#introduction

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a gravel road winds through the forest. on the right, a "private road" sign reads "eratee" (est.)

pretty crazy this is a 20 year old machine!! i might daily drive this

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Screenshot of mac os x tiger running a bunch of applications and mastodon written this very post

some month ago, I made a video of my first modular synth patch 😊

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaHsIIL-VJo

here is the system I used in this video:
https://modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/3004903

#synth #eurorack #modular #music #electronica

🌱 Little AND gates and a flip-flop in #wireworld.
https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/wireworld

Heads up for #OpenBSD 7.8 users, backports for chromium, iridium, ungoogled-chromium ports have been committed, updated -stable packages should be showing up in the next few days!

chromium has historically only received updates in -current, but it appears sthen@ has managed to backport them!

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=177195097807729&w=2

More tests for my #markdown renderer (added one test case in 20 minutes, I'm slowly making my way in #uxn !)

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three (passing) greens tests in a terminal capture. Running the uxn virtual machine

latest verson in ports is 6.9

Publishing a webpage in #picotron 0.3 by dragging it into podnet ~ each user has write and listing permission for podnet://{userid}/*

• users: 2 (incl. relay)
• following: 122
• timeline_purge_days: 1
• file count: 15687
• inode count: 14090
• size on disk: 70.3mb (incl. 53.1mb of data, mostly *.json)
• core dumps: 3 (added rcctl restart snac in crontab for now)

I've made a copy of an Apple #Hypercard version of Oblique Strategies with #Decker :

https://farvardin.itch.io/strategies-obliques

in English and French.

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Oblique Strategies for Decker

My cold got better in the evening, so I finished editing the article about reverse-engineering a rare but historically important operating system VisiCorp VisiOn. A ~10,000-word-long write-up is accompanied by the first-ever third-party application for Visi On, developed by my fiancée, Atsuko.

https://git.sr.ht/~nkali/vision-sdk/tree/main/note/index.md

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A screenshot of a black and white computer interface. The window in front is a card game called the Pyramid Game, showing playing cards arranged in a triangle. The background window is Services, showing the list on installed apps (Pyramid Game and Archives)

so one of my big goals for Exigy - my graphical IDE and software development toolkit for lua/love2d - was integrating networking

i've never written a line of networking code in my life until two weeks ago. learning network code necessitated writing Events-driven code, which was mostly new to me too.

i needed some kind of 2d game to test out the network code, so i spent a couple of days hacking together a mini Lunatic Fringe game, if you remember this old classic After Dark module.

for the first time since i was in high school 30 years ago, i had to re-learn trigonometric theory. just making that little ship turn and thrust in the right direction took me WAY longer than i'm comfortable admitting to 😬

these two lines should probably be tattooed to my forehead:
xPositionIncrement = -cos(shipAngle)
yPositionIncrement = sin(-shipAngle)

so as of today, Exigy now has server-client networking over UDP. 🤞 i'll be able to get a dollar store quality Lunatic Fringe server up and running in the next few days to test out the networking code

https://exigy.org

#exigy #lua #love2d #indiedev #macintosh

my favorite is an 18-liter medic pack (1.22 kg)

i have been wearing it for a year now. it's tough, sized well, has enough pals webbing. perfect for a day hike or city trips ❤️

when i need a lighter pack with a pocket for a laptop, then i take niukka (0.95 kg)

i don't think i'll ever buy another backpack: ones i have will outlast me :)

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savotta medic pack

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cult of savotta patch

Polycat runs wonderfully on this 2009 EeePC under HaikuOS! #uxn #haiku_os

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A cute cartoon cat with a single large eyeball standing on old looking pixelated platforms, inside a HaikuOS desktop

Like XEyes but for #uxn.
https://github.com/bbogdan-ov/uxneyes.rom

Took about 15 minutes to spin up a mate desktop with #openbsd

Thats pretty easy.

Around 11 minutes of that 15 was installing the os and the desktop packages, but im on a slow 100mbit internet. The remaining 4 or so was configuring which involved reading a pkg-readme file, following instructions in it, and setting up a few themes.

