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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[?]PurpleJillybeans :PrideDisk: »
@PurpleJillybeans@kind.social

Here's something incredibly useless: a tool to convert your public timeline into a tree.

codeberg.org/PurpleJillybeans/

It's not very pretty at the moment but it *does* work. You can see it in action here:

SNAC: blog.n8fq.org/social/jillybeans
Gopher: gopher://lucifer.n8fq.org:70/1

    [?]chebra »
    @chebra@mstdn.io

    @gyptazy hmm that snac url with `/inbox` didn't work for me 2.81 (got 405). I used the one with `/actor` and that passed successfully.

      Parade du Grotesque 💀 boosted

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

      My friends, I'm so excited and happy to introduce a new project: the illumos Cafe!

      The positive and constructive spirit of the BSD Cafe, created and maintained by all the friends who participated from day one in building a strong and friendly community, deserves to spread to other operating systems. Because there are other OSes that deserve attention, certainly more than they're getting right now.

      Operating systems based on illumos (like SmartOS, OmniOS, Tribblix, OpenIndiana, etc.) are mature, stable, secure, and perfectly usable for a wide range of tasks. ZFS is native, zones are an excellent method for containerization, and bhyve and kvm coexist beautifully - and so much more, too much to list in a single post.

      So from today, the illumos Cafe will stand alongside the BSD Cafe in creating a positive, respectful, and growth-oriented (but also relaxing!) environment, starting right here in the Fediverse with a Mastodon instance and a snac one.

      I've written an introductory article about the project, including some technical details. I invite everyone interested to read it: it-notes.dragas.net/2025/08/18

      Choose your table, take a seat and enjoy your time at the illumos Cafe!

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

        @bjoern Yep, unfortunately. Reasons for switching to ;)

          gyptazy boosted

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

          Running a single user (or small) instance in the Fediverse? Relay instances acting as a spreading proxy can help you to find your content and also to make your posts visible to others - and you can easily join with , and many other ones!

          The fedi-relay.gyptazy.com relay is mostly for tech related content and just got updates to the manpageblog design.

          Image of the activity pub relay instance by gyptazy

          Alt...Image of the activity pub relay instance by gyptazy

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

            The #snac instance on my Pentium Pro is struggling quite a bit. Suggestions as to how to make it return fewer 502s and 499s are most welcome. Suggestions to not run it on such an old box are welcome but will be ignored :D

            (Yes, it is the machine I am posting this from, too)

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

              Updating Mastodon: 20 minutes
              Updating snac2: 2 minutes

                [?]sam »
                @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                Alright I've got myself a 1GB RAM VPS for $12 for the year (a 4x increase over the Pi 😆). It's in London and everything for super low latency! I managed to get installed through some hackery and migrate my blog and instance to it.

                One slightly weird thing I had is that inbound traffic on both SSH and HTTPS was returning a "connection reset by peer" for a while. It seems to be working now, but if some IPv6 folks can check https://cablespaghetti.dev loads properly over v6 for them now, it would put my mind at rest.

                  [?]sam »
                  @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                  In unsurprising on a news. I am increasingly fed up of having to restart it when it crashes due to running out of memory. It happens quite often when I post and sometimes when I don’t. I think this is due to having more content on disk than when I first set it up.

                  I may have to move it to slightly more powerful hardware for my own sanity…

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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.

                      [?]sam »
                      @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                      Thanks to whoever figured out that my server configuration with Lighttpd opened me up to filling up the in-memory root partition and crashing the machine by POSTing a large file. Free pen testing is always appreciated. 😆

                        [?]sam »
                        @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                        In snac on an ancient Raspberry Pi news, I switched from XFS to Btrfs and my memory pressure issues are now a thing of the past. As a bonus I can use snapshots for backups instead of taring up the many small files that snac generates (it has no traditional database).

                        I tried tuning various parameters but after some reading came to the conclusion that lots of small files with very little RAM is about the worst case scenario for XFS.


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                          Pawslut420 boosted

                          [?]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..

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

                            My relay instance for the evolved in a great way - more than 120 instances are already connected to boost your posts across the Fediverse.

                            If you're running / , , or any other software on the protocol that supports relay instances - feel free to join the relay! Hopefully also supports relay services soon! Of course is supported (for IPV6 only instances).

                            fedi-relay.gyptazy.com

                            Screenshot of the overview page of fedi-relay.gyptazy.com showing more than 120 connected instances for a federated network within the Fediverse.

                            Alt...Screenshot of the overview page of fedi-relay.gyptazy.com showing more than 120 connected instances for a federated network within the Fediverse.

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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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