Freshly updated: my AS201379 page. IPv6-only, FreeBSD + FRR, 2a06:9801:1c::/48. Now with an at-a-glance table (ASN, AS-SET, contacts), full upstream list and new EVIX alongside LocIX Düsseldorf and FogIXP. Peering policy is open. If we share a presence at any of those three, I'd love to peer […]

Nice! Our Mastodon instance burningboard.net has almost 60% of total using the current generation of the Internet Protocol (IPv6) and only arround 40% still using the legacy-protocol from the 1980s (IPv4). Measured on the PF firewall of our Mastodon […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

A bug in my Ansible connection plugin needed a real FreeBSD jail to reproduce. So I put three of them on an idle 512 MB free-tier VPS. With pkgbase, the base userland is just 33 MB. And persistent jails use zero idle processes. Here’s the build, the regression test, and the two sharp edges that […]

Ansible is easy to install. A sane, reproducible development environment takes more thought. My downstream-first setup uses RHEL 10.2, Podman, VS Code Dev Containers, and Red Hat-packaged Ansible Development Tools, while keeping the boundaries between upstream projects, downstream products […]

Rice is not anonymous white ballast for transporting sauce. Jasmine, basmati, brown, parboiled, Arborio, Carnaroli. They all have different jobs. And yes, the way you cook them matters. A short argument against the German Kochbeutel, plus my rice-cooker method for fluffy, chopstick-friendly […]

AS201379, part 5: joined EVIX (an IXP whose fabric is VXLAN tunnels, so no port and no new machine), got IPv4 onto an IPv6-only network, and cleaned up four routers' worth of config drift. Fourteen BGP sessions, all FreeBSD, all still fitting on one Grafana screen […]

I really don’t need any more peers for my AS201379! (Okay, maybe a few more...) Started back in December 2025, and now this "little" infrastructure is running: 14 individual eBGP sessions 3 Internet Exchanges Multiple transit providers 110+ direct peers […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

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

From the engine room: Today, I updated our entire Mastodon infrastructure for burningboard.net to FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p1 :freebsd: and applied all quarterly package updates. This included the Mastodon App-Server, the opensearch cluster and the Grafana […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/116992447094087771 Upgraded our Mastodon instance burningboard.net to the new release 4.6.4 to fix the major issues. #mastodon #mastoadmin #burningboard @tux @Mathias @AlienJay

Mastodon Engineering@mastodonengineering.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · last wk.

We just released Mastodon 4.6.4, 4.5.14 and 4.4.21. Those updates include multiple security fixes, including fixes for two major issues. We encourage server administrators to update as soon as possible, as one of the issues can expose PII of local users. We are investigating potential uses of […]

I was ill last week and discovered something uncomfortable: a huge Jellyfin library isn't entertainment, it's homework. Every time I opened it, it asked "what do you want?" and I just scrolled. So I built a TV station instead. ErsatzTV turns a media library into real linear channels with […]

Had some unused keyboard body laying arround here for a while. A Keychron K8 pro, that I used in the past. Did build a fresh keyboard out of it today: - Body: Keychrom K8 Pro ANSI - Switches: Akko Rosewood (Linear, lubed) - Keycaps: Cheap double-shot PBT […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

My digital sovereignty stack in 2026: Laptop OS: Linux (Fedora 44) :fedora: Phone: Android 17 :android: E-Mail: Self hosted dovecot/opensmtpd server File storage/sync: Nextcloud (Selfhosted) Contacts/Calendar: DAVx5 (Nextcloud backend) Camera Roll/Photos: Immich (selfhosted) Document storage […]

I wanted to build Kollect for Android without filling Fedora 44 with Java, Gradle, Android SDKs, emulators, and assorted development debris. So I put the entire mobile toolchain in an Ubuntu Distrobox. It builds APKs, deploys them via wireless ADB, and even runs the Android emulator. The app […]

I've been using my iFixit precision bit kit for years to crack open phones, laptops, and random electronics that had no business being that hard to open. Today, completely out of nowhere, it finally clicked. The kits come in sets of 16, 32, or 64 bits. Not 15. Not 20. Not some "nice round number […]

Finally got around to helping a friend with a phone repair today: shattered back glass + new battery on an iPhone 15 Pro. Waterproofing + glue everywhere made getting inside an absolute nightmare. Removing the shattered back glass was the worst part. Tiny shards everywhere, so much tedious […]

Carsten Linnemann wird Gesundheitsminister. Ausgerechnet der Mann, der seit Jahren vor allem dadurch auffällt, nach unten zu treten: Gegen Bürgergeldempfänger, gegen Geflüchtete und gegen die Cannabis-Legalisierungmit mit einer Politik, die soziale Probleme regelmäßig zu individuellen […]

New on the blog: my Home Assistant setup on FreeBSD. Home Assistant OS runs in a bhyve VM, but bhyve has no USB passthrough, so Zigbee2MQTT and Mosquitto live in a VNET jail with the ConBee II. Homematic comes in via a CCU3, and three IKEA Matter-over-Thread devices use my Nanoleaf Shapes […]

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 […]