@ajroach42

All major systems are fascist.
Ai is going to be ubiquitous
There is not going to be a bubble

Build a #selfhosting bunker or goosestep with the rest of the mob 😑

I just recently set up my own #NAS for the very first time!

I took an old laptop I had lying around and I rigged up my own SATA connectors to connect a pair of 2TB hard drives to its native SATA ports, with the OS (TrueNAS) being installed on a USB flash drive. It took HOURS of trial and error with different laptops, but I eventually got it to work.

#selfhosting

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A laptop sitting on a platform under a desk, a pair of 2TB hard drives sitting to the right of it.

Today I want to start a little experiment:

• With an ISP who assigns me a /48 prefix, what is it like to host IPv6-only services on a FreeBSD host?
• What works? What doesn't?
• How does setting up IPv6-only services compare to setting up IPv4 services on FreeBSD?

Why IPv6 only?

It's 2026.

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that IPv6 offers you more freedom and choice about how you self-host than having to work around NAT (or CGNAT).

https://blog.brendans-bits.com/2026/09/experimenting-with-hosting-ipv6-only-services/

Coming soon:

• Getting IPv6 on FreeBSD: not that hard at all
• Fediverse via IPv6 only: what's the experience like with snac (and littlefedi when that's released)
• IPv6-only jails on FreeBSD

(Thanks to @stefano for BSSG - making this blog possible)

Comments / feedback welcomed.

#selfHosted #selfhosting #ipv6 #ipv6only #bsd

A neat thing I like about my Akkoma instance is that it runs on Oracle Autonomous Linux. Oracle Cloud is known for the ‘free tier’, but when you pay a little, you also get a huge amount of value. It is easy to setup to automate many maintenance tasks and has excellent monitoring included in the cost.

#it #tech #selfhosting #servers #fedi #mastodon

Cloud services give you the middle finger? Build your own server. #selfhosting #meshnetworking

Docker + Caddy = 🔥 #docker #caddy

selfhosting meshnetworking docker

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Docker + Caddy = 🔥 #docker #caddy

Building mesh networks is like setting up a neighborhood watch for the internet. Except instead of old ladies on porches, it's tech geeks in basements. #meshnetworking

Fucking ISPs and telcos can't even get basic connectivity right. We do it better, cheaper, and with less bullshit. #selfhosting

#meshnetworking #selfhosting

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Fucking ISPs and telcos can't even get basic connectivity right. We do it better, cheaper, and with less bullshit. #selfhosting

Building your own home server? Go with a 12-core AMD and 64GB ECC RAM. It's like having a mini data center under your desk. 🪐 #selfhosting #meshnetwork #homelab

Why rent space in the cloud when you can have your own corner of the internet at home?

#selfhosting #meshnetwork #homelab

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Why rent space in the cloud when you can have your own corner of the internet at home?

This is nice!

Gonna need some more experience, but isolating stuff in lxc containers seems a good idea.
(yeah, I could probably also use podman/docker, but I'm already going insane as-it-is, I don't need decision paralysis over even more options)

#incus #dn42 #selfhosting

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Does anyone know what’s going on with the #jellyfin release schedule?

They’ve gone from regular releases, to releasing 7 pre-release candidates for v12:
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases

I’m excited to get onto v12 as there are a bunch of performance increases but they don’t seem to have documented an actual release date.

#selfhosting #selfhosted

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Lots of release candidates, no releases…

#XSF Announcement

Today and tomorrow join the 29th #XMPP #Summit taking place online (4th & 5th September 2026).

https://xmpp.org/2026/05/xmpp-summit-29/

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc #opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging #standards #xep #realtime #SelfHosting

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The XSF Announcement Banner with the XMPP logo surrounded by a house with a megaphone next to it.

I’m looking to create a VPN/Pangolin node in #Japan. Does anyone know a reliable provider? Something like #Hetzner

Ownership of provider must be Japanese or European.

#selfhosting #vpn #host #linux

Self-Hosted Matrix Server on Raspberry Pi 5: Migrating 1,456 Chats

For nearly five years, Beeper kept almost all my messaging in one inbox. Then came its fight with Apple, the acquisition by Automattic, and an escalating corporate feud. I decided to take control. This is how I migrated 1,456 chats to a self-hosted Synapse server on a Raspberry Pi 5, complete with five bridges, monitoring, and tested backups.

