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  1. I joined a Signal group called "Sovereign Tech", where me and my fellow geeks geek out and brainstorm various ways to have #DataSovereignty, independent of Big Tech. We're a bunch of longtime, crusty, jaded #Linux hardcores, pretty much.
    I made a video for them showing my own "Sovereign Stack". It's a bunch of #RaspberryPi s, #OpenSource software, #Heimdall, #Wireguard, and lots of "split DNS" . I show off some #SelfHosting web services like #CalibreWeb , #InvoiceNinja, #Flarum, #CopyParty and #Immich , with remote access through Wireguard possible. **If you aren't a geek, you probably won't enjoy this video.**
    https://vids.wiseowl.club/preview/2026-07-12-sovereign-tech/

  2. I joined a Signal group called "Sovereign Tech", where me and my fellow geeks geek out and brainstorm various ways to have #DataSovereignty, independent of Big Tech. We're a bunch of longtime, crusty, jaded #Linux hardcores, pretty much
    I made a video for them showing my own "Sovereign Stack". It's a bunch of #RaspberryPi s, #OpenSource software, #Heimdall, #Wireguard, and lots of "split DNS" . I show off some #SelfHosting web services like #CalibreWeb #InvoiceNinja, #Flarum, #CopyParty and #Immich , with remote access through Wireguard possible. **If you aren't a geek, you probably won't enjoy this video.**
    https://vids.wiseowl.club/preview/2026-07-12-sovereign-tech/

  3. @bryan Although your trick is cool, and I respect the use of the piping between commands, **the #infosec community advises against the scp command now**.

    BTW: you could have also used FTP, which was SSL encrypted (transparently creates a tar-like stream of data in the same way). It's also maximally fast across the available bandwidth (will beat SMB, SFTP, etc, especially on many small files being transferred).

    #Copyparty has such an FTP-over-SSL feature, just saying. #OpenSource

  4. @bryan Although your trick is cool, and I respect the use of the piping between commands, **the #infosec community advises against the scp command now**.

    BTW: you could have also used FTP, which was SSL encrypted (transparently creates a tar-like stream of data in the same way). It's also maximally fast across the available bandwidth (will beat SMB, SFTP, etc, especially on many small files being transferred).

    #Copyparty has such an FTP-over-SSL feature, just saying. #OpenSource

  5. Ridiculous design choice in #Icecubes for the #iPad : you can't download a vid until you press a a small i with a circle around it, for more information, presumably. The download button is buried three taps deep. It's not a first class button, but is rather a third class button: 1) i with a circle, 2) Upload icon, 3) upload to where? "Save Video", with a down arrow. That's the download button you were wanting.

    Totally unergonomic. i -> Upload -> Download.

    About as easy as bestowing 30 lives on yourself when playing Contra on the original Nintendo. I truly save these videos (and photos) later on in bulk to #Copyparty, exfiltrating them from the "Walled Garden" of the "Photos" app - where the Videos are confusingly also stored.

    It's so simple that it's complicated. All this to try to hide the existence of a logical and usable filesystem

    #icecubes #ipad #copyparty #apple #ipados

  6. Ridiculous design choice in #Icecubes for the #iPad : you can't download a vid until you press a a small i with a circle around it, for more information, presumably. The download button is buried three taps deep. It's not a first class button, but is rather a third class button: 1) i with a circle, 2) Upload icon, 3) upload to where? "Save Video", with a down arrow. That's the download button you were wanting.

    Totally unergonomic. i -> Upload -> Download.

    About as easy as bestowing 30 lives on yourself when playing Contra on the original Nintendo. I truly save these videos (and photos) later on in bulk to #Copyparty, exfiltrating them from the "Walled Garden" of the "Photos" app - where the Videos are confusingly also stored.

    It's so simple that it's complicated. All this to try to hide the existence of a logical and usable filesystem

    #icecubes #ipad #copyparty #apple #ipados

  7. @kuketzblog Und wer auf so einen Moloch verzichten möchte und lieber Erledige-eine-Sache-aber-erledige-sie-gut mag, dem kann ich #Copyparty empfehlen.

    Allein das Intro-Video ist ein Schätzchen:
    youtu.be/15_-hgsX2V0

  8. @kuketzblog Und wer auf so einen Moloch verzichten möchte und lieber Erledige-eine-Sache-aber-erledige-sie-gut mag, dem kann ich #Copyparty empfehlen.

