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An alchemist cat who specializes in mushrooms makes one of them create life (even though they all already have life).
New blog post: PF Firewall on FreeBSD - A Practical Guide
After years of running PF across multiple FreeBSD servers, I've written up the patterns that work: macros, tables, brute-force protection, NAT for jails, and dual-stack filtering.
Covers everything from basic concepts to production configs, plus a sidebar on authpf for bastion hosts.
If you're running FreeBSD and want a firewall that's elegant, powerful, and actually understandable, PF is worth your time.
https://blog.hofstede.it/pf-firewall-on-freebsd-a-practical-guide/
#FreeBSD #PF #Firewall #Security #Jails #SysAdmin #IPv6
New blog post: Running your own Autonomous System on FreeBSD.
Got an AS number and IPv6 /48 via RIPE, set up a FreeBSD BGP router with FRR, two upstreams, and built GRE/GIF tunnels ti bring my own globally routable addresses to servers at different providers.
The interesting part: dual-FIB policy routing lets FreeBSD jails speak from both provider and BGP addresses simultaneously.
https://blog.hofstede.it/running-your-own-as-bgp-on-freebsd-with-frr-gre-tunnels-and-policy-routing/
New blog post: Running your own Autonomous System on FreeBSD.
Got an AS number and IPv6 /48 via RIPE, set up a FreeBSD BGP router with FRR, two upstreams, and built GRE/GIF tunnels ti bring my own globally routable addresses to servers at different providers.
The interesting part: dual-FIB policy routing lets FreeBSD jails speak from both provider and BGP addresses simultaneously.
https://blog.hofstede.it/running-your-own-as-bgp-on-freebsd-with-frr-gre-tunnels-and-policy-routing/
The BGP article is also available on the Geminispace for those who prefer the lightweight web:
gemini://gemini.hofstede.it/bgp_routing_asn_freebsd.gmi
No tracking, no JavaScript, just text. Accessible via clients like Lagrange or Amfora.
No one is happy about this cold bullshit !!!
#pets
#dogsandcats
#dogsofmastodon
#CatsOfMastodon
#2026WinterWeather
Czechoslovakia 🤦 Nemyslím si, že by to bylo větší upřímností při odpovídání v anonymních průzkumech. I Kolečko, se kterým rozhodně nesympatizuju (BTW kandidoval za Motoristy), to trefil v https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10995220806-most/216512120010006/ (kolem 32. minuty).
Zdroj obrázků https://www.boredpanda.com/racism-in-the-eu-map-bezzleford/
東京都
#風景写真
#photography
撮影日 2026/02/08
Stricter copyright laws might seem tough on big tech, but they just become new tools to enforce monopolies and bully artists. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/copyright-kills-competition
To install the doorknob on a storm door, it is important to keep an eye on a tiny spring that goes in the mechanism.
Can you guess which part went missing right as I thought door installation was almost finished?
Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars books
Link: https://underhillgame.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46936237
Okay enough grumbling about train passes. TOKYO GAME DUNGEON!! It was a ton of fun! Lots of people came to play Hamayumishi! We got lots of wonderful feedback and met some cool folks!!
Then we met up with 
@wrenchClaus and had really good Chinese food (and I forgot to get pics D'OH you will just have to trust it was incredible) and had a wonderful time!! (Caranha I am sorry I was rambling and incoherent, I was very tired!! 😭)
Anyway I am giving up on JR East for tonight, I am going to sleep!! GN!!
YOU TOO can play #Hamayumishi right now!! The demo on itch is longer than on Steam (tho Steam wishlists would help us a ton, thank youuuuuu 🙏)
https://nicegeargames.itch.io/hamayumishiproject
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4296200/Hamayumishi_Night_Parade_of_a_Hundred_Yokai/
#IndieGames #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev #VideoGames #Steam #itch 
@itchio #itchio #TokyoGameDungeon
Next for #SuperbOwlSunday I have this group of 3 Snowy Owls (Bubo scandiacus) preparing for an evening hunting flight at Boundary Bay in Delta, British Columbia, Canada.
