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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

After having issues with my Raspberry Pi 4, 4GB Pi-Hole last week, I just picked up a 5 to replace it, assuming it was the hardware. Overall the cutover was straight-forwarded, I had done some prep work with packages, configs, etc before cutting anything over, then last night I actually took the jump. Again, for the most part, it was all smooth. Thie biggest headache i ran into was getting the Pi-Hole web interface working with nginx… I have 2 Pi-Hole’s, so i was able to use the nginx from my secondary as a reference, & tried using that for the primary. Just a few hours of “403 Forbidden” errors when trying to browser to the domain.tld/admin. For the hell of it, just trying to keep the …/sites-enabled/ directory clean i deleted the default nginx config… that fixed my issue 😑. So if anyone else (or i) run into this issue again… just make sure the default nginx config file is no longer in place. Magic!

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. GitHub: Archfx / duo-de: “Surface Duo Dual Experience ( 🍰 AOSP | Android 16 | DUO1 | DUO2 )” 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.” It’s FOSS: This $550 Linux Phone Has Kill Switches That Protect Your Privacy Yanko Design: This Linux phone with Android app support has three kill switches for complete privacy 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 United States Midwest Mesh Mountain Mesh (North GA / East TN) DMV (DC-MD-VA) Mesh 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 journal and 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”

GitHub: caronc / apprise I took a look at this a few years back, but didn’t really dig too much into it. Now that I was playing around with Gotify alongside ntfy.sh, I thought it would be worth looking into Apprise again, so i don’t need to keep adding blocks for Gotify & ntfy to any scripts where I was leveraging them. Config File: ~/.config/apprise/config.yaml # https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/config_yaml # Host: LenovoM710q # Path: /home/smc/.config/apprise/config.yaml # Define your Groups # groups: # - friends: # Multiple Group Assignments; reuse of a tag causes existing assignment # to stack on the previous value. # TeamA, Friends = user1, user3 # TeamB, Friends = user2, user4 # Our global tags to associate with all of the URLs we define # tag: urls: # One-liner (no colon at the end); just the url as you'd expect it: # - ntfys://ntfy.domain.home/topic1-General # topic1, topic2, topic3 # different topic names so i don't have to go looking them up. # - gotifys://gotify.domain.home/appToken # [Discord](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_discord): # - discord://webhook_id/webhook_token # - discord://avatar@webhook_id/webhook_token # https://discord.com/api/webhooks/#########/a1b2c3d4 # id: ######### # token: a1b2c3d4 - discord://#########/a1b2c3d4 # [Gotify](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_gotify): # - gotifys://gotify.domain.home/$token # - gotifys://gotify.domain.home/$token?priority=$severity # Applications: # - Server 1: Token1 # - Server 2: Token2 # - Server 3: Token3 - gotifys://gotify.domain.home/appToken # [Home Assistant](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_homeassistant): # - hassios://homeassistant.domain.home/?accesstoken # - hassios://user@homeassistant.domain.home/accesstoken # - hassios://user:password@homeassistant.domain.home:443/accesstoken # - hassios://homeassistant.domain.home/optional/path/accesstoken - hassios://homeassistant.domain.home?appKey # [Mastodon](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_mastodon): # - mastodons://access_key@hostname # - mastodons://access_key@hostname/@user # - mastodons://access_key@hostname/@user1/@user2/@userN # [MQTT](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_mqtt): # - mqtts://mqtt.domain.home/$topic # - mqtts://user@mqtt.domain.home/topic # - mqtts://user:pass@mqtt.domain.home:9883/topic # - mqtts://mqtt.domain.home:8883/mqttTopic # 20250928: SMc: Having issues with this one. # [Nextcloud](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_nextcloud): # - nclouds://adminuser:pass@nextcloud.domain.home/User # - nclouds://adminuser:pass@nextcloud.domain.home/User1/User2/UserN # [Nextcloud Talk](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_nextcloudtalk): # - nctalks://user:pass@nextcloud.domain.home/RoomId # - nctalks://user:pass@nextcloud.domain.home/RoomId1/RoomId2/RoomIdN - nctalks://AppriseUser:passkey@nextcloud.domain.home/string # [ntfy](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_ntfy): # Topics: topic1, topic2 # - ntfys://ntfy.domain.home/$topic/ # - ntfys://ntfy.domain.home/$topic/ - ntfys://ntfy.domain.home/topic # [Signal API](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_signal): # - signals://signal-api.domain.home:443/FromPhoneNo # - signals://signal-api.domain.home:443/FromPhoneNo/ToPhoneNo # - signals://signal-api.domain.home:443/FromPhoneNo/ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN/ - signals://signal-api.domain.home:443/phoneNo/phoneNo # [Telegram](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_telegram): # Alphr: [How to Find a Chat ID in Telegram](https://www.alphr.com/find-chat-id-telegram/) # - tgrams://bottoken/ChatID # - tgrams://bottoken/ChatID1/ChatID2/ChatIDN - tgram://ID:key/chatID # Message to my Telegram handle # - tgram://ID:key/-100group # Message to the group. - tgram://ID:key/-100group:1/ # Message to "General" topic in group. # - tgram://ID:key/-100group:8/ # Message to "Testing" topic in group.

🍎 Apple Lifehacker: 10 Apple Shortcut Hacks Every iPhone User Should Know Extend your Action Button’s capabilities: Shortcuts: Multi-shortcut Action Button Use News Report AI to get your news right in Notes: Shortcuts: News Report AI Save X video clips with this shortcut: Shorcuts: X Downloader Expand your song repertoire with MusicBot: Shorcuts: 🤖 MusicBot Save Current Location will log where you are: Shorcuts: Save Current Location Low Battery Announcement will save you from a dead phone: Shorcuts: Low Battery Announcement Shazam & Save listens for what’s playing: “You’ll find it in the Gallery tab of the Shortcuts app.” Personalize your post-morning-alarm routine Get a battery warning when leaving the house Run specific actions in your car /r/Apple: Forcing the iPad 6th Gen Past iPadOS 17 (upRa1n) - Channel Ramble Invidious (nadeko.net): Forcing the iPad 6th Gen PAST iPadOS 17 (upRa1n) YouTube: Forcing the iPad 6th Gen PAST iPadOS 17 (upRa1n) GitHub: Zer0xDev / upRa1n: “Tethered dualboot/restore iOS 18 on iPad 6 (Wifi / Cellular)” 🎮 Games Gizmodo: Activists Install Arcade Game Mocking Trump on the National Mall. You Can Play It in Your Browser Right Now Gizmodo: Someone Created a Version of ‘Elden Ring’ That Runs on a PS1 Gizmodo: The Best You Can Do in the Strait of Hormuz Simulation Game Is Mess Up as Little as Possible Eden: “Eden is a free and opensource (FOSS) Switch 1 emulator, derived from Yuzu and Sudachi - started by developer Camille LaVey. It’s written in C++ with portability in mind, with builds for Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, FreeBSD and more.” 🖥️🔐 IT Security Hack Read: 9-Year-Old Dirty Frag Vulnerability Enables Root Access on Linux Systems IT’s FOSS: Dirty Frag is a New Linux Exploit That Grants Root, and There’s No Proper Patch Yet SC Media: New Linux privilege escalation flaw ‘Fragnesia’ disclosed; PoC available GitHub: v12-security / pocs: Fragnesia Project Zero: A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10: When a Door Closes, a Window Opens Project Zero: A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9 Part 1: Decoding Dolby 🐧 Linux Hack a Day: A Cyberdeck That Runs Linux…in An Altoids Tin IT’s FOSS: Linux is Getting a Kill Switch! Nerds.xyz: MX Linux 25.2 Beta 1 brings new text installer and important fixes SparkyLinux: Sparky 8.3 SparkyLinux: “SparkyLinux is a GNU/Linux distribution based on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. Sparky is a fast, lightweight and fully customizable operating system which offers several versions for different use cases.” nixCraft: How to add cron job entry for acme.sh nixCraft: A Bash Script to Read All Command Line Arguments into an Array: Simplify Argument Handling nixCraft: How to copy permissions from one file to another on Linux nixCraft: sttr – Awesome Linux & Unix tool for transformation of the string nixCraft: lnav – Awesome terminal log file viewer for Linux and Unix nixCraft: Shell script to set up an LXD / Incus (Linux Containers) lab for testing purpose nixCraft: How to control the SSH multiplexing with the control commands IT’s FOSS: Yazi is the Terminal-based File Manager I Didn’t Know I Needed GitHub: sxyazi / yazi: “💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.” Yazi: “⚡️ Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.” IT’s FOSS: Can You Run LLMs Locally Without a GPU? I Tested 8 Models on Linux How-To Geek: 2 beginner Linux distros that don’t force you to use the terminal Zorin OS: “A Windows-like, GUI-driven beginner’s distro that simply works” Nobara Project: “A multimedia-focused distro that also simply works” Make Use Of: 6 Linux distros that were huge once, but barely matter now Mandrake Linux Caldera OpenLinux Yellow Dog Linux Knoppix CentOS Pop!_OS How-To Geek: 9 essential command pipelines that simplify everyday Linux grep | less : Filter data and page the results tail | grep: Extract relevant live data from a log file history | grep: Quick access to commands you’ve run before sort | uniq: Simple summary info from structured data df | tee: Get disk space reports on screen and in a file echo | xargs: Copy a file to multiple directories curl | jq: Process data retrieved from a web API du -sh * | sort -h: Find your biggest files and directories date | md5sum: The quickest way to generate a decent password IT’s FOSS: Fedora Hummingbird Debuts As a Super Hardened Linux Distro Project Hummingbird: “minimal, hardened, and secure container images” 🎥📺 Media Make Use Of: I replaced my Kindle with a Boox and got everything Amazon refuses to offer Boox 🗣️ Social Networking NERDS.xyz: Ditto wants