
moldy_rice
@moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com
- Comment on How can self-hosted software make money without hurting the ecosystem? 1 day ago:
Charging corporations is not a violation of OSI’s definition.
Their definition is free as in speech, not as in beer.
- Comment on How can self-hosted software make money without hurting the ecosystem? 1 day ago:
Maybe artists are just less greedy than the average tech bro?
- Comment on What's your weirdest or most unique self-hosted use case and solution? 1 day ago:
Because your phone gives it that info
- Comment on How can self-hosted software make money without hurting the ecosystem? 1 day ago:
Charging corporation. Making it free for personal use and nonprofits
- Comment on New California ghost gun lawsuit takes aim at company that sells 3-D printer filament 2 days ago:
This seems awfully familiar to the gun crackdowns after the Black Panthers started using them for self defense.
- Comment on What's your weirdest or most unique self-hosted use case and solution? 3 days ago:
It has access to your phones fingerprint, which is then linked to all your other activity.
It doesn’t need access to the phone data. All it needs is the fingerprint.
- Comment on What's your weirdest or most unique self-hosted use case and solution? 3 days ago:
The phone number part significantly degrades your privacy and security
- Comment on What's your weirdest or most unique self-hosted use case and solution? 3 days ago:
No phone number needed. Can run directly on a non-phone server.
Also more secure and trustworthy because it’s open source.
- Comment on What's your weirdest or most unique self-hosted use case and solution? 3 days ago:
If you manage to make an account on WhatsApp and move it to waydroid, they’ll ban you.
Meta’s game is (meta)data collection and selling your data. They’ll delete your account if they can’t get all your phone’s data (eg if it’s an emulator then they can’t uniquely identify you)
- Comment on What's your weirdest or most unique self-hosted use case and solution? 3 days ago:
Doesn’t the bridge require you to run whatsapp on a phone anyway?
- Comment on What's your weirdest or most unique self-hosted use case and solution? 3 days ago:
God that sucks.
Why not use SimpleX or Wire or Matrix?
- Comment on How do you monitor your servers? 4 days ago:
I go the easy route with munin and wazuh. It comes with a ton of stuff preconfigured
- Comment on Can you run multiple servers on one machine (e.g. Raspberry Pi)? 2 weeks ago:
Yes but you should buy 3 and cluster them
- Comment on how do you manage your server? 2 weeks ago:
Similar, but you might want to update more frequently with the huge number of critical security bugs being discovered by AI recently
- Comment on how do you manage your server? 2 weeks ago:
Ansible.
- Comment on Why use Proxmox over Podman or Docker? 2 weeks ago:
My point is that they support unsigned packages.
It’s not possible to download a package on apt without signatures, by default. All packages are signed.
We tell people to use Signal, not Telegram, because the later allows unencrypted messaged by default.
I don’t know of any common oci repos that have many signed packages. If you make it your policy to require signatures, there’s almost no images you’ll be able to download because almost none are signed.
Whereas it’s 100% of packages in Debian’s apt that are signed.
- Comment on Why use Proxmox over Podman or Docker? 2 weeks ago:
Nope. You don’t need to trust a distro Repo’s publishing infrastructure because the packages are cryptographically signed.
Whereas the oci repo had a ton of vectors for delivering maliciously modified code because they include image layers that are totally unsigned.
- Comment on Why use Proxmox over Podman or Docker? 2 weeks ago:
That’s apples and oranges.
Anyway, both podman and docker are extremely insecure. Safer to download signed ISOs
- Comment on Linux Mint reveals new calendar and ebook reader apps 4 weeks ago:
What do folks here use for end to end encrypted calendars?
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (11 September 2026) 4 weeks ago:
Kinda crazy wordpress.org still links to his personal site in their footer.
Maybe someone should submit a PR to fix that.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (11 September 2026) 4 weeks ago:
The first quote is a dig at their competitors. The second code is a description of the solution their project provides.
- Comment on WordPress: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence' by board 4 weeks ago:
“We have asked Mark Davies to assume the interim CEO role while Matt is out.
Hopefully this new guy isn’t an AI bro that will ruin WordPress
- Comment on DigitalOcean contributes 3 million and joins the Omacom (Omarchy) Foundation 4 weeks ago:
Their auctioned baremetal servers are a steal
- Comment on DigitalOcean contributes 3 million and joins the Omacom (Omarchy) Foundation 4 weeks ago:
Hetzner Cloud
- Comment on My Homelab Got Hacked - A Postmortem – Phunky Cafe 5 weeks ago:
Also feed it to wazuh
- Comment on Means to privately connect to my home server other than Tailscale? 1 month ago:
Best solution is to organize revolution to kick out the fascist that censored the internet by protocol
- Comment on Means to privately connect to my home server other than Tailscale? 1 month ago:
Run ssh on an Onion Service.
- Comment on littleFedi - a new light-weight fediverse server 1 month ago:
Because website masters like security issues. It lets them fingerprint and sell your history to advertises
- Comment on GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere? 1 month ago:
Kinda makes it seem like vaporware.
Anyway, I put my code online because I want it to be found. This kinda defeats the whole idea
- Comment on littleFedi - a new light-weight fediverse server 1 month ago:
Yeah. A binary without any sourcecode is a huge red flag