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benjojo posted 16 Nov 2025 19:23 +0000

The Sony PlayStation Consoles are the most successful distribution of FreeBSD, this is likely obvious when you think about it, but when I look at bgp.tools traffic I see about 7x more traffic from the PS5 than (real) browsers running from FreeBSD.

I don't know who decides to use bgp.tools on their PS5/PS4, but more power to you I guess

A bar chart showing a PlayStation 5 being 6.5 x more than freebsd, and the PS 4 being 2 x more than freebsd

q3k@social.hackerspa.. replied 16 Nov 2025 19:26 +0000
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@benjojo Maybe someone is using PS5s as dashboard machines? I can imagine a corp policy where it's easier to get your team a game console than a 'team workstation'.

benjojo replied 16 Nov 2025 19:27 +0000
in reply to: https://social.hackerspace.pl/users/q3k/statuses/115561018830697031

@q3k that is hilarious and something I have never considered

Aissen@social.treeho.. replied 16 Nov 2025 19:32 +0000
in reply to: https://social.hackerspace.pl/users/q3k/statuses/115561018830697031

@q3k @benjojo TIL there are (or were) multiple ways to launch a web browser on PS5.

evey@chaos.social replied 16 Nov 2025 19:27 +0000
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@benjojo How do you measure that even?

And not getting some accidental juniper boxes in the stats?

benjojo replied 16 Nov 2025 19:29 +0000
in reply to: https://chaos.social/users/evey/statuses/115561020097892638

@evey bgp.tools does a lot of fingerprinting for scraper detection/punishment, I was debugging today why some mobile networks were getting caught up in it, it turns out some mobile networks CGNAT/WAN-Accel are re-creating TCP connections in the way that FreeBSD's stack does.

I was curious over who was actually using FreeBSD, and wrote a query, and instead got back a bunch of playstations

evey@chaos.social replied 16 Nov 2025 19:30 +0000
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@benjojo Aah check, interesting. Really wonder what is causing that 🤔

ozone89@techhub.soci.. replied 16 Nov 2025 20:12 +0000
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@benjojo could be some web exploit for the console?
WiiU had a webpage based one at the time

benjojo replied 16 Nov 2025 20:15 +0000
in reply to: https://techhub.social/users/ozone89/statuses/115561196673580857

@ozone89 as did a few of the PlayStations, but that doesn't really give people a reason to browse bgp.tools on their game console

wolf480pl@mstdn.io replied 16 Nov 2025 20:55 +0000
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@benjojo
unless the consoles are part of "residential proxy" botnet used for scraping
@ozone89

benjojo replied 16 Nov 2025 21:04 +0000
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@wolf480pl @ozone89 I don't think that is the case here, as that kind of stuff would be likely have been detected on my end and not be included in this dataset