Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.

You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.

AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.

Reject this future.

Keep your hardware local.

Run #Linux.

Own your data.

The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.

#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/jeff-bezos-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-bezos-envisions-that-youll-give-up-your-pc-for-an-ai-cloud-version

if my home connection would allow more then 50 Mbit/s upload rate, i would host so much more things at home

#selfhosting #fediadmin

Hello Fediverse! 👋 I'm Kalvin, an IT student and disability & humane-tech activist from Malaysia. I'm passionate about digital sovereignty and self-host my own services using a YunoHost/Docker hybrid setup. I'm here to connect with the community as just one node in the network, advocating for a web that works for everyone.

#introduction #humanetech #selfhosting #neurodiversity #opensource #Malaysia #privacy

#introduction

Hello! I’m Omni. I’ve just landed on #Akkoma after a long weekend spent building the server this instance lives on.

I’m strictly a hobbyist—I don’t write code for a living, but I do spend way too much time in a terminal pretending I’m in a sci-fi movie. I maintain a setup script for #Fedora 43 that’s basically my personal checklist for turning a fresh install into a #gaming powerhouse (Steam, Wine, the works) and a tinkering lab.

When I’m not trying to squeeze more frames out of my Linux box, I’m building “Creator Ops” stacks or making neon-soaked cyberpunk themes for #Owncast.

You can find all my hobby projects at git.omniglitch.me for free, because I’m officially done with walled gardens and big-tech subscriptions.

But mostly I’m here for gaming clips, cool Linux setups and open source enthusiasts.

#fediverse #linuxgaming #opensource #selfhosting

Fellow Homelabbers. I have a bunch of HDD‘s which is must test for integrity to see if there are bad sectors on them etc. I like a software which also makes a complete write, read, verify cycle on that disks. Could someone recommend a suitable software. Bonus points if the status could be send via mail. #selfhosting #homelab @homelab @homelab_de

I have this weird #IPv6 problem and it's driving me crazy.

So, hear me out.

I have a #wireguard tunnel set up to a VPS because my ISP doesn't offer IPv6. So all IPv6 traffic is routed over the tunnel. Obviously, this means the MTU should be reduced, so I've configured radvd to broadcast an MTU of 1420.

All fine. IPv6 works. I can visit websites, stream audio and video, ssh all over the place, all over IPv6.

Except for #thunderbird. It'll take ages trying to send an email, then complain the server timed out. It'll be unable to save drafts or sent mail to the imap server, complaining about server timeouts.

So I try sending mail with msmtp from the same machine, all is well, no timeouts whatsoever. It's just thunderbird that's being difficult.

I've been staring at this problem for weeks now, done all sorts of tcpdumps along the path from my computer to my mail server. Double-checked that ICMP6 type 2 is passed along neatly across all firewalls involved.

It's got me stumped.

I'm not expecting anyone reading this to be able to provide a solution, I just wanted to share that it's driving me crazy!

#SelfHosting

It seems there are fully hosted and self-hosted options for ATProto/Bluesky now, I stand corrected on that front.

Out of curiosity I looked into what it would take to build my own social media service on top of ATProto. The technical architecture is interesting, but... what would I actually gain?

I chose Mastodon back in 2022 when Bluesky was still invite-only and had no self-hosting story. ActivityPub is a W3C standard. Mastodon gGmbH is a non-profit. The Fediverse has years of proven independent operation across thousands of instances.

Bluesky PBC is a US for-profit company that controls protocol development, although they have made statements about wanting independent governance. Yet the network remains heavily centralized with most users on bsky.social.

Running my own Mastodon instance already gives me sovereignty. ATProto doesn't offer more of that, arguably less given the current state of things. Not saying people shouldn't build on it. But for someone already running independent Fediverse infrastructure, it's hard to see what value it would add. I didn't see the appeal back then and I don't see it now.

#Bluesky #ATProto #Decentralization #SelfHosting #SelfHosted

A recipe to set up a #homelab server. #LSNED #learnsomethingneweveryday #selfhosting #selfhosted

Zwischen den Jahren: draußen kalt, drinnen warm. Auf dem Tisch Kaffee, auf den Füßen der Hund, daneben ein Raspberry Pi.

Ich habe OpenCloud installiert, um herauszufinden, wie viel Cloud man wirklich selbst betreiben kann, ohne den Verstand zu verlieren. Schreiben half beim Denken. Aus Notizen wurde Struktur. Am Ende lagen ein 222-seitiges Taschenbuch und ein E-Book da. Passiert.

