Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

lw @lw@mastodon.bsd.cafe

3/1/2026, 6:14:53 AM

Public

one change in #FreeBSD pkgbase compared to freebsd-update is that when a kernel module is updated, you get an entire new kernel package (FreeBSD-kernel-generic) rather than just an updated module (foo.ko).

the downside is the update is larger, since the kernel package is about 45MB, but the upside is that because it updates /boot/kernel/kernel, the current patch level is always shown in uname -r after rebooting.

i think this is probably better overall, because a lot of people used to get confused about why they'd update to 15.0p3, but uname still showed 15.0p1, or whatever.

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