Tom

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@pertho

Sysadmin, forced to use Linux/Mac OSX for work, prefers BSD, plant-based. Anti AI, Anti Fascist. Wobbly (IWW!), old school goth.

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I used to be @pertho@bsd.network

Website: https://pertho.net
Pronouns: he/him they/them
Profile Picture: Stylised white raven on a dark background. Borrowed from the Raven Flag (Nordic Animism)
Header Picture: Picture of a full solar eclipse over the earth

Public Key

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pertho_at_mastodon.bsd.cafe@momostr.pink

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2026-08-04 23:05:48 UTC

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War the client running Magento as their e-commerce platform before they went to Shopify?
Curious which e-commerce solution it was.

2026-07-30 21:51:09 UTC

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Which form of Tai-Chi do you practice? I learned Yang form about 25 years ago but forgot most of it except killer the first 5 moves.

2026-07-29 06:55:08 UTC

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You too!!!

2026-07-25 14:58:04 UTC

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Yeah. php-fpm.

2026-07-25 14:44:27 UTC

Is there anything decent for #Prometheus and #PHP monitoring? All the PHP exporters look to have been abandoned 4 or more years ago. There also seems to be a lack of decent data from #nginx exporters. I guess for PHP, I'd need to use some kind of OpenTelemetry stuff? For nginx it might have to be feeding access logs into something?

2026-07-20 10:12:28 UTC

Is it possible to bind both ipv4 and ipv6 addresses to a jail? I'm using bastille and for now I've just added the ipv4 (RFC1918) addresses, but I'm running unbound in a jail as a local DNS resolver and I want to let in IPv6 traffic. Thing is, I'm not sure what range to use. Do I use a fc00::/7 ?

2026-07-05 21:37:58 UTC

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Maybe Linux should adopt kqueue. 😂

2026-07-03 22:41:02 UTC

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ooooh YEAHH!

2026-06-29 22:28:20 UTC

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"I spent 5 hours figuring out which IKE and ESP and group numbers to use and didn't murder anyone."

2026-06-29 07:47:14 UTC

ANOTHER #Linux LPE: CVE-2026-43503
If only Linus wasn't so obsessed with calling #OpenBSD developers "masturbating monkey" 18 years ago and actually took security seriously. 🤔
https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/torvalds-attacks-it-industry-security-circus-1/

2026-06-19 09:56:46 UTC

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Yeah my biggest problem is I use Mastodon mainly on my phone, so eventually I have like 20-30 tabs open in Waterfox on the phone, then I end up sending myself the URLs in DeltaChat to myself to read on the laptop.

2026-06-18 10:04:22 UTC

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Oh no! Well, at least you'll have it at home! I blame the Romans. 😂

2026-06-18 07:50:41 UTC

Something that drives me crazy about Mastodon: I found an interesting link. I didn't bookmark it in Mastodon. I loaded it in my browser. I finally get around to reading it. I have so many questions but I can't find where it was posted in Mastodon.
Anyone else have this happen?

2026-06-18 07:41:47 UTC

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Perhaps a celebratory "I got fibre installed in the office" Tiramisu!
@npub1y90…900y

2026-06-15 21:45:20 UTC

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Better yet: How much tiramisu?

2026-06-13 14:06:55 UTC

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I tried this. On a Soekris net5501 running OpenBSD. The audio stream would randomly crap out. Might be OK if you wired it in ethernet, but WiFi was really spotty for me.
I was running Navidrome on it which worked well enough when the WiFi was actually working.

2026-06-10 13:33:09 UTC

Can anyone recommend an off-site storage backup vendor like rsync.net (an American company), but who is based in Europe?
Please boost for visibility!

2026-06-06 09:53:37 UTC

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The best Siouxsie and the Banshees album!!

2026-06-01 11:36:53 UTC

Lookie what arrived in the mail today!
Thanks, @npub1ksf…r6s6 ! ❤️
https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/116/674/640/772/417/072/original/7b3a4ff033cf5601.jpg

2026-05-31 21:47:44 UTC

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I once had to use ed(1) on Solaris to fix a bad boot. It was... "fun"...

