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  • Firefox 118

    September 25th, 2023

    With many performance enhancements

    The binaries are available ahead of the official release announcement at: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/118.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/

    https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-118-Released

    https://www.phoronix.com/review/mercury-firefox-perf/4

  • Second paper of Junyao Ye about his new spaced repetition algorithm

    September 25th, 2023

    Junyao Ye, also known as Jarrett Ye is the author of the new stochastic model of spaced repetition

    “It’s a substantial extension of my previous conference paper A Stochastic Shortest Path Algorithm for Optimizing Spaced Repetition Scheduling. FSRS is based on the model proposed in that paper.”

    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10059206

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369045947_Optimizing_Spaced_Repetition_Schedule_by_Capturing_the_Dynamics_of_Memory

  • Many bug fixes and UI tweaks today regarding FSRS

    September 25th, 2023
  • I hope … :)

    September 25th, 2023
  • September 24th, 2023
  • FreeBSD will need at least another beta for the 14 release

    September 24th, 2023

    Due to the following issues according to Glen Barber, the Release Engineering Lead of the FreeBSD Project:


    1) freebsd-update(8) has previously failed to upgrade from 13.x and
    Β  Β earlier due to a file name that had been replaced with a directory of
    Β  Β the same name.Β  A patch for this is under testing.
    2) FreeBSD arm64/aarch64 EC2 AMIs have been failing to build properly,
    Β  Β presumably due to lang/rust build failures leading to the ec2-scripts
    Β  Β package from being prevented to be available.Β  The last 15.0-CURRENT
    Β  Β snapshots seem to have this resolved, so hopefully it is also
    Β  Β resolved for what will eventually be the ‘release_0’ package set for
    Β  Β 14.0-RELEASE, but that is still over a week away.
    3) There are no “official” FreeBSD base packages available.Β  I have been
    Β  Β occupied with external factors preventing me from having cycles
    Β  Β available to look into this without interruption, but I think I am
    Β  Β going to err on the side of caution and have a manual package set run
    Β  Β available via https://download.freebsd.org/ somewhere within the
    Β  Β version, architecture, and machine type namespace.
    4) Vagrant images fail to upload due to an incorrect target following
    Β  Β the addition of ZFS images.Β  This is another issue where I have
    Β  Β personally been blocked/blocking progress.
    5) The ‘ftp-stage’ target does not currently account for ZFS virtual
    Β  Β machine images.Β  I again have this in my queue.Β  I do not know if
    Β  Β I necessarily care too much about this for 14.0-RELEASE, since all
    Β  Β virtual machine images are within the ‘Latest/’ directory namespace
    Β  Β for all builds, but I am intent on fixing it.
    6) The ZFS-root EC2 AMIs panic a few seconds after booting, apparently
    Β  Β due to memory corruption in ZFS.

    Note regarding (3) above: this is not yet done, but the datasets in
    which the builds were done are preserved.Β  I hope to have at least a few
    hours this weekend to try to get binary packages for the FreeBSD base
    system in place, wherever that ends up being.

  • SSHing into a FreeBSD virtual machine

    September 24th, 2023
    1. Enable Bridged Adapter
    2. find the ip adress of the virtual machine using the ifconfig command (in this case 192.168.0.212)
    3. execute ssh username@ip_adress_of_virtual_machine (in this case ssh chris@192.169.0.212, root@ip_adress does not work for safety reasons!)
  • Anki 23.10 Beta 1

    September 24th, 2023

    Notable Changes:

    Already compiling

    https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-10-beta-1/34912/2

    https://github.com/ankitects/anki/releases/tag/23.10beta1

    https://github.com/ankitects/anki/releases/download/23.10beta1/anki-23.10-linux-qt6.tar.zst

  • Seems like FSRS has become a point of interest in Anki’s development πŸ˜‰

    September 23rd, 2023
  • OpenZFS 2.2-rc4

    September 23rd, 2023

    Brings support for Intel Quick Assist (QA)

    https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.2-rc4

    https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases

  • Ntp date/time syncing (FreeBSD edition)

    September 23rd, 2023

    Add the following parameters in the /etc/rc.conf configuration file:

    ntpd_enable=”YES”
    ntpd_sync_on_start=”YES”

    add the line: pool de.pool.ntp.org iburst in /etc/ntp.conf file

    iburst denotes that ntpd will perform a burst of 8 quick packet
    exchanges with a server when contact is first established, to help quickly synchronize system time.

    The de prefix differs depending on the servers of the country you choose. In my case Germany. A complete list of active servers is on https://www.ntppool.org/en/

    In addition, FreeBSD provides a project-sponsored pool, 0.freebsd.pool.ntp.org.





  • September 23rd, 2023
  • archinstall v2.6.1

    September 23rd, 2023

    Now with support for Ly display manager and custom number of parallel downloads

    The new version is not yet in the Package Database but will be likely included in the October’s ISO.

    https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/releases/tag/v2.6.1

    https://github.com/fairyglade/ly

  • Password hashes in FreeBSD

    September 23rd, 2023

    The supported hashing algorithms are DES, MD5, SHA256, SHA512, and Blowfish but the default is SHA512

    Hashes that start with $6$ are indicative of SHA512

    The settings are found in /etc/login.conf where :passwd_format=sha512:\ declares the preferred hashing algorithm

    In order to change the hashing method execute cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf. It will only affect the new passwords. The old ones need to be re-hashed by asking users to run passwd in order to change their password

    https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/

  • Performing a Dell firmware update using fwupd

    September 22nd, 2023

    fwupdmgr update
    Devices with no available firmware updates:
    β€’ DELL0A7E:00 04F3:3147
    β€’ Fingerprint Sensor
    β€’ Internal SPI Controller
    β€’ UEFI Device Firmware
    Devices with the latest available firmware version:
    β€’ PM9A1 NVMe Samsung 1024GB
    ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
    β•‘ Upgrade System Firmware from 2.20.0 to 2.21.0? β•‘
    ╠══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╣
    β•‘ This stable release fixes the following issues: β•‘
    β•‘ β•‘
    β•‘ Fixed the issue where the BIOS admin password cannot be set if Dell β•‘
    β•‘ Encryption PBA is active. β•‘
    β•‘ β•‘
    β•‘ Fixed the issue where the battery status shows charging when you unplug the β•‘
    β•‘ Type-C dock from the system. This issue occurs with Windows 11 version β•‘
    β•‘ 21H2. β•‘
    β•‘ β•‘
    β•‘ Fixed the issue where the system boots automatically when connected to a β•‘
    β•‘ Dell Power Button Sync (DPBS) monitor. This issue occurs when the system β•‘
    β•‘ enters Sleep mode. β•‘
    β•‘ β•‘
    β•‘ Fixed the issue where the system cannot display to an external monitor. β•‘
    β•‘ This issue occurs when you try to turn on the system through the monitor β•‘
    β•‘ power button on a Dell Power Button Sync (DPBS) monitor. β•‘
    β•‘ β•‘
    β•‘ Inspiron 15 5510 must remain plugged into a power source for the duration β•‘
    β•‘ of the update to avoid damage. β•‘
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    Perform operation? [Y|n]:
    Waiting… [***]
    Successfully installed firmware
    Do not turn off your computer or remove the AC adapter while the update is in progress.
    β€’ UEFI Device Firmware
    β€’ UEFI dbx
    β€’ Unifying Receiver
    An update requires a reboot to complete. Restart now? [y|N]:

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