Ltning

@ltning@weirdr.net

He/him. This is one of my alter egos in the retro world. Read about this instance on front page. My goal is to be able to post here from a 286* running DOS. Might be a while..

and enthusiast with a craving for retro (mostly PC) hardware. Four kids and a wonderful patchwork family.

*Speaking of 286es: http://floppy.museum/

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Marcus Rohrmoser 🌻 boosted

Ltning »
@ltning@weirdr.net

After a fair bit of fiddling, this instance is now .. operational, I think? And this is officially my first post here.

See also my main fediverse presence: @ltning@anduin.net

About this instance, at the time of writing:
- OS: 10
- Reverse proxy: nginx
- CPU: Dual Pentium Pro Overdrive, 333MHz
- RAM: 512MB EDO
- NIC: 3Com 100Mbit PCI NIC
- Storage: SATA 1.0 (CF and SSD)


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Anders Gulden Olstad boosted

Ltning »
@ltning@weirdr.net

Posting and boosting this certainly put the box under some duress.. Changed ssl_ecdh_curve from secp521r1:secp384r1; to X25519:prime256v1; now; let's see if that helps.

Tim Chase »
@gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe

@ltning @rubenerd
Those hardware specs are delightful (and it says a lot about @grunfink's work that snac is svelte enough to run in such a constrained environment; I can't fathom attempting to run full Mastodon on such specs)

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Jay 🚩 boosted

Ltning »
@ltning@weirdr.net

Yeah I agree. It's absolutely awesome - also that (and all the other variants) are first-class citizens. Thank you, @grunfink@comam.es!

CC: @rubenerd@bsd.network

gyptazy »
@gyptazy@mastodon.gyptazy.com

is really awesome and @grunfink did an amazing job by creating this. It even runs smoothly on my RISC-V dev board which is really pretty slow.

@gumnos @ltning @rubenerd @grunfink

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Ltning »
@ltning@weirdr.net

@gyptazy@gyptazy.com Still runs circles around a 1998 chip though. But it shows what good code can get out of questionable hardware.

Cc @grunfink@comam.es @gumnos@bsd.cafe @rubenerd@bsd.network

Wojo »
@polishdub@bsd.network

@gumnos @ltning @rubenerd @grunfink Seeing specs like that make me so giddy.
You almost never see anything nowdays running on something like that

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Ltning »
@ltning@weirdr.net

Happy to please :D Now would it be considered cheating if I ran snac on a 486 but with TLS handled elsewhere (simply for lack of CPU instructions to do EC TLS)? :)

CC: @gumnos@bsd.cafe @rubenerd@bsd.network @grunfink@comam.es

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