I've started to add my own Angie [Nginx spoon] rules to implement my own short links. This approach allows #selfhosting people to use any of their own websites as a link shortener.

This should at least reduce the issues that you've mentioned. Another advantage of this approach is that wildcards and even regular expressions are supported.

Here's an example of an #Nginx or #Angie link shorten rule. This goes before the first existing location block for a given server.

location ~ ^/ai-*article$ {
    return 301 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-fake-goodness-sake-robert-kiraly-wl4ec/;
}

This example redirects both "/ai-article" and "aiarticle".

If I host my own website, and I create two links to a post on the website, and the links are created internally to the website, it's none of your business or anybody's business which of the links I choose to post.

Here's a link to one of my posts on my own Fediverse instance [Coder Dansu]:
https://dansu.org/halloy-review

That is a short link. So what? There is no external link shortener. It's internal to the site. If you're saying "No, if there is a longer possible version of the link, you must post that!" the statement is uneducated and arguably ridiculous. In this context, how would you even define what a "short link" is?

That is especially true for dynamically generated pages that aren't even stored in a specific location on disk. You're trying to make some sort of Purity Test or Angels Dancing on the Head of a Pin argument. It isn't productive.

Further, if I choose to generate and manage my own short links even to external sites [and not just to my own sites] I don't especially care about the Purity Test in that context either.

The approach that I've suggested has all of the advantages and none of the disadvantages of the abstinence approach that you've demanded. I'll continue to offer my #nginx tweak to would-be #selfhosting novices.

Thank you very much.

Your comments aren't as wild-eyed as it usually goes on Twitter. You started with an important point. However, the peremptory tone isn't welcome here.

You're free to offer suggestions. But this isn't a venue where you can set yourself up as the arbiter. You're likely to find that out right quick.

Focus on your novels. Unless there is a genuine desire on your part to learn more.

If you're posting in good faith, take this to DM [Direct Message].

Toujours au programme : verrou anti-chevauchement, notifications Gotify, purge mensuelle des orphelins, rotation des logs.

📄 Docker : https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/maintenance-mastodon-docker
📄 Installation classique : https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/mastodon-cache

#Mastodon #SelfHosting #FOSS #Docker #Linux

Just set up Grafana + Prometheus + Loki for my servers. Now I can watch the data flow like a hawk over my kingdom of nodes 🐫📊 #SelfHosted

Don't let Big Tech spy on you, monitor your own stuff! With open-source tools, you're in control of your data.

#OpenSource #SelfHosting #Infrastructure

https://wopr.systems/?utm_campaign=meme_woprsystems&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

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Don't let Big Tech spy on you, monitor your own stuff! With open-source tools, you're in control of your data.

...why in the ever living fuck is there an ad on my Ubuntu Server's splash screen?

#SelfHosting #Ubuntu

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ssh nick@[REDACTED] nick@[REDACTED]'s password: Welcome to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 7.0.0-1017-raspi aarch64) * Documentation: https://docs.ubuntu.com * Management: https://landscape.canonical.com * Support: https://ubuntu.com/pro System information as of Fri Aug 21 13:44:28 CDT 2026 System load: 2.28 Temperature: 58.4 C Usage of /: 8.5% of 234.02GB Processes: 179 Memory usage: 5% Users logged in: 0 Swap usage: 0% IPv4 address for eth0: [REDACTED] * Strictly confined Kubernetes makes edge and IoT secure. Learn how MicroK8s just raised the bar for easy, resilient and secure K8s cluster deployment. https://ubuntu.com/engage/secure-kubernetes-at-the-edge Expanded Security Maintenance for Applications is not enabled. 0 updates can be applied immediately. Enable ESM Apps to receive additional future security updates. See https://ubuntu.com/esm or run: sudo pro status Last login: Fri Aug 21 08:42:11 2026 from [REDACTED] nick@[REDACTED]:~$

mastodon mis à jour en 4.7.0 !

#selfhosting

Who needs the cloud when you can have a server rack? Switched from AWS to my own setup this week. #selfhosting #meshnetworking #datasovereignty

Less latency, more control. Plus, no GDPR worries!

#selfhosting #meshnetworking #datasovereignty

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Less latency, more control. Plus, no GDPR worries!

