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I just torrent the sht out of it. And put it on a USB stick. And plug it into my car. That’s it.

Bittorrent joined the room.

Another reason to self host: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/google-cloud-outage-brings-down-a-lot-of-the-internet/

Ah yes peertube. There it goes wrong already. The name is too much alike.

I hate youtube so much. When are they moving all to freetube peertube or something? How long do we all accept Google youtube?

Nextcloud

Pocket just works. And now Mozilla is killing it. It’s a shame. There are even companies asking them to take over the software and support. So pocket will stay… Not sure how far that is.

Yes. It’s important to verify the dependencies and perform audits like automated scans on the source code and packages from repositories like PyPi and npm. Which is done on my day job.

Also before mirroring data, I look at the source code level if I see anything suspicious. Like phoning home or for example obfuscated code. Or other red flags.

Even at home, working on ‘hobby projects’, I might not have the advantage of the advance scanning source code tools, but I’m still suspicious, since I know there is also a lot of sh*t out there.

Even for home projects I limit the amount of packages I use. I tent to only use large (in terms of users), proven (lot of stars and already out for a long time) and well maintained packages (regular security updates, etc.). Then again, without any advance code scanning tool it’s impossible to fully scan it all. Since you still have dependencies on dependencies with dependencies that might have a vurnability. Or even things as simple as openssl heartbleed bug or repository take overs by evil maintainers. It’s inevitable, but you can take precautions.

Tldr: I try my best with the tools I have. I can’t do more then that. Simple and small projects in C is easier to audit then for example a huge framework or packages with tons of new dependencies. Especially in languages like Python, Go and Javascript/typescript. You have been warned.

Edit: this also means you will need to update your packages often. Not only on your distro. But also when using these packages with npm and PyPi, go or php composer. Just writing your code once and deploy is not sufficient anymore. The chances you are using some packages that are vulnerable is very high and you will need to regularly update your packages. I think updating is just as important as auditing.

Tja.

Well, I’m willing to take the risk then. I host all my fediverse services at home.

“my instance to the cloud because I learned that if I even accidentally hosted anything it means immediate seizure,”

That sounds a bit extreme. You are not hosting csam on purpose. And most likely try to moderate as good as possible.

I actually believe more people should host their own server. And get rid of the cloud. Not moving more to the cloud.

You could also use it for running more services at home 😬. Thinks like Wekan, nextcloud, gitlab, matrix server, mbin, mastodon, grafana, mumble…

It’s just a mini computer. Most likely pretty efficient processor but also not very powerful.

I personally like to run gitlab. You can disable the services you don’t need, like metrics services, grafana, prometheus. And you could even enable services you might want like docker container registey or package registey.

I love to work with gitlab locally on my homelab. I also have multiple runners setup, which pick up my docker jobs. Etc

Uh I see.

No. That is why I shared my configs. With opcache and opcache.validate_timestamps = 0 you don’t have this problem anymore.

Of course you also need to enable opcache itself as well.

Or you have really slow spinning disks or something. Also be sure to use php 8.4.

• Wekan for Todo list /kanban.
• GitLab for my source code and projects.
• synapse for my own matrix server
• mastodon for fediverse
• mbin for fediverse
• mumble for voip
• nextcloud for my files, calandar and contacts
• plantuml server
• many self created telegram bots
• many websites. Like blog.melroy.org, explorer.melroy.org or Libreweb.org or techwiki.org and so much more…

And then the list goes on and on. Like prometheus, grafana, uptime Kuma, mariadb, Valkey, postgresql, unbound dns, all those things…

You can optimize php a lot for performance. See my config https://gitlab.melroy.org/-/snippets/91

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Not really… We do have this wonderful list(s): https://github.com/firehol/blocklist-ipsets

And my firewall is using for example the Spamhaus drop list source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/firehol/blocklist-ipsets/refs/heads/master/spamhaus_drop.netset

So I know its possible. And hosting in a git repo like that, will scale a lot. Since tons of people using this already that way.