w33k in g33k: October 10, 2025
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Sean P. McAdam
Android
- Dev.to: What to do with a Surface Duo in 2025: I know i started looking into a newer Android version for my Surface Duo, but don’t think i did anything about it. So now i’m looking into it again.
Games
- WCCFTech: Hades 2 Weapons Tier List Guide: I haven’t played Hades 2 yet, but it was something i saved for later reading.
Hardware
- FuriLabs: FLX1s: “The FLX1s from Furi Labs runs a fully optimized Linux system called FuriOS, packing a lightning fast user interface, 3 hardware switches for microphone, camera and modem/gps, and a privacy centric approach like no other.”
- Hack A Day: Trapped Soul In Time For Halloween: I might have already added this to last week’s post, but i thought it was interesting so i’m adding it (again).
Privacy
- XDA: I tried many Pi-hole tweaks, and here are the 5 that actually made a difference
- I thought i lost my blocklists for Pi-Hole & came across this when digging into what lists I wanted to put back. I thought it might have some interesting items to look into.
- “Using well-curated blocklists pays off”
- “Enabling DNSSEC improved privacy and trust”
- “Blocking known malware and phishing domains”
- “Setting up Pi-hole as the network’s only DNS resolver”
- “Adding a local DNS entry for my home services”
- Reading through these… i wouldn’t consider these tweaks… they’re just additional features that Pi-Hole has. So maybe not as useful as I was expecting.
- GitHub: yaelwrites / Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List: “This list, also known as BADBOOL, was started in September 2017 and was most recently updated on September 30, 2025 to remove CocoFinder, as the Google form included to opt out was removed by Google due to alleged terms of service violations. Once there is a way to opt out, it will be re-added.”
Meshtastic
- Since I’ve been trying to do more with Meshtastic & notifications (ntfy, Gotify, Apprise) & can use just a simple Discord server as the destination, i was planning to checkout these projects that were mentioned in the nyme.sh
- GitHub: baymesh / rage-against-the-meshine
- GitHub: axlixr / Meshtastic-to-Discord-bridge
- GitHub: Kavitate / Meshtastic-Discord-Bot
- Chicagoland Mesh: MQTT: Mistakes to Avoid
- GitHub: meshtastic / antenna-reports: “Community-contributed antenna testing reports and evaluations for Meshtastic devices.”
- Chicagoland Mesh: Setting up MQTT for your node
- adrelien: How To Host Your Own MQTT For Your Meshtastic Nodes
- Meshtastic: Local Groups
- Meshtastic Australia: Crash Course
- MichMesh: Getting Started
- MichMesh: nstallation and configuration of the Mosquitto MQTT server
- /r/meshtastic: MQTT etiquette
Miscellaneous
- It’s FOSS: How I am Using Git and Obsidian for Note Version Management: I’m still mainly using Joplin for notes, but do have Obsidian as well. I think I’ve more been using it as a backup for content I keep in DailyTxT.
- I am still super excited for when DailyTxT 2.0 will be released as well.
- Nextcloud Forums: How to edit Nextclouds config.php file with a texteditor?: I honestly forget what issue i ran into with my Nextcloud install where i needed to edit the config file, but since I’m running it in a Docker container, i was looking for this info to fix my problem.
- GitHub: Loosetooth / syncwings: “SyncWings is self-hosted software that lets you sync files between multiple devices and manage them easily through a web-based file manager. Supports multiple users on a single server.”
- /r/SelfHosted: Syncthing Homepage Widget
- https://docs.syncthing.net/dev/rest.html
- Pi-Hole Discourse: Pihole 6 (upgraded from v5) fails regulary seems to related to sqlite3 error
- Pi-Hole Discourse: Is it possible to have 2x DHCP servers with Pi-Hole + Gravity Sync?: Trying to see how to setup DHCP on a second Pi-Hole since I’m having problems with my primary & tired of my network pretty much getting taken out when primary Pi-Hole has problems.
- Unraid: Redundant PiHole DHCP setup !
Self-Host Weekly (10 October 2025)), by Ethan Sholly
- Akash Rajpurohit: Beszel — Lightweight self-hosted server monitoring for your homelab: I’m still trying to settle on a way to get alerts about servers or containers being down, so I will look into Bezel.
- GitHub: dockpeek / dockpeek: “Easily access your Docker container web interfaces and keep them up to date — across all your hosts.”
- For the same reasoning as above, looking for a good way to monitor Docker containers.
- GitHub: jeffcaldwellca / mkcertWeb: “Web based user interface for mkcert CLI internal CA”
- This might be one I saved before. I’m currently using the EFF’s Certbot smallstep’s Step CA Server for certificate management & automatic renewals. That has been going extremely well, but still like to keep an eye out for alternatives.
- GitHub: adanowitz / HASSL: “Home Assistant Simple Scripting Language”
- I’ve been digging into HomeAssistant more, so planning to check this out.
- GitHub: jtaylortech / journalot: “Minimal journaling CLI for developers. Git-backed, terminal-native, zero friction. Just type
journaland start writing.”- Anything mentioned as a “journal” gets my attention, even though I’m extremely happy with DailyTxT. Which I’m now seeing has it’s 2.0 release out… will definitely be taking advantage of that.
- GitHub: jasonyang-ee / MMMF: “Max Money Market Funds Calculator”
- GitHub: perstarkse / minne: “Minne, a read-it-later & personal knowledge management solution”
- GitHub: NeoHuncho / vikunja-voice-assistant: “Simplify your Vikunja task creation using Home voice assistant”
- GitHub: LoredCast / filewizard: “File Converter, OCR, Transcription & TTS WebUI”
- GitHub: volantvm / flint: “Lightweight tool for managing linux virtual machines”
- GitHub: effcaldwellca / mkcertWeb: “Web based user interface for mkcert CLI internal CA”