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.

Ok, #vacation is over; back to #work and regular #HomeLab stuff.

I think my #Proxmox cluster setup is overpowered. I have three nodes, but one of them is 10-cores and 16-threads server that could handle all guests on its own. I have three nodes only for replication and high-availability purposes, which is questionable. I think I need to reduce the node count to two for now. I suspect the cluster could still have replication and HA.

#SelfHosted #SelfHost #SelfHosting

Things got messy: https://youtube.com/shorts/_i8zms-Xl-M

#mentalhealthjourney #healingjourney #messydesk #homelab #behindthescenes #selfhosting

🐧 Nouveau jouet dans le homelab !

Mon Proxmox Backup Server 4.2.5 sait maintenant parler S3 avec mon instance MinIO auto-hébergée (SILO) 🪣

Résultat : mes sauvegardes filent directement dans mon propre cloud objet, sans dépendre d'un provider externe. 100% souverain, 100% libre.

Bilan de la soirée : quelques erreurs 400 bien tenaces, un disque racine trop petit découvert juste à temps, et un datastore S3 opérationnel avant minuit 🌙

#SelfHosting #Proxmox #MinIO #LogicielLibre #Homelab

Random #SelfHosting #Linux question: I have a USB drive attached to my PC. It's mounted, but the only time I read from/write to it is at midnight when I make a backup. Still, I can hear it spinning up and down throughout the day. Is there a way to monitor and see which processes access the drive or its mount point?

No platform in that list can take the room away from us, which is the entire point and also the reason it costs money to keep.

What do you want me to actually chew on first? Come in and ask us. I hold nothing back.

#Fediverse #Owncast #PeerTube #SelfHosting #IndependentMedia #Journalism #USPol #QueerNews #TransRights #Solidarity #NoAI
2/2

In case anyone followed the #SelfHosting tag to get here, let me sum up the discussion that ensued: this idea is just as bad as any third party link shortening service.

Don’t do this. Just use the original link.

• You would not be redirecting to your own content (this example is LinkedIn), that isn’t your content to do what you wish with;
• you would be tracking viewers’ IP address (that’s illegal in certain jurisdictions like France) unless you took the proper measures, which aren’t described here;
• you’d be adding one more redirection hop for that link, which slows everything down and would break if you ever forgot to renew your domain (or a host of other things could break the chain);
• and more, but this should be good enough.

Self hosting is all well and good on your own stuff. As soon as you apply it to other people’s stuff, the rules change, laws get more strict. Don’t make light of this.

@OldCoder @drahardja

Lo #Jolla phone non è un telefono per tutti — ma potrebbe esserlo per molti. Niente account obbligatori, niente telemetria, niente feed che ti trattiene.

Le basi funzionano. WhatsApp via Android? Perfetto. Mappe offline, foto su Immich, password con Sailwarden.

Per SPID/CIE tengo l'iPhone senza SIM. Come daily driver, non fa rimpiangere Apple.

Il tuo telefono può essere di nuovo tuo.

Tutta la storia qui:
https://www.carlobaratto.it/prima-settimana-con-lo-jolla-phone/

#SailfishOS #Jolla #Privacy #SelfHosting

Reminder to myself to move off Google and towards self-hosted/EU hosted alternatives. It's actually quite crazy how they do it: they combine the "storage" with photos/documents, so if your photo/document storage is full, Google blocks all emails unless you pay for their subscription!

#goodbye #google #selfhosting

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Google is a pain in the ass

Another move into self hosting today with an install of SearXNG search on my Raspberry Pi 5. Incredibly, on this Pi5 there is only 2gb RAM but it's already hosting my books, recipes, notes, pihole, bookmarks and now, search. All served through my Tailnet

#Selfhosted #selfhosting  

Ditch the big clouds this week with your own mesh network. #MeshNetworking #Nebula #SelfHosting

Deployed Docker and Caddy on my local server yesterday, feels like freedom from data sovereignty theft.

#MeshNetworking #Nebula #SelfHosting

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

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Deployed Docker and Caddy on my local server yesterday, feels like freedom from data sovereignty theft.

My reading seems to suggest that I have a serious obstacle to self-hosting on my own hardware:

CGNAT

I really do live in Bumblefuck—I love it here—and Starlink is my only option for a high-speed ISP. I hate that, but I need a high-speed connection for work and I don't want to move. Not many other options for work out here, so for now: Starlink.

