Very pleased to now have the toolkit list working, with some technical and design work to still do. Creating custom posts to hold tool data means I can control how the user chooses to open an app. I'll do a blog post on this bc its useful for others working in Grav. Images show the populated list, an app opened within jOYND, a file open from local storage. I'm using page front matter yaml and a blueprint to create custom form fields.

Two things I wanted to share again:

• https://codeberg.org/jessienab/AwesomeListOfMusicRetailers

A collection-in-progress of music retailers offering music in high quality, accessible, and permanently ownable formats. More important than ever when streaming sites keep removing music or even lack music you want.

• https://codeberg.org/jessienab/MontrealQueerSocial

A collection-in-progress of various queer/LGBTQIA+ oriented and focused social groups, meetups, recurring events, etc. within the Montreal (Tiohtià:ke) and Greater Montreal area.

More additions to the Queer Social list GREATLY APPRECIATED!!! Especially from transmasc + non-lesbian/sapphic/transfem spaces and folks!!!

Do you have any old devices in your home / corporate network that want to tell you how they feel but only speak the antiquated standard of SMTP

i present to you https://github.com/jason-m/email2dm a smtp to -> DM gateway, current setup to support slack and telegram. #homelab #opensource #selfhosting

I was running out of space on my home server's storage, so I purchased two new larger hard disks which I'm going to replace the previous ones with. These are not boot disks, and I'm thinking of trying #ZFS on them, with a simple 1+1 mirror. I've read up some introductory guides, so I more or less have an idea about what I'm supposed to do, but are there any caveats that the Fediverse would like to share before I dive in?

How to Host Your Own #Mastodon Server on a #VPS (5 Minute Quick-Start Guide)

This article provides a guide for how to host your own Mastodon server on a VPS.

Running your own Mastodon server on a VPS is an excellent way to enjoy an efficient and secure Mastodon experience.
What is Mastodon?
Mastodon is a #decentralized social media platform that enables users to post ...
Continued https://blog.radwebhosting.com/how-to-host-your-own-mastodon-server-on-a-vps/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon.raddemo.host #rubygems #selfhosting #installguide #rubyonrails #activitypub #selfhosted

why does it feel like we have to build up society up by ourselves from scratch just to be able to have the normal privileges everyone else does i.e. ask yourself why truth hurts and also i wish it would kill you

Migration, Containers and … It’s always DNS, really

As I wrote in my previous post, I have a new member in the home server environment: The Lenovo ThinkCenter Mini Computer! Right after getting Ubuntu up and running on it, I began the process of easing the workload on my #RaspberryPi. PiHole had been flagging high CPU load a couple of times already, especially when Jellyfin was streaming media and performing its usual tasks.

The target was clear: keep PiHole on the Pi and move the heavier services to the Lenovo. But I also didn’t simply want to migrate the services. I also wanted to improve the setup …

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https://www.locked.de/migration-containers-and-its-always-dns-really/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhWLayI6S-0

oh yeah and in the whole life reshuffle i have simplified my storage software and dropped mergerfs for the first time in about 10 years.

all zfs up in here and honestly? its great. 10 disks. 20tb each (took me a while to accrue them!) but its split into 2 5 disk raid z1 vdevs and i couldnt be happier with performance and administrative simplicity #selfhosting #zfs

HortusFox v5.2 released!

View changelog here:
https://github.com/danielbrendel/hortusfox-web/tree/v5.2

Thank you for flying with HortusFox

What people fail to realize, both in the UK and internationally is that the UK has the authority under the online safety bill to arrest anyone who owns a website and refuses to make their website UK compliant, or simply didn't do a good enough job of making it so.

Started Suricata in IPS mode on pfSense — noisy at first, but worth it.
I’ve been incrementally building a custom dropsid.conf by reviewing alerts daily. It now blocks Simda C2 payloads, Log4j and Zyxel RCE attempts, scanners like masscan and OpenVAS, and a sea of CINS/COMPROMISED IPs probing Plex, Redis, SSH, and more.

Takes some tuning, but a properly trained IPS is rock solid.

Not criticizing @ironicbadger here but I think one challenge with making self-hosting more popular is that most of the people who talk about it have rather complicated setups and are frequently making changes (that's how you get the content for the podcast!) This creates an impression that self-hosting is inherently demanding and time-consuming.

Which, to be fair, it definitely can be.

But it's not as bad as it might sound like if you listen/watch all the die-hards out there.

Some self-hosters see it as a hobby ("home-labbers"), and some do it out of a desire to escape the clutches of the cloud. But the distinction isn't obvious to new-comers.

https://techhub.social/@ironicbadger/114937600766574080

How to Use a Lenovo ThinkCentre M910q as a Powerful Home Server

As an IT enthusiast, I’ve long been (and still are!) a fan of the #RaspberryPi mini computers. My main Pi already runs multiple services like #PiHole, #Navidrome and #Jellyfin – which often pushes it near its limits. Well, recently I found myself wanting to add even more services to my local network. Unfortunately, my NAS can’t host Docker containers, so expanding compute power became necessary.

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https://www.locked.de/how-to-use-a-lenovo-thinkcentre-m910q-as-a-powerful-home-server/

Over the last 2 months we have systemically dismantled and sold most of our life in prep to sell up and move back to England #alexit.

If feels FANTASTIC.

The lack of stuff is so liberating. The simplicity of a basic server setups is a pure joy after doing the podcast for 6 years I just kept adding more and more.

But now I am down to one big file server with 150TB and a SFF Lenovo system as the core services app node. That's it!

It is so wonderfully simple to maintain. No complicated clustering. No big energy bill. So this is me admitting, perhaps, that I am guilty of overbuilding solutions in the past. In the next phase of life I am determined not to repeat these "mistakes". #selfhosting

This is how my #Mastodon instance is spending its day according to CPU freq stats. It's #RPi 3 so I'd say it takes 2.5W on average. I'm going to try running one week with a power meter to see how well this calculation works.

PSA: I just got a notice from my registrar that "Starting August 21, 2025, a change in ICANN policy may affect how your domain ownership is recorded. In your Domain Contacts, any organization listed in the Company Name field will be considered the ‘Registered Name Holder’ and the legal owner of the domain."

So you might want to check domains your own to make sure any Company Name listed is what you want and a valid legal entity.

Anyone #selfhosting Gemini and Spartan servers? What are you using? I'd like to host both on one server, maybe Gopher too. #smolweb

I'm stuck trying to find an #OpenSource solution for playing #music from my NAS to my laptop/phone. I currently use #plex/ #plexamp which I honestly really like. The client is a little clunky for me and doesn't have as many keyboard shortcuts as I would like. Ideally there would be a unified solution that could access #spotify and my music collection on my #nas. Any thoughts on what to explore? #SelfHosting