Client: Help, emergency. I have 24 hours to move my workload to another server. What do we do?
Me, five minutes later: "Done. Your workload is now running on the new server."
Client: "How did you move over 200GB with just a minute of downtime, from one provider to another and in a different country?"
Me: "Thanks to FreeBSD, ZFS, and a little bit of proactive planning."

I have a task that replicates all the VMs from one server to another every 15 minutes using zfs-send/zfs-receive. This VM connects to a VPN with two reverse proxies.
Meaning, when I move this VM, we don’t need to change any IPs since it’s not directly exposed.
I powered it off, cloned the differences in seconds, and restarted it.

Client in disbelief.
Me, relaxed and happy.

Thank you, FreeBSD, thank you, ZFS!

#FreeBSD #ZFS #TechSupport #ServerMigration #OpenZFS #SysAdmin #RunBSD

I think that we the artists and the people should not care about if AI is intelligent or not (it's just a semantic discussion with no interesting conclusions), but who benefits and who is damaged from the current hype.

And this is clear: the bigtech is taking the food from our mouths. Sadly, many artists are hypnotised by the new bling. But it's destroying us and robbing our work. We must take action as soon as possible.

When I was about twelve, I went on my first flight as a solo traveler where part of that included a layover in Chicago.

When my flight landed in Chicago, I went to my transfer’s gate, but there was a wait before my next flight departed so I went into the restroom to kill time.

It seems like a weird place for a kid to kill time, but I had this thing where I’d do karate kicks in front of public restroom mirrors because I didn’t have a full-length mirror at home and I wanted to be able to see my “full moves.”

It should be noted that the only karate “training” I’d ever had was watching a VHS tape of the Karate Kid on repeat, but I was certain I was an absolute natural, so I “did my kicks” in front of the mirror and was having a great time until a lady walked in the restroom and saw me doing my kicks.

I was absolutely mortified, so I grabbed my enormous backpack and tennis racket bag and proceeded to hide in a restroom stall until I was confident that nobody else was in there, at which time I exited the restroom and headed to my gate which was just across the aisle.

As I was walking up, I noticed that all of the people who were previously waiting by the gate were now gone and it was then that I learned I was too late and they had already closed the boarding doors.

I was absolutely terrified that I was going to be trapped in Chicago for the rest of my life and I broke down crying, but the gate attendant was very nice and made a call to the plane and they ended up making an exception to let me on and the doors were reopened and I made my way toward the plane.

Because I was late, they had given away my seat so I had to take the last seat available which was at the back of the plane. As a result, I began my torturous walk of shame past all of the other passengers who were now delayed because of me.

It felt like slow motion as I sobbed uncontrollably and lugged my gigantic backpack, all while my tennis racket bag smacked against every single seat as I walked down the aisle toward the back of the plane.

After what felt like an eternity, I FINALLY made it to my seat at the back of the plane and I was relieved that the embarrassment was over—until I looked up and saw the very same lady who caught me doing karate kicks in the restroom.

She didn’t seem to recognize me (or at least pretended not to), but *I* knew.

As a result of that traumatic experience, I never practiced my karate kicks again, but I bet I’m still REALLY good at them.

I think it's a great thing that Pixelfed is getting adopted by a lot of people who are not Mastodon users.
Among other reasons because people will finally start to understand what the Fediverse is and that it's not synonymous with Mastodon.

#PixelFed #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialMedia

https://triptico.com/rss.xml

I got asked if I could create a #howto for creating a (public) #NAT64 service - just like I did recently for #BoxyBSD. With #DNS64 and #NAT64 you can also reach resource in the legacy internet (#IPv4) on #IPv6 only systems.

While this is based on #unbound and #tayga, there’s also a solution by using the #OpenBSD's native way which is also running on the other gateway. I’ll share a second how to how to do this in OpenBSD and pf.

https://gyptazy.com/howto-create-a-public-dns64-nat64-gateway/

Unless maintaining it was expensive or a hassle, I would keep it.

No sería lo mismo que con un profesional pero seguiríamos teniendo un perfil bajo de gastos. En el teatro, igual que en el software, siempre me ha parecido más valioso el resultado de partir de poco y usar ingenio y talento para resolver.

No sé cómo terminará la cosa pero veo un cisma. Y si hay que "forzar" a que no se suba la cuota y no se contrate al cantamañanas del profesor seguirá habiendo algunos que tampoco querrán estar.