I really don't get it when people say OpenBSD is hard to set up. Its really not

When i show screenshots of my usual setup on openbsd in linux-oriented places online i'll often get questions like "how do you *even* run that? Isn't it bad for desktop?" Or "openbsd is really bad and supports nothing, i don't think i could use it" or, "you're brave for using openbsd, i could NEVER" Etc.

Ive been getting by fine for the past 4 years or so, and have no plans to switch away.

Its true that desktop on the BSDs isn't nearly as streamlined as some linux systems, but if you can put in a little effort, its actually really quite nice to use as a desktop, and in some ways, better than linux

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The mate desktop environment running with default panel layout, arc gtk theme. There is a terminal window in the center of the screen showing the output of a system fetch utility called "exfetch". Background is a sunset sky.

4 years ago, I spent a weekend putting together a little slideshow program, and have since given every single presentation in it. The idea was that I wanted a slideshow format that was textual so that I could version it, and that I could write the speaker's notes in that same source.

I occasionally found little optimizations so that images are drawn faster, but otherwise, it's essentially the same.

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/adelie

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A demo slideshow that shows image rendering and its source.

EVERYTHING’S GOING TO BE OK
Implementing a tiny virtual machine, assembler, and compiler

The thesis of Tre O’Neal
https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7765&context=theses_etds

#uxn #permacomputing

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Finally, and arguably most importantly, this project reflects an interest in creativity and independence in computing. Building an entire software ecosystem, from a low- level virtual machine to an assembler and compiler – can be both educational and empowering. I bring up a lot of the reasons behind why I took specific approaches while creating the software for this thesis, but by far the most important aspect was that I was having fun – it is entertaining to make things, whether they are software or other creative activities like writing or painting or music – and by the end of it, you have a cool project that you created entirely by yourself, that is just as fun to play around with as it was to make

While I love that #linux is a very competent alternative to commercial operating systems, I can't help but feel that there should be a _simple_ OS out there, something that is deliberately made at a human scale at the expense of modern features.

A well-built microcosmos that just works and requires no fiddling around.

Think no terminal (at least no need for it 99% of the time), elegant first principles, nice GUI, basic tools for programming, writing documents and drawing. Is there such an OS? I guess most old systems were like this, but is there something modern?

#osdev #operating_systems

I finally finished Node1 of my balcony weather station. After nearly a year of looking at it collecting dust and a few hacking sessions, it is installed and working.

It measures temperature, humidity, pressure, and partial matter (in three resolutions).

Big hurdles were mostly software related: getting the Pico SDK C tool chain figured out; getting i2c, uart, and WiFi to play nice together; and keeping the WiFi connection stable.

#diyelectronics

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Sensor board exposed and hooked up to programmer board.

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Sensor installed on the balcony.

Someone asked me why I don't implement markdown support to the wiki engine instead of painstakingly typing down html tags. I think the reason that I never felt like markdown was worth it, was that the editor I use makes writing html somewhat frictionless, maybe if I lost this, I'd consider adding a parser.

Markdown support adds a thick layer of junk to a SSG, maybe the trick is just to improve html support to the editor you use, and keep the site simplier.

TIL you can trace cogs in Inkscape!

Extensions > Render > Cogs

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The cog creation menu lets you set the number of teeth and their sizes.

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)

you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

https://lyra.horse/x86css/

Hiya! 😺 Let's get FediHired! ⁂

I'm a designer and illustrator who works exclusively with open source tools, thanks to #Inkscape, #Scribus, #Krita etc. (can do #Adobe #CreativeSuite if needed). 📕

Also up for 3D-animated, interactive, immersive projects (#Fulldome / #VR w #Blender #Godot) 🌌

https://jfml.eu

#JfmlArt #art #illustration #creative #design #typography #GraphicDesign #logo #icon #DigitalArt#FediHire #FediHired #GetFediHired #FOSSdesign #OpenSource

As mentioned before, I hate bringing this up because I have no evidence or expertise here, just a gut feeling. But I just can't help feeling like, aside from everything else aside about LLM chatbots, they're quickly becoming the leaded gasoline of our time.

