Absolutely love it… Just gave the middle finger to Google and their privacy invasive practices with YouTube. How’d I do it? Used Podman, Yattee/Yattee Server and Invidious plus TailScale to run a privacy-preserving proxy that hopefully will slam the door on the adds and tracking that I’d normally have to deal with, and I will no longer hopefully have to fork over the dinero to Google for YouTube Premium. It’s just for my personal use, not intended for public use, but I’m proud that I found a self-hosted solution. #SelfHosted #Podman #Yattee #Invidious #Tailscale #Privacy #NoAds #NoTracking #Google #YouTube

The Fulu Foundation has placed a $10,000 bounty on "liberating" Ring doorbell footage from Amazon's servers.

It shouldn't take a bounty to access your own data. This is why we support open-source local-first tools. Apps like Scrypted or Home Assistant give you the smarts without the cloud surveillance or monthly fees. Own your hardware, own your data.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/881678/ring-doorbell-bounty-amazon-servers-fulu
#privacy #opensource #selfhosted

Local-Only File Encryption with JavaScript.

I've been exploring the #WebCryptoAPI and I'm impressed!

When combined with the #FileSystemAPI, it offers a seemingly secure way to #encrypt and #store files directly on your device. Think #localstorage, but with #encryption!

I know #webapps can have #security vulnerabilities since the code is served over the web, so I've #OpenSourced my demo! You can check it out, and it should even work if #selfhosted on #GitHubPages.

Live Demo: https://dim.positive-intentions.com/?path=/story/usefs--encrypted-demo

Demo Code: https://github.com/positive-intentions/dim/blob/staging/src/stories/05-Hooks-useFS.stories.js

About the Dim framework:
https://positive-intentions.com/docs/category/dim

IMPORTANT NOTES (PLEASE READ!):
* This is NOT a product. It's for #testing and #demonstration purposes only.
* It has NOT been reviewed or audited. Do NOT use for sensitive data.
* The password encryption currently uses a hardcoded password. This is for demonstration, not security.
* This is NOT meant to replace robust solutions like #VeraCrypt. It's just a #proofofconcept to show what's possible with #browser #APIs.

#Encryption #Cryptography #JavaScript #Frontend #Privacy #Security #WebDevelopment #Coding #Developer #Tech #FOSS #OpenSource #GitHub #MastodonDev #Programming #WebStandards #FileSystem #WebAPI #ProofOfConcept

WhatsApp Clone... But Decentralized and P2P Encrypted Without Install or Signup.

Features include:
* P2P
* End to end encryption
* forward secrecy
* Multimedia
* Open source
* No registration
* No installation
* Encrypted storage
* TURN server

The project is far from finished and presented for testing, feedback and demo purposes (USE RESPONSIBLY!).

https://positive-intentions.com

#Privacy #OpenSource #P2P #WebRTC #Decentralization #DigitalSovereignty #CyberSecurity #FOSS #SelfHosted #NoCloud #AntiCorp #Encryption #WebDev #TechLiberty #PrivateMessaging #Networking #DataPrivacy #InternetFreedom #LocalFirst #SoftwareEngineering #WebApps #ZeroKnowledge #PrivacyTech #IndieDev #NoSignup #NoInstall #DecentralizedWeb #SecureMessaging #BrowserApp #TechEthics

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Tired of messy spreadsheets? 📉

Sure is an open-source wealth management platform that gives you a full overview of your personal finances. Track assets, visualize liabilities, and watch your net worth grow on a clean dashboard—without big banks snooping on your data.

Host your own instance on PikaPods starting at $2.30/mo. Full privacy, no vendor lock-in.

Check it out: https://pikapods.com/pods?run=sure

#opensource #selfhosted #privacy #fintech

Frustrated by "Content not available in your region" or albums disappearing from your playlists?

Navidrome lets you host your own music library, giving you a Spotify-like experience with files you actually own. It's compatible with most Subsonic clients for mobile listening, features lightning-fast performance, and respects your privacy.

