I'm pretty sure #google makes their apps less sophisticated at least partly to hide the scale of the data they're collecting.

I say this because in #immich, which is a #selfhosted photo app, I have exact geolocation of where I took all my pictures. In Google Photos there's a vague "in this country" but no option to overlay photos on Google Maps. Too dystopian?

I'm thinking about stop #selfhosting services as it's to much trouble (and sometimes time consuming) just for myself, as nobody I know are interested in them.

So far I have found replacement for some, but I'm having trouble finding a #git forge. I would use #codeberg but I have high latency to Europe based data centers /:

I would appreciate some recommendations, the closer to Latin America the better. I'm also willing to support/help the instance if I can.

What do you do folks with old/small SD cards?

I found out I've been accumulating a bunch of 2/4/8 GB cards, which are not really much useful these days. Trying to figure out if they're still useful, or if I should just trash them.

(Note: I do have a bunch of USB flash drives as well, so using adapters to make use of them as such doesn't help).

I was initially rather hesitant at the prospect of #selfhosting my email, but I’m massively impressed by @stalwartlabs, which has made the whole process straightforward.

I’ve just enabled encryption at rest, which uses my PGP/SMIME public key to encrypt all my messages upon receipt. With my private key installed on my clients, the whole thing is seamless.

If you’re looking for a modern and powerful JMAP/IMAP/SMTP server that’s easy to deploy, I can’t recommend @stalwartlabs enough.

Random power outages are the worst parts of #selfhosting ... Doubly so since my database and redis is on another server.

@selfhosting #mastoadmin

Was kann eine Cloud-Genossenschaft, was #BigTech oder #Selfhosting nicht kann? Nutzt die Chance, jetzt als Organisation Gründungsmitglied zu werden! https://geno.101cloud.eu

my adventures in #selfhosting - day 107 (sleepwalking edition) ​

Hello Fedi friends!

I'm lucky I didn't have to do any coding today... my little one woke me up at 4:50am, so even if it's only 3:30pm I've been wide awake for 11 hours now. Running commands in terminal would have been... risky I think ​

It feels really strange to be past a HUGE self-hosting hurdle. Now my self-hosted Ghost blog is fine... up and running wonderfully, with perfectly working TXT and DMARC records (knock on wood).

What will my next big challenge be? I'm thinking self-hosting PeerTube... but I will enjoy this peace and sense of accomplishment for a little while longer before taking that on.

Thanks for all your help and encouragement throughout my self-hosting adventures ​

Last year I started a webring like it was 1999 with the System Crafters community. And for its first anniversary I wrote a blog post about How I accidentally got better at self-hosting and FOSS contributing.

Sometimes you don’t have to wait for someone else, you can be a catalyst. Happy Birthday Craftering!

Thanks to @daviwil for fostering a great community and to @kern for building Ringfairy and being so encouraging.

"Just updated my dashboard with all my self-hosted services and did a bit of cleanup!

#HomeLab #SelfHosting"

Huginn is a free, open-source IFTTT alternative that’s much more powerful

“Automation tools like IFTTT (If This Then That) have revolutionized how we connect apps, devices, and services to create workflows. However, while IFTTT is user-friendly and widely accessible, it lacks the depth, flexibility, and control some advan ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/huginn-is-a-free-open-source-ifttt-alternative-thats-much-more-powerful/

Ich habe mal testweise Immich installiert. Das sieht echt gut aus und erinnert wirklich sehr an Google Photos. Immich ist zwar noch in einer Beta-Phase, aber dafür läuft es schon sehr gut.

Von den fast 18.000 Fotos und Videos sind nun schon gut 10.000 hochgeladen und die CPU hat gut zu tun, denn das muss alles erst verarbeitet werden.

Wer es ausprobieren möchte, findet auf der Immich-Webseite den Link zum testen. Die passende App für's Handy gibt es auch dazu.

