Netbsd

*BSD discovery on the PINE64 ROCKPro64

       3220 words, 16 minutes

I’ve been lurking on the PINE64 ROCKPro64 for a long time but its price compared to other options has always kept me from buying one. But being very happy with my ODROID HC4, I went hunting for a ROCKPro64 and found one. I have (a small) ZFS NAS plans for it. But before I get all the hardware, let’s take a quick look at it running various BSD systems.

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Quick look on performance and power usage of Aoostar R1 N150

       2088 words, 10 minutes

I bought a noname 2 bays NAS that looks like the Aoostar R1 N150. And before putting it into production, I had a quick look on how it performs on various OSes and how many watts it eats.

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GoToSocial WASM-based SQLite driver and BSD

       1227 words, 6 minutes

I started using GoToSocial (the fast, fun and small ActivityPub server) in 2022 on OpenBSD. Because it was nearly the only OpenBSD-native ActivityPub options at that time, because it was light and because it could use the SQLite database engine . I stopped using it when it was marked BROKEN because of incompatibilities between modernc.org/sqlite and OpenBSD kernel. This is when I switched to Mastodon and stop using it. Until recently, when I discovered there was a pkgsrc option available.

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GoToSocial Push notifications using Pushover

       773 words, 4 minutes

GoToSocial does not seem to support push notifications for iOS applications. As far as I understand, this is because it doesn’t implement the Mastodon Web Push API . But GtS exposes a notification API. So let’s poll this API and use Pushover to get push notifications on the iOS devices.

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Running GoToSocial on NetBSD

       1012 words, 5 minutes

I wanted a communication tool for the NoGoo.me searxng instance I manage. But I want a software with small footprint. I used GoToSocial as my primary ActivityPub server and it was great. It only lacked a few features so I stopped using it as my primary Fediverse service. Let’s have it back again in my software ecosystem.

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