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.
Found this useful tool called Hister. Basically your search history with better capabilities. I often will stumble across something, forget to save it and recalling it is a hit-or-miss if i can remember the title of the page I am thinking of. This makes it easier. It makes a local copy of the text and adds better search capabilities to sites you have visited in the past.
Forgot what Grim Dawn build I was working on. Searched for it and found it from my browsing history.
Another great tool to add to the self-hosting arsenal. Check it out!
I felt so strongly about this...
... I created a meme.
Was #Vibecoding and caught myself shoving new features that were not needed.
I'm quite happy with my #forgejo replacement for #github. i was missing dependabot enforced correctness and installed a Renovate container. IMO it's an improvement over the github approach. love it.
I am running forgejo as part of my personal stack.
Related codebase gitea realeased 13 CVE's from 7 to 9.8 in criticality yesterday.
Forgejo's are still under embargo:
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/security-announcements/issues/55
Expect to patch around the 9th.
#minimalist #Linux #Selfhosting #selfhosted #selfhost #InfoSec #Exploit
Podman CVE-2026-44517: A breakout can happen during container build using malicious Containerfile and Git Smart HTTP server or GitHub release tar archive. This is weird, essentially it is a path traversal, which has been fixed in 1.43.2.
Still pulling malicious code into a container, we can agree, is not ideal path traversal or not.
Have not explored the exploitation on this one.
#minimalist #Linux #Selfhosting #selfhosted #selfhost #InfoSec #Exploit
I think the title of this blog is a bit misleading. There was definitely a lot of setup and there is still “15 min” of administrative work going on. But a good list of things one can do to maintain a server for their #selfhosting #homelab
https://cleberg.net/blog/homelab-maintenance.html
New post: IPv6 Foundations.
IPv6 isn't "the future of the internet." It's the internet. IPv4 is the relic we keep alive on NAT life support.
A laid-back tour through the basics: how the addresses are built, the two rules for crushing out the zeros, a /64 per subnet so you stop counting hosts, SLAAC, and why blocking ICMPv6 is a self-inflicted wound.
And no, dual-stack isn't a destination. It's a burden.
https://blog.hofstede.it/ipv6-foundations-the-internet-protocol-you-should-already-be-using/
🎶 pldubouilh/gossa
🎶 a fast and simple multimedia fileserver
Serves multimedia files with a fast dependency-free web UI featuring uploads, streaming and note editing
⭐ Stars: 1094
📅 Last Update: Jun 28, 2026
https://github.com/pldubouilh/gossa
#selfhosted #homelab #selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #fileserver #webserver
It's been a full week of #GlitchySocial #Mastodon instance working with #SelfHosted S3 storage implemented with #Garage two-node cluster.
28.2 GB
141 663 objects
Doing perfectly fine for now. Also much faster than with #Hetzner Object Storage. Also for now.
#GlitchySocialMediaMigration #homelab #selfhosting #selfhost #s3 #objectStorage
Sto cercando una soluzione per segnare note/appunti/idee, che sia preferibilmente sincronizzabile e #FOSS. Tra i papabili candidati, ho trovato: #Joplin, #Notesnook e #Logseq.
La scelta principale ricadrebbe su Joplin Server, in #selfhosting, per via della sua natura "cloud". Pareri in merito? Dovrei considerare altro? Avete suggerimenti?
Eviterei soluzioni tutto in uno come #Nextcloud, che installerei comunque ma a parte, per compartimentare meglio e avere un servizio dedicato ad ogni scopo.
European institutions seem to be all in when it comes to introducing age verification mandates for citizens in member states: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/commission-sets-out-common-approach-eu-wide-age-verification-technologies
I now have daily anxiety thinking about the future of the fediverse.
So how do I channel this fear and turn it into something constructive? I'm going back to writing #selfhosting guides for newbies.
It's a great distraction, which gives me a bit of hope. Especially the next guide, which will cover my favorite fediverse software - #GoToSocial (which is powering this instance) - and how to install and configure it. Your own little home on the fediverse! Lightweight and features-packed.
Surely something like this would fall outside the scope of regulation. Right? Right?
#MySoCalledSudoLife #YunoHost #VPS #AgeVerification #privacy #EUBigTech
"You have limited resources and want Syncthing to use as few as possible. You care less about performance."
Also consider increasing the full scan interval on folders that change infrequently.
https://docs.syncthing.net/users/tuning.html#tuning-for-low-resources
#android #cloud #diday #digitalsovereignty #linux #linuxmint #macos #opensource #privacy #raspberrypi #raspi #rpi #selfhosting #syncthing #ubuntu #windows
I'm moving my location history from #OwnTracks to #GeoPulse, because GeoPulse is awesome.
#homelab #selfhosted #selfhosting #selfhost #locationtracking #locationhistory
Bei Podman 6 gibt es einige grössere Änderungen, welche eventuell zu Problemen führen können.
