TIL that the president of Signal believes that people who run Mastodon and/or Matrix servers do so "in most cases" on hyperscaler* infrastructure.

This is my Mastodon server. And its UPS. And its networked KVM for when things get really hairy.

It's also my Matrix server. And Nextcloud. And Git. And Home-Assistant. And Jellyfin. And SearXNG. And Peertube.

When people objected to her claims, she doubled down and proclaimed condescendingly that we "don't have a clear understanding of this space".

TIL that I don't feel confident in recommending people to use Signal. Something's very off here.

*) "hyperscaler" basically means the big cloud infra providers with provisioning APIs that allow you to scale your resources up/down automatically with usage

#Signal #Mastodon #Matrix #SelfHosting

Google is going to make HTTPS required by default in Chrome in a year.

In the post there is quite a bit of talk about the problem of obtaining a cert for local network names. Hopefully their push to make everything-HTTPS will include local network addresses too. We really badly need it.

They kind of seem to say they will, but it's all talk until shown otherwise: "In the future, we hope to work to further reduce barriers to adoption of HTTPS, especially for local network sites."

security.googleblog.com/2025/1…

#chrome #security #selfhosting

HTTPS by default

One year from now, with the release of Chrome 154 in October 2026, we will change the default settings of Chrome to enable “Always Use Secu...

^{Google Online Security Blog}

Sending mail from residential ip be like:

It's easily solvable using a "free" SMTP relay. But the privacy benefits of self-hosting are lost.

I'm using smtp2go to deliver to outlook and gmail. I have no idea if smtp2go is good or no. Do you have any recommendation?

#mail #SelfHosting #email #relay

Today's AWS debacle is the perfect example of the reason why in the last few years I started to be less enthusiastic about Signal, and more oriented to federated or even P2P solutions like XMPP and Jami. I wrote about it already:

gagliardoni.net/#im_battle_202…

Signal was down for few hours today, after an outage that affected AWS:

mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/115…

Let's ignore for a second the blind reliance on AWS or any other cloud provider. In a decentralized system, this would not have happened, or at least it would have not impacted so many users.

Yes, I am a cryptographer myself, I know that Signal's encryption is the best. But encryption is not everything. Availability issues, geopolitical troubles, risk of enshittification, limitations on users' freedom to use and control the software lead to a lack of trust, even in a supersecure solution. And I say that with honest admiration for the folks at Signal, who are doing a great job.

May they prove me wrong over and over again.

#signal #im #aws #amazon #privacy #security #digitalsovereignty #selfhosting #fediverse #federation #p2p #enshittification #xmpp #jami #politics #opensource #freesoftware #libre

Meredith Whittaker

2025-10-20 08:00:15

PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.

Which self hosted website uptime monitoring tool are the cool kids using nowadays?

#askfedi #uptime #monitoring #opensource #selfhosting

What a feeling of satisfaction after receiving a call via my own #XMPP server from my partner, who is at the time in a commercial flight. 😆

The call quality was flawless.

And no need of #bigTech!

#selfhosting

Ok so calling for the opinion of my fellow home server enthusiasts here, I want to:
At minimum host Miniflux, PiHole and Joplin Server with docker or similar system. That are the essentials.
If possible, I'm also interested in:
GitTea, Home Assistant and and a Media Server for my Audio books.
I did a lot of research today, and while a Raspberry Pi seems very suitable for most of that, especially when it comes to Home Assistant I feel like people tend to get a mini PC and co.
I've done further research and am going to try out Proxmox in order to see whether that's something I could imagine managing my stuff on a mini PC with, so I could have a VM running Home Assistant OS for example. A mini PC I would consider for example is the Beelink MINI-S12 Pro.
I'd greatly appreciate any opinions, about software to make managing easier, the hardware and so on.

#HomeServer #SelfHosting #RaspberryPi
Boost appreciated

So among the various things i #selfhost is my NAS. It's just a desktop that I installed a nice disk controler and some 12K SAS drives and #TrueNAS. But it lives, like a lot of my kit, in the garage. And it's hot in the garage tonight. Ambient air temp is like 82F/28C at 23:00 at night.

Most of the time it's fine. CPUs tend to run around 45C just doin normal stuff. But when I do an scp of a film I've digitized on my laptop, it goes over gigabit ethernet and that seems to warm up the CPUs. For the whole like 45-90 seconds the scp is running, the cores get super hot. Then it calms down.

#selfhosting #nas

This is one example showing how @unifiedpush is important.

404media.co/apple-gave-governm…

#selfhosting

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications

Push notification data can sometimes include the unencrypted content of notifications. Requests include from the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Israel.

^{Joseph Cox (404 Media)}

📢 Big news for Yunohost users!

Prosody is now packaged for Yunohost, replacing Metronome.

Prosody is a lightweight and easy-to-use XMPP (Jabber) server.

With Prosody, you can easily host your own instant messaging service, giving you full control over your data and privacy.

Thanks a lot to every contributors!

