Edit 2:

I think the "no minimum" and "1-day minimum" are pretty clearly not going to take the lead at this point, but "no minimum" has a whopping 0 upvotes.

That does not mean that votes are closed!

Please continue to vote. I'll give this a full 24 hours, but in the interest of the community preference I'm going to clean up the past 24hrs worth of posts now, and put the 7 day minimum into the rules as a starting point while we give folks an opportunity to provide their up/downvotes.

I worry this is going to turn the rules into needing a post with full descriptions, but in the interest of the fun being had this week...

I think a mandatory delay on posts for new accounts doing promo, even if they are fully f/loss, can stem the tide.

I'm going to make comments below as a quick poll below for timeframes. Please upvote the ones you'd be ok with, downvote if you're against it. Since this will be quick I'm going to keep comments closed for now - if you have comments please add them to the main thread.

Edit: For the record I've removed the initial upvote from myself by creating the comment, so the net on each is exactly as the community votes on each item.

Edit 4:

This has more than substantial community support, and is being put into effect immediately.

Please bear with me on the sidebar edit, as I'm not going to be in front of my PC for a bit.

As previously mentioned this will remain up for the week to allow for refinement for edge cases if possible, and be aware I'm trying to see what I can do to make this more of a direct vote on specific options going forward. If anyone believes this needs revisiting after the week is up, please feel free to start a conversation on it.

May your latency be low and your uptimes be high!

Edit 3 - further refining.

There are some rather... unique interpretations of what a promo post is, along with an important note that some people lurk. Its important though that they participate somewhere to make sure its not a drive-by ad, but its fair to say that there are users in programming, linux, and other communities whose posts would be welcomed by users here.

Its also important to users here that its not just post and disappear.

So I'm adjusting to:

Promotion posts require your active participation in selfhosting or related communities, or the post will be removed. No more than 10% of your posts or comments may be self-promotional, or your post will be removed. F/LOSS Exception: If your post is about a project that is completely open source & can be self-hosted in full without payment, your post is exempt from this rule as long as you continue to engage in comments.

EDIT 2 AT THE TOP AGAIN:

It seems there is some confusion around the term "promo posts", so I'm making another adjustment for clarity. If this is muddying the waters instead, please point that out!

Self-promotion posts advertising their product requires community participation, or they will be removed. No more than 10% of your posts or comments may be self-promotional, or your post will be removed. F/LOSS Exception: If your post is about a project that is completely open source & can be self-hosted in full without payment, your post is exempt from this rule.

I worry a bit that its getting unwieldy, so feel free to suggest options to clean up the language a bit.

EDIT AT THE TOP:

Promotional posts require community participation or they will be removed. No more than 10% of your posts or comments may be self-promotional, or your post will be removed. F/LOSS Exception: If your post is about a project that is completely open source & can be used in full without payment, it will be exempt from this rule.

Intended to clarify on "paywall" - it has to be open source and run in full locally, no one-time or subscription-locked payment for features, to qualify. Donations don't count as that doesn't limit use, while something like Kavita (which has non-free features behind a subscription, despite the base being open source) would not have the benefit of exemption. The rule intent hasn't changed here, just the wording on the exemption limitations.

I've gotten through (I believe) all the comments in the meta thread. So I want to establish a few things, first being a better definition on spam.

Spam is not "I don't like this and its a paid product" or "I don't like this and they used AI/LLMs".

Spam would generally be considered:

• Mass-posting - Posting the exact same post across a bunch of of different communities, rapidly.
• Repetitive Content (aka karma farming) - repeatedly submitting old popular content. I'll note that this is completely irrelevant on lemmy, this was more of a reddit issue due to karma.
• Bot Activity / AI Abuse - Using scripts/bots/gen AI to automate posts and comments.
• Unsolicited DMs - Mass private messages or chats to users, completely unsolicited

I'd say anything other than that deserves a followup rule, and this definition should go in the sidebar.

Regarding the promotional posts themselves, I think something like the 10% rule makes sense - no more than 10% of the account should be self-promotional material or comments within the community.

