On how I'm using GitHub's Copilot in Agent mode for yak shaving, evolving my Jekyll-powered website for rendering mathematical formulas by SVG images, instead of heavy JavaScript:

https://alexn.org/blog/2025/10/21/update-on-math-formulas/

A week ago #hetzner announced new server plans in EU and SIN, which made running a tiny #dokku instance even cost around 10% less. #selfhosting

https://e11bits.com/posts/2025-10-22-hetzner-cx23

If anybody is using #dell servers in their #homelab and you have super noisy fans, I just discovered this Docker container solution that will set the fans to a reasonable speed.

I'm using a 3rd-party PCI SAS controller, and that seems to cause the server to go apeshit. Fans sound like they're ready for liftoff. This fixes it right away.
#selfhosting #selfhosted

Nextcloud-Admins aufgepasst!
Nach dem Update auf Nextcloud 31 zeigt eure Admin-UI eine Warnung wegen falschem Zeilenformat (ROW_FORMAT)?
Das Problem kann mit einem Bash-Skript schnell & komfortabel behoben werden.

https://decatec.de/home-server/nextcloud-31-mit-mariadb-mysql-falsches-zeilenformat-in-der-datenbank-schnell-mit-skript-korrigieren/

At #kompot #selfhosting community we set up (a while ago) a few #picoCMS (or similar) websites for local sister communities. By connecting the content folder into #nextcloud we tried improving editing experiance. A few nextcloud releases after there are no more #markdown editors in Nextcloud that would fit our purpose. Mostly we are looking for plain text editor that would not add any styling on its own. We did some research and @g1smo went down the but did not find anything suitable.

I might of asked this in the past. What do the #homelab homies use for chatting with their fam bam... web chat is a must!

I was going to wait for a Jellyfin point release before upgrading my server but decided to roll the dice and go for it anyway (v10.11.0)...

It took ~15 minutes to migrate my large library (zfs draid2,, 6 x SATA3).

It didn't beat the stuffing out of disk, ram, or CPU.

Kind of impressive. Now to see what's new in practice.

Wo möchte eins aktuell einen #VPS klicken?

Geplant:

• Friendica und GoToSocial für drei bis vier Nutzende
• ausreichende Reserve für testweise installierte weitere Dienste

Momentan tendiere ich zum #Netcup 1000 oder 2000 G11.

Eine Hetzner StorageBox wäre zusätzlich denkbar, um Speicherplatz per S3 auszulagern.

Anyone try Oracle Cloud "always free" tier for their projects? Thinking I'll migrate my masto instance over to it.

I doubt it'll truly be free, because "cloud" but wondering if it's at least cheaper than getting a VPS I pay monthly for.

Right now, I'm on Azure trying out their free credits. After a month, it'll cost me around $30 a month to run my self hosted single user instance. Way too much imo.

Good morning Fedi friends!

Earlier today I installed #DeltaChat to give it a try... and I'm currently flashing the #YunoHost disk image on a card for my #RaspberryPi5 - so I can write about the process.

Super grateful for the world of #FOSS ​

Have a great day everyone!

#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting

As a segway from the AWS situation, I've been talking about self hosting stuff with a lot of colleagues I come across. One thing I've noticed, is how detached everyone seem to be about what kind of computing power stuff actually needs.

The most common take I get is that everything will be magically 'swamped' unless they're run on a mega corporation cloud, even when the same corporations offer quite extensive ways to monitor the resource usage of virtual stuff.

Another example was that a MSP I used to work at ran a separate cheap mail+web service for people who didn't want Microsoft's offerings. It was pretty straight forward Postfix+Dovecot and Apache setup, split into virtuals and ran on their own hardware. A younger colleague's take was that it must've been really laggy and horrible, no way you can host 100s of accounts on anything but cloud.

This just left me thinking, wasn't that what Internet was supposed to be about in the first place?

after the fiasco of us-east dying yesterday we're considering spinning up a matrix instance and moving from signal eventually so we can keep in contact with our loved ones . . .

Does anyone run their own instance?
Any issues with running it? or fixes to bugs?
Tricks and tips?

#matrix #useast1 #aws #signal #selfhosting

Major Uptime Kuma 2.0 update adds MariaDB, rootless Docker, and a refreshed UI for smoother, faster self-hosted monitoring.
https://linuxiac.com/uptime-kuma-2-0-arrives-with-mariadb-support-modern-ui-refresh/

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:

https://gagliardoni.net/#im_battle_2025

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

https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/115405436746725236

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.

For all my #jellyfin friends out there, I've written up my experience upgrading to version 10.11.0! #journalism #tech #selfhosting #freesoftware

https://gardinerbryant.com/jellyfin-10-11-0-new-features-upgrade-guide/

Anyone have experience using #Snac2 for a small activitypub instance? Currently I use #gotosocial which is great but I'm curious about other options. Running a second instance with a different domain for friends or a second account is appealing to me.