#Yunohost #Prosody #XMPP #Jabber #OpenSource #SelfHosting

apps.yunohost.org/app/prosody

Zkouším TriliumNext Notes na @oscloud a nemá to chybu!
Fork původního Trilium Notes, kde se vývoj pozastavil, ale pokračuje dál. Hierarchické poznámky, databázové úložiště, super rychlé vyhledávání a navíc běží krásně i ve webu

Repo: github.com/TriliumNext/triliumnext
Více info: triliumnext.com

#Oscloud #SelfHosting #TriliumNext #OpenSource #PKM #Notes #linux

is there any VPS provider more chad than #Contabo ?? arcanechat.me VPS went down today, the VPS will simply fail to start from the Control Panel, this WAY TOO OFTEN happens during weekends or holidays, their status page says nothing about any problems or maintenance, and if you try to write to support they will tell you "sorry it is weekend, your message will not even be stored" so I guess arcanechat.me will be down the whole weekend >

#ArcaneChat #sysadmin #vps #selfhosting #email

The thing about blogs: If it looks modern with a short URL and has tons of cookie popups and self-promo, stay away. If it looks like a plain HTML page with some basic CSS, found at a long URL at the bottom of your search result, it's probably trustworthy and written by a passionate self-hosting human being.

Basically, the more it looks like motherfuckingwebsite.com, the higher the quality of the material you're about to read.

#SelfHosted #SelfHosting #Blog #ModernInternet

☁️ Vítejte na OSCloud!
OSCloud je komunitní server pro všechny, kdo hledají jednoduché a funkční online řešení.
📢 Co nabízíme?
🔹 Hosting a správu open-source aplikací – bezpečné a soukromé alternativy ke komerčním službám.
🔹 Od e-mailu, přes kancelářské aplikace a bezpečnostní prvky, až po snadno spravovaný webhosting.
V následujících dnech vám postupně představíme dostupné aplikace a jejich možnosti. Sledujte nás a objevte svět bezpečného cloudu!

#OSCloud #SelfHosting #OpenSource #Privacy

#SelfHost #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #HomeLab

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youtu.be/lb71EGCzoEw

Nulla di nuovo, ma carino che anche canali mainstream parlino di alternative a #Google #Foto

@lealternative

#alternatives #alternative #immich #photo #degoogled #selfhosting

Ho ABBANDONATO Google FOTO per... MEMORIA "senza LIMITI" e TOTALE PRIVACY (ecco come)

ISCRIVITI se ti piace la TECNOLOGIA ➡️ http://www.youtube.com/c/TuttoTechNet?sub_confirmation=1Google Foto è uno dei migliori servizi online di sempre, perme...

^YouTube

I’ve been on Fedi for a year now and have fallen in love with the platform, so here’s my introduction! I studied computer science with a focus on RTOS and FP/PL, but I’m about to start my final semester of law school. I’ll be practicing at a boutique firm that primarily handles IP cases once I’m barred. I foilboard and I play way too many rhythm games in and out of the arcade.

I contribute to open source projects where I can, and I write up my experience in my digital garden which I’ve been maintaining for over a year now. It’s also a good place to find usage tips for projects/tools that you might want to use.

• RSS feed

My passion for tech also includes privacy, and I’m an advocate for minimizing your digital footprint. GenAI is a scam and its purveyors are causing real harm while they sell it as hard as they can.

Follow me for: #selfhosting #digitalgardening #privacy #lawfedi #section230 #copyright #patents #rustlang #gleam #haskell #RSS #neovim #NixOS #zotero #tmux #alacritty #linux #egpu #qemu #arch #archlinux #GNOME #watches #watchmaking #obsidian #obsidianmd #thunderbird #fpv #mechkeys #mechkeeb #mechanicalkeyboard #matrix #signal #fido2 #passkeys #dancerushstardom

be-far's Digital Garden

Tip You will own nothing, and you will be happy. On my little corner of the internet, I document my adventures in tech and complain about the internet of shit.

^be-far.com

Hey würde jemand Lust verspüren sich beim Betrieb eines deutschen #panoramax Servers einzubringen? Streetview Photos unter CC und für OSM
community.openstreetmap.org/t/…

#selfhosting #openstreetmap #fossgis #gistribe #datenschutz #photografie

Deutscher Panoramax Server?

Wenn es um das Problem des Hostens der Bilder geht könnte man vielleicht gucken, dass man die Bilder einfach auf Wikimedia Commons speichert und Panoramax nur als Viewer für die auf den Wikimedia Servern liegenden Fotos nutzt.

^{OpenStreetMap Community Forum}

New blogpost: Thunderbird, Nextcloud, calendar invitations, and unwanted html email with non-working 'confirm acceptance' links

Last week, someone kindly flagged a problem with how I'd got calendar invitations set up, and it was annoying me.

So, over the weekend, I fixed it :)

neilzone.co.uk/2024/09/thunder…

#Nextcloud #Thunderbird #blog #caldav #selfhosting #Linux

Impressive, since switching from gitlab-ci to earthly, pipeline runs with container builds went from >20 minutes down to 3-8 minutes.

