sicktriple

go off king

Abolish Facebook

I started both around the same time. I switched careers from being a chef at a pretty high level. Started getting into systems and got engrossed in it. So the selfhosting was just an aspect of my education.

I’m glad that works for you.

In the words of that one guy from Casino: Why take a chance? A VPS is peace of mind for a cup of coffee a month. I like to be sure the things I need to keep safe have as many opportunities to remain that way as possible.

You should not host anything that’s going to be public facing on your home network in 2026, period. Get a cheap German VPS and go nuts with it. There’s simply too much at stake opening up your home router/firewall for such little gain. Plus, being a residential IP behind NAT might just make it straight up impossible.

I host my own email and a matrix server. I would never think of exposing my home network to the internet. I use tailscale to get into the homelab, anything exposed to the net lives somewhere far, far away.

I use netcup for my email and matrix. It’s extremely reasonable.

Interesting defense strategy

Humans: invents groundbreaking technologies to share information and freely associate, breaking down multiple societal barriers and creating genuine goodness in the world

Also humans: immediately make it awful and use it to singularly subjugate nearly every living person on earth