Joseph Nuthalapati @njoseph@social.masto.host

Cloud computing is like factory farming for servers.

My home server is a pet.

#selfHosting

Got a certificate expiry notification from Let's Encrypt Expiry Bot today. 👍

That's a pretty useful service to have since certificate expiration accounts for a significant portion of the downtime for self-hosted services.

#selfHosting #LetsEncrypt

Firefox Send was discontinued this Thursday. However, the command-line tool ffsend still works. It connects to a self-hosted instance of Send maintained by the developer.
https://github.com/timvisee/ffsend

#selfHosting

FreedomBox 20.14+ (available since Friday) provides the app Bepasty.

Yunohost has Jirafeau.

#communityHosting

Framasoft provides a public file-sharing app at Framadrop.org

Please support these projects and donate. 😇

Framasoft grew to 38 services between 2014 and 2017. They will be restricting some of the services and closing some others. This is to focus on a smaller core set of services and not centralize too many users at the same place (the current estimate is 700,000).

https://framablog.org/2020/03/03/10-bonnes-raisons-de-fermer-certains-services-framasoft-la-5e-est-un-peu-bizarre/

We have to take this opportunity to thank @Framasoft for all their work!

Also, it's time for the rest of us to pick up the pace and do community hosting.

#CommunityHosting #SelfHosting #EachOneHostOne

A Feminist Server Manifesto 0.01

https://areyoubeingserved.constantvzw.org/Summit_afterlife.xhtml

#SelfHosting #feminism

Self-hosting with fossil, an alternative to git
https://dev.to/schollz/self-hosting-with-fossil-an-alternative-to-git-33bk

#selfHosting #git #fossil #scm

My Pioneer edition FreedomBox running on in-built battery backup during a minor power outage today.

I have minor power outages of a few minutes a day at my place during the rainy season. When I was running FreedomBox on a bare Raspberry Pi 2 earlier, I had to replace the microSD card once a year due to damage. The Pioneer edition has solved this problem for me.

#Debian #FreedomBox #HomeServer #Olimex #SelfHosting

New blog post ✨

Behavioral data, not Biodata
https://njoseph.me/ikiwiki/blog/posts/Behavioral_data__44___not_Biodata/

tl;dr
It's not your biodata that surveillance capitalism is interested in. It's your behavioral data.

#SurveillanceCapitalism #Privacy #Advertising #SelfHosting

Self-hosting is also a form of self-care.

It gives you a sense of safety and control, peace of mind, and protects you from exploitation by the surveillance machine (at least partially).

#selfHosting #selfCare

This is one of the best articles I've ever read on the topic of #DigitalColonialism

Digital colonialism is threatening the Global South

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/digital-colonialism-threatening-global-south-190129140828809.html

#FreedomBox #Mastodon #Swecha #FreeBasics #SelfHosting #CommunityHosting

Using containers in self-hosted home servers feels like hauling your groceries home in multiple shipping containers - one for each item. 🤐

#selfhosting #containers

If parallel universes exist, there must be a version of me in one of them who became an electronics engineer and won't shut up about self-hosting electricity using solar panels.

#SelfHosting #SolarPower

Image from PBS Crash Course Engineering #30

Freedom in a Box

My talk about privacy, decentralization, self-hosting, freedom of speech and FreedomBox.

It's a non-technical talk meant to spread awareness about the dangers of mass surveillance and the alternatives that exist to centralized systems.

https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/48bf6272-d7b0-4943-808b-a0827d1fd99d

Links to slides are in the video description.

Delivered at ThoughtWorks Hyderabad for the 46th edition of GeekNight on 2nd Jan, 2019.

#FreedomBox #SelfHosting #privacy #ThoughtWorks #decentralization #federation

Self-hosting at the price of two Starbucks coffees.

Libre Computer's La Frite is a $10 ARM computer launching in November 2018.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/librecomputer/la-frite-open-source-fries

#selfhosting

Evolution of Digital Freedom

Digital serf -> Self-hosted -> full P2P

Digital serf: Completely depends on digital feudal lords who maintain huge centralized systems. No data ownership

Self-hosted: Hosts most of the services they need on their own servers. Good enough data ownership.

P2P: All personal data resides on own devices at all times and shared when necessary without any intermediary control. Full data ownership.

#digitalfreedom #digitalfeudalism #p2p #selfhosting

I wanted to self-host the Wire messaging app and took a look at their repository on GitHub. It looks like they really don't want me to self-host it at all.

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-server

You might be open-source but you ain't free software if you hide the information on how to host your software. 😠

#wireapp #selfhosting #opensource #freesoftware

LineageOS + F-Droid + FreedomBox = digital freedom

#lineageos #fdroid #freedombox #selfhosting #freedom

All it costs to fulfill the average person's needs for digital services is a $5 per month VPS instance. It's even cheaper if you buy a single board computer and host your services at home.

We've been letting companies steal our personal data and sell it to the highest bidder and destroying democracy in the process all to save what? A coffee a month?

This is one of the worst deals in history.

#privacy #selfhosting

Almost two months since I last bought something online. Aiming for 3 months!

And my ordering food online has reduced too since I started doing some amount of cooking.

I hope that sometime in my life I'll be able to sustainably grow my own food and produce my own energy. Self-hosting my internet services was the first step, these are the next.

#anticonsumption #sustainability #selfhosting #solarpunk

We take Lets Encrypt for granted these days, but imagine you host a $5 per month server just for your needs and had to buy a $100 SSL certificate for it. Wouldn't you be discouraged from self-hosting in the first place?

#selfhosting #letsencrypt