People keep asking for free VPS / VMs and I’m evaluating a good spot for reopening the registration at @BoxyBSD@bsd.cafe
I think #FOSDEM might be a perfectly good slot to provide people BSD based systems for free again.
#opensource #learning #education #runbsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #bsd #freevm #freevps #hosting #ipv6 #homelab
We're coming even closer to you again with our new locations which will be available soon for deployments:
* UK, London
* Norway, Sandefjord
* Sweden, Stockholm
* Canada, Toronto
* US, Kansas
#BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #VM #VPS #FreeVPS #FreeVM #education #opensource #homelab #learning #ipv6 @gyptazy
Il web che amo.
Quello dei piccoli blog indipendenti, magari ospitati su qualche VPS dove si offrono anche servizi open source e privacy oriented, istanze del #fediverso, e tanto altro.
Si può parlare di #indieweb?
In ogni caso, impegniamoci per alimentare un WWW più sano.
Per non creare un'accozzaglia di url, mi limiterò a taggare alcuni profili (in ordine sparso), da cui poi ricavare i link:
People keep asking for free VPS / VMs and I’m evaluating a good spot for reopening the registration at @BoxyBSD@bsd.cafe
I think #FOSDEM might be a perfectly good slot to provide people BSD based systems for free again.
#opensource #learning #education #runbsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #bsd #freevm #freevps #hosting #ipv6 #homelab
At this weekend I finally established another network in my home — a ZigBee network. A looong time ago (in 2010 year) I touched the ZigBee networking in my university (ITMO, previously IFMO, in Saint-Petersburg) — these times it was a new technology, not used widely. And as a student I have some fun time playing with ZigBee main router, supplemental router and end-devices. You can view old photos and screenshots of old software on a my extremely old blog: http://h0rr0rr-drag0n.blogspot.com/2010/04/cc2530zdk.html (and read a blogpost, if you understand Russian).
It is kindly fascinating, that now, after 15 years, I can just buy some ZigBee-powered devices from AliExpress (using Black Friday discounts) and connect them to the network inside my house right in the way I did it in the university 15 years ago!
Sadly, although I bought native supported main router device, based on the EFR32MG2 with some software from Ember (EZSP v8) inside, the OpenHAB doesn't support this device natively — it supports it, but since my server is running NetBSD, I got problems with some bundled with OpenHAB things. Looks like some native libraries (rxtx-java) don't have bundled NetBSD versions. And the same library in the repository built for Java 8, not for Java 17.
So, I decided to use Zigbee2MQTT, not to build the necessary Java library myself. It was kinda scary — use program, which connects my ZigBee network via ZigBee USB-dongle to the MQTT server — which is written on JavaScript
. Not on the C (as I can totally understand, for a such low-level program, operating with embedded devices) or at least on the C++/Perl/Python/whatever. But, looks like it works good enough, if I don't try to pair the device in wrong mode (my window sensors has two modes to pair them with network: first "common" mode causes zigbee2mqtt to silently crash and the second "compatible" mode works without problems).
And I could understand now, why people has so much problems with smart home security. Installed MQTT server mosquitto — it allows unauthenticated connections by default. Installed zigbee2mqtt — it allow connections to frontend without any password by default
At least these two services don't each much memory: 1.2 Mb for Mosquitto and 75.6 Mb for ZigBee2MQTT.
