I don’t use Twitter or Microsoft Edge, but my network logs tell a different story.

Following my post on why I’m skipping the proprietary "Little Snitch" port for Linux, I spent Saturday evening watching the "invisible conversation" between my family’s idle devices and Big Tech servers. Even with no one actively online, the telemetry never stops.

The receipts are now on the blog:

the.unknown-universe.co.uk/pri…

#Privacy #FOSS #HomeLab #Linux #SelfHosted #AdGuardHome

I Don’t Use Twitter. My Logs Disagree - The Unknown Universe

It’s 21:45 on Saturday and the house is quiet. But my DNS logs show a massive invisible conversation between my family’s idle devices and Big Tech servers.

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Ghost v6.30.0 is here. If you are running your own newsletter platform, now is the time to update your instance and check out what is new. #selfhosted #homelab

github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/rele…

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Blocking Aggressive Crawlers

I just updated the blocklist for the Mastodon and BookWyrm instances. The logs showed meta-webindexer getting stuck in ridiculous infinite /rss/rss/ loops — a total waste of server resources pushing BookWyrm to 100% CPU utilization.

Additional Bans:

Meta-Webindexer/ExternalAgent: Recursive scraping gone rogue.

ClaudeBot: Keeping local content out of AI training sets.

Semrush & SERanking: Commercial SEO bots have no business here.

If you’re self-hosting and notice weird CPU spikes or odd path patterns, I highly recommend auditing your User Agents. It’s an easy way to protect your performance and your users' privacy. 🛠️

#SelfHosted #MastodonAdmin #BookWyrm #Nginx #Privacy #SysAdmin

If you are running #unifi you need to patch.

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