#freedombox — Public Fediverse posts

I hadn't seen this 18 minute talk from FOSDEM this year but it's quite interesting on the quantum, free software, hardware supply chains, sovereignty, and secure MFA topics: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/ULPHF3-privacy_and_sovereignty_in_a_post_quantum_open_world/
The talk has references to @freedomboxfndn and #Solokeys #freedomBox

#DIday Wer ein #linuxgaming #Spiel sucht, wo man den Server selbst in einer #LanParty für die Familie, oder online für Freunde, betreiben kann, für den ist #Luanti #Minetest vielleicht interessant.

Es ist ein freies Software Spiel ähnlich #minecraft mit allen Rechten zur Änderung und Anpassung des Quelltextes, sowohl des Servers als auch der Clients.

Von Linux Guides gibt es eine schöne Anleitung zum aufsetzen des Servers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c35G5sFEYAY

Für einen #raspberrypi Küchenserver mit #Freedombox ist es auch als App verfügbar https://www.freedombox.org/apps/

Wer einen #Yunohost Server betreibt, der kann den Server auch ganz einfach aus dem Katalog installieren: https://apps.yunohost.org/app/minetest

Spieler brauchen eine Client-Software, die gibt es für Windows, MacOS, Linux, BSD und Android: https://www.luanti.org/en/downloads/

Mods gibt es auch unzählig viele für das Spiel: https://content.luanti.org/

After days of experiments, tests and trials, I’ve come to a simple conclusion: a product for everyday users must be functional, stable and reliable above everything else.

For something I’d actually ship, my current choice is FreedomBox or OpenWrt with AdGuard DNS preconfigured. Pi-hole and AdGuard Home feel unnecessary for this use case.

If I had to pick one today, #OpenWrt would probably win.

#OpenWrt #FreedomBox #AdGuard #IoT #Privacy

After days of experiments, tests and trials, I’ve come to a simple conclusion: a product for everyday users must be functional, stable and reliable above everything else.

For something I’d actually ship, my current choice is FreedomBox or OpenWrt with AdGuard DNS preconfigured. Pi-hole and AdGuard Home feel unnecessary for this use case.

If I had to pick one today, #OpenWrt would probably win.

#OpenWrt #FreedomBox #AdGuard #IoT #Privacy

After days of experiments, tests and trials, I’ve come to a simple conclusion: a product for everyday users must be functional, stable and reliable above everything else.

For something I’d actually ship, my current choice is FreedomBox or OpenWrt with AdGuard DNS preconfigured. Pi-hole and AdGuard Home feel unnecessary for this use case.

If I had to pick one today, #OpenWrt would probably win.

#OpenWrt #FreedomBox #AdGuard #IoT #Privacy

After days of experiments, tests and trials, I’ve come to a simple conclusion: a product for everyday users must be functional, stable and reliable above everything else.

For something I’d actually ship, my current choice is FreedomBox or OpenWrt with AdGuard DNS preconfigured. Pi-hole and AdGuard Home feel unnecessary for this use case.

If I had to pick one today, #OpenWrt would probably win.

#OpenWrt #FreedomBox #AdGuard #IoT #Privacy

Just spun up a dedicated IoT gateway on a Raspberry Pi 4, this time running FreedomBox + AdGuard DNS. Works flawlessly 🛡️

FreedomBox has a billion apps worth exploring, but I kept it lean: a simple, useful privacy shield for home IoT. No bloat, just control.

Every smart home needs this layer. 🔒️📡

#FreedomBox #RaspberryPi #IoT #Privacy #Linux #AdGuard

Just spun up a dedicated IoT gateway on a Raspberry Pi 4, this time running FreedomBox + AdGuard DNS. Works flawlessly 🛡️

FreedomBox has a billion apps worth exploring, but I kept it lean: a simple, useful privacy shield for home IoT. No bloat, just control.