These 3 always look to me like they are up to no good. 😆
A few more of these owls here: https://www.mrussellphotography.com/blog/boundary-bay-snowy-owls/
#SuperbOwl #Wildlife #BritishColumbia #Owls #Photo #Photography #Nature
@perillamint
깻잎 (상태: 좀비) Do you got some of the Bitcoins? 😉
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Crypto-exchange-accidentally-gives-away-44-billion-11169089.html
Czy tylko ja myślę że Musk czytał bloga VaGli i dlatego zmienił logo Twittera na czarne?
źródło: prawo.vagla.pl/node/10160
Just hooked up my new antenna and it looks like my local NBC station is coming in fine, so the #SuperBowl is on the menu! Go #Seahawks! #OTATV
It is an outdoor rated unit, but I just have it set up on a windowsill for now, might try and get it mounted outside at some point.
look at my son
this fucking future
robot girls are always tricky for me to draw, and i don't even try to draw the mechanical bits. massive props to the artists that do. #pixelart #ドット絵 #art #mastoart #DigitalArt #robotgirl #gynoid #android
Facts didn’t build this collective delusion, and facts won’t puncture it.
So yeah, I’m trying to stay diligent about facts where facts matter. I’m trying to stay clear in my own head about what we •know• with high confidence as distinct from what merely seems •likely•.
And I’m also studying — with careful attention, as a serious matter — what popular imagination is doing to the “100% vibes” foundation of Trumpism. Popular imagination. Not the facts. The vibes.
/end
@inthehandsPaul Cantrell It didn't matter that Marie Antoinette didn't ever say "Let them eat cake!"*, her general attitude and the feelings were against her by the point she got into the carriage to flee. Or, as somebody else said: "People can forget what you did, but never how you made them feel."
*The quote originally wasn't even attributed to her, and it was not cake, but brioche, which is a kind of bread, but that's historical sentiment for you.
My nomination for today's #SuperbOwl.
The Cosmic Owl is two galaxies that crashed into each other, creating overlapping ring-shaped splashes of stars. It measures 150,000 light years from side to side, or about 10^20 times the size of a Great Grey Owl on Earth.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10058 #space #science #nature #sports
this fucking future
Reading scholarship on #resistance to #AI — I just want younger people to know, this is different. In my memory, theorists and practitioners didn't feel bound to organize a *resistance* to word processors or gps or email.
Now, maybe we all turned technophobe all of a sudden. But maybe, just maybe, this is not the technological future we should be embracing or even accepting.
RustCast -open-source Raycast-style launcher written in Rust https://lobste.rs/s/qveid2 #mac
https://github.com/unsecretised/rustcast
robot girls are always tricky for me to draw, and i don't even try to draw the mechanical bits. massive props to the artists that do. #pixelart #ドット絵 #art #mastoart #DigitalArt #robotgirl #gynoid #android
if i ran firefox, this is what i would say wrt AI in firefox in 2026.
1. ai is exciting!
2. it's also in its infancy.
3. we don't know yet how or if it connects to the web.
4. the web is 100% our #1 priority.
5. so we're going to wait.
6. for now firefox is a no-ai browser.
7. we won't include ai until we know why.
8. and then it will be opt-in.
9. and we will continue to make firefox the best web browser.
sincerely,
the developers of firefox
me being bitter about genai
We have reached a new era of civil engineering; now we can build bridges by simply dumping truckloads of shit into the river until the shit mountains are tall enough that some people and maybe cars can cross the river. Truly, it is a revolutionary technology that democraticizes access to bridges; now everyone can dump a truckload of shit over small rivers here and there and cross the rivers instead of asking an engineer to build the bridge for them. This approach completely removes all the bottlenecks in engineering, too: no need to navigate difficult legal frameworks or ethical concerns. The biggest players on the market are staring to replace their bridges with shit mountains, you'd better be catching up and learning how to use this new groundbreaking technology. Some of you have ethical concerns, but this is beyond of the scope of my post. I also recognise that some might notice fish in the rivers dying, or simply slip on the shit; just you wait, I bet it'll be fixed in ~6 months
re: me being bitter about genai
Look, there are lots of skeptics out there, but the shit mountains are becoming really useful these days. With just a shit mountain or two you could reach places that previously required a ladder or a bridge or a vehicle. The vehicle part is still out of reach, but in the future we can make shit mountains placed in such a way that, when we pour some shit between them, would allow us to reach the destination almost as fast as cars and boats. And it runs on shit, and as you know, shit is virtually free, you can literally go to a number of websites and get the shit for free. You can even get open-sourced shit these days, and pour it locally. Open source shit mountains are not as good as the commercial ones yet, but we're getting there.
