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IT Consultant from Germany | Nerd | Linux Advocate | Instance Admin of burningboard.net | Interested in
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larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy
I really hope this is going to be good .. 🖖 :trek:

#startrek #trek #starfleetacademy #scifi
January 15, 2026 at 7:08 PM
larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/115888444941931185

So thrilled about that game 🙂 That'll be a day 0 purchase, if it's reported to run well on the Steam Deck :steam_deck:

#startrek #voyager #trekie #steamdeck #LinuxGaming #linuxgaming
mastodon.social
January 13, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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Ich arbeite schon sehr lange bei #threema und sehe, dass hier gerade eine Panikwelle durchzieht, man die App jetzt plötzlich boykottiert, weil Threema verkauft wird. Vielleicht darf ich das mal einordnen:

Ich habe viele Jahre mit den drei Gründern zusammen an Threema gearbeitet. Ich habe den […]
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digitalcourage.social
January 12, 2026 at 10:25 PM
larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy
Yay!

I got SmartCard authentication with PKINIT/Kerberos working in my home-network/home-lab 🙂

RSA key safely stored on the smartcard, getting a ticket granting ticket (TGT) from the KDC and then authenticating to an SSH host via GSSAPI/Kerberos..

Total […]

[Original post on burningboard.net]
January 12, 2026 at 8:44 PM
larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy
Does anyone have any recommendations for a mobile phone in 2026? I would prefer to avoid vendor lock-in, maintain control over my device and data (digital sovereignty), and avoid 🍎

#askfedi #mobilephone #telephone #phone
January 10, 2026 at 3:31 PM
larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy
Jemand einen Tipp, was für ein Mobiltelefon im Jahre 2026 empfehlenswert ist? Ich möchte möglichst keinen Vendor Lock-In, Kontrolle über mein Gerät und meine Daten (Digitale Souveränität) und kein 🍎

#askfedi #mobiltelefon #telefon
January 10, 2026 at 3:30 PM
larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy
Did upgrade all the remaining service jails on our burningborad.net Mastodon instance to FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE today, after the host was already upgraded one and a half week ago.

Everything running smoothly :) Only nodejs in the mastodonweb jail needed some […]

[Original post on burningboard.net]
Screenshot of "bastille list", showing that all Jails (database, factorio, mastodonsidekiq, mastodonweb and nginx) run on 15.0-RELEASE (the latest FreeBSD release)
January 7, 2026 at 7:56 PM
larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy
Erm, why is my ZFS zpool so full?

Oh right! I keep an offline-backup of my entire game collection of gog.com games, that I bought 😅

But I really should exclude them from my backup jobs 😆

#pcgaming #linuxgaming #gog #backup #zfs
January 6, 2026 at 11:27 AM
larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy
We take data-safety of our Mastodon user data serious and have implemented multiple levels of backups with rigorous bi-yearly restore tests and documentation.

We do:
- Periodic local file system snapshots (Every 15 minutes).

- Filesystem replication to backup-server in Germany (Hetzner […]
Original post on burningboard.net
burningboard.net
January 6, 2026 at 7:30 AM
larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy
I did play around a bit with the new Ansible MCP-Server (https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_ansible_automation_platform/2.6/html/containerized_installation/deploying-ansible-mcp-server) that is available as a Technology-Preview for Ansible […]

[Original post on burningboard.net]
January 5, 2026 at 5:41 PM
larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy
Hard disk failure on a sunday .. le sigh!

ZFS to the rescue! 🙂

#linux #zfs #devops #sysadmin #diskfail
January 4, 2026 at 2:55 PM
larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy
Used the weekend to *finally* migrate my old Ansible :ansible: Automation Platform 2.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 to the latest version 2.6, running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.

And during the process, I did also migrate all my remainig git […]

[Original post on burningboard.net]
January 3, 2026 at 7:08 PM
larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy
Happy new year Fediverse 🥂 #2026 #happynewyear
December 31, 2025 at 11:25 PM
larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy
@mondstern Herzlich Willkommen hier bei uns !

Wenn du irgendwelche Fragen hast, kannst du dich gerne bei mir oder @tux melden, wir helfen gerne.

