w33k in g33k: August 15, 2025

IT Security

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

LoRa \ Meshtastic

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

selfh.st

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

Miscellaneous

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