2026-05-30 13:05:08 UTC

Finally got around to updating my script to update my #OpenBSD #pf firewall with @npub1rc8…nu7f 's fantastic parasites.txt. (Apologies if you've seen a bunch of HEAD requests from me, Julian!)
If anyone's interested:
#!/bin/ksh
set -euo pipefail
cd /home/pertho
ftp -TV https://scienceispoetry.net/files/parasites.txt
sed -e '/^[^0-9]/d' parasites.txt | sed '/^$/d' | sed '$d' > parasites.new
doas /usr/bin/install -g wheel -m 0644 -o root /home/pertho/parasites.new /etc/parasites.txt
doas /sbin/pfctl -t parasites -T replace -f /etc/parasites.txt
[ -f /home/pertho/parasites.new ] && rm -f /home/pertho/parasites.new
Please, go easy on Julian's server. Don't blast it with requests. He's providing this for free. (Thank you!!!!)
I use my home directory because I need to store parasites.txt with its timestamps. OpenBSD's ftp (which does talk https) checks the timestamp to see if a newer one is available and only proceeds if there is a newer one.
/etc/doas.conf edited to allow the install and pfctl commands to run (just look in doas.conf(5) for details and use the args)

2026-05-10 07:36:24 UTC

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Absolutely! THIS! I can't read text in 4 pt. font on a HD screen and thin scrollbars that appear and disappear are evil!

2026-03-23 08:10:50 UTC

Every time I see job positions they're from an "AI first" company or "AI forward" (whatever the hell that means)
I want to see job adverts from "AI Never" companies. Damn it!

2026-03-16 23:18:38 UTC

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AI needs to fucking crash & burn.

2026-03-01 08:54:28 UTC

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I lived in New Orleans for 5 months back in '92. The city was different then. Pre-Katrina.

2026-02-26 22:47:04 UTC

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oh that brings back memories.

2026-01-27 23:51:15 UTC

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huh. Their Chief Product Officer was CTO of Pantheon? 😂
Pantheon is garbage web hosting for companies who don't want to hire Sysadmins to do things properly.

2026-01-27 23:40:52 UTC

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I thought he was working at Microslop?

2025-12-06 08:18:22 UTC

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Snac I'm not sure as I never run that but if there's a package or port, it should be doable.
I run relayd and httpd for my static site (TCP/443 and 80), syncthing runs on 22000. Not used radicale but I'm sure you can have that listen on a different port if need be.
I don't run anything in a vmm/vmd.

2025-11-19 22:07:29 UTC

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So much for "No NAT November"! 😉

2025-11-13 15:20:18 UTC

Being a #sysadmin of 26 years has taught me most certifications are a pure money making grift from corporations. Most tech workers who know their stuff don't need these. Nothing beats hands-on experience of technology.
https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/115/543/050/353/028/840/original/4eac18a9c360c643.jpg

2025-10-23 22:31:07 UTC

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Have run -current on devices for over a decade and there's only been 2 times a snapshot has gone wrong.

2025-10-20 08:12:44 UTC

AWS widespread outage. Most of the services I use at $day_job are down. Hooray for hosting silos! The Internet is supposed to be decentralized!

2025-09-13 22:35:26 UTC

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Who is T F G?

2025-08-26 11:44:23 UTC

Please 🛑 STOP 🛑 recommending the Brave browser. It is put out by a company run by a massive bigot. Don't support them.

2025-07-09 18:56:48 UTC

Does anyone on the Fediverse who runs #FreeBSD ever got WINE to work properly in 14.3? It just won't play games. I get weird memory issues.
If you do run FreeBSD and WINE to run Windows apps, please share how you got it working. Thanks!
Boosts very welcome!

2025-07-07 12:24:11 UTC

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no sign of this on stock android on Fairphone 5.
Wish I didn't need a Pixel to run @npub1kwa…e0nj otherwise I'd switch to GOS in a heartbeat.

2025-06-10 21:33:43 UTC

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would be a damn shame if it got keyed, now wouldn't it?

2025-01-30 22:42:46 UTC

So like...#matrix ... Which is best to run? Synapse or Dendrite.. or something else?

2024-12-19 12:24:45 UTC

#introduction time...
Hey I'm Tom. Long-time Sysadmin. Came to BSD from Linux in 2005, been a happy BSD user since. I still have to use Linux in my every day work, but I am looking at ways of putting more BSD into use if possible.
I maintain a modest 6 OpenBSD ports (mostly games!)
When I'm not playing around with computers, I like playing my tenor and alto saxophones.