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Larvitz
Larvitz :fedora: @Larvitz@burningboard.net · Jul 26, 2026
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. https://blog.hofstede.it/building-my-own-tv-station-ersatztv-in-a-freebsd-jail-with-intel-hardware-transcoding/ #FreeBSD #ErsatzTV #Jellyfin #SelfHosting #Jails #dotnet
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Graham Perrin @grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Jul 24, 2026
Jails, Not Containers: FreeBSD Isolation Done Right – Umair Khurshid | Klara Systems 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 | #FreeBSD #jails #Linux #containers
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Dendrobatus Azureus @Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Jul 20, 2026
Reading up a bit on Linux containers I wonder if the efficiency of them is close to that of freeBSD jails https://linuxcontainers.org/ #Containers #VM #freeBSD #jails #programming #XEN #networking
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Larvitz
Larvitz :fedora: @Larvitz@burningboard.net · Jun 05, 2026
Just released ansible_jailexec v1.3.0 It's an Ansible connection plugin I wrote for managing FreeBSD jails. No SSH 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 #python #ansible #freebsd #jails #devops
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Graham Perrin @grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe · May 22, 2026
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Replying to @grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe
Not all users of FreeBSD agree that cohesiveness is a strength Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive
Quoting Will Orr @worr@bsd.network at (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.＂ Cc @encthenet@flyovercountry.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @FreeBSDFoundation@mastodon.social #FreeBSD #jails #UX
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RSS bot @rss_bot@social.koti.site · Apr 22, 2026
Un hombre violó a otro hombre en una cárcel en Rovaniemi, según el gobierno policial, muy raro. https://yle.fi/a/74-20221848?origin=rss #Delitossexuales #Rovaniemi #Violación #Interior #Lapland #Delito #Jails
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Larvitz
Larvitz :fedora: @Larvitz@burningboard.net · Apr 12, 2026
A FreeBSD jail should be small. Installing Python into every jail just so your config management can run is the tail wagging the dog. I wrote two tiny wrappers to plug cdist directly into jexec on the host. The result? Full configuration management that asks for nothing but POSIX sh inside the jail itself. Zero daemons. Zero agents. https://blog.hofstede.it/automating-freebsd-jails-with-cdist-zero-dependencies-inside-the-jail/ My cdist-jexec connection plugin scripts: https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/jexec-cdist #FreeBSD #Jails #Unix #SysAdmin #cdist #DevOps
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Larvitz :fedora: :redhat: @Larvitz__dup_34529@burningboard.net · Mar 02, 2026
New series: FreeBSD Foundationals Part 1 is about Jails - specifically VNET Jails. What epair interfaces actually are (virtual ethernet cables), how bridges tie them together, why the host is basically a router for your jails, and what devfs rulesets control. Covers the full lifecycle from jail.conf through pf firewalling with NAT/RDR for IPv4 and direct routing for IPv6. Plus the gotchas that'll cost you hours if nobody warns you. Not a beginner tutorial, hardcore details. The useful middle. https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-foundationals-jails-from-chroot-on-steroids-to-full-virtual-networks/ #Unix #FreeBSD #Networking #Jails #DevOps #SelfHosting #Sysadmin
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