📚 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. 🫂 Social 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.

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.”

CipherOS https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/ai-hat-plus-2/ selh.st: Self-Host Weekly #154: Hello, My Name Is, by Ethan Sholly.

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

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 ...

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.”

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…

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. ...

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.

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