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oksh shell. Let's see how long I last. 😅 #FreeBSDksh users out there. At the moment I'm using emacs mode as it is similar to what I was used to in bash. But if I was to try and fully master vi mode in my #ksh interactive shell is there a way to display in the PS1 prompt what mode it is in ?? I have tried the man page but don't see anything ? Been playing around in vi mode and sometimes I'm forgetting what mode I'm in, so it would be handy if you could somehow either change the prompt or cursor ? 🙃#FreeBSD #Vi #Oksh
For anyone struggling from unconfigurable mouse cursor on #Qt6 (i.e., too small mouse cursor on HiDPI environment while non-Qt6 apps are OK):
Adding
export XCURSOR_PATH="~/.icons:/usr/local/share/icons"
in ~/.xinitrc, which is reported (not noting where to put it in, though) at #FreeBSD bugzilla Bug 280573 Comment 3, as the workaround helped for me, too.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=280573#c3
Vincent - @videlft - performed some interesting performance tests and his results were similar to mine. I'd suggest reading his article:
Which platform is the best to run FreeBSD VM ? Linux/KVM or FreeBSD/bhyve ?
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I added a new service in my self-hosting:
a DNS server with adblock support powered by NSD, Unbound, and AdGuard Home
The FreeBSD Foundation’s Laptop Support and Usability Project is making great strides! 💻 The first monthly report is now available.
Highlights include: new graphics driver docs, successful Intel WiFi PoC, and Linux 6.7 DRM drivers ported. The community-led Laptop Desktop Working Group (LDWG) has also launched! Join the effort: https://buff.ly/4hnrsmN #FreeBSD #OpenSource #TechCommunity
Here is a nice article about the experiences which @gyptazy has had at FOSDEM
Location: BE
City: Brussel
Venue: The Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Attendance to FOSDEM is free in the true spirit of Open Source and the event has been held every year for decades
This is year 25 of FOSDEM!
Highlight:
Talk: "Ten Years as a Free, Open, and Automated Certificate Authority,” which detailed Let’s Encrypt’s journey in revolutionizing the internet by offering free SSL/TLS certificates
Now go, read and enjoy
#FOSDEM #fosdem2025 #POSIX #OpenSource #programming #KDE #Gnome #VLC #freeBSD #netBSD #Linux #ULB #Brussel #Belgium
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dark-themed webpage shows a personal profile for "gyptazy, Developer," featuring a cartoon penguin avatar. A sidebar contains navigation links for "About," "Blog," "Talks," "Projects," "Skills," and "Contact." The main content displays a section of FOSDEM report titled "Travel & Parking," including a paragraph about driving to the event and the importance of early arrival for parking, and a photo showing a car driving toward a building at dusk. Social media icons are present below the avatar
Neovim config as it's working now. There is one issue which I cannot get the back of just yet and no amount of searching the web has resolved it either. I'm using virtually the same lualine and alpha config yet the tabline always shows even with my autocmd which do run as I've changed the one that turns off the tabline to open the NvimTree and it opens ok. So something must be re-enabling the tabline but I cannot see anything in my configs ?? Even if I disable the tabline in lualine I cannot make it come back on automatically only if I enter :set showtabline=2 or to diasbale from alpha I can type :set showtabline=0 and it disables.Very strange, but alas it is a minor issue that I can live with for now. Heck I might even drop the
alpha dashboard ?? #Neovim #FreeBSDhttps://git.smithies.me.uk/freebsd-dotfiles/tree/.config/nvim
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A screenshot of the Alpha dashboard on my Neovim setup
Tomorrow the #opensource #FOSDEM #conference starts in #Brussels, #Belgium!
Let’s see if we can attract more people to #BSD based systems by providing free #vps running #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD or even #illumos as an #opensolaris solution.
@gyptazy will be onsite to provide you more information or even stickers ;)
#FOSDEM 2025 - anyone interested into #GPG key signing?
If you're interested:
* Provide a printed snippet of your fingerprint (gpg-key2ps)
* I will send you the signing to your email (instead of uploading them to key servers [gpg-mailkeys])
* You can find my key at https://gpg.gyptazy.com and you're allowed to upload them to key servers.
* Have you passport / ID card with you to validate your identity
* I'll probably be mostly in the #BSDDevroom but you can also ping me on Matrix
Happy key signing!
#encryption #freebsd #bsd #runbsd #keysigning #keysigningparty #email #communication #conference #brussels #belgium #opensource #security
boosted
Similar energy to be found on FreeBSD by running this command to trigger an immediate kernel panic:
sysctl debug.kdb.panic=1
Maybe don't do that unless you want your system to panic (and hopefully reboot OK). But you do you, I'm not gonna stop you.
" #FreeBSD shows netmasks in hexadecimal, but that’s only because it’s for REAL sysadmins."
packer.nvim to lazy.nvim and maybe tweak it some more with new plugins ? I'm still using #HelixEditor but the ongoing lack of customisability via plugins is a negative for me I guess. I did notice though that for Neovim #FreeBSD does not have the lua-language-server but you can build it yourself if needed.I'll push my new config to my git repo once I'm happy with it.
