weirdr.net 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.

Site description
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. :)
Admin account
@ltning@weirdr.net

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Parade du Grotesque 💀 boosted

[?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Exactly one year ago, on 30th December 2024, I laid the foundation of FediMeteo.

I took a VM, installed FreeBSD, and set up the first jail to support Italy. The goal was to create a tool for my own use, support a few countries, and announce it.

Unexpectedly, the enthusiasm was incredible. That pushed me to keep going, support more countries and cities, and turn it into what it is today.

FediMeteo now supports 38 countries and 2,937 cities, with more than 7,700 followers in the Fediverse alone, not counting the many people who follow via RSS feeds or visit the web pages.

If you are curious to read the story and some technical details, you can find it here:
it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26

Today is also Tuesday, a , so I want to say thanks to:

* OpenMeteo - @openmeteo - for providing accurate, high quality data, without which FediMeteo would be far less useful

* @grunfink - creator of snac, who made all of this possible using very few resources, on a 4 euro per month VM

* FreeBSD, which thanks to the efficiency of the OS and its jail implementation made it possible to run this service in a stable and efficient way with minimal effort

* FediFollows - @FediFollows - that periodically spreads the word about cities, countries, and the enthusiasm around the project

*All of you*, who suggested, encouraged, corrected, and celebrated this project

And forward toward supporting more countries and other interesting features already in the works.

Happy birthday, FediMeteo! 🎉

    [?]ltning » 🌐
    @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net

    #Pixelfed, #Pleroma, #Snac and all the others .. can I please have a "local users only" visibility mode for posts? For server announcements and such?

    Or does that already exist, and I'm just blind or st00pid or both?

      [?]ltning » 🌐
      @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net

      Because I like torturing my Pentium Pro, I'm mentioning this one here. Just in case it should be of interest to anyone. Beware of the slightly nsfw second post in the thread. It's late, my boss is visiting, I had a few beers. It seemed like a good idea at the time. ;)

      #RetroComputing #NetBSD #Fediverse #Snac #Snac2

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      [?]Ltning » 🌐
      @ltning@weirdr.net

      Been asked to post pics of this PPro/PIIOverDrive rig. Couple of shitty pics here; let me know if anyone wants actual details. :) Too tipsy to provide much right now..

      Picture of the CPU board, with two Pentium II OverDrive CPUs with retrofitted Noctua fans (for the noise..). Some cabling for the CF card, and more spaghetti for power, fans, etc.

      Alt...Picture of the CPU board, with two Pentium II OverDrive CPUs with retrofitted Noctua fans (for the noise..). Some cabling for the CF card, and more spaghetti for power, fans, etc.

      Picture of the other side of the CPU board, showing half of the system RAM (512MB in total), a SCSI controller, NIC, USB, VGA, SATA and Gravis Ultrasound and Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold cards.

      Alt...Picture of the other side of the CPU board, showing half of the system RAM (512MB in total), a SCSI controller, NIC, USB, VGA, SATA and Gravis Ultrasound and Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold cards.

        Parade du Grotesque 💀 boosted

        [?]gyptazy » 🌐
        @gyptazy@gyptazy.com

        Are you in and running your own instance? You might want to join an Activity Pub relay instance!

        My relay at https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com has currently 139 instances connected, mostly tech related sharing the same mindset and interests like , , , , , and many more! You can easily join from your instance when using , (), and its forks 🙂


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          [?]Ltning » 🌐
          @ltning@weirdr.net

          It's fun to run servers on old, slow computers. Posts that showed up on my big fat server a couple hours ago are only showing up now, simply because it's too busy to receive all relevant notifications at once. Other instances seem to be backing off for a while, and try again at random intervals so the load on this box remains low. Pretty cool, assuming that's actually how it works!

          Only when a post is boosted or replied to do I run the risk of my hot-babe CPU monitor turning nsfw. So better keep it boring, I guess.

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            [?]Ltning » 🌐
            @ltning@weirdr.net

            I have a server running under NetBSD on a 486, which also runs X. It's indeed painfully slow but it does work. And surprisingly well, too. An OS from 2025 on hardware from 1994.

            And if it wasn't for crypto being too slow to actually work I'd be doing the same on the 386SX-class machine that I also have running NetBSD. But with a hyper-optimized SSH handshake taking over a minute, I have no hopes for 2k RSA signatures or any kind of TLS handshakes with remote instances happening in anywhere near the timeframe they would need to..

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              Network == Abstraction Layer boosted

              [?]Ltning » 🌐
              @ltning@weirdr.net

              And it lives! Apparently I'm officially operating a Motherboard Bakery! :)
              Now I need to get it properly configured and tested with DOS, then I can move on to the next steps - which involve the CPU upgrade, and assuming that works, creating actual, physical floppies.

              (In other news, the instance on this poor Pentium Pro server is sweating hard whenever I post something. So let me know at @ltning@anduin.net if you have problems receiving/reading my posts. I've made some tweaks but it will be unavoidably detained for a while following each post, my apologies for that..)


              Picture of BIOS during boot. It's a 1990 American Megatrends BIOS, for the TD60C board, BIOS version 2.42B. It shows a 20MHz CPU clock and 15872 KB RAM tested OK.

              Alt...Picture of BIOS during boot. It's a 1990 American Megatrends BIOS, for the TD60C board, BIOS version 2.42B. It shows a 20MHz CPU clock and 15872 KB RAM tested OK.

                Anders Gulden Olstad boosted

                [?]ltning » 🌐
                @ltning@larry.weirdr.net

                for the win: Using ctwm (window manager), urxvt (terminal emulator), mrxvt (tabbed terminal emulator), pload (network monitor) and, in the spirit of the 90s, hot-babe (CPU monitor), I have a nice and borderline usable "desktop" on this 486.

                Until starts doing work of course. Then I just sit back and wait.

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                  [?]Ltning » 🌐
                  @ltning@weirdr.net

                  Damn I like the whole css-or-bust approach to styling that has. I mean I know many (most?) others do a bit of the same but this is just delightful.

                  So..TLS aside, what is the most lightweight reverse proxy I can use instead of nginx in front of this thing? You know, in case I would like to move the instance from this beefy PPro to, say, a or a Wii running ? :)


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                    [?]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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