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Gitea 1.25 self-hosted Git service debuts 3D model previews, CI/CD email notifications, and major performance improvements for large projects.
https://linuxiac.com/gitea-1-25-released-with-3d-file-previews-faster-archives/
Gitea 1.25 self-hosted Git service debuts 3D model previews, CI/CD email notifications, and major performance improvements for large projects.
https://linuxiac.com/gitea-1-25-released-with-3d-file-previews-faster-archives/
I feel like the richest person in the world: I still have a line of credit of 18.19 Euros on #Hetzner (I had pre-paid 20 Euros to set up my account 2 months ago).
Not sure how it's possible I spent less than 2 Euros with all the servers I started and stopped and apps I ran on them, but hey, I'm now on cloud nine.
There's so much I can still experiment with!!! 🤗
It seems that #BigTech has decided to make October the month of promoting #selfhosting.
On Oct 20, AWS went down and took 1,000+ services with it. One DNS error, one data center, millions affected.
The internet wasn't meant to be this centralized. You have alternatives.
https://cloud68.co/blog/the-aws-outage-and-what-it-really-means-for-our-internet
It's surprisingly easy to create your own private music streaming service for all your devices. I did a short review and tutorial for one based on Nextcloud's "Music" app:
🌱 https://growyourown.services/review-of-music-app-for-nextcloud
In brief, you install Music on your Nextcloud, then install a compatible app on your phone or tablet, and your music collection becomes a streaming service you can listen to anywhere.
You can also share this streaming service with other users on your Nextcloud.
It's surprisingly easy to create your own private music streaming service for all your devices. I did a short review and tutorial for one based on Nextcloud's "Music" app:
🌱 https://growyourown.services/review-of-music-app-for-nextcloud
In brief, you install Music on your Nextcloud, then install a compatible app on your phone or tablet, and your music collection becomes a streaming service you can listen to anywhere.
You can also share this streaming service with other users on your Nextcloud.
It seems that #BigTech has decided to make October the month of promoting #selfhosting.
On Oct 20, AWS went down and took 1,000+ services with it. One DNS error, one data center, millions affected.
The internet wasn't meant to be this centralized. You have alternatives.
https://cloud68.co/blog/the-aws-outage-and-what-it-really-means-for-our-internet
🏕️ my adventures in self-hosting: day 316 (realist edition) 👩🏭
a blog post in which I discuss how my #Sharkey misadventures provided some illuminating insights... including how grateful I am for self-hosted software that just works (hello @gotosocial). Also: I'm super grateful for the dot world group that allows me to have a Sharkey account that actually works as intended (thanks @ruud )!
🏕️ my adventures in self-hosting: day 316 (realist edition) 👩🏭
🏕️ my adventures in self-hosting: day 316 (realist edition) 👩🏭
a blog post in which I discuss how my #Sharkey misadventures provided some illuminating insights... including how grateful I am for self-hosted software that just works (hello @gotosocial). Also: I'm super grateful for the dot world group that allows me to have a Sharkey account that actually works as intended (thanks @ruud )!
🏕️ my adventures in self-hosting: day 316 (realist edition) 👩🏭
A heartwarming story and a call to action for self-hosters and users of independent services:
I just had a very pleasing interaction with a customer support person (Eddie) who works at a website that provides a service nationally in the small country where I live. The localness of the site is the point.
The site has recently put in place account blocking for scammers who put URLs in PMs that aren't on an allow list. As a user of a self-hosted Nextcloud, my account got blocked without warning when I shared a URL in a DM.
I contacted support, and Eddie replied to tell me I'd been blocked because of the URL in the PM, and that he'd restored my access.
I thanked him and asked him to pass on a message to the site's product managers. Here it is verbatim:
I use your website because it's a local, independent website. I have largely rid myself of the giants of the web, like Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Amazon. (I won't elaborate here how problematic they are.) I want to see a decentralised web for the benefit of society - and that means using niche websites like yourselves, including self-hosted services. That means it's hard to build an "allow list" of (for example) permitted file or image hosting services, because instances like my Nextcloud server will automatically fall into the "suspicious" pile.
I appreciate the work your website do to block scammers. But let's try to build protections that avoid the unwanted side effect of pushing people away from independent services.