Launch your own instance on PikaPods starting at $2.70/mo.

https://pikapods.com/pods?run=navidrome #selfhosted #opensource #privacy

The EFF warns that "free" surveillance tech provided to law enforcement is a privacy trap. By bypassing local oversight, these systems build data pipelines to federal agencies without public consent.

This is a stark reminder of why data sovereignty matters. Using open-source tools ensures you aren't the product and your data stays yours.

Read more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/free-surveillance-tech-still-comes-high-and-dangerous-cost

#privacy #opensource #selfhosted

@techwitch #selfhosted comes with added responsibility.
How are your passwords stored? In Notes/docs or using one of the Password apps?

📁 #Copyparty ⬆️ 📁 ⬇️ - Turn Any Device Into a Feature-Rich File Server #opensource #selfhosted #Python #devops

https://github.com/9001/copyparty

⬇️ Features List: ⬇️

🔌 Multi-protocol support: HTTP, #WebDAV, #FTP, TFTP, SMB/CIFS for maximum compatibility with any client or operating system

📱 Native #Android app and #iOS shortcuts for seamless mobile file management and one-tap uploads

🚀 Resumable uploads and downloads with absolutely no filesize limit - works flawlessly even through #Cloudflare proxies

🔄 Smart file deduplication using symlinks, hardlinks, or CoW reflinks to save storage space automatically

🎵 Built-in media player supporting almost every audio format with on-demand #FFmpeg transcoding, equalizer, and OS lockscreen controls

🖼️ Automatic thumbnail generation for images, videos, and audio spectrograms using Pillow, pyvips, or FFmpeg

🔍 Powerful full-text search by filename, path, size, date, and MP3/ID3 metadata tags across all indexed volumes

📦 Download entire folders as ZIP or TAR archives with optional on-the-fly audio transcoding to opus/mp3

🔐 Flexible accounts and permissions system with granular per-folder, per-user access control for read/write/move/delete

🌐 Zero-config LAN discovery via mDNS and SSDP - automatically appears in file explorers on Windows, macOS, Linux

📊 Truly cross-platform: Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, iOS, FreeBSD, ARM32, ARM64, RISC-V, s390x, ppc64le

⚡ Just run https://github.com/9001/copyparty/releases/latest/download/copyparty-sfx.py - single-file self-extracting executable, no installation or setup required

🔒 HTTPS support with automatic certificate handling and reverse-proxy compatibility for nginx, Cloudflare tunnels

📝 Built-in markdown viewer and editor with syntax highlighting and live preview

🎯 QR code generation for quick mobile access - perfect for file sharing at events or between devices

🇳🇴 Made in Norway - actively maintained open source project

Credits to original post info from a multi-threaded msg https://social.vivaldi.net/@michabbb/115616044705323858 that I just put in 1 post instead

CC: @michabbb

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¿Tu NGINX tiene un "Tarpit"? 🤔

Es un pozo de alquitrán digital: cuando un bot busca vulnerabilidades (wp-admin, .env), el servidor le responde leeeentamente para desperdiciar sus recursos. 🐢🛑

📸 En las imágenes: +900 "Tarpit Hits" en 24h en mi dashboard.

El combo ganador es Tarpit + CrowdSec: NGINX los marea y CrowdSec aplica el baneo definitivo.

📝 Tutorial:
👉 https://jmrp.io/blog/005-implementing-tarpit-nginx/

🔗 Dashboard público:
👉 https://jmrp.io/homelab/

#Nginx #CyberSecurity #CrowdSec #SelfHosted #SysAdmin #Astro

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Happy Data Protection Day!

20th anniversary online event: https://www.coe.int/web/data-protection/data-protection-day

#Data #DataProtection #DataPrivacy #Privacy #InfoSec #InformationSecurity #CyberSecurity #Encryption #E2EE #Security #PasswordManager #SelfHost #SelfHosted #SelfHosting #Linux #DataSovereignty #CouncilOfEurope #CoE #EDPS #EuropeanDataProtectionSupervisor #DPD #DPD2026 #OpenPGP #PGP #GnuPG #GPG #VeraCrypt #Tomb #LUKS #AES #P2P #VPN #LetsEncrypt #Argon2 #Tor #XMPP #OMEMO #TorBrowser #Tails #PrivacyBadger #JShelter

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Reached a big milestone today - I got the transfer switch wired up to the electrical panels, so we finally have real power in the building. No more extension cords everywhere!

