Posts by fionescu@mastodon.bsd.cafe
(DIR) Post #B61fi53Unf5EHvDrXc by fionescu@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2026-05-06T16:18:22Z
0 likes, 1 repeats
Hello #BSDCafe !I have recently launched a website: https://fionescu.princeps-poesis.xyz/ - Here I posted what may be the only text in Romanian about #OpenBSD that isn't a news announcement or a recent AI slop translation!Tl;dr: I have celebrated one year since having switched from #Windows to #Linux by... switching from Linux to OpenBSD my daily driver OS. Why? OpenBSD's "proactive security by default" stance is the best for me - and it runs on my somewhat legacy hardware. Most of the essential software I used on Linux is also here, so for most purposes OpenBSD is fine for me.
(DIR) Post #B69xm1tlpdAe5xNyue by fionescu@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2026-05-10T11:26:12Z
1 likes, 1 repeats
@matthew On one of my Linux systems I still have KDE with Karousel. The default keyboard integration sucks, but hey, it's niri-like scroll-tiling layout for Plasma.
(DIR) Post #B6MaN0iscE6mEMGWMC by fionescu@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2026-05-15T16:39:14Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
I had no idea there's a port of HAMMER2 for #OpenBSD !(from @bpl )Maybe one day gefs will get ported to OpenBSD - https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=175109777313355&w=2.HAMMER2 seems to be unofficially available - https://github.com/kusumi/openbsd_hammer2, but not sure if anyone was brave enough to use it.
(DIR) Post #B6OK9C6gHezCX4hxWC by fionescu@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2026-05-17T15:04:21Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@jae @nikolasdi Looking forward to use #dcgo-tui
(DIR) Post #B6SvsNKtr0MVKLbc8G by fionescu@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2026-05-19T20:26:01Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@jae What about calling it deltacli? Or clidelta?
(DIR) Post #B6ZgSCfujLXVWlDUNk by fionescu@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2026-05-22T15:42:26Z
0 likes, 1 repeats
I have written in Romanian about #OpenBSD 7.9 and my first very impressions of #Mango, but while editing the post, as I was switching between tiling layouts, the #Wayland session crashed with the infamous Wayland socket broken pipe error, so for now I'm back on cwm...https://fionescu.princeps-poesis.xyz/openbsd-7-9-cu-mango-wayland
(DIR) Post #B6ambN8ryekVTnTXg8 by fionescu@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2026-05-23T15:19:49Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@jae On the default frontend of #Hubzilla (my favorite fediverse software, it's like an unsung Emacs of the fediverse) I can certainly use Markdown if I want to
(DIR) Post #B6eUWfoi61LhPMUmye by fionescu@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2026-05-25T08:50:05Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
me: I should be going to sleep...also me: oh look, this mobile #Gemini browser actually works... I kind of like the gemspace... hmm, maybe I should open #Emacs and install #elpher and see if it works... it works, but I'd like to restore the buffer after I close the window... Saving Emacs Sessions, Easy Customization Interface... so I'm learning to restore a session... it works with buffers opening local files, but elpher still not getting restored... customized desktop-files-not-to-save, but still not working... maybe it's time for me to sleep...
(DIR) Post #B6f5mRL7O2B3Re2FpQ by fionescu@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2026-05-25T16:49:51Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@bpl I did try lynx when I was beta testing my Hubzilla instance and it was... an underwhelming experience. I haven't tried EWW, but it probably feels similarI'd probably have to run #snac2 in order to be able to use lynx
(DIR) Post #B6gP6u4ba6uJfj5gP2 by fionescu@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2026-05-26T06:59:49Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
I'm a nobody who sucks at programming, so what do I know? Nothing, except paying attention to people who really seem to have expertise and a track record of doing work that matters, even if they are opinionated and seem to be insufferable as human beings, and trying to make sense of their arguments.So when such people are warning that rushing AI code and Rust into production may be ill-conceived, and that it's really suspicious that systemd of all things is implementing ID verification just as Lennart Poettering left Microsoft to cofound a company focused on integrity verification for Linux... and the other camp is just replying with either insults, accusations of conspiracy nutjobs or "resistance is futile" type of comments... who am I to believe? Certainly not those who seem to lack arguments...
(DIR) Post #B6iQBDd3IwnfkdkDmi by fionescu@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2026-05-26T17:41:35Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
I've warned my normie friends that I'm fed up with FB Messenger and WhatsApp and that I'm going to self-host an alternative and if they want to keep in touch with me, they have to contact me there... Now I'm left wondering what's more lightweight for my modest budget VPS between #Matrix and #XMPP (probably the latter?) and what might favor a smooth transition later to an #OpenBSD VPS (might switch from Hostinger to OpenBSD Amsterdam, though both seem to rely to some degree on bloody Cloudflare)... probably XMPP?
(DIR) Post #B6igvxnnZ1wBXi5Am0 by fionescu@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2026-05-27T09:19:02Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@nanook Warm greetings, thanks for the invitation! Yacy sounds interesting, never heard of it before! Unfortunately, your Yacy page leads to a 403 for me right now. And you seem to have a spam problem going on in your Mastodon instance? But otherwise, you offer a lot of cool services, respect.I actually run a Hubzilla instance, I wouldn't describe it exactly as a "protocol bridge" - Friendica and Wafrn are bridging ActivityPub with ATProto (I don't like it as much although some interesting software has been made for it, I do have an account whose target audience is literary types, people most of whom use Bluesky rather than Mastodon, but I think they would be better off learning to use the fediverse), Hubzilla just bridges it with Zot, a protocol which seemed to have as sole purpose the nomadic identity which (streams) later implemented with yet another protocol and, more recently, Forte implemented straight into ActivityPub... ah, wait, and also with Diaspora* and GNU Social, but unfortunately they have become history, or am I wrong?I share your views regarding Cloudflare (there are sites I've reduced or stopped using because of their aggressive use of Cloudflare and reCAPTCHA; you must've heard that the next version of the latter is going to restrict access to people using alternative degoogled phones, no?), considering your concern with censorship and lack of privacy and security, I think you shouldn't be using anymore on your server Ubuntu, they have been pushing into production untested Rust code with many bugs and security vulnerabilities. Maybe consider Devuan or Alpine, if not one of the BSDs.
(DIR) Post #B6jOdz50THqAH9MuG0 by fionescu@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2026-05-27T19:03:44Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@jae the dev of #Marginalia search engine implemented a JavaScript-less proof-of-wait challenge, would like to see that as an alternative to Anubisby the way, I just started getting into Gopher and am definitely going to try running a gopherhole
(DIR) Post #B6lnScw9LO2laMpKAy by fionescu@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2026-05-28T07:54:29Z
1 likes, 2 repeats
There are only about 400 #Gopher servers left in the world in 2026... does it matter? I've just opened a gopherhole for my literary persona. It should be accessible at the address gopher://gopher.princeps-poesis.xyz/
(DIR) Post #B6ls7UflNIkDdyu8AK by fionescu@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2026-05-28T23:43:27Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@jae I want to host on I2P too, but I'll need to look into how I could just mirror my existing clearnet sites, if possible. I don't know if that can be very simply done with Nginx or another proxy software, or if I need to use specialized fediverse software, like @mitra who I'm aware are making optimizations for I2P. I'll eventually look into it all. I've had a few attempts at browsing I2P and... well, what can I say about a network which needs to show uptime and downtime like the weather report? People do what they can do.