Anyway, the bottom line, shit mountains are here to stay. Learn how to live with them.
me being bitter about genai
We have reached a new era of civil engineering; now we can build bridges by simply dumping truckloads of shit into the river until the shit mountains are tall enough that some people and maybe cars can cross the river. Truly, it is a revolutionary technology that democraticizes access to bridges; now everyone can dump a truckload of shit over small rivers here and there and cross the rivers instead of asking an engineer to build the bridge for them. This approach completely removes all the bottlenecks in engineering, too: no need to navigate difficult legal frameworks or ethical concerns. The biggest players on the market are staring to replace their bridges with shit mountains, you'd better be catching up and learning how to use this new groundbreaking technology. Some of you have ethical concerns, but this is beyond of the scope of my post. I also recognise that some might notice fish in the rivers dying, or simply slip on the shit; just you wait, I bet it'll be fixed in ~6 months
This object is a legitimate masterpiece of design
I'm tired.
I just want owls.
Especially superb owls.
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
do you mean something like this?
For #SuperbOwlSunday here's the beautiful Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) that visited our backyard a while ago and kindly posed for a photo! 🦉
https://photos.alex-kunz.com/media/019b6c22-6adc-7971-b640-2556a567bf74
#Birds #Wildlife #Owl #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography
with an audience of billions, i guess we’ll find out just how punk green day are these days*
*subject to network delay
It's Sunday evening, perfect time to write my own .gitignore parser 😓
NEW: In a protest against the University of Minnesota’s accommodation of DHS and ICE, six students chained themselves to Morrill Hall, which houses the campus’s administration and has been the site of large scale protests over the decades, demanding university President Rebecca Cunningham declare the university a sanctuary campus. Three of the chained students left after being threatened with academic retaliation and police arrested the remaining three. [Full story coming soon.]
Minnesota Students Arrested After Locking Down to Morrill Hall, Demanding Sanctuary Campus
深刻の確定を続行してるんだけどAWSの味がしてきた
泰國有開票數字後，走勢跟投票一結束時披露的民調不同，首相 Anutin Charnvirakul 領導的泰自豪黨 Bhumjaithai 議席推測數字顯著領先，Anutin 篤定連任，排第二的人民黨已在週日晚認輸，表示會當反對黨
Faint aurora bands over a moonlit and snow-covered forest in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Check out more in my aurora galleries: https://photos.lwpetersen.com/Galleries/Alaska-Photos/Aurora-Borealis
Exploiting signed bootloaders to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot
Link: https://habr.com/en/articles/446238/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934579
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they WON'T “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world.
They're asking people to "Stand With Us and Tell Attorney General #PamBondi It's Time for the Truth"
They direct people to the site worldwithoutexploitation.org
#standwithsurvivors #Epstein #SuperBowl
Edited update to add subtitles.
Edited to use the https link if you don't want to retype
https://www.worldwithoutexploitation.org/
I didn't watch Caprica when it first appeared (well, I managed to get half way through the first episode) but it's a new landscape now and in some ways that makes it more interesting. It's basically about the risks of training an AI on a broad corpus and then hoping that with a bit of prompting you can specialize it for specific tasks without the inherited biases leaking through.
Creepy thing is I've never seen Waymo ads before but I keep getting them in this show (streaming on Peacock) and they start "The robots, they're coming..." I'm just hoping it's a coincidence and you're all seeing the same ad.
#SuperbOwl is now trending across Mastodon
This object is a legitimate masterpiece of design
#SuperbOwl is now trending across Mastodon
Superbowl Winner: SPOILER!
Superbowl Winner: SPOILER!
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Stefano Marinelli
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
Misty
mcc
✧✦Catherine✦✧
