> Prerequisites
> docker

*sigh*
Closes tab.

#selfhosting #openbsd #bsd

New post:

"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 5: Upgrades & Maintenance"

Not exactly the most exciting post I have ever written, but system maintenance is so essential.

And spoiler alert: thanks to a botched #PeerTube upgrade I discovered the wonders of #tmux (thank you @teapot_ben and @drfyzziks for recommending it!)

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-5-upgrades-maintenance/

#SelfHosting #MySoCalledSudoLife #DigitalSovereignty

I just finished a short introduction post about @algernon's project iocaine: the deadliest poison known to AI (not man )

Within the post I explain what iocaine is, how it's related to AI and LLMs and of course why I use it to fight AI/LLM companies and to poison their crawlers and training sets.

Using, configuring and watching iocaine was also a way for me to shifting my dystopic/pessimistic thoughts into fun and joy

And yes, I hate AI and LLMs and yes, I'm really fine by becoming an obsolete developer by not using it

https://lukasrotermund.de/posts/fighting-ai-and-llms-with-iocaine/

#iocaine #AI #LLMs #FightAI #selfhosting

@mastodonmigration We should probably be pushing things like #Friendica and #Pixelfed and other free Fediverse servers over things like Ghost.

Even pushing free wiki software would be a win over a proprietary platform.

But yes, escaping commercial platforms is a critically important idea, and the first step to #selfhosting.

I'm Blake — reintroducing myself as I'm back on the timeline.

I'm a Cloud Engineer working in Site Reliability and DevOps in the healthcare industry. I design and build highly scalable, resilient infrastructure that powers modern healthcare systems. Day-to-day I work with .NET, JavaScript, and TypeScript to deliver reliable platforms.

Outside of work, I build with Go — creating tools that prioritize performance, privacy, and user empowerment.

A couple things I'm working on:

RideAware — A cycling training platform for building structured training plans, analyzing ride data, and completing indoor workouts all in one place.

Arcline Hosting — A self-hosted web hosting service for people who want to know exactly where their data lives. It runs on hardware I own and operate — no AWS, no Cloudflare, no third-party CDN. Shared, WordPress, and VPS plans with personal ticket and email support.

My core interests span SRE, cloud infrastructure, DevOps/automation, and network engineering. I spend a lot of time with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and enjoy digging into routing, firewalls, and secure network design.

I'm here because I care about privacy, self-hosting, and building things that give people more control over their own data. Good to be back — looking forward to reconnecting with this community.

#reintroduction #CloudEngineering #SRE #DevOps #Go #Golang #Linux #Docker #Kubernetes #Terraform #SelfHosting #HomeLab #Privacy #DataSovereignty #WebHosting #Cycling #HealthcareIT #FOSS #BSD

I have deployed and run infra since the noughts, through some wild turns in geo/techno-political history, and will say that now more than ever, #selfhosting is an act of resistance.

Depopulate. Defund. Disempower.

This seems like a good time for people to move off of giant corporate email providers. Surveillance capitalism needs to be shown the door. We're going to need to be able to trust our communications.

Related: I wish the US locality system hadn't collapsed after Jon Postel passed. (Rest in peace.)

#selfhosting #email

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116140431530202122

give @glyph cash

ignore tags

#mutualaid #fediverse #selfhosting #retroComputing #python #dev #indiedev #foss #hosting #mastodon #activitypub #joinIn #video #software #politics #windows #linux #macos #ios #android #fedi #support #help #patreon #indieweb #internet #webDev #homelab #diy #maker #charity #donations #money #rant #writing #writingcommunity #drawing #dragons #furry #furryart #anime #art #server #education #absurdAmountOfTags #humor #satire #meme #joke #pol #lifestyle #give #today #fyp

I self-host a lot of stuff. Nearly everything that I use. FOSS and self-hosting is a massive part of my computing experience.

I love reading about people enjoying / exploring self-hosting stuff.

I struggle when people advocate "just self-host it", without giving due consideration to the costs, risks, security considerations, and so on.

I know that I've posted this a few times now, but this discussion seems to pop up quite a lot. So:

https://neilzone.co.uk/2022/07/self-host-it-is-not-the-answer/

#SelfHosting #FOSS #blog

I am immensely grateful to the Fediverse for all the encouragement I got here to embark on a #selfhosting journey.

#YunoHost has empowered my digital life in immeasurable ways.

My way of giving back - and fighting the broligarchs of Big Tech - is to create a guide that demystifies the process. I have compiled all my posts so far in a single page:

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost/

If you're curious about self-hosting but you haven't taken the leap yet, I hope my articles will be helpful to you ❤️

#Introduction ― I'm a 6th year #medicine student, aspiring #neurology
resident. Some topics I'm interested into:

#neuroscience #cognitivescience #neuroimaging #pathology #virology
#bioinformatics #socialism #pacifism #minimalism #collectivism
#cooperatives #environmentalism #climatechange #sustainability
#permaculture #vegan #existentialism #posthumanism #postmodernism #scifi
#cyberpunk #foss #unix #netbsd #sdf #gopher #privacy #bbs
#decentralization #selfhosting #lisp #retrocomputing

Just received an email from my mail server administrator. They sent me a link to change my password because it's 'insecure'.

My mail admin is so efficient...

...hey, wait a minute... I AM my mail administrator! 🤦‍♂️

#Phishing #SelfHosting #SysAdminLife #SecurityFail #InfoSec

RE: https://bahn.social/@MeierUli/116006925873414629

@jwildeboer About SELFHOSTED EMAIL

Email is a good idea to solve for ourselves - even as a sentiment or practical / political action - but I need also somewhere I can go when I get stuck which will for sure happen (half-way through maybe) and past just my sentiment phase I'd need to go to the finish with someone.

I think it's getting better... or exists! ? !

Looking at #email hashtag and #selfhost / #selfhosting / #selfhosted

"Mailserver: mox is great fun."
https://www.xmox.nl/

#sysadmins #mastoadmin #mastoadmins #selfhosting questions re: DNS...

Has anyone hosting their own instance seen a massive increase in DNS queries to their domain.

I don’t host my own DNS, and my DNS provider can’t give me logs of requests, so I can’t even check which subdomain it might relate to.

I’m not sure what I could do to avoid it – the overage is not a large amount of money, but it’s recurrent and annoying, and started when I started this instance.

I changed the TTL to 2 weeks and it didn’t make a difference.

I’m not sure what else to check.

Can anyone recommend a DNS provider I could use temporarily that I could get logs from?

I don’t want domain hosting or web hosting, or masto hosting.

Thanks!

like/favorite if this appears in your feed please :)

#selfhosting #snac2 #openbsd

Last minute call to join Tunnel, starting in a few days. For those of you interested in learning about #selfhosting, with a focus on network and server security, this your ideal strong start. No prior experience necessary, no comp-sci degree needed.

Best of all, you get to walk out with your very own fast and powerful Virtual Private Network, for which dozens of configs can be handed out as QR codes to give to fam, friends and colleagues.

https://courses.nikau.io/tunnel

Alt...

Title image for Tunnel, featuring that text in caps against a duo-tone image of a medieval brick tunnel system

Since my home server not intended for use by any people outside of my city (plus some VPN endpoints in other countries) — it is ok to ban some unwanted countries and cities from which I don't expect anything good, except attempts to hack my box to use my resources or set me up .

So I added some GeoIP blocking to the npf with script to update GeoIP list — I blocked China, Iran, North Korea, etc and Moscow (because there are a lot of government and commercial backed bots coming from here). Results are good — the bots don't disappeared completely but the speed of adding new IPs to the blacklist is decreased

Sadly, I was unable to add USA and UK to the list, because looks like there are some limits (not found how to increase them ), which disallows to load a lot of CIDRs for these countries to the blacklist.

#NetBSD #npf #bots #selfhosting

Alt...

Graph of the count of banned IPs per week. There are two red tangents on the two points — before and after the GeoIP bans were enabled. And the two red lines, parallel to the X axis. The resulting derivatives are 0.59 and 0.38, so the speed of raising the values (count of blocked bots) are decreased.

Alt...

Part of the script to update npf blacklists. Script contents: # List of blocked countries: # AE - United Arab Emirates # AF - Afganistan # BY - Belarus # CN - China # CU - Cuba # HK - Hong Kong # HU - Hungary # IR - Iran # KP - North Korea # KW - Kuwait # PK - Pakistan # PS - Palestine # TW - Taiwan # UA - Ukraine /usr/pkg/bin/curl --connect-timeout 30 --fail --interface re0 --ipv4 --silent \ --retry 3 --retry-connrefused --retry-delay 5 --retry-max-time 90 \ --show-error --proxy http://127.0.0.1:20172 \ -o - "$GEOIP_COUNTRIES_SOURCE" | \ /usr/bin/egrep '^[0-9.,]+((AE)|(AF)|(BY)|(CN)|(CU)|(HK)|(HU)|(IR)|(KP)|(KW)|(PK)|(PS)|(TW)|(UA))$' | \ /usr/bin/awk -F, '{ print $1, "-", $2 }' | \ /usr/pkg/bin/iprange > /usr/share/npf/blacklist.countries.new if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then echo "Failed to update countries blacklist" rm -f /usr/share/npf/blacklist.netset.new \ /usr/share/npf/blacklist.countries.new exit 3 fi # List of blocked cities: # Moscow /usr/pkg/bin/curl --connect-timeout 30 --fail --interface re0 --ipv4 --silent \ --retry 3 --retry-connrefused --retry-delay 5 --retry-max-time 90 \ --show-error --proxy http://127.0.0.1:20172 \ -o - "$GEOIP_CITIES_SOURCE" | \ gzip -d | \

Hello #fediverse! Thanks to my new DFF grant, I'm now looking to hire a PhD student to join me at AAU in Aalborg 🇩🇰 to work on "usable decentralization", i.e. on making distributed and federated cloud services accessible to the everyday user. For more details, see link below, and please don't hesitate to DM me with questions!

https://www.vacancies.aau.dk/phd-positions/show-vacancy/vacancyId/895183

#HCI #academia #getfedihired #decentralization #AAU #Aalborg #Denmark #selfhosted #selfhosting

Ich brauche eure #followerpower, wieder mal.
Morgen bietet jemand im Rahmen des DI-Day 2 eine Online Session an zum Thema Nextcloud Selfhosting. Diese findet am 1.2.2026 ab 18:00Uhr statt.
Ich habe mir leider weder den Veranstalter noch den Link zur Session notiert. Würde aber gerne teilnehmen.
Wer kann mir helfen und sagen wer das anbietet?

#fedihelp #nextcloud #selfhosting #didday #did

Just published a deep dive on self-hosting CryptPad on FreeBSD using VNET jails, PF NAT, and Caddy.

End-to-end encrypted collaboration, fully isolated networking, no direct internet exposure for the app jail, and a few real-world gotchas (including the infamous “Loading…” issue).

If you like FreeBSD, jails, and privacy-first self-hosting, this one’s for you.

https://blog.hofstede.it/self-hosted-cryptpad-on-freebsd-with-vnet-jails-and-caddy/

#FreeBSD #SelfHosting #Privacy #Jails #CryptPad

@lproven @theregister

Great article. I noted FB a while back but at least in #Fediverse #SelfHosting chatter, Yunohost gets way more attention. Any idea why that is?

Re #ZeroNet, IIRC blockchain just for a user to have a unique ID not dependent on a 3rd party & rest is Bittorrent-based #P2P. Re complication, I installed & had my own ZN site in no time with no special knowledge, OS or hardware (I found Cheapskates thru ZN). I still haven't been brave enough to try selfhosting. Reverse proxy?😱

It seems there are fully hosted and self-hosted options for ATProto/Bluesky now, I stand corrected on that front.

Out of curiosity I looked into what it would take to build my own social media service on top of ATProto. The technical architecture is interesting, but... what would I actually gain?

I chose Mastodon back in 2022 when Bluesky was still invite-only and had no self-hosting story. ActivityPub is a W3C standard. Mastodon gGmbH is a non-profit. The Fediverse has years of proven independent operation across thousands of instances.

Bluesky PBC is a US for-profit company that controls protocol development, although they have made statements about wanting independent governance. Yet the network remains heavily centralized with most users on bsky.social.

Running my own Mastodon instance already gives me sovereignty. ATProto doesn't offer more of that, arguably less given the current state of things. Not saying people shouldn't build on it. But for someone already running independent Fediverse infrastructure, it's hard to see what value it would add. I didn't see the appeal back then and I don't see it now.

#Bluesky #ATProto #Decentralization #SelfHosting #SelfHosted