w33k in g33k: May 30, 2025
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Sean P. McAdam
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.