jrollans.com is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
Does anyone have a #web browser bookmarking system they swear by? I research and read a lot for work and my own interests and I am both a tab and bookmark hoarder and it is a Problem. My saved links span sites, articles, images, videos, technical documentation.... you name it.
Preferably something I could #selfhost but open to considering paid services if they fit my criteria well enough.
I cannot dedicate time to sorting, tagging, or otherwise organizing links - I have tried it before and always commit to it for a day and then get overwhelmed by the sheer quantity. Or I get stuck in a cycle of constantly optimizing my tagging/folder system. There is no in-between.
Has to be low-friction to save a bookmark but I also need some search functionality for sifting through links to find what I need.
Ideally I could see what links I use frequently vs less frequently for occasional pruning.
I've considered building my own app for this and have various prototypes in different stages of disarray. Just wondering if there's anything out there I should give a try before possibly re-inventing another wheel specifically shaped for my brain.
Things I have tried:
- Raindrop
- An Org file
- Built-in browser bookmarking tools
- Texting myself links
Ping...
Is this thing working?
I moved the #Mastodon reverse proxy from #Nginx to #Caddy. I took this gist as a base: https://gist.github.com/yukimochi/bb7c90cbe628f216f821e835df1aeac1, added some from @neatnik's answer to my previous post, and followed the Nginx config, because the paths in the gist were outdated. Now I don't need a separate IP for Mastodon and have my two most important services on a single host. Oh, and I can remove certbot from the Mastodon host! Nice =)
The early stages of SolarAI-V2 local LLM server in assembly.
The 4x TESLA P100 GPUs arrive tomorrow, along with a mining rack and other stuff. This is what the hardware stack is looking like so far:
-Asus Z9PE-D16 motherboard
-CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2620 V2 Processor
-GPU: FOUR NVIDIA Tesla P100 16GB PCIe (64GB VRAM)
-RAM: 128GB DDR3
-Storage: 64GB SSD for OS
-Storage: FOUR 500GB WD Velociraptor HDDs for models
-OS: ubuntu 26.04 server amd64
It will run my Hermes/Home Assistant, and is not used to generate slop.
#AI #homelab #homeassistant #llm #hermesagent #selfhosted #selfhosting
Open Source SEO and Social Media Tools: Own the Boring Parts https://raymondtec.com/2026/10/open-source-seo-social-media-tools/
Open source SEO and social media tools can reduce lock-in and support steady growth, but only if you budget for maintenance, security, and change.
#ContentStrategy #OpenSourceSoftware #Postiz #SelfHosting #SEO #SocialMedia
Question for those of you that use ansible for deploying/maintaining infrastructure in your labs/prods:
How did you take a manually-configured environment and migrate to ansible?
Did you reversed engineer your existing stack, or build out new using your own generated code (or other people's) and just migrate data?
Mein Self-Hosting-Setup ist wieder gewachsen: Postiz, Open Archiver sowie Stalwart/Bulwark.
Besonders spannend finde ich das Zusammenspiel der Dienste – z. B. meine kleine Bridge von Postiz zu Bulwark: geplante Posts werden per API abgeholt, als
iCalendar-Feed bereitgestellt und direkt im Kalender angezeigt.
Auch LinkedIn läuft jetzt sauber über einen OAuth‑Workaround. Genau solche Verknüpfungen machen Self-Hosting für mich spannend. 🙂
Tips for hosting email in docker/on kubernetes?
Any helm charts you like?
Any images you like?
Any particular servers or clients you like?
Any security steps you take?
Any fancy crowdsec rules?
Firewall tips?
Please do not suggest anything LLM/AI related. I'm not interested. If I wanted that, there's an ocean of slop out there.
Update: getting great server suggestions, please keep em' coming! Also interested in TUIs, desktop apps, web mail, and android apps :)

#email #selfhosting #foss #selfhost #kubernetes #docker #noai
So, based on all the replies here, on lobste.rs, and in anti-ai spaces, I've compiled an issue on my forgejo to start parsing what I want to try for myself as well as what I might offer as a service down the line. It mostly just categorizes links to all the things and adds super brief comments selected from here and lobste.rs so I can take everything into consideration on various categories of things to offer, in addition to just fun treats to try myself (like CLI/TUIs).
You can check it out here:
https://git.open.engineering/oeng/argocd-apps/issues/115
#email #selfhosting #foss #selfhost #kubernetes #docker #noAI
I'm seriously considering moving off GoToSocial to a regular Mastodon instance.
