#jails — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #jails, aggregated by home.social.
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I was ill last week and discovered something uncomfortable: a huge Jellyfin library isn't entertainment, it's homework. Every time I opened it, it asked "what do you want?" and I just scrolled.
So I built a TV station instead.
ErsatzTV turns a media library into real linear channels with schedules and logos. It ships for Linux, Windows and macOS. My server runs FreeBSD.
Turns out the entire porting effort was one conditional. The code asked "is this Linux?" when it meant "is VAAPI available?" VAAPI is userspace, FreeBSD has it, and .NET has had OSPlatform.FreeBSD for years.
One || later: Intel hardware transcoding in a Bastille jail that can see exactly one GPU and one read-only dataset.
I now have a sci-fi channel. I don't know what's on tonight. That's the point.
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Jails, Not Containers: FreeBSD Isolation Done Right – Umair Khurshid | Klara Systems
<https://klarasystems.com/articles/jails-not-containers-freebsd-isolation-done-right/>
Containers play a major role in modern infrastructure, but they are not the right answer for every workload. This article explores how FreeBSD jails provide purpose-built isolation, predictable security boundaries, and deep ZFS integration—making them ideal infrastructure-grade services where stability is essential. …
Via <https://indieweb.social/@jbz/116907602232548204> | <https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/857> | <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1v5nkno/jails_not_containers_freebsd_isolation_done_right/>
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Reading up a bit on Linux containers
I wonder if the efficiency of them is close to that of freeBSD jails
#Containers #VM #freeBSD #jails #programming #XEN #networking
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"A 28-year veteran who commanded one of the #Riverside County jails has now come forward, under oath, to declare what Alicia Upton’s family has long suspected: that the facts surrounding the deaths within the Riverside County #jails were covered up, that families were kept in the dark in that accountability was obstructed by the very top to shield those responsible for these deaths,” https://www.ocregister.com/2026/07/02/ex-sheriffs-captain-alleges-cover-up-culture-in-riverside-county-jail-deaths/
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"A 28-year veteran who commanded one of the #Riverside County jails has now come forward, under oath, to declare what Alicia Upton’s family has long suspected: that the facts surrounding the deaths within the Riverside County #jails were covered up, that families were kept in the dark in that accountability was obstructed by the very top to shield those responsible for these deaths,” https://www.ocregister.com/2026/07/02/ex-sheriffs-captain-alleges-cover-up-culture-in-riverside-county-jail-deaths/
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/07/uk-abuse-scandal-ignored-victims-working-class-boys-north-minister. We have rat-infested #youth #jails (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/21/therapy-ferrets-kill-rats-uk-largest-children-prison-wetherby), so anyone who thinks things have improved THAT much since the 1980s is sadly very mistaken, @ChrisMayLA6. We have a long way to go before the treatment of young people in custody in this country matches up to what it should do according to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which the UK is a party.
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@NebulaTide free space. Remember to occasionally clear the package cache.
Long ago (much more than a year) I learnt the hard way with poudriere jails. I probably never reported the issue, but (at a glance) it might have been what was reported last month:
pkgbase pkg cache lacks cleaning · Issue #1343 · freebsd/poudriere — <https://github.com/freebsd/poudriere/issues/1343>
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I upgraded my box to #FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE. Everything ran smoothly as always.
After that I upgraded my 3 #Bastille #jails to FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE too.
I just found anything strange:{HOST} # bastille service <JailName> pf restart
[JailName]:
Enabling pfpfctl: DIOCADDRULE: Operation not permitted
/etc/rc.d/pf: WARNING: Unable to load /etc/pf.conf.
pfctl: DIOCSTART: Operation not permitted.To solve this issue with PF startup, I had to change jails securelevel to 1 instead of 2 (default value).
Is it normal now, or should I missed something?
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"That's Not a Visit": How Pricey Video Calls Replaced Human Contact in #Oklahoma #Jails
https://oklahomawatch.org/2026/06/09/thats-not-a-visit-how-pricey-video-calls-replaced-human-contact-in-oklahoma-jails/More than two-thirds of Oklahoma county jails have eliminated in-person visitation, replacing face-to-face visits with costly video calls that generate revenue for counties and private contractors. Advocates say the shift harms detainees, most of whom have not been convicted, and damages family bonds that research shows reduce recidivism.
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Is somebody running #BastilleBSD and #podman #OCI #jails on the same #FreeBSD host? If yes: Is this straightforward?
Cc @BastilleBSD
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Just released ansible_jailexec v1.3.0
It's an Ansible connection plugin I wrote for managing FreeBSD jails. No SSH to the jail itself required.
New in this version: you can now run it without a privilege escalation method (sudo/doas) if you connect Ansible directly to the host as root.
Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/ansible_jailexec/releases/tag/v1.3.0
PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/ansible-jailexec/1.3.0/
GitHub: https://github.com/chofstede/ansible_jailexec/releases/tag/v1.3.0
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Doña Ana County commissioners secured a new healthcare provider for the county detention center Tuesday morning, ensuring services will continue uninterrupted as YesCare withdraws amid bankruptcy proceedings.
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@vfrmedia @EF @ChrisMayLA6 The problem with the theory of #deterrence, generally speaking, is that it doesn't work. It works for the law-abiding, like you & me, but not for the people it needs to work for - the #criminals. If it DID, our #jails would be empty, instead of full to bursting. #Prison works as #punishment, but not as a #deterrent. Some #prisoners can be #rehabilitated, but that needs effort.
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This was a very interesting read and I learned a lot from it
https://snac.it-notes.dragas.net/itnotes/p/1779693443.366960
#Programming #BSD #freeBSD #jails #daemon #tools #KISS #OpenSource
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AI-powered Reddit search (Answers) improving from one day to the next. Today:
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tjgr0x/comment/onelt9p/?context=2>
From yesterday's comment:
"… this underscores the value of not trusting the first thing that we read …"
Not exciting, just food for thought.
Certainly not conclusive. I experiment with the feature very rarely … maybe ten times a year.
#AI #FreeBSD #Reddit #bhyve #Proxmox #jails #Docker #Linux #macOS #Windows
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CW: Not all users of FreeBSD agree that cohesiveness is a strength
Quoting Will Orr @worr at <https://lobste.rs/s/f6wcbv/are_freebsd_jails_containers#c_03xgww> (April 2025):
＂… My impression as a user is that FreeBSD isn't concerned with providing a cohesive OS experience for end users. Other BSDs like OpenBSD (the other server OS I run), NetBSD, etc. are much more concerned with this.
One of the big examples has been talked about here: jails. There isn't a cohesive end user experience for jails in the base OS, instead you're given some of the low-level building blocks, and expected to build it yourself. There are a number of jail managers that work various degrees of ok. Another way this manifests is the 3 different firewalls they ship, with differing feature sets and ways of interacting with them. More debatable would be bhyve, in that the tools for it are quite low-level, and even the docs refer you to an example script for common operations.
The user experience pains around tools like these end up pushing people towards 3rd party tools, which kills a lot of the cohesiveness typical of other BSDs. That's not to say that low-level tools aren't useful, but there seems to be a huge gap between tools targeted towards end-users and what the OS provides out-of-the-box.＂
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New post: FreeBSD resource monitoring and accounting.
A practical tour of the base-system toolkit for figuring out *what is actually using my server*: top, vmstat, systat, gstat, netstat/sockstat, procstat, pfctl, and per-jail attribution with kern.racct and rctl.
No ports, no agents. Just FreeBSD.
https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-resource-monitoring-accounting-and-troubleshooting/
