Openbsd

Check your IP infos using nginx

       792 words, 4 minutes

There are a few times when I want to check which public IP I am browsing from… I used to use the WhatsMyIP sites but the Internet being what it is these days, I switched to using my SearXNG instance which has the IP plugin enabled. Still, there are times I need to get my IP from a script and want a dead simple option for this. So I switched to using nginx and GeoLite2.

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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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Redundant DHCP and DNS Resolver using OpenBSD

       888 words, 5 minutes

One of my OpenBSD server provides DHCP and DNS resolving for my home LAN. But it sometimes has to go into maintenance mode. And if an IoT or phone requires an IP address or an FQDN at the precise moment, I hear screaming throughout the whole house. So I decided to have fully redundant network services using two OpenBSD servers.

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Why are you (still) using OpenBSD?

       784 words, 4 minutes

Last week-end, I was invited to the UNIX Social Camp in Dijon, France to talk about the reasons I still use OpenBSD these days and why should others do so; or at least, have a look at OpenBSD . This post is an English transcription of the original French slides that are available here .

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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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