    Allein das Intro-Video ist ein Schätzchen:
    youtu.be/15_-hgsX2V0

  9. ICYMI: Not every file sharing situation needs Nextcloud. Sometimes simple is better.

    youtu.be/IK3DnzwMhMU

  10. ICYMI: Not every file sharing situation needs Nextcloud. Sometimes simple is better. #selfhosting #homelab #copyparty

    youtu.be/IK3DnzwMhMU

  11. Sometimes you just need a simple file server. Copyparty runs in Docker with two files and takes about 5 minutes to set up. No fluff, just files.

    youtu.be/IK3DnzwMhMU

  12. Sometimes you just need a simple file server. Copyparty runs in Docker with two files and takes about 5 minutes to set up. No fluff, just files. #selfhosting #homelab #copyparty

    youtu.be/IK3DnzwMhMU

  13. Finally managed to make a quadlet of #copyparty (took a little too long because I accidentally mismatched the volume names).

    The thing

    • is absurdly fast
    • has a UI that's all over the place
    • uses abbreviations everywhere (gah)
    • is left aligned rather than centered (my neck)
    • has no x margins (ugh)
  14. At a big box store they had a rack of 2TB WD MyBooks on clearance. Someone had accidentally included a few 8TB ones, all marked with the same price. I snapped one up and it's now happily plugged into my little BSD machine. I've been playing around with Copy Party and I like it. I'd like to see what else is available for self hosted cloud apps but search is so polluted these days, all I get is ads for cloud providers and guides on setting up SMB. Any suggestions? #BSD #copyparty #selfhost

  15. At a big box store they had a rack of 2TB WD MyBooks on clearance. Someone had accidentally included a few 8TB ones, all marked with the same price. I snapped one up and it's now happily plugged into my little BSD machine. I've been playing around with Copy Party and I like it. I'd like to see what else is available for self hosted cloud apps but search is so polluted these days, all I get is ads for cloud providers and guides on setting up SMB. Any suggestions? #BSD #copyparty #selfhost

  16. @wobintosh Kennst du schon #copyparty ? Einfach als #docker #container auf einer 24x7 laufenden Mini-VM bei z.B. Hetzner starten und ab geht die Party! 😁 Oder etwas aufwändiger, aber flexibler mit #Nextcloud - auch dafür findest du auf GitHub eine Docker-Lösung.
    github.com/9001/copyparty

  17. @wobintosh Kennst du schon #copyparty ? Einfach als #docker #container auf einer 24x7 laufenden Mini-VM bei z.B. Hetzner starten und ab geht die Party! 😁 Oder etwas aufwändiger, aber flexibler mit #Nextcloud - auch dafür findest du auf GitHub eine Docker-Lösung.
    github.com/9001/copyparty

  18. ...I got copyparty working behind a proper reverse proxy. So a nice public domain name with #ssl, and it then the reverse proxy (on a cloud VPS) re-directs the https traffic into my lab where #copyparty is running on a #RaspberryPi 4
    #SelfHosting #OpenSource

  19. ...I got copyparty working behind a proper reverse proxy. So a nice public domain name with #ssl, and it then the reverse proxy (on a cloud VPS) re-directs the https traffic into my lab where #copyparty is running on a #RaspberryPi 4
    #SelfHosting #OpenSource

  20. @gbryant my inner hoarder has me downloading some isos to my #copyparty server, just to be safe.

  21. @gbryant my inner hoarder has me downloading some isos to my #copyparty server, just to be safe.

  22. Today I managed to set up a instance as a frontend for a remote sftp mount, reverse proxied with for TLS encryption, on :nixos: . Oh boy was that a wild ride. 😮‍💨

    Copyparty itself is funny and you need a bit to understand its config style. It needs a whole lot of proxy config to make it work well (see its repo). The wildest part was actually mounting that dang sftp share. Ended up using , but man are systemd.mounts, FUSE and allow_other weird beasts 🤪

  23. Today I managed to set up a #copyparty instance as a frontend for a remote sftp mount, reverse proxied with #nginx for TLS encryption, on :nixos: #NixOS. Oh boy was that a wild ride. 😮‍💨

    Copyparty itself is funny and you need a bit to understand its config style. It needs a whole lot of proxy config to make it work well (see its repo). The wildest part was actually mounting that dang sftp share. Ended up using #rclone, but man are systemd.mounts, FUSE and allow_other weird beasts 🤪

  24. Immich got really good just in the last little while. Some random geek notes/thoughts, after several hours tinkering (non-geeks, stop reading here):

    As to sizing: a Pi 5 with 4GB (better yet, 8 to be safe) of RAM - and the docker container gets its own fast SSD, for storage - could do it. Forget using a Pi 4.