And as a result, our GreenEye power monitoring system is now active too, so I can see power consumption for every individual circuit in Home Assistant.

#building #electrical #diy #greeneye #homeassistant #selfhosted

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Mechanical room with two electrical panels and a transfer switch.

If anyone would be willing to click this link and tell me if it worked for you, I'd be ever so grateful.

http://whoami-6.petekeen.net

#homelab #ipv6 #selfhosted

About Bluesky and federation:
Edit: There might be some mistakes, and my information could be outdated, but the point still stands - Bluesky wasn't built on 100% federation from the start.

I've been wondering about Bluesky's decentralization again. I can't think of any reason why I'd want to self-host Bluesky in its current form. I cannot 100% self host "my own Bluesky".

Their main selling points for building their own protocol were easier migration and better discoverability, but right now there's no simple way to migrate my Bluesky account to my own instance. And hosting the centralized parts yourself isn't really possible, or if it were, not affordable, they haven't made that feasible, by design, it seems.

Even if you self-host a PDS, Bluesky's Relay only indexes up to 10 accounts from it. You can run more, but they won't federate, the central infrastructure decides what gets seen. They control this (source: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/self-host-federation#:~:text=For%20a%20smooth%20transition%20into,for%20everyone%20in%20the%20ecosystem.). You can self-host a PDS (Personal Data Server), but you still depend on Bluesky's centralized Relay and AppView. There's no production-ready alternative infrastructure from what I gather.

It feels like I'd be renting a room in a hotel that someone else is running anyway, when I want my own hotel.

If Mastodon gGmbH vanishes tomorrow, my instance keeps running and federating with everyone else. If Bluesky PBC vanishes, the ecosystem would need to scramble to stand up replacement infrastructure that doesn't really exist yet.

ATProto keeps getting evaluated on its promises while other systems get evaluated on their merits. The "portability" selling point depends on infrastructure that isn't mature enough to actually catch you if Bluesky falls.

I trust W3C, the builders and fathers of the World Wide Web, ActivityPub and the Fediverse.

#Decentralization #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #Mastodon #Fediverse #Bluesky #Servers

Really happy with my new setup for self-hosting public websites. I have a VPS running HAProxy as a Layer 4 proxy with Proxy Protocol to send packets over a WireGuard VPN tunnel to a VM inside my network. This is running Caddy for TLS termination and routing to a VM managed by Coolify that's handling the website deployments.

Traffic is encrypted until my network. VPS hides my IP. HAProxy for SNI checks and VPN tunnel bandwidth limits. 9ms latency.

#selfhosted #haproxy #wireguard #caddy #coolify

Ok so hey #SelfHosting

I want a #SelfHosted web-type Office Suite ala Google Sheets/Docs and I don't want it to be part of some gigantic resource-chewing albatross like #NextCloud

I would like to do all my Word Processing and Spreadsheeting and so forth through a web interface, which is served from my #Debian server (docker is fine) and saves the documents as normal files in a defined directory.

Does such a thing exist? I do NOT need feature-rich, I do not need it to save MSOffice docs that I can send to a printing shop with all bugs intact, I just want to stop losing shit to hard drive wipes, which I'm sorry but nuking my hard drive is a lifestyle choice at this point and I don't care what you think about it.

I have had the thought that maybe #LibreOffice has some sort of plugin or something which could store files in an Object Storage type thingy that I could self-host instead, cause I've been planning to get some sort of bucket online since forever...

What were your most used #SelfHosted services of 2025?

No Cloudflare. No 2FA nonsense. No cloud surveillance. Your box. Your rules.

https://hestiacp.com/

#HestiaCP #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #Webmasters #Weblords