Every smart home needs this layer. 🔒️📡

#FreedomBox #RaspberryPi #IoT #Privacy #Linux #AdGuard

Just spun up a dedicated IoT gateway on a Raspberry Pi 4, this time running FreedomBox + AdGuard DNS. Works flawlessly 🛡️

FreedomBox has a billion apps worth exploring, but I kept it lean: a simple, useful privacy shield for home IoT. No bloat, just control.

Every smart home needs this layer. 🔒️📡

#FreedomBox #RaspberryPi #IoT #Privacy #Linux #AdGuard

Just spun up a dedicated IoT gateway on a Raspberry Pi 4, this time running FreedomBox + AdGuard DNS. Works flawlessly 🛡️

FreedomBox has a billion apps worth exploring, but I kept it lean: a simple, useful privacy shield for home IoT. No bloat, just control.

Every smart home needs this layer. 🔒️📡

#FreedomBox #RaspberryPi #IoT #Privacy #Linux #AdGuard

@Signalrauschen das ist schade. Ich konnte Freunde und Familie überzeugen zusätzlich Conversations, zu installieren. Und das funktioniert seit mehreren Jahren sehr gut. Mit Hilfe einer #freedombox ist sogar das Betreiben eines eigenen Servers relativ einfach.

@weekendspy Thanks for this interesting post about an important issue. My #degoogle solution was a #freedombox #homelab server running #nextcloud

I've uploaded new versions of the Shaarli package (bookmarks app) in Debian with a security fix.

The package versions with the fix:
- 0.16.1+dfsg-1 in testing and unstable
- 0.14.0+dfsg-2+deb13u1 in stable-security
- 0.12.1+dfsg-8+deb12u2 in oldstable-security

More information about the issue:
https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli/security/advisories/GHSA-g3xq-mj52-f8pg
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-24476

#Shaarli #Debian #FreedomBox

I wanted to listen to my music collection from everywhere, so I've been setting up Navidrome behind my FreedomBox using Podman quadlets for systemd integration (all based on Debian Trixie). Here's how:

First I've installed Navidrome as Podman quadlet, based on the official docker compose installation manual:

Docs: https://www.navidrome.org/docs/installation/docker/

This is what my /etc/containers/systemd/navidrome.container looks like:

[Unit]
Description=Navidrome
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Container]
Image=docker.io/deluan/navidrome:0.60.0

User=1001:119
UserNS=keep-id

Environment=ND_ENABLEINSIGHTSCOLLECTOR=false
Environment=ND_BASEURL=https://www.example.org/music/
Environment=ND_LASTFM_ENABLED=false
Environment=ND_LISTENBRAINZ_ENABLED=false
Environment=ND_ENABLECOVERANIMATION=false

Volume=/home/navidrome/data:/data:rw,U,z
Volume=/media/data/my-mp3-collection/:/music:ro,U,z

PublishPort=127.0.0.1:4533:4533

[Service]
TimeoutStartSec=900
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Things to note:

• I've pinned the version to not automatically pull latest but have control over upgrades.
• User 1001:119 refers to a dedicated non-system user I've created with adduser navidrome --disabled-login which has a home directory to hold the data dir. 119 is the group my music collection folder belongs to. I'm automatically synchronizing it using syncthing, hence the differing GID.

After setting up this quadlet, I reloaded systemd config, started the container and checked the logs. It came up fine, scanning my library on first start:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start navidrome
sudo journalctl -u navidrome -f

Afterwards I set up FreedomBox integration, so I can potentially re-use SSO and have Navidrome run on a URL path on the same domain. In order to do that I created a new Apache2 config /etc/apache2/conf-available/navidrome.conf:

<Location /music/>

        Include includes/freedombox-single-sign-on.conf

        <IfModule mod_auth_pubtkt.c>
        TKTAuthToken "admin"
        </IfModule>

        # allow websockets
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteCond %{HTTP:Connection} Upgrade [NC]
        RewriteCond %{HTTP:Upgrade} =websocket [NC]
        RewriteRule /(.*)           wss://127.0.0.1:4533/$1 [P,L]

        ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:4533/music/ retry=1
        ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:4533/music/
        ProxyPreserveHost On

</Location>

This config uses FreedomBox's SSO and enforces a user account with "admin" role. In addition, it enables WebSockets and proxies through to the Navidrome container on port 4533.