Something doing real damage to human cognition, but in this diffuse and difficult to measure kind of way.

I've been working on a little something for the past few days, and it's finally usable :D

![media-1]

introducing…. gopher.tal!
https://codeberg.org/notchoc/gopher.tal
it's a lightweight (~3.2kb) gopher client that tries to be as unsurprising as possible

features:

• clickable and tab-focusable links
• keyboard scroll and screen resize
• support for gopher-search
• special port numbers (still gotta speak gopher)

would you be better off using w3m/bopher? probably

is this still a web browser written in assembly? hell yeah!

#picotron #gopher

woohoo! i have a SDL window rendering!!
this is the farthest i've ever actually gone with SDL 🙂

this is so fun even if the code is a mess hehe.

i don't care what anyone says, C code is fun

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screenshot of emacs showing some C code and a running session window being drawn by SDL showing a series of horizontal lines as a proof of concept

#imagemagick

Been working on flutton - a tiny low-code framework for #pico8. My son had been drawing little Mario levels using the sprite and map editor and wanted to get things moving - so I made this. He's not ready for code yet, but sprite flags provide a fun and easy way for him to build little games.

I still have lots I'd like to add but it is useable and you can try it out with on pico-8-edu
https://github.com/Powersaurus/flutton

uxn feels like a solid platform,..

...but is it technically possible to port vi to uxn? :)

that's probably why i'm so drawn to things like #picotron and #uvn

p.s. to make it clear i was talking about #openbsd /usr/bin/vi --- it's tiny. neovim is huge :)

#uxn #permacomputing #solarpunk :)

transcript at 100r.ca

#permacomputing

#uxn #permacomputing #assembly

Happy birthday Zelda!
#screenshotSaturday #picoCAD2 #lowpoly

OpenBSD wasn't able to run snac stable on this machine, it crashed after a few requests with "illegal instruction".

#snac #snac2 #fediverse #activitypub #NetBSD #OpenBSD #retrocomputing #retroserver #retrohardware #pentiumii #pentium2 #oldhardware

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Open 19" 90's rack Case with a green motherboard in it and old grey ribbon cables connected to a dvd drive and a ssd. there are two addon cards in the pci slots and two slot 1 pentium ii cpus with fans installed. The 4:3 screen shows a fastfetch output giving stats of the machine , an htop screen with two cpu usage graphs and snac log

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green motherboard with two pentium ii slot 1 cpus

- do you want to use google to sign in?
- do you want to add a passkey?
- do you want to add a 2FA token?
- we know you have 2FA but we've sent you an email instead
- this login attempt seems suspicious we've sent you a text about it
- can you click on these buses?
- you failed to click on the buses click on these bicycles instead
- should we save these details for next time?
- do you accept these trackers?
- you can opt out but we've decided it's legitimate interest anyway
- would you like to see a list of our 847 partners we share your data with?
- can we send you desktop notifications?
- can we access your location?
- do you want 10% off for signing up to the mailing list?
- do you want me to translate this page?
- hi I'm your friendly chatbot how can I help?
- oh no you can't buy this, reach out to us for a quote!
- do you want—

I'm tired boss

#lowtech #permacomputing

see also: space toy by jleyba92

#pico8 #picotron #pixelart

$ find object -type f | sed 's,[^.]*,,' | sort -u
.idx
.json

CC: @adnan@ap.aelaraji.com

Got dragged into interesting conversations today, I realized that a few people in my surroundings are at a loss when it comes to proofreading without complex toolchains, or an internet connection.

@rek has written an excellent little guide on how to install and use stardict! Give it a shot, it has been my go-to for years. The synonyms support is especially powerful.
https://kokorobot.ca/site/spellbook#terminaldict

#cyberspace #smallweb

#honkers ; does anybody know what happened to Ted?

