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#lazyweb and #animation crew rise up!

I'm working on a video for a blog post, and I am realizing that I could really use some animations to illustrate some ideas in a more direct way than what royalty free video will provide.

I have basically no experience in animation and I don't want to be a […]

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My search has, thus far, been fruitless so I am asking here as a last ditch attempt …

I am looking for a self-hostable web based application to be an inventory of the (real, rather than e-) #books in the house. It should be able to accept a list of #ISBNs as input for importing items and look […]

Debian -- News -- Updated Debian 13: 13.4 released

Digital sovereignty starts small: Linux you trust, tools you can self-host, and data you control. Debian 13.4 shipped more security fixes this month.

www.debian.org/News/2026/20...

What are you taking back first?

#Linux #SelfHosting #Privacy

Hi, I’m Michael. Writer, photographer, and self-sovereignty guide, with 2 books behind me.

I talk about privacy, decentralisation, self-hosting, Linux, Web3, digital freedom, and human-first tech.

Topics: privacy, Linux, self-hosting, digital freedom.

#Privacy #SelfHosting #DigitalFreedom

New blog post: How to set up self-hosted email

https://blog.ari.lt/b/set-up-selfhosted-email/

im pretty happy with this

#email #selfhosting #horsefacts #blog

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If you are going to self-host, do yourself a favour and self-host an rss feed reader too.

Github publishes an ATOM feed of the releases page which makes keeping track of updates much easier.

Especially as many web services have migration scripts that need to be run between versions, blindly […]

Web components are the perfect container, self hosted style, logic and form

#observability #selfhosting

📖 Envie de l'installer chez vous ? Le guide est sur le Wiki :
👉 wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/installat...

Retrouvez tous mes services ici : blablalinux.be/mes-services...

P.S. Un grand merci à Universe Photo Archive... il saura pourquoi ! 🤫✨

#LanguageTool #OpenSource #SelfHosting #ViePrivée

How to Install Mealie on Your UGREEN NAS Trustworthy expert guide to your Synology and UGREEN NAS.

How to Install Mealie on Your UGREEN NAS
mariushosting.com/how-to-insta... #UGREEN #UGREENNAS #UGREENAS #NAS #Docker #Portainer #Mealie #Recipe #Recipes #Food #selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #homelab #OpenSource #UGOS #UGOSPRO #mariushosting

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How to Deploy PowerDNS Cluster on Ubuntu VPS Servers This article provides a detailed guide for how to deploy PowerDNS cluster on Ubuntu VPS servers. What is PowerDNS? PowerDNS is an open-source DN...

#Guides #Cloud #VPS #cluster #dns #install #guide […]

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"Your Homelab On Stream" with an assortment of submitted homelab pictures

We're LIVE taking a look at your homelab submissions and chat about self-hosting! Stop by and say hi!

https://www.youtube.com/live/71OrEU5U-TI

#homelab #selfhosting

"Your Homelab On Stream" with an assortment of submitted homelab pictures

Going LIVE in 2 hours to take a look at your homelab submissions and chat about self-hosting! Stop by and say hi!

https://www.youtube.com/live/71OrEU5U-TI

#homelab #selfhosting

🚀 Admidio 5.0.8 is out!

This release delivers multiple bug fixes and closes important security vulnerabilities. We recommend updating as soon as possible to keep your system secure and stable.

#Admidio #Update #selfHosting

How to Install Dynacat on Your Synology NAS Trustworthy expert guide to your Synology and UGREEN NAS.

How to Install Dynacat on Your Synology NAS
mariushosting.com/how-to-insta... #Synology #NAS #Docker #Portainer #Dynacat #selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #RSS #RSSFeed #homelab #OpenSource #DSM #DSM7 #DSM71 #DSM72 #DSM73 #mariushosting

Nextcloud Freezing/Hanging When Viewing Image Folders After Upgrading to 33 (Solved) I've had this issue off and on since upgrading to 33, but couldn't quite nail it down, until now.

I did a short write-up on how I fixed the issue with my personal #Nextcloud instance freezing/hanging after upgrading to Nextcloud 33.

Link: open.substack.com/pub/gerowen/...

#HomeLab #SelfHosting

Nextcloud Freezing/Hanging When Viewing Image Folders After Upgrading to 33 (Solved) I've had this issue off and on since upgrading to 33, but couldn't quite nail it down, until now.

I did a short write-up on how I fixed the issue with my personal #Nextcloud instance freezing/hanging after upgrading to Nextcloud 33.

Link: open.substack.com/pub/gerowen/p/nextcloud-...