    The Good News:

    - I'm playing with Immich on a Raspberry Pi 5 in docker, really liking it. It took a long time to import my photos - several hours to do 10,000 photos.

    - It's very nice to access from #Android or iPadOS, as there are Immich apps for both.

    - It does a local AI facial recognition. I'm giving names to the faces - what a trip down memory lane! That's a rather astounding feature for such an open source app: it's awesome to see pictures which involved certain individuals, all grouped. There's been a lot of controversy around facial scanning by apps lately (the data being silently sent back to the "mothership"). With Immich, the data stays local - doesn't go back to any mothership. No geek contests or says otherwise (and I would hear about it).

    - The Rasberry Pi 5 on the backend can keep up nicely - to me being the one user pretty much. Its little fan whirs away, while I do the editing, etc in the app, silently in the other room on the iPad.

    - can publish web-accessible Albums online easily. Great for sharing albums to family and friends privately; they're password protected.

    - I set up a reverse proxy on a VPS for remote access.

    The Bad news:

    - had to strip out the videos, before an import. The videos just brutally crushed that Pi to the floor.

    - tried uploading all ~300 recent photos from my iPad to Immich. About 100 failed. Many are Jpgs, should have no problem. It does have a protection against duplicates - calculates hashes. Some uploads certainly failed (from the Immich #iPadOS app), which shouldn't have! Just saying: copyparty uploads with ~100% wire speed and *does not fail*. But it doesn't have the photo management goodness which Immich has. Copyparty will do a basic slideshow of a folder of photos. Although it annoys me to say this, I think I'll have to use Copyparty to exfil the photos out of the #iPad's (walled-garden) "Photo Library", then as a second, regrettable hop, use immich-cli (the go-based docker container) to do an import to Immich. I just did a test, comparing copyparty's "up2k" uploader (just used from a web browser like Safari of Firefox), and the Immich app in iPad OS, and there's no comparison. Copyparty absolutely rips Immich away, totally destroying it for bulk upload. I just uploaded over wifi at a steady, sustained 80MB/sec with Copyparty.

    #Immich #Copyparty #OpenSource #SelfHosting

  25. Immich got really good just in the last little while. Some random geek notes/thoughts, after several hours tinkering (non-geeks, stop reading here):

    As to sizing: a Pi 5 with 4GB (better yet, 8 to be safe) of RAM - and the docker container gets its own fast SSD, for storage - could do it. Forget using a Pi 4.

    The Good News:

    - I'm playing with Immich on a Raspberry Pi 5 in docker, really liking it. It took a long time to import my photos - several hours to do 10,000 photos.

    - It's very nice to access from #Android or iPadOS, as there are Immich apps for both.

    - It does a local AI facial recognition. I'm giving names to the faces - what a trip down memory lane! That's a rather astounding feature for such an open source app: it's awesome to see pictures which involved certain individuals, all grouped. There's been a lot of controversy around facial scanning by apps lately (the data being silently sent back to the "mothership"). With Immich, the data stays local - doesn't go back to any mothership. No geek contests or says otherwise (and I would hear about it).

    - The Rasberry Pi 5 on the backend can keep up nicely - to me being the one user pretty much. Its little fan whirs away, while I do the editing, etc in the app, silently in the other room on the iPad.

    - can publish web-accessible Albums online easily. Great for sharing albums to family and friends privately; they're password protected.

    - I set up a reverse proxy on a VPS for remote access.

    The Bad news:

    - had to strip out the videos, before an import. The videos just brutally crushed that Pi to the floor.

