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

[?]Tomáš » 🌐
@prahou@merveilles.town

Great news, you can now post a picture to subversive.pics interactively from your favorite internet browser!

You can achieve this by making a picture post inside the fediverse and tagging @subversive_pics (this works with snac, lemmy, mastodon, but not all of its forks, your mileage may vary)

If your picture makes it past the horp censors, your picture will appear on the subversive.pics website and the rss feed!

Incredible.

HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO CONTRIBUTE TO SUBVERSIVE.PICS BUT DONT SPEAK COMPUTER?! metal vaccine angel says sweet

Alt...HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO CONTRIBUTE TO SUBVERSIVE.PICS BUT DONT SPEAK COMPUTER?! metal vaccine angel says sweet

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

    @nw @phanpy #snac compiles and runs on a 486. Lightweight enough for ya? Also very well maintained.

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

      @0x0@hachyderm.io Well it runs this snac instance, and occasionally I sit down to enjoy some slow computing experiencing the X Window System the way it was meant to be: Simple, twm-like (ctwm, technically) and text-oriented. ;)

        [?]Red Rozenglass » 🌐
        @rozenglass@fedi.dreamscape.link

        I wish had an NNTP or mail interface so I can use fedi from my Emacs Gnus just like I use ; with adaptive scoring and good threading ergonomics. Maybe I should build it myself at some point. I wonder if transforming snac's JSON files to news spool files is enough to have some kind of reading support. Posting will probably be a bit more involved.

          [?]DeltaLima 🐧 » 🌐
          @DeltaLima@social.la10cy.net

          Mhhh.. crashes when it start's in my Dual Pentium II system. It's performing at start a heavy job "started deferred data integrity check", which does lot IO.
          When I turn off the traffic from outside, it seems to run (takes ages). But when I turn on the traffic to it, it crashes with
          `Illegal instruction (core dumped)`

          I took the installation over from the PIII system and activated the MP kernel. (Do you really have to cp it from the CD by yourself??)

            [?]Red Rozenglass » 🌐
            @rozenglass@fedi.dreamscape.link

            @grunfink@comam.es I added the following CSS code to my instance:

            details:not([open]) > :not(summary) {
              display: none;
            }
            This removes all HTML elements that are hidden inside closed details elements. When the details element is opened, its children are rendered normally. This does not change anything visibly on the page, but it makes the snac page much faster on my older devices. Plus, I use vim-like navigation plugins that allow clicking links by pressing shortcuts, and the 5 such browser extensions I tested all struggle for a few seconds, completely blocking the browser, while their JS code frantically searches for all clickable elements, not to mention that they show hints for elements that are hidden, making the experience very confusing. Additionally, when I search the page for something I just saw, all detail elements expand, and make the page a mess. With this change, the hidden texts inside details elements are not searchable, and thus, the browser does not expand all of them needlessly. In general, this change has been very good in my experience.

            Additionally, I added name=snac-note attributes to the details element of all "Reply..." sections, and name=snac-top-controls to the top control elements. Only one of the details elements that share the same name is allowed to be open at any time, and thus, if I open the "Reply..." drawer on one post, and then open it on a second post, the first one would automatically close itself. This helped me with the "All details unfolding due to search" issue before, but setting display: none using CSS seems to be a better solution for this problem. Still, I think I'm liking the "only one open at a time" rule, but not sure if it's worth the patch.

            The CSS change I proposed at the top may be somehow annoying in one case I can think of: someone has their settings set to start with all posts folded closed, and wants to search all folded entries for a specific term (like their own name, or something). In this case, their search would come empty, because all content is not actually added to the DOM.

            Anyway, if you think either of those changes is worth adding to snac, feel free to. I think I can strongly recommend the first CSS change, as it fits with snac's aim to be fast and light-weight.

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

              I’m trying some apps. Ice Cubes is nice, but doesn’t work with and it’s open source, which is a great plus

              Tusker is nice and works perfectly with snac, but doesn’t allow to quote post (which is ok, for snac, a bit less for Mastodn)

              Toot! Is nice and funny. Worth investigating more.

              Mona is clear and seems to be working with too

              Ivory looks interesting, but I should consider if I want to pay a monthly fee.

              …I’ll have some fun…

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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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