Today my Termix answered with a 404 this morning 🫠 CloudFront was fine, EC2 was fine (obviously since 404 was returned from nginx). There was just nothing behind it.

Termix on :latest, the host updates everything at night, and by morning it was exit 1, restart, 1, restart.

It is a Graviton box, so I went at the architecture first and the architecture was innocent. docker inspect said linux/arm64. Right image, right machine.

The mismatch was inside it. better-sqlite3 ships a prebuilt binary linked against GLIBC 2.38 and the image has 2.36, so the linker refuses and node never starts.

Pinned 2.6.1 and it came back (AWS Sessions Manager saved me).

I put :latest there on purpose a year ago, FOMO, and because it is only a homelab. A homelab I route every other server through.

ntfy has been sending me those logs every night. I read them.

I am clearly going to keep reading them exactly the same way. The hard lesson learned.

Bug Report is still open BTW: https://github.com/Termix-SSH/Support/issues/1184

#Linux #Docker #AWS #Graviton #SelfHosting #Blog #Thoughts #DevOps #Fediverse #Termix

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Diagram titled From :latest to 404, subtitled it moved overnight, I found out in the morning. On the left a numbered chain of six steps under the heading how the bastion went down. 01, colon latest, a tag I chose on purpose. 02, at night, the host pulls and restarts. 03, termix 2.7.0, new image, linux slash arm64. 04, its prebuild, wants GLIBC 2.38. 05, the base image, has GLIBC 2.36. 06, exit 1, crash loop, then a 404. On the right, under the heading what it was saying all night, a black panel labelled docker logs termix shows the error output: version GLIBC_2.38 not found, required by better_sqlite3.node. Below it three rows. docker inspect, linux slash arm64, right image. issue 1184, already open, same error. pin 2.6.1, and it came back. At the bottom a note reads: a prebuilt binary carries the glibc it was built on. Nothing on the host changed, the tag moved underneath it.

🐡 Running your own mail server with OpenBSD and OpenSMTPD https://bsd-audit.com/self-hosting/running-your-own-mailserver/

#openbsd #OpenSMTPD #selfhosting

Just finished writing up this little wiki about services we offer, both public, by invitation and by registration. I think it's quite informative and looks pretty decent too

https://cloud.woodpeckersnest.space/wiki/publish/wpnwiki

#wpn #wiki #selfhosted #selfhosting #services

🐘 Mon instance Mastodon vient de passer en 4.7.0 !

Grosse mise à niveau côté interne (sécurité, nouveaux protocoles ActivityPub, préparation à la 5.0), presque invisible côté utilisateurs — mais ça méritait un petit guide.

📝 J'en ai profité pour documenter toute la procédure Docker Compose (backup, migrations, bascule) sur mon wiki, pour celles et ceux qui gèrent leur propre instance :
👉 https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/mise-a-niveau-mastodon-docker

#Mastodon #SelfHosting #Fediverse #Docker #FOSS

What do #SelfHosted community think about @ente? Did anyone try to #SelfHost it? Do shared albums appear in the timeline?

It is a very interesting project, I need to say.

#selfhosting #personalCloud #ente

Even more crazy than I’m doing it from the mountain village through my #SelfHosted #Mastodon instance, which is hosted on an old mini PC 200km away.

#homelab #selfhosting #selfhost

I knew of the existence of paperless-ngx for a long time. A new YouTube video now finally gave me the push to set up an instance on my VPS. It’s configured to use Bunny.net storage using S3 and rclone for the media files, and a restic backup is configured to regularly back up the bucket to Scaleway. Now I just need to upload all the documents and start to scan all those papers. 🖨️

Uh...I have a VPS in Helsinki?

OK...

#selfhosting

my activity pub stuff was down cause my postgresql database ran out of storage space, i hope this shit doesnt use up 3gb in 2 days

#postgresql #databse #server #selfhosting

The Sovereign Auditor articles page just got dragged into the 21st century: searchable tags, instant title/excerpt filtering, no more scrolling past 50 headlines to find the one you half-remember.
No third-party search widget, no analytics call, no dependency added, just vanilla JS reading the page you're already looking at. Consistent with the rest of this operation: if it can run client-side with nothing phoning home, it does.
haunted.lighthouse.co.im/articles/

#GDPR #sovereignty #selfhosting

Rocking out to my bandcamp purchases stored on my home desktop from 1600kms away because #selfhosting

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Screenshot of Tempus app playing music

Who needs Amazon when you can run your own server?

