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GoToSocial Adventures: migrate from Mastodon

       1023 words, 5 minutes

I already used a Mastodon account but wanted to migrate it to my brand new GoToSocial instance while keeping as much data as possible.

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GoToSocial Adventures: run on OpenBSD

       2285 words, 11 minutes

I used to run GoToSocial on OpenBSD but, one day, the port was marked BROKEN and I switched to using Mastodon on Linux. Still, I kept testing running GoToSocial on NetBSD, Illumos, FreeBSD and Linux. Not so long ago, GoToSocial started to compile and work pretty nice again on OpenBSD. After using it for about a year on a SearXNG side project , I decided that I would also use it as my primary account on the Fediverse . This post is about installing and running GoToSocial on OpenBSD .

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Tinkering with Fujitsu FUTRO S930

       2668 words, 13 minutes

After watching Wolfgang’s review of the S920 , I went for chasing one and found a refurbished Fujitsu FUTRO S930 for 54€. I bought it with a few extra electronics parts and tested it with a few FOSS operating systems I know.

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Monitoring GoToSocial using collectd and VictoriaMetrics

       1251 words, 6 minutes

Some time ago, I adopted VictoriaMetrics as a replacement for Prometheus; which was already replacing InfluxDB. And recently, I realized that GoToSocial was exposing metrics in Prometheus format . So I decided to build a Grafana dashboard to keep an eye on my GtS instance.

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Install and isolate apps using Firejail on Slackware

       2036 words, 10 minutes

Since I started using other Desktop OS than OpenBSD, I’m obsessed with limiting filesystem resources access from applications; especially Web browsers. This already applied to FreeBSD Web browsers here and there . This now has to be applied to Linux.

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