Justine Smithies

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

I've now moved to my own instance at Justine Smithies (npub1ne6…hhrn)

Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother & Wife
Loves cooking
Linux, BSD chick
Mobiles: #Fairphone4 #OnePlus6T #OnePlus6 #PinePhonePro
Watch PineTime
Hand wired #Pico #QMK #Keyboard builder
#ThinkPad owner
Daily driver - #ChimeraLinux with #RiverWM and #Eww as my bar running on a native encrypted #ZFS filesystem
Editor: #HelixEditor
HomeLab: #FreeBSD

Pronouns: She / Her
Location: Cruden Bay, Scotland
Web: https://justine.smithies.me.uk
Git: https://git.smithies.me.uk

Public Key

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NIP-05 Address

justine_at_mastodon.bsd.cafe@momostr.pink

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relay.damus.io

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2026-08-29T05:12:49Z

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Last Notes

2024-10-12 19:15:08 UTC

I've just setup my own #snac instance and made a test post but I'm not sure anyone can see it ? I'm not even sure it's left the server here? I have the web interface all working and I think I needed to open port 8001 on my firewall too. My user is @npub1ne6…hhrn .
Can anyone confirm if they see this toot ?
#fediverse #homeLab #FreeBSD

2024-10-11 06:33:30 UTC

This is how married life is.....
Today is our 27th wedding anniversary and guess what ?
Yep Julie forgot 🤣. It's progress though as we both usually forget. We've been together for 33 years so life's taken it's toll and that's the excuse we use as to why we forget. 😂

2024-09-29 15:44:36 UTC

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No I don't tbh all I can say is I love it and the support from the calyxos devs is 1st class. I only have microg so I can run my UK banking apps otherwise I'd drop that too. As for my FP4 I have loved it from day one.

2024-09-29 12:03:52 UTC

In between been called out this weekend I've been playing with my #Fairphone4 which has #Calyxos and #MicroG . I've known about #Obtainium for a while but never thought I'd install it until now. Guess who loves it and I get new releases of apps before #Fdroid . I also ditched calyxos default launcher for #NiagraLauncher and I'm really loving the work flow. Even bought the full version and installed the apk with Obtanium. It maybe doesn't look much but I like it. 😍
#Android
https://github.com/8bitPit/Niagara-Issues?tab=readme-ov-file
https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/113/220/726/734/468/304/original/83ab06d7ff5a1e84.png

2024-09-28 09:39:06 UTC

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You can also read most that are behind paywalls if you use Tor browser too. 😉

2024-09-23 19:48:26 UTC

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Mrs McClusky 😜

2024-09-19 20:59:35 UTC

Seeing news that real time stuff is finally making it into the #Linux kernel after 20 years and then discovering that it's been available in #FreeBSD for a while and all you have to do is enable the mac_priority module.
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mac_priority&manpath=FreeBSD%2B14.1-RELEASE%2Band%2BPorts

2024-09-16 06:47:01 UTC

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I'm using fastmail and they've been really good. No issues at all.

2024-09-11 17:57:39 UTC

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Hmmmm....
Now I'm wondering about:
"Self-hosted at home on Beastie my DIY server running FreeBSD"
Too much now ???

2024-09-11 17:26:27 UTC

I was going to add that my site is self hosted by ammending the line on the footer that already says "Powered by FreeBSD".
Does it sound wrong as follows ?
"Self Hosted and Powered by FreeBSD"
Or ?
"Self Hosted, Powered by FreeBSD"
Or even something else ??? My brain is fried today as work has been full on. 🤔

2024-09-09 21:16:31 UTC

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Wouldn't be anything like this ?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41456143/list-style-type-none-not-working#41456228

2024-09-07 14:59:05 UTC

Look what came in the post today. I absolutely love them ! Thank you so much @npub1ef5…gcpc :freebsd_logo: 😍
#BSDCafe #RunBSD
https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/113/096/605/864/752/102/original/befd2cf474f905ec.jpg

2024-09-03 09:48:54 UTC

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Daft question Drew cgit robots.tx does not have very much in so should I append so of the stuff you shared to stop bots ? Or best leave as is ? TIA

2024-09-03 09:36:00 UTC

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Hey Drew thank you. 😉

2024-09-03 09:28:45 UTC

Question for all folk that self host their websites. Do you have a robots.txt and if so what's advisable to put in it ???
#HomeLab #SelfHosted

2024-09-01 15:30:54 UTC

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That looks familiar. Does it actually work ? @npub1d9l…ezd0

2024-08-30 09:43:59 UTC

Popular protocols explained in pictures. 😂
#Networking #IT
https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/113/050/287/573/724/630/original/2d2f69723a0da7e5.jpg

2024-08-29 15:04:30 UTC

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OMG Paco you went above and beyond ! Thank you for that and you're right I'm probably best sticking with days.

2024-08-29 14:31:29 UTC

Strange question. I'm writing my backup script and the part for jails I've decided to keep daily backups for a month. I was going to use the following to prune them and yes I know I'm using the -print option to test first.
find /path/to/backup/jails/ -mindepth 1 -mtime +31 -depth -print
What value would you use as obvs some months have only 28 days ?? Just leave at 31 ?
Or do you know a better way to do this in sh ?

2024-08-23 08:03:20 UTC

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Wasn't a nail and needed a new tyre. 🤣
https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/113/010/288/326/341/343/original/605d673cf4468495.jpg

2024-08-23 07:31:57 UTC

This mornings van drive to work resulted in a tyre pressure warning. I wonder what could be wrong ? 🙄
https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/113/010/165/348/293/235/original/daac6bd20ccb848e.jpg

2024-08-22 17:29:21 UTC

OK folk answer me this. Why as a constant #Linux user since the early 90's do I keep leaning towards #BSD ? Yeah I'm going to use it on my homelab but i keep yearning for it to be my daily driver too. Is it an age thing and if so does this happen to most Linux users in later life ? I feel like Eve wanting to taste the forbidden fruit if that makes any sense at all ? 😂 :freebsd:
#RunBSD #FreeBSD

2024-08-11 22:24:12 UTC

Hi thought I'd better introduce myself. I'm Justine I'm a marine electronics engineer to trade which basically means I install / repair anything on a vessel from satellite internet and sat TV to autopilots, radars, VHFs and navigational equipment. Other than that I've been a #Linux user since around 2000 and even worked on the distro LRs Linux that basically compiled from scratch according to the users hardware and was LFS based. My current daily driver is #ChimeraLinux and my WM of choice is #RiverWm
I am currently migrating my #homelab from #Ubuntu to #FreeBSD.
https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/112/945/725/800/692/595/original/505d72a9aa85f75e.jpg
https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/112/945/725/946/749/028/original/d6119be4ad0c018b.jpg
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