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Today is a special day! It is the BSD Cafe's birthday!
Exactly three years ago today, I was rather timidly announcing this project to the world. It was an idea that had already been in my mind for some time, but had not yet become reality.
Three years later, I am proud to say that the BSD Cafe is sailing at full speed towards the uncertain horizons of the modern world.
We are here to talk about BSD, Open Source, projects, conferences, freedom, pizza and tiramisu, but above all about passions, interests, discoveries and knowledge. We are here among friends who share interests and passions, without geography or borders, apart from those defined by mutual respect.
Your Barista is more energised than ever.
During the past year, he had to retire one of the services, BlendIT, our Lemmy instance, but he also added several new ones: Journal, based on WordPress, Billboard, running on NodeBB, the Delta Chat relay, and more.
He also had to withdraw from BSDCan, with enormous regret, but he is now ready for EuroBSDCon. And for other new things that will gradually follow.
For example, here is a small preview: I have been experimenting with MeshCore.
My dream? One or more BSD Cafe services that do not use the Internet at all. I already have a few ideas, so I shall not disclose anything more for now 😉
And I will never grow tired of repeating that the BSD Cafe is a success because of you.
I am just the Barista, but a place like this is nothing without the friends sitting at the bar. And the friends of this bar are wonderful people who, every day, help make my days calmer, happier and more interesting.
So thank you for these three years, and thank you for being here.
We shall continue sailing together towards the future, with smiles on our faces and passion in our hearts.
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Today is a special day! It is the BSD Cafe's birthday!
Exactly three years ago today, I was rather timidly announcing this project to the world. It was an idea that had already been in my mind for some time, but had not yet become reality.
Three years later, I am proud to say that the BSD Cafe is sailing at full speed towards the uncertain horizons of the modern world.
We are here to talk about BSD, Open Source, projects, conferences, freedom, pizza and tiramisu, but above all about passions, interests, discoveries and knowledge. We are here among friends who share interests and passions, without geography or borders, apart from those defined by mutual respect.
Your Barista is more energised than ever.
During the past year, he had to retire one of the services, BlendIT, our Lemmy instance, but he also added several new ones: Journal, based on WordPress, Billboard, running on NodeBB, the Delta Chat relay, and more.
He also had to withdraw from BSDCan, with enormous regret, but he is now ready for EuroBSDCon. And for other new things that will gradually follow.
For example, here is a small preview: I have been experimenting with MeshCore.
My dream? One or more BSD Cafe services that do not use the Internet at all. I already have a few ideas, so I shall not disclose anything more for now 😉
And I will never grow tired of repeating that the BSD Cafe is a success because of you.
I am just the Barista, but a place like this is nothing without the friends sitting at the bar. And the friends of this bar are wonderful people who, every day, help make my days calmer, happier and more interesting.
So thank you for these three years, and thank you for being here.
We shall continue sailing together towards the future, with smiles on our faces and passion in our hearts.
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The BSD (and illumos) cafe Mastodon instances are still at 4.5.x - which is supported.
I'm planning to upgrade to 4.6.x as soon as I'll have enough time. It should be quite easy, but I want to proceed when I have enough time.
This means I cannot provide a specific deadline, yet. But I'll try to do it ASAP.
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The BSD (and illumos) cafe Mastodon instances are still at 4.5.x - which is supported.
I'm planning to upgrade to 4.6.x as soon as I'll have enough time. It should be quite easy, but I want to proceed when I have enough time.
This means I cannot provide a specific deadline, yet. But I'll try to do it ASAP.
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Happy Sunday, #BSDCafe
Happy Sunday, #illumosCafe
Happy Sunday, #Fediverse#SilentSunday #Photography #Photo #Pic #Summer #Italy #Fotografia
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Happy Sunday, #BSDCafe
Happy Sunday, #illumosCafe
Happy Sunday, #Fediverse#SilentSunday #Photography #Photo #Pic #Summer #Italy #Fotografia
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Friends of the #BSDCafe
Friends of the #illumosCafe
Friends of the #FediverseHave a sweet weekend!
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Friends of the #BSDCafe
Friends of the #illumosCafe
Friends of the #FediverseHave a sweet weekend!
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Monday Monday...
Last night there was a blackout for over an hour. The local substation overloaded because everyone in the area had their AC running on full blast. And this week they say they're coming to finish the FTTH installation.
My wife bets that the appointment will fall through this time too.
We'll see!Have a great week, #BSDCafe
Have a great week, #illumosCafe
Have a great week, #Fediverse -
Monday Monday...
Last night there was a blackout for over an hour. The local substation overloaded because everyone in the area had their AC running on full blast. And this week they say they're coming to finish the FTTH installation.
My wife bets that the appointment will fall through this time too.
We'll see!Have a great week, #BSDCafe
Have a great week, #illumosCafe
Have a great week, #Fediverse -
Today, the President of the Italian Republic, in a public speech, said that one of the main problems of AI is its impact and the concentration of overwhelming power it generates in the hands of a few.
He’s not a tech guy, but even he is pro-OwnYourData. We should invite him to the BSD Cafe.
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Today, the President of the Italian Republic, in a public speech, said that one of the main problems of AI is its impact and the concentration of overwhelming power it generates in the hands of a few.
He’s not a tech guy, but even he is pro-OwnYourData. We should invite him to the BSD Cafe.
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Dear BSD Cafe friends,
we have Matrix and a wonderful Delta Chat relay.A BSD Cafe xmpp server...
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Dear BSD Cafe friends,
we have Matrix and a wonderful Delta Chat relay.A BSD Cafe xmpp server...
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@stefano hi, indexing might need a prod.
https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/search?q=mastodon&type=statuses finds nothing, and so on.
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@stefano hi, indexing might need a prod.
https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/search?q=mastodon&type=statuses finds nothing, and so on.
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A wave of fake profile registrations is currently underway.
Many are easy to spot, others less so. The risk is that some (but credible) fake profiles might slip through, while some legitimate friends might go unnoticed, lost in the chaos of new signups.
If you have submitted a request, are a real person, and are genuinely interested in joining BSD Cafe, please contact me privately.
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A wave of fake profile registrations is currently underway.
Many are easy to spot, others less so. The risk is that some (but credible) fake profiles might slip through, while some legitimate friends might go unnoticed, lost in the chaos of new signups.
If you have submitted a request, are a real person, and are genuinely interested in joining BSD Cafe, please contact me privately.
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The #BSDCafe Brew instance (Forgejo) has been updated to 11.0.15
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The #BSDCafe Brew instance (Forgejo) has been updated to 11.0.15
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Dear friends of the BSD Cafe,
One of the principles this place was built on has always been free communication. Whether on the Fediverse or on Matrix, the goal is the same: open, secure, private, decentralized tools. Because we know, from experience, that anything centralized will sooner or later come to an end.
Matrix is great, and we like it. But it's tied to its server - you can't migrate away (easily). It does its job well, yet sometimes it asks for more than a conversation should: heavy to host, hard to leave.
So when my friend @outofcreativity brought it up again at EuroBSDCon, I decided to give Delta Chat another try after many years. And yes - its philosophy fits mine, and the Cafe’s, well.For a few months we ran a relay - a chatmail server - but it was on Debian, and I didn't want to make an official service that runs on Debian. Not because it doesn't work: it works perfectly. But because it wouldn't be in the spirit of this place.
Thanks to @feld 's excellent cookbook recipe, I also kept a private relay of my own running for months, just to test it. It held up beautifully. So yesterday, with the help of some friends in the cookbook chat, I migrated the Debian server to FreeBSD - accounts and data included - and I can finally call it a stable, official Cafe service.
Our chatmail relay - https://chatmail.bsd.cafe - runs on FreeBSD, in a jail. Which means it gets everything the other services get: hourly backups via zfs send and receive, FreeBSD's security, and all the rest.
