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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 16h

@tux Macht bei Ansible auch schon einen sehr guten Eindruck!!

Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

They said AI would make developers 10x more productive. They forgot to mention the 20x cleanup crew. 🔥🧯 Welcome to the new software development lifecycle: Generate. Debug. Regret. Repeat. #AI #Coding #SoftwareDevelopment #TechHumor

An illustration in a chaotic, vibrant comic-book style titled "AI CODE CLEANUP SPECIALIST!" at the top, featuring an action-packed office in utter meltdown. At the center is a Specialist in a bulky yellow hazmat suit with an overly complex backpack, full face mask, and rubber gloves, dramatically aiming a hose labeled "DE-BUGGER" at a computer desk. Around them, terrified office workers flee with exaggerated panic, flailing arms, and flying papers, while one desperately throws a bucket of water onto a flaming PC. A desk is on fire, with orange cartoon flames and smoke billowing toward the ceiling, next to a monitor flashing errors like "ERROR: SYSTEM IN REVOLT" and "INFINITE LOOP." On the right, a dumpster overflowing with burning computer parts is labeled "COMPLETED CODE" with sound effects like "fwoosh" and "crackle" written in the air. The messy floor is littered with tangled cords, paper, and a yellow hazard sign reading "CAUTION: LIVE AI."

(A hilarious, chaotic meta-commentary on our times, though ironicaly brought to life by an actual AI—which we can only hope was carefully cleaned up afterward so it didn't burn down the server room!)

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Happy 30th Birthday, @kde! 🎂🎉 Three decades of free software, community power, and relentless innovation. Celebrating the milestone today by running KDE Plasma 6.8.0 on Fedora 44 - smooth, gorgeous, and rock-solid on Wayland. Here’s to another 30 years of […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Articles on my blog that were written with AI assistance now include a disclosure below the references section, with a link to my AI policy. The ideas, technical content, and drafts are mine. AI helps me polish the English, and I review every edit […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

The Ansible guy finally uses Ansible on his own infra 🙈 Today FreeBSD routers, Bastille jail hosts, the mail server and the Proxmox cluster + PBS moved to AAP: git inventory, defensive patch playbooks, and a curated Private Automation Hub as the only […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Your playbook failed. Management wants a root cause. You have 30 seconds. Introducing larvitz.bofh, an Ansible collection that returns Bastard Operator From Hell excuses: "Root cause: The mainframe tripped over an unhandled SIGSEGV in the automated […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Entire house felt like it moved. Small earthquake in southwest Germany 😳 #germany #earthquake

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

[depol Sachsen Anhang] Die Hochrechnung macht traufig 😢 #depol #sachsen_Anhalt #wahl #noafd

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Today marks our 5th wedding anniversary. ❤️ And somehow, it doesn’t feel like five years at all. It feels like yesterday, and at the same time, I can hardly remember what life was like without her by my side. Eternally grateful for the incredible gift of […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Smoking area. If I'm allowed to walk through there, when I'm not wearing a smoking? 🤵🏻‍♂️ #nowträwelling #travel #joke

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

It’s 2026. At some point we have to stop pretending IPv4 is still a perfectly normal lifestyle choice. 😇 My website now politely informs visitors when their ISP is still delivering the Internet using technology from 1981. “IPv6 has only been a standard […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

Screenshot of a dark-themed personal website titled “What I’m Running”. Several cards describe the infrastructure behind the site, including AS201379, DN42, self-hosting, Red Hat, networking, and code automation. In the bottom-right corner, a red-accented notification says “Legacy IP detected” and explains that the visitor reached the site over IPv4, a protocol from 1981, while IPv6 has been a standard since 1998. The visitor’s IPv4 address is shown below the message.

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

There is something deeply satisfying about true data sovereignty. No rate limits, no third-party APIs snooping on prompts, and zero cloud lock-in. Just raw self-hosted inference pulling 154 tok/s with an absurd 0.11s TTFT on local silicon. Running Qwen […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

Screenshot of a Linux terminal session on hostname token-dispenser.

The top section displays the nvidia-smi output showing an NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU utilizing ~87.6 GB of VRAM, running at 44°C and 354W power draw with processes python3 and sglang::scheduler.