Read the full article: https://marius.blog/self-hosted-matrix-raspberry-pi/

Written by Marius Quabeck. Replies: @marius@social.nerdzoom.media

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Front view of a compact homelab rack with a display, two rows of Raspberry Pi computers, a network switch, and a router

Linux microblog update:

I'm relaxing on a Thursday night by deploying another service into my personal cloud.

Since I bet heavily on the value of learning Python, about 20 years ago; I love how much of this stuff is in Python, today.

#linux #debian #selfhosting #python

I vanished for a bit and returned in the traditional manner: by redesigning the entire website for absolutely no reason.

Terminal Princess is dead. Long live brutalism: fewer rounded corners, more concrete, structurally necessary pink.

Also: 2.1 million scraper challenges, one miserable Forgejo, and the PoW equivalent of putting a claymore behind the front door before bed.

https://augustini.wtf/fieldnotes/my-git-forge-issued-2-million-challenges/

#SelfHosting #Forgejo #Kubernetes #Anubis #Brutalism

In unserer täglichen Arbeit versuchen wir, Websysteme so aufzubauen, dass wir möglichst viel selbst kontrollieren können.

Das bedeutet für uns: so wenig unnötige Drittanbieter-Abhängigkeiten wie möglich, getrennte Systeme, eigene Lösungen dort, wo es sinnvoll ist, und Fehlerfrüherkennung statt erst dann zu reagieren, wenn ein Dienst bereits ausgefallen ist.

Gerade die vielen Störungen der letzten Zeit zeigen immer wieder, wie schnell ein eigentlich funktionierendes Webprojekt durch einen externen Dienst mitgerissen werden kann.

Im neuen Admin-Blog-Beitrag habe ich unsere Haltung dazu zusammengefasst:
„Unabhängige Websysteme: Warum wir möglichst wenig aus der Hand geben“

Wir behaupten dabei nicht, dass sich jeder Fehler verhindern lässt. Entscheidend ist für uns vielmehr, Systeme zu verstehen, Abhängigkeiten bewusst zu wählen und im Störungsfall selbst handeln zu können.

#Systemadministration #LinuxAdmin #Monitoring #SelfHosting #derAdmin

My very favourite project at the moment is PocketID: https://pocket-id.org/

Self-hosted, simple OIDC provider one can easily point all their web apps and self-hosted apps at for authentication. Supports passkeys too, so very easy for me to stick my Yubi/NitroKeys in front of everything.

For apps that don't support OIDC I use TinyAuth ( https://tinyauth.app/ ), which supports PocketID, with a simple redirect i n nginx.

#selfhosted #selfhosting #selfhost

My PeerTube instance has been down for a while due to some kind of internot obeah but, as is tradition, I burnt it to the ground and started over.

All the old content, pirate radio tapes, inpc/Liotia music etc. will reappear in due course but also my follow lists are trashed so if you do take an interest in my funny noises, please re-follow the instance.

Also, feel free to add your PeerTube instances below so I can start following again. Shares most welcome. They're will be new stuff soon...

Here's the recent stream my band, Liotia, did for NHAM back in July. Cheers!

#Music #PeerTube #SelfHosting #NHAM

https://video.mxtthxw.art/w/1FgmRamHR2hmj7dYBoSPST

As we are searching for a new place to rent, I'm thinking about the way to move the #GlitchySocial #Mastodon instance physically with minimal downtime. It looks like a temporary #VPS is the best option...

#SelfHosted #SelfHost #Selfhosting #HomeLab #Moving

#XSF Announcement

Join the 29th #XMPP #Summit taking place online from 4th - 5th September 2026.

https://xmpp.org/2026/05/xmpp-summit-29/

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc #opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging #standards #xep #realtime #SelfHosting

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The XSF Announcement Banner with the XMPP logo surrounded by a house with a megaphone next to it.

Got a small team? Don't let the big cloud vendors tell you Kubernetes is your only option. Docker Swarm works wonders too! #selfhosting #containerorchestration

Docker Swarm offers simplicity and ease of use, making it perfect for teams that don’t need all the bells and whistles.

#selfhosting #containerorchestration #docker

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Docker Swarm offers simplicity and ease of use, making it perfect for teams that don’t need all the bells and whistles.

General maintenance, updating the mail server
Bumping the server version, then chaos followed

CalDav asking for password on my phone
Mail app also asking for a password, for all accounts

Oh oh...

