Adriano 🐡 @[email protected]
A Brazilian math professor learning BSD, Linux, and OSS. Trying to self-host everything I can. www.adrianobarbosa.xyz
Joined Jul 2018
That site called for help again. One of the accounts was compromised and the attacker activated a theme and some plugins that were injecting a JS in all pages. The JS was showing a fake captcha asking for validation by using the terminal and pasting something. It was a pain to find and remove all the trash, but I believe (hope) I did clean it completely 🤞
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FYI: Had to toggle Automatic Install in Settings->Privacy & Security->Background Security Improvements (on->off->on) on my personal phone for
to show up.
Yesterday I had to fix a Wordpress which suddenly stopped responding only to the login requests, while everything else was working fine. Turned out that a mail plugin was making PHP hang on a SMTP call because the configured mail server wasn’t responding 🫠
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Sometimes I need to find something.
Sometimes I fire up a search engine and search.
8 times out of 10 I end up on @joel 's blog.
Pass completed, 810747608 bad blocks found. (810747608/0/0 errors)
no data was hurt, backup saved the day!
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Tried installing my first non-linux unix the other day. Here are some impressive things about #openbsd :
- Partitions. By default, files aren't allowed to be both writable and executable. So `chmod 777` only works in /usr/local
- The man pages are way more complete than many linux distros. `man afterboot` and `man 8 intro` are great.
- Nice unified service management without the complexity of systemd
- There's a CLI that'll just make RAID volumes for you.
- Nothing more complex than it needs to be. No openssl, only libressl. No sudo, only doas.
- The kernel drivers for recording audio and video by default only record silence and blackness. You need to make a sysctl.conf change if you want to un-blind your laptop. This is both privacy-conscious and hella goth.
After a week of tests and some tuning on restic, I could get it to work well enough. Changing -o sftp.connections=50 did the trick. Hetzner storage box is supposed to allow 10 concurrent connections, but setting it to a bigger number works better… 🤷♂️
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The new @BoxyBSD platform gained some new features for a better #BSD experience!
* The new portal now also finally supports VNC access to your BSD based VPS instances!
* You can finally select ISO files which offers you even to install any BSD or #OpenSolaris version from scratch or to install your VPS instance based on your personal needs without relying on a ready2use image. More images can be added upon request quickly. Simply get in touch with @gyptazy
* You can now get up to 2 free VPS instances to test and evaluate HA setups, multi-region setups etc.
* Extended DN42 peering (where you can also use your DN42 IPv4 addresses)
This is created by @gyptazy and if you're interested into more information, just come to the FOSDEM 2026 for a chat!
#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #SmolBSD #MidnightBSD #DragonflyBSD #RUNBSD #FreeVPS #Hosting #IPv6 #DN42 #community #opensource #fosdem
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It's funny: my eyesight keeps getting worse as the years go by, but my view of the world keeps getting wider
#Reflections #Life #EveningReflections
#Reflections #Life #EveningReflections
I’m looking for a cloud storage for my offsite backups, 1Tb of storage and no transfer fees. Restic compatibility would be perfect. I’m giving up in vultr since they increased prices from $5 to $18. I’m trying hetzner storage box right now, but transfer speed (to fsn) seems to be really slow, at least from Brazil.
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Working hard on the new dashboard / control panel at @[email protected] - it also comes with some new features and you'll be able to move your VPS box around the globe. From Germany to Singapore or maybe to the States? Easy!
CC: @[email protected]
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We at @BoxyBSD are happy to announce our new and modern website!
While the missions keeps the same by providing a free place for beginners to learn, educate themselves and test things in the wild on BSD-based systems (such like #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD (or even #smolbsd) and many more ones) with public accessible IP addresses, the old nerdy design only hit a niche of users.
We want to make BoxyBSD more accessible & enjoyable to everyone and this is one of the first steps. We know, a laggy SSH connection doesn't make fun and therefore, we're also setting up new locations to provide you a better latency independent of your location.
During this time, signups for new users are currently deactivated until the new locations are up and running and the first real-user tests within the new interface have been successfully performed.
Web: https://boxybsd.com
Thanks to @gyptazy for this :)
#BoxyBSD #BSD #BSDHosting #Runbsd #vps #freevps #vpshosting #community #education
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Got unreasonably excited about this new, incredibly straightforward count-distinct algorithm. The CVM algorithm is a direct replacement for HyperLogLog, it nerd-sniped Donald Knuth for weeks, *and* it can easily be taught in an entry-level CS course.
h/t @munin
https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-invent-an-efficient-new-way-to-count-20240516/
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Finally, I retired my AWS/ECS setup for my self-hosted apps, as it was too expensive to operate—I had to pay $20 monthly just to run containers for only a day or so each month, so I rarely used them. Now, everything has been migrated to my FreeBSD-powered Kubernetes home cluster! Part 7 of this blog series covers the initial pod deployments.
A Brazilian math professor learning BSD, Linux, and OSS. Trying to self-host everything I can. www.adrianobarbosa.xyz
Joined Jul 2018
