schmonz.com is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
boostedTremendous fun last night figuring out how to topologically sort a file (of function definitions for Thun, a dialect of Joy I play with) using just the Unix/POSIX tools. There's already a tsort program that's used in linking, I used awk to convert the definitions into a graph, then xargs and a hash db to sort the original file by the topological order.
https://man.netbsd.org/awk.1
https://man.netbsd.org/db.1
https://man.netbsd.org/tsort.1
https://man.netbsd.org/xargs.1
I was thinking today about my diversity of hardware and systems I maintain.
Sure, I've got a few standard VPS cloud systems (vultr, hetzner) running #FreeBSD. These do the heavy lifting for my web, DNS and other services.
My least standard setup is an RPI4 installed in an RV. The electronics are 100% solar powered and connected to the internet via Starlink. Starlink was also converted to 12v and the router replaced with an openWrt powered system.
What's your most unique setup?
stefano@MBPProM1 ~/s/smolBSD (main)> ./startnb.sh -i images/rescue-evbarm-aarch64.img
โก๏ธ using QEMU version 11.1.0
โก๏ธ using kernel kernels/netbsd-SMOL-aarch64.img
โก๏ธ using console: com
โก๏ธ using disk image images/rescue-evbarm-aarch64.img
๐ ^D to stop the vm, ^A-X to kill it
qemu-system-aarch64: warning: driftfix 'slew' is not available with this machine
boot NetBSD/aarch64
initarm
[ 1.0000000] NetBSD/evbarm (fdt) booting ...
main
[ 1.0000000] smolBSD 11.0_STABLE (MICROVM) Notice: this software is protected by copyright
[ 1.0000000] Detecting hardware...[ 1.0000030] WARNING: system needs entropy for security; see entropy(7)
[ 1.0000030] done.
[ 1.0080588] kernel boot time: 121ms
Created tmpfs /dev (1359872 byte, 2624 inodes)
Impressive!
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If you're not aware of it, you should have a look here:
https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/arm/
Ready to go NetBSD images for SBC!
Stefano Marinelli - littleFedi ยป 🌐
@stefano@littleone.littlefedi.social
Hello from the other side!
Yes, it's true. This instance is now running from the Orange PI PC (NetBSD, armv7). It's currently using the SD Card. The performance is...you judge! And it's not set to low_power mode!
smolBSD by @imil could be a nice docker alternative for #littleFedi
I'll perform more tests and will consider to make it an "official deployment method".
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From Report to Patch, the OpenBSD Errata Process https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/ZGDXQR/
Talk by Alexander Bluhm
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Linux emulation on NetBSD: How broken is it? https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/WXCFYU/
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Porting STUNMESH-go to FreeBSD and macOS: Building Peer-to-Peer WireGuard Networks https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/WHGJBN/
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2026-09-12 15:00:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
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2026-09-12 14:00:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
BSD as a Foundational Platform for Nationwide Semiconductor Education in Japan https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/TDELZJ/
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2026-09-12 16:00:00
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FreeBSD on ARM64: A User's Perspective https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/SKHWVL/
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2026-09-12 16:00:00
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2026-09-11 10:30:00
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An Introduction to the Filesystems and Networking in the FreeBSD Open-Source Operating System https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/RNEMNV/
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
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rcd(8): modern service manager the FreeBSD way https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/QTAQKG/
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2026-09-12 16:00:00
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Incident Response done the FreeBSD way https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/PBHXXC/
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2026-09-12 14:00:00
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GEFS: The File Shredder of the Future. https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/NVMSCJ/
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2026-09-13 11:30:00
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Introduction to TUI Programming with bsddialog https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/MGL8PR/
Tutorial Half Day by Benedict Reuschling
2026-09-11 14:30:00
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Unix Manpages, Then and Now https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/MDEE9H/
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2026-09-12 17:00:00
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Base system packages in Production: A Practical Overview https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/MBEDBM/
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2026-09-12 15:00:00
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OpenNTPD - 20 years and a few milliseconds later https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/MAHMBQ/
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2026-09-13 16:15:00
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nuageinit(7): make FreeBSD cloud native https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/LZUXZ8/
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2026-09-12 17:00:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
How Fast Can We Patch? https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/LSR7EX/
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2026-09-13 14:15:00
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