cablespaghetti.dev is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.

This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.

Site description
Cablespaghetti's personal snac instance
Admin email
sam@cablespaghetti.dev
Admin account
@sam@cablespaghetti.dev

Search results for tag #snac2

[?]Ethan Black » 🌐
@golemwire@social.golemwire.com

I disabled emoji reactions (too ripe for abuse in the microblogging world, works very well for chats though IMO). I also enabled strict_public_timelines; while it was nice seeing every conversation everyone I follow was involved in (genuinely surfaces interesting things), I am becoming a busy man as time goes on (and I am here for it) so I need to tone down my social media usage.

Max poll options doubled to 16.

Replies to my posts are no longer automatically purged (if I understood the manpage correctly).

Thanks to the snac author for the perfect ActivityPub implementation for me 🍻

    [?]Jupiter Rowland » 🌐
    @jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

    @sb  the chippy-choppy There won't be many left. Depending on how staunchly and extremely anti-AI you and (aspiring) server admins are, there won't be any left. Because it's technically impossible to set up a Fediverse server with absolutely no AI code underneath whatsoever.

    The Linux mainline kernel itself contains AI code now. It's officially allowed as long as it's disclosed as such. Thus, you will have to avoid literally all servers running on Linux.

    https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-assistants.html

    https://www.neowin.net/news/linus-torvalds-declares-massive-ai-fueled-code-surges-as-the-new-normal-for-linux/

    NetBSD has very strict rules regarding AI-generated code. But it doesn't rule AI-generated code out out of principle because it's AI-generated; it only wants to be safe that nothing that's actually GPL-licensed is slipped in. So, if you're an 100%, ultra-hardcode anti-AI extremist, avoid what few servers run on NetBSD.

    https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

    OpenBSD contains AI-generated code, too. And it has no official stance regarding it. So servers running on OpenBSD are taboo, too.

    https://www.osnews.com/story/144935/openbsd-and-slopcode-raindrop-to-a-torrent/

    FreeBSD has no stance on AI whatsoever that I could find. However, apparently, the FreeBSD community loves to integrate Claude Code into their systems for automation purposes:

    https://aumont.fr/posts/claude-code-freebsd/

    https://discoverbsd.com/p/8a7660c31b

    But you'll also have to look at the userland, the Web server, the database driver etc.

    MariaDB allows AI code. You can safely assume that all MySQL databases on Web servers out there are actually powered by MariaDB.

    https://mariadb.org/governance/governance-ai-policy/

    Oracle MySQL can integrate AI, so it's safe to assume it contains AI-generated code.

    https://blogs.oracle.com/mysql/announcing-mysql-ai

    PostgreSQL probably allows AI code, too. There are even tools for it.

    https://github.com/timescale/pg-aiguide

    SQLite is very popular amongst AI users while not having any rules on AI-generated code. Assume it to be tainted.

    This leaves you with only one choice: Self-hosting a personal, single-user snac2 server because snac2 doesn't need any database whatsoever. In fact, snac2 is staunchly against AI. And it runs on NetBSD.

    https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

    But then there's the Web server. Apache may allow AI-generated code if it has been reviewed and made sure that it does not contain anything that's incompatible with the Apache-2.0 license.

    https://www.apache.org/legal/generative-tooling.html

    nginx welcomes AI and advertises itself as ready for AI, and it takes no anti-AI-code stance. It's most likely already tainted.

    https://www.f5.com/de_de/products/nginx.

    This basically leaves you with no Web server guaranteed to be 100% free from AI-generated code to run snac2 on. But that doesn't matter because it's impossible to build a Web server devoid of any AI code to install snac2 on.