Cloud services may seem cheap, but the hidden costs of data extraction and surveillance outweigh the savings. Embrace self-hosting for a more secure and independent digital future.

#selfhosting #clouddependency #dataprivacy

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Cloud services may seem cheap, but the hidden costs of data extraction and surveillance outweigh the savings. Embrace self-hosting for a more secure and independent digital future.

About to create my first cron job. Wish me luck! 😅

#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting

Notes hebdomadaires 82 : des artistes avec des doctorats, ni Dieu ni Maître, Bonding, la romanticisation de la solitude, Sheepherds, et nos capacités d’attention qui semblent rétrécir.

https://bouvier.cc/notes/notes-hebdomadaires-82/

#noteshebdo #anarchisme #bonding #selfhosting #readeck #ia #etymologie

My fellow homelabbers and homehosters, do you have a scheduled time where your home server(s) is turned off?

For example I do have mine to shutdown during the night and switch on back at the morning.

#selfhosted #selfhosting #homelab

My fellow homelabbers and homehosters, do you have a scheduled time where your home server(s) is turned off?

For example I do have mine to shutdown during the night and switch on back at the morning.

#selfhosted #selfhosting

4 Cores baby!
Had to bump up my VPS on the account of the #ollama making it ooze bodily fluids.

Now we can party like its 2006!
4 CORES! WOOOO!

#Vps #Selfhosting

You can run your own server, but first you'll need to build a nuclear bunker for it.

Decentralize with self-hosted services! Take back control from corporate clouds and their surveillance. #selfhosting #digitalfreedom

selfhosting cloudfree bunkerbuild

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Decentralize with self-hosted services! Take back control from corporate clouds and their surveillance. #selfhosting #digitalfreedom

How I evaluate software/services in 2026:

• Big Tech involvement
• AI integration
• Surveillance/telemetry
• Jurisdiction? (including 14 Eyes alliance)
• Data transportability (can I export, migrate, integrate?)
• Funding model (who pays, what are their incentives?)
• Self-hostable
• Openness (source, protocols, governance)
• Community health (maintainer diversity, bus factor)
• Social policy alignment? (LGBTQIA+, political positions)
• License? (GPL preferred, OSI-approved accepted)

Software freedom is inherently political. I will not separate the tool from the hands that build it, the money that funds it, or the laws that govern it.

Some failures are disqualifying. Others are negotiable based on context. The framework is politically coherent, not a compromise.

Is there anything else you consider before committing to software or services?

#NoAI #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHosting #TechEthics

New Blog Post: Bespoke router versus disaster recovery

My DIY router failed twice in one year. I need a disaster recovery plan.

https://www.crosenthal.com/chrome/2026/08/17/bespoke-router-versus-disaster-recovery.html

#blaugust #homelab #selfhosting

So now Home Assistant requires you to open its web UI via http in order to... change the web UI http settings. What the fuck could go wrong right? This has to be the dumbest change I've ever seen done in a software.

If the default settings don't work for you how are you supposed to do the first configuration of your instance?

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/http-yaml-deprecation-how-to-access-new-install-behind-proxy/1021476/7

#HomeAssistant #SelfHosting #Linux

#FediHelp

Hi, guys, please recommend me a free DNS hosting service that:

* is reliable
* has a free tier
* EU or Europe-based organization, or has nodes on the continent
* good for super-low-traffic, mission-critical websites
* DNSSEC support is obligatory
* is not CloudFlare

Thanks!

#SysAdmin #DNS #SelfHosting

Nouveau thème disponible sur FreshRSS : Cyberpunk 2077.

Disponible sur : https://rss.hostux.net

#FreshRSS #RSS #SelfHosting #Cyberpunk2077

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Capture d’écran de FreshRSS utilisant un thème sombre inspiré de Cyberpunk 2077. L’interface mêle fond noir, lignes et accents bleu cyan, éléments jaune vif et typographie contrastée. À gauche se trouvent les catégories de flux RSS ; au centre, une liste compacte d’articles avec leur source, leur titre, l’heure et le temps de lecture. La barre supérieure regroupe la recherche et les principales actions.

