I think I'm slowly going to make my way back to self-hosting my repositories (via cgit, most likely). Most providers now either have too strict of rules or none at all...

Probably better to have full control anyway 🤷

#git #selfHosting

He-he, my file/kitchen server project is going well Finally, I assembled all necessary wiring to connect 5V/12V from PSU to the external HDDs, bough SATA<->eSATA cables and assembled the storage for 4 3.5" disks.

And it all even powered up and system tried to boot from a connected single disk (unsuccessfully, because disk still doesn't contain NetBSD )

Next step — somehow buy a 4th HDD (hope, a gas for delivery trucks will exist at that moment, and this is not even the biggest problem), setup RAID 1 for NetBSD's root and cgd+RAID1+FFS (or ZFS) for files.

#NetBSD #selfhosting #homelab

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Front view of homemade file server. There are ITX case with Intel Atom inside, the plastic gray box for electrical wiring on top of it and two 3D-printed black frames for 4 HDDs with 1 HDD installed and a fan connected. The system is powered up and tge fan is spinning. The power source on the background shows 12V on the display.

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The back view of homemade server. There are ITX case with 4 eSATA ports and one aviation grade connector for power, the gray box with power wirings, power connectors for HDDs and a frame for 4 HDDs with 1 HDD installed, on the background.

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The top view of homemade server. The ITX black case on the bottom; gray box with wires and 1HDD in frame for 4 HDDs on the top. Everything connected with standard colored cables from PC PSU, also there is a pink eSATA<->SATA cable on the top right corner of the photo.

(Linux news in previous posts)

FOSS NEWS

Elon Musk's X Tried to Kill Nitter. The Project Just Said It’s Coming Back:
https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17441795/nitter-returns-after-legal-troubles
(FOSS alt frontends are basically unkillable (if they have enough contributors). Not even a billion dollar corp can shut down a community project. See the Invidious case, when YouTube sent them an email threating them with legal action 3 years ago. The project is still active, with a few functional instances.)

GIMP 3.2.6 released with faster font loading, Wacom barrel rotation:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/gimp-3-2-6-wacom-rotation-input

Kdenlive 26.08.1 Releases: Stability Fixes, FFmpeg Modernization, and Crash Patches:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/kdenlive-26081-releases-stability-fixes-ffmpeg-modernization-and-crash-patches/

Shotcut 26.9 Video Editor Beta Brings UI Improvements, Better Audio Quality:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Shotcut-26.9-Beta

BleachBit 6.0.4 offers faster scanning, improves Linux cleaners:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/bleachbit-6-0-4-update

Cryptomator Hub 2.0 adds user management and emergency access:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/9/cryptomator-hub-2-0-adds-user-management-and-emergency-access/

Firefox redesign will arrive in v157 release:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/firefox-nova-redesign-coming-september

Ladybird web browser gains video playback, JS debugging, and downloads that pause & resume:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/9/ladybird-web-browser-gains-video-playback-js-debugging-and-downloads-that-pause-and-resume/

Zen Browser 1.22.1b Ships With Cross-Device Sync and Shareable Workspace Links:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/zen-browser-1221b-ships-with-crossdevice-sync-and-shareable-workspace-links/

Ente Photos introduces encrypted library sharing and faster on-device machine learning:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/9/ente-photos-introduces-encrypted-library-sharing-and-faster-on-device-machine-learning/

Privacy-focused email aliasing service addy.io now blocks email tracking pixels by default:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/9/privacy-focused-email-aliasing-service-addy-io-now-blocks-email-tracking-pixels-by-default/

OpenVPN 2.7.7 Released with Various Improvements, Bug and Security Fixes:
https://9to5linux.com/openvpn-2-7-7-released-with-various-improvements-bug-and-security-fixes

Immich 3.2 debuts new search API, cluster groups, workflows' expansion, and much more:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/9/immich-3-2-debuts-new-search-api-cluster-groups-workflows-expansion-and-much-more/

Jellyfin 12.0 adds major books and comics support, faster browsing, and FFmpeg 8.1:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/9/jellyfin-12-0-adds-major-books-and-comics-support-faster-browsing-and-ffmpeg-8-1/

(more FOSS news in comments)

#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #FOSS #OpenSourceNews #News #Nitter #GIMP #Kdenlive #Shotcut #BleachBit #Cryptomator #Firefox #Ladybird #ZenBrowser #EntePhotos #AddyIO #OpenVPN #Immich #Jellyfin #Browser #SelfHosting #FosseryTech

I now also have a favicon (goodbye Susie ) and I overhauled my config Fun! #selfHosting #customEmoji

Alright, I like NetBird a lot. It’s not perfect, and there’s some gotchas (especially with self hosting), but overall I think I prefer it over Tailscale.

Will do a full blog post with the good, the bad and the ugly.

#selfhosting #homelab

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Friendship ended with Tailscale, now NetBird is my best friend

It started as a gag: a tiny popup telling IPv4 visitors that their provider hasn't yet discovered 1998.

To do that honestly I needed something to echo the client address.

Using ipify felt wrong when you run your own AS. So now it's a service. 🙃

curl https://ip.hofstede.it
curl https://v6.ip.hofstede.it/json
curl https://v4.ip.hofstede.it/asn

One Rust binary, server-rendered, zero JavaScript.

https://ip.hofstede.it

#IPv6 #Rust #FreeBSD #SelfHosting #AS201379 /cc @namedbird

Now I even have enough space for all the pictures my wife takes of our kid. <3

#selfhosting

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Storage space 135.4 GiB of 91.1 TiB used text from Immich

Its been some time since I've setup a home server, and even then I only used it to store backups from devices on the LAN.

Never hosted anything that is reachable from the internet (besides SSH). I want to learn how to self-host a few services, starting with a Google Photos replacement; and littleFedi by @stefano .

Thought of using a old laptop, but decided to step up to a ThinkCentre M720q. I've installed FreeBSD as the host OS.

Onward!

#SelfHosting #MiniPC #FreeBSD #RunBSD #littleFedi

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Output of the 'fastfetch' command, showing the system stats for a ThinkCentre M720q mini pc running FreeBSD 15.1 with 32GB RAM and 1TB drive.

Come join me and @Gina in Luxembourg this October!

#OSCL26 (Open Source Conference Luxembourg) has a brand new track devoted to “Decentralized Technologies for Digital Sovereignty”:

🔗: https://conference.opensource.lu

We are looking for speakers interested in discussing these topics:

• Federated technologies in the public sector
• Decentralized platforms for video, chat, communications, code, etc.
• Fediverse successes and challenges
• Self-hosted solutions for individuals and institutions
• Interoperability for resilience

Apply here:

🔗: https://pretalx.com/open-source-conference-luxembourg-2026/cfp

The conference takes place on Wednesday October 7th in Belval, Luxembourg.

Please share! 🚀​

#Fediverse #FediAdvocacy #conferences #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #TheFutureIsFederated #selfhosting #interoperability #DigitalSovereignty #activism

Why do I run FreeBSD for my home servers // Mathieu Aumont

https://aumont.fr/posts/FreeBSD-Home-Server/

#freebsd #bsd #selfhosting

I was ill last week and discovered something uncomfortable: a huge Jellyfin library isn't entertainment, it's homework. Every time I opened it, it asked "what do you want?" and I just scrolled.

So I built a TV station instead.

ErsatzTV turns a media library into real linear channels with schedules and logos. It ships for Linux, Windows and macOS. My server runs FreeBSD.

Turns out the entire porting effort was one conditional. The code asked "is this Linux?" when it meant "is VAAPI available?" VAAPI is userspace, FreeBSD has it, and .NET has had OSPlatform.FreeBSD for years.

One || later: Intel hardware transcoding in a Bastille jail that can see exactly one GPU and one read-only dataset.

I now have a sci-fi channel. I don't know what's on tonight. That's the point.

https://blog.hofstede.it/building-my-own-tv-station-ersatztv-in-a-freebsd-jail-with-intel-hardware-transcoding/

#FreeBSD #ErsatzTV #Jellyfin #SelfHosting #Jails #dotnet

Good morning Fedi friends,

I have been feeling a rising anxiety over the state of the open web and the fediverse - after seeing efforts by politicians all over the world (in Europe too!) to introduce age verification laws for social media.