La asociación está sirviendo (y debería servir en el futuro) para llevar el teatro a sitios como prisiones o residencias de ancianos y tener una finalidad social. Muy pocos recursos pero bastantes ganas. Y entre esos pocos recursos está la falta de una dirección teatral. Claro, cinco eurazos al mes de cuota no dan para casi nada y menos para pagar a un profesional ... Hasta ahora.

Ahora algunos han visto la oportunidad de contratar unas horas al mes a uno de los antiguos profesores de teatro municipal y plantearon primero aprobar que queríamos dirección teatral y luego subir la cuota para poder pagarle. Muy bien todo. ¿O no?

No, porque hay algunos que no queremos pagar esa cuota. Tampoco es que podamos hacerlo pero sobre todo no queremos. ¿Qué ocurre con nosotros? Y ahí estuvimos encallados las últimas dos horas de la junta y el motivo por el que hemos tenido que aplazarlo.

Si se aprobase todo eso, y se va a aprobar, significa que para ser socio de Bóvalo, la asociación, se tendrá que pagar una cuota de cuarenta o cuarenta y cinco eurazos o si no ... No se podrá ser socio, ¿no? Si no pagas no puedes pertenecer. Al menos yo lo veo así. Hacer teatro juntos en ese caso no tiene sentido. Unos podrán estar dirigidos y otros no; será estupendo organizar funciones con esa disposición.

RATE YOUR DEATH

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4 panel comic by War and Peas: 1st Panel: The Grim Reaper is standing in front of a ghost that hovers over a dead body. He says, "Thank you for using our soul-reaping services." 2nd Panel: He continues, "Would you say your death-experience was Good, Great, Not Sure?" 3rd Panel: The ghost just angrily stares at the Grim Reaper. 4th Panel: The Grim Reaper says, "I'm gonna put down great."

Lo cierto es que hay algunos a los que se les sale la sonda y no saben mear.

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/decir-adios-instituto-dictadura-reproducen-falsos-mitos-franco-vivia-mejor_1_11952493.html

La derecha y demás morralla llevan tiempo intentando (y consiguiendo) que cuestionar ese pasado en concreto sea molesto o incluso peligroso en algunos sitios y eso nos va a llevar otra vez a tiempos tenebrosos, ya no creo que haya vuelta atrás por desgracia.

Y mira que en los chavales pobres (la mayoría) puedo entender que anhelen la vuelta de ese pasado "mejor" porque futuro no les hemos dejado mucho; ¿pero los ricos? ¿Los hijos y familiares de familias pudentes -ricas- quieren ese pasado mejor porque éste les parece malo? ¿En qué?

Bueno, quizás sea porque como decía Miles Vorkosigan en Barrayar tenían bonitos uniformes y botas de caballería, y eso siempre tira siempre que no exista riesgo como hemos podido ver hace unos días en Carabanchel o en el Garibaldi.

#LAfires #Slavery #EnforcedLabor

What is this? I've seen it on Tumblr.

I had not seen anyone make the obvious thing, so I made the obvious thing.

https://jwz.org/b/ykgK

lamp✨

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social

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A venn diagram. The three circles are labelled: The Archaeologist The Pirate The Dog The area where all threel overlap is labelled: Loves digging things up Dog/Archaeologist overlap is labelled: Gets excited by bones Pirate/Archaeologist overlap is labelled: Good with maps Dog/Pirate overlap is labelled: Buries things for later

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2024/bash-hashmap/

Software engineers: CAPITAL IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. You are not a billionaire; you are a worker. Rich investors are trying to take your livelihood away any way they can to keep more money in their pockets. Don’t be smug because you make more money than the median; your worth is smaller than a rounding error on any given billionaire’s spreadsheet.

I repeat: YOU ARE A WORKER. Stand with your fellow workers AGAINST capital. Capitalists and billionaires make life worse for others. They’ve been coming after other workers; and now they’re coming after YOU.

#workers #softwareEngineering #solidarity #unionize

@MostlyHarmless as seen right here:

UPDATE: I haven't seen Recall in action there. I was just asking the doctor how they'll deal with it.

This morning, I went to the doctor for a scheduled appointment. While she was looking at the results of blood tests from two years ago on the screen (and suggested repeating them for a follow-up), I realized she was using Windows 11. A detail came to mind. The doctor is extremely polite and friendly, so I asked her, "How do you handle the feature called Recall?" The doctor was taken aback and had no idea what I was talking about. I was about to drop the conversation, but she, being a serious professional, immediately called the technicians who manage their PCs to ask for clarification. They downplayed it, saying it's not an issue and that it's a feature "on all PCs, so we can't do anything about it." She started to express that she didn’t like it and wanted it deactivated. No luck: they won’t proceed because, according to them, even deactivating it is "a hack that could compromise future updates." She’s furious and will talk to her colleagues and the decision-makers. She wants secure systems because "there’s patient data involved."

