Using ssh to connect to a FreeBSD machine that runs a jail that torrents linux isos and shows the output of `cmdwatch transmission-remote -l'

ssh -t server doas bastille cmd jail cmdwatch -n 1 transmission-remote -l

Paired with `ssh server doas bastille cmd jail transmission-remote -w /data -a ${1}' executed when clicking a torrent magnet link in Firefox this is a complete linux iso downloading monster.

#selfhosting

Delivery service is announcing that the fibre cables will arrive tomorrow.

Prepare the Boschhammer!

#selfhosting

I had this idea last night: It'd be cool to give away web hosting spots to individuals or groups doing cool things who can't afford the hosting bills. - Clubs, neat blogs, etc

But if folks can't afford a hosting plan, they probably don't have a domain name either. Endless subdomains would become nebulous to manage pretty quickly if you scaled up.

#selfhosting #mutualaid #technology #tech

Apropos the latest 1Password and Debian debacles:

I'm running Vaultwarden and Caddy under Alpine Linux on a Raspberry Pi 5. Memory usage is 200 MB. Connections from outside my network through WireGuard on the router.

#Vaultwarden #AlpineLinux #RaspberryPi #SelfHosting

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Screen shot of 'htop' running on Alpine Linux. Memory usage is 174 MB, load average 0/0/0

Is docker.elastic.co down for everyone else, or is it just me? #selfhosting #mastoadmin

Nvermind... it's back.
#selfhosting #mastoadmin

@weavejester

Good decision — at least from my point of view. If you’re switching anyway, you might as well self-host #Vaultwarden: Bitwarden-compatible, lightweight, and under your own control.

#Bitwarden #Vaultwarden #SelfHosting

At the speed of light, #GlitchySocial #Mastodon is at 4.7.1

#SelfHosted #homelab #Selfhost #selfhosting #MastoAdmin

Well then…
After three years at Tailscale, today I’m starting a new chapter at Unraid as Head of Product Marketing.

I’m proud of what we built at #tailscale and enormously grateful to the people I worked with, and to everyone who watched the videos. 1600 subs to 78k, 10m views, and over 150 videos. Not too shabby.

Now I get to spend more time furthering the self-hosting mission I care so much about. I’ll be doing product work, community, technical education and, yes, plenty of video. There’s some really good stuff being worked on, and Unraid 8 will be a huge release.

#selfhosting #homelab

Lmao at uBlock Origin blocking the copy of my tailnet IP from the Tailscale console.

Thanks for protecting me form myself, but I do need to SSH into that machine now.

#Selfhosting #tech #technology #nerd

On one hand, the $7/yr cloud storage from Hostbrr has the uptime of a yo-yo some days.

On the other hand, I paid $7/hr for 500GB of block storage lmao

#selfhosting #nerd #tech #technology #nextcloud

Now I want to order the same machine for an OpenBSD server that I do not need.

It's like a drug.

#selfhosting #freebsd #openbsd

Further evidence that gardening and self-hosting are intimately connected at a deeper level: as I'm growing tomatoes, the universe is clearly telling me which operating system to use for the next server in my closet: FreeBSD!

#SelfHosting #gardening #GrowYourOwn #FreeBSD #bsd #ShotOnLibrem5

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Photo of a yellow tomato with green leaves behind it. The tomato has two spikes, like horns sticking out, making it look like the FreeBSD mascot.

Is #fail2ban an overkill for machines that are behind NAT? #linux #selfhosting

What do you selfhost?

#askfedi #selfhosting

Given that I found an app to create slides in MarkDown: is there an open source solution, accessible to blind, to show those slides in a presentation (conference, office, etc.?
Better if it's self-hostable, but otherwise, decentralized anyways.

No idea if LibreOffice is still accessible, if it has a presentation tool - OnlyOffice is excluded, accessibility isn't optimized at all despite they speak about it. Already had a call with them but no news came since long.

#a11y #accessibility #askFedi #blind #FediHelp #markdown #opensource #selfhosting

Got Nebula mesh? Secure your overlay network and give Big Tech a middle finger.

Nebula's mesh tech is open source, scalable, and runs on Docker with Caddy. Freedom at the edge!

#NebulaMesh #SelfHosting #OpenSource

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

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Nebula's mesh tech is open source, scalable, and runs on Docker with Caddy. Freedom at the edge!

Amazon S3 costs $2 per GB/month. My home server uses 1GB for under $5/mo. Fuck the cloud, do it yourself.