I've self-hosted for a while now, and it's generally good.
But there's a few things I miss.
The first is being able to search widely for posts on a particular topic.
Yes, relays help, but there's a big tradeoff: The more relays you have, the more storage you need.
I miss seeing posts from Lemmy and some other Fediverse apps that don't quite work with GtS.
And then storage becomes a bigger factor over time too.
So now I need to move my #homelab. And I have two options:
1. Migrate #Mastodon reverse proxy from #nginx to #caddy (no documentation on this around the internet except uncertain assumptions).
2. Pay x4 for the internet for a business plan, where I’ll be able to rent more than one static IP.
So the question is do you, dear #mastoadmin, have a working example of Caddy config for Mastodon?
One day I wondered about problems between my #Matrix server and #Element desktop client. It turned out Synapse was terminated by OOM killer... and it wasn't last time that happened. Now I just started service again, without big hope it would be running long. I feel after enabling federation I finally reach that wall where lowest tier VPS just cannot bear all my services running there on minimal resources - which worked by some supernatural miracle for 7 years.
I started thinking about migrating anyway because of other reasons, but now I have more dilemma. If I have to move everything and start from scratch, it maybe could be better to use physical machine (even if not big, heavy, energy-hungry industrial server) and buy local Hackerspace network and server room storage. But now prices of any hardware are insane because of this slop hype...
I don't know what to do and I don't like it.
It's cheaper and easier than you think to create your own @peertube server 🙂
🌱 If you're non-techy you can use managed hosting through https://fedihost.co or https://cloud68.co
🪴 If you're slightly techy you can install PeerTube through @yunohost at https://apps.yunohost.org/app/peertube
🌳 If you're very techy you can use the manual installation instructions at https://docs.joinpeertube.org
41 dead terabytes. Life of a data hoarder! Bytes lost = 0. RAID used = none (everything is fully mirrored 3 times). #selfhosted #selfhosting #homelab #harddrives
GMail ist ja echt ein bescheidener Service. Die Eltern können sich aussuchen ob Sie mich bzgl. der Klassenpflegschaft über die Signal Gruppe kontaktieren oder ob Sie mir E-Mails schicken.
Jetzt habe ich gemerkt das meine Antwortmails bei GMail natürlich im Spam Ordner landen, obwohl es Antworten auf Mails sind die ich geschickt bekommen habe.
Mal wieder so eine Dreckstaktik weil solche Services einfach zu groß geworden sind. Habe da natürlich jetzt was an den Support geschrieben, aber habe da wenig Hoffnung das sich da was tut.
Falls ihr ein ähnliches Setup für Klassenpflegschaft und Co habt dann denkt mal daran. Denn das ist ja absolut perfide. Wenn deine Mails im Spam landen kriegst du dafür ja keine Rückmeldung wie du Sie kriegen würdest wenn die Mail ganz stumpf vom Mailserver abgelehnt würde.
If you had to rebuild your homelab from scratch with the same budget, what would you do differently? #selfhosting #homelab
AdGuard Home finally reached 1.0, at least as a beta, and I could not wait. Switched the Docker tag from latest to beta, backed up the config first, and it came up without complaints.
Everything in the UI is rebuilt. The dashboard is cleaner, the settings finally make sense, and the query log got proper sorting and filtering. They also say the new frontend is much lighter, which matches what I see.
Over the last 7 days my network made almost 220 thousand DNS queries, and 30% of them were ads that never reached my devices. One single device is responsible for more than half of all the queries, and now I really want to know which one.
One thing to keep in mind is that they switched to flexible versioning, so even minor releases can break things. Back up before you update!
Oooo ... my weekly #zfs scrub fell over last night. :-( ... the whole pool dropped out. Rebooted and imported the pool again. Scrub resumed. 🤞 #selfhosting #linux
New post: roost gives every PR its own preview URL on a box you own. Static sites or containers, auto teardown. Works with any forge.
Question to the ine hosting a mailserver themself: i have many alias mail adresses for example school@tld.internet which are forwarded to personal@tld.internet. What do i have to do so i can send a mail from personal@internet.tld so the from adress is school@personal.tld? Is that possible? Dont know if mails go into the spam at gmail if someone sends me a mail to the alias and the answer comes from my personal mail account. #selfhosting #mailserver
🐧 Mon portail BlablaLinux a été amélioré : OpenGist y a pris place, la pluie Matrix est plus légère et la sécurité renforcée 🔒
Tous mes services libres au même endroit 👉 https://link.blablalinux.be/
#BlablaLinux #OpenGist #SelfHosting #Linux
Heute habe ich meinen eigenen SMTP-Relay auf einem kleinen VPS produktiv genommen. Keine Tracking-Pixel, kein externer Maildienst, der Nachrichten kommentarlos „droppt“, und volle Kontrolle über Queue, Logs und Zustellung.