    By the way: Mastodon itself explicitly allows AI code if it's disclosed as such, and if its contributor understands it.

    https://github.com/mastodon/.github/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md

    In other words, next to all Mastodon servers are running

    • AI-generated Mastodon code
    • on an AI-generated Web server
    • with an AI-generated database driver
    • on an AI-generated operating system kernel

    #Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Linux #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Apache #nginx #MySQL #MariaDB #PostgreSQL #SQLite #Mastodon #snac2 #AI #LLM #LLMs #GenAI #NoAI #AntiAI #AntiLLM

      [?]p » 🌐
      @p@hj.9fs.net

      fam: did you know that you can share direct urls to snac users' posts and hide the bio?

      just append the url with ?terse=true

      behold and compare the results!
      https://hj.9fs.net/p/p/1788520021.138703
      https://hj.9fs.net/p/p/1788520021.138703?terse=true


        [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
        @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

        Friendly periodic reminder that snac is a great, great piece of software.

        I've upgraded in minutes, recompiling snac *inside each jail*.

        The Fediverse, as the Fediverse should be.

        codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

          [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
          @stefano@mastodon.illumos.cafe

          The instance has been upgraded to 2.95

            [?]BSD Cafe Announcements » 🌐
            @announcements@mastodon.bsd.cafe

            The instance has been upgraded to 2.95

              [?]p » 🌐
              @p@hj.9fs.net

              The official achivements list (so far).

              https://qum.cz/snac_achievements/

              @grunfink@comam.es

              get snacpilled achievement

              Alt...get snacpilled achievement

                [?]Ben Zanin [he/him] » 🌐
                @gnomon@mastodon.social

                [?]gyptazy » 🌐
                @gyptazy@gyptazy.com

                Running a small or single user instance in the ? Get connected to other instances by a relay!

                I just adjusted my relay instance which now also finally supports ! Of course, it also supports Pleroma, snac, Mastodon, littlefedi, starling and many other ones!

                With relays, your own posted content gets distributed to all connected instances, as well you get the content all other instances. Currently, mostly tech related instances are connected, focusing on , , / , and many other things!

                More information at: https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com


                  Tim Hergert boosted

                  [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                  @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                  There is a person I've been helping for a while who runs two instances, one and one .

                  Yesterday, they suffered severe file system corruption on their device, and I lent them a hand with the recovery. For GoToSocial, they restored the DB from the previous backup and got it running again. For snac, although a few files were lost, no action was necessary... it just started back up and did what it had to do, bringing the instance back to full operation.

                  This goes to show that when software is well-designed and intentionally kept simple, it's also easier to get back up and running when something goes wrong. In this case, snac's "files-only" approach demonstrated excellent resilience.

                  Thanks, @grunfink !

                    [?]Ethan Black » 🌐
                    @golemwire@social.golemwire.com

                    I low-key feel like a operator, when I'm using this server and chatting with people who-knows-where. So cool.

                    There are nice things in this "timeline", so let's find opportunities to be grateful!


                      [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :FreeBSD: :OpenBSD: :NetBSD:🍵 :MiraLovesYou: [he/him/my good fellow] » 🌐
                      @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                      @ChuckMcManis

                      Markdown is only supported in the Hometown and GlitchSocial forks of Mastodon. Vanilla Mastodon will probably never have it, because they're going for that classic Twitter UX, for better or for worse.

                      Many non-Mastodon fedi servers like #GtS and #snac2 support #Markdown.

                      I don't know about Friendica, *oma, and *key, though.

                        [?]ltning » 🌐
                        @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net

                        @CursedSilicon No the front end is the built-in one. Just with a replaced style.css. That's the only customisation. It is *really* easy to customise. See https://weirdr.net/snac/ and https://larry.weirdr.net/ for two additional #snac2 instances using different style.css.
                        You can steal/grab those styles by saving the style.cas file your browser downloads :)

                          [?]ltning » 🌐
                          @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net

                          @CursedSilicon It's just a single CSS file. Just grab it from there if you want. :) The #snac2 Codeberg repo has a link to a bunch of themes, including this one. I submitted a PR on it but I don't think it's been accepted yet.

                          https://codeberg.org/voron/snac-style/pulls/19

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                            [?]Sam » 🌐
                            @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                            Time for another blog post, about hosting a fediverse instance on my ancient Raspberry Pi. Obviously I had to share it on the fediverse.

                            https://cablespaghetti.dev/hosting-a-fediverse-instance-on-an-original-raspberry-pi.html