I do think it makes sense to include an exception for 100% free/libre open source projects. Partially open projects with a closed (paid) component should be subject to the 10% rule. So what I propose as the rule would be:

Promotional posts require community participation or they will be removed. No more than 10% of your posts or comments may be self-promotional, or your post will be removed. F/LOSS Exception: If your post is about a project that is completely open source & without any paywalls, it will be exempt from this rule.

Questions, comments, clarifications, and harsh criticisms are welcomed in the comments. As a reminder from my intro post, and because of some comments in the other thread, I will mention:

There are people on both sides of the keyboards, so please be respectful of others.

Hello everyone! Mods here 😊

Tell us, what services do you selfhost? Extra points for selfhosted hardware infrastructure.

Feel free to take it as a chance to present yourself to the community!

🦎

First, I know that Unraid is not FOSS and I'm a month late, just to get that out of the way. But for those that are running Unraid and haven't updated to >7.3.0, there's good reason to (other than for security patches): internal boot and TPM licensing.

This update allows you to boot from an internal drive, no more chewing up flash drives. As a long time Unraid user (for over a decade), this was a long time coming. My server ate several flash drives. Setting it up was a breeze, once I updated to 7.3.x, the wizard to configure it came up and I was able to move it to one of my internal SSDs. All I had to do after that was go into the BIOS and set the boot priority correctly.

Internal boot works without a TPM, however you'd still need the flash drive with your license on it plugged in at boot. If you have a TPM on your server, though, you can migrate your license from your flash to your TPM, with another simple wizard. After migration, you no longer need a boot flash drive.

I had to get a Supermicro AOM-TPM-9665V TPM chip for my motherboard, but I've got it all set now. It's a relief to no longer have to rely on flash drives now - my server's rear exhaust fans were blowing directly on them, causing them to overheat and eventually crash my server.

Unraid posted about this in their blog here: https://unraid.net/blog/unraid-7-3-0

First public release of CookTrace, a self-hosted, fully-featured recipe manager for keeping every recipe you cook in one place, with the pantry, cook diary, shopping list, and Android app to match. Inspired by apps like Mealie, built as the third app in the Trace family alongside NutriTrace (nutrition) and LiftTrace (lifting). Single Docker container, AGPL-3.0, no telemetry, no cloud sync, no subscriptions.

Repo: https://github.com/TraceApps/cooktrace Release: https://github.com/TraceApps/cooktrace/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc.1 Docker (amd64 + arm64): ghcr.io/traceapps/cooktrace:latest

Recipes

• Full recipe model: hero photo, ratings, ingredient groups, step-by-step instructions with per-step photos, kitchen gear, source / video URLs, rich-text notes
• Live scaling with snap-to-cooking-fractions math (1 ½ cup not 1.5 cup)
• Inline unit converter per ingredient with a built-in 250-entry density table, so volume → grams resolves correctly for flours, oils, dairy, sugars
• Cook Mode with screen wake-lock, bigger fonts, persistent checkboxes
• FDA-style Nutrition Facts box per recipe (31 nutriments, %DV column)
• Cook log — date + notes + photo per cook, full per-recipe history
• Sharing — per-user grants, public-link share tokens, Pinterest-style recipe-card image, Kitchens for fanning shares to a whole household

Bring your existing library

If you already keep recipes somewhere, you don't have to start over:

• Any recipe URL — three engines: schema.org JSON-LD (fast), recipe-scrapers Python library (300+ site-specific extractors), AI Smart mode for sites that block scrapers
• Photo import — snap a cookbook page, the AI assistant extracts the recipe
• Mealie / Tandoor / Paprika — paste-import single recipes from JSON, or bulk-import a full-backup zip. Picker shows thumbnails so you can choose exactly which 10 of 200 to bring over
• NutriTrace foods → Pantry — search your NT food library and bulk-import as pantry items with nutrition + image