It looks like I can maybe get around some CGNAT issues with a VPN that includes port forwarding…but now I'm wondering if maybe I should just consider self-hosting from a VPS instead.

Anyone else on the Fedi have any experience with self-hosting with Starlink as an ISP? What's that been like for you? Have any tips or suggestions?

@homelab@fedigroups.social
#Homelab #SelfHosting #AskFedi

I love open source. I self-host quite a lot, and I'm pleased that I can do that.

But I get frustrated at how often documentation only covers the initial set up. Earlier today I looked at documentation for a service I was considering self-hosting.

It had instructions for installing, but nothing about how to upgrade an existing installation. But it's important to me that I know how to upgrade when a new version is released.

I've seen desktop programs where the documentation has "How to make your first in five minutes". Then the rest of the documents assume a deep understanding, with apparently nothing to help you get from new user to wizard level.

#OpenSource #SelfHosting #FOSS

RE: https://mastodon.social/@harold/117146045089521164

If #MarkCarney knew the US was negotiating in bad faith, he certainly didn't show it by understanding the necessity of urgently developing Canadian #digitalSovereignty. Someone please sit him down in front of a @pluralistic talk (as Doctorow's a Canadian source, and Carney appears to trust journalists well enough to appoint them Ministers: though urgently read also the books by the experts cited below), and persuade our PM that our #sovereignty and #nationalSecurity depend on freeing #Canada from all Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), and Amazon (AWS) dependence, with wartime urgency.

Hon. @Paulatics, @KristopherWells, @SenKarenAb, or @colindeacon: Can any of you talk some sense into our Honourable bank executive about this? I'd be happy to volunteer to explain anything in Cory's presentations or books that you or Mark doesn't understand. (I have over 20 years' paid experience explaining tech stuff to non-tech people, if that'd be useful.) I'm sure plenty other Canadians such as those in the @linuxassociation and the Canadian #selfHosting community could help explain this too.

Perhaps this needs to be more diplomatically phrased, but if we need funds to accelerate Canadian digital sovereignty, I suggest taking them from Evan Solomon's tax-abyss Ministry of Slop. Evan's an uncritical career tech hype-man with less qualification to run a technology ministry than the historically and catastrophically incompetent #PeteHegseth has to run the US DoD. Solomon's education is in English literature and religious studies, not anything even remotely related to computing, and it shows. His religious fanaticism for, as Drs. @emilymbender and @alex aptly put it, The AI Con, ought to disqualify him from leading a tech ministry.

Meanwhile, the very existence of such an office as "Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation" shows that our illustrious economist mistakenly believes that, in the Empire of AI (per Karen Hao), Canada can become a colonizer, not return to its prior status as a colony: exactly as Trump and the coterie of technofeudal "AI" CEOs backing him are seeking to coerce us into becoming. The promises of "economic efficiency" (i.e., mass layoffs, wage deflation, and metastatic rent extraction) promised by the #TESCREAL (@timnitGebru) dogma of the AI cult system may resound with confirmation bias in the heart of the true believer in the religion of neoclassical economics (may the Earth become infinite and Homo economicus cease requiring infinite compute power), but alas, our first priority in tech policy should not be proliferation of climate- and community-destroying hyperscale #datacentres for the Slop God, but instead, in removing Trump's ability to do to all #Canadian government and business what Donald did the the #ICC with a few sanctions.

#cdnpoli

Harold Jarche » 🌐 2026-08-23
@harold@mastodon.social

I wonder if PM Carney always knew that the US was negotiating in bad faith, and that their terms could be changed after the fact, but waited until the final humiliating demands were made by the US team before walking away. Now Carney has widespread national support and perhaps more respect from our other allies and partners.

#USPoli #CdnPoli

Witaj #GrapheneOS
Żegnaj #iOS

#deapple #GrapheneOS #PrivacyFirst #DigitalPrivacy #DeGoogle #FOSS #OpenSource #SelfHosting #Pixel #GoodbyeApple

🔧 Correction d'un bug sournois sur mes scripts de maintenance PeerTube : le nettoyage automatique (prune-storage/house-keeping) attendait une confirmation qui n'arrivait jamais en cron → rien n'était supprimé depuis des mois, sans erreur visible. C'est corrigé, avec des notifs Gotify plus détaillées en bonus.

📖 Docs à jour sur mon wiki :
🐳 Docker : https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/maintenance-peertube-docker
⚙️ Classique : https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/maintenance-peertube-installation-classique

#PeerTube #SelfHosting #Fediverse

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".

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

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

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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