Cloud companies are just renting you someone else's hardware with a markup of bullshit services and data theft. Be your own landlord, goddamn it!

#selfhosting #clouddependence

https://wopr.systems/?utm_campaign=meme_nodez3r0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

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Cloud companies are just renting you someone else's hardware with a markup of bullshit services and data theft. Be your own landlord, goddamn it!

Ich hab heute meinen nahezu 10 Jahre immer wieder aktualisierten pi-hole komplett neu aufgesetzt.

Das war glaube ich mit ner Fedora 22 gestartet. Da ich eh in den letzten Monaten alles auf Debian umgezogen hab, läuft's jetzt auf Trixie.
Das ganze weiter als eigene kleine VM auf meinem internen Server.

In dem Zug hab ich auch die Blocklisten komplett neu ausgesucht. Grobes Ergebnis ist aktuell: vorher 1.5 Mio , jetzt 480.000.

Nicht die Masse machts, sondern die Qualität. Bin mal gespannt ob die stimmt.

#debian #fedora #pihole #selfhosting

Would redirecting all HTTP port 80 traffic to HTTPS with a 301 cause Let's Encrypt webroot certificate renewals to fail?

#WebServers #selfhosting

Just finished helping some workers get a union. Now they can fight the man instead of just being his bitch.

47% increase in organizing drives this year, thanks to Biden's labor laws. Fuck the capitalists!

#unionwins #fighttheboss #selfhosting

https://wopr.systems/?utm_campaign=meme_nodez3r0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

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47% increase in organizing drives this year, thanks to Biden's labor laws. Fuck the capitalists!

The repair of the #NAS continues. I suspect this is not a good sign.
#homelab #truenas #selfhosting

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Screenshot of a TrueNAS storage report. It says "Pool Status: DEGRADED Used Space:1.57 TiB of 14.41 TiB (10.88%) Disks with Errors: 6 of 5. Total Disks: 5" I have more disks with errors than I have disks? There are seven physical drives in this system.

One problem with using old hardware for self-hosting stuff that I didn't think about - slow network cards. This 20 year old laptop gets just over 250mpbs upload on my 2gbps connection. These are the kinds of things I never noticed before upgrading my network!

#homelab #networking #linux #selfhosting

Saturday afternoon, 15:56. Gitleaks and trufflehog gave the all-clear, so now Opus 5 is chewing through Airlock's policy engine looking for reasons the README is lying to me.

Not all devops work 9-5. Some of us work Saturday teatime with a repo full of trust issues.

#MCP #InfoSec #AIsecurity #DigitalSovereignty #selfhosting

New blogpost:

# Migrating my self-hosted UniFi controller from Network Manager to UniFi OS Server

It worked better than I was expecting, but that’s mainly because my expectations were very low.

Sufficient things are broken (for me, anyway) for it to be a pain.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/08/migrating-my-self-hosted-unifi-controller-from-network-manager-to-unifi-os-server/

#unifi #Linux #selfhosting

Even newer blogpost:

# Automating local backups of UniFi OS Server on Linux with uos-backup

Fixing the gaps left by Ubiquiti with python and systemd.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/08/automating-local-backups-of-unifi-os-server-on-linux-with-uos-backup/

#unifi #selfhosting #Linux

For anyone into #selfhosting who needs object storage: I highly recommend Onidel. Very good prices. Only downside is that it's APAC location only, so there's increased latency if you're in NA/EU

Set up your Nebula mesh for a secure, decentralized network. Take back control of your data with ease. #MeshNetworks #SelfHosting #Decentralization

Nebula makes it simple to create your own private internet without relying on Big Tech.

MeshNetworks SelfHosting Decentralization

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

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Nebula makes it simple to create your own private internet without relying on Big Tech.

Halcyon Video — a 3D video store for your media server.

"Your Jellyfin or Plex library, rebuilt as a walkable 1990s video rental store. Every movie you own is a case on a shelf".

https://github.com/halcyon-video/halcyon-video

Demo video tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCkEpeL8Y3w

What a cool project!

#selfhosting

At 10:15 I added a gently condescending toast for IPv4-only visitors. It called ipify, which felt inappropriate for someone running an ASN.

By 13:27 I had built a Rust/Axum IP service, put it behind Caddy, added MaxMind, three DNS names, trusted-proxy handling, an rc.d service, and a dedicated dual-stack FreeBSD VNET jail.

