Mastodawn

@gotosocial FYI I submitted a v0.21.3 package to pkgsrc-WIP repository. Hope it is correct and will be available for instance admins soon.

Big thanks to @_wiz_ for helping about the pkgsrc process.

#pkgsrc #pkgsrc-wip #netbsd #gotosocial #instanceadmin

Jim Spath 11h ago

Kudos to Greg T for fixing whatever was not working with gdal on #NetBSD, so now I can generate geo-referenced (or GeoSpatial) PDFs from #QGIS
The pkgsrc 2026 Q2 has the code; waiting for packages to be built but meanwhile I compiled QGIS locally.

The wrong answer (old issue):
$ gdalinfo --formats | grep -i PDF
PDF -raster,vector- (w+): Geospatial PDF (*.pdf)

The correct answer:
$ gdalinfo --formats | grep -i PDF
PDF -raster,vector- (rw+uvs): Geospatial PDF (*.pdf)

Pics!

Bernd 1d ago

There's something about the blinkenlights when zfs is resilvering a new drive, knowing that during that time a second drive could fail without loss of data or availability.
#homelab #zfs #selfhosting #NetBSD

Bitslingers-R-Us 1d ago

#NetBSD #pkgsrc SuperH binaries are in progress!

My Plextor PX-EH25L is incredibly reliable. Even with only 64 megs of memory and living in swap for months, it just compiles and runs without issues... That is, until the IDE disk dies.

It now has a new (to it - it's still IDE) 250 gig disk, it's been updated to NetBSD 11.0_RC5, and it's compiling #pkgsrc-2026Q2 packages already :)

Bitslingers-R-Us 1d ago

#NetBSD #pkgsrc sparc64 binaries are in progress!

I've updated my Sun Fire V100 to NetBSD 11.0_RC5 and started compiling packages, using distcc with a fast Ryzen system.

I wish I could find a place to colocate or otherwise run my Sun Fire V245... It's much faster to have two 1.5 GHz UltraSPARC CPUs with 16 gigs of memory than one 550 MHz CPU with 2 gigs.

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leaf 1d ago

✅ Successful GoToSocial v0.22.0-rc4 build package available here https://pepperm.int.eu.org/pkgsrc/packages/All/

New step in the build script: go-modules dependencies updates
Package name unchanged for smooth upgrades when the GA release launches (only bumped the revision)
Like before, this instance is powered by this new package

Upgrade transcript:
pkgin upgrade
calculating dependencies...done.

1 package to upgrade:
gotosocial-0.22.0nb13

0 to remove, 0 to refresh, 1 to upgrade, 0 to install
0B to download, 356K of additional disk space will be used

proceed ? [Y/n] y
[1/1] upgrading gotosocial-0.22.0nb13...
pkg_install warnings: 0, errors: 0
reading local summary...
processing local summary...

#pkgsrc #gotosocial #netbsd #instanceadmin

Diane Bruce 1d ago

At BSDCan 2026 I was chatting with someone who had mentioned he'd not met so many fountain pen fans at once, so I took out my Lamy fountain pen. It's fun when two of my interests converge! Since we were at Ottawa U I told him about Paper Papier in the market. 😀

#BSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #FreeBSD #DragonflyBSD #BSDCan #FountainPen #Ottawa