Aktuell ist das neue Major Release noch nicht bei meinen Systemen angekommen, aber ich habe mir schon mal angesehen, was da demnächst kommt.
https://linuxiac.com/podman-6-0-lands-with-breaking-changes-amd-gpus-support/
https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/releases/tag/v6.0.0
https://byteiota.com/podman-6-migration-guide-breaking-changes/
https://blog.podman.io/2026/06/podman-6-configuration-file-changes/
Self-hosters: what's the actual dealbreaker that makes you walk from a tool?
Making sure I ship none of them.
📓 Neuer Beitrag auf Shellstube:
OPNsense: Eigene Firewall fürs Homelab mit VLANs
OPNsense übernimmt die PPPoE-Einwahl (FritzBox nur Bridge), fünf VLANs trennen Management, Clients, Gäste, Infrastruktur und IoT, ein Managed Switch trunkt die VLANs und ein Omada-AP strahlt getrennte WLANs aus — ein professionell segmentiertes Heimnetz statt Consumer-Router.
https://shellstube.de/anleitungen/opnsense-firewall-vlans-homelab/
#Homelab #SelfHosting #Linux
@Richard_Littler You're not wrong, but the culture I see doesn't want to invest any trust to speak of in the alternative solutions of the SelfHosters of the world. The SelfHosters know how to make this grassroots internet you suggest, but they all do it in a different way. The normies of the world can't bear losing network effects, to adopt a frayed variety of solutions, where there are no network effects anywhere. The "consensual emotional clan warmth", for lack of a better term (which the status quo affords; using big tech Social media), would be lost, and although they won't come out and admit it, this isn't a thinkable, bearable loss to the normies.
You're up against a wall of unbearable emotional loss; alas this isn't really about logic.
This one seems interesting.
Podman CVE-2026-57231
A malicious container image with a malformed Env entry (a key with no value) can trick podman run into leaking the host environment variables into the container. The wildcard glob makes it worse, it can return all host env vars from the launching session without knowing their names.
#minimalist
#Linux #Selfhosting #selfhosted #selfhost #InfoSec
#Exploit
The "weaponization watch" script pulled up two Debian-13 kernel root exploits with public PoCs that the KEV list doesn't include:
CVE-2026-46331 "pedit COW" weaponized sometime around 6/16, unprivileged user to root on Debian 13 trixie (the user namespaces is open by default).
RHEL 10 is also in scope (again, local priv escalation not remote.)
CVE-2026-46333: ptrace logic flaw, local root + credential disclosure, exploits circulating.
Then from yesterday:
DirtyClone (CVE-2026-43503) confirmed against Debian.
#minimalist #Linux #Selfhosting #selfhosted #selfhost #InfoSec
Neuer Artikel: Docker Compose für Einsteiger – https://rootwerkstatt.de/docker-compose-einsteiger/ #docker #selfhosting #homelab #linux
I was researching a way to get to my home network remotely when my #pocketID is unreachable, as I’m using it as an identity provider for #Tailscale. Turns out #unifi One-Click VPN is like Tailscale, but with the server on your router. Also, it is actually a #wireguard so you can connect any server to it. Looks like a good alternative for Tailscale.
HOLY CRAP... a RAID (albeit a faux 'SnapRAID') just saved my files! AND it did it in minutes!
I have NEVER had a RAID give me anything but grief. EVER
I mean in 30 years of running RAIDs, I've never had anything but dead controllers and week long rebuilds that failed!
I love you SnapRAID!
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@adminmagazine/116817007327226137
In the second installment of the self-hosting series, @adminmagazine looks at self-hosted collaboration with Forgejo.
Hachja, der T-Online MX ... "Bad reputation" weil wir uns noch nicht kennen, alle meine Mails werden kategorisch abgelehnt.. weil...
Weil ist halt so. Die T-Online möchte anscheinend eine handverlesene Liste an Servern, von denen sie Mails aktzeptiert....
Und ohne Impressum, machen die erst recht nix...
Wieso muss ich mich aktiv von t-online irgendwo auf eine Liste setzen lassen, dass ich legitimer Mailzusteller mit meinem Server bin?
#selfhosting #mailserver #mxadmin #postmaster
@labellaragassa I have a rant here that probably will become a blog post.
Look, virtually everyone has been babied into not needing to care about a whole bunch of technological things that are actually quite tough to self-host manage oneself, longer term
IP addresses? They're not a solution, they're a framework. #DNS? It's not a solution, it's a framework. #nginx? It's not a solution, it's a framework. #Debian? It's not a solution, it's a framework. #Linux? It's not a solution, it's a framework. #systemd? It's not a solution, it's a framework. #wireguard? It's not a solution, it's a framework. Do you see a pattern here?
99% of the people who use the internet (not including the cool people of #Mastodon here) have been spoiled absolutely fucking rotten with highly-convenient *solutions*. Facebook is a *solution*, WhatsApp is a *solution*, Instagram is a *solution*, Tiktok is a *solution*, etc. etc. Again, do you see a pattern here? People become spoiled once they become accustomed to a certain level of convenience. You know the famous album name "Give me convenience, or give me death" (Dead Kennedys)? Well, that's about the size of it.