Improving snac Performance with Nginx Proxy Cache
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/01/29/improving-snac-performance-with-nginx-proxy-cache/
#Data #Fediverse #FreeBSD #Hosting #ITNotes #Networking #Nginx #NoteHUB #OwnYourData #Server #Snac #Snac2 #Social #TipsAndTricks #Tutorial #Web
Brussels - here I come! Happy to be part of the #FOSDEM 2025!
Happy to have some great chats with you all about #BSD / #FreeBSD, #BoxyBSD, #ProxLB and #ZFS as an awesome filesystem! See you there!
#fosdem #fosdem25 #fosdem2025 #brussels #belgium #conference #opensource
Today I'm sending Positive Energy channeled through Universal Love to all people on the Fediverse who have given me info on questions I asked, and taught me how to do certain things in more efficient manners.
In the short time I've been here (since 2K18 from my 1st account/instance) I've gone from dormant to active when I was forced out from Twitter, due to the Elon_Musk_Effect.
When people saw posts of mine with accompanying gfx and could not process them due to eyesight issues, one of those kind souls taught me about the existance of @altbot as built by @micr0 which gave me the power to let AI do something positve while generating Alt text on the fly, enabling those users to also fully read my posts as they are intended
At a certian point I started to see posts by @stefano after I read a few of his powerful & informative posts on providing solutions for small (company) users, companies and single individuals (many strangers on the Fediverse) using the power of OpenSource as a whole, not tying himself to one particular platform or hardware area. If the fix is best in freeBSD he'll teach you / implement that, if the fix is best in OpenDOS due to your hardware / VM / Emulator / jail used he'll go so far to give you that, using the KISS principle.
Stefano's philosophy synchronizes so close to mine, it's a natural progression for me to follow the work that he releases more closely and bring myself to higher modulation frequencies in the IT computer & networking spectrum.
Thanks to all of you I was linked to skilled network and hardware techs like @gyptazy who selflessly setup sophisticated platforms for individuals to teach themselves *BSD OS installation & configuration almost from scratch, by giving freeBSD & other VM's through load-balanced Proxmox systems.
Going on will take long and I will fill the 5k character width I have available here, thanks to the max available parameters setup on this FediVerse instance by the System Operator.
Instead I will pause with a
^Z
#GiveThanksAnyDay #GiveThanksDay #UniversalLove #ProxMox #SocialMedia #ElonMuskEffect #Elonmusk #Twitter #Fediverse #freeBSD #netBSD #openBSD #bash #csh #ksh #POSIX #OpenSource #programming
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dark-themed status page shows the BoxyBSD logo in ASCII art at the top. Below, it displays system information, including hypervisor status with locations (France, Canada, Germany, Netherlands), misc. online services (website, matrix bot, provisioning, gyptazy services), statistics (boxes provisioned, OS images, uptime), and contact information. The bottom shows the URL boxybsd.com/status.
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I just upgraded all packets, and unfortunately my OpenSMTPD on #FreeBSD was broken. lucky, there is a thread that talked about this problem.
git clone https://github.com/OpenSMTPD/table-passwd.git
cd table-passwd
sh bootstrap
./configure
make
make install
cp table-passwd /usr/local/libexec/opensmtpd/
cp table-passwd.5 /usr/local/share/man/man5/
Thank you
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/opensmtpd-7-6-0-wont-start-after-upgrade-freebsd-14-2.96410/
Upgrading FreeBSD stress→success [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Finally got around to upgrading my #FreeBSD daily driver from 13.x to 14.x and it was a bit nailbiting. After ~30min of downloading and installing, the first reboot booted into 1024x768 superchonk graphics (still usable, just…unfortunate). Rebooting, upgrading the rest of the way plus packages took another ~45–60min.
Fortunately, everything seems to have turned out fine, including getting normal-resolution graphics back. Worst case, I could have rebooted into the pre-upgrade boot-environment snapshot. But it makes me miss the simplicity and speed of my OpenBSD OS+package upgrades on even paltrier hardware.
Also, I'm thankful I run several things on a remote machine where I can reboot locally without issue, reconnect via SSH, reattach the tmux session, and not lose any context.
oksh as my interactive shell and I thought it about time that I pushed both my .profile and my .kshrc files to my git repo.Please note that I am still learning about #ksh so mistakes are probably there ? 🤔
For observant folk I have left my
bash files there just in case I decide to switch back but so far I'm enjoying the portable OpenBSD ksh, based on the Public Domain Korn Shell (pdksh).#HowTo install & run #snac on #FreeBSD - run your own #ActivityPub instance in the #Fediverse!
In the last days I often got asked about #snac / #snac2 as an alternative to #Mastodon and I can highly recommend it! I few months ago, I already wrote a HowTo about setting snac up on a FreeBSD instance - might be worth to share again :) if you’re using snac, you might also want to use my relay service at https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com to make your posts more visible in the Fediworld.
#opensource #fediverse #fediworld #alternatives #community #FreeBSD #RUNBSD #BoxyBSD #activitypub #mastodon #relay #community #federated
https://gyptazy.com/install-snac2-on-freebsd-an-activitypub-instance-for-the-fediverse/