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This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.

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This is a dual Pentium Pro running NetBSD.
Check out the floppy museum for hints on how to get in touch. Or, you know, ping me on the fediverse. :)
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Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

Stefano Marinelli »
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

I hear with regret that the AsiaBSDCon 2025 has been canceled. Even though I couldn't be able to attend, I'm disappointed because the BSDCons are amazing events. A virtual hug to the organizers and good luck with preparations for the next conference

    gyptazy boosted

    BoxyBSD »
    @BoxyBSD@mastodon.bsd.cafe

    Tomorrow the starts in , !

    Let’s see if we can attract more people to based systems by providing free running , , or even as an solution.

    @gyptazy will be onsite to provide you more information or even stickers ;)

      gyptazy »
      @gyptazy@mastodon.gyptazy.com

      2025 - anyone interested into 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 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 but you can also ping me on Matrix

      Happy key signing!

        gyptazy boosted

        gyptazy »
        @gyptazy@mastodon.gyptazy.com

        You can also catch some stickers at the - , , @gyptazy and :)

          Stefano Marinelli »
          @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

          gyptazy boosted

          gyptazy »
          @gyptazy@mastodon.gyptazy.com

          Brussels - here I come! Happy to be part of the 2025!

          Happy to have some great chats with you all about / , , and as an awesome filesystem! See you there!

            gyptazy boosted

            gyptazy »
            @gyptazy@mastodon.gyptazy.com

            install & run on - run your own instance in the !

            In the last days I often got asked about / as an alternative to 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 fedi-relay.gyptazy.com to make your posts more visible in the Fediworld.

            gyptazy.com/install-snac2-on-f

              FreeBSD Foundation »
              @FreeBSDFoundation@mastodon.social

              Heading to '25?

              Join us in the BSD Dev Room on Feb 1st for some exciting -focused talks. Deepen your FreeBSD knowledge, meet enthusiasts, and gain insights from experts. Don't miss it!

              freebsdfoundation.org/blog/fre

              Stop by FreeBSD Stand in Building K to connect with contributors, learn about the latest updates, and grab some cool swag!

                gyptazy boosted

                Stefano Marinelli »
                @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                In recent days, Deb Goodkin, Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation, returned to the Fediverse via her @dgoodkin@mastodon.social account.

                But with my great joy, she has also decided to sit at a table of the BSD Cafe: @dgoodkin.

                Welcome back to the Fediverse and to the BSD Cafe!

                  Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                  Jay 🚩 :runbsd: »
                  @jaypatelani@bsd.network

                  BSD community i think we should use more of lemmy than reddit

                  lemmy.sdf.org/c/bsd

                    gyptazy boosted

                    vermaden »
                    @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                    Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟭/𝟮𝟳 (Valuable News - 2025/01/27) available.

                    vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/01

                    Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

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                      gyptazy »
                      @gyptazy@mastodon.gyptazy.com

                      Just a few days ago, I lunched my new relay service for the and I'm really happy to see that there're already many ones connected to - more than 50 instances in just a few days!

                      But what makes me even really happy is to see, that my service [2] also gets linked in the release notes of [1] / - and I can recommend the usage of relay services (it doesn't matter which one!) to everyone. It provides more content from connected instances to you, but also brings your posts - from your local instance - up to other ones within the federated network where it can get much easier distributed around other instances.

                      is the perfect way to host an own fediverse instance. Using the protocol allows you to connect to all other instances. With the integrated API, you can also use most of your usual clients or web clients. Snac is light, fast, does not require any database and follows the KISS way - which the most of us BSD people are living. With relay services, it's the perfect match for singe-user instances and @grunfink is always open for ideas and to help! It does not always need to be , etc!

                      And if you're using any other software, you may still benefit by using relay services. And if you're still looking for a guide, howto setup snac2 on , my howto [3] might help you out.

                      [1]: codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
                      [2]: fedi-relay.gyptazy.com
                      [3]: gyptazy.com/install-snac2-on-f

                        Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                        Stefano Marinelli »
                        @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                        When I founded BSD Cafe, I did it because I knew the community around BSD is amazing. More like a family than just a community. And every day I get confirmation of that.

                        I can finally, officially confirm that the talk "Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025" has been accepted and is scheduled for the next OSDay 2025, which will take place on 21/03/2025 in Florence, Italy.

                        There was a vote on GitHub, and this talk, by a narrow margin, received the most votes overall. Another testament to how the BSD family moves as one.

                        It is an honor to receive all these votes and to present, in a brief 25-minute talk + 5 minutes for questions, our beloved BSDs. I will try my best not to disappoint you, but for now, let me say a huge: THANK YOU!

                          Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                          Stefano Marinelli »
                          @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                          The BSD community is great.
                          That's all I can say for now. More details in the coming days... 😉

                            Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                            Peter N. M. Hansteen »
                            @pitrh@mastodon.social

                            Peter N. M. Hansteen »
                            @pitrh@mastodon.social

                            Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                            Jay 🚩 :runbsd: »
                            @jaypatelani@bsd.network

                            gyptazy boosted

                            BoxyBSD »
                            @BoxyBSD@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                            The project is taking a pause from provisioning completely free instances / . 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 gateways and the new free service that allows you to serve your website also on , even your box is only.

                            We’re addicted to the community and hope to provide your quickly more , , , and all the other bsd based systems again. In the meantime - have fun and

                              gyptazy boosted

                              Peter N. M. Hansteen »
                              @pitrh@mastodon.social

                              Stefano Martinelli's @stefano article about his EuroBSDCon 2024 experience has been published by the FreeBSD Journal and on the Foundation web site: freebsdfoundation.org/our-work (TL;DR: he enjoyed it *a lot*)

                                Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                BoxyBSD »
                                @BoxyBSD@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                We just added a free service to !

                                This new feature got added by @gyptazy in addition to the newly introduced 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 even your box is only running on . 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 adaption where people might be more motivated to try , , or even with .

                                  Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                  Peter N. M. Hansteen »
                                  @pitrh@mastodon.social

                                  BSDCan 2025 in Ottawa:

                                  Tutorials: June 11-12, 2025
                                  Conference: June 13-14, 2025

                                  bsdcan.org/2025/

                                  If you or your employer want to step up as a BSDCan sponsor, see bsdcan.org/2025/sponsorship.ht for opportunities and sponsorship level options

                                    Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                    nixCraft 🐧 »
                                    @nixCraft@mastodon.social

                                    FFmpeg By Example is a documentation website to showcase all the unique and different ways to use FFmpeg. ffmpegbyexample.com/

                                      Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                      Stefano Marinelli »
                                      @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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

                                      freebsdfoundation.org/our-work

                                      #

                                        Stefano Marinelli »
                                        @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                        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!

                                          Marcel Stritzelberger »
                                          @marzlberger@mastodon.online

                                          @stefano That is so great, I hope it gets implemented in very soon!

                                            Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                            Stefano Marinelli »
                                            @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                            gyptazy boosted

                                            vermaden »
                                            @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                            Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟭/𝟭𝟯 (Valuable News - 2025/01/13) available.

                                            vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/01

                                            Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                                              gyptazy »
                                              @gyptazy@mastodon.gyptazy.com

                                              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 ( focussed, such like , , but also / etc.,) boxes for the 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 :)

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                                                gyptazy »
                                                @gyptazy@mastodon.gyptazy.com

                                                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 , OpenBSD, , etc. VPS boxes! Next to the reverse proxies, you can now simply use the new NAT64 way :)

                                                @BoxyBSD

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