#OpenCloud #OpenSource #DigitaleSouveränität #SelfHosting #RaspberryPi

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Taschenbuch "OpenCloud auf dem Raspberry Pi: Schritt für Schritt zur eigenen Open-Source-Cloud" liegt auf einer Tischdecke. Daneben eine Tasse schwarzer Kaffee, Papierumschlag und getrocknete Blätter. Ruhige, winterliche Arbeitsatmosphäre.

Manage all your Docker servers from one dashboard! New Dockhand deep dive covers Git integration, security scanning, remote management & everything you need to know.

Watch Here: https://youtu.be/-fsBCqF1HYk

#selfhosting #homelab #docker

This article by @parisba is why #CommunityHosting and #SelfHosting need to be normalised. They are the only way we can stop scenarios like this happening:

📰 https://hey.paris/posts/appleid

You might think this couldn't happen to you, but it could happen to anyone. It's especially scary as most big tech companies are in repressive countries.

It's much easier and cheaper than you think to make your own online services. I've done a guide for non-technical people at https://growyourown.services

#Activism

Gradually de-Americanising my personal IT stack, and looking for recommendations for domain registration & DNS (to replace Amazon AWS Route53).

Anyone got any experience they'd like to share, either positive or negative? Australian based ideal, with EU second.

#SelfHosting #DeClouding

Falls ihr euren eigenen RSS Newsreader mit Miniflux möchtet und lernen wollt wie das geht, dann schaut euch mein Video an: https://makertube.net/w/qDzSwKjfnj4kFpB5yYCXNK

Mit Flux News steht auch gleich noch die passende Android App zur Verfügung: https://f-droid.org/packages/de.circle_dev.flux_news

#rss #selfhosting #android #did #diday #linux #miniflux

I created a "Shared Cost-Optimized" server on @hetzner (from € 3.49) with #debian13 and installed Proxmox Backup Server on it.

I also have an object storage for this #Mastodon instance. And the instance media files take only 143 GB from 1 TB for now. So why not store #Proxmox backups there as well? In a separate bucket, of course.

Not the fastest PBS I ever had, but acceptable.

Cost-optimized offsite backups - ✅ Done.

#HomeLab #SelfHost #SelfHosting #SelfHost #Hetzner #PBS

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A screenshot of a project from Hetzner Console with one server, one IP, and one bucket icon on it.

best NAS case with just two bays?

#selfhosting #nas #homelab #datahoarder

While thinking about what to do after my current contract ends, I keep coming back to the fact that I'd really like a EU-based alternative for lets encrypt. Don't get me wrong, let's encrypt is fantastic, but it's US based and thus subject to US laws, which might pose a problem for the continuity of the usage of their services outside of the US.

Let's say I were to start a project to do this, write a plan, get initial funding, maybe a few (paid) people to help out with this, would there be interest? Would it be worth it?

Would you want to use it? Could you even think of donating, or maybe know of some companies or organisations who would be inclined to go into a sponsorship relation?

I think it might be very welcome, and it is worth trying, but I'd like a reality check please :)

#LetsEncrypt #WebSecurity #https #CertificateAuthority #ITSec #Security #Europe #DigitalSovereignity #DigitalSovereign #SelfHosting #Self

Has your favorite album vanished from the music streaming service of choice again? I highly recommend ripping your CDs and making them available through @jellyfin with the @manetmusic app; it really works great on iOS & macOS!

#selfhosting #streaming #iOS

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The image shows the user interface of the manet music player on a mac. The focus is on an album titled "Vom Vintage Verweht" by the artist Dendemann. The album was released in 2010 and contains 13 tracks with a total length of 48 minutes. In the top left, you can see the album cover: a gray background with a broken wall from which bricks are emerging. Above it is a stylized, graffiti-like script. In the bottom right of the cover, there is an illustrated male figure with a red cap, drawn in a comic-book style. To the right of the cover, the album title is displayed in large white letters, with the artist's name below it. This is followed by the release year and the number of tracks. Beneath that are two large buttons: "Play" and "Shuffle." Below that, a tracklist is visible. The first track is called "Nesthocker" and is currently selected and playing. More tracks follow below, each with its duration listed to the right. At the bottom of the window is the playback bar with back, pause, and forward buttons, as well as a timeline. To the left of it, the currently playing track "Nesthocker" is shown again with a small album cover, and to the right is a volume slider. The entire interface is designed in light gray and pink tones and has a clean, modern look.

Nextcloud vs Immich : arrêtez de comparer ! 🛑

L'un est un bureau numérique (PDF, agenda), l'autre une galerie photo ultra-rapide dopée à l'IA. Ce ne sont pas des concurrents, mais des alliés ! 🤝

#SelfHosting #Nextcloud #Immich #OpenSource

https://blablalinux.be/b/4J3?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Has anyone got #flarum & #microsoft oauth working? The auth goes ok, but the redirect url (.../auth/microsoft) fails while coming back to flarum. Any tips?

