2.5 years ago, I migrated all my services hosted on a cloud provider to a homeserver.

This homeserver is also my workstation/gaming/dev/everything. I use QubesOS (an operating system based on the Xen hypervisor), and wrote some document about it: https://neowutran.ovh/qubes/articles/homeserver.pdf

Basically, I am hosting:

  • DNS
  • Matrix
  • Email
  • Jitsi
  • Mumble
  • Peertube
  • Screego
  • Nextcloud
  • Searxng
  • Tor
  • Wireguard VPN
  • Copy of wikipedia
  • Personal website And others.

And for TLS, to have better security, and to avoid relying on third party company/providers, I am using DANE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Named_Entities

https://sr.ht/~yukikoo/dane_without_root/

https://github.com/buffrr/letsdane

The “dane_without_root” is one of my projects and I am welcoming review / feedback on it

( I also posted about it on the QubesOS forum: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/highlighting-neowutrans-technical-doc-about-qubes )

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    I tried QubesOS back in the day. How has it progressed as a desktop. I was always underwhelmed visually. It just seemed rather chunky. Maybe that is intentional.

    Of course, if you are going for security, that’s great, but it seemed to me that security and a visually appealing desktop could be blended.

    • neowutran@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I haven’t know that time. It is indeed now way less chunky than your screenshot. By default it use XFCE, but support also KDE, i3 and other. Before starting to use QubesOS I was on arch with i3, and I kept using i3 on QubesOS

    • neowutran@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Yes, this part is intentional to raise questions and remark :)

      The certificate on my website is not valid using the WebPKI standard, but is valid using the DANE standard. It is related to my comment for this project https://sr.ht/~yukikoo/dane_without_root/ .

      My issue with the WebPKI model is that any government or big company on the planet could do a MITM on your connection, generate a certificate valid for any website, and get a read/write access to all your webpki TLS communications. The DANE model is an improvement over webpki because instead of the “anyone (every ca / intermediate certificate) can generate a certificate valid for anyone” model, it bring a hierarchical trust structure.

      • greyscale@lemmy.grey.oooEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        You missed my point

        It doesn’t work for the user, so it doesn’t work.

        Its about equivalent to the user as installing your own cert.

          • greyscale@lemmy.grey.oooEnglish
            0·
            2 months ago

            Which means I don’t care because nobody except myself will be able to use it.

            I’d care a lot if Firefox and Chrome supported it OOTB