today's howtos

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 24, 2025

• MJ Fransen ☛ Prosody XMPP server in the home lab

  This is an article about a local server only, not reachable from the [Internet].

  The differences with a XMPP server that is connected to the internet and does federation with other XMPP servers is in the infrastructure: TLS-certificates from an official CA, and official DNS records. When providing a XMPP server on the internet, security and privacy protection are very important.

• University of Toronto ☛ The (early) good and bad parts of Polkit for a system administrator

  At a high level, Polkit is how a lot of things on modern Linux systems decide whether or not to let you do privileged operations. After looking into it a bit, I've wound up feeling that Polkit has both good and bad aspects from the perspective of a system administrator (especially a system administrator with multi-user Linux systems, where most of the people using them aren't supposed to have any special privileges). While I've used (desktop) Linuxes with Polkit for a while and relied on it for a certain amount of what I was doing, I've done so blindly, effectively as a normal person. This is the first I've looked at the details of Polkit, which is why I'm calling this my early reactions.

• Louis Merlin ☛ farphone

  this webpage is hosted on a drawer-bound fairphone 2 from 2015, running postmarketos

  in this tutorial you will be guided through the steps taken to get there

  you will end up with a small home server, able to run basic services

  we aim to reduce e-waste, encourage reuse and give a second life to forgotten chips

• idroot

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