    - tried uploading all ~300 recent photos from my iPad to Immich. About 100 failed. Many are Jpgs, should have no problem. It does have a protection against duplicates - calculates hashes. Some uploads certainly failed (from the Immich #iPadOS app), which shouldn't have! Just saying: copyparty uploads with ~100% wire speed and *does not fail*. But it doesn't have the photo management goodness which Immich has. Copyparty will do a basic slideshow of a folder of photos. Although it annoys me to say this, I think I'll have to use Copyparty to exfil the photos out of the #iPad's (walled-garden) "Photo Library", then as a second, regrettable hop, use immich-cli (the go-based docker container) to do an import to Immich. I just did a test, comparing copyparty's "up2k" uploader (just used from a web browser like Safari of Firefox), and the Immich app in iPad OS, and there's no comparison. Copyparty absolutely rips Immich away, totally destroying it for bulk upload. I just uploaded over wifi at a steady, sustained 80MB/sec with Copyparty.

    #Immich #Copyparty #OpenSource #SelfHosting

  26. True story: my iPad (latest ver 26) - which regularly astounds me as to its ineptitude - would only save 2 of the 4 Superb #Owls recently posted this weekend on #Mastodon. It refused silently, to save the latter two in **exactly the same way** as the first two. I tried twice to save them. It gave no error message, but the owls weren't saved! So I shared the owls directly from #IceCubes into #Deltachat. Yes, that was allowed. So then all 4 could be shared onwards to a friend in #Signal.

    My #iPad's disk is far from full, as I save very little into the walled garden. It's crazy, I tell you.

    Note: I exfil everything - in bulk - periodically into #Copyparty, BTW.

    The first two owls are OK on the iPad, but not the second two!

    #Apple #iPadOS #nerdrage

  27. True story: my iPad (latest ver 26) - which regularly astounds me as to its ineptitude - would only save 2 of the 4 Superb #Owls recently posted this weekend on #Mastodon. It refused silently, to save the latter two in **exactly the same way** as the first two. I tried twice to save them. It gave no error message, but the owls weren't saved! So I shared the owls directly from #IceCubes into #Deltachat. Yes, that was allowed. So then all 4 could be shared onwards to a friend in #Signal.

    My #iPad's disk is far from full, as I save very little into the walled garden. It's crazy, I tell you.

    Note: I exfil everything - in bulk - periodically into #Copyparty, BTW.

    The first two owls are OK on the iPad, but not the second two!

    #Apple #iPadOS #nerdrage

  28. 📁 #Copyparty ⬆️ 📁 ⬇️ - Turn Any Device Into a Feature-Rich File Server #opensource #selfhosted #Python #devops

    github.com/9001/copyparty

    ⬇️ Features List: ⬇️

    🔌 Multi-protocol support: HTTP, #WebDAV, #FTP, TFTP, SMB/CIFS for maximum compatibility with any client or operating system

    📱 Native #Android app and #iOS shortcuts for seamless mobile file management and one-tap uploads

    🚀 Resumable uploads and downloads with absolutely no filesize limit - works flawlessly even through #Cloudflare proxies

    🔄 Smart file deduplication using symlinks, hardlinks, or CoW reflinks to save storage space automatically

    🎵 Built-in media player supporting almost every audio format with on-demand #FFmpeg transcoding, equalizer, and OS lockscreen controls

    🖼️ Automatic thumbnail generation for images, videos, and audio spectrograms using Pillow, pyvips, or FFmpeg

    🔍 Powerful full-text search by filename, path, size, date, and MP3/ID3 metadata tags across all indexed volumes

    📦 Download entire folders as ZIP or TAR archives with optional on-the-fly audio transcoding to opus/mp3

    🔐 Flexible accounts and permissions system with granular per-folder, per-user access control for read/write/move/delete

    🌐 Zero-config LAN discovery via mDNS and SSDP - automatically appears in file explorers on Windows, macOS, Linux

    📊 Truly cross-platform: Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, iOS, FreeBSD, ARM32, ARM64, RISC-V, s390x, ppc64le

    ⚡ Just run github.com/9001/copyparty/rele - single-file self-extracting executable, no installation or setup required

    🔒 HTTPS support with automatic certificate handling and reverse-proxy compatibility for nginx, Cloudflare tunnels

    📝 Built-in markdown viewer and editor with syntax highlighting and live preview

    🎯 QR code generation for quick mobile access - perfect for file sharing at events or between devices

    🇳🇴 Made in Norway - actively maintained open source project

    Credits to original post info from a multi-threaded msg social.vivaldi.net/@michabbb/1 that I just put in 1 post instead

