this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2025
113 points (99.1% liked)

Selfhosted

51049 readers
2108 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

  1. Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.

  2. No spam posting.

  3. Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).

  6. No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I only discovered this recently, and it's very handy.

Piping scripts directly to bash is a security risk. You can always download the scripts, inspect them and run locally if you so choose.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Mondez@lemdro.id -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

IMO these kinds of poor man's automation scripts are only useful to novice sysadmins but those are exactly the kind of people who shouldn't be running scripts they piped from the internet for both the fact that it's risky behaviour and the fact they don't then get the experience doing this manually for themselves to move on from being novice.

That said, let's not gate keep. If novices don't want to gain experience actually doing sysadmin work and level up their abilities and just want stuff that will probably work but that they'll not be able to fix easily if it doesn't, at least it's a starting point and when things break some of them will look deeper.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 day ago

That said, let’s not gate keep.

This shouldn't be an excuse for promoting risky behavior.