In reality, patient data is stored on servers (which I haven't investigated), but everything that appears on the screen is, in my opinion, at risk.

I’ve offered to help them find a solution—because, if I'm right, all they need is LibreOffice and a browser. In that case, I’ll suggest one of the *BSD or Linux systems and do it for free.

I don’t want to make money off my doctor. I just want patient data to be (sufficiently) secure.

#IT #Recall #Windows #OwnYourData #Security #Privacy #RunBSD #Linux

#WindowFriday #FensterFreitag #ViernesDeVentanas

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Ceiling window

CC: @michel@bsd.cafe

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my profile picture in a colorful, empty void

I’d like to send a special “fuck you buddy” to all the boomers that told me “oh you’ll get more conservative as you get older, once you get some money”

I don’t know what world those people live in, but every day since probably 1989 everything I have seen in the world has only convinced me more and more that capitalism is a disease that is destroying lives and the planet.

@Daojoan Except that boredom is something else entirely. Boredom is the lack of essential mental stimulation. I spent my pre-digital childhood doing endless amounts of routine physical labor (offgrid peasant shit like cutting and stacking firewood, digging potatoes, etc) and was bored out of my mind the entire time. Boredom is purest misery, not success. I didn't defeat boredom until the e-reader, and later the smartphone, guaranteed that I'd always have something to do with my brain.

Here’s the brutal truth about mainstream success: You either need to be famous already, or you need to be willing to light yourself on fire for attention.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/want-to-make-it-as-a-creator-be-famous-go-viral-or-go-fuck-yourself/

Durante 60 años el estado ha reparado, mantenido y promocionado el castillo. El parque adyacente que sufrió la misma suerte hace poco también. ¿Vamos a recuperar de alguna manera esas inversiones o como siempre además de puta ponemos la cama y el condón?

O mejor aún, ¿cobraremos IBI o cualquier otro impuesto a la duquesa de marras y su casa nobiliaria o seguiremos igual, intentando negociar cualquier acuerdo porque la propiedad privada es intocable?

Lo mismo tres millones de euros anuales de IBI la convencen de hacer una donación al estado español, que tanto quieren y por el que tanta sangre derramarían, y así todos ganamos.

Hoy no tengo el día para pensar con equidad, lo reconozco. No obstante estoy harto de que ciertos lugares estén protegidos por el estado pero éste no tenga la más mínima potestad sobre ellos.

No, Elon Musk no es un simple loco. Todo lo que ha hecho y todos sus apoyos a la extrema derecha le han reportado beneficios directos. Y lo de Groenlandia, Panamá, Alemania, UK, etc., también...

Os hago un resumen en @elsaltodiario.com con arte de Byron Maher https://www.elsaltodiario.com/estados-unidos/elon-musk-sa-asi-gana-dinero-apoyando-trump-extrema-derecha

This is the FediMeteo VPS's LibreNMS CPU graph.

A significant spike occurs in the early afternoon, where the activity level reaches nearly 100, marking a sharp increase in activity. This spike coincides with the announcement by @FediFollows of new cities. Throughout most of the day, activity levels fluctuate between 10 and 40, with some peaks reaching up to 50 at different times. Notably, some of these levels coincide with backup operations. Early morning and late evening hours show lower activity levels, generally ranging between 10 and 20. The graph clearly highlights the midday burst of activity, followed by a return to more moderate levels throughout the rest of the day.

#FediMeteo #IT #SysAdmin #FreeBSD #LibreNMS #Monitoring

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The screenshot displays a time-series graph from the FediMeteo VPS (by LibreNMS), tracking activity levels over a 24-hour period. The x-axis represents time, and the y-axis shows the CPU level, ranging from 0 to 100. The graph consists of orange bars indicating the intensity of the activity. A significant spike occurs in the early afternoon, where the activity level reaches nearly 100, marking a sharp increase in activity. This spike coincides with the announcement by FediFollows of new cities. Throughout most of the day, activity levels fluctuate between 10 and 40, with some peaks reaching up to 50 at different times. Notably, some of these peaks coincide with backup operations. Early morning and late evening hours show lower activity levels, generally ranging between 10 and 20. The graph clearly highlights the midday burst of activity, followed by a return to more moderate levels throughout the rest of the day.

¿Qué tienen en común Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Fernando Savater o el rapero el Jincho?

Pues que todos se han dado cuenta de que se gana más dinero siendo un buen trozo de mierda.

