mmarcott 🐡 @[email protected]

Daemonless: a collection of FreeBSD-native OCI images that run directly on the FreeBSD kernel, compatible with Podman, AppJail, or any OCI-compliant runtime #Containers #FreeBSD https://daemonless.io/

Very early days with this yet but if you're a fan of retro gaming, and in particularly the Atari ST, you may be interested in a new blog I've started, "Atari ST Tribute":

https://atari-st-tribute.blogspot.com/

#retrogaming #AtariST

Visited @likesoldmacs today and got a chance to see his vast collection of retro Apple tech. Also the first time I've seen #Globaltalk up close.

I wouldn't be surprised if people are still using these machines—and even developing for them—fifty years from now. Maybe even further into the future than that.

#globaltalk #notesart #mastoart #art #illustration #fediart

Backup all the things with #plakar and #OpenBSD !

https://x61.sh/log/2026/03/25032026151800-plakar.html

This is awesome @kalleboo #globaltalk #MARCHintosh

PicoMicroMac is back in stock! Get one soon - they're gonna go fast!

https://jcm-1.com/product/picomicromac/

UPDATE: this little pup has been claimed! Thank you everyone for your interest and support!

Can you make good use of an original Commodore PET computer? This one is yours for free if you can pick it up in Los Angeles (near USC). My parents bought it in 1978. It has the famous chiclet keyboard and integral cassette tape drive. It doesn't work at this point, which someone told me is probably due to some bad RAM chips but I don't actually know. The screen shows random squares when it's on.

Boosts for reach appreciated.

ETA: email me at [email protected] or DM me here.

#RetroComputing #Commodore #PET #LosAngeles

Preparing the ingredients for some delicious spinach empanadas for our trip! 🥟🥬😋

After around 23 years, I think I finally made a decision to switch from #Linux to #OpenBSD. It gives me this fantastic feeling of discovering new horizons and seems much more coherent. Also has no #techbros behind it.
I might even remove Linux from main SSD and leave it only on my USB disk to play one old Windows game that I have.
It seems like the only thing I will miss is battery life on Linux. But I'm ready for this tradeoff.

Built three network analysis tools over the past year. FOSS.

netgrep. Rust packet analyzer. TLS decryption, stream reassembly, interactive TUI.
termshark. Go. Forked the terminal Wireshark UI, refactored, added a web interface.
wiregraph. Real-time network traffic visualizer. Rust backend reuses netgrep's parser. Embedded web dashboard with connection matrix, protocol breakdown, activity.

github.com/georgeglarson/netgrep
github.com/georgeglarson/termshark
github.com/georgeglarson/wiregraph

Podman on FreeBSD enables home-lab containerization

https://discoverbsd.com/p/b18a547a5a

A bit of vintage literature. #MARCHintosh

I still can't even that my now nearly 80 year old mom has been on Fedora on a thinkpad e520 (2011) for a decade and it all just works.

I checked her laptop just now and it's fully up to date on fedora 43, so she's done like 20 version upgrades autonomously too. The battery has degraded a little but the whole thing still works fine and she's very happy with it.

This is how things should be, this is peak computing tbh.

#Fedora #Linux

You just provisioned a fresh Linux server. Within minutes, the SSH brute-force bots will arrive.

There are too many ways to build a firewall in Linux. I wrote a practical guide to the four major tools: iptables, nftables, firewalld, and ufw, including their mental models and deployable configs.

Also includes a deep dive into the "Docker Trap" (why Docker silently bypasses your default-deny rules) and how to fix it.

(And yes, I still spend the intro and conclusion reminding everyone that FreeBSD's PF is the undisputed king of packet filtering. Let's argue in the replies.)

Read it here: https://blog.hofstede.it/linux-firewalls-how-to-actually-secure-a-cloud-server-iptables-nftables-firewalld-ufw/

#Linux #Sysadmin #DevOps #Security #Netfilter #Docker #Networking

OpenBSD adventures, day two. My MacBook with arm64 is running fine under OpenBSD, but there is no video acceleration, so it can't play full-screen videos.

I started to think what I can do about it, and I realised that we had a few e-waste Chromebooks bought for $20 apiece. It's 1.5GHz Celeron, and it is as dodgy as laptops get: it is spray-painted, it is made of cheap plastic, and the keyboard and the touchpad are both kind of only look like real ThinkPad but there were so many corners cut making it that I can't type "root" without it missing a letter or two every other time. This is what kids apparently were using in schools ten years ago or so?

Some things are glacially slow, but Xfce4 is quite usable, and it can play YouTube in 720p. Everything the laptop has to offer seems to be working (even webcam).

It works incredible for an ultra-low-end device from 2013.