I'd encourage everyone to try Delta Chat. Secure, decentralized communication built on protocols we already know and trust: the ones behind email. And the development is moving fast. Multi-relay is no longer a promise - it's here, and it's solid: a single profile can use several relays at once, so your account and your reachability survive even if one of them goes down and disappears. That's real resilience. The real decentralization, the one we love.
Because Signal is great. But Signal, too, is centralized. And we happen to like the true spirit of the Internet.
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeAnnouncements #DeltaChat #ChatMail #Communication #OwnYourData
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Dear friends of the BSD Cafe,
One of the principles this place was built on has always been free communication. Whether on the Fediverse or on Matrix, the goal is the same: open, secure, private, decentralized tools. Because we know, from experience, that anything centralized will sooner or later come to an end.
Matrix is great, and we like it. But it's tied to its server - you can't migrate away (easily). It does its job well, yet sometimes it asks for more than a conversation should: heavy to host, hard to leave.
So when my friend @outofcreativity brought it up again at EuroBSDCon, I decided to give Delta Chat another try after many years. And yes - its philosophy fits mine, and the Cafe’s, well.For a few months we ran a relay - a chatmail server - but it was on Debian, and I didn't want to make an official service that runs on Debian. Not because it doesn't work: it works perfectly. But because it wouldn't be in the spirit of this place.
Thanks to @feld 's excellent cookbook recipe, I also kept a private relay of my own running for months, just to test it. It held up beautifully. So yesterday, with the help of some friends in the cookbook chat, I migrated the Debian server to FreeBSD - accounts and data included - and I can finally call it a stable, official Cafe service.
Our chatmail relay - https://chatmail.bsd.cafe - runs on FreeBSD, in a jail. Which means it gets everything the other services get: hourly backups via zfs send and receive, FreeBSD's security, and all the rest.
I'd encourage everyone to try Delta Chat. Secure, decentralized communication built on protocols we already know and trust: the ones behind email. And the development is moving fast. Multi-relay is no longer a promise - it's here, and it's solid: a single profile can use several relays at once, so your account and your reachability survive even if one of them goes down and disappears. That's real resilience. The real decentralization, the one we love.
Because Signal is great. But Signal, too, is centralized. And we happen to like the true spirit of the Internet.
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeAnnouncements #DeltaChat #ChatMail #Communication #OwnYourData
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Dear friends of the BSD Cafe,
One of the principles this place was built on has always been free communication. Whether on the Fediverse or on Matrix, the goal is the same: open, secure, private, decentralized tools. Because we know, from experience, that anything centralized will sooner or later come to an end.
Matrix is great, and we like it. But it's tied to its server - you can't migrate away (easily). It does its job well, yet sometimes it asks for more than a conversation should: heavy to host, hard to leave.
So when my friend @outofcreativity brought it up again at EuroBSDCon, I decided to give Delta Chat another try after many years. And yes - its philosophy fits mine, and the Cafe’s, well.For a few months we ran a relay - a chatmail server - but it was on Debian, and I didn't want to make an official service that runs on Debian. Not because it doesn't work: it works perfectly. But because it wouldn't be in the spirit of this place.
Thanks to @feld 's excellent cookbook recipe, I also kept a private relay of my own running for months, just to test it. It held up beautifully. So yesterday, with the help of some friends in the cookbook chat, I migrated the Debian server to FreeBSD - accounts and data included - and I can finally call it a stable, official Cafe service.
Our chatmail relay - https://chatmail.bsd.cafe - runs on FreeBSD, in a jail. Which means it gets everything the other services get: hourly backups via zfs send and receive, FreeBSD's security, and all the rest.
I'd encourage everyone to try Delta Chat. Secure, decentralized communication built on protocols we already know and trust: the ones behind email. And the development is moving fast. Multi-relay is no longer a promise - it's here, and it's solid: a single profile can use several relays at once, so your account and your reachability survive even if one of them goes down and disappears. That's real resilience. The real decentralization, the one we love.
Because Signal is great. But Signal, too, is centralized. And we happen to like the true spirit of the Internet.