Me quedo agusto en esta opinión en El Salto.
https://buff.ly/3BLChzK

https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/DEhgYx4JbEG

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

#snac #ThankYou

A big, huge thank you to the Open-Meteo team.
Patrick told me that they appreciate the project, that we can continue, and he provided me with tools to go beyond the allowed calls.
At this point, I’m fixing a few things to improve the addition of countries and cities, and... we’re moving forward!

@openmeteo

#FediMeteo #OpenMeteo #ThankYou

Social media’s golden rule: if you see someone having fun, shame them for not taking the world’s problems seriously enough. Rinse, repeat.

Aerc (TUI) is also fine. It supports multiple accounts natively, but you can't move messages from one account to another (that I know of). I find the interface a little kludgy.

But everybody and their dog is sending HTML mail these days, and though both programs do their best to convert to text / use the alternative plain text format, you always have the sinking feeling that you are missing something (and sometimes you really are missing something).

Thunderbird is OK. It has its annoyances, but it's solid, multi-account, and supports everything. Sometimes it starts burning all my CPU cores at 100% and I don't know why, it's probably doing some garbage collection or whatever.

Evolution (GUI) is also kinda fine, but it's GNOME, and you may not like that. It's heavy.

Claws Mail (GUI) is also OK. It's lighter than Evolution or Thunderbird, but in the past it did something wrong that annoyed me and that I cannot remember and I stopped using it.

I also remember using Kmail (KDE) more 15 years ago and it was also OK, but a bit sluggy.

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

@phantomofopera Hi! The BSD Cafe is an instance for enthusiasts, not business-oriented. There are a few projects (like @BoxyBSD ) that have found a home here, but they are not actual businesses. I also do not promote my own company here - I would prefer it to remain a café, not a commercial promotion space. My advice, from a business perspective (and which could serve as a good example for other businesses as well), would be to create a dedicated instance with the business domain. This would provide direct visibility (you have an instance - you believe in the Fediverse) and show the world that your business has a live and active presence in the free social networks.

(2). Algunas editoriales han empezado a hacer portadas de libros (e incluso ilustraciones de contenido) generadas por IA. Cada ilustración generada por IA es una ilustración para la que no se ha contratado a un ilustrador profesional.

(1). Muchos portales web, incluyendo revistas y similares, algunos de ellos que en su día pudieron ser Muy Interesantes, antes empleaban fotografías de stock para ilustrar sus artículos en la web. Para ello pagaban religiosamente suscripciones editoriales a estos stocks, dinero que repercutía en los fotógrafos que elaboraban esos materiales.

Cada imagen generada por IA es una foto de stock que no se usa, y es un fotógrafo que no recibe remuneración.

Recordatorio adicional: si alguien os dice “la inteligencia artificial no está quitando el trabajo a los creadores, sino que es una herramienta para que los creadores expriman todo su potencial”, os está mintiendo. Y voy a dar ejemplos directos.

I created a Fediverse account for FediMeteo - announcements, news, and updates will be posted there. To stay updated, simply follow the account @admin

#FediMeteo #Fediverse

Announcing FediMeteo – Weather in the Fediverse!

UPDATE: I have created an account for updates and other information on FediMeteo - follow the account @admin to stay updated!

UPDATE: Ireland, Poland, Portugal and Switzerland have just been added

Weather has always influenced our lives: from agriculture to outdoor activities, to extreme events that, thanks to modern technology, can now be predicted with greater reliability. Personally, weather plays a significant role in my daily decisions, which is why I decided to create a service tailored for the Fediverse.

FediMeteo uses Open-Meteo data to publish updates every 6 hours, including current weather conditions, forecasts for the next 12 hours, and predictions for the upcoming days. Each country is served by its own dedicated instance (e.g., it.fedimeteo.com for Italy), managed through snac to ensure simplicity and efficiency in publishing.

You can follow FediMeteo directly in the Fediverse (on Mastodon and compatible platforms), via RSS, or by visiting the dedicated page for your city (e.g., fr.fedimeteo.com/paris).

Currently supported countries include:
Austria, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, – with many more regions coming soon!

FediMeteo is hosted on a FreeBSD-based VPS, with each country isolated in its own jail to ensure security and scalability.

Visit the main site to explore the national instances and start following your local weather updates today:
https://fedimeteo.com

Happy weather monitoring to all! 🌦️

FediMeteo is dedicated to my grandfather, who every evening would give me the weather forecast based on TV, radio, and his personal experience. He would convince me that the weather would be bad, so he had an excuse to accompany me to school instead of me going alone.