#selfhosting

Mondays mean: manually backing up my #YunoHost system.

Speaking of YH, in case you missed it, here is my latest guide for newbies about how to install an app with YunoHost - I showcased NextCloud in my tutorial: https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-3-lets-install-nextcloud/

I'm always surprised by the sheer size of backups - this time 15GB (ugh!) broken down as follows (from biggest to smallest):

#GoToSocial: 6.2 GB
#PeerTube: 4.3 GB
#NextCloud: 3.0 GB
#Pixelfed: 1.5 GB
#LinkStack: 91 MB

I'm brainstorming ways to make my GoToSocial backup size go down... I have cache set to 1 day only, so I'm trying unfollowing a few accounts (that I already follow from my Mastodon profile) to see if that makes a difference.

Anyway, wishing you all a great day & week!

#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting

Weitere Experimente mit Ghost durchgeführt. Die Anwendung lließ sich mit Dokploy leicht installieren. Wie immer - Teufel im Detail. Email-Konfiguration für User-Mails und Newsletterversand ist ein wenig tricky. Ansonsten ist dieses Publishing-System sehr leicht zu bedienen und die verschiedenen Themes machen einen optisch ansprechenden Eindruck.

https://ghost.org/

#ghost #selfhosting #publishing

I wish my homelab was stable... Well it would be if I stopped redoing it every 2 months.

Anyone else like this?

#homelab #selfhosted #selfhosting

I'm out of hobby budget for the next several months =(
#HomeLab #Selfhosted #Selfhosting #SelfHost #HomeServer

Die Installation von Etherpad hat mit Dokploy funktioniert. Für die Installation von Plugins ist wieder viel Feintuning erforderlich.

https://etherpad.org/

#etherpad #selfhosting #dokploy

What is the lowest tier at which you would say someone is #selfhosting their #email?

(Please boost this to the #infosec bubble!)

Blog-Artikel sind Momentaufnahmen. Eine Infrastruktur lebt.

Auf der Reise zur meiner digitalen Open Source Only Souveränität habe ich viel gelernt und vieles wieder umgeworfen. Damit der aktuelle Stand (Hardware, DNS-Cluster, Topologie) nicht in der Timeline untergeht, habe ich jetzt einen Ankerpunkt geschaffen.

Der Nukleus der Rebellion ist live. Hier ist die Landkarte meines Homelabs:
👉 https://www.pandolin.io/nukleus-der-rebellion/

#HomeLab #SelfHosting #Linux #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #RebelHomebase

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Illustration im warmen Sepia-Stil: Ein zufriedenes Schuppentier (Pandolin) sitzt mit einer dampfenden Tasse an einem Schreibtisch vor einem Laptop. Die Wand im Hintergrund ist übersät mit technischen Netzwerk-Diagrammen, Kubernetes-Strukturen und Notizen zur 'Rebel Homebase' Infrastruktur.

I am giving #Dockhand a try, and after setting up the Stacks from #Portainer, it seems solid. I wonder if the compose files will remain, of I delete Portainer.

#selfhosting #Docker

OK #Immich users, how are you handling backing up photos/videos from your desktop?

I'd like to back up my b-roll directories using Immich and without a desktop sync application, that's a bit convoluted.

#SelfHosting

Anyone self-host PeerTube?

I love YouTube, and by that I mean watching it; I would never upload there, especially now, with all of their silly censorship of things that don't even need censoring.

I feel like I need a PeerTube instance.

#YouTube #PeerTube #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #Fediverse

And finally added the last piece to my new Mailserver: Observability via Promtail/Loki. Done for today 🙂

#sysadmin #monitoring #selfhosting #mailserver

Inspired by @ele selfhosting journey and I trying to get all this working and what I started from is getting Ghost working inside Yunohost.
Not that I want to publish a paid newsletter, I just thinking about moving from Medium and I like Ghost's post editor 😜

But I guess I did something wrong or whatever. Does yunohost allow install app like ghost right at domain root? Without some path like `/blog`? If that "blog" path added, Fediverse features seems to not work.

#newbie #selfHosting #Ghost

#selfhosting #homelab
Hat hier jemand Erfahrung mit der Coral USB TPU (https://www.coral.ai/products/accelerator/) für lokale LLMs? Für Frigate wird die Coral TPU empfohlen, um die Bildverarbeitung zu beschleunigen, aber ich frage mich, ob das auch für ein LLM ausreicht.

I self-host my own e-mail servers for ~25 years now. Just finished he migration to a new system today.

- OS: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE
- MTA: Postfix 3.10
- IMAP: Dovecot 2.3
- Filter: Rspamd 3.14

I used Imapsync to migrate the content of my Mailboxes from the old to the new system. Worked absolutely fine.

Having the E-Mail Jail and the mailbox data on an encrypted ZFS dataset (AES256) that's manually unlocked with my passphrase after rebooting the system. Backups are done via ZFS send/recv to by backup server (-w for raw send to ensure, data is encrypted at rest)

- SPF: ✅
- DKIM Signing: ✅
- DMARC Reporting: ✅
- E-Mail delivery to major providers: ✅
- IPv6 working and actually being used: ✅

All working perfectly well. In about a week, I'll decomission the old Debian based system, that I used since 2017!

#linux #freebsd #sysadmin #selfhosting #email #postfix

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Console output, showing FreeBSD Jails, running E-Mail related services.

Just set up @readeck / https://readeck.org/en and imported the old #Pocket collection .. i love how easy it was to set up and up and running... and the joy of being able to self-host things .. #selfhosting #selfhosted #homelab #readeck

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Status of #Readeck importing Pocket collection

In diesem Video zeige ich dir, wie du mit Pydio Cells ganz unkompliziert deine eigene Cloud-Lösung zu Hause aufbauen kannst. Schluss mit dem Teilen deiner wertvollen Daten mit den großen Datenkraken! Hier hast du die volle Kontrolle über deine Informationen – sicher und privat!

https://gnulinux.ch/deine-eigene-cloud-mit-pydio-cells

#pydio #cells #selfhosting #linux #diday

Few days ago I successfully configured #coturn to have a TURN/STUN server for in-family calls. But … looks like bots or some bad guys constantly trying to connect to my TURN server to use it for something :-(

Of course, it is impossible, since anonymous access or any other access without right key is impossible. But, there are no IPs of attackers in the log file, even wth "Verbose" directive — only my local and public IPs and my server's hostname

Maybe, there is some way to force coturn to display IP addresses of connected clients, so I could ban them all with fail2ban?

#TURN #STUN #selfhosting #networking #AskFedi

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Screenshot of turn.log with lines of unsuccessful attempts to connect to my TURN server. Sadly, there are only my IPs and hostname, no IPs of attackers.

Where to begin when starting a #homelab. #LSNED #learnsomethingneweveryday #selfhosting #selfhosted

I've been wondering about Bluesky's decentralization again. I can't think of any reason why I'd want to self-host Bluesky in its current form. I cannot 100% self host "my own Bluesky".

Their main selling points for building their own protocol were easier migration and better discoverability, but right now there's no simple way to migrate my Bluesky account to my own instance. And hosting the centralized parts yourself isn't really possible, or if it were, not affordable, they haven't made that feasible, by design, it seems.

Even if you self-host a PDS, Bluesky's Relay only indexes up to 10 accounts from it. You can run more, but they won't federate, the central infrastructure decides what gets seen. They control this (source: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/self-host-federation#:~:text=For%20a%20smooth%20transition%20into,for%20everyone%20in%20the%20ecosystem.). You can self-host a PDS (Personal Data Server), but you still depend on Bluesky's centralized Relay and AppView. There's no production-ready alternative infrastructure from what I gather.

It feels like I'd be renting a room in a hotel that someone else is running anyway, when I want my own hotel.

If Mastodon gGmbH vanishes tomorrow, my instance keeps running and federating with everyone else. If Bluesky PBC vanishes, the ecosystem would need to scramble to stand up replacement infrastructure that doesn't really exist yet.

ATProto keeps getting evaluated on its promises while other systems get evaluated on their merits. The "portability" selling point depends on infrastructure that isn't mature enough to actually catch you if Bluesky falls.

I trust W3C, the builders and fathers of the World Wide Web, ActivityPub and the Fediverse.

#Decentralization #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #Mastodon #Fediverse #Bluesky #Servers

Running Mastodon on FreeBSD? Stop using wrapper scripts that break service status.

I've refactored the init scripts for Sidekiq, Puma, and Streaming to be fully production-grade:

- Clean privilege dropping (no su wrappers)
- Native signal handling for log rotation
- Correct PID tracking & status reporting.

I published the scripts and the reasoning behind them in my Codeberg gists:

https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src/branch/main/2026/20250115-FreeBSD_Mastodon_rc.d.md

I use those to run a Mastodon instance and they're working great so far!

❤️ 🦣

#FreeBSD #Mastodon #SelfHosting #mastoadmin #runbsd #OpenSource

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Screenshot showing the service status of several Mastodon services on FreeBSD