The toast looks exactly the same.

https://blog.hofstede.it/i-wanted-an-ipv4-toast-and-accidentally-built-an-ip-service/

#FreeBSD #IPv6 #Rust #SelfHosting

It's been a while since updating the @nextcloud apps has become very annoying. I don't understand why I should enter the password for each app that is being updated individually.

#Nextcloud #selfhosting

It started as a gag: a tiny popup telling IPv4 visitors that their provider hasn't yet discovered 1998.

To do that honestly I needed something to echo the client address.

Using ipify felt wrong when you run your own AS. So now it's a service. 🙃

curl ip.hofstede.it
curl v6.ip.hofstede.it/json
curl v4.ip.hofstede.it/asn

One Rust binary, server-rendered, zero JavaScript.

https://ip.hofstede.it

#IPv6 #Rust #FreeBSD #SelfHosting #AS201379

Did take a couple of hours but i reworked some parts of my Borgbackup scripts yesterday. Instead of having one big setup i splitted it so that every service has its own script, which starts / stops the dockers and has the correct patterns to only backup what is really necessary. Althought i am not quite done, because that was only one of my servers 😭️
@homelab #selfhosting #backup #borgbackup

Now I even have enough space for all the pictures my wife takes of our kid. <3

#selfhosting

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Storage space 135.4 GiB of 91.1 TiB used text from Immich

We made a policy document to combat some of the bad faith allegations being posted to #Fediblock regarding neondystopia.world and to outline where we stand on moderation practices.

We've gone and leveraged Misskey pages for conveniently finding information about the instance. I do hope this will help some of the system administrators and moderators of instances to reach an informed conclusion on whether to peer with our instance in future.

Tags: #SelfHosting, #FediAdmin, #MastoAdmin, #ServerAdmin, #Moderation, #Moderators, #FediMods, #MastoMods, #TrustAndSafety, #SocialMedia, #FediMeta, #Fedi, #Federation, #Fediverse, #Community, #Fediblock, #Sociology, #Blocklist.

My Jellyfin server works like a charm at home but it's very buggy remotely. I see OpenVPN sucking 20% of CPU and ffmpeg at 10%. Tomorrow, I'll move the instance to a more beefy server with a 3060 Ti to offload transcoding and it has a more powerful CPU. But the data disks are on USB. If that doesn't work, I'll create a second Jellyfin instance in the remote LAN directly to have full bandwidth.

#jellyfin #homelab #selfhosting

Surprise, I don't even need to use the USB disks. There is an empty 2TB NVMe drive on that box. Let me LUKS that thing, let's go!

#jellyfin #homelab #selfhosting

Look at this ghetto setup #homelab #selfhosting #jellyfin

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Picture of an open case home made computer with the CPU fan on the left and the vertically mounted GPU hanging on its connector. Ethernet and USB cables on the bottom are fleeing to the side of the picture. This open case is mounted on a garage rack in the basement.

While most are at the beach, it is time to patch main #Synology production units with #DSM 7.4-90075

#selfhosting #selfhosted #homelab

8 min downtime:
shutdown of about 40 #Docker containers,
all DSM services,
DSM update,
reboot,
and start up of all those processes again.

Not bad at all!

#Synology #DSM #selfhosting #selfhosted #homelab

so the wisdom of crowds is batting 500. 2 right, 2 wrong. The answers were:

• 33 drives
• 64TB
• 12.6 kg
• 18 Gb

That 18GB drive was the mail server’s only drive for like 20 years. Quantum Atlas V SCSI.

I am glad to say that I have more drives working than I have dead. 32 in the rack and 7 inside in the NAS (not counting random laptops and such)
#selfhosted #selfhosting #homelab

📚 Nouvel article sur mon wiki !

Comment configurer un datastore S3 (MinIO) sur Proxmox Backup Server — que ton PBS tourne en VM ou sur du matériel physique déjà bien rempli 🖴

👉 https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/proxmox-backup-server-datastore-s3-minio

#Proxmox #MinIO #SelfHosting #Homelab #LogicielLibre

Was möchte ich eigtl auf einem #debian bzw. #ubuntu server statt #samba benutzen, wenn alle clients #linux sind?
Gibt es da was, das schnell, verschlüsselt und einfach in der Wartung ist?
#fedihelp #selfhosting #did_dut

Building your own home server? Don't skimp on the SSD. #NebulaMesh #SelfHosting #OpenSourceTools

A 1TB NVMe can handle your data needs for years, and it's a breeze to manage with Docker and Caddy.

