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This blog is hosted on a Nintendo Wii [2025-04-21] (blog.infected.systems)
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A news article discussing what this is about: https://www.404media.co/this-website-is-running-on-a-wii/

The Wii's live status page with system load info: https://blog.infected.systems/status/

According to the website, as of the time I'm making this post, “the experiment […] is still ongoing”

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[–] sidtirouluca@lemm.ee 0 points 4 hours ago

how cool! :D

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blog.infected.systems NetBSD Wii Status Generated on: Sat May 24 12:15:01 UTC 2025

=== uname -a === NetBSD wii 10.1 NetBSD 10.1 (WII) #0: Mon Dec 16 13:08:11 UTC 2024 mkrepro@mkre pro.NetBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/evbppc/compile/WII evbppc

=== uptime === 12:15PM up 32 days, 19:03, 0 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

=== bsdfetch === OS: NetBSD Release: 10.1 Version: NetBSD 10.1 (WII) #0 Arch: evbppc Host: wii Shell: sh User: root Packages: 15 Uptime: 32d 19h 3m RAM: 88 MB Loadavg: 0.00 0.00 0.00 CPU: 750 (Revision 1.3) Cores: 1 of 1 processors online

=== vmstat === procs memory page disk faults cpu r b avm fre flt re pi po fr sr l0 in sy cs us sy id 0 0 31964 16776 17 0 0 0 1 3 1 202 0 178 0 0 99

=== iostat -xz ld0 === device read KB/t r/s time MB/s write KB/t w/s time MB/s ld0 13.52 0 0.00 0.00 53.59 0 0.00 0.01

=== df -h / === Filesystem Size Used Avail %Cap Mounted on /dev/ld0a 29G 1.9G 26G 6% /

=== top === load averages: 0.16, 0.03, 0.01; up 32+19:03:44 12:15:02 13 processes: 12 sleeping, 1 on CPU CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle Memory: 26M Act, 3112K Inact, 11M Exec, 14M File, 16M Free Swap: 128M Total, 5680K Used, 122M Free / Pools: 20M Used / Network:

PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 0 root 125 0 0K 18M vdrain 132:45 0.00% 0.00% [system] 1141 lighttpd 85 0 14M 1396K kqueue 53:34 0.00% 0.00% lighttpd 324 root 85 0 14M 756K kqueue 0:57 0.00% 0.00% syslogd 578 root 85 0 7424K 668K nanoslp 0:35 0.00% 0.00% cron 1 root 85 0 6772K 232K wait 0:06 0.00% 0.00% init 27845 root 43 0 7524K 1884K CPU 0:00 0.00% 0.00% top 24914 root 85 0 19M 5284K pipe_rd 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sendmail 27158 root 85 0 19M 5256K netio 0:00 0.00% 0.00% postdrop 27302 root 85 0 8208K 1924K pipe_rd 0:00 0.00% 0.00% cron 29296 root 85 0 7196K 1900K wait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sh 424 root 85 0 19M 0K poll 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sshd 299 root 85 0 6816K 0K devmon 0:00 0.00% 0.00% devpubd 584 root 85 0 6452K 0K ttyraw 0:00 0.00% 0.00% getty