Ein paar Tipps für den Anfang haben wir unter https://meta.burningboard.net/erste-schritte.html

Ich wünsche schon mal einen guten Rutsch ins neue […]
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burningboard.net
December 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy
Had a "little whoopsie" with the burningboard.net infrastructure today. Totally on me! 🙋‍♂️

When deleting a partition, you really should be ABSOLUTELY sure you’re using the right partition ID... I wanted to delete/resize Swap, but I was off by one and nuked the /boot partition instead (ID 1 […]
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burningboard.net
December 31, 2025 at 6:40 PM
larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy
Wir hatten heute ein "kleines Upsi" in der Infrastruktur von burningboard.net. Geht auf meine Kappe! Wenn man eine Partition löscht, sollte man sich RICHTIG sicher sein, dass man die richtige Partitions-ID verwendet..

Ich wollte die Swap-Partition löschen und größer anlegen und war um eines […]
Original post on burningboard.net
burningboard.net
December 31, 2025 at 6:40 PM
larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy
Cooles Script von @dewomser um seinen Fediverse Verbindungen zu visualisieren 🙂

https://gist.github.com/dewomser/680bc601b7138a9cc269c2c1b8

#fediverse #python #follower
December 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy
Puh.

Found a way to get the USD->EUR conversion rate for a specific date in LibreOffice Calc by using a web-service in a formula. It's not pretty, but it works!

=NUMBERVALUE(REGEX(WEBSERVICE("https://api.frankfurter.app/"&TEXT(D10 […]

[Original post on burningboard.net]
December 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy
Wow,The Ansible connection plugin "jailexec.py", that I created this year, which can be used to automate FreeBSD jails without SSH (via jexec) got used in an example git-repository from the @FreeBSDFoundation 😯 […]
Original post on burningboard.net
burningboard.net
December 30, 2025 at 1:02 AM
larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy
I need RHEL+Podman for something. But I also really really like ZFS, that I use on my #freebsd systems ...

RHEL 9.7 on a ZFS root 😀

Note: This is ENTIRELY unsupported and shouldn't be done in a production environment 🤡 😆

#linux #rhel #redhat #zfs #openzfs #unsupported #sysadmin
Screenshot showing neofetch and a RHEL 9.7 system, that is running on a ZFS root
December 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy
I donate money to a free and open source project each quarter, always selecting one that has impacted my life during that period.

The final one for 2025 just went out: the FreeBSD foundation (@FreeBSDFoundation) ?

I know they put the money to good use. I […]

[Original post on burningboard.net]
Proud donor of the FreeBSD foundation seal
December 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy
Another migration complete. Our Mastodon instance burningboard.net now has a working full-text search again!

Before:
Elasticsearch 7.x on Debian Linux :debian:

Now:
Opensearch 3.2.0 on FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE :freebsd:

Importing 2 billion(!) docs into the […]

[Original post on burningboard.net]
December 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy
We're running the Mastodon instance "burningboard.net" on a hardened FreeBSD/amd64 system (pf firewall, seperation in jails, zfs with snapshots every 15 minutes, offsite replication with zfs send etc.)

Since the initial setup of the new system is done and […]

[Original post on burningboard.net]
FreeBSD console where you'll see, that the kern.securelevel is raised to 2
December 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy
New blog post: Interactive System Troubleshooting with AI using linux-mcp-server

Instead of copy-pasting command output into AI chats, your AI assistant can now directly query your Linux systems - checking services, logs, network ports, and resources in real-time.

The post includes a live demo […]
Original post on burningboard.net
burningboard.net
December 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy
Nice!

I'm testing Claude Code using the linux-mcp-server to read system information directly from my local machine.

This is a huge enabler for LLM-assisted troubleshooting. It can read logs, check the journal, inspect systemd units, and pull hardware info […]

[Original post on burningboard.net]
Screenshot of a terminal interface showing 'Claude Code' execution. The system successfully performed 6 MCP calls including get_cpu_information and get_disk_usage. The output shows the system is running Fedora Linux 43 on an AMD Ryzen 7 PRO with 23GB of RAM.
December 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM