This is a nice Ansible / Docker tool to manager servers & apps https://rmendes.net/bookmarks/2026/02/18/this-is-a-nice-ansible
🥳 @small-tech/auto-encrypt-localhost version 9.0.1 released
Automatically provisions and installs locally-trusted TLS certificates for Node.js https servers (including Polka, Express.js, etc.) Unlike mkcert, 100% written in JavaScript with no external/binary dependencies. As used in Kitten¹
https://cod…
5 Linux servers that let you ditch the public cloud and reclaim your privacy - for free
European Union countries are moving away from American tech giants to run their own clouds and servers to control their digital destiny. You can do this, too. Here's how.
💻 https://www.z…
To maintain Apple’s privacy pledge, the Gemini-based AI will run directly on Apple devices or its private cloud system, which is powered by Apple’s own server chips, rather than running on Google’s servers. Google put significant engineering effort into getting a version of Gemini working on Apple’s servers, according to a person familiar with the partnership talks.
Sources: OpenAI appoints new leaders to oversee Stargate after deciding to rent more AI servers from cloud providers, and splits its computing effort in three (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op
from my link log —
How far can you go with only internet exchange route servers?
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/how-far-can-you-get-with-ix-route-servers
saved 2026-03-12
Nee je kan niet meer je overheid en maatschappij verhuizen naar Amerikaanse servers - @… 's writings
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/nee-je-kan-niet-meer-je-overheid-bouwen-op-de-us/
Even voor luie mensen de kortste versie ⬇️ met de aanrader om vooral het hele artikel door te laten dringen.
Deze erkenning kan ik waarderen:😉
'Zo opgeschreven ziet het er vrij bizar uit, maar dat is het ook. Het is ook niet makkelijk om door te hebben dat onze relatie met Amerika na 80 jaar uit is. Kostte ook mij tijd om dat te accepteren.'
Hij heeft gelijk.
In den Einstellungen von #Mastodon steht:
Vorschaubild des Servers
Ein Bild ungefähr im 2:1-Format, das neben den Server-Informationen angezeigt wird.
Wie ist dann da die opitmale Größe?
#fedihelp
Alright, I need fedis help here
My OpenWRT for my servers router decided to die, which made me realize that I really need to fix something that is redudant.
Preferably something rack-mounted, something that can run OPNsense - and not something that costs to much.
Ideas?
#askfedi #opnsense
Microsoft has been rejecting email from independent servers for weeks now. The "rate-limit" mentioned in this article makes it sound like it's an issue with huge amounts of mail, but it's likely triggered by dozens over days.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/04/use
Three solutions to secure Europe’s digital sovereignty
1. Eurostack: building an independent European tech stack
2. Homegrown European social networks
3. Strong enforcement of Europe’s digital laws
https://www.techpolicy.press/europe-cant-de…
I keep forgetting there is no mastodon admin api to change the registration mode. I deeply wish that api existed because so many servers would benefit from building tools to open registration during hours they are available to properly moderate new accounts.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i
topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps
IP4 prefixes for.ir TLD name servers are being announced. TCP/UDP over IP4 queries are getting responses from most of those name servers.
There are inconsistencies between what is in the root and now in ir. The root zone has IP6 addresses for each .ir name server, but the .ir zone currently does not. c.nic.ir in the root has glue for a name server in NL that is still responding authoritatively on both A and AAAA addresses, but it is surely out of sync.
Oddly, the ir zone has an…
At this point today I'm willing to light anything on fire with the word "Plex" on it. I've never had a server fight me so goddammed hard. It's taken 10x more effort to rebuild the Plex server than it did to build the Jellyfin server. However, that part of the Great Migration is done and I only have two more servers to move over to Debian.
#homelab
Spring cleaning my joined Discord servers and I'm just now realizing how little I actually use this app for anything other than keeping up with like 10 people.
Let's see, is the game Hytale popular on the Fediverse? For folks looking at hosting your own dedicated server, I'm wrapping up my installer for Debian / Ubuntu servers.
https://github.com/BitsNBytes25/Hytale-Installer
Works with Warlock web game manager or by itse…
Moving my primary domain somebits.com from Porkbun for DNS and Google for mail forwarding to Cloudflare for both. First time using Cloudflare and so far it's a good experience. I'm hoping their mail forwarding works more reliably than Google's: Google's own servers keep blocking mail it forwards to itself as spam.