For now, my ZigBee sensors works pretty well and robust, like these devices from university 15 years ago 
We're coming even closer to you again with our new locations which will be available soon for deployments:
* UK, London
* Norway, Sandefjord
* Sweden, Stockholm
* Canada, Toronto
* US, Kansas
#BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #VM #VPS #FreeVPS #FreeVM #education #opensource #homelab #learning #ipv6 @gyptazy
I’m so stucked… Black Friday reactivated the “store everything on a NAS” project in my poor brain. As the goal is quite simple : reduce to the minimum the use (and the costs) of our family iCloud plan, you would expect the solution is simple (of course not…). But should also be added to the equation the need to secure data already on external usb disks. (And aging). So, the quest for the right choice begins with a Nas appliance. Syno? No thanks, solid software, old hardware and discutable moves to lock everyone to use their parts catalog. So… considered ugreen Nas such as dxp2800 (two disks, not very upgradable so use huge capacity for a start). Dxp4800 four bays so it is possible to gradually extend the pool in the future. Then there is also MiniPC with nvme slots such as beelink Me Mini. In all cases, storage will be ZFS and data should be encrypted (don’t want thieves to read my data). Software will likely be truenas. A bare FreeBSD would be great but I have no time or skills to build everything from scratch with the insurance that I don’t leave some door opened for exploits. Either ugreen and N100 based pc should be enough for immich and one or two lightweight containers/jails. Costs are also to be considered, as RAM and disks (and NVME) are becoming very pricey. I read some blogs articles from our barista and of course it was so very interesting to build a backup server, remote access in a diy manner, (the geek in me was very tempted, but the end-user in me having to ensure the data from everybody in the house is secured is worried) #homelab #NAS
Il web che amo.
Quello dei piccoli blog indipendenti, magari ospitati su qualche VPS dove si offrono anche servizi open source e privacy oriented, istanze del #fediverso, e tanto altro.
Si può parlare di #indieweb?
In ogni caso, impegniamoci per alimentare un WWW più sano.
Per non creare un'accozzaglia di url, mi limiterò a taggare alcuni profili (in ordine sparso), da cui poi ricavare i link:
I've been moving from Cloudflare to Netlify, and now I'm hearing about Coolify?!
At this weekend I finally established another network in my home — a ZigBee network. A looong time ago (in 2010 year) I touched the ZigBee networking in my university (ITMO, previously IFMO, in Saint-Petersburg) — these times it was a new technology, not used widely. And as a student I have some fun time playing with ZigBee main router, supplemental router and end-devices. You can view old photos and screenshots of old software on a my extremely old blog: http://h0rr0rr-drag0n.blogspot.com/2010/04/cc2530zdk.html (and read a blogpost, if you understand Russian).
It is kindly fascinating, that now, after 15 years, I can just buy some ZigBee-powered devices from AliExpress (using Black Friday discounts) and connect them to the network inside my house right in the way I did it in the university 15 years ago!
Sadly, although I bought native supported main router device, based on the EFR32MG2 with some software from Ember (EZSP v8) inside, the OpenHAB doesn't support this device natively — it supports it, but since my server is running NetBSD, I got problems with some bundled with OpenHAB things. Looks like some native libraries (rxtx-java) don't have bundled NetBSD versions. And the same library in the repository built for Java 8, not for Java 17.
So, I decided to use Zigbee2MQTT, not to build the necessary Java library myself. It was kinda scary — use program, which connects my ZigBee network via ZigBee USB-dongle to the MQTT server — which is written on JavaScript
. Not on the C (as I can totally understand, for a such low-level program, operating with embedded devices) or at least on the C++/Perl/Python/whatever. But, looks like it works good enough, if I don't try to pair the device in wrong mode (my window sensors has two modes to pair them with network: first "common" mode causes zigbee2mqtt to silently crash and the second "compatible" mode works without problems).
And I could understand now, why people has so much problems with smart home security. Installed MQTT server mosquitto — it allows unauthenticated connections by default. Installed zigbee2mqtt — it allow connections to frontend without any password by default
At least these two services don't each much memory: 1.2 Mb for Mosquitto and 75.6 Mb for ZigBee2MQTT.
For now, my ZigBee sensors works pretty well and robust, like these devices from university 15 years ago 
A friend of mine gifted me a “decommissioned”* HP enterprise server that is WAY beyond anything I have ever needed. I’m seriously blown away. My home lab just got a massive upgrade.
*Apparently it was configured and sent to a client, but it was immediately sent back and never used. Sat on a shelf for 6+ years.
