my adventures in #selfhosting - day 104 (pride edition)

Good morning Fedi friends!

Aw pride is a powerful thing.

I'd like to think that I'm pretty zen and detached and successfully suppressing my ego... but when it comes to things I'm passionate about (read: tech, self-hosting) I cannot let things go.

I had a very very sweet shout-out on a Fediverse podcast last week... but said shout-out mentioned my self-hosting issues and that maybe self-hosting isn't for everyone. I felt that I had to correct the record (even if the mention came with the nicest intention)... because I have ZERO issues self-hosting #GoToSocial, #Friendica and #Pixelfed (thanks to the magic of #YunoHost). All my troubles had to do with #Ghost. (And Ghost is wonderful, it's not related to it, just external circumstances).

So, determined to defend my honor (ha!) on Friday I achieved the impossible: all by myself, following guides I found online, I managed to install #Apache and #Varnish on my VPS and connected Varnish to Ghost. My site was already fast, now it's BLAZING fast.

So I'm giving it another go, moving from Ghost (Pro) to my self-hosted Ghost installation. I turned off subscriptions on https://blog.elenarossini.com... next step is disconnecting the subdomain DNS (a CNAME record) from Ghost... and redirecting traffic to my new blog (https://news.elenarossini.com).

I know how to code things in NGINX for the redirect to work (I think, via guides I found online).

My big question is: how do I tweak my old DNS records for https://blog.elenarossini.com so that NGINX on my self-hosted site https://news.elenarossini.com will correctly pick up the traffic requests? Do I need to set up A and AAAA records for the subdomain blog to point to my VPS with the self-hosted Ghost blog? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! ​

Oh and I learned my lesson and - unlike last time - I am making big changes on a Monday morning, when I have the whole workweek ahead of me (instead of a Friday afternoon 1 hour before picking up my child from nursery school). You live and learn! ​

#MySoCalledSudoLife

This newbie who just celebrated 100 days of #selfhosting was able to install #Apache and #Varnish on her #Ubuntu VPS (to prevent the "Mastodon Hug of Death" for link preview cards on her self-hosted Ghost blog). She's very proud of herself for all the sudo commands she successfully ran today. And she's weirded out talking about herself in the third person, so: I did it YAY.

LOVE LOVE LOVE this Linux / self-hosting journey I'm on. Thank you for all your support & encouragement

The #s390x open source software team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ & #LinuxONE

In February 2025 validation was maintained for over 3 dozen projects, including the #Apache HTTP server, #Bazel and #etcd

Plus, community CI and docs were added to go-mysql, and fastfetch added CI & began releasing binaries with v2.36.0!

Full report + how your project can apply for a s390x VM: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/elizabeth-k-joseph1/2025/03/18/linuxone-open-source-report-february-2025

#ApacheStronghold: U.S. Give-Away would Destroy Spiritual Home of #Apache

By Wendsler Nosie, Apache Stronghold, March 13, 2025, via #CensoredNews

"In the heart of #TontoNationalForest in #Arizona lies a place that my people, the #WesternApache, still hold above all others. This place is Chi'chil Biłdagoteel, also known as Oak Flat. To us, it is more than a stretch of land; it is sacred and holy. It is where our ancestors walked, where we gather to pray, to carry out ceremonies passed down through generations, and to speak to our Creator.

"This land is part of who we are as a people, and its spirit is bound to our own.
Now, the federal government plans to give our sacred Oak Flat to a multinational #mining #corporation owned by the Chinese Communist Party. This will not just scar the land; it will destroy it, poisoning the environment and trampling on our tribal rights. But the deepest wound will be the loss of our spiritual home, a place our people cannot exist without. We are fighting this in the courts, all the way to the #USSupremeCourt. But this is about more than law and policy—this is about survival of our way of life and the spirit of this sacred land.

