I built Kollect because browser tabs are a terrible reading list. It’s a native Plasma 6 link collector written in C++/Qt/Kirigami: plain TOML files by default, optional self-hosted FastAPI/SQLite storage, KWallet secrets, MiniMax M3 metadata enrichment, and a proper Fedora RPM. Small […]

Teile der Union wollen die Brandmauer zur #noafd schleifen. Schon Franz von Papen glaubte 1933, man könne Faschisten einrahmen und kontrollieren: „In zwei Monaten haben wir Hitler in die Ecke gedrückt, dass er quietscht.“ Mehrere Landesverbände sind als gesichert rechtsextremistisch eingestuft […]

Little bit of urban photography from my neighborhood. #photography #urbamism #neighborhood

New on the blog: Hosting DokuWiki on FreeBSD with Bastille, nginx, and Caddy. A deliberately small, database-free wiki: one application jail, central Caddy ingress, PHP-FPM over a Unix socket, and explicit nginx rules protecting DokuWiki’s private data. The interesting part isn’t getting a […]

New on the blog: chana_masala.sh - our favorite chickpea curry, documented the only way I know how: as a bash script and with a proper runbook. Forked from a HelloFresh box years ago, refactored, and running in production weekly ever since. 100% vegan (when done with oil), 100% reproducible […]

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CDU "Mittelstandsunion" fordert Ende der Brandmauer zur AchFickDich, hat sogar einen Antrag dazu geschrieben. Haben die wieder eine Lieferung Lack erhalten? Mit Faschisten redet man nicht, da kann man nur verlieren. Der allgemeine Diskurs wurde bereits viel zu weit nach rechts verschoben […]

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My Roguelike game starts feeling better and better :-) So much fun building it out further and further every weekend 🙂 Implemented better save-state handling, combat machenics including weapons and armor, cavernous levels and much more this weekend. YAY. #gamedev #roguelike #rust #development

New on the blog: patching FreeBSD machines inside DN42 without giving them a clearnet route. A small dual-homed VM lazily caches pkg.freebsd.org, update.freebsd.org and ftp.freebsd.org with nginx proxy_store, chases CDN redirects server-side, and serves it all over IPv6 into the mesh. pf […]

AU ab Tag 1? Klar, Praxen sind ja bekanntlich leer und Ärzte haben zeit für sowas. Telefonische Krankschreibung weg? Super, dann holt man sich zur Erkältung im Wartezimmer noch die Grippe dazu. Minijobs stärker besteuern, Handwerkerbonus kürzen, Renten „reformieren“, Pflege und Gesundheit weiter […]

FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE is out. In my new guide, I walk through the official upgrade paths: • distribution sets with freebsd-update • packaged base with pkg • boot-environment rollback • .pkgnew merges • boot-loader checks for UEFI/BIOS […]

Had the problem on my DN42 (a distributed overlay network, that is sperated from the internet), that my FreeBSD servers couldn't update without hacky firewall tricks (NAT etc.) Did now finally solve that cleanly with a single caching Nginx server that is […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

Wie gut funktioniert #ki im Support wirklich? Eine Bekannte aus dem eCommerce-Mittelstand hat gerade den perfekten Usecase geliefert. Nach der Einführung einer 80.000€ teuren custom-trainierten KI fiel ihr Net-Promoter-Score von guten 8 auf magere 3. Die Quote der direkt gelösten Fälle (1 […]

Currently working on some (old school) ASCII dungeon crawler in the style of older roguelikes. Not yet sure, where this will lead, but I have lots of fun creating it :-) #roguelike #gamedev #rust #development #gaming

Small weather update: The outside air in Europe is scorching hot right now .. The burningboard.net Mastodon-Server is pleasantly cool with 43° C on the CPU package and 27° C on the NVMe drives .. #mastoadmin #mastodon #server #catacenter

New on the blog: FreeBSD Foundationals #3: The Boot Process From power-on to login: BIOS vs UEFI, the loader & loader.conf, why a tunable is NOT a sysctl, loading modules the modern way with kld_list, wrangling it all with sysrc, plus a security-hardening baseline. And the headline act: boot […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/116806085498460059 Done :-) #mastoadmin