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeAnnouncements #DeltaChat #ChatMail #Communication #OwnYourData
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Dear friends of the BSD Cafe,
One of the principles this place was built on has always been free communication. Whether on the Fediverse or on Matrix, the goal is the same: open, secure, private, decentralized tools. Because we know, from experience, that anything centralized will sooner or later come to an end.
Matrix is great, and we like it. But it's tied to its server - you can't migrate away (easily). It does its job well, yet sometimes it asks for more than a conversation should: heavy to host, hard to leave.
So when my friend @outofcreativity brought it up again at EuroBSDCon, I decided to give Delta Chat another try after many years. And yes - its philosophy fits mine, and the Cafe’s, well.For a few months we ran a relay - a chatmail server - but it was on Debian, and I didn't want to make an official service that runs on Debian. Not because it doesn't work: it works perfectly. But because it wouldn't be in the spirit of this place.
Thanks to @feld 's excellent cookbook recipe, I also kept a private relay of my own running for months, just to test it. It held up beautifully. So yesterday, with the help of some friends in the cookbook chat, I migrated the Debian server to FreeBSD - accounts and data included - and I can finally call it a stable, official Cafe service.
Our chatmail relay - https://chatmail.bsd.cafe - runs on FreeBSD, in a jail. Which means it gets everything the other services get: hourly backups via zfs send and receive, FreeBSD's security, and all the rest.
I'd encourage everyone to try Delta Chat. Secure, decentralized communication built on protocols we already know and trust: the ones behind email. And the development is moving fast. Multi-relay is no longer a promise - it's here, and it's solid: a single profile can use several relays at once, so your account and your reachability survive even if one of them goes down and disappears. That's real resilience. The real decentralization, the one we love.
Because Signal is great. But Signal, too, is centralized. And we happen to like the true spirit of the Internet.
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeAnnouncements #DeltaChat #ChatMail #Communication #OwnYourData
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A new BSD Cafe service will be officially announced tomorrow morning (CEST)
It’s about communication, freedom and…powered by a BSD.
Stay tuned!
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A new BSD Cafe service will be officially announced tomorrow morning (CEST)
It’s about communication, freedom and…powered by a BSD.
Stay tuned!
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Aggressive caching for a Mastodon reverse proxy: what to cache, what to never cache, and why content negotiation will eventually betray you
The same URL serves HTML to browsers, JSON to apps, and ActivityPub to remote instances. Here's how I cache Mastodon with nginx without betraying any of them.
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/06/05/aggressive_caching_for_a_mastodon_reverse_proxy/
#ITNotes #nginx #Caching #IT #SysAdmin #Mastodon #Fediverse #BSDCafe
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Aggressive caching for a Mastodon reverse proxy: what to cache, what to never cache, and why content negotiation will eventually betray you
The same URL serves HTML to browsers, JSON to apps, and ActivityPub to remote instances. Here's how I cache Mastodon with nginx without betraying any of them.
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/06/05/aggressive_caching_for_a_mastodon_reverse_proxy/
#ITNotes #nginx #Caching #IT #SysAdmin #Mastodon #Fediverse #BSDCafe
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# barista-update -r 42.42-RELEASE upgrade
coffee component not installed, skipped (already in the cup)
Looking up bsd.cafe mirrors... 1 mirror found (it's always the same counter).
Fetching metadata signature for 42.42-RELEASE from bsd.cafe... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting barista... too much hair found, skipped.
Preparing to download files (and tiramisu)... done.The following components of barista seem to be installed:
patience/base listening/world caffeine/generic
sarcasm/light long-term-memory/dbgThe following components of barista do not seem to be installed:
diplomacy/lib32 vacation/base regular-sleep/lib32-dbg head/hairDoes this look reasonable (y/n)? y
The following components of barista will be upgraded:
patience -> patience-42.42 (improved handling of difficult spam bots)
caffeine -> caffeine-42.42 (new backend: ZFS - Zero Faulty Sips)
listening -> listening-42.42 (now supports silences too, but being Italian it will be hard)WARNING: This barista is running a custom kernel ("stubborn"), which is
not a configuration distributed as part of BSD Cafe. Proceeding anyway, as always.To install the downloaded upgrades, run "barista-upgrade install"
and please offer the administrator a coffee. -
# barista-update -r 42.42-RELEASE upgrade
coffee component not installed, skipped (already in the cup)
Looking up bsd.cafe mirrors... 1 mirror found (it's always the same counter).
