Apple Lifehacker: 10 Hacks Every iPad User Should Know Use this hidden gesture to drag and drop multiple items at once: “When you tap and hold to select one item, drag your fingers out from the file to “pick” it up, but don’t let go just yet. With another finger, tap to pick up as many more files, photos, or links as you wish. They’ll all get collected under the finger you’re holding on to. Then, use your free hand to go to the Home Screen and open the app you want to drop everything off (like Notes or Mail). Once you let go, all the files will follow suit. This works within the Files app as well, which makes it a great way to move multiple files together. If you’re using the latest iPadOS version, you’ll also see a progress bar for transferring files at the top of the screen.” a. iPad User Guide: Learn advanced gestures to interact with iPad Use “Windowed Apps” to turn your iPad into a computer: “You can do this from Settings > Multitasking & Gestures, but there’s a faster way from wherever you are in iPadOS. Open Control Center, tap the new Multitasking toggle and switch to Windowed Apps mode.” a. Lifehacker: The iPad Has Never Been More Like a Mac, but Can It Replace One? Use this gesture for quick side-by-side app views: “One of the best new gestures added in iPadOS 26 is the flick gesture. Pick up a window when you’re in Windowed Apps mode, and just flick it to the right or the left of the screen. The window will then automatically resize itself to fit to half of the screen. When two apps are docked like this, you’ll see a new handlebar appear. You can drag it to resize the window split (going to a 70/30 split is a great ratio for multitasking, as one app essentially goes down to iPhone size). There are more gestures to know about, too. Using four or five fingers, swipe left or right on the screen to switch between apps, or app pairs. Swipe up and hold to enter app switcher mode (and to see a preview of all open apps). And of course you can swipe up with four fingers to go home. You can also swipe down from the top of the screen to reveal the Menu bar at any time.” Change this setting to make the Files app more like Finder on Mac: “From the top toolbar you can now switch from the default Icons view to either a List view or a Column view. Column view is like Finder, where you can drill down into a folder structure while still maintaining easy access to top folders in columns to the left. On the other hand, if you manage a lot of files, and you like to see all file information, along with sort options, you should try List view. You can sort based on name, date created, date modified, size, or tags. And you can add or remove columns to customize exactly what shows up.” Use “Sidecar” to turn your iPad into a second screen: “To enable Handoff, go to Settings > General > Airplay & Handoff > Handoff. Make sure the iPad is unlocked and nearby. Then, go to Control Center > Screen Mirroring and pick the iPad from your list. To use it as an external monitor, choose the Use As Separate Display option. If you want to use the iPad as a drawing surface for a Mac app, with Apple Pencil support, choose the Mirror Display option instead. You can now move freely between the iPad screen and the Mac. To arrange the layout for the screens, go to System Settings > Displays. For more tips, take a look at our detailed guide on using Sidecar.” Use your iPad’s hidden “iPhone” keyboard to type with one hand: “Just pinch in with two fingers in the middle of the keyboard to switch to a floating mini-keyboard. You can drag it anywhere you please. (Alternatively, long-press the keyboard icon in the bottom right, then choose “Floating.”)” Use Slide Over to pin a window to the top of the screen: “You can pin an app to the top of the screen using Slide Over if you want to refer to something else for a task (without shifting gears into the multitasking mode). First, you need to be in either Stage Manager or Windowed Mode. Then, open an app, long-press on the Stop Lights control in the top left, then tap “Enter Slide Over.” The app will shift to the side, and will always remain there, even when switching between apps. You can even resize the Slide Over window to make it as big or small as you want. You can hide the current Slide Over window by swiping the window to the edge of the screen. A small arrow button will appear in its place, which you can use to bring the window back. If you have a keyboard attached, use the keyboard shortcut Globe + Option + Right Arrow to send an app to Slide Over mode.” Edit your handwritten text with Apple Pencil gestures: “To remove an error, just scratch or scribble over a word or sentence to delete it. To rearrange handwritten text, you can draw a circle around a word to pick it up. Then, you can move the word around and place it where you’d like it to go. If two words are too close to each other, you can draw a vertical slice between them to insert some space. Similarly, just press and hold the Pencil in between two words to insert text in the middle.” Change default apps for your frequently used file types: “Open the Files app, then find a file type that you want to change (for example, always opening PNG files in Pixelmator instead of the Preview app). Tap and hold on the file, then tap “Get Info.” Here, choose “Always Open With,” and switch to a different app from the list. Apple will bring up a confirmation box. Here, select “Always Open.” The next time you tap on the file with the particular file extension, it will open in the app of your choice.” Add folders to the Dock to access your files anywhere: “When multitasking on your iPad, you might routinely need to drag and drop files from Downloads or your work folder. You can add that folder directly to the Dock to quickly access the files within, without even opening the Files app. From the Files app, press and hold any folder that you want to add to the Dock, and tap “Add to Dock.” Or, you can simply drag and drop a folder to the Dock itself. Now, when you tap the folder icon in the Dock, you’ll see recently added files, or folders within it. You can then drag and drop any file you see here onto any app, or you can open the folder using the Open Folder option at the top of the file’s preview.” Entertainment Gizmodo: People Are Convinced Nathan Fillion Is Reviving ‘Firefly’ Via… Instagram Posts? I would love for Firefly to make a comeback… but i’m not going to get my hopes up only to be disappointed. Waze Blog: Drive with “Star Trek” on Waze. I stopped using Google Maps because of the whole “gulf of america” garbage (Wired: Here’s How All Online Maps Are Handling the ‘Gulf of Mexico’ Name Change), i think Apple Maps now does it too, but Organic Maps i believe is safe… All that said, since Google owns Wze, I’m assuming they will have “gulf of america” too. I didn’t plan on using Waze long-term, i just wanted to play around with the new Star Trek additions. Games Windows Central: My top 5 Decky Loader plugins every SteamOS and Bazzite handheld gaming PC should use GitHub: shingonati0n / xivomega-decky: “Decky Plugin to mitigate latency on Final Fantasy XIV Online” GitHub: xXJSONDeruloXx / Decky-Lookup: “Per Game Web searches: PC Gaming Wiki, Google, Walkthroughs Etc” GitHub: rossimo / decky-pip: “Watch your favorite stream while you game!” GitHub: SteamGridDB / decky-steamgriddb: “Plugin for Decky Loader to apply and manage custom art assets from within gaming mode.” GitHub: itsOwen / playcount-decky: “A Steam Deck plugin that shows current player counts for your steam games.” GitHub: moraroy / NonSteamLaunchersDecky: “NonSteamLaunchers Decky Loader Version” GitHub: mubaraknumann / unifideck: “A Decky Loader plugin that brings together games from Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG and Amazon into a single, unified library experience on your Steam Deck.” GitHub: xXJSONDeruloXx / decky-lsfg-vk: “Decky plugin to streamline installation and usage of lsfg-vk; the Lossless Scaling compatibility layer for linux” Engadget: The Playdate Catalog’s 3-year anniversary sale is here I haven’t used my Playdate in a bit, so this is a reminder to look at it again. Hackaday: Running Ocarina Of Time On The Apple Watch YouTube: I Made OCARINA OF TIME Run on the Apple Watch!: Invidious is currently down, so i can’t post that link instead of direct to YouTube: “2026-03-11: Video playback is not working due to recent changes Youtube did. As always, just wait until a fix is released!” Just for fun… of course i would want to run Ocarina of Time on anything i possibly could. Media Plappa: “Audiobook player for Jellyfin and AudioBookShelf, written in Swift/SwiftUI” Privacy HackRead: Best DeleteMe Alternatives (2026): Competitors and Comparisons: “Best DeleteMe alternatives for 2026 compared, including Incogni, Optery, Aura, Kanary, and Privacy Bee for data broker removal and privacy protection.” DeleteMe Incogni Optery Aura Kanary Privacy Bee IT’s FOSS: Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next From the sound of it, time to get off Ubuntu? Lifehacker: How the Government Uses Advertising Data to Track People (and What You Can Do to Limit It) Eh, who needs privacy. Right? Security Miscellaneous Baby Buddy: iOS Shortcuts #300: I wanted to make note of these to get added to my account. Help Net Security: OpenWrt 25.12.0 ships with new package manager, built-in upgrade tool, support for 2200+ devices It will take a little getting used to (although i really was using bash scripts for using opkg to get & upgrade packages. HACKADAY: Experiment With The Pi Camera The Modular Way HACKADAY: Modular Pi Cam: “This started out as just me wanting to try round displays and the 5D directional pad… but as I worked on the project I realized the body could be modular eg. swap the camera module/front plate or back plate.” Nerds.xyz: CachyOS quietly adds a way to run Windows inside Linux CachyOS: “CachyOS ships every package optimized for your CPU - compiled with x86-64-v3/v4 and Zen4 instructions, LTO, and PGO - on top of a custom kernel with the tuned EEVDF scheduler. The result: a noticeably faster Arch Linux experience with the same rolling-release flexibility you expect.” selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (13 March 2026), by Ethan Sholly. Google Play Store: IT Pro Tools – Cannoli Shell: “Cannoli Shell: Built for the IT Trenches.” I still use my Pixel Tablet a bit, so this might be useful. /r/SelfHosted: PSA: Think hard before you deploy BookLore Proxylity: WireGuard Is Two Things 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.” I think i saved this last week or the week before, but haven’t looked at or tried it yet. GitHub: autobrr / autobrr: “Modern, easy to use download automation for torrents and usenet.” autobrr: Introduction “autobrr redefines download automation for torrents and Usenet, drawing inspiration from tools like trackarr, autodl-irssi, and flexget. We’ve combined the best of these worlds into one versatile tool that can do it all, and then some.” -GitHub: cshum / imagor-studio: “Self-hosted image gallery with built-in editing and template workflows” I probably would just use GiMP or Pixelmator for image editing, but web-based might be convenient across different systems or platforms where i don’t have those options. GitHub: binwiederhier / ntfy: v2.18.0 This is the biggest release I’ve ever done on the server. It’s 14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed, all from one pull request that adds PostgreSQL support. ...

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.”

/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.

🤖 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 ...

📚 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.”