#NebulaMesh #SelfHosting #OpenSourceTools

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

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A 1TB NVMe can handle your data needs for years, and it's a breeze to manage with Docker and Caddy.

First off, how many drives do you think are in the box? Since the right answer has to be in the list, I put a lot of options in to raise the difficulty a bit.

#selfhosting #homelab #selfhost

Ok. It's always fun to post stuff like this here, because there will be some #selfhosting afficionado who replies "You are like little baby. This is what real man has." But here goes.

When hard drives die on me, I don't throw them away and I don't take them to the county e-waste dropoff. There's a company nearby that will take them, certify that they destroy them, and dispose of the waste properly. So I have this box in my garage that accumulates dead drives until I'm ready to go drop them off. It's getting kinda full.

When I went to add a couple to the box tonight, I took an inventory. Wanna guess some stats about the box of dead drives? Remember that some of these are old enough to vote. Others are old enough to walk to school. None are in diapers.

Here are some fun polls related to all my dead drives. First, a couple photos. Polls will be in replies.

#homelab #selfhost

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Photo of a cardboard box with a bunch of hard drives neatly stacked. On top are 2 2.5 inch drives that are Seagate 1.8 terabytes and a Hitachi SAS drive that is 4 terabytes.

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A more jumbled photo of the same box of hard drives. In this case you can see a wide variety of 2.5 inch drives and 3.5 inch drives. They're at angles and stuff to make it a bit easier to see just what the variety is like.

Do people still use Element Messenger? What's the go-to for #selfhosting these days?

And... NAS has been restored, new drive installed, recovery completed. Now, time to order a few new drives to be ready for the next inevitable failure.

#Selfhosting #NAS #Synology

#selfhosting a #mailserver on #OVH turns out to be a nightmare.
Esoteric blocklists won’t release my IP, only after paying ransom, it appears.

I’ve been building a local-first humanities library on my TrueNAS NAS, Satchel: an offline archive of public-domain books, Project Gutenberg materials, and primary religious and historical texts.

The collection includes Jewish sources such as the Mishnah, Babylonian Talmud, and Rashi/Ramban commentary; early Christian writings; Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist texts; and volumes from The Sacred Books of the East.

The goal is preservation, local access, and comparative study: keeping important texts searchable and available without relying on a subscription, a platform, or an internet connection.

I’m organizing it carefully by tradition, work, translation or edition, and commentary so that the texts remain useful rather than becoming a pile of files.

A personal library should still work when the cloud, a website, or a company disappears.

#TrueNAS #SelfHosting #DigitalPreservation #PersonalLibrary #AncientTexts #OpenAccess #Homelab

social.la10cy.net now is up-to-date :)

✅️ Debian Upgrade 12 -> 13
✅️ PostgreSQL 17 -> 18
✅️ NodeJS 22 -> 24
✅️ Mastodon 4.6.6 -> 4.7.0

#mastoadmin #mastodon #selfhosting #update

I noticed yesterday that the Matrix.org Foundation have deemed their free "@matrix.org" server unsustainable, and have introduced a premium tier and a free tier for new sign-ups. I've been running my own Matrix server (in my #HomeLab) for a couple of years and have found the whole thing to be a right PITA. I also run an XMPP server, which I've found to be much more straight-forward (and of course, less proprietary).

I was only using my server for subscribing to a couple of support chat rooms, and I've decided it's not worth the hassle and bandwidth. I have therefore unsubscribed from everything and shut it down. If the last time is anything to go by, I now expect to be bombarded with Matrix traffic for all eternity. The firewall is now blocking port 8448, but the ".well-known" discovery stuff will have to be dealt with by fail2ban, since in the past I found Matrix never seems to give up regardless of how often you send a 404 or the more appropriate 410 status. I hope I'm wrong.

Apologies if I've upset any Matrix fans, but I really don't see what's wrong with XMPP, which I've been using since it was Jabber back in the early 2000's, and have never had any issues with.

#SelfHosting

US Treasury sanctions against Autistici/Inventati, including noblogs.org, are obviously meant to target people who host their blogs there, in a violation of their first amendment rights.

https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616/

EFF wrote about the case of Francesca Albanese before.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-joins-55-civil-society-organizations-urging-end-sanctions-un-special

Her case is still in district court and an initial order in her favour was stayed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francesca_Albanese&oldid=1370480981#Sanctions_by_the_United_States

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73372084/massimiliano-cali-v-donald-trump/

#USpol #AutisticiInventati #selfhosting

☁️ Nicht vergessen: Heute Abend ist Hubzilla-Workshop! 🌐

Was hat eigentlich eine Cloud mit Hubzilla zu tun? Und muss „Cloud“ wirklich immer bedeuten, dass die eigenen Dateien bei irgendeinem großen Drittanbieter liegen? 🤔

Nein – und genau deshalb lohnt sich heute Abend ein genauerer Blick auf Hubzilla. 😊

Beim 11. Hubzilla-Workshop dreht sich alles um das Thema:

☁️ „Die Cloud nutzen“

Wir schauen uns an, welche Möglichkeiten Hubzilla zur Dateiablage und zum Teilen bietet, wie Freigaben und Berechtigungen funktionieren und warum die integrierte Cloud eine der spannenden Funktionen von Hubzilla ist.

Und natürlich gilt wie immer: Fragen ausdrücklich erwünscht!
Ganz egal, ob ihr Hubzilla schon länger nutzt, gerade erst entdeckt oder einfach neugierig seid, was sich damit alles machen lässt.

📅 Heute, Mittwoch, 26. August 2026
🕢 19:30 Uhr
💻 Online

👉 Direkt zum Workshop:
campus.ws-12.de/rooms/n04-dj3-…

📚 Weitere Informationen:
hub.hubzilla.hu/channel/hz-wor…

Kommt einfach vorbei, hört zu, fragt nach und entdeckt vielleicht eine Seite von Hubzilla, die ihr bisher noch gar nicht kanntet. 😊

📢 Weitersagen und Teilen ausdrücklich erwünscht!

#Hubzilla #Fediverse #Cloud #SelfHosting #Dezentral #Datensouveränität

My backup provider is raising prices for storage in Switzerland, but not in US regions. Free migration to its US locations if I want.

I use rclone with its crypt module, since adopting an MO based on, "If it's possible for a provider to abuse my data, they inevitably will," so I'm pretty sure I'm still safe if I use a US provider in this way.

Curious if others have thoughts.

#tech #backups #encryption #selfhosted #selfhosting #selfhost #backup

Subject: More on Nicolium
For: #selfhosting and/or #Fediverse power users

I've tested and tweaked #Nicolium, a front end for Pleroma and other Fediverse back ends. With the tweaks in place, it works well for me. I'll share some of them in patch form at a later date.

Features include hashtag follow, emoji reactions, borders on focused posts, Markdown, WYSIWYG editor, real-time chat, draft posts, URL cleaning, direct messages, enhanced interaction policies, theme editor with export support, image ALT-text button, profile avatars inline next to mentions, and different ways to handle load or display of new posts.

There is also a multi-column Deck feature, but that is more of a work in progress.

The attached screenshot shows what my tweaked Nicolium presently looks like. The panel at the top is one of the tweaks. I added it to hold link buttons for different purposes.

To see a larger copy, in Chromium or Firefox derivatives, left-click on the image. To see a full-size copy, right-click on the image, select Open in New Window, and resize the new window.

Trick for advanced users:

The screenshot shows a /tags/ URL in the location bar. FYI The combination of Pleroma [as back end] and Soapbox or Nicolium [as front end] displays URLs of this type in response to hashtag operations, but the URLs don't work if you reuse them.

If you encounter this issue, URLs of this type can be made to work by adding the following location block before other location blocks in your "nginx" or "angie" server ".conf" file:

location ~ ^/tags/(.*)$ {
    return 301 /tag/$1;
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Screenshot of Coder Dansu, a Fediverse node, running with a Pleroma back end and a Nicolium front end.

Ich habe gestern mal meine #FreshRSS Installation aktualisiert und aufgeräumt... wurde vernachlässigt. Jetzt fehlt mir nur noch ein wenig Inhalt.

Mag vielleicht jemand ein paar Feeds aus seinem Reader teilen? Die "Großen" brauch ich nicht, eher die kleinen feinen Blogs, Sites in Bezug auf #retro #gaming #electronics #selfhosting #smarthome #rss

Danke!

Grafana + Prometheus = Eyes on the dashboard, ears to the server room. Loki watches over logs. #infraLove

Self-hosting these tools means you're not just monitoring your servers, you're taking control of your data sovereignty.

#selfhosting #dataSovereignty #infraTools

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

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Self-hosting these tools means you're not just monitoring your servers, you're taking control of your data sovereignty.