Fetching metadata signature for 42.42-RELEASE from bsd.cafe... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting barista... too much hair found, skipped.
Preparing to download files (and tiramisu)... done.The following components of barista seem to be installed:
patience/base listening/world caffeine/generic
sarcasm/light long-term-memory/dbgThe following components of barista do not seem to be installed:
diplomacy/lib32 vacation/base regular-sleep/lib32-dbg head/hairDoes this look reasonable (y/n)? y
The following components of barista will be upgraded:
patience -> patience-42.42 (improved handling of difficult spam bots)
caffeine -> caffeine-42.42 (new backend: ZFS - Zero Faulty Sips)
listening -> listening-42.42 (now supports silences too, but being Italian it will be hard)WARNING: This barista is running a custom kernel ("stubborn"), which is
not a configuration distributed as part of BSD Cafe. Proceeding anyway, as always.To install the downloaded upgrades, run "barista-upgrade install"
and please offer the administrator a coffee. -
Good morning, #BSDCafe
Good morning, #illumosCafe
Good morning, #FediverseHave a great Friday!
#Music #MastoMusic #MastoRadio #FediMusic #FediRadio #JukeBox
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Good morning, #BSDCafe
Good morning, #illumosCafe
Good morning, #FediverseHave a great Friday!
#Music #MastoMusic #MastoRadio #FediMusic #FediRadio #JukeBox
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New wave of bot registrations on both the Mastodon and NodeBB (billboard) instances.
In these cases, unfortunately, a few incorrect approvals or denials might slip through.
But surely Svetlana, who wants to sign up because the community might appreciate her erotic content, isn't exactly what BSD Cafe is about.
Maybe she confused the BSDs with BDSM (thanks @oxy for pointing it out)
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New wave of bot registrations on both the Mastodon and NodeBB (billboard) instances.
In these cases, unfortunately, a few incorrect approvals or denials might slip through.
But surely Svetlana, who wants to sign up because the community might appreciate her erotic content, isn't exactly what BSD Cafe is about.
Maybe she confused the BSDs with BDSM (thanks @oxy for pointing it out)
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EDIT: done, let me know if you experience problems
Brew (#forgejo), as usual, is being overloaded by the scrapers.
I think I'll have to put an Anubis in front of it. I don't love those "blocks", but sometimes you need to.
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EDIT: done, let me know if you experience problems
Brew (#forgejo), as usual, is being overloaded by the scrapers.
I think I'll have to put an Anubis in front of it. I don't love those "blocks", but sometimes you need to.
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#HappyFriday to my friends, followers, #BSDCafe community, #BSD and everyone on the Fediverse 🤙🏻 :runbsdBg:
I wish you a nice day before this extended weekend 😎☀️ -
#HappyFriday to my friends, followers, #BSDCafe community, #BSD and everyone on the Fediverse 🤙🏻 :runbsdBg:
I wish you a nice day before this extended weekend 😎☀️ -
Sing us s a song, you're the Barista man!
Good morning, #BSDCafe
Good morning, #illumosCafe
Good morning, #Fediversehttps://song.link/y/gxEPV4kolz0
#Music #JukeBox #MastoMusic #MastoRadio #FediMusic #FediRadio
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Sing us s a song, you're the Barista man!
Good morning, #BSDCafe
Good morning, #illumosCafe
Good morning, #Fediversehttps://song.link/y/gxEPV4kolz0
#Music #JukeBox #MastoMusic #MastoRadio #FediMusic #FediRadio