Alas, what you need are a small army of seasoned network and security architects - who command high salaries these days - who all get along and work together. You know, have actual Computer Science degrees, and are not narcissistic asshole businessmen.
All of a sudden (who could have guessed?) people come along and want *solutions* (not frameworks) in replacement to all the big tech Social media, which idealistically respects their #DataSovereignty. You and what big payrolls to get it, oh spoiled-rotten hoardes of disenchanted carnival-goers?
All along the Goose of DataSovereignty was not valued, and all of a sudden that #Goose has value. Yes, it's going to be a rude awakening, for those spoiled brats with their excruciatingly convenient fondleslabs
📚 benjaminjonard/koillection
Koillection is a self-hosted service allowing users to manage any kind of collections.
Manages self-hosted collections of books, DVDs, stamps and more with customizable metadata and scraping
⭐ Stars: 1223
📅 Last Update: Jun 26, 2026
https://github.com/benjaminjonard/koillection
#selfhosted #homelab #selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #collectionmanager
MinIO, então, revelou-se outra empresa californiana que mantinha um modelo híbrido de licenciamento do software que desenvolvia e, na capitania do navio com uma extensa comunidade embarcada, resolveu abandoná-lo, voltando-se ao desenvolvimento de software totalmente privativo de liberdade. Pior, consta que fez isso para pular com os dois pés no inafundável supertransatlântico da dita inteligência artificial... 
Qual será a próxima? Desconfiemos de todo projeto com esse modelo híbrido "Community Edition" altamente merdificável. Tentemos focar no software livre e não nos deixemos enganar pela ladainha corporativa do chamado código aberto enquanto convém.
Felizmente, o que foi desenvolvido até então está publicado sob #AGPLv3, algo que, por nos conceder as quatro liberdades essenciais para isso, garante à comunidade que qualquer parte interessada assuma a liderança do projeto para tirar o barco da deriva, digo, continuar seu desenvolvimento como derivado. Parece até que isso já começou. Contudo, como há outros projetos mais ativos com propósitos semelhantes, não há certeza de que seu desenvolvimento continuará.
A notícia já é antiga, de meses atrás, mas tomei ciência apenas hoje. A primeira vez que tive contato com esse programa e o utilizei foi muito recentemente, ao implantar meu servidor #EntePhotos, de cuja documentação MinIO faz parte como armazenamento local. Agora vai ter que ficar assim, na última versão lançada, ao menos por algum tempo. Estava cogitando usar MinIO para mais funções, mas vou deixá-lo apenas para o armazenamento de objetos locais do Ente mesmo. Já devia ter usado algum outro sistema de armazenamento com API compatível com S3. Não é interessante começar algo com um componente importante já descontinuado. Lembrete a mim mesmo: mais atenção a dependências, na próxima vez! 
My philosophy of self hosting is that it supposed to be free. Despite, I already accepted the burden of paying for my domain.
Some people turn into self hosting because of privacy concerns or branding. But I mainly suffer from the lack of customization.
For example, with emails, I don’t really use them, but I receive spam and I want to filter it smartly
#selfhosting
I am really upset by my attempt to self host a mail server. So it’s not about configuration complexity. That went fine with a good docker setup that I chose. But what is failing me is that port 25 is blocked by my home Internet provider and by cloud service provider.
#email #selfhosting
🛡️ Retour d'expérience : chasse aux bots et scrapers derrière Nginx Proxy Manager
Au programme : architecture custom-block.conf + ai-blocklist.conf, un bug silencieux qui neutralisait tout le blocage, et les patterns observés en live (bots IA, scrapers SearXNG, Tencent Cloud, scanners credentials AWS/GCP...).
Note technique complète ici 👇
https://joplin.blablalinux.be/shares/SDdcZYIFiccbk7MSe807PE
#SelfHosting #Nginx #NginxProxyManager #Sécurité #Linux #AdminSys
@labellaragassa It's a bunch of tradeoffs. There are acceptable solutions where trust is warranted, but they're less convenient, and require more #SelfHosting skills. How far down the rabbit hole of inconvenience are you willing to go, to satisfy more of your ideals?
@Aethel @jwildeboer @mullvadnet @rysiek I for one use #PiVPN a lot, but I also have #Debian and #Linux administration skills, and run these on my own VPS'.
PiVPN (and #Wireguard) is software, is not a business per se. I subscribe to a VPN service which I provide to myself.
Serious geek skills allow for this.
**The point being: If people want to divorce and indemnify themselves from underlying politics of any provider, this is how at least one "middleman" is eliminated, IMHO.** If one feels like one can't trust any VPN provider, then at the end of the day, one needs to learn more #SelfHosting skills.
There needs to be some trust, somewhere.