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Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii

This blog is hosted on a Nintendo Wiinetbsd shitpost If you are reading this message, the experiment below is still ongoing. This page was served to you by a real Nintendo Wii.

While browsing the NetBSD website recently, I noticed the fact that there was a ‘Wii’ option listed right there on the front page in the ‘Install Media’ section, nestled right next to the other first-class targets like the Raspberry Pi, and generic x86 machines. You could set up an unprivileged user or do anything else you fancy here but I was keen to get SSH going ASAP, as due to the absence of HDMI-enabled screens in my server-area laziness I was doing this bit using a capture card and Photo Booth on macOS which doesn’t actually support disabling the image-flip on the video feed: Even after freeing up the resources above, it seems like serving multiple encrypted requests in parallel was a struggle for the 750, so I opted to move the TLS termination for the blog to a Caddy instance sitting in front of the Wii.

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