Link: Immich - Self-hosted photo and video management solution

#Photos, #selfhosting, #selfhosted, #Fotos, #Immich, #googlealternatives, #GooglePhotos

Matrix Räume in Synapse aufräumen – einfach automatisiert

„80 % aller gespeicherten Daten werden nie wieder angeschaut.“Diese Statistik trifft nicht nur auf riesige Datensilos zu, sondern auch auf unsere Matrix-Chaträume, die mit Matrix Synapse laufen. Systemmeldungen, CI/CD-Ben...

https://www.techniverse.net/blog/2025/04/matrix-raeume-aufraeumen-einfach-automatisiert/
#Linux #AdminScript #Automatisierung #bash #cronjob #linux #Logfile #Matrix #purge_history #Selfhosting #Synapse

I really like this - Wanderer, a self-hosted database to log your walks and hikes

https://wanderer.to/

my adventures in #selfhosting - day 106 (email edition) ​

Good morning Fedi friends!

I'm DELIGHTED to report that my self-hosted Ghost blog is fully functional and it withstood the "Mastodon stampede" (so far, knock on wood).

TWO challenges remain:

1) fixing mail DNS records (TXT & DMARC) so that people who sign up for my newsletter won't get a warning that the email "failed the domain's authentication requirements" - thank you for the heads-up @KitsuneVixi!

For some strange reason the warning appears for email signups but not newsletter sends. So I will investigate this morning and add some code to the Ghost config file too (in addition to triple-checking DNS records). Thank you @mdileo @shom @luca for the brilliant tips and guidance ​

2) The announcement I shared yesterday on my Mastodon account (5000+ followers) with the link to my new Ghost blog didn't overwhelm the VPS. But! The toot didn't contain a link with a preview card that had to be fetched by hundreds of servers. So, the real test will be publishing a new blog post and seeing how it holds up when it's shared on Mastodon. My heartbeat accelerates just thinking about it ​

Advocating for FOSS also means contributing to projects with feedback, etc. (as someone eloquently said to me here a few months ago - sorry if I can't credit you, it's been a while). Anyway, all this to say that I will write to Ghost devs today (and John) to tell them about the buggy code that's on their Configurations page. And to suggest a tweak that may help other self-hosted sites withstand sudden traffic from Mastodon. It worked for me, so I feel like it's important to spread the word, since many people have been struggling with the same issue.

Anyway, a HUGE thanks once again to @ticho @jana @leberschnitzel @jpoesen @scammo @moonshinebrigade @mkj @aarRJaay who helped me debug the code yesterday. Infinitely grateful to you for all your advice and help! I was THIS CLOSE to giving up... and now I'm thrilled to be self-hosting my Ghost blog.

Wishing you all a wonderful day!

UPDATE: I just tweaked the config.production.json file in Terminal adding Mailgun SMTP credentials... and now I don't get the warning anymore WOOHOO!

And don't worry, I'm not getting too cocky with this. I kept typing "restart ghost" in Terminal and couldn't figure out why I would get an error... so I kept checking the JSON code... till I realized that the right command was "ghost restart"

#MySoCalledSudoLife

In #Immich das Clip Modell von ViT-B32__openai (Standard) auf ViT-B-32-SigLIP2-256__webli umgestellt.

Welch eine Verbesserung in der semantischen Suche bei nur minimal mehr Ressourcen-Verbrauch. Läuft prima auf der #Synology.

I just did a quick comparison of how search results looks on Google, DuckDuckGo, and self-hosted SearXNG

#selfhosting #searxng

First Google: three screenshots and few actual search results

Aus dem Tätigkeitsbericht des #datenschutzbeauftragten #Bremen zu einem Unternehmen, das Bewerbung per #WhatsApp anbietet:

' [...] dass ein vertraglich gebundener Auftragsverarbeiter aus
Deutschland genutzt werde, sodass die verarbeiteten Daten ausschließlich auf zertifizierten
und verschlüsselten Servern in Deutschland gehostet würden und kein Zugriff durch
#WhatsApp (Meta Plattforms Incorporated) auf konkrete Nachrichteninhalte möglich sei.'

What? Es gibt #selfhosting für WA?
#datenschutz