to bring back the weird customizable internet people actually loved Ditto: “Your content. Your vibe. Your rules.” ❔ Miscellaneous ADT camera access outside their service? FreshRSS with FeedBurner & other kinds of feeds? IT’s FOSS: This $85 PCB is Giving Old Google Home Mini Devices a Second Life Crowd Supply: MiciMike Home Mini Drop-In PCB How-To Geek: 5 Bluetooth ESP32 projects for this weekend (May 15 - 17) Home Assistant Bluetooth proxies ESP32-based presence detection A Bluetooth system monitor for your PC ESP32 Bluetooth receiver or speaker 3D-printed Stream Deck alternative macropad Make Use Of: Excel already has a built-in web scraper, this is what I use it for Make Use Of: I tracked my life in Excel for 3 months—I’m never using a journaling app again OneDrive: Daily Journal 2026 - Updated How-To Geek: 5 Pi Zero 2W projects you can do in a weekend A retro gaming console A DIY weather station A wireless print server A tiny home server Low power doesn’t mean useless How-To Geek: 3 money-saving free, open-source apps to try this weekend (May 15-17) Handbrake Upscayl Ollama selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (15 May 2026), by Ethan Sholly. GitHub: V4bel / dirtyfrag Bambu Lab Blog: Setting the record straight on Cloud Access and Community Jeff Geerling: Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract GitHub: lahirumaramba / rocky: “Rocky: Your Own Personal Eridanian Buddy” Invidious (chocolatemoo53.com): I Built “Rocky” from Project Hail Mary using a Raspberry Pi and Local LLM YouTube: I Built “Rocky” from Project Hail Mary using a Raspberry Pi and Local LLM The Verge: Homebridge 2.0 is here, and it speaks Matter: “The open-source Apple HomeKit bridge is adding Matter, allowing it to support Alexa, Google Home, Home Assistant — and robot vacuums.” GitHub: FreshRSS / FreshRSS: “A free, self-hostable news aggregator…” I just started running this a few days ago, so I’m looking into the release notes. FreshRSS 1.29.0 GitHub: homarr-labs / homarr: “A modern and easy to use dashboard. 40+ integrations. 20K+ icons built in. Authentication out of the box. No YAML, drag and drop configuration.” Each time i see new releases for other home \ dashboard services, i like to take a look & see if i should start trying them out again. v1.61.0 GitHub: home-assistant / core: “🏡 Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.” 2026.5.0 GitHub: karakeep-app / karakeep: “A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search” 0.32.0 GitHub: edde746 / plezy: “Modern cross-platform Plex & Jellyfin client built with Flutter” Plezy: " A beautiful client for Plex & Jellyfin. Stream your media library with HDR, Dolby Vision, offline downloads, and a gorgeous experience across all your devices." 2.0.0 GitHub: oyeolamilekan/appshots: “A free, open-source tool to create stunning, high-converting screenshots for the Apple App Store and Google Play Store in minutes. Design professional app previews with an intuitive drag-and-drop editor.” AppShots Editor Aviato: “All your videos, images, audio, and text. A self-hosted media server that handles it all. Extensible with plugins, webhooks, and API.” Just curious to see other options to Plex or Jellyfin. GitHub: jonymaster / catalogIT: “A Web App to track Hardware and Software in an IT Team” GitHub: adinhodovic / compass: “A landing page for your services, dashboards, and documents, discovered automatically from sources such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Tailscale.” Compass GitHub: aicrafted / compote: “Compose Templater - UI for create, validate and manage docker compose based infrastructures” CompoTe: “Manage your self-hosted environments. Switch between cloud clusters, local development boxes, or home lab deployments.” App Store: DimDash: “A native iPadOS/iOS kiosk app for Home Assistant, Grafana, Dashy, Homarr, Glance, Node-RED, Flame, and any dashboard URL. Built for wall panels that should stay useful without jailbreaks, MDM, or browser hacks.” Nick Renard: DimDash GitHub: pablitofernandez / FamilyNido: “Self-hosted PWA for a single household — shared calendar, chores, meals, school agenda, health records and a family wall. .NET 10 + Angular 21. Pair-programmed with Claude Code Opus 4.7.” GitHub: PyroghostX / ForgottenMovies: “App built to remind users about media they requested but never watched. Requires Plex, Tautulli and Seerr.” GitHub: doctor-io / homeio: “Homeio is a self-hosted server manager with a desktop-style UI. It is designed as an alternative to other home server managers (CasaOS, Umbrel, Portainer), focused on a modern interface, realtime system