#FediMeteo #Announcements #FreeBSD #FediMeteo #WeatherForecasts #Weather #Meteo #snac #Fediverse #Mastodon

Wow, America has already found its iconic image to summarize 2025.
That was fast!

#America #Murica #UnitedStates #USA #Trump #Cybertruck #DumpsterFire

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A cybertruck (or is it a dumpster?) on fire in front of a Trump Hotel

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1003059/41b1d2ea281b6779/

Merry Christmas, Stefano.

5 years is a lot of time for a feral cat, but they are hard as fucking stones, and they know how to play their cards well, so it's probably taking a nap now in a warm house as a proud home cat.

antifascist + zionist = fascist

(just a little fyi to #38C3)

El protocolo de Nostr es técnicamente un buen diseño, pero la gente que hay detrás son criptobros de la peor calaña con las intenciones más rastreras.

No quiero emponzoñar tu hilo con detalles técnicos cuando lo que importa es denunciar la chusma que hay detrás.

CC: @alejandroamartin@laplaza.cafe

el protocolo Nostr (El de threads).

(respecto a lo demás, estoy totalmente de acuerdo).

CC: @alejandroamartin@laplaza.cafe

And Casablanca, of course.

Do you have a big monitor and often lose your mouse pointer on the screen?

Are you in denial about being old enough to turn on mouse trails?

Well, I have the solution for you!

A desk kitten!

Desk kittens can locate your lost mouse pointer in approximately 3 nanoseconds and feature a clear and reliable indicator that ensures you know EXACTLY where your mouse pointer is.

Get your desk kitten today!

Act now and we’ll throw in the relaxing “purr” mode upgrade, guaranteed to relieve stress while responding to people who are wrong on the internet.

Si el Estado recauda más IRPF con un millón de personas trabajando es porque "el Gobierno se forra", pero si lo hace un gobierno del PP con 35.000 declarantes más entonces es "el milagro Laffer"...

Escriben para ignorantes.

#Memes #Christmas #Humour

“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”

The three spirits:

Well that was an easy festive family tech support ticket:

Problem: USB flash drive was not working.

Diagnosis: that's not a USB flash drive. That is the dongle for your mouse.

Solution: here's a USB flash drive.

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

Estos son los 175 contratos de la Xunta con la empresa donde la hermana de Feijóo es directiva
https://buff.ly/4gO6Raq

div class="ftf-dma-note d-none ad native-ad native-ad-1 ytd-j yxd-j yxd-jd aff-content-col aff-inner-col aff-item-list ark-ad-message inplayer-ad inplayer_banners in_stream_banner trafficjunky-float-right dbanner preroll-blocker happy-inside-player blocker-notice blocker-overlay exo-horizontal ave-pl bottom-hor-block brs-block advboxemb wgAdBlockMessage glx-watermark-container overlay-advertising-new header-menu-bottom-ads rkads mdp-deblocker-wrapper amp-ad-inner imggif bloc-pub bloc-pub2 hor_banner aan_fake aan_fake__video-units rps_player_ads fints-block__row full-ave-pl full-bns-block vertbars video-brs player-bns-block wps-player__happy-inside gallery-bns-bl stream-item-widget adsbyrunactive happy-under-player adde_modal_detector adde_modal-overlay ninja-recommend-block aoa_overlay message"

#Amazon and #Starbucks workers are on strike.

Please don't cross the picket line 🙏

#Unions #Workers #Police

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B&W image shows police on horseback. One of them is wielding a baton and is about to strike a woman standing on the ground, who has an arm up in self defense. Text at the top of the image reads: REMEMBER: IT IS A HISTORICAL FACT Text at the bottom of the image reads: THAT DURING A LABOR STRIKE POLICE WILL ALWAYS PROTECT THE INTERESTS OF THE BUSINESS

Is it just me or does buying a Tesla in 2024/25 feel like buying a Mercedes in 1936?

It's always nice when my random shuffle picks Ann Hell. Prince Prospero Meets the Red Death is solid coding music. Thanks, @angel !

https://archive.org/details/the_mask

Tanto Milei en Argentina como Bukele en El Salvador dijeron que si la deuda es aberrante, que si recortando no haría falta más deuda, que si sus políticas iban a ir muy bien, que si los Bonos Volcán y que si no se iban a endeudarse con el FMI...

Los dos han pedido dinero al FMI y van a endeudar más a sus países...

While I was mucking about with an #openbsd port, I got an email from github offering me access to their ai code writing uselessness.

No! Bad website!

*spritzes with water bottle*

My code doesn't work at the moment. Broken is still better than this offer.