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- Comment on How do you solve email? 13 hours ago:
I host my email, just not at home but on a rented server.
Here I documented it all wiki.gardiol.org/4-e-mail-hosting
It works, its been working for decades now. Never had significant issues…
- Comment on Postfix and friends against Stalwart, tested side by side 2 days ago:
I tried stalwart. Could not run reliably on the server I rent. Too slow.
Instead postfix + dovecot just fly and barely used any resources.
Maybe tools like stalwart have use for bigger email servers, but for my use case it’s just massive overkill. Easy to setup tough.
- Comment on Do I need https on everything 4 days ago:
Yes you do.
First of all, there are services that will refuse to work properly on http only. Specially if you want an SSO like authelia, will not work over http
Second, modern browsers will complain when using plain http if the website has forms to fill or passwords to write … very annoying, but it’s the way it is.
Third, having the “this site is not secure” broken lock is not very nice for users. At best they might complain, at worse they will get used to “unsecured” websites and .ight end up easier prey for fake sites in the future. Yes I mean wife or kids. These are things normal users should not see as normal…
Last, if you expose anything to the web, please never ever do that without proper https with certificates from let’s encrypt.
- Comment on Thoughts on coding with AI: my experience 1 week ago:
Can you elaborate on using obsidian as a memory store?
- Comment on Thoughts on coding with AI: my experience 1 week ago:
You are welcome, Indeed my original wall of text was typical of AI bots…
- Comment on Thoughts on coding with AI: my experience 1 week ago:
Well, rules are important and knowing them is too. Ignoring them can then be a choice, otherwise it’s just ignorance…
But yes I fully understand your point.
- Comment on Thoughts on coding with AI: my experience 1 week ago:
Thank you! These days it’s good not to master English enough to be mistaken for an ai bot
My mother language is Italian, not English. But I spent some time living in the US so maybe there is that at my advantage.
- Comment on Thoughts on coding with AI: my experience 1 week ago:
I am not native English speaker, thanks for the correction.
- Comment on Thoughts on coding with AI: my experience 1 week ago:
Smartpants, you wouldn’t have read it either way…
And I wrote in the first sentences that no ai has been used to write it’s it’s all my personal salt
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- Comment on It's self hosting Sunday! What's up? 1 week ago:
I need to replace my server root filesystem from ext4 to btrfs…
And get rid of a leftover MD/raid1 as well …
- Comment on [CBH] [Video] A Year (and a half) of Continuwuity 2 weeks ago:
I have no idea what mas is, and I never did element calls. You should try it or check online.
- Comment on OIDC Recommendations? 2 weeks ago:
Authelia here
All text config files, so either you love it or hate It
Stable and works fine.
- Comment on [CBH] [Video] A Year (and a half) of Continuwuity 2 weeks ago:
All i Need and use works, if you have anything specific on mind…
- Comment on [CBH] [Video] A Year (and a half) of Continuwuity 2 weeks ago:
Continuwuity Is a single binary that runs with very minimal memory and literally zero CPU footprint, and basically minimal setup, where Synapse on the same hardware was a mess to setup hard to configure, and was noticeable both on CPU and RAM usage.
Maybe for many users synapse scale better, o have no idea, but for a single user or few users instance, no way.
- Comment on [CBH] [Video] A Year (and a half) of Continuwuity 2 weeks ago:
I have been on Continuwuity since Conduwuit was dropped!
No issue, fast, very lean on resources… Never missed fucking Synapse once!
Great work guys!
- Comment on cheap remote kvm 3 weeks ago:
I am using a GLiNET ip kvm. Small, great software. Has HDMI and USB, can be powered from USB itself too.
You can plug in files over the web interface like they are USB drives too. Can install tails ale and more plugins, can fake any monitor resolution you need…
Very pleased for the price tag. Never let me down.
- Comment on PSA: unattended-upgrades restarted nginx in the middle of my stream 3 weeks ago:
Yeah problem is when upgrades break stuff…
- Comment on PSA: unattended-upgrades restarted nginx in the middle of my stream 3 weeks ago:
Unattended upgrade?
Why? Specially on critical systems?
If you do such upgrades, schedule for a time you don’t use the system at very least …
- Comment on 'My own piece of the Internet: Part 1', a blog post discussing the process of getting an ARIN ASN and a /24 IPv4 block for their home setup 3 weeks ago:
Reverse proxy my friend…
Using one static IP per service feels so much like … 1990s…
… As well as owing a /24, I admit.
- Comment on PSA to Home Assistant users 3 weeks ago:
Not really, they are testing your passwords against have I been pawnd. I agree that transparency should apply here, and also an upfront question to skip.
But it’s not “unsafe” or a privacy breach per se. No password has actually been “sent” anywhere only a partial hash that is useless for accessing your home assistant.
- Comment on Is anyone self-hosting their own AI? 3 weeks ago:
Yes i do.
I esperiment a lot, but my stable setup is Qwen 3.8 27B Q6_K on my home server. Hardware is Ryzen 9 5950x with 64gb ddr4 and two old but effective NVIDIA RTX A4000 for a total of 32gb VRAM.
Qwen 3.8 is the best model I can run in terms of output quality. It can perform all tasks pretty well and it’s reasonably fast at 500ts prefill and 30/40ts processing. There are much faster models but honestly not as good.
I can also run gemma4 all on CPU, with no GPU at all.
The key point is having both GPU on pci-e CPU, not on chip set bridge, so I am using a PCI riser 8x8x to share the 16x slot between the two GPUs. Inference speed is unaffected, but prefill benefits immensely.
Software side, use llama.cpp on Linux, you get the best performance possible at the expense of a bit more complexity compared to other engines.
From a power consumption perspective, I tined down my CPU governor and maximum frequency, and also the GPUs maximum watts. At ide the system is around 80w. At peak, it’s about 280w with the limiters, and inference speed doesn’t suffer too much. Without limiters I can easily reach 650w.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I bought it new, but of course you can repurpose old hardware!
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I bought a firewall appliance based on an Intel CPU, with 4x 2.5gbps Ethernet ports, 8gb ram. Installed opnSense on it and been super happy even since!
A bit pricey the hardware, but it’s been totally rock solid for almost two years now.
- Comment on Self-hosted Radio 4 weeks ago:
What do you mean?
Who chooses the tracks?
Anyway yes, set a muted dj who never speak.
And create playlists and only play those. This will bypass any AI usage.
- Comment on Self-hosted Radio 4 weeks ago:
Subwave. A bit on the AI side… But it’s brilliant and really works great.
Only problem, you want to keep that private ad it’s most probably illegal anywhere to broadcast publicly without a license. Even on the internet
- Comment on Personal radio station 5 weeks ago:
Try subwave. You can have AI djs choose music from your navidrone library based on shows you create by defining prompts, moods and styles.
Pretty neat…
Fast developing and pretty solid already.