The nice thing about #voip is that it makes #selfhosting and #e2ee easier, cheaper, more secure. "Hosted" means outsourced, i.e. #Surveillance serfdom like #clowncomputing so don't do it. https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/software/hosted-voip/
#selfhosting
FreedomBox is a private server for non-experts: it lets you install and configure server applications at home with only a few clicks
Launched in 2010 by Prof. Eben Moglen, FreedomBox is a global project to empower regular people to reassert control over the infrastructure of the internet. FreedomBox empowers its users to avoid the data mining, censorship and surveillance by centralized silos that characterize the web of today. It makes web servers personal, affordable and manageable, so that a user can host necessary web services at home on a device they own, powered by free software they can trust.
FreedomBox provides file sharing like Dropbox. Your data stays with you. Your family and friends also benefit. FreedomBox provides a VPN server. Connect securely to your devices at home from outside. Protect your browsing session when on untrusted networks. FreedomBox provides a secure, decentralized replacement for WhatsApp. Do group chats and audio/video calls from any device.
FreedomBox can host a blog or a wiki. Host your personal website right from your home. Synchronize your calendar and contacts to FreedomBox. Share media and take backups from all devices on your home network. FreedomBox can be your Network Attached Storage (NAS).
You have options to buy it as a cloud hosted service, or you can buy a hardware device and run it at home, or you can 'build' your own on a Raspberry Pi or better computer at home.
See FreedomBox - Personal Server at Home
#technology #selfhosting #freedombox #opensource #raspberrypi
FreedomBox is a personal server running a free software operating system, with free applications designed to create and preserve personal privacy.
Is WhatsApp safe for companies? They are not GDPR-compliant, so rather look at Self-Hosting
A study conducted by the technology company Guild showed that almost half of UK workers (41%) admitted to using the messaging app for work. And even though WhatsApp has penetrated the corporate space due to its popularity, companies are in search of a more reliable secure messaging platform.
Italy’s data protection agency contacted the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) in order to demand clear information over WhatsApp security. Besides that, some Indian and multinational companies have even issued advisories to employees asking them to use WhatsApp with caution and stop using the platform for critical business calls, as reported by Economic Times.
Yes it's well worth considering rather self-hosting something like RocketChat, Matrix, Elgg, or similar that does not attract the heavy subscription costs, and you have 100% own control over all data.
See Is WhatsApp safe for companies?
#technology #deletewhatsapp #GDPR #privacy #selfhosting
Find out if Whatsapp is safe for companies and in what ways can you advance messaging security in your company.
#CommaFeed, Read Your Favorite News In One Place Everywhere • 𝖳𝗎𝗑 𝖬𝖺𝖼𝗁𝗂𝗇𝖾𝗌 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/156535 #freese #selfhosting #deletegithub
FANTASTIC! #BoilingSteam : Powered By #Gitea … and Much More! https://boilingsteam.com/boiling-steam-powered-by-gitea-and-much-more/ #git #selfhosting
Revolt is not just a simple open-source privacy replacement for Discord, but you also get the ability to self-host
It is in public beta testing phase right now and does lack a variety of features that Discord offers, but you get a lot of basic functionalities to get a head start to start experimenting. If you have used Discord, the user experience will feel familiar. You can explore their project roadmap/release tracker to see what you can expect in its final/future releases.
See Revolt: An Open-Source Alternative to Discord - It's FOSS
#technology #opensource #alternativeto #revolt #selfhosting
Revolt is a promising free and open-source choice to replace Discord. Here, we take a look at what it offers along with its initial impressions.
Galego / Galician language added to YNH webadmin
https://forum.yunohost.org/t/galego-galician-language-added-to-ynh-webadmin/17133
saúdos á comunidade de yunohosters galegas!!
nos últimos meses traducín a interface SSO (xa dispoñible) e a interface WebAdmin. Nos próximos días vai estar dispoñible e quixera pedir que por favor informásedes de calquera problema ou erro que puidese ter perpetrado. Desde fallos ao mecanografar ata utilizar palabras que non existen (en galego). Pódese informar directamente aquí respondendo a este tema ou ben directamente en weblate.
Intentei utilizar unha linguaxe inclusiva respetuosa co xénero de cada quen (usuaria = persoa usuaria) así como guiarme por academia.gal, exceptuando expresións e nomes técnicos como por exemplo “reverse-proxy”, que creo que ao traducilos engaden unha confusión que o nome en inglés facilita.
#Selfhosting Made Simple • 𝖳𝗎𝗑 𝖬𝖺𝖼𝗁𝗂𝗇𝖾𝗌 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/155408 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines
Meet the Self-Hosters - Tired of Big Tech monopolies, a community of hobbyists is taking their digital lives off the cloud and onto DIY hardware that they control
It's no secret that a small handful of enormous companies dominate the internet as we know it. But the internet didn't always have services with a billion users and quasi-monopolistic control over search or shopping. It was once a loose collection of individuals, research labs, and small companies, each making their own home on the burgeoning world wide web.
“Self-hosting” is a practice that pretty much describes itself: running your own internet services, typically on hardware you own and have at home. This contrasts with relying on products from large tech companies, which the user has no direct involvement in. A self-hoster controls it all, from the hardware used to the configuration of the software.
It's not just for file sharing or backup, or hosting photo services, but many are now self-hosting decentralised instances of social networks too. The reasons are also not just about Big Tech surveillance and data mining, but often also for economic reasons (costs a lot to host large amounts of data), and the freedom to DIY and experiment with the source code.
See Meet the Self-Hosters, Taking Back the Internet One Server at a Time
#technology #selfhosting #decentralisation #privacy #BigTech
Tired of Big Tech monopolies, a community of hobbyists is taking their digital lives off the cloud and onto DIY hardware that they control.
Reverse Proxy with Nginx for Improved Security, Performance and SSL Termination: A Step-by-Step Setup Guide
A reverse proxy is a server that sits between internal applications and external clients, forwarding client requests to the appropriate server. The reverse proxy service acts as a front-end and works by handling all incoming client requests and distributing them to the back-end web, database, or other servers. Then it forwards the response back to the client.
If you're hosting from home, you certainly want something like this running in front of all your services. My home router points all open ports to my reverse proxy, and any known URLs get defaulted to my external website to handle. If the command line is too daunting, you could consider checking my YouTube or Odysee channels where I also showed a GUI version running in a Docker container, with external subdomain names working for different services.
See Reverse Proxy with Nginx: A Step-by-Step Setup Guide
#technology #reverseproxy #security #selfhosting #nginx
step-by-step tutorial is going to show you how you can easily set up a reverse proxy with Nginx to improve security and performance.
Matrix - An Open Network for Secure, Decentralised Communication
Matrix is an open source project that publishes the Matrix open standard for secure, decentralised, real-time communication. You can self-host and federate, or join existing servers, to enable instant messaging, text chat in chatrooms, voice and video chat, file transfer, and even bridging between many other networks such as IRC, XMPP, Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, RSS, Facebook Messenger, Discord, Slack, and many more.
End-to-End-Encryption, device verification and trust, replication of chatrooms for redundancy, are all hallmarks of Matrix. It can serve as a secure communications platform for governments with roving diplomats, or for end users be an alternative to Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp.
It is the opposite of a walled garden, with its vision of acting as a generic HTTP messaging and data synchronisation system for the whole web - allowing people, services and devices to easily communicate with each other, empowering users to own and control their data, and select the services and vendors they want to use.
Watch at Matrix - An Open Network for Secure, Decentralised Communication
#technology #opensource #security #privacy #instantmessaging #matrix #alternativeto #selfhosting #federated #decentralised
Matrix is an open source project that publishes the Matrix open standard for secure, decentralised, real-time communication. You can self-host and federate, ...
https://gadgeteer.co.za/matrix-open-network-secure-decentralised-communication
Socialhome v0.13.0 released
Hello 👋 Yes, it's been a while! Eight months since the last release in fact. The project is still alive, but not as active as previously. Progress still happening once in a while, thus a new release!
Highlights
- Start adding Matrix support 🎉 Very, very early days, and totally experimental. Currently, if enabled and hooked up with a compatible Matrix server, local user accounts are mirrored to the Matrix side and additionally their public posts get mirrored in profile rooms and hashtag rooms. More later as things develop!
- Translations process! Socialhome can now be translated and is now fully translated to #French! Thanks to Alain St-Denis for the awesome work to both push through the translations process and also do the French translations <3 Other languages partially translated are German and Norwegian. Also thanks to Weblate for hosting the translations for us.
- More changes and fixes to ensure ActivityPub and Diaspora identities don't get duplicated, for remote platforms that have both versions (like Socialhome instances!).
- A bunch of bug fixes to the streams UI and to the federation library.
Full changelogs:
* Socialhome - https://socialhome.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html
* Federation - https://github.com/jaywink/federation/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
What is Socialhome?
Socialhome is best described as a #federated personal profile with social networking functionality. Users can create rich content using #Markdown. All content can be pinned to the user profile and all content will federate to contacts in the federated social web. Federation happens using the #ActivityPub and #Diaspora protocols, with #Matrix coming up!
Please check the official site for more information about features. Naturally, the official site is a #Socialhome profile itself.
Contribute
Want to work on a #Django and VueJS powered social network server? Join in the fun! We have easy to follow development environment setup documentation and a friendly chat room for questions.
#socialhome #federation #changelog #news #socialnetwork #fediverse #selfhosting
Client today: "We are are interested in self-hosting on AWS instance." Me: WTH? That's self-contradictory. #aws is #OUTSOURCING which is the opposite of #selfhosting LOL!
Setting up listmonk - an open-source self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager
It is fast, feature-rich, and packed into a single binary, or you can do a simple Docker install. It uses a PostgreSQL database as its data store.
See Setting up listmonk, an open-source newsletter & mailing list manager - Yasoob Khalid
#technology #opensource #selfhosting #mailinglist #newsletters
Hi everyone! 👋
I have been using Mailchimp for my mailing list for a while and even though it is great, it is super expensive. I have 5000+ people in my list and that puts me in their $78 plan. I send the newsletter very rarely and don’t really earn anything from the mailing list so it was really hard for me to justify the $78. I had recently integrated Amazon SES with a project and found out that SES gives you a free 50,000 email sending quota per month.
https://gadgeteer.co.za/setting-listmonk-open-source-self-hosted-newsletter-and-mailing-list-manager
Welcome to the world of self-hosted photo management services
Quite a few interesting alternatives to Google Photos, Flickr, etc that you can host yourself. I'm using Piwigo, but that was only listed in the "honourable mentions" section at the end.
Covered though are:
- Nexctcloud photos
- Photonix
- LibrePhotos
- PhotoStructure (not open source)
- Chevereto
- Lychee
- PhotoPrism
See Google Photos is so 2020—welcome to the world of self-hosted photo management
#technology #opensource #alternativesto #selfhosting #photos
Google offers many desirable, easy-to-use, effective features. Going open source is trickier.
https://gadgeteer.co.za/welcome-world-self-hosted-photo-management-services
The joys of being a #sysadmin and #selfhosting continue.
The other day, I got a pleasant email from the folks at #letsencrypt informing me that two of my domains, both hosted on a server in the basement, would be expiring because I hadn't renewed them. Mighty kind of them to remind me, but since the script that renews them had been working flawlessly for years, I still had a frown on my face as I knew troubleshooting this would not be fun.
I was not wrong.
After much poking around, I discovered that what was failing was the DNS update that I was using to prove that the machine requesting the certificate signature was authorized to do so. That's odd, because I haven't touched anything in there that I could recall. More poking about using nsupdate to try to manually update DNS from that machine with the proper key resulted in a cryptic error back: NOTIMP. Subsequent investigations revealed that meant that DNS updates were NOT IMPlemented by my server. Hmm.
After confirming that they seemed to be enabled in the server configuration, I poked around some more only to discover that DNS updates were working, just not from the machine in the basement. Or my desktop machine at home. Yet they worked just fine from a remote machine.
That's really strange.
Somewhere in there, I enabled my mesh router's (Eero) "security" features, and apparently it's blocking the DNS updates from going out. It's also possible that my ISP (Comcast) is blocking DNS updates as some kind of perverted way to block DNS attacks, similar to how they don't allow outbound TCP on port 25 (SMTP). I have no way to know which is the guilty party.
But I'm still stuck without a way to update my certs. So after about half an hour of mucking about, I was able to tweak my server's configuration to use webroot authentication, tidied things up a bit, and got the renewals to work automatically again.
Self-hosting is a never-ending series of joys just like this.
This is a very synthetic measurement over 5Ghz #wifi. That band is where I often get some 300mbps down and around 50mbps up. Not too bad, given that the theoretical 1gbit down (as per contract) presupposes a server on the other side that delivers as fast. I rarely see that, mostly if I measure against known-good servers with iperf.
Don't ask about the 2.4GHz band, I have way too many neighbours and an RF-infested bubble because #innercity.
Getting that 100mbps up the ccompany hinted at would indeed be cool, I'd feel more comfortable to go #selfhosting then.
#OpenHab 3.0 est disponible
C’est une elle occasion de libérer votre installation domotique ou d’essayer le #SmartHome libre pendant vos « temps libres ».
Mes ingrédients :
- rPi4 + carte SSD 32GB high endurance
- Radio USB Zigbee / Z-Wave Nortek HUSBZB-1
- Boîtier Argon One m.2 pour rPi 4 + stockage m.2 64 Go
- Quelques ampoules, connecteurs, interrupteurs IKEA Trädfri et Philips Hue
- Plus d’un an de lectures, essais et erreurs… et beaucoup de patience 🙂
#WPtoDiaspora #gafam #openhab #smarthome #selfhosting #zigbee #z-wave
Originally posted at: https://magicfab.ca/2020/12/openhab-3-0-est-disponible/