave-ports of existing FreeBSD ports, building them for /compat/linux instead ... 🤔

#fvwm3 actually merged my "pull request" to add some .desktop file for the #XSession upstream, a topic that came up in a #FreeBSD #ports PR.

It was very quick, and during review conversations, I even learned that KDE delivers a "broken" .desktop file (by FDO standards) which somehow still works 🙈

Anyways, kudos for handling it that quickly. Any porter/packager is thankful for upstreams *that* responsive! 👍
https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3/commit/b3bd394a87d4caab846e1e36be560330901bef27

@stu I came late to the party. This was mostly caused by being pretty much satisfied with #Debian #Linux for my private needs for a LONG time. It gradually changed running into more and more problems with complex software added that's hard to debug, and introduction of #systemd (which immediately caused me problems as well) was the motivation to finally have a look at #FreeBSD, IIRC in 2014.

Disregarding all warnings, I started directly with -CURRENT (because of #drm drivers back then), but I guess I had the necessary experience both as hobby admin and professionel software dev 🙈

Also, I got quickly involved, adding/maintaining #ports, because there was an easy open channel (something I never did with Debian). Now I'm even a ports committer for roughly a year 😎

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https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/ausprobiert-dockcase-10-in-1-hub/
#Ausprobiert #News #Zubehr #10In1Hub #4KDisplay #Aluminiumlegierung #AppleSiliconM1UndM2 #Bildwiederholraten #DisplayPort #Dockcase #EthernetRJ45 #EthernetPort #FirmwareUpgrade #HDMI #Kickstarter #KickstarterKampagne #Mac #MacStudioM1Ultra #MacBookAir #Ports #SDKartenSlot #Thunderbolt4 #USBA #USBC

Random thought about one tiny thing I love about #FreeBSD: #etcupdate! (IIRC freebsd-update incorporates something similar, but I always update from source...)

It does a 3-way compare of /etc (local, old upstream and new upstream) and automatically updates/merges configs, or, as a last resort, marks conflicts.

Unfortunately this won't help with /usr/local/etc (configs for #ports), but it's a start to have it for base and already a big plus over any #Linux #distribution I've seen so far.

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?etcupdate(8)

@herrbischoff Not sure you've seen my toot about it, you can convert the installation you get to #ZFS with some trickery, which I (briefly) described:
https://techhub.social/@zirias/110809845563066860

Note this assumes the purpose is testing #ports, so it installs #FreeBSD -CURRENT. You can easily go for e.g. 13.2-RELEASE by just adding a "git checkout releng/13.2" after both "git clone" commands for src.