I enabled it and reloaded Apache:

sudo a2enconf navidrome
sudo systemctl reload apache2

All of this done, I was able to open the Navidrome web UI on the configured path /music of my FreedomBox and set up a first admin account. Hooray!

Next up: Figure out how to enable Navidrome to use FreedomBox's SSO. The docs are straight-forward:

https://www.navidrome.org/docs/getting-started/extauth-quickstart/

And FreedomBoxs already sets a REMOTE_USER header. But I've not been able to make this work, yet. Inside the podman container, the proxy IP is reported as 10.88.0.1, but setting this and the header in my config did not work. I'll figure it out eventually and post an update. Happy selfhosting!

#FreedomBox #Navidrome #Selfhosting #Music

@wakejagr I think the Debian-derived #FreedomBox is worth looking at for inspiration - not necessarily to install it (but you could?) but just to see which packages it has chosen to perform various selfhosting duties.

https://www.freedombox.org/

@organicmaps Soverign computing needs to be made easier. Many awesome projects are working hard for this and I wish them all success: @realdrdoug, @yunohost, @freedomboxfndn, @npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll

#selfhosting #sovereigncomputing #datasovereignity #selfhosted #SelfHost #start9 #yunohost #freedombox #HomeServerHQ

4 apps in #FreedomBox have the word Wiki in their name. This makes reviewers think that there are 4 Wiki apps in FreedomBox.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/22/debians_freedombox_blend/

#FeatherWiki and #TiddlyWiki are notebooks. They are supposed to be a better alternative to syncing a folder of Markdown files using Syncthing to your FreedomBox.

I don't think they are even meant to be used for the same purpose as MediaWiki. They don't have user management or even a backend for that matter. They are literally HTML files!

@njoseph Thanks. Are the certificate issuance and renewals automated?

What about hiding your home connection IP address - is there an easy-to-use integration with Wireguard or some other solution?

Sorry for the questions. I've been trying to decide between #Yunohost, #Freedombox and #HomeServerHQ for a while now. Unfortunately, the #VPS provider I wanted to setup #Wireguard on demanded #KYC self-doxxing so that stopped me in my tracks!

@nicfab

@yunohost
@nextcloud (Mail)
@freedomboxfndn

Are / will you support this option for encrypted email? (^^^ Previous toot)

#Encryption #Email #WKD #Privacy #Yunohost #Nextcloud #Freedombox #WebKeyDirectory #Cryptography #OpenPGP

@nicfab

@yunohost
@nextcloud (Mail)
@freedomboxfndn

Are / will you support this option for encrypted email? (^^^ Previous toot)

#Encryption #Email #WKD #Privacy #Yunohost #Nextcloud #Freedombox #WebKeyDirectory #Cryptography #OpenPGP

@nicfab

@yunohost
@nextcloud (Mail)
@freedomboxfndn

Are / will you support this option for encrypted email? (^^^ Previous toot)

#Encryption #Email #WKD #Privacy #Yunohost #Nextcloud #Freedombox #WebKeyDirectory #Cryptography #OpenPGP

@nicfab

@yunohost
@nextcloud (Mail)
@freedomboxfndn

Are / will you support this option for encrypted email? (^^^ Previous toot)

#Encryption #Email #WKD #Privacy #Yunohost #Nextcloud #Freedombox #WebKeyDirectory #Cryptography #OpenPGP

@nicfab

@yunohost
@nextcloud (Mail)
@freedomboxfndn

Are / will you support this option for encrypted email? (^^^ Previous toot)

#Encryption #Email #WKD #Privacy #Yunohost #Nextcloud #Freedombox #WebKeyDirectory #Cryptography #OpenPGP

#FreedomBox 25.10 has been released (#Debian / #Linux / #SelfHosting / #HomeServer / #PersonalServer) https://freedombox.org/

#FreedomBox 25.9.4 has been released (#Debian / #Linux / #SelfHosting / #HomeServer / #PersonalServer) https://freedombox.org/

Took Beeware for a spin yesterday. It's just the Toga web view tutorial from the documentation page, but serving my FreedomBox web interface.