Moderators of tech(-adjacent) Discord servers: are y’all getting hit with spam of people advertising their services for AI or blockchain projects?
I ask because a few servers I mod have had a very noticeable uptick of such drive-by self-promo. It’s specifically webdev servers, and none of those servers have advertised themselves as spaces for AI or blockchain interests…
Why do American hotel restaurants always have really slow bad service by inexperienced servers yet charge a large premium? I've been in 4 in the last two weeks only because I've had included credits. I feel like they prop them up by sending us statused travelers in.
Even if you tell Google to not save your videos, they still do. Please, don't use Nest cameras
"But Nest still saves around three hours of “event-based” video history for free before being deleted. That data lives in Google’s cloud and servers. "
#google #nest
We asked 6 Druid Historical Calculation servers if they could calculate 5 years of data at once for a very complicated multi-stage query. Their answer will surprise you!
This is my 1st time learning of #Guacamole, despite being an ASF Member. Looks cool…
Basically a J2EE app that talks HTML5 with WebSocket (or falls back to a custom HTTP-based stream proto) to a JS client in the browser on the front end, and speaks its own abstract remote desktop proto to a backend proxy that talks RDP or VNC to desktop servers. Apparently there’s also a X11 graphics drive…
@… 全部うまってないけど、とりあえずこれが参考になるかも
🥳 Auto-Encrypt Localhost version 9.0.0 released
Bye bye, Windows.
• Windows is no longer supported as Microsoft is complicit in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people¹ and Small Technology Foundation² stands in solidarity with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement³. Windows is an ad-infested and surveillance-ridden dumpster fire of an operating system and, alongside supporting genocide, you are putting both yourself and others at risk by using it.
Enjo…
Will man ein Konto bei #Mastodon, muss man einen Server wählen. Dazu geht man auf
- https://fedi.garden/ oder
-
I just finished reorganizing the cable drawer.
The timeline of events was something like:
- the DNS server for internal name resolution runs inside a Docker container only reachable via IPv4
- if an Android device gets both IPv4 and IPv6 DNS servers, it will only query the IPv6 one
- fuck Docker; I'll install the DNS server on a Raspberry Pi
- creating a Pi image with sshd enabled didn't work
- this household has surprisingly few HDMI cables
- oh, …
I just finished reorganizing the cable drawer.
The timeline of events was something like:
- the DNS server for internal name resolution runs inside a Docker container only reachable via IPv4
- if an Android device gets both IPv4 and IPv6 DNS servers, it will only query the IPv6 one
- fuck Docker; I'll install the DNS server on a Raspberry Pi
- creating a Pi image with sshd enabled didn't work
- this household has surprisingly few HDMI cables
- oh, …
RE: https://mastodon.social/@staff/116015299592234843
Adding support for disabled "live feeds".
Now the issue is whether to hide the 'Local' and 'Federated' menu items in the main nav. Phanpy allows users to switch servers, so…
The bureaucratic rigidness of the Italian government has taken it to a completely unnecessary conflict with US providers. With the poorly-planned Privacy Shield initiative, it entered a digital sovereignty conflict the country never prepared for. The appalling thing is that even the outspoken Mario Draghi didn't try to walk his talk. And now Cloudfare threatens to resist.
"The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification…
Italy fines Cloudflare €14.2M for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service; CEO Matthew Prince says he will discuss it with US officials (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
It's the beginning of the month again and that means new bills for the servers! We have various expenses and moderation work unfortunately takes up a lot of time, which is why we would be very happy about a little support! :boost_requested:
Let's see, is the game Hytale popular on the Fediverse? For folks looking at hosting your own dedicated server, I'm wrapping up my installer for Debian / Ubuntu servers.
https://github.com/BitsNBytes25/Hytale-Installer
Works with Warlock web game manager or by itse…
I just installed `asncounter`[1] by @… (blog post[2]) to get a glimpse who is accessing one of my servers. Turns out, 99% of the traffic originates from just two ASNs in Brazil: Mega Tele Informatica and R3 Telecom. I'm in Germany, my server is in Germany (I believe, it's a Hetzner root server).
I guess I could safely block these ASNs. The only thi…
I'm planning to set up a music room for $SPOUSE. Neither of us are audiophiles.
Looking for recommendations for amps that support Airplay, and work well with #HomeAssistant.
Must haves:
- local control - I don't want something that will have issues if its mothership turns off servers, or even just because my internet is out.