Also does anybody have an up-to-date clone of honk? it appears the version i'm running is newer than the version i have the source for and the wayback machine doesn't have consistent snapshots of the source :<

"Entries in the timeline older that this number
of days are purged. If you don't want any timeline
purging and enjoy your data drives fill up with old
crap and finally burst in flames, you can disable
purging by setting this to 0"

please boost ❤️

number of files generated by snac is huge, but i don't care that much anymore.

$ du -hd0 /var/snac
133M	/var/snac
$ find /var/snac | wc -l
   35603

sometimes i use snac command line, but mostly snac web ui and nothing else.

someday maybe i'll try to build some minimalist #activitypub server, but looks like a lot of work :)

see also
activitypub-single-php-file by @Edent@mastodon.social

@Bara_Coded shaping up real nice!

@rek I love it when we get to get rid of packages and replace them with
*checks notes*
a 2000 bytes program.

a {
  display: inline-block;
  max-width: 100%;
  white-space: nowrap;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
  vertical-align: bottom;
}

#webdev #pico8

Each #OpenBSD virtual machine hosting #Git repositories on the #GameOfTrees Hub is configured by editing the gotsys.conf configuration file.

We run a live demo which shows configuration examples to help new users with getting started: https://demo.gothub.org/

<style>
  body {
    filter: url(#x);
  }
  svg {
    display: none;
  }
</style>
<svg width="0" height="0">
  <filter id="x">
    <feturbulence
      basefrequency="1 2"></feturbulence>
    <fedisplacementmap
      in="SourceGraphic"
      scale="2"></fedisplacementmap>
  </filter>
</svg>

• sample page
• linux mode, xerox mode
• @e11e@mastodon.social

html { font: 20px sans-serif; max-width: 40rem; padding: 0.5rem; }

left twitter ages ago and never found anything else that stuck. just restarted my instance recently, and i'm really enjoying it ❤️

powered by @gothub@exquisite.social

gothub feels so right:

• sign up via ssh bot
• configure your server by pushing to gotsys repository (brilliant idea!)
• and you can serve your static sites with custom domain names

it captures exactly how i feel about the state of the internet and it's heartening to see someone building good old homepages with such care and love ❤️

ascii emojis are simple i just manually type them:

:)
:(
:D
;)
:P
:O
❤️
\o/
\ (^_^) /
(~_~)

\ (^_^) /

https://man.openbsd.org

i understand you need to generate a new keypair and then sign your new public key with old one and propagate to the network... how do you practically do that?

cc: @grunfink@comam.es

as i read more reviews, i'm realizing just how much breaks when leaving the iphone ecosystem. apple has so many hooks in my setup... :(

...and it's time to rethink this setup

The Game of Trees Hub is now hosting an #OpenBSD #Git repository mirror:

https://openbsd.gothub.org

The repositories available on our mirror contain the same data as already available at the openbsd accounts on Codeberg and Github but we do not rely on these other sites for updates. Repository updates are regularly being pushed to us directly from Canada.

#Tech #Q1

#gameoftrees #openbsd

m(_ _)m

heavy traffic caused by people updating their #snac2 instances :)

Minor tweak to improve signature key retrieving for some Wordpress configurations.

Fixed web UI incorrect links to actor public pages for some configurations.

Fixed mismatch in the accounts being followed number in the public and people pages.

Notifications can be filtered by category (contributed by byte).

Dates are shown adjusted to the account's time zone (contributed by dandelions).

Configurable limit for poll items (contributed by dandelions).

Fixed incorrect scope when editing a post (contributed by dandelions).

Change the strip_exif logic to work with the already existing OpenBSD sandbox (contributed by oxzi).

Mastodon API: Add poll creation (contributed by davidrv00), fixed a voting bug (contributed by davidrv00), added a fix to verify_credentials (contributed by ag-eitilt).

Updated Czech, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish translations (contributed by pmjv, zen, daltux).

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

cyberdeck update/upgrade ^-^ started messing around with this again since i've been too depressed to be online. i wrote a new blog post about this, some linux things, and other end of the year life stuff ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ read it here: https://ellesho.me/page/website/now/#meet-me-at-the-apt

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elle's cyberdeck made of a pi 4 with ups battery and inky phat e-ink display

Ever wondered what the kernel actually does during boot? Well here is one example. Daily Source Reading: what does #OpenBSD do during boot?

https://blog.wollwage.com/2026/20260217-daily-source-reading-kernel-main.html

#OpenBSD #blogpost #source

https://romanzolotarev.com/uses/

@grunfink@comam.es, thanks again for snac ❤️

just created an account on steam and bought the games, but there is no way to download *.p8 files. i'll try to find a friend with paypal tomorrow ;)

Modern #CSS code snippets, side by side with the old hacks they replace.

https://modern-css.com/

"Stop writing CSS like it's 2015."

#webdev #frontend

Might squeeze in one final feature before finalising picoCAD 2
🎨 Palette - load from disk as well as a few built in ones
📐 Vertices - merge vertices and delete
📥 Export - something other than OBJ, like gltf or fbx

Thoughts?

#smallweb #pixelart

• few colors
• default fonts and everything
• large high contrast font for content
• small fonts for controls
• dark and light color schemes
• big and small screens
• works with styles from my site

updated /var/snac/data/server.json

  "cssurls": [ "/style.css", "/snac.css" ],

#snac2 #css

updated

• plan(): now for dry run site scripts invoked with an argument: src directory

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https://romanzolotarev.com/ssg/.ssg.imgs.sh

The #fedimap is a map of the Fediverse users. Everyone can mark or unmark themselves.

Here's how you add yourself:

• Grab your coordinates by clicking on a location on https://fedimap.de/en/
• Don't use your exact location obviously 😉
• Send a private message to @fedimap with your coordinates like this:
• @fedimap !in 54.88889467,23.93083513

Done!

Looking forward to meet people in #brussels 😀

The project's code is https://codeberg.org/Lioh/Fedimap.

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Maps form a fedimap with currently 637 users registered, mostly in Europe.

TIL: prefix your personal shell commands with "," https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
why am I only learning this now 🥲

Loneliness is the biggest disease of our time. What do you do for yourself and for others to combat it?

Thinking about what the next larger daily source reading is going to be.

#OpenBSD
#FreeBsD

A handy guide for designers working at Apple

What a strange time. I just read this sentence in an article about an HTTP client:

"Lightweight : Just 157~ KB in size"

Sorry but 157 KB is NOT lightweight. Especially for an alternative to "fetch".

#WebDev #JavaScript #TypeScript

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Lightweight: Just 157~ KB in size.

We should all get used to no longer saying "GitHub" but "Microsoft AI GitHub" just so it's clearer where your code lies and for what purpose.

There are a few nicer feelings than being emailed by someone whose blog you read that tells you that they read your blog as well. I love the #indieweb.

@eclecticpassions

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=183169#p @mayazimmerman@gamedev.lgbt https://gamedev.lgbt/users/mayazimmerman/statuses/116053644566856190

i’ve been training since the end of 2019, first with a trainer for over two years, when i switched to my home gym: consistency plummeted and minor injuries happened more often hindering my progress :)

5x5 is my current favorite, but i’d love to explore and try new things.

estonian forests and swamps are amazing 🤩 it's so good i don't want to leave my homestead.

for me the hardest thing with lifting is consistency. two main obstacles in the recent past:

⁃ progressing too fast and getting injured (tendons are adopting much slower than muscles)

⁃ traveling or some other interruptions (hard to get back after skipping a week)

the first addressed by adjusting my program to much slower progression.

the second—by switching from two long workouts per week to two very short workouts per day. same volume per week, just more often. (basic home gym setup helps). i still skip workouts but skipping one doesn't feel so bad 😅

good luck with your moving and stay hard 💪

I'm so unbelievably addicted to the #Indieweb / #smallweb.