Screenshot: https://njoseph.me/bepasty/F6DGm3vq

There's not much to see in terms of code. I am just amazed that it works on GTK and Android. I had to put a lot of work into resizing PNGs because the platforms expect different resolutions.
https://salsa.debian.org/njoseph/freedombox-beeware

I don't know yet if the native Android app's features can be fully replicated.

#FreedomBox #Beeware

#FreedomBox 25.4.1 has been released (#Debian / #Linux / #SelfHosting / #HomeServer / #PersonalServer) https://freedombox.org/

#FreedomBox 25.2 has been released (#Debian / #Linux / #SelfHosting / #HomeServer / #PersonalServer) https://freedombox.org/

#FreedomBox 24.24 has been released (#Debian / #Linux / #SelfHosting / #HomeServer / #PersonalServer) https://freedombox.org/

I am a #CitizenScientist at heart, and it bothers me not that #technology is prevalent and powerful (high speed, high storage capacity), but that such improvement of our technology is gatekept behind massive #paywalls.

(TL;DR: the cost of a portable genome sequencer and also data storage makes it unattainable to collaborate as a citizen scientist, and that makes me big mad 😡!! I know we can do something about it.)

I dream of an internet #infrastructure that would enable me, and others, to #democratize data, storage space, and processing power. Such would bolster research and study across many fields of knowledge.

Allow me to set the scene.

- A #PublicCommons #CommunityMesh #MeshNetwork interlinks public and private schools, weather broadcast stations, public government buildings, medical facilities, public transit centers, large housing complexes, and observation towers in public parks for civil and public academic use. Low-power Radio Wide Area Networks (#LoRaWAN) might prove useful here for environmental sensors.

- #FreedomBox or no-assembly-required #SelfHosting #cloudlet solutions bring #FaultTolerance to the hands of #WebService architects.

- #NetworkAttachedStorage (#NAS) equips locations connected to the network with an opportunity to share _some_ data storage capacity as a cache for the functions of the greater network. (In my opinion, altruistic features should be opt-out conditions.) Such might confer a cache of operable @wikifunctions representations.

- #UniformResourceName (#URN) resolvers (e.g., such as for #DOI, #ARC, #ISBN, #IPFS) give us what we need to collaborate as communities to organize our #DataSets and to distribute amongst our community the load of resolving names of data to their resources.

- the #ResourceDescriptionFramework, or #RDF, lets us claim to properties, attributes and metainformation of a resource. This is useful for cataloging and searching through datasets to find pertinent information. (E.g., by category: music, video, lectures; photos, figures, charts, diagrams; databases, manifests, ledgers, logs; etc.)

- #Peer2Peer clients create a distributed #ComputeFabric for domains of interest.

Major hubs of the network publish off-loadable functions in "initiatives" to: collect, clean, stage, process, recollect, and report sets of data for research within their pertinent areas of interest. (E.g., universities or parks might produce functions to operationalize a project to collect and study evidence of climate change.)

Client-Devices subscribe to the initiatives that their owner finds worthwhile and commit to serving requests they receive for such functions.

--------

The scene is set. Now we imagine:

You subscribe to a citizen science initiative and travel anywhere with your portable sensor(s): a #GenomeSequencer or #Spectrometer, a #SchumannResonance or #Radiation detector, a #Barometer or #Thermometer or #Hygrometer or #Decibellometer.

You take #measurements, name them and fill in whatever #metadata about them you can. When you submit your dataset to the network, the publishers of every #initiative of which you are part are notified so that others can search for it through them via the metadata you ascribed to the dataset. When others search for and find your dataset, they, too, can process it according the functions within the network.