The bottom section shows the output of a prompt script asking for a haiku about a GPU shortage, followed by performance metrics: 154.0 tok/s, 837 tokens generated in 5.44 seconds, TTFT 0.11s, reasoning on, using the qwen38-uncensored model with DFlash2 speculative decoding and NVFP4 on Blackwell architecture.

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Back home after spending a week in beautiful Spain. Wonderful scenery, lots of hiking and amazing food. What a beautiful place 🇪🇸 #spain #travelphotography #travel #photography

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

So many beautiful corners to discover in Palma's historic center. Absolutely loving these winding alleys! 🌴🏛️ #Spain #travelphotography #wanderlust #urbanexploration #travelling

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Quiet afternoon in the Sierra de Tramuntana and Port de Sóller #soller #mallorca #travelling

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

On vacation for a couple of days. My Mastodon account as well as my blog will be considerably quieter for the forseeable future 🙂🏖️ (And II have proper IPv6 on the roaming network here!) #holliday #travelling #vacation #roaming #ipv6

Screenshot of ModemManager GUI showing a Movistar LTE connection registered as a roaming network, with 70% signal strength. The location section says both 3GPP and GPS location are “Not supported.” A desktop panel with network and system icons is visible at the bottom.

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

In my last blog post I said I really don’t need any more peers for AS201379. Then @reulnl showed up with: “Hey, want a connection to Piter-IX?” Obviously, the correct sysadmin response was: yes. So here we are: 10 peers now. Including one via LowPing.nl […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

BGP security stack complete for AS201379: ASPA records published for upstream authorization, backed by valid RPKI ROAs and IRR objects. #AS201379 #BGP #RPKI #ASPA #IPv6 #RoutingSecurity #NetOps

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Nice! Our Mastodon instance burningboard.net has almost 60% of total using the current generation of the Internet Protocol (IPv6) and only arround 40% still using the legacy-protocol from the 1980s (IPv4). Measured on the PF firewall of our Mastodon […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

Terminal screenshot running a shell command pipeline (pfctl -si | awk) that calculates IPv4 vs IPv6 network traffic on a server. The terminal output displays IPv4 traffic at 160.68 GiB (41.1%) and IPv6 traffic at 230.46 GiB (58.9%).

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

I really don’t need any more peers for my AS201379! (Okay, maybe a few more...) Started back in December 2025, and now this "little" infrastructure is running: 14 individual eBGP sessions 3 Internet Exchanges Multiple transit providers 110+ direct peers […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

From the engine room: Today, I updated our entire Mastodon infrastructure for burningboard.net to FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p1 :freebsd: and applied all quarterly package updates. This included the Mastodon App-Server, the opensearch cluster and the Grafana […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

Screenshot showing three terminal windows (Konsole) running FreeBSD. Each window displays the output of freebsd-version -kru showing "15.1-RELEASE-p1" for all components, followed by bastille list output showing running FreeBSD jail containers:

root@opensearch:
Jail 1: search (thin jail, state: Up, IP: 10.254.248.10 / fd00:248::10, release: 15.1-RELEASE-p1)

root@observer:
Jail 1: monitor (thin jail, state: Up, IP: 10.254.254.25 / 2a06:9801:1c:2000::25, published ports: tcp/3000:3000, release: 15.1-RELEASE-p1)

root@burningboard:
Jail 1: database (thin jail, state: Up, IP: 10.254.250.100)
Jail 2: mastodonsidekiq (thin jail, state: Up, IP: 10.254.249.100)
Jail 3: mastodonweb (thin jail, state: Up, IP: 10.254.251.100)
Jail 4: nginx (thin jail, state: Up, IP: 10.254.252.100)

All jails are running release 15.1-RELEASE-p1.

