Paul's Site of Stuff ^..^

Steps required to view the status of a ZFS ARC cache in htop.

After migrating a client's file server from Windows to a FreeBSD samba share, they have noticed some files when opened are not prompting other users to open the file in "Read-Only" mode. The additional users can just open the file with read+write permissions.

This should not be!

Searching the internet gives a handful or results, often met with Microsoft's "Run these powershell commands blindly and you'll be sorted" support method - which are basically no help at all.

How I learned to stop worrying and love WhatsApp... not really. This is how I've set up my own XMPP service to be able to talk to WhatsApp using the slidge-whatsapp transport module.

I've noticed a few times recently my Forgejo server has been triggering alerts on my monitoring systems that is isn't responding as fast as it normally should be. Low and behold - it's due to AI crawlers causing it to grind to a halt as the scrape every little section of the service for their own needs.
This is how I implemented Anubis to help mitigate this problem.

Recently I've started to migrate some of my VPS's to Netcup as I have found their offerings more performant, and less expensive, than other VPS providers.
However, it seems due to the way Netup's IPv6 network is set up causes some issues with FreeBSD, and allegedly other BSDs leading to loss of connectivity via IPv6.

A simple, portable, wrapper for the borg backup and restic utilities written in Nim.

A simple battery monitor tool that can notify you on battery status changes for FreeBSD.
Inspired by but in no way similar to batsignal - inspiring the basic function only. Written in pure Nim.