Goodbye, my friend. I will miss you.
Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe
BSD.cafe and illumos Cafe "Barista", Founder and System Administrator, Unix enthusiast ( #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, #DragonflyBSD, #Illumos and #Linux ), with a keen eye for everything happening in this world and the fascinating beings that populate it. I enjoy #music, #photography, and, of course, #technology.
Most of my posts will self-destruct after 6 months.
"I Solve Problems" - https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/03/i-solve-problems-eurobsdcon/
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@feld oh, it’ll be over in 13 minutes
Current PoV
At the shop:
"Excuse me, they’re servicing my car. Mind if I just sit here and work?"
"Sure. Fancy a coffee?"
Say no more.
At the end of it all, I’m here because I like being here.
I’m here to talk to people. To read things I care about. To see beautiful photos. To be part of a wonderful community. To talk about the things I love, to share my thoughts, and some of what I’ve learned over the years.
But also to share the small pleasures of life: a good pizza, a tiramisu, a beautiful sunrise over the sea, or a quiet path through the trees.
There is already enough anger in the world.
Life is too short to spend it being angry all the time.
Out of my window, I can see the full moon.
It is, along with the sound of crickets, that I feel a deep sense of peace.
@mwl zfs-autobackup, also for local snapshots.
@nuintari but we all know that temporary solutions are the most permanent ones 😆
@_calmdowndear it's happened to me, too, but years ago and only once. I've been running this for 6/7 years and it's been quite solid, except that time that it couldn't delete old backups and the disk was full, forcing me to enlarge the assigned space
OpenBSD Rulez!
Running your own mail server with OpenBSD and OpenSMTPD - a great and complete blog post by @mboelen
https://bsd-audit.com/self-hosting/running-your-own-mailserver/
@mboelen @NebulaTide I've been self-hosting my e-mails since 2001, never moved them to any external provider. If you configure everything in the proper way, they will arrive.
I've seen more Microsoft -> Google, Google -> Microsoft and (yes, incredibly) Google -> Google failures than with custom mail servers
With Apple phasing out AFP in macOS 27 and Time Capsules officially reaching end-of-life, it's time to move network backups to proper SMB.
If you run a FreeBSD server, you can build a fast, rock-solid, and secure Time Machine target powered by ZFS and Samba - neatly isolated inside a FreeBSD jail using Bastille.
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/01/28/time-machine-freebsd-jail/
Keep your macOS backups running smoothly via SMBv3 (with full vfs_fruit support) and full dataset quota control on ZFS!
#FreeBSD #macOS #TimeMachine #ZFS #BastilleBSD #Samba #SysAdmin #Backup #OwnYourData #SelfHosted #BSD #RunBSD #OwnYourData
A few months ago, a client asked me to shave about €200 a month off our agreement. "We’re trying to cut back on expenses", he said, "to boost our cash flow." I was hesitant, but hey, I agreed.
Fast forward to this morning: one of his team members calls me asking for help because - and I quote - "both Claude and ChatGPT are giving me answers that just don't feel right."
I asked for a little context, only to find out they had upgraded to the top-tier plans for both AIs so they could "solve problems on their own without bothering me."
So, I dropped my client a line: we either revert to our original agreement, or we wrap up this collaboration effective immediately.
Asking me for a discount just to throw far more money at AI subscriptions - only to call me anyway when the bots fail - is, to say the least, a slap (or slop?) in the face.
I'm writing this post in the exact same place, on the very same computer I used when I launched BSD Cafe.
It might not mean much to most of you, but it means a lot to me.
Today, the Linuxulator did its job, and it did it very well.
A client is experimenting with moving from Docker to FreeBSD and jails, and they seem very happy with it so far.
The issue is that part of their build process - as so often happens - relies on Node dependencies that only compile on Linux, macOS, etc., but not on FreeBSD, due to a missing binary that isn't provided for it. Currently, they build on their local machines and push the output to the server, but sometimes they need to make quick changes on the fly.
So, I set up a Linux jail (Ubuntu) using BastilleBSD, installed the dependencies, set up a bind mount, and granted them access to the jail. The result: now they can compile right from there too, improving their overall workflow.
The Linuxulator - and even more so, illumos's lx zones - are truly remarkable pieces of technology.
#FreeBSD #Linux #RunBSD #illumos #SmartOS #OmniOS #Tribblix #Linux #IT #SysAdmin
I think I need a better antenna. And enclosure, I guess
I, relaxing with satisfaction, during EuroBSDCon 2024 in Dublin.
Thank you, wonderful people of the Open Source world, because you help make my life so much happier.