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Never played with kernel mods via packages but very tempted to start.

I have hopes of a path to a radically smaller kernel and loadables for the things not integrated by default. The end would be a path to a kernel Makefile specifying the minimum set, so a path from loadable to static, but with smaller state than generic and smaller critical dependency size.


I believe you already played with /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/MINIMAL kernel?


Yes. Some time ago. Circumstances took me to TrueNAS Core BSD flavour which is regrettably retrograde, and I am about to rejoin the cleaner experience but the transition is .. scary. Making a smaller kernel is off to one side of my main intent which is to NOT lose my existing ZFS state!


After TrueNAS CORE went dead and iXsystems focused on Linux based SCALE version the free and open source 'zVault' fork of TrueNAS CORE happened - https://zvault.io - its page here.

One of my buddies switched from TrueNAS SCALE to FreeBSD based zVault and is more then happy:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/04/20/truenas-core-versu...

He does not have really high expectations - besides having about 2TB of data he runs one Bhyve VM with Linux 'Home Assistant' and one FreeBSD Jail with 'Plex Media Server'.


I've considered Sylve might get where I need to be, but now you have offered me another choice. Interesting!


I also watch Sylve development and progress with curiosity :)


I like this, and respect the craft which went into making it. I still think an immersive 3D model you can interact with may be more functional to illustrate mechanisms.

The room of clockwork/ratchet mechanisms in "Musee des arts et metiers" in Paris is fantastic.


Or if nothing else, just put it on the center of a record player platter and film it for us please!


This! Yes please!

I proposed an archival function at my uni, for historical artifacts held in static collections e.g. the physics lab old computing gear. Turntable, slow rotate, static camera film, done.

This was actually pre-web: I wanted this put in the campus gopher!


Absolutely the best fictional story of the genre. Lovingly made, with nuance and some sadness: Diana Rigg, real life mother of Rachael Stirling, (who was cast as her daughter in this series) died during its later series, reflected in plots.

The theme music by Johnny Flynn and Dan Michaelson is perfect.


For OS which fit. Some now exceed the old SD card sizes.


Ferry pilots do hazardous work. As a layman I consider it not far removed from test pilot. Think about being the ones to go up in a repaired damaged aircraft to get it home.


Presumably it is less hazardous these days. The article notes that 1/7 of the WWII transport pilots died in crashes during the war.


I wonder if the Gates foundation would fund deployment especially in sub Saharan Africa. One shot treatments can overcome repeat shot resistance and lack of capital to maintain a chain over continued drugs, which is partly making TB persist.


Wonderful resource. Decades ago I tried to teach myself with a school edition of Caeser on Gaul and a dictionary. I gave up very quickly.


Very important to read the caveats. They can't stop some snooping and they can't stop black hole routing.


Is that different to any other public DNS provider?


No. I only say it because people often have heightened expectations of public interest services, and regrettably this is the one time I think it really matters to understand nobody can entirely hide your surface of visibility, despite the best of intentions.


I like this but view it through a different lens to "without JavaScript" or "without flash"

Nroff without Ms macros. Raw troff. TeX not latex. To me that's what "without css" analogizes to. Well.. less functional perhaps.

Same as the author?


Wasn't miniaturisation of photos used to get airmail out of the Paris commune in 1871? So less than 20 years after this.


> A microphotograph by René Dagron, containing military communications, transported by carrier pigeon during the Siege of Paris, 1871

If only you'd read the fine article!


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