Within minutes, I got a reply to say my Nextcloud instance had been added to the allow list! Bravo Eddie!
There's so much to unpick here: Because the site isn't a giant monolith, Eddie has the autonomy to edit the allow list; he's motivated to do it because he recognises he and I have common cause; and I was polite in my interactions with him, so he was prepared to take the time to read and absorb the case I was making.
My minio instance has very basic needs and continues to chug along, but they've clearly made every effort to do away with the community version and I need to figure out a plan before I'm stuck.
Anyone switched to Garage?
Any other suggestions for self-hosting S3 compatible storage?
I'm basically only using it for hosting static pages, restic backup target, and sometimes as a media store for matrix / GoToSocial (though I think neither at this exact moment).
The case (Fractal Design Define R5) is here..time to load up the drives ... #NAS #HomeLab #selfhosting #selfhosted #selfhost
The case (Fractal Design Define R5) is here..time to load up the drives ... #NAS #HomeLab #selfhosting #selfhosted #selfhost
Hello #Fediverse and Happy New Year!
I'd like to mark the start of 2025 with the first message from my self-hosted instance. You may already know me as @_elena@mastodon.social. Well, now I also run my own #ActivityPub microblogging server, thanks to the magic of #YunoHost and #GoToSocial (and #Phanpy, which I'm using to compose this).
I registered this domain – aseachange.com – a looooong time ago but never did anything with it. It was the very first domain name I ever bought, even before securing elenarossini.com (!!!). It was so long ago, but I remember I was inspired by Beck's album Sea Change. seachange[dot]com was taken, so I grabbed Aseachange.
I absolutely love its meaning of profound transformation and I think it's PERFECT for my self-hosted #Fediverse instance and what it represents: independence, empowerment and digital sovereignty.
Ever since setting it up, I've been feeling joyful and hopeful. Everytime I look at myself in the mirror, I think: I'm in control of my own social media platform. And it feels SOOO GOOD.
What do I have in store for 2025? I plan to use this account to post messages about #selfhosting, learning #Linux, privacy and digital sovereignty.
I will also keep posting from my Mastodon account because you don't give a Lamborghini to someone who just passed their driver's license. I barely know what I'm doing here, so I feel a lot safer (for now) keeping my mastodon.social account as well... In case anything goes wrong here. Better safe than sorry!
So, this is my #Introduction and if you've read as far as here I just want to thank the Fediverse for being so amazing and allowing me to connect with people on my own terms. And thank you Fedi people for being so generous and supportive with your superb advice and kind words.
This is a really magical, special place.
Happy New Year, everyone!
Hello #Fediverse and Happy New Year!
I'd like to mark the start of 2025 with the first message from my self-hosted instance. You may already know me as @_elena@mastodon.social. Well, now I also run my own #ActivityPub microblogging server, thanks to the magic of #YunoHost and #GoToSocial (and #Phanpy, which I'm using to compose this).
I registered this domain – aseachange.com – a looooong time ago but never did anything with it. It was the very first domain name I ever bought, even before securing elenarossini.com (!!!). It was so long ago, but I remember I was inspired by Beck's album Sea Change. seachange[dot]com was taken, so I grabbed Aseachange.
I absolutely love its meaning of profound transformation and I think it's PERFECT for my self-hosted #Fediverse instance and what it represents: independence, empowerment and digital sovereignty.
Ever since setting it up, I've been feeling joyful and hopeful. Everytime I look at myself in the mirror, I think: I'm in control of my own social media platform. And it feels SOOO GOOD.
What do I have in store for 2025? I plan to use this account to post messages about #selfhosting, learning #Linux, privacy and digital sovereignty.
I will also keep posting from my Mastodon account because you don't give a Lamborghini to someone who just passed their driver's license. I barely know what I'm doing here, so I feel a lot safer (for now) keeping my mastodon.social account as well... In case anything goes wrong here. Better safe than sorry!
So, this is my #Introduction and if you've read as far as here I just want to thank the Fediverse for being so amazing and allowing me to connect with people on my own terms. And thank you Fedi people for being so generous and supportive with your superb advice and kind words.
This is a really magical, special place.
Happy New Year, everyone!
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
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."
https://security.googleblog.com/2025/10/https-by-default.html
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