To feed my addiction, I have found yet another search machine that finds non-commercial sites. Send help! https://marginalia-search.com/explore

All your personal sites are SO COOL. Drop yours below, please! twitch twitch

Why is the menu on your website not just a page with links?

also please boost and/or recommend any cool capsules ❤️

It's so weird that a lot of people think the quality of software is measured in how often it gets updated—it's literally the opposite.

falling into a rabbit hole…
at least my html pages mostly text and easy to convert to #gemini

It feels like developers are currently split into two groups that do not really understand what the other group is talking about:
One group tries to reduce their dependency on Big Tech by switching to alternative search engines, code forges, map providers, operating systems…
And the other group is trying to increase their dependency on Big Tech by adopting agentic and/or vibe coding.

Nifty #picoCAD2 timelapse. Coming soon to Steam!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-WUDnNH3rQ

#lowpoly #pixelart

I've just published Snk on itch.io for Playdate owners. For free. If you play, tell me about your experience, or if you have any problems, I'll be happy to help.

You can download it here: https://gunbolt.itch.io/snk

#playdate #lua

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Screenshot for Snk, a snake game clone running on Playdate with isometric perspective.

I had the privilege of penning an article for the latest issue of Good Internet Magazine!

It is all about the process of making and experiencing art and how friction and inefficiency needn’t be dirty procurances to avoid and evade.

https://goodinternetmagazine.com/rebelling-against-efficiency/

If you enjoy this article, you might consider picking up the physical print copy of the magazine, which you can buy on the site. A proper palpable paper printing of passionate prose for your pleasant perusal.

#IndieWeb #SmallWeb #PersonalWebsites #GoodInternetMagazine

> "Many personal website owners
deliberately choose inefficient methods
for updating their sites. They write
HTML by hand, upload files directly
via FTP, or maintain static sites that
require manual intervention for even
simple changes. These choices would
be considered backwards in a
professional context, but they serve
important psychological and creative
functions"

by @vale, in the current #GoodInternet issue.

me and my #hugo #ssg site deployed via #ftp feel very seen

#smallWeb #indieWeb

i try to push shell as far as it reasonably goes. for most tasks, sh, find, grep, sed, and cut is more than enough. only when things become truly complex or painfully slow do i reach for another language.

i used to care a lot about strict portability, but in practice i only run my scripts on macos and #openbsd. that simplifies things: if shellcheck is happy, i'm happy. i'm 99% sure my scripts work on other unix-like systems, but i don't feel the need to check.

what really draws me to shell is that it's always there. it's part of the base system, requires no extra installation, and the runtime has been stable for decades. that stability translates directly into confidence: shell scripts feel future-proof.

i know i can run something like ssg.sh ten years from now and it will still work --- certainly on #openbsd, and hopefully on macos too. there's no dependency churn, no worrying about the "right" version of python or ruby, and no hoping the ecosystem hasn't moved on.

it just runs.

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built with /bin/sh

This is very slow. And that's not caused by the old CPU. Hopefully a new ssd + ide>sata adapter will arrive soon.

i'm thinking how to make smallest possible backups...

• 12 posts
• 60 following
• over 9000 files (sic!)

$ du -hd0 /var/snac && find /var/snac | wc -l
61.8M	/var/snac
    9532
$

$ curl -s https://romanzolotarev.com/pub/hi.rss | wc -c
    9999

i use shell scripts to configure and deploy a few #openbsd servers:

• generate configuration files locally for each server (sshd, httpd, relayd, acme-client, nsd, and now #snac2)
• deploy with ssh or rsync (set permissions, time)
• clean up if needed
• run health checks that all configurations applied correctly (testing with nc, dig, curl, etc)

@h3artbl33d @opentechfan rdist rocks! when you don't screw it up.

At the moment we use it sync our 4 DNS VMs. In the past we also managed a cluster of relayd VMs.

https://openbsd.amsterdam/blog/rdist-1-when-ansible-is-too-much.html