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

Had some unused keyboard body laying arround here for a while. A Keychron K8 pro, that I used in the past. Did build a fresh keyboard out of it today: - Body: Keychrom K8 Pro ANSI - Switches: Akko Rosewood (Linear, lubed) - Keycaps: Cheap double-shot PBT […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

My Roguelike game starts feeling better and better :-) So much fun building it out further and further every weekend 🙂 Implemented better save-state handling, combat machenics including weapons and armor, cavernous levels and much more this weekend. YAY. #gamedev #roguelike #rust #development

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

Had the problem on my DN42 (a distributed overlay network, that is sperated from the internet), that my FreeBSD servers couldn't update without hacky firewall tricks (NAT etc.) Did now finally solve that cleanly with a single caching Nginx server that is […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

And my first trafic death in my own game ^^ 😆

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

Currently working on some (old school) ASCII dungeon crawler in the style of older roguelikes. Not yet sure, where this will lead, but I have lots of fun creating it :-) #roguelike #gamedev #rust #development #gaming

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

Small weather update: The outside air in Europe is scorching hot right now .. The burningboard.net Mastodon-Server is pleasantly cool with 43° C on the CPU package and 27° C on the NVMe drives .. #mastoadmin #mastodon #server #catacenter

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

From the engine room: Built a new overview dashboard for our Mastodon instance burningboard.net with all the important stats: - System overview - Sidekiq statistics - Database health - S3 Bucket utilization - Mastodon statistics Starting to look really […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

Nie wieder eON .. Was ich in den 4 Monaten erlebt habe, seitdem die mein Stromanbieter sind, ist beinahe schon Comedy: - Im März kam am gleichen Tag eine Ablehnung und eine Vertragsbestätigung (beide Briefe zusammen im Briefkasten) - Seitdem erhalte ich […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

The new KDE 6.7 release brought back the Oxygen theme from the KDE4 era. Hello there, old friend :-)) #KDE #Plasma #KDE67 #Oxygen #nostalgia

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

Our Mastodon instance "burningboard.net" is now running on the newly released FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE :freebsd: Everything looking fine. No unpleasant surprises. Upgrade process went completely smooth! Our Stack now: OS: FreeBSD 15.1-RELASE with Bastille […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

Zum ersten Mal nach mehr als einem Jahrzehnt geht der alte Mann wieder auf ein Konzert 😂👴🏻 #konzert #totehosen #musik #band

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

Wenige Straßen von mir entfernt hängt tatsächlich noch ein Kaugummi Automat an einer Hauswand. Habe ich auch schon Jahrzehnte nicht mehr bewusst gesehen so einen 😍 #KaugummiAutomat #kindheit #nostalgie

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

I run blog.hofstede.it aiming for maximum digital sovereignty! DNS: My own authoritative servers (PowerDNS) with DNSSEC signing. HW: Own physical server in a German colocation Net: My own Autonomous System (AS201379) for full BGP control Stack […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

Database cleanup work: $ psql -c "SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size('mastodon'))" pg_size_pretty ---------------- 38 GB (1 row) $ pg_repack mastodon INFO: repacking table "public.account_aliases" .... $ psql -c "SELECT […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

Weekend project that turned into infra I actually run daily: MastoSum. The stack: RHEL host, 100% rootless Podman. Web on FastAPI, Celery worker/beat/flower, PostgreSQL 16, Valkey. All on userspace networking (pasta), images built & shipped by a self-hosted […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

After spending half a day with CARP, iBGP, OSPFv3 and "pfsync" (pf state table synchronization), I now have seamless failover for my datacenter router working 🙂 Legacy-IP switches to a different provider assigned IP (I don't care!) while IPv6 stays exactly […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

I self-host the DNS for my domains for more than 20 years now. 2026 now finally was the year, where I decomissioned the last BIND server and replaced it with a PowerDNS, containerized in Podman :podman: and with a SQLite backend. I already migrated the […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

@tux In deinem Bild waren die Farben und Bezeichnungen falsch ...

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

Achievement unlocked: SSO for the hypervisor! 🎉 My Proxmox VE is now officially using Keycloak OIDC for authentication, and the setup is fantastic: - Centralized Users: Managed alongside my other apps (Keycloak using my LDAP as the backend). - Hardware […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026

Gerade mit meiner Frau in Frankreich gewesen zum gemütlichen Samstags Einkaufsbummel. Auf der französischen Seite wurde gar nichts kontrolliert, da stand nicht mal wer. Bei der Rückfahrt nach Deutschland dann das volle Programm an der Grenze bei […] [Original post on burningboard.net]

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