SPF, DKIM, DMARC und TLS laufen sauber, Thunderbird und iPhone senden direkt über meinen Server – inklusive automatischer Zertifikatserneuerung.
Ein kleines Stück Infrastruktur selbst zurückgeholt. 😊
#SelfHosting #DigitalSovereignty #Email #OpenSource #didit #diday
What's the biggest gap between what you want your homelab to be and what it actually is right now? #selfhosting #homelab
Needed to spontaneously share a big batch of photos with a group, but I don't trust exposing my self-hosted Immich to the internet.
immich-public-proxy by alangrainger solved it: a tiny container that only serves shared links. Login, API and the rest of the library stay internal. Set it up, shared the album, done. 🥳
New on the blog: Self-Hosted AI.
Qwen 3.8 27B on a rented RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, one shell command, ~150 tokens per second. For most of my everyday coding, it is simply good enough now.
Also: what "self-hosted" really means on someone else's GPU. You swap trust in an AI vendor for trust in an infrastructure provider. Not zero trust, but a question I already know how to answer.
https://blog.hofstede.it/self-hosted-ai-qwen-38-on-a-rented-blackwell-at-150-tokens-per-second/
@dbtechyt I sort of lucked into learning Python. It has been increasingly helpful for self-hosting, over the years.
What's one homelab decision you made early on that still pays dividends every day? #selfhosting #homelab
So, I decided not to use ZFS for my in-home NAS. I checked it in another server with 2GB of RAM and... it works, but any heavy I/O operation resulted in killing spree of NetBSD kernel, OOM-killing the processes to free the memory. And NetBSD ZFS doesn't have knobs to fine-tune memory limits (IIRC they are still in development).
Instead, the usual approach - the old^Wmature technology - is in use. With the help of netbsd-users maillist (https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2026/09/21/msg034895.html) I configured the next thing for HDD with RAIDframe, CGD and LVM:
1) Two identical 1TB disks: /dev/wd0 and /dev/wd1.
2) Both in use in RAID1 /dev/raid0 (as described in this document: https://netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-rf.html, but without any tricks for root FS).
3) /dev/raid0 divided in two parts: /dev/raid0a for root FS and /dev/raid0b.
4) Both disks (/dev/wd0 and /dev/wd1) has installed bootloader via /usr/sbin/installboot -o timeout=10 -v /dev/rwd0 /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv2 and /usr/sbin/installboot -o timeout=5 -v /dev/rwd1 /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv2
5) The /dev/raid0b was encrypted with CGD, so the /dev/raid0b -> /dev/cgd0.
6) The whole encrypted disk (/dev/cgd0a) was added as physical volume to LVM. The volume group /dev/vg0 was created with this PV and the logical volume /dev/vg0/lv0 was created inside this VG to store the real data.
The LVM allows to add new disk space, just by adding new physical volume to the volume group and then extending the logical volume and resizing the FFSv2. I tested it with a test USB drive and it works and even doesn't led to data loss 
And the separate CGD separately encrypts existing physical volume and each new physical volume just in case 
One quirk: the underlying physical disks (/dev/wd0 and /dev/wd1) plus /dev/raid0 should use MBR partition scheme or NetBSD disklabel - because the root partition should start from 0 sector - if it started not from zero sector, then the bootloader will be unable to find root FS. I tried to use GPT, but the installer was unable to create root partition not from zero sector, only from 2048 sector 
I just had a thought. Some people talk about #SelfHosting and #Homelabs as some prepper like thing for weird people. I want to change that, as it certainly doesn't reflect how I feel about my mailserver, my various web servers and other services I run myself.
And that's where the thought comes in. From now on I will call it:
#PersonalComputing instead (or again, depending on your age :)
Holy shit, I've been so angry at my Audiomuse playlists that I was about to switch from Navidrome back to Plexamp for self-hosted music. But damned it it didn't turn out when I watched the logs that the Navidrome plugin wasn't authenticating, so none of my music apps were actually using the sonic similarity analysis.
Guess what? These playlists are FUCKING GREAT now. My life just got so much better.