I think it's getting to the point I should be seriously considering a real, proper, big boy rack. (Writing this up makes me think a Homelab tour video is in order).

Top row - Unifi UCG Fiber Gateway with WAF110 + Anker USB-C power station
Row 2 - PDU
Row 3 - 3x m90q in proxmox cluster with 64gb RAM each (from the before times) plus 3x 1tb nvme ceph cluster each node has a sfp+ NIC, PiKVM with 4 port switcher (love this thing)
Row 4 - Unifi 10 gig agg
Row 5 - Patch
Row 6 - USW 48 Pro Max (screamin' FB marketplace deal, such an awesome switch)
Row 7 - Unifi NVR
Row 8 - Zimaboard (running DNS, my network VIP, a few other core services split in HA with a Pi5 upstairs), Framework desktop as my primary dev workstation all via SSH.

#selfhosting #selfhosted #proxmox #unifi #cluster

Out of shot, my NAS which I document here - https://perfectmediaserver.com/01-overview/alexs-example-builds/

Neuer Blogbeitrag: Grocy hinter Keycloak und oauth2-proxy - Eine kompakte SSO-Integration

Meine Grocy-Instanz soll für Family & Friends erreichbar sein, aber keinen zusätzlichen Passwortfriedhof erzeugen. Deshalb läuft die Anmeldung über Keycloak; oauth2-proxy und Nginx übernehmen den Rest.

#Grocy #Keycloak #oauth2proxy #OpenIDConnect #SingleSignOn #Docker #Nginx #SelfHosting #Linux

Ausgewählte öffentliche direkte Antworten können gekürzt und datensparsam im Blog erscheinen.

https://blog.weindl.biz/de/2026/08/16/grocy-hinter-keycloak-und-oauth2-proxy/

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Anmeldeseite der Grocy-Instanz über ein angepasstes Keycloak-Theme mit eigenem Grocy-Logo. Der Zugriff auf die selbstgehostete Grocy-Installation erfolgt über die Keycloak-Authentifizierung.

@dansup

Thanks — that is good news, especially for Loops.

Unless I am missing something, though, Pixelfed's OIDC support is not yet operator-friendly: I could not find a documented, supported .env configuration for issuer URL, client ID, client secret, scopes and redirect URI.

So far I have had to modify configuration inside the container, which makes upgrades and reproducible Docker deployments unnecessarily painful.

A first-class .env interface — ideally documented and usable through Docker Compose secrets — would make Pixelfed's OIDC support actually practical for self-hosted instances. Is that planned as well?

#OpenIDConnect #Pixelfed #SelfHosting

@dansup

Full agree: the Fediverse needs to become easier and more familiar to use.

But that should mean open, self-hostable standards too. I would really like to see #OIDC / #OpenID Connect as a built-in option — like #Mastodon supports, or #PeerTube can gain through plugins — alongside Sign in with Apple, Google, etc.

For Pixelfed, an easy .env-based configuration for a generic OIDC provider would be ideal: issuer URL, client ID, client secret, scopes, redirect URI — done. That would let instance admins use #Keycloak, #Authentik, #Zitadel, their university/work SSO, or any other compatible provider.

Does #Loops have plans for generic OIDC login? And is this planned for #Pixelfed as well?

Making sign-up familiar matters. Making it interoperable and self-hostable matters just as much.

#OpenIDConnect #SelfHosting #Fediverse

Finally started my homelab... on my MacBook!

It was definitely a new experience for me, and I'm glad I finally found something that can keep me interested in actually using a homelab: running a MediaWiki-based wiki.

I used to be a heavy contributor to a wiki called LibreWiki, so I decided to import some of its pages into my own environment and experiment with its structure, extensions, CSS, and other features.

And no, I'm not planning to open my homelab to the public anytime soon. 😅 This is going to stay a personal project for experimenting, breaking things, fixing them, and learning along the way.

#Homelab #MediaWiki #Linux #Ubuntu #SelfHosting #Wiki #OpenSource