By this our internet would become a virtual meta-machine; this could assist in the symbiotization of #civilian #academy and #inventive #altruism.

(TL;DR: the cost of portable genome sequencers and data storage makes it hard to collaborate as a citizen scientist, and that makes me big mad 😡!! I know we can do something about it.)

I am a #CitizenScientist at heart, and it bothers me not that #technology is prevalent and powerful (high speed, high storage capacity), but that such improvement of our technology is gatekept behind massive #paywalls.

(TL;DR: the cost of a portable genome sequencer and also data storage makes it unattainable to collaborate as a citizen scientist, and that makes me big mad 😡!! I know we can do something about it.)

I dream of an internet #infrastructure that would enable me, and others, to #democratize data, storage space, and processing power. Such would bolster research and study across many fields of knowledge.

Allow me to set the scene.

- A #PublicCommons #CommunityMesh #MeshNetwork interlinks public and private schools, weather broadcast stations, public government buildings, medical facilities, public transit centers, large housing complexes, and observation towers in public parks for civil and public academic use. Low-power Radio Wide Area Networks (#LoRaWAN) might prove useful here for environmental sensors.

- #FreedomBox or no-assembly-required #SelfHosting #cloudlet solutions bring #FaultTolerance to the hands of #WebService architects.

- #NetworkAttachedStorage (#NAS) equips locations connected to the network with an opportunity to share _some_ data storage capacity as a cache for the functions of the greater network. (In my opinion, altruistic features should be opt-out conditions.) Such might confer a cache of operable @wikifunctions representations.

- #UniformResourceName (#URN) resolvers (e.g., such as for #DOI, #ARC, #ISBN, #IPFS) give us what we need to collaborate as communities to organize our #DataSets and to distribute amongst our community the load of resolving names of data to their resources.

- the #ResourceDescriptionFramework, or #RDF, lets us claim to properties, attributes and metainformation of a resource. This is useful for cataloging and searching through datasets to find pertinent information. (E.g., by category: music, video, lectures; photos, figures, charts, diagrams; databases, manifests, ledgers, logs; etc.)

- #Peer2Peer clients create a distributed #ComputeFabric for domains of interest.

Major hubs of the network publish off-loadable functions in "initiatives" to: collect, clean, stage, process, recollect, and report sets of data for research within their pertinent areas of interest. (E.g., universities or parks might produce functions to operationalize a project to collect and study evidence of climate change.)

Client-Devices subscribe to the initiatives that their owner finds worthwhile and commit to serving requests they receive for such functions.

--------

The scene is set. Now we imagine:

You subscribe to a citizen science initiative and travel anywhere with your portable sensor(s): a #GenomeSequencer or #Spectrometer, a #SchumannResonance or #Radiation detector, a #Barometer or #Thermometer or #Hygrometer or #Decibellometer.

You take #measurements, name them and fill in whatever #metadata about them you can. When you submit your dataset to the network, the publishers of every #initiative of which you are part are notified so that others can search for it through them via the metadata you ascribed to the dataset. When others search for and find your dataset, they, too, can process it according the functions within the network.

By this our internet would become a virtual meta-machine; this could assist in the symbiotization of #civilian #academy and #inventive #altruism.

(TL;DR: the cost of portable genome sequencers and data storage makes it hard to collaborate as a citizen scientist, and that makes me big mad 😡!! I know we can do something about it.)

#FreedomBox 24.17 has been released (#Debian / #Linux / #SelfHosting / #HomeServer / #PersonalServer) https://freedombox.org/

I wanted to package Miniflux for Debian. I am pleasantly surprised to see that somebody beat me to it. http://tracker.debian.org/miniflux

Now I just have to write a FreedomBox app for it to have it ready for the next stable release of Debian/FreedomBox. This will be the second feed reader app after Tiny Tiny RSS. It would be nice to have FreshRSS as another option.