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/03/apache-stronghold-us-give-away-would.html
#SaveOakFlat #ChichilBiłdagoteel #CorporateColonialism #ProtectOakFlat #ReaderSupportedNews #SCOTUS #DefendTheSacred #CopperMine
#WaterIsLife #ResolutionCopper #RioTinto #RecycleCopper #CulturalGenocide #NoMiningWithoutConsent #RecycleCopper

#Alibaba releases #OpenSource reasoning model QwQ-32B on #HuggingFace and #ModelScope, claiming comparable performance to #DeepSeek R1 but with lower #compute needs

https://venturebeat.com/ai/alibabas-new-open-source-model-qwq-32b-matches-deepseek-r1-with-way-smaller-compute-requirements/

Right, so I now have a #forgejo instance sitting at https://git.journeyman.cc/

I've experimentally migrated all my (own) GitHub projects across to it; that's all gone extremely smoothly. I haven't yet migrated my private projects to it.

I installed it using the unofficial #Debian package (again, all very smooth), and I've proxied it behind #Apache with a @letsencrypt certificate, There was no documentation for Apache integration, but I busked, and that went smoothly too.

/ continued

#EmilyPike from the San Carlos #Apache tribe was murdered. She was only 14. The young girl was reported missing on Jan 27, 2025. Her dismembered remains were discovered on Feb 14, 2025 off Highway 60 near #Globe , Arizona.

My heart goes out to Emily’s loved ones - her mother, family and friends. No one should ever loose their child this way.

Share this post to spread the awareness. And let us honour her memory

#JusticeForEmilyPike #JusticeForEmily
#NoMoreStolenSisters #MMIWG

Dunno if @TheASF@fosstodon.org or @theasf@mastodon.social actually has anyone behind them to post this, but as it is a public job posting and M&P should be posting them to "our social media" today, it can’t hurt for me to do it too.

#TheASF is hiring an infrastructure admin!

https://www.indeed.com/job/infrastructure-systems-administrator-036d1005bc664243

Infra has expressed that they need European timezone coverage, so US/CA/AU/NZ/IN/CN/HK folks are out of luck. US-sanctioned countries also would be a fatal flaw.

Wrote a new post about hosting multiple websites under one NearlyFreeSpeech "site":

"Hosting Multiple Websites Under One NearlyFreeSpeech Site"

https://btxx.org/posts/nfs-multiple-websites/

Coyote is easily the most famous trickster figure in the lore of the Native peoples of North America, and the Coyote tales of the Apache are among the best-known. #History #Apache #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2633-en/

Just did some #Apache rewrite wrangling such that anyone visiting my personal sites from #SpaceX, #Tesla, or a #Starlink internet connection can have a sad. It's not much, but it's not nothing, either.

#ElonMusk is a #Nazi twat.

Geronimo (Goyahkla, l. c. 1829-1909) was a medicine man and war chief of the Bedonkohe tribe of the Chiricahua Apache nation, best known for his resistance against the encroachment of Mexican and Euro-American settlers and armed forces into Apache territory and as one of the last Native American leaders to surrender to the United States government. #History #Geronimo #Apache #ApacheWars #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-23956-en/

The Jicarilla-Apache Creation Story and Origin of the Animals are two origin myths of the Jicarilla-Apache nation of modern-day New Mexico. #History #Apache #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2612-en/

plus a little about client-side redirects and why not

new post on Random Geekery:

Server-side redirects in Astro SSG Mode

https://randomgeekery.org/post/2025/01/server-side-redirects-in-astro-ssg-mode/

warms my heart when i see facebookexternalhit get slapped with a 403 forbidden in the httpd logs

Right.
We need more of you lot to buy your tickets ASAP, and not leave it to the last minute please.

https://2025.everythingopen.au/attend/tickets/

Oh! So you already have a ticket? Awesome, please convince a friend, colleague or family member that they should come too!

Oh! You're speaking? Spruik your talk!!

This time next weekend I'll be gradually making my way to the fair city of Adelaide, and I can't wait to see everyone, and learn all the things!

Also - these keynotes!?! Oh my!
@sjpiper145
@daedalus
@Trishh

PLZ BOOST!
#EverythingOpen #AllThingsOpen #OpenSource #OpenGLAM #OpenScience #OpenData #OpenGovernment #OpenJustice #Linux #Apache #Drupal