Die Rentenkommission hat gesprochen: Länger arbeiten, weniger Rente, Kapitalmarkt als „Lösung". Rente mit 63 weg. Rentenalter steigt automatisch mit der Lebenserwartung. Als ob das System uns nicht ohnehin schon mit 55 ausspuckt. KI verdichtet Arbeit, Ü50 findet kaum noch Jobs und die Antwort […]

New post: Monitoring our FreeBSD Mastodon instance. burningboard.net runs as a stack of Bastille jails on FreeBSD, so I watch it from a separate box with Prometheus, Grafana and Loki. The interesting part is the FreeBSD-shaped gaps: no native ZFS metrics, nothing for the Mastodon API or our S3 […]

[AI Slop] Sunday fun 🤪 (German) #ohrwurm #musik #kislop #aislop #party #hypetrain

From the engine room: Built a new overview dashboard for our Mastodon instance burningboard.net with all the important stats: - System overview - Sidekiq statistics - Database health - S3 Bucket utilization - Mastodon statistics Starting to look really […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

I don't watch the world cup, but THIS is genuinly cool :-) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6MoB60jX10 #scotland #worldcup

The AI hardware grab is gutting IT supply chains. Prices explode, everyone stretches replacement cycles. Looks eco-friendly, but the hardware just ends up powering slop factories. It's not even a net zero. Consumer hardware vendors are dying from collapsed demand. Even if prices normalize in […]

Nie wieder eON .. Was ich in den 4 Monaten erlebt habe, seitdem die mein Stromanbieter sind, ist beinahe schon Comedy: - Im März kam am gleichen Tag eine Ablehnung und eine Vertragsbestätigung (beide Briefe zusammen im Briefkasten) - Seitdem erhalte ich […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

I'm more than 25 years into IT at this point, but this is a first for me. Not one I'm proud of, but one I take responsibility for: My project ansible_jailexec (an Ansible connection plugin for FreeBSD Jails) had a bug that turned out to be a vulnerability. Improper Link Resolution Before File […]

The new KDE 6.7 release brought back the Oxygen theme from the KDE4 era. Hello there, old friend :-)) #kde #plasma #kde67 #oxygen #nostalgia

For a decade I carried two iPhones: one personal, one for work. Neither ever felt at home in my Linux and BSD world. Now it's a single Fairphone Gen6. Repairable with a screwdriver, 8 years of updates, separate work and personal profiles on one device, and it actually talks to my KDE desktop […]

Our Mastodon instance "burningboard.net" is now running on the newly released FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE :freebsd: Everything looking fine. No unpleasant surprises. Upgrade process went completely smooth! Our Stack now: OS: FreeBSD 15.1-RELASE with Bastille […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

burningboard.net now runs on Mastodon v4.6.0 (Release Candidate) What's new for you: - Collections: Curate up to 25 accounts and share them with others - Redesigned profiles: edit yours directly, no settings panel needed - Email subscriptions: turn your public posts into a mailing list […]

Zum ersten Mal nach mehr als einem Jahrzehnt geht der alte Mann wieder auf ein Konzert 😂👴🏻 #konzert #totehosen #musik #band

Wenige Straßen von mir entfernt hängt tatsächlich noch ein Kaugummi Automat an einer Hauswand. Habe ich auch schon Jahrzehnte nicht mehr bewusst gesehen so einen 😍 #kaugummiautomat #kindheit #nostalgie

Introducing ChatSLM. A small language model with a big heart. ▪ 0 tokens per query ▪ 0 L cooling water ▪ runs on a single ARM64 core in Nuremberg, hosted on FreeBSD. ▪ no telemetry, nothing sent anywhere ▪ consistent, reproducible answers every single time Give it a try. It's often quite […]

Ja, es ist mir schon ein bisschen peinlich 😂 #fediverse #mastodon #burningboard #schlechter_geschmack #slop #schlager #musik @tux @Mathias @AlienJay