- AirPlay support
- Works well with Home Assistant
- Supports unpowered speakers
- Doesn't require an app to configure it
Nice to have
- Streaming support
- IOS app for control
Also looking for disrecommendations for stuff that doesn't work well with HA.
TwitterX """users""" might have to join Fedi now. (Although, can someone set up a silo'd server, so they don't infect other servers)
#twitter #x #grok
Wow, just managed to fix a problem that has hounded me the last few days: after a reboot, one of my home servers (Ubuntu 24.04, 2 NVMEs with XFS filesystems) couldn't find its RAID 1 boot volume, claiming 'duplicate MD device names in conf file were found'. Gulp. Managed to find the solution here:
«Decentralized P2P Chat & File Transfer - Secure Messaging Without Central Servers:
Creating decentralized P2P technology. Aiming to provide industry-grade cryptographic capabilities encapsulated into a webapp.»
Do any of you regularly use @… with several people at the same time or even professionally and what is your impression about it?
🐟
I need a few incoming webmentions for testing (okay, this sounds like a really fishy attempt to generate likes … I promise that it is not 😂). So would you all please like and repost this piece I recently wrote? You can also read it, of course.
https://matthiasott.com/articles/webspace-inv…
BOFH excuse #375:
Root name servers corrupted.
"Right now, too many newcomers default to the largest servers. We want to change that - because Mastodon is best when communities are spread across many independent servers, each with its own character and focus." - Mastodon blog
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/
Great talk by @… of #GNU #Hurd fame, in a packed room, selling the the Hurd really well (in my not entirely unbiased opinion, of course) and starting with
It'…
I wonder if the octopus servers are experiencing an sudden peak in demand?
🥳 New module release: Hetzner Cloud OpenAPI Client
https://codeberg.org/small-tech/hetzner-cloud-openapi-client
This is an OpenAPI client for Node.js generated from the official Hetzner Cloud OpenAPI specification using Massimo.
Recently, while reviewing t…
TIL that some #CalDAV servers just silently ignore your precious X-whatever fields 😑
Well I guess I'll have to teach caldav-event-pusher¹ to first check which fields survive an event upload...
¹https://gitlab.com…
Cyera researchers detail Ni8mare, a critical RCE flaw that lets hackers access local instances of the n8n workflow automation platform, impacting ~100K servers (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secur…
Its only 10am and I'm already spent for the day. We are working with a new vendor who asked for SPF to spoof or domain sending email. They didn't ask their servers to be added, but instead ALL OF AWS CLOUD! WTF?
Advice for all the poor clickworkers and AI agents who are trying to create accounts on half-open fediverse servers:
- Do not begin your reasons for joining with the words, “I’m a genuine Fediverse user …”
- Do not end the with, “… interested in technology, digital culture, and open communities. I’d like to join fedifreu.de to exchange ideas respectfully, follow diverse perspectives, and be part of a friendly, decentralized social space that values openness and co…
Der Speicherplatzbedarf des Proxmox Backup Servers pendelt sich bei knapp 5 TB ein.
Laut PBS-Prognose soll der Platz für >5 Jahre ausreichend sein.
Dann bin ich beruhigt.
Der Umstieg von backrest war eine gute Idee.
Backrest ist nicht schlecht.
Aber PBS ist einfach ideal für Proxmox.
Ich muss aber noch ein offsite-Backup einrichten, bevor ich Jottacloud kündigen kann.
#Proxmox
VM server going down for the third attempt at updating to xcp-ng 8.3 after two previous failures resulted in rollbacks and changes to my SR configuration to hopefully be compatible with 8.3.
Also doing the first of two rounds of hardware upgrades after I scored a bunch of nice stuff from some servers that were headed to the scrapyard.
Updating the list of CLI apps I use regularly:
- castero: client for listening to podcasts.
- calcurse: personal calendar compatible with CalDAV servers.
- kew: music player.
- micro: text editor.
- toot: Mastodon client.
- newsboat: feed reader.
- w3m: web browser (and newsboat add-on, in my case).
- bat: like cat, but cooler.
- exa: like ls, but cooler.
- ncdu: tool for analyzing folder space usage.
