This instance is running #snac2 under #NetBSD on a Nintendo Wii. My DMs are open, let me know if you'd like an account here.

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Screenshot from fastfetch showing OS version and hardware platform: NetBSD 11.0-RC2, evbppc, CPU PPC750

Do not pollute the fediverse by boosting, though.

Thank you. :)

Not much going on over here, now that Pound and Snac have been tested for a bit and the configuration stabilized.

There is one remaining issue: Some remote instances keep submitting likes and such repeatedly and at various intervals (typically hours). As others using Snac are experiencing the same, at least I know it is not my platform.

Btw, the invitation still stands: If you want an account here, drop me a note and I'll see what I can do.

[1] https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/sysutils/netbsd_exporter/index.html

#Nintendo #Wii #snac #snac2 #NetBSD #Pound

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Grafana dashboard showing CPU load averages, memory and swap utilization, disk and network I/O, disk freespace, and a handful of metrics from Pound.

Look at this fun no-AI webring!

https://baccyflap.com/noai/

#noai

Twttr ist wieder da: https://twttr.eu/stralau Invitecodes, wer will.

It has been suggested it is time to detail a bit about the configuration of this beast. Let's start with the basics: This is a straight-up #NetBSD 11rc2 installation on a stock #Nintendo #Wii. Many people have detailed how to install it, but one useful source of information is Alex Haydock's blog[2], and of course the NetBSD release documentation. The kernel config[3] is modified slightly from the default WII in an attempt to save a bit of memory.

Building #snac2 was straight forward; no difference from building on i486 or i686. Simply make and make install, with the -f Makefile.NetBSD (the NetBSD-specific makefile is included with the snac sources).

Since snac won't do TLS for inbound connections, a TLS proxy is needed. My go-to nginx isn't in the 11rc2 PPC package repository at the time of writing, so I built it from pkgsrc myself. This only took a couple of hours.. But alas, it's a bit too memory hungry for my taste, even with a minimal configuration.

Next up, I found ttp[4]. It is a very small and simple proxy server, which works fine but cannot serve static files, nor does it support TLS 1.3. It is also incapable of dropping privileges, and since I want to run it as nobody I had to find a different way to pass port 443 traffic to it.

Luckily, NetBSD has npf, a built-in firewall that can do NAT and which is fairly easy to configure (at least with the usual good documentation and examples included). Picking up port 443 and NATing it to a high port for ttp to handle worked fine - and allows me to easily move traffic from one TLS proxy to another while I experiment.

TTP wasn't without problems - but they turned out to not be entirely its fault. I kept getting connection failures and snac kept exiting for no obvious reason.

After some fiddling around, the snac author suggested[5] that I was running out of file handles, which is indeed the case. Adding ulimit -n 1024 to /etc/rc.d/snac solved that issue as well.

Then my thoughts landed on an old acquaintance of mine - pound[6]. This is a reverse proxy with good TLS support, and recent versions can even serve static files in a fairly simple way. After a couple of bug reports, lots of help by the current maintainer, and some more fiddling, I got the most recent versions to build. Once the next release drops (4.21), I'll have a go at doing my first pkgsrc port update :)

The pound configuration[7] now seems to be fairly complete, even keeping out most random scanning attacks (yes, they have already started).

[1] https://wii.cafe/ltning/p/1773014130.033156
[2] https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/
[3] https://anduin.net/~ltning/WII_TINY
[4] https://github.com/Theldus/ttp
[5] https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/issues/576
[6] https://www.gnu.org.ua/software/pound/manual/index.html
[7] https://anduin.net/~ltning/pound/wiicafe_pound.tgz

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Screenshot of htop running on the Wii. pound and snac processes both hovering between 1 and 2 MB resident memory.

This instance is running #snac2 under #NetBSD on a Nintendo Wii. My DMs are open, let me know if you'd like an account here.

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Screenshot from fastfetch showing OS version and hardware platform: NetBSD 11.0-RC2, evbppc, CPU PPC750