@nick #snac2 looks really cool. I wonder if it has sufficient #Mastodon api support for account migration. Also I think it would be even cooler if it was a CGI binary or an inetd activated service ^^

I sincerely love you weirdos. <3

#Fediverse #Mastodon #GoToSocial #snac #snac2 #honk #meme #AVIF

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A combination of two "X all the Ys!" memes with a "Pawn Stars best we can do" meme in the middle: "X all the Y" guy: I want an amazing community of noble-minded people to study ethics with and change the world!! Pawn Stars with the faces of the fediverse logo, the mastodon logo, and the logos for snac2 GoToSocial, and Honk in the background: Best we can do is a bunch of cool weirdos with similar nerdy interests "X all the Y" guy's reply: I'll take it!!!

newbie question to #snac2 admins: how can I modify my favicon? I know that there's a definition on compile time, but it's the only way? cc: @grunfink

It has been suggested it is time to detail a bit about the configuration of this beast. Let's start with the basics: This is a straight-up #NetBSD 11rc2 installation on a stock #Nintendo #Wii. Many people have detailed how to install it, but one useful source of information is Alex Haydock's blog[2], and of course the NetBSD release documentation. The kernel config[3] is modified slightly from the default WII in an attempt to save a bit of memory.

Building #snac2 was straight forward; no difference from building on i486 or i686. Simply make and make install, with the -f Makefile.NetBSD (the NetBSD-specific makefile is included with the snac sources).

Since snac won't do TLS for inbound connections, a TLS proxy is needed. My go-to nginx isn't in the 11rc2 PPC package repository at the time of writing, so I built it from pkgsrc myself. This only took a couple of hours.. But alas, it's a bit too memory hungry for my taste, even with a minimal configuration.

Next up, I found ttp[4]. It is a very small and simple proxy server, which works fine but cannot serve static files, nor does it support TLS 1.3. It is also incapable of dropping privileges, and since I want to run it as nobody I had to find a different way to pass port 443 traffic to it.

Luckily, NetBSD has npf, a built-in firewall that can do NAT and which is fairly easy to configure (at least with the usual good documentation and examples included). Picking up port 443 and NATing it to a high port for ttp to handle worked fine - and allows me to easily move traffic from one TLS proxy to another while I experiment.

TTP wasn't without problems - but they turned out to not be entirely its fault. I kept getting connection failures and snac kept exiting for no obvious reason.

After some fiddling around, the snac author suggested[5] that I was running out of file handles, which is indeed the case. Adding ulimit -n 1024 to /etc/rc.d/snac solved that issue as well.

Then my thoughts landed on an old acquaintance of mine - pound[6]. This is a reverse proxy with good TLS support, and recent versions can even serve static files in a fairly simple way. After a couple of bug reports, lots of help by the current maintainer, and some more fiddling, I got the most recent versions to build. Once the next release drops (4.21), I'll have a go at doing my first pkgsrc port update :)

The pound configuration[7] now seems to be fairly complete, even keeping out most random scanning attacks (yes, they have already started).

[1] https://wii.cafe/ltning/p/1773014130.033156
[2] https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/
[3] https://anduin.net/~ltning/WII_TINY
[4] https://github.com/Theldus/ttp
[5] https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/issues/576
[6] https://www.gnu.org.ua/software/pound/manual/index.html
[7] https://anduin.net/~ltning/pound/wiicafe_pound.tgz

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Screenshot of htop running on the Wii. pound and snac processes both hovering between 1 and 2 MB resident memory.

end game setup

• take photos, put them into a directory,
• #entr detects a new directory and runs the script,
• it converts images + audio + speech bubble text into gif and mp4 file with imagemagick and #ffmpeg,
• then posts to #snac2... ;)
  

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  starwars lego stop animation

• users: 1 (just myself)
• following: 254
• timeline_purge_days: 30
• disk: 298m (/var/snac/data)
• ram: 184m (including relayd, httpd, logger, snac itself)

yes, there is an app for that, but i'd rather not add dependencies