What a little bit of better caching can do for you.

It's no longer fully self-hosted, but earthly is trivial to self-host if I want to bother at some point.

git.shivering-isles.com/shiver…

And given earthly hands out 6000 CI minutes for free, it actually cuts cost compared to starting a VM on hetzner or locally.

#earthly #gitlab #selfhosting

shared/earthly · a14fb784645bfd08668a2567a173b6cc432ac384 · Shivering-Isles / Infrastructure GitOps · GitLab

GitOps-based setup for infrastructure, including all tooling and instructions for bootstraping

^GitLab

nginx (by F5) forked as freenginx by long time core developer Maxim Dounin 👀

freenginx.org/pipermail/nginx/…

phoronix.com/news/Nginx-Forked…

#freenginx #nginx #webdev #selfhosting #opensource

This Week in Self-Hosted (19 January 2024)

The latest news (ft. @matrix and @plex), software updates and launches (ft. @doncow #Immich, #Paperless, #PiAlert, and others), a spotlight on #wgeasy, upcoming events, and more in this week's self-hosted recap!

selfh.st/newsletter/2024-01-19…

#selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #homelab #homeserver #opensource #newsletter

This Week in Self-Hosted (19 January 2024)

Self-hosted news, software updates, launches, and a spotlight on wg-easy, a WireGuard management container with a web interface

^{Ethan Sholly (selfh.st)}

@molly0xfff's post on migrating from Substack by self hosting is a master piece in clear communication. This is how you cover a complex issue without glossing over details due to hindsight while also not making the topic sound more daunting. A great example of building stairs and elevators after you've climbed instead of pulling the ladder. Highly recommend reading even if you're not in the newsletter sending game.

citationneeded.news/substack-t…

#Substack #SelfHosting #NewsLetter #Ghost

Migrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: the details

I migrated Citation Needed from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. Here is exactly how I did that.

^{Molly White (Citation Needed)}

I was working on Tweetormator, a open source self-hosted solution to tweet scheduling, engagement analysis and evergreen♻️ tweets but that feels dead in the water now.

Or perhaps I could convert it to Tootormator? I'll need to look into the Mastodon API.

#opensource #react #javascript #selfhosting

Do you selfhost your own email?

If yes, please share your software setup.

Boost is very appreciated.

#Email #Postfix #Dovecot #Thunderbird #Mailcow #IRedMail #Mailinabox #Yunohost #Selfhosting

• Yes, I selfhost my own email. (38%, 83 votes)
• No, I don't. (61%, 133 votes)

UnifiedPush is a set of specifications and free open source tools to help users get more control over how their phone's (or computers's) notifications are handled. You can follow the project at:

➡️ @unifiedpush

The project website is at unifiedpush.org

There are options for self-hosting notification systems if needed.

#UnifiedPush #Notifications #PushNotifications #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Smartphones #Phones #Smartphone #Phone #Dev #SelfHosting #Computing

Lemme do another #introduction now that my fediHome is finalised.

Hi. I am @fyrfli@bkgrdclrshm.link also known as @fyrfli@mastodon.coffe.

I am a massive tinkerer and thinkerer ... to a fault. I am re-learning how to build web stuff because the last time I did any of that was back when Geocities was still a thing. (yeah, yeah .. I am dating myself).

I am obsessed with #CSS#FOSS#Debian#SelfHosting#Photography ... and I am "mom" to an American Eskimo or #Eskie (known as a MittelSpitz in the rest of the world), and a "red" Siberian #Husky. I am also an avid #Gamer currently unable to resist a good #RemnantsFromTheAshes session (and those can last all day if I am not careful). I also play #ARK and #WoW.

I hail from Kingston, #Jamaica and and am married with no children.

Since it has been a increase of users lately, I'll follow the stream and #introduce myself 🙂 Better late than never.

My real name is Erik and I live in Sweden. Airikr is the old name of Erik from medieval Sweden.

My main interests are #programming, #photography, #cycling, #astronomy, #exploration, and #history.

I am a big fan of #opensource and #selfhosting and are working on open sourced projects like #serenum.

Since I woke up, and there's new users here, #introduction

I am Joel, #Mexican, 21, studying #Mechatronics but I enjoy learning other things online instead

I like #FOSS and styling my stuff, such as #android, #linux or my #blog

I like meeting new people, my attempts at humor are terrible, my #origami posts get kinda famous, I enjoy getting into new #hobbies

Interests: #gamedev #inkscape #blogging #vim #selfhosting #raspberrypk #coding #podcasts #manga #anime #reading #citypop #daftpunk

If you're skilled with installing software on servers, here is a very comprehensive categorised list of services you can host yourself:

github.com/awesome-selfhosted/…

#SelfHosting #GrowYourOwn #HomeGrown

GitHub - awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers - GitHub - awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and ...

^GitHub