People always say, "make sure your investments are diverse." But honestly, MSCI All-World and FTSE All-World are so incredibly limited. You’re literally getting exposure to just ONE planet's economy. Talk about extreme home bias! Where is the real diversification? I want an MSCI Milky-Way! Give […]

@netcup just hard-rebooted BOTH of my servers in quick succession for "urgent maintenance". The whole point of renting two was redundancy. Twelve (!) duplicate notification mails, saying "during the weekend" that turned out to be Friday afternoon, and ~20 minutes of production downtime. 🤬 […]

I run https://blog.hofstede.it aiming for maximum digital sovereignty! DNS: My own authoritative servers (PowerDNS) with DNSSEC signing. HW: Own physical server in a German colocation Net: My own Autonomous System (AS201379) for full BGP control Stack […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

Blog update: https://blog.hofstede.it now loads zero external resources. Fonts and Bootstrap are self-hosted, the requests to Google Fonts and jsdelivr are gone. All visits stays between the visitors browser and my server. Also new: - Full-text search (Pagefind: fully static, no search backend […]

@klaxzy Hey, we hade a big influx of automated bots on our instance recently. Your account was accidently mistaken as one and disabled during. I unlocked you, sorry for the inconvinience.

Database cleanup work: $ psql -c "SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size('mastodon'))" pg_size_pretty ---------------- 38 GB (1 row) $ pg_repack mastodon INFO: repacking table "public.account_aliases" .... $ psql -c "SELECT […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

ansible_jailexec 2.0.0 is out. It's security release. Versions <2.0.0 have a jail-escape bug: put_file followed symlinks placed inside a jail during a root-owned, host-side move, allowing arbitrary root writes on the host. All file transfers now run inside the jail via jexec, confined to its […]

I'm officially convinced AI doesn't stand for Artificial Intelligence. Given the daily tsunami of generated slop flooding our feeds, it clearly stands for Artificial Idiocracy. We’re outsourcing our brains to algorithms and getting noticeably dumber by the second. How long until an LLM […]

New post: IPv6 Foundations. IPv6 isn't "the future of the internet." It's the internet. IPv4 is the relic we keep alive on NAT life support. A laid-back tour through the basics: how the addresses are built, the two rules for crushing out the zeros, a /64 per subnet so you stop counting hosts […]

Yeah, tracks well #ai

Renting in Germany means no split AC bolted to the facade, so my top-floor 1970s office got the consolation prize: a single-hose "monoblock" portable. Plot twist: the compressor was never the problem. The window was. These things leak most of their cooling back in through the unsealed hole the […]

Weekend project that turned into infra I actually run daily: MastoSum. The stack: RHEL host, 100% rootless Podman. Web on FastAPI, Celery worker/beat/flower, PostgreSQL 16, Valkey. All on userspace networking (pasta), images built & shipped by a self-hosted […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

Schwarz-Rot nennt es „Beitragssatzstabilität”. Übersetzt heißt das: - Pflegende Angehörige: bis zu 30 % weniger Rentenansprüche - Pflegegrade werden absichtlich schwerer zu bekommen - höhere Pflegebeiträge für Kinderlose - Medikamenten-Zuzahlung +50 % - beitragsfreie Mitversicherung für […]

Just released ansible_jailexec v1.3.0 It's an Ansible connection plugin I wrote for managing FreeBSD jails. No SSH required. New in this version: you can now run it without a privilege escalation method (sudo/doas) if you connect Ansible directly to the host as root. Codeberg […]

🇬🇧 Ever wondered how burningboard.net actually runs? Fully self-hosted in Germany, no trackers, no external logging. Isolated FreeBSD jails, a strict firewall, ZFS and encrypted off-site backups (restore-tested twice a year). Sovereign and transparent. All the details […]

I know that AI is a controversial topic on here. Same reservations as most: copyright, energy, junior roles eaten, the slop epidemic. Not pretending those are not real. But "I won't touch it" is a competitive handicap in 2026. I engage carefully: human in the loop, my name on every paragraph […]