Everything else

• Pantry with barcode scanning (ML Kit on Android, QuaggaJS on web), Open Food Facts + USDA lookup, and an "8 / 10 in pantry" match pill on every recipe card
• Cook Diary + Meal Planner — list and month-calendar views, drag-to-re-plan, one-tap mark as cooked
• Shopping list that pulls missing ingredients from a recipe and skips anything already stocked
• Trace AI assistant — bring your own Claude / OpenAI / Gemini key, or point at a local Ollama / LM Studio / LocalAI. Tool use reads + writes your real data; hold-to-record voice for hands-free logging
• NutriTrace federation — pull foods from your NT instance, log cooked recipes back to its diary
• Android app — runs standalone (fully offline) or connected to the server, with differential sync, biometric sign-in, native barcode scanning
• Multi-user — invites, password reset, OIDC SSO (Authentik, Keycloak, Authelia, Pocket-ID, Google)
• Backup — scheduled auto-backups, full ZIP restore, portable JSON, Android local-mode .zip for phone-to-phone transfer

First public release — bugs expected

Stable in solo testing for months, but real-world deployment surfaces things one person never will. Bug reports, feature requests, importer-failure URLs, and translation PRs are all genuinely wanted. Use the in-app Diagnostics view (Settings → Diagnostics → View Logs → Share) to attach logs to bug reports.

Issues: https://github.com/TraceApps/cooktrace/issues

Hey, it's been a minute! Dawarich is your favorite FOSS selfhostable alternative to Google Timeline, remember? We've shipped a lot since the last post and I'm here to tell you all about it.

Github: https://github.com/Freika/dawarich

Website: https://dawarich.app/

First, a picture to get your attention:

Before we start with the great stuff, let me talk a bit about good stuff as well. Release 1.8.0 introduced a new mechanism to let you know about new releases. It works through my new application called Chibichange (https://chibichange.com/).

TL;DR: there is a Chibichange widget shipped in Dawarich, which, if you consent, will ping chibichange.com to check if there are new updates for your Dawarich instance. If there is a new version, a green pulsing dot will be shown in Dawarich navbar, click on it, and you'll see what's changed in Dawarich since your current version. Feature suggestion and voting coming to chibichange soon.

Important: this is an opt-in feature, no external requests will be made if you click "No thanks". If you say "no", there will be the usual exclamation mark beside the version if there is a new release on Github, but, sadly, no in-app changelogs.

A bit more context: I built Chibichange to have a way to conveniently deliver changelogs to Dawarich users, and soon it'll also allow you to suggest features, vote them up and provide feedback. Suggested features, if we decide to build them, will be added to our public roadmap. By the way, we recently added a roadmap: https://dawarich.app/roadmap/. Will update it soon with more cool stuff we've planned.

Chibichange will be open-sourced this summer and will have same model as Dawarich: FOSS self-hostable software with an optional cloud service for those who don't want to self-host it. This is a very niche tool, but I hope it will be useful to those in similar position, building self-hostable or otherwise software.

Okay, let's get back to Dawarich news.

The big one this time: we now draw your flights on the map. If you self-host AirTrail, Dawarich can pull your flight history and render it as proper arcs on Map V2. Set it up on the Integrations page, hit "Sync now", and it re-syncs daily on its own. Finally your map knows you didn't teleport across the ocean.

There will be more for flights in the future.

Trips got a full redesign. The whole trip page is now built on MapLibre V2 — a sticky map on the left, and a scrollable day-by-day accordion on the right with per-day distance and times, day-colored routes, a photo overlay toggle, and a replay scrubber to play the trip back. You can also drop a short note on any individual day of a trip now. I'm really happy with how this one came out.

Public sharing is a whole new thing. Trips, tracks, live location and selected time ranges can now be shared via a public, optionally phrase-protected link. Public trip pages look pretty much the same as the in-app ones, with toggles to pick exactly what the page exposes — route, stats, countries, day-by-day, notes, photos, whatever you want.

Here's a public link to my Norway road trip from the screenshot above: https://my.dawarich.app/s/07024d88-0c43-4554-ad89-d7f2916b7d57

Visit detection got rewritten. There's a new opt-in stay-point detector — non-ML, single pass, and it gives each suggested visit a 0–100 confidence score. It fixes the old algorithm's biggest annoyances: missing slow stays, and splitting one visit in two when your phone's battery died for a bit. It's behind a flag for now while I gather feedback, but it'll become the default soon. You can also now label a visit by searching for the real place name right in the Timeline.

What else?

• Multi-device tracks no longer get mangled — if you track from a phone and a watch and a GPS unit, each device stays on its own track instead of becoming one zigzagging mess.
• Fog of War can now reveal per-hexagon, not just per-point.
• Globe view is now on by default.
• Big import improvements: GPX files now stream instead of loading entirely into memory (no more OOM on huge exports), Garmin FIT files are supported, Google's "Timeline Edits.json" Takeout is recognized, and the official Traccar client is now supported directly.
• Fixed Immich photo timestamps that could be off by up to 24 hours, monthly stats now bucket by your local timezone, and a pile of timezone/DST crashes are gone.
• You can now run the containers as a custom user via PUID/PGID, OIDC fixes (trailing slash + PKCE), and a 2FA lockout to keep accounts safe.
• And, as always, literally a TON of other fixes. Bugs too, sorry, one can't go without the other.

Gentle reminder: Map V1 (Leaflet) is being sunsetted this August. Everything new is being written for V2, and it's better in basically every way — but if there's something from V1 you'd miss, tell me and I'll figure it out. Vector maps are the future!

Also, a glimpse into the future, I found an awesome tool to generate maps, bent it in couple places to work with Dawarich, and poster generation will be a thing soon!

I was so excited about how well it worked out, that I even researched if it'd be possible to plug an "Order" button into Dawarich, and, well, yes. Probably not gonna automate it right away, will just add the "Order" button beside the "Download" one for created posters, and will see how it goes. Anyway, it could be a good to support the development for anyone willing to do so, while getting a very nice personalized thingy you can actually hang on your wall. Man I love these posters.

We've finally released an update for our mobile apps, with the new logo, bug fixes and a registration flow that will have no use to selfhosters, but still is important thing to have. Annoying bug with the map not being rendered in dark mode is fixed, yay. Also, we had to re-list our Android app in Google Play Store, so the update will require you to download it separately and reauthenticate. Make sure you've uploaded all the data you had not yet uploaded in the old app. New app's page: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.dawarich.Dawarich

We'll still release a small update for the old one with a banner suggesting an update. Sorry for this inconvenience.

This mobile release took a lot of efforts and tons of testing, but it opens new possibilities for us, and in the next one we want to focus on battery consumption optimization and, finally, will start making more steps towards feature parity with the web app.

I guess that would be it for today! I actually wanted to write a post every month, but, well, it's also too good to post one every other month :)

Saving you a scroll:

Github: https://github.com/Freika/dawarich

Website: https://dawarich.app/

iOS app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dawarich/id6739544999

Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.dawarich.Dawarich

Donate: https://www.patreon.com/freika / https://github.com/sponsors/Freika/

P.S. I got my shit together and started tinkering on another app, which, once done and production ready, will open lots of new possibilities for Dawarich, check it out: https://atlas.dawarich.app/. It's basically self-hostable offline maps for homelabbers, built on shoulders of titans: Overpass, Photon, Valhalla and some other great mapping tools, under a single UI and API. I'll create a separate post here once it's mature enough. Map matching comes to Dawarich, baby!

P.P.S If you're in Berlin, I'll be doing a presentation on Dawarich on Geomob, a mapping meetup, 1st of October. Come say hi, I may have stickers for you by then!

They have Synology NAS, but they wait when I set up some stuff. They have images on one of the drives and we were able to display via network on old tv, but I feel like more stuff could be added.

They talked about cameras in the future too.

Do you host your own ML / AI / LLM? What do you use, and what do you use it for?

This post is part of a series explaining the authour's steps into self-hosting again. The earlier posts were more focused on the authour's specific priorities and why it's important to them. This informed both what they are deciding to self-host and the order of deployment/how things are set up. This post is the first one that takes a more technical angle, and the initial steps they took setting things up.

I enjoyed this post, and the series by the authour, because what really comes through is the sense of why they are configuring things certain ways and what their priorities are. Many other blog posts I've read jump straight into this step - how they configured the server. But throughout this series, I really get a sense of why the authour decided to configure it a certain way and I find that enjoyable to read. They were very systematic and thorough in building an inventory of what dependencies they have and their priorities for replacements.

This post is by Tara Tarakiyee, who works at the Sovereign Tech Agency. For avoidance of doubt, I am not the authour of the blog post.

I have a personal server I connect to through Tailscale whenever I'm not home, however I've found that whenever I'm connecting remotely connection speed drops drastically from 100MB/s to <3MB/s.

I expect there to be some speed loss when connecting over the internet compared to locally, but 3MB/s doesn't make any sense especially considering that according to a python script I found that uses speedtest.net to test internet speed through a terminal, it reported 109Mbit/s download and and 76Mbit/s upload (~13MB/s; 9MB/s), which aren't amazing but leagues beyond 2MB/s. Moreover I also did a quick test with a friend of mine briefly using port-forwarding and they reported the same speeds, which tells me it isn't Tailscale slowing me down.

Is this just what happens when you connect over the internet? What trickery is afoot to allow me to download things from the interwebz using that sweet full 109Mbit/s bandwidth?

EDIT: tailscale status says the connection is direct

Based on recent comments this feels like a discussion we should have. So..topic, basically.

I'm not looking to be chief noisemaker on this, but I stand by what I wrote in !privacy and what's in my post history.

https://lemmy.ml/post/48724623/26190950

Let's have at; do we want a [AI] and [NOT AI] tag. Why or why not?

I’m living with my dad for the summer and his internet setup makes no sense. I’m a simple man who uses Ethernet when possible and I’ve never had coverage issues because I’m a poor who lives in apartments. So this mesh network stuff is new to me. He has a 3000sqft house and clearly had coverage issues

His setup: 14 year old Nighthawk router/modem being used as a modem Orbi 50 router with no satellites Eero 6 as a second router …no satellites.

My plan: Buy a proper modem Use the Orbi for the router Turn the Eero into an access point and plug it in upstairs via Ethernet. Buy used Orbi satellites for rest of house

My other option is to sell it all, buy a TP Link AXE5400 router, a modem and a couple mesh satellites so that I can start fresh.

What should I do? We don’t need WiFi 7. We don’t even need blazing fast WiFi speeds. Decent speeds, good coverage and simplicity are priority.

Thanks

Hey everyone,

I wanted to run high-fidelity network canaries in my homelab, but I couldn't justify enterprise pricing, and I wasn't a fan of managing custom orchestration across all my VMs to make available oss solutions work.

So, I built HoneyWire. It’s a completely free, open-source distributed deception platform.

It uses a point-in-time CLI wizard to deploy hardened, distroless Docker traps. You run the command once, it spins up the decoy, registers it to your centralized Hub dashboard, and the setup agent completely exits. No persistent background daemons.

Features:

Zero-Agent: No ongoing background overhead on your hosts.

Centralized UI: View fleet health, uptime, and lateral movement alerts in dark mode.

Alerting: Built-in push notifications and SIEM forwarding.

Privacy: 100% free, open-source, and strictly zero telemetry.

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/andreicscs/HoneyWire Landing Page: https://honeywire.dev/

Would love to hear your thoughts on the architecture or any feedback if you test it out!

AI Disclosure: As a student and solo developer/maintainer, I used AI as a “junior dev” during project development to help accelerate boilerplate writing and documentation. All core architecture, system structure, and security logic were fully designed and implemented by me.

I've tried NextCloud before and didn't really love it and I'm now happy with a combination of syncthing and LibreOffice. But my wife wants the full google drive, with sheets, docs etc. without the google, and I think NextCloud is my best option for that.

I'm and experienced *nix admin and already have a Linux server running with both VMs and docker containers and also have a working OpenVPN setup for remote access. But I found the NextCloud setup frustrating. We had a discussion about it (here I think) and determined that this was because NextCloud would rather sell their hosted service, so they don't go out of their way to make the self hosted option easy. I get that and don't hold it against them at all.

But, now that I'm wanting to try it again, I'm looking for pointers to guides for setting up self hosted NextCloud. I've searched, but nothing I found seemed like "the one".

Our family has a bunch of people whose birthdays we need to keep track of. Those birthdays matter to everyone, so we would like to have one shared birthday calendar. The calendar should come with an android app that at least sends reminder notifications about birthdays.

What selfhosted solution are you using for this? What can you recommend?

I'm looking into setting up https for my local services. Everything is currently set up using the official caddy docker image.

I want to use now connect caddy to cloudflare to resolve the DNS 01. It looks like this is possible with a drop in replacement for caddy from either https://github.com/CaddyBuilds/caddy-cloudflare or https://github.com/serfriz/caddy-custom-builds

Is anyone here using these builds? Are they reliable? Is there an alternative I havent considered?

I’m trying to find an app for iOS that supports the nested feeds of comma feed. Anyone got any ideas? I have three level nested folders. It’s peri unruly trying to manage my feeds without the nested folders as I have a LOT of feeds

TIA

Re: the recent meta discussion and ongoing chats about self hosting, open vs closed source, AI etc, I wanted to share some food for thought.

I'll explain why this is related to self hosting at the bottom (section bolded): our lovely new mods can call it. I hope it inspires some out loud thinking.

Disclosure: I am not the content creator nor am I paid by them to signal boost. I just like their stuff and think this is an important topic, from multiple angles.

"The future of AI depends on the moral compass of five people."

I've been watching "AI in context" for a few weeks (they make long form biopic content on current state of AI - really good stuff).

This dropped today; it's about the wheeling and dealing behind closed doors at OpenAI re: Sam Altman's firing. It's a lot more watchable than that sounds :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eYTkvZqbnQ

The line that brought me to a stand still was "the future of AI depends on the moral compass of like 5 people".

I think folks here (and Lemmy generally) are more savvy about AI then the gen pop (though Lemmy is famously FuckAI)....but even if you're training a nanoGPT model from scratch on hardware you own ...you're still beholden to outside forces.

Eg: the people's champion - Qwen - seems to have split or gone closed weights for 3.7. That's not a good sign.

Reason for post

In the recent [Meta] chat, I noted an undercurrent of "no man is an island" - that is, yes, you might host your own X, but you're still dependant on external Y (eg: SearXNG).

Self hosting / FOSS / forking mitigates some of the "we changed the terms of service after the sale" enshittification we see occurring in related spaces (eg: right to repair). But there's only so much leverage you can enact before it becomes pyrrhic.

I would like to believe "fuck you, I won't do what you told me" is our bulwark against market forces.

At the same time, it's sad to see so many "Don't be Evil" mission statements not survive contact with reality (watch the vid: OAi was founded on the ideal of "don't let AGI kill us")

I think what happens upstream has effects down stream too (see prior X vs Y examples)...

Not sure where this leaves us. It's a weird time to be alive.

Enjoy the video (and their others - Ai2027 is eye opening). Look forward to any productive chat this post might inspire.

A number of brand new accounts have popped up shilling their paid for applications.

Is this within the rules? Is the community happy with this? Could mods clarify this in the rules?

Either allowing advertising, or banning it entirely.

my point is - there is a difference between an open source homegrown project that might be useful, vs closed source paid for projects from brand new accounts

some replies are misunderstanding, somehow.

I am against

brand new accounts who:

1. first post is a brand new project
2. project is closed source
3. project will cost money
4. is asking for free testing
5. the post is literally an advertisement