- atool: tool for managing compress…
I'm going to have to disagree. You should know not to get "smart" appliances at this point. Your fridge with a touch screen is going to show you ads, your vacuum with 'smart' features is going to stop working when the company shuts off its servers, and your wifi-enabled oven is going to do abusive stuff if you put it online. Which this genius did.
topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps
A US DOJ-led international law enforcement operation disrupted SocksEscort, a residential proxy network used to exploit residential routers worldwide (Jessica Lyons/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/12/socksescort_fraud_proxy_taken_down_fbi/
Sad for all those accounts on #MedMastodon after the server disappeared. I hope this make it even more clear that #mastodon needs way to let users own the data and allow it to be easily ported between servers.
People don't feel safe on small servers or often don't understand…
🥳 Minor releases
• Auto Encrypt 5.1.0: Moves automatic IP address detection from top-level await to asynchronous createServer() method to enable servers that import to run offline when they’re running on localhost) and exports IPAddresses class so servers can carry out their own automatic IP address detection (IPv4 and IPv6) if they want full control over exactly which domains and IP addresses are included in provisioned TLS certificates.¹
• @small-tech/https: Re-exports IPAddres…
How independent of the US corporations is your website that you use or even operate?
«Replace US tech with European alternatives:
Your current stack sends EU data to US servers under US law. Find sovereign, GDPR-native replacements in seconds.»
🇪🇺 https://www.cloudinfraatlas.eu
Door discussies hier viel mijn oog op @… , interessante europese cloud provider. Prettig prijsmodel ook.
https://jottacloud.com/
BOFH excuse #376:
Budget cuts forced us to sell all the power cords for the servers.
Toch handig die fediverse met eigen servers... Zo'n server met allemaal accounts die met bergen hashtags lopen te spammen kun je in een keer afvoeren, indien nodig. 😀
Update:
Moet ik dan individuele accounts blijven blokkeren? 🤔
.. We gaan t zien ..
topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps
The anonymous Zionist hasbara meme poster has created at least two new accounts on two servers (ban evasion) to continue their reply and block harassment.
⁃ @avidity@qlub.social
⁃ @hedgerows@101010.pl
Please report block. #fediblock
(No one is pro the Iranian regime here but neither are we pro-American/Israeli aggression. “Antizionism” is being anti settler colonialism…
Samsung expects Q4 operating profit up 208% YoY to ~$13.8B, vs. ~$12.3B est., and revenue up 23% to ~$64.2B, as demand for AI servers lifted memory chip prices (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
RE: https://gardenstate.social/@stefan/116026499033431295
@… do you plan to turn off the public api on your servers? Wondering if I …
topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps
A look at Corning's booming fiber-optic business, boosted by data center demand and a $6B Meta deal, as Nvidia explores Corning's co-packaged optics for servers (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/corning-fiber-opt
Wow, man, imagine being the kind of person that suspends anyone he sees from Gaza during a genocide.
The inhumanity of some Germans is really quite remarkable. Didn’t you get enough of genocide the first time around?
Add social.tchncs.de to the list of Zionist, pro-genocide Mastodon servers.
#germany #israel
topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps
If you know people on social.cologne who aren’t Zionists/genocide supporters please let them know that they cannot see posts by me and others who oppose Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people as our instances and accounts are blocked by their Zionist/pro-genocide server.
I can only assume Zionist/pro-genocide servers will not be allowed according to mastodon.social’s new server covenant and suggested as safe spaces to newcomers to the fediverse (including Palestinians suff…
topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps
If you’re looking for an ngrok alternative for tunnelling that is affordable and just works (e.g., with Kitten¹), I can highly recommend LocalXpose (https://localxpose.io/).
(Not affiliated with them in any way; just use their tunnels for testing with Kitten on a daily basis.)
PS. If you have a static IPv4 …
Dell stock closes up 22%, its biggest single-day gain since March 1, 2024, after the company gave an outlook for sales of its AI servers that exceeded estimates (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
🥳 Multiple major releases today
• @small-tech/auto-encrypt v5.0.0 (https://codeberg.org/small-tech/auto-encrypt#readme)
• @small-tech/auto-encrypt-localhost v10.0.0 (
Just added Web Reachability API (at least that’s what I’m calling it) support to https://ip.small-web.org.
It’s for testing the reachability of your Small Web servers (using a domain or, more importantly, an IPv4/IPv6 address). I’m using it to implement Web Numbers¹ support in Auto Encrypt² and Kitten³.
…
Microsoft confirms it does provide BitLocker recovery keys for encrypted data if it receives a valid legal order and the user has stored the keys on its servers (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewste