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Did you know that four years ago in the original Techno-Mage story-boards Girl had a love interest?!

#unix_surrealism #technomage #comic #openbsd #linux #freebsd #runbsd

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Daemon Boy strapped with a Model-M keyboard.

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Puffy: "This concludes today's lesson. Go have some fun outside for once. And get some food. We're out." Girl and Penguin leave the hideout. Penguin: "What's the plan?" Girl: "I have an idea." Machine junkyard. Penguin: "This is your idea of fun?" Girl: "I've been coming here for a while now..." *NOISE" Penguin: "Did you hear that?" Girl: "Probably a landslide... Or... A MACHINE GHOST!" Penguin: "A WHAT?!"

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Girl: "Master never told you?" Penguin: "No...?" Girl: "Some say the spirits of abandoned machines haunt all who dare enter!" Penguin: *GULP* "Really?" Girl: "I'm just messing with you." *NOISE* Girl: "Maybe we should go..." Penguin: "Agreed." A machine walks up. Penguin and Girl are shook. The machine turns out to be just a boy with horns. Boy: "Hi!" Penguin: "You're not a ghost!" Boy: "Nope! Just a boy looking for some things for my game."

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Girl is enamored. Boy: "You guys wanna try it?" Penguin: "A game?! Yes!" Penguin to Girl: "What is wrong with you?" Girl, Boy, Penguin play homebrew pong and have a good time. Penguin and Girl walk home. Penguin: "You saw he was wearing a skirt, right?"

Has anyone else noticed that https://cgit.freebsd.org/
has been down for a while now ? #FreeBSD

The #BoxyBSD project is taking a pause from provisioning completely free #vps instances / #vserver. For further questions, reach out to @gyptazy or in our Matrix chat.

After publishing the new self-service portal and making it easier to use and get a free VPS instance, we got a lot more new users who requested an instance than usual. We’re not out of resources but we want to provide a great and reliable service and have a buffer for upcoming things.

We’re already restocking the resources and adding new nodes to the project but temporary stop provisioning new instances. In the meantime, we will provide new services that will make the overall experience for users much better and easier.

We already started this with the new #NAT64 gateways and the new free #loadbalancing service that allows you to serve your website also on #IPv4, even your box is #IPv6 only.

We’re addicted to the #BSD community and hope to provide your quickly more #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD, #DragonflyBSD and all the other bsd based systems again. In the meantime - have fun and #RUNBSD

#free #hosting #bhyve #zfs #firewall #networking #community #opensource #fediverse #services

We just added a free #loadbalancing service to #BoxyBSD!

This new feature got added by @gyptazy in addition to the newly introduced #NAT64 gateways to make your life easier and is currently tested with a few users! This provides you the ability to make your website also reachable by #IPv4 even your box is only running on #IPv6. This feature can be managed from your self-service portal and simply requires you to add a DNS name that should be balanced and to point the DNS A record to a given IPv4.

Making the legacy internet life easier, we hope for a higher #BSD adaption where people might be more motivated to try #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD or even #opensolaris with #illumos.

#hosting #opensource #runbsd #hosting #free #service #saas #community #vps #vserver #server #vm

The latest issue of the FreeBSD Journal has just been published and contains an article written by me: My EuroBSDCon Experience in Dublin

https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/virtualization-2/

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD #RunBSD #EuroBSDCon #EBC24

SSH_ASKPASS='/home/justine/.local/bin/ssh-askpass.sh'; export SSH_ASKPASS
SSH_ASKPASS_REQUIRE=prefer; export SSH_ASKPASS_REQUIRE

ZFS 2.3 released with ZFS raidz expansion

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.3.0

#OpenZFS #ZFS #Linux #FreeBSD #NetBSD

Client: Help, emergency. I have 24 hours to move my workload to another server. What do we do?
Me, five minutes later: "Done. Your workload is now running on the new server."
Client: "How did you move over 200GB with just a minute of downtime, from one provider to another and in a different country?"
Me: "Thanks to FreeBSD, ZFS, and a little bit of proactive planning."

I have a task that replicates all the VMs from one server to another every 15 minutes using zfs-send/zfs-receive. This VM connects to a VPN with two reverse proxies.
Meaning, when I move this VM, we don’t need to change any IPs since it’s not directly exposed.
I powered it off, cloned the differences in seconds, and restarted it.

Client in disbelief.
Me, relaxed and happy.

Thank you, FreeBSD, thank you, ZFS!

#FreeBSD #ZFS #TechSupport #ServerMigration #OpenZFS #SysAdmin #RunBSD

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#technomage #unix_surrealism #comic #9front #openbsd #freebsd #runbsd #linux #penguin #fish

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girl, fish, daemon, penguin, machines girl has headphones in her ears

Big news for ZFS Linux and Unix users: The latest release, version 2.3.0, finally brings raidz expansion! No more storage headaches and you can easily add a new HDD. https://www.cyberciti.biz/linux-news/zfs-raidz-expansion-finally-here-in-version-2-3-0/

#linux #freebsd #sysadmin

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Big news for ZFS Linux and Unix users: The latest release, version 2.3.0, finally brings raidz expansion! No more storage headaches and you can easily add a new HDD.

@gyptazy @stefano

Yes, I use an IPv4 tunnel (I can DM the details through Matrix) from my home with variable IPv4 address to get the fixed IPv4 address which has ICMP_ECHO enabled

The tunnel provider is HENet

🖋️ #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #Networking #IPv6 #IPv4 #tunnel #twotunnels #ProxMox #freeBSD #Linux #POSIX #Programming

I face numerous problems with my ISP working internally with IPv4 while all of their routers switches and gateways being fully IPv6 capable, yet unconfigured in that address space

I have been graced with access to a wonderfull service which is of course IPv6 based, since those addresses are in copuous ammounts available. A fixed IP has been assigned to the service

My ISP charges a lower arm and an upperleg for a fixed IPv4 address. Their cheap unpatched gateways are closed, so I'm not allowed to use the ICMP protocol to their router let alone set ICPM_ECHO to enable on the device.

The routing service I signed up for wants ICMP_ECHO on, because a tunnel needs it
I have used a cludge to get to IPv6 by running a tunnel to a service which gives me both a fixed IP and ICMP_ECHO 0 & 8.
I then tell the IPv6 routing server to build the tunnel based on the properly configured IPv4 fixed address I have tunneled to.

This works for about an hour or so. From linux I use the following command set to configure sit0 and sit 1

{
su -

ifconfig sit0 up
ifconfig sit0 inet6 tunnel ::[my IPv4 tunnel address]
ifconfig sit1 up
ifconfig sit1 inet6 add [my IPv6 address]
route -A inet6 add ::/0 dev sit1
}

the devices come up nicely I can ping my IPv6 address and use the VM at that address.

After an hour or so, only when I stopped using both tunnels, for more than 15 minutes, the ping response dies on the second tunnel, consequently also on the whole IPv6 range. When I check the VM provider all Hypervisors (ProxMox) run fine with minimal load.

This means that something needs to keep the tunnel alive since I run data to two tunnels at once

Once tunnel number two goes in slumber mode it does not wake up again.

I have not traced back how to run a KEEP_ALIVE packet stream on the IPv6 tunnel

Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Control_Message_Protocol

@stefano @gyptazy

🖋️ #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #Networking #IPv6 #IPv4 #tunnel #twotunnels #ProxMox #freeBSD #Linux #POSIX #Programming

https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20210102

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #RunBSD

https://github.com/ibara/oksh

#RunBSD #Unix

2025 is starting great - and I took all opportunities!

Like probably all personal playgrounds, I started small with many technically working but not ideal solutions. Ignoring several RFC's, standards etc,.

This also applies to my @BoxyBSD project that provides free VPS (#BSD focussed, such like #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD but also #illumos / #opensolaris etc.,) boxes for the #opensource community and beginners to provide them a place for learning and education.

I decreased (yeah decreased) the amount of overall systems. Instead, we now have bigger sized systems which makes the overall management easier and also improved the whole networking stack. Also some other benefits came along with this ;) I'm really happy to see what 2025 brings up - and there're several great things to be announced soon :)

#RUNBSD

Okay, okay... you guys asked a way too often for this and I want to make your life easier:

BoxyBSD now also offers NAT64 for your #FreeBSD, OpenBSD, #NetBSD, etc. VPS boxes! Next to the reverse proxies, you can now simply use the new NAT64 way :)

@BoxyBSD #homelab #hosting #opensource #community #RUNBSD

Some technical details for those interested:
The entire FediMeteo setup runs on a FreeBSD VM costing around 4 euros per month. It supports almost all major EU countries (plus the UK), with just a few left to complete. Currently, there are 25 separate jails, each running its own instance of snac, totaling 25 instances. The VM load typically stays around 10%, which increases to 30% when updates are published for countries with larger numbers of cities (currently Germany and Italy). The only time the load spikes is when new countries are announced; during that time, all remote instances connect to all cities to download their details.
As for RAM usage, excluding the ZFS cache, it's currently a total of 213 MB. Yes, MB.

#FreeBSD #FediMeteo #snac #Fediverse #Efficiency #RunBSD

Now installing GhostBSD. FreeBSD with a desktop.

Pretty cool. I'm interested.

I also might try an Indie Archive install with FreeBSD and no desktop. Midnight Commander to the rescue.

I'm curious if FreeBSD will require the coreutils install to get gnu cp (gcp).

#BSD #FreeBSD #GhostBSD #Unix

Gonna try #FreeBSD on a #ThinkPad i have lying around.
#FreeBSD is very underrated when it comes to desktop usage - which is mighty fine! 😎

#FreeBSD friends, where's Firefox?

# pkg install firefox
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'firefox' have been found in the repositories

I just signed up for the #BSDNL conference!
Happy to see you all in #Utrecht

Tickets are €15, lunch included!
tickets.bsdnl.nl/bsdnl/early25

📆 2025-04-12 / April 12th 2025
🕐 10:00-23:00 CET
📍 Brouwerij Maximus (Utrecht)

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NETBSD #dragonflybsd #midnightbsd #bsdcafe #conference #meeting

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BSDNL Conference

Working on FreeBSD is always a pleasure. When I need to make a change to a production jail, using BastilleBSD, I clone it in a flash, make the changes, and test them. If they work, I can promote that jail to production or discard the test one and apply the changes.

A way of working that, in my opinion, is both safe and efficient.

#FreeBSD #RunBSD #BastilleBSD

@amin @joel @steffo @roguefoam

mount |wc -l

#Linux: 30 (and snapd isn't even present)
#FreeBSD: 1 (this is on a Jailed web server, so it might be somewhat obfuscated. I don't have a FreeBSD machine at home right now)
#OpenBSD: 5 (tilde.institute)
#NetBSD: 5 (tilde.pink)

Progress!! I managed to get the #PinePhonePro screen working on #FreeBSD 🎉 Long way to go yet, but this is a massive step forward for making FreeBSD usable on the device.

https://tobykurien.com/images/microblog/post-1736141510-0.jpg