Slowly, one-by-one, upgrading all my servers and virtual machines to #NetBSD-11. The first backup server was first, then #gotosocial (hosting this instance of the #fediverse), #Nextcloud is currently in the works. The main server/VM host will be next, then the router, then the second local backup server, then the off-site backup server.
#homelab #selfhosting #digitalindependence #bsd #unix

Finally turned attention to getting Immich up and running tonight. I like it, seems snappy enough with tens of thousands of photos imported.

The Immich website has a handy form driven page for generating a docker compose file so it took like 30 seconds to get it running once mutated to follow my way of doing things on my server (persistent storage, naming, cert proxy, etc).

I struggled a bit with using the Immich command line tool to import my photo collection and in the process of trying to figure out why --recursive didn't work, stumbled upon the immich-go project on github. It's also a command line tool and works very well; immediately was able to recursively import photos, etc. Compiles cleanly on Alpine Linux (ofc, it's just golang).

Immich-go has a migrate function that allows you to connect to one Immich server and copy the files to another Immich server (but no 'delete source' as far as I could tell).

I set up a second Immich instance on a different port and started to use the migrate function to finally start moving all the photos of my computer electronics and vehicle technical projects out of the whole household's photo collection. My wife will appreciate that. Ha. Managed to split out 2026-2025, only ~25 more years to go. Ugh.

Anyway, Immich (the server) and Immich-go (the CLI tool) are cool. Recommended.

Fun!

#immich #immichgo #AlpineLinux #cli #photography #photos #HomeLab #SelfHosting #SelfHosted

🎤 Upcoming at SeaGL 2026:
📍 10:30 AM on October 23
🗣️ "BadgeFed: Open, Decentralized Badges via ActivityPub"
👥 Speaker(s): Maho Pacheco
📍 Room: Room 250
🏷️ Track: Everything Else
📝 Digital badges promise portable, verifiable recognition, but in practice, they’re locked behind prop...

#SeaGL2026 #tech #activitypub #selfhosting #fediverse #linux
🔗 https://pretalx.seagl.org/2026/talk/UC3VVG/

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 :)

@homelab

Hi everyone from my littlefedi instance, this is my first test post with a media file.

This is one of my dogs when she was very young

#LittleFedi
#SelfHosting

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a medium size black dog lying in a white and blue bed. Inside the bed is some of her toys, the one in the foreground is a little orange fox. The wall behind is white and the floor is a light coloured.wood

Woke up to a compromise of my self-hosted #Plausible analytics server. Noticed only because a test Ghost server was responding slowly. Server CPU was near 100% and had been for about two weeks. From what I can tell, the attacker was doing bitcoin mining.

The compromise: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/security/advisories/GHSA-mhcv-h7gf-57cf

The fix was to update to Plausible CE 3.2.1, but required a bunch of cleanup first.

I’m glad it was a Docker container. That made cleanup so much easier.

#Selfhosting is a huge pain in the ass.

LittleFedi is an excellent light weight but fully featured Fediverse platform (ActivityPub). I've been kicking tires and providing feedback on the test instance and excited for the first release to give it a go self-hosted.

@stefano has been leading a master class in community and developer relations. He has been stewarding the team and user community with enthusiasm and transparency. Congratulations to Stefano and the team.

Here's a great story of the project's genesis and journey. https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@littlefedi_official/01a0f644-8ed6-7a7d-ade6-46f4c0a74f41

#littleFedi #ActivityPub #Fediverse #FOSS #SelfHosting

I love getting #TheOnion in print, but this time they’ve gone too far. I don’t know how they broke into my basement but I did not give them permission to use photos of my stuff in their mock ads.
#selfhosting #homelab

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Photo of a printed coupon in the onion. It pretends to be from Best Buy and shows a big cardboard box full of random computer cords like USB and power cables. The coupon says “good for one free pull from the Tub O’ Cords”

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

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.

https://blog.haschek.at/2026/you-should-selfhost-your-mail.html

#selfHosting #email

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

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

#freebsd #bsd #selfhosting

My homelab has been upgraded to 11.0 🎉

#NetBSD #NetBSD11 #homelab #selfhosting #RUNBSD

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A screenshot of a NetBSD 11.0 system.

Anyone else DIY monitor the air quality in their living space with a raspberry Pi and get mobile notifications about status?

Just me?

#prometheus #airquality #RPI #pushover #SelfHosting

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TIME SENSITIVE noW [RESOLVED] Air Quality (PM... roci has been unhealthy for more than 5 minutes. roci Unhealthy (150+)

Thinking about a new domain+project...

Anyone have the TL;DR; on self hosted fediverse software?

Mastodon vs Snac vs Pleroma vs ?

I'm looking for something that is super low maintenance and lightweight / easy on resources but as full featured as practical within those constraints.

Something easy to tune re: post lengths and media types would be cool too. A "text first" platform is desired.

I've run Mastodon in the past and it's like fishing with nukes for this use case.

What's out there?

#Fediverse #Mastodon #snac #web #selfHosting #SelfHosted

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