#HomeLab #SelfHosting

Big dog as 2008 Foss devs Vs small dog as 2026 foss devs, big dog sticks to his principles and doesn't bend the knee no matter what, small dog works at big tech and buys Apple hardware, doesn't take a firm stance on age verification.. etc

2008 #foss devs were warriors :doge:

#ageverification #privacy #anonymity #surveillance #ubuntu #arch #fedora #kde #gnome #apple #google #degoogle #development #coding #github #discord #codeberg #linux #decentralized #FreeSoftware #selfhosting #cloudflare

The dominance of corporate tech giants means your personal data is stored on servers you don't control. Self-hosting and mesh networking offer a way to take back control of your data.

The cloud is just someone else's computer. And their computer is full of your data. #selfhosting #datsovereignty

#selfhosting #datsovereignty #meshnetworking

I seem to be reposting previously published posts each time I do a rebuild of my source site, seems everything gets federated out on build regardless if it had been previously posted.

Fun weekend ahead, then.

#indieweb #selfhosting #independent #blog

CPU usage graph from netdata with multiple spikes to 100 %, lasting from a few seconds up to a minute

CPU usage graph from netdata with some spikes at the beginning to up to 80 % and then nearly 25 % usage for most of the time until it lowered to 10 %

Dashboard of Open Archiver demo website: Total emails archived: 1449; Total Storage Used: 159.25 MB, Failed Ingestions: 0; Ingestion History graph by day for the last 30 days and a pie chart for Storage by Source

I’ve recently discovered Open Archiver in a (German) YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXd2X7Ln_Vk which allows you to archive your emails from various different email providers. It seems to be still a very new project, but it looks promising […]

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Synology: Huge Docker Container Updates March 2026 Trustworthy expert guide to your Synology and UGREEN NAS.

Synology: Huge Docker Container Updates March 2026
mariushosting.com/synology-hug... #Synology #NAS #Docker #UGREEN #selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #DSM #DSM71 #DSM72 #DSM7 #DSM73 #homelab #OpenSource #March2026 #UGOS #UGOSPRO #mariushosting

Caddy DNS verification - Timo Zimmermann Three steps to migrate Caddy from an internal ACME service with self signed root certificate to using a public DNS server to get Lets Encrypt certificates for locally hosted service.

Quick writeup on building a Docker image for Caddy with DNS verification to get a wildcard cert with trusted root going for internal services. #selfhosting #selfhosted #homelab

www.screamingatmyscreen.com/caddy-dns-verification/

ZimaCube 2 promo

🚀 IceWhale just launched the ZimaCube 2 Pioneer Program! They’re looking for community feedback and will randomly select 10 participants to receive a FREE ZimaCube 2. Want in?

Details here: shop.zimaspace.com/pages/zimacube-2-pioneer...

#homelab #selfhosting #ad

Bitwarden Doubled Their Price. I'd Already Left. Here's What You Missed.

blog.ppb1701.com/bitwarden-do...

#bitwarden #passwordmanager #selfhosting #userhostile #blog

Bitwarden Doubled Their Price. I'd Already Left. Here's What You Missed. Back in January, I was two days into setting up Vaultwarden when Bitwarden sent me their annual Data Privacy Week survey. What browser do you use? What email service? What VPN? What are your concerns about AI and your data? I filled it out. Checked every box about keeping AI away from my personal data. Sent it in. Went back to configuring my self-hosted instance. The irony wasn't lost on me — a password manager asking how I feel about AI and data privacy, while I was in the middle of moving my passwords off their servers entirely. Six days later, on January 21st, they doubled their Premium price. I found out about it recently — because someone sent me a Fast Company article from February 1st. Which itself took eleven days after the announcement for anyone to even notice it was worth writing about. That tells you everything about how quietly this was done. ## What Actually Happened Bitwarden's Premium plan went from $10/year to $19.80/year — their first price increase in ten years. The announcement was a blog post about new features — vault health alerts, password coaching, more attachment storage — with the price change mentioned almost as an afterthought. No dedicated email. No direct "hey, your price is doubling" communication to paying customers. I follow them on Mastodon and checked their Facebook — (yes, I know, Facebook, but when your local government refuses to use anything else for announcements, you end up keeping the account) — if they announced it on social, it wasn't given any prominence. Either it's not there or it's buried so deep it doesn't count as communication. Existing customers will find out 15 days before their renewal. Not in an email that says "your price is going from $10 to $19.80." In an email that says "$1.65/month, billed annually." Here's the thing — Bitwarden has never offered monthly billing. Not once in ten years. It has always been annual only. So if you're a paying customer who isn't paying close attention, that email looks less like a price hike and more like... taxes? A currency adjustment? Nothing to see here, auto-renew. That's not an accident. That's the design. ## My Situation Specifically I paid Bitwarden on the way out. Deliberately. I'd been a satisfied customer, I was leaving for my own reasons, and I wanted to say thank you — a coffee or two's worth of goodwill. I left on good terms. In return, as a recent paying customer, I received zero communication about the price doubling. I would have found out at renewal — nearly a year after the fact — via a deliberately confusing email that never actually states the annual price. I'd have been sitting there thinking "did they add taxes?" and probably just let it roll. I'm not angry about $20 a year. That's not crazy money for a password manager. But I am calling out the way this was done, because this is exactly the pattern I document in this series. ## The Pattern Bitwarden isn't Google or Apple. They're not a monopoly. But the playbook rhymes: * **Bury the bad news** — hide a price doubling inside a feature announcement * **Obscure the actual number** — list a monthly price for an annual-only product * **Minimize direct communication** — let customers find out at renewal, not upfront * **Bank on friction** — password manager migration is painful, most people won't bother That last one is the real bet. They know switching costs are high. They know most customers will grumble and auto-renew. And the communication strategy is specifically engineered to minimize the number of people who even grumble. I went from "on the fence about whether this was worth writing about" to "this is getting shady" in about ten minutes of looking at the details. When a company's pricing communication is specifically designed so customers don't notice what's happening — that's not a mistake. That's a choice. ## Why I'm Not Scrambling Here's what's different about my situation: I don't have to decide anything. The Vaultwarden instance has been running since mid-January. Browser extension, mobile app, desktop client. Zero issues. My passwords live on my server, not theirs. I'll be sunsetting my Bitwarden cloud presence soon. Not in anger — just tidying up. The cloud account was always going to be a temporary failsafe while I validated the setup. It's validated. Time to close the door properly. When the price hike landed, I wasn't scrambling. I was just watching, mildly interested, from somewhere they can no longer reach. That's the actual value of self-hosting. Not the features. Not the money saved. The fact that when a company does something you don't like, you're not stuck. ## What You Can Do Most people aren't going to self-host a password manager. That's fine. But if you're a Bitwarden Premium subscriber who just found out about this — especially _how_ it was communicated — you have options. Proton Pass and 1Password are both worth a look, and at their current pricing they're not dramatically more expensive than the new Bitwarden rate. And if you want to actually own your password data: here's how I did it. **Did you know about the Bitwarden price increase? Did you get a direct email about it? Find me on Mastodon at@ppb1701@ppb.social — because I didn't, and I'm genuinely curious how many paying customers are still in the dark.**

Bitwarden Doubled Their Price. I'd Already Left. Here's What You Missed.

blog.ppb1701.com/bitwarden-doubled-their-...

#bitwarden #passwordmanager #selfhosting #userhostile #blog

#n8n #selfhosting #GeekLife

Self-Host Weekly (27 March 2026) Controversial donation banners, Booklore successors, and a public service announcement for GitHub users

Self-Host Weekly (2026-03-27)

A #GitHub PSA, software #updates and launches, a spotlight on #Kaneo, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

selfh.st/weekly/2026-...

#selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #foss #homelab #bluesky #privacy #sysadmin #devops #smarthome #development #newsletter

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🚀 Deploy Flowise + Kubernetes + Helm on Ubuntu VPS (10-Step Guide) Here’s a step-by-step guide to deploy FlowiseAI (commonly just Flowise) on a Ubuntu VPS using Helm + Kubernetes. I assume you...

#Guides #Cloud #VPS #flowise #helm #kubernetes #open […]

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Easily Install and Run Postal Email Platform on Ubuntu VPS (5 Minute Guide) This article provides a guide for how to install and run Postal email platform on Ubuntu VPS. Step-by-Step Guide to Insta...

#Guides #Cloud #VPS #docker #email #install #guide […]

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Line graph showing traffic internet traffic. It’s flat at zero until we reach march 17 and then there’s a huge spike. Big numbers at the top say • Total bandwidth 27.81 GB Cached bandwidth 33.32 MB Requests served 1,380,802 Cache hit rate 1.25%

Ok this one’s on me.

I stood up a test website and I used bunny net as my CDN. The url was predictable. Test dot domain dot net. Well, somebody found it and just hammered it. 1.3M requests in a week. I probably account for about 200 of those. I figured it […]

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