This Week in Self-Hosted (4 April 2025)

#AprilShowers bring new projects, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #BookLore -- an ebook management and reading platform, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

https://selfh.st/newsletter/2025-04-04/

Success!!! I've migrated Immich from an x86 Debian system to Asahi Fedora on an M1 Mac Mini.
Installing Fedora was easy
Installing Docker was easy.
Installing Tailscale was super simple.
Installing and setting up CSF was easy, but only because I had notes from last time on how to make Docker and Tailscale cooperate.

Migrating the Immich database was a nightmare!! I think because my old system was a mishmash of legacy settings from 100+ releases ago... Also, my old system wasn't on the very newest release, which in itself made migration fail initially.

Si buscas una alternativa a una aplicación privativa, Open Source Alternatives te las puede dar: https://opensourcealternative.to
#SelfHosting #SelfHost

Mal eben die Shellhistory auf andere Geräte synchronisieren, oder auch selbst gesetzte Aliase? Das ist möglich mit Atuin. Der Server zum synchronisieren lässt sich natürlich auch ganz einfach selber hosten. Läuft alles verschlüsselt im Hintergrund

https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/

Darauf aufmerksam geworden bin ich durch die Comics von Julia
https://wizardzines.com/

Hey guys, any advice about reverse proxy? I'm a beginner.
#selfhost #selfhosting #yunohost #linux #debian #internet

Hey #selfhosted, what is your favorite mood-tracking web app?

Esta guía te enseña a hacer #Plex lo más privado posible.

https://selfh.st/plex-privacy-settings/
#Privacidad #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting

#ActualBudget with SimpleFin bridge integration has been working mostly fine for me... Except that

1) vanguard often doesn't sync successfully and needs re-auth
2) apple card sync never worked after syncing once......
3) the envelope budgeting just doesn't work for me. Like I front load my retirement accounts, so I don't have income for a few months, and Actual budget will just freak out because I'm over budgeting every month

It's ok because I only have retirement accounts with vanguard so I'm not gonna look at it all the time and I have very few transactions on Apple Card at the moment...

Upgraded all four of my pihole instances to v6. They’re working perfectly!

I love how a bunch of the “advanced” settings are now available from the UI. It makes initial set up so much easier.

I'd like to set up SSO so that I can self-host resources like nodebb, freshrss, and znc, and share them with friends, without those friends having to manage a separate password for every service. Keycloak seems like a decent place to start but it requires a database, and I've always found those a little abstract, I don't know what I need to type to actually install and use one. Can you recommend me a good "just show me the code" tutorial for e.g. postgres on debian 12?

edit: actually, has anyone else here set up SSO for self-hosting, with or without keycloak?

Does anyone here self host Mastodon with @yunohost ?

I'm just curious how well it works given Masto's reputation for being tricky to upgrade without breaking?

Please boost for a larger sample size! Tx!

Updated my #privacy guide of optimal #Plex settings to be disabled for anyone not willing to make the jump after their recent news. Feel free to let me know if there's anything I've missed!

https://selfh.st/plex-privacy-settings/

This Week in Self-Hosted (28 March 2025)

@stalwartlabs grants, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #Posteria -- a #Plex poster management interface, and more in this week's self-hosted recap!

https://selfh.st/newsletter/2025-03-28/

Why is DANE/TLSA not being used for https traffic? Would it not permit site owners to use self-signed certs instead of depending on certificate authorities (regardless of how brilliant/garbage anyone thinks those CAs are)? #askfedi #dns #selfhost

Power your Pi with ethernet! Subscribe to the PiSource Blog for FREE and get a chance to WIN a Waveshare #PoE Hat for your Pi5! Dive into awesome articles every week that’ll supercharge your Pi game! Don’t miss out, hit that link! https://pisource.org #raspberrypi #selfhost #homelab

Finally found a reason to use #AI—diagnosing pesky little network problems on a home LAN/wireguard setup.

Told ChatGPT what was going on, what I had tried, and what I was seeing through various tools. It pointed to the answer, explained the various flags on the commands, and left me knowing more.

This was after wading through a ton of tech blogs and forum posts, half of which weren’t applicable, the other half boiled down to “just read the iptables docs, it’s all there” or “we already answered this a decade ago.”

In the process of setting up my own mail server (IMAP + SMTP), I was surprised to discover that Mac OS Mail (v16.0) does not support TLS v1.3 for IMAP+SMTP. Interestingly Mail on iOS 18 does support TLS v1.3, although a number of 3rd party iOS clients do not (inc. Outlook, Spark Mail). Thunderbird does support TLS v1.3.

It is surprising that the latest version of Mac OS Mail does not support the latest TLS protocols for IMAP+SMTP and I need to enable legacy encryption protocols to send and receive email on Mac.

Power your Pi with ethernet! Subscribe to the PiSource Blog for FREE and get a chance to WIN a Waveshare #PoE Hat for your Pi5! Dive into awesome articles every week that’ll supercharge your Pi game! Don’t miss out, hit that link! https://pisource.org #raspberrypi #selfhost #homelab