I’m so stucked… Black Friday reactivated the “store everything on a NAS” project in my poor brain. As the goal is quite simple : reduce to the minimum the use (and the costs) of our family iCloud plan, you would expect the solution is simple (of course not…). But should also be added to the equation the need to secure data already on external usb disks. (And aging). So, the quest for the right choice begins with a Nas appliance. Syno? No thanks, solid software, old hardware and discutable moves to lock everyone to use their parts catalog. So… considered ugreen Nas such as dxp2800 (two disks, not very upgradable so use huge capacity for a start). Dxp4800 four bays so it is possible to gradually extend the pool in the future. Then there is also MiniPC with nvme slots such as beelink Me Mini. In all cases, storage will be ZFS and data should be encrypted (don’t want thieves to read my data). Software will likely be truenas. A bare FreeBSD would be great but I have no time or skills to build everything from scratch with the insurance that I don’t leave some door opened for exploits. Either ugreen and N100 based pc should be enough for immich and one or two lightweight containers/jails. Costs are also to be considered, as RAM and disks (and NVME) are becoming very pricey. I read some blogs articles from our barista and of course it was so very interesting to build a backup server, remote access in a diy manner, (the geek in me was very tempted, but the end-user in me having to ensure the data from everybody in the house is secured is worried) #homelab #NAS
Okay, it seems there are some #tailscale (or similar services) users here. Everything works great so far, tailscale serve + their services are easy to use. However, I'd like to get an understanding if it is possible to access my #homelab services without the tailscale client whenever I'm in my home lan network und with the tailscale client when I'm connected remotely - from the same https (sub-) domain. I have read that I need a public domain and a #reverseproxy for that (which I don't have in my current setup) - is this the right way to go?
Random git tip for small devices:
git config core.bigFileThreshold 50m
By default git's "unpack" logic is quite memory intensive and if you need to "git pull" a large repo on something like an rpi zero you will probably end up OOMing. Set the threshold for "big files" to something reasonable (like 50 megs) and instead of reading the entire file into RAM and then writing it, it does a streaming copy and has a tiny in-memory I/O buffer instead. Yay.
(optionally specify git config --global to apply to all repos)
Random git tip for small devices:
git config core.bigFileThreshold 50m
By default git's "unpack" logic is quite memory intensive and if you need to "git pull" a large repo on something like an rpi zero you will probably end up OOMing. Set the threshold for "big files" to something reasonable (like 50 megs) and instead of reading the entire file into RAM and then writing it, it does a streaming copy and has a tiny in-memory I/O buffer instead. Yay.
(optionally specify git config --global to apply to all repos)
Okay, it seems there are some #tailscale (or similar services) users here. Everything works great so far, tailscale serve + their services are easy to use. However, I'd like to get an understanding if it is possible to access my #homelab services without the tailscale client whenever I'm in my home lan network und with the tailscale client when I'm connected remotely - from the same https (sub-) domain. I have read that I need a public domain and a #reverseproxy for that (which I don't have in my current setup) - is this the right way to go?
@ChrisLink
Hello!
What are you running / hoping to run with your setup?
I've got most things I need now, I just need to decide on which photo storing/sharing software to use. None of them (so far) are perfect :/
@chewie Behind the scenes, my setup runs on Proxmox as the hypervisor, with a now fairly large Docker VM (Portainer) inside it. All data lives on a Ugreen NAS, and the network stack is managed with OPNsense + UniFi / MikroTik.
Key services in daily use: Nextcloud, Home Assistant, Paperless-NGX, GitLab, Immich, Jellyfin — plus the usual IT admin overhead… because it’s fun. 😄⚙️
What does your setup look like? Already tested Immich?
#Homelab #SelfHosting #Proxmox #Docker #OPNsense #HomeAutomation
Una chiacchierata insieme a @lorenzodm, che ringrazio ancora per l'ospitalità e vi consiglio di seguire!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI_Iv-UZjjg
#gnu #linux #unolinux #unix #opensource #foss #floss #homelab