    CC: @michabbb

  29. Thay thế SMB/NFS để chia sẻ tập tin trên Linux: Filebrowser, Quantum và Copyparty là các lựa chọn hiệu quả, dễ thiết lập và truy cập từ xa tốt. Phù hợp cho tự lưu trữ (self-hosted), hoạt động mượt hơn so với SMB (chậm) và NFS (phức tạp). Đồng bộ hóa bằng Syncthing vẫn được giữ. #FileSharing #Linux #SelfHosting #FileBrowser #Copyparty #ChiaSẻTậpTin #Linux #TựLưuTrữ #MạngNộiBộ

    reddit.com/r/selfhosted/commen

  30. Thay thế SMB/NFS để chia sẻ tập tin trên Linux: Filebrowser, Quantum và Copyparty là các lựa chọn hiệu quả, dễ thiết lập và truy cập từ xa tốt. Phù hợp cho tự lưu trữ (self-hosted), hoạt động mượt hơn so với SMB (chậm) và NFS (phức tạp). Đồng bộ hóa bằng Syncthing vẫn được giữ. #FileSharing #Linux #SelfHosting #FileBrowser #Copyparty #ChiaSẻTậpTin #Linux #TựLưuTrữ #MạngNộiBộ

    reddit.com/r/selfhosted/commen

  31. Como no soy capaz de estar un solo día sin torturar mi pobre VPS...
    He montado un copyparty : )

    Se trata de un servidor de intercambio de archivos. Se comparte una carpeta y están todos los permisos abiertos para subir o descargar lo que os apetezca.

    Podéis subir música, películas, libros, lo que se os antoje, o escribir mensajes para los demás.

    🔗 http://51.75.17.99:3939/share/

    #Copyparty

  32. Como no soy capaz de estar un solo día sin torturar mi pobre VPS...
    He montado un copyparty : )

    Se trata de un servidor de intercambio de archivos. Se comparte una carpeta y están todos los permisos abiertos para subir o descargar lo que os apetezca.

    Podéis subir música, películas, libros, lo que se os antoje, o escribir mensajes para los demás.

    🔗 http://51.75.17.99:3939/share/

    #Copyparty

  33. This #xmas I'm strapped for cash, so I offered #Copyparty access to a loved one as a gift. 🎄🎄🎄
    #Christmas #OpenSource #Linux

  34. This #xmas I'm strapped for cash, so I offered #Copyparty access to a loved one as a gift. 🎄🎄🎄
    #Christmas #OpenSource #Linux

  35. 📦 #Copyparty - Turn Any Device Into a Feature-Rich File Server #opensource #selfhosted #Python #devops

    🔌 Multi-protocol support: HTTP, #WebDAV, #FTP, TFTP, SMB/CIFS for maximum compatibility with any client or operating system

    📱 Native #Android app and #iOS shortcuts for seamless mobile file management and one-tap uploads

    🚀 Resumable uploads and downloads with absolutely no filesize limit - works flawlessly even through #Cloudflare proxies

    🧵 👇

  36. 📦 #Copyparty - Turn Any Device Into a Feature-Rich File Server #opensource #selfhosted #Python #devops

    🔌 Multi-protocol support: HTTP, #WebDAV, #FTP, TFTP, SMB/CIFS for maximum compatibility with any client or operating system

    📱 Native #Android app and #iOS shortcuts for seamless mobile file management and one-tap uploads

    🚀 Resumable uploads and downloads with absolutely no filesize limit - works flawlessly even through #Cloudflare proxies

    🧵 👇

  37. 🚨BREAKING: Someone thought the world needed yet another #FOSS file server, and named it *Copyparty*—because nothing screams #innovation like a bad pun. 🙄 Meanwhile, YouTube's legalese marathon continues to put insomniacs to sleep since 2025. 🎉
    youtube.com/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0 #Copyparty #YouTube #legalnews #HackerNews #ngated

  38. 🚨BREAKING: Someone thought the world needed yet another #FOSS file server, and named it *Copyparty*—because nothing screams #innovation like a bad pun. 🙄 Meanwhile, YouTube's legalese marathon continues to put insomniacs to sleep since 2025. 🎉
    youtube.com/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0 #Copyparty #YouTube #legalnews #HackerNews #ngated