Checking logs "No configuration found, bootstraping new installation"

Ok so what happened in Stalwart in v16 coming from v15 ? Oh, a full rewrite and numerous breaking changes ?
That's ok, we'll rollback and check that later

So yeah, we are back on v15 now I guess 😅

#homelab #selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #mail #stalwart #rollback

TIL about ".home.arpa" top-level domain (RFC 8375) for you home LAN domain. I never bothered setting up a domain on my home router. Giving this a try to help name resolution. There are arguments for using a real domain that you've purchased doing something like .lan.myrealdomainname.com so the you don't have to worry about certs and browsing just "works" but I'll give this a try first just to test the waters. FAFO as they say.
#SelfHosting #networking

RE: https://ouo.sh/@nate/117198492451815493

This is happening, btw - Ping me if you're doing something cool and need some help with web hosting!

Going to be 20 slots initially:
10 on Canada server
10 on Czechia server

BYO domain, or a subdomain of one I own (There are a few options)

If you're a hosting provider and you'd like to donate some additional slots now or in the future as we grow, ping me as well!

Website for this project coming soon

#nerd #tech #selfhosting #mutualaid

toot.io relay service boosted

Nate » 🌐 2026-09-01
@nate@ouo.sh

Think I'm going to remove the Libre Translate function from my personal #Mastodon instance.

It's an impressive endeavour, but the translations have me just opening up Google Translate for clarification more often than not.

It's just a lot loaded into RAM for not much actual benefit.

💾 What if this September you started building your own infrastructure?

Back to projects, new ideas, and maybe a new homelab. 👀

With Slimbook CUBE, you can bring together storage, backups, self-hosted services, and even local AI in a single system, while keeping more control over your data.

Build the setup you actually need, run the services you want, and keep your data where it belongs: with you.

And yes, CUBE is currently 100€ off for a limited time.

🚀 New season. New projects. Your own infrastructure.

👉 https://slimbook.com/blog/noticias-1/post/vuelta-a-la-rutina-con-slimbook-548

#Slimbook #NAS #LocalAI #Homelab #SelfHosting

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Slimbook CUBE NAS on a dark background, with arrows pointing to different features and components of the device.

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Slimbook CUBE NAS shown from another angle, with arrows highlighting different features and elements of the device.

For anyone #selfhosting a Plex server, you should update IMMEDIATELY as there's some important security fixes put in place in 1.43.3.

Full post from the Plex team is here: https://forums.plex.tv/t/important-security-update-for-plex-media-server-v1-43-2-and-earlier/942319

Hm, ich habe mein Pachli so konfiguriert, dass es Unified Push nutzt. Das läuft über ntfy. Nun habe ich hier meinen eigenen ntfy Server aufgesetzt. Der läuft auch sauber. Den Zugang habe ich per User und Passwort geschützt, damit ihn nicht jeder einfach nutzen kann.
Da ich den inzwischen als Standard Server in der ntfy App eingestellt habe ist Pachli automatisch mit umgestellt auf den Server. Seit dem laufen die Notifications nicht mehr. Nun gibt es zwei Möglichkeiten. Entweder Pachli hat meiner Instanz noch nicht mitgeteilt, dass es einen neuen Server nutzt, oder die Instanz kann schlicht und ergreifend keine notifications absetzen, durch den geschützten Zugang. Da muss ich mal etwas genauer analysieren. Muss ja irgendwie gehen.
Da gleiche scheint auch bei Element X (Matrix) der Fall zu sein. Ich hoffe ich bekomme beides in einem Aufwasch gelöst.

#pachli #tusky #unifiedpush #ntfy #matrix #elementX #selfhosting

GitHub, today, experienced issues with Actions and Pages. The failures this month are pretty noticeable, clocking in at less than 94% uptime (with 17 documented outages this month alone). Add in that I'm finally feeling the effects of *not* following the #localfirst / #selfhosting ideas, and I'm seriously pondering dropping the use of GitHub.

The one benefit of GitHub that I'm not sure I can replace is discoverability. I'm not convinced I gain enough from that right now, and could use some opinions from the world at large:

If you're on GitHub, how does it benefit you? What do you get out of it that you would not get from (for example) Forgejo? And if you're off of GitHub, what are you using? And which VPS provider do you use for it, if any?

I don't need the VPS to be huge. I have a machine that I'm going to reformat and can set it up as the runner for all the actions. I just need to have a public facing place that is more reliable (or at least that I can do something about if things go sideways). All it'll run is Forgejo and two public facing static websites.

Looking for any insights that could help me make a better informed decision.

#GitHub #Forgejo #FOSS

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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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

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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

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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

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

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