#Miniflux #Debian #FreedomBox #RSS #FeedReaders

Added a section to the FreedomBox Manual page for Syncthing - "Note-taking and Journaling", mentioning only free software that I've used myself.
https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/Syncthing

#FreedomBox #Syncthing #logseq #ZimWiki #TiddlyWiki #FeatherWiki

Anybody remember the #personalcloud craze that happened in the early 2010s, with the #PogoPlug and others pitching us a future of hosting our own websites, email, and cloud files with a little box in our homes? The @freedomboxfndn persists, but this topic is ripe for a post mortem. I imagine security was an issue with those, maybe performance and UX too? Or was the free #GAFAM cloud just too seductive in 2011?

https://www.wired.com/2011/10/pogoplug-mobile-your-own-personal-cloud/

#opensource #freedombox #plugpc @liliputing

Thinking of setting up a #selfhosted system. I'm looking at #yunohost and #freedombox. Not sure what else is out there in that kind of setup. Looking for something to help setup some services and build up. Currently will setup #NextCoud and maybe host my #WordPress site there. Eventually may try email and others... Open to any suggestions from people already doing this.

@freedomboxfndn thank you for everything the team does on this project. I love my #Freedombox and look forward to future developments #FanPost

@freedomboxfndn thank you for everything the team does on this project. I love my #Freedombox and look forward to future developments #FanPost

@freedomboxfndn thank you for everything the team does on this project. I love my #Freedombox and look forward to future developments #FanPost

@freedomboxfndn thank you for everything the team does on this project. I love my #Freedombox and look forward to future developments #FanPost

@freedomboxfndn thank you for everything the team does on this project. I love my #Freedombox and look forward to future developments #FanPost

#Augeas is a configuration editing tool:
https://augeas.net/

We use it a lot in #FreedomBox. Today I'm working on an augeas lens for parsing Deb822 apt sources files. #project

The Pioneer Edition FreedomBox Home Server Kit is a home server which respects your privacy

Pioneer-FreedomBox-HSK is a kit that includes all the hardware needed for launching a FreedomBox home server on an Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 board. This product provides the perfect combination of open source hardware and free and open source
software.

https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/Home-Server/Pioneer-FreedomBox-HSK/open-source-hardware

@freedomboxfndn @olimex #DecentralizeTheWeb #FreeSoftware #FreeHardware #OpenSourceHardware #FreedomBox

My priorities for #FreedomBox development:
1. Improve the functional tests so we can catch more bugs.
2. Resume work on systemd sandboxing for security.
3. Package and integrate new apps.
#freedomboxdev #fossdev

FreedomBox Install Event https://mobilize.berlin/events/886da22b-0e86-4214-925e-233ad05c66ff

Man hört manchmal, dass Internetprovider den Freedombox blockieren. Gibt es #UnityMedia/#Vodafone Kunden in Bonn/NRW die ein #Freedombox haben?

New stable images with the latest version of FreedomBox v20.8 have been published.

Full announcement:
https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/new-stable-images-available-on-the-website/893

#FreedomBox #ReleaseAnnouncement

@lioh @txt_file Idealerweise sollte man auf eine Alternative (zb FreshRSS) ausweichen. Die nächsten Schritte dafür wären ein RFP in #Debian und ein Eintrag im FreshRSS issue tracker. #FreedomBox #doocracy

Turns out I’m a fair bit materialistic. My partner got me lovely late birthday / father’s day presents, including a #RaspberryPi 4, which is going to become the new #LibreELEC station, hopefully giving my #OUYA controllers a second life along the way. I’ve got a couple of old low-spec netbooks that I keep repurposing, but running out of ideas. Thinking of trying #Freedombox on one of them. Any recommendation to make use of old, mildly dysfunctional lappies?
#techRecycling

This is one of the best articles I've ever read on the topic of #DigitalColonialism

Digital colonialism is threatening the Global South

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/digital-colonialism-threatening-global-south-190129140828809.html

#FreedomBox #Mastodon #Swecha #FreeBasics #SelfHosting #CommunityHosting