My way of coping?

Teaching people how to self-host their own Fediverse profile (using the superb #GoToSocial) via #YunoHost.

Chapter 1 in this series is available here:

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-gotosocial-part-1-installation-and-set-up/

#resist #blog #ActivityPub #selfhosting

📣​ New post 📝​

"A newbie's guide to self-hosting: GoToSocial part 1 (installation and set-up)"

🔗​: https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-gotosocial-part-1-installation-and-set-up/

Basically a visual guide showing how to install #GoToSocial via #YunoHost and set it up with some basic security.

⏱️​ From start to finish, it should take about 25-30 minutes.

It's my act of resistance against tech bros... I love the idea of teaching people how to self-host their own social media instance, connected to the fediverse ✌️​❤️​ ​

Thank you @yunohost  and @gotosocial for empowering us all!

#SelfHosting #Fediverse #newbie #MySoCalledSudoLife #blog #resist

I saw a terrible message from DigitalOcean yesterday. I was helping a co-worker learn to do SASL authentication with Postfix, using Dovecot to do the heavy lifting, (second co-worker this week! Breaking people free from Google!) and we got to the point where we were ready to have him send out a test email - a reply to an email I'd just sent him that exercised all the moving parts of his inbound path.

But when he tried to send, he couldn't talk to my email server. I checked to make sure he wasn't being firewalled, but he didn't show up in my abuse listing. But then on poking around, it became clear he couldn't talk to ANY port 25 ANYWHERE. And I thought, "Oh, right, they've got that blocked. Le'ts find an article talking about how to unblock it." Not too uncommon. So I looked for their docs on unblocking 25.

Turns out, there's no automated way - not even a support ticket type for the purpose. You have to open a general request.

But man, they REALLY don't want you opening a general request! This is a masterpiece of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/why-you-may-not-want-to-run-your-own-mail-server

Without meaning to, they've eloquently captured the essence of everything we're seeing with the destructive corporatization and centralization of online services. They say:

"In many ways, mail server stacks represent a collision between the tools and values of the early internet — self-hosting open source software using well-defined standards and interoperable protocols — and the reality of the modern internet — a few centralized, trusted authorities."

This, not to put too fine a point on it, is BAD FOR US.

We need *more* selfhosting. I was a customer of theirs for a few years, but I stopped after they had some catastrophe that prevented me from accessing my server console for more than a week. Their support was underwater and I didn't get any movement until I decided to publically name and shame them with details of the incident.

This kind of attitude should make anyone hesitant to sign up for services with DigitalOcean.

#selfhosting #digitalocean

I've cleaned up my Raspberry Pi selfhosting setup a bit. I'm using two, each in an Argon ONE V5 case with a 1TB NVME drive, running Raspberry Pi OS.

'one' is serving Nextcloud All-in-one, Immich and Vaultwarden via a Caddy reverse-proxy. All using Docker containers, Caddy as a custom build with my domain DNS provider added.

'two' is used as remote borg backup destination for 'one', and later a few monitoring tools.

All three sites are using a wildcard certificate for my domain, and I connect via WireGuard (on the router) when away from home.

Path of least resistance:

I've tried Podman, AlmaLinux, and running a manual install of Nextcloud on Ubuntu. This setup follows recommended installations methods, and gives me fewer things to worry about.

#selfhosting #raspberrypi #nextcloud #immich #vaultwarden #caddy #wireguard

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Photo of whiteboard with green text and drawings. Left: WireGuard, Caddy, Vaultwarden, Nextcloud, Immich and BorgBackup, each with a check mark. Right: a simple illustration showing server 'one' and 'two' and borg backup flow.

The amazing folks at @yunohost are running a fundraising campaign to cover their operating costs for 2026.

I personally make a monthly recurring donation to them but wish I could give more 🥲

If you use their services and you can afford it, please consider donating to their project. Every Euro / Dollar / Yen counts:

🔗 : https://yunohost.org/donate.en.html

#NotAllHeroesWearCapes #SelfHosting #empowerment #resist #YunoHost