visibility, and app lifecycle operations.” GitHub: parkejunior / jellycc-cli: “A CLI to ensure Jellyfin Direct Play compatibility.” “A smart CLI that diagnoses, audits, repairs, standardizes, and optimizes your media to ensure Direct Play on Jellyfin.” GitHub: open-noodle / gallery: “High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.” Noodle Gallery: “Noodle Gallery is a self-hosted photo and video platform with AI-powered search, face recognition, shared family spaces, and cloud storage — all under your control.” Patilla Forgejo: Piruetas: “A minimalist, self-hosted diary and journaling web app. https://piruet.app” Piruetas: “A minimalist journal. Beautiful, private, yours.” GitHub: solyto / solyto: “Free, privacy-oriented, no bullshit. Just manage your stuff with ease.” “solyto is a free, private, all-in-one personal management app — covering your todos, contacts, calendar, notes, news, music and book library in one place, with one login, and one coherent interface. No annoying AI features, no tracking, no subscriptions, no bullshit. Use it on the web, install it as a PWA, or self-host it entirely on your own infrastructure. Built out of frustration with bloated tools, fragmented self-hosted stacks, and services that keep adding things you never asked for.” solyto GitHub: 0xchasercat / flint: “Lightweight tool for managing linux virtual machines” “A single <11MB binary with a modern Web UI, CLI, and API for KVM.” GitHub: nanocoai / nanoclaw: “A lightweight alternative to OpenClaw that runs in containers for security. Connects to WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Gmail and other messaging apps,, has memory, scheduled jobs, and runs directly on Anthropic’s Agents SDK” NanoClaw: “Your personal AI agent. Secure. Lightweight. Yours. The official website for NanoClaw, the secure personal AI agent. NanoClaw runs securely in containers, built to be understood and customized for your own needs.” Invidious (nadeko.net): Lawrence Systems: Stop Putting Everything in Discord & Reddit: Use Forums Instead Invidious (chocolatemoo53.com: Stop Putting Everything in Discord & Reddit: Use Forums Instead YouTube: Stop Putting Everything in Discord & Reddit: Use Forums Instead Invidious (nadeko.net): New Self-Hosted Apps You NEED to Try [April 2026] Invidious (chocolatemoo53.com: New Self-Hosted Apps You NEED to Try [April 2026] YouTube: [New Self-Hosted Apps You NEED to Try [April 2026]] Invidious (nadeko.net): Dockhand: A Smarter, Safer Docker Manager Invidious (chocolatemoo53.com: Dockhand: A Smarter, Safer Docker Manager YouTube: Dockhand: A Smarter, Safer Docker Manager

selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (3 October 2025), by Ethan Sholly (https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub25-autumn/) HomeAssistant: Portainer 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.” GitHub: home-assistant / core: “🏡 Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.” GitHub: immich-app / immich: “High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.” GitHub: nextcloud / richdocuments: “📑 Collabora Online for Nextcloud” GitHub: nextcloud / spreed: “🗨️ Nextcloud Talk – chat, video & audio calls for Nextcloud” GitHub: iib0011 / omni-tools: “Self-hosted collection of powerful web-based tools for everyday tasks. No ads, no tracking, just fast, accessible utilities right from your browser!” GitHub: rommapp / romm: “A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager and player.” GitHub: Sync-in / server: “Sync-in Server · Secure, open-source platform for file storage, sharing, collaboration, and syncing.” GitHub: LukeGus / Termix: “Termix is a web-based server management platform with SSH terminal, tunneling, and file editing capabilities.” GitHub: wizarrrr / wizarr: “Wizarr is an advanced user invitation and management system for Jellyfin, Plex, Emby etc.” GitHub: darthnorse / dockmon: “DockMon - Modern Docker container monitoring with auto-restart and alerts” GitHub: epichfallen / ImmichSafe: “The Ultimate Companion for Your Immich Server” GitHub: raygan / mam-audiofinder: “a messy vibe-coded tool to download audiobooks from MyAnonymouse using qBittorrent, and import them to an Audiobookshelf library” Play Store: (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zfredesign.myapplicationdump): “Oceanwaves is an advanced Android app that acts as a Jellyfin music client. It combines seamless playback, rich metadata, and smart recommendations.” GitHub: danblock97 / z3st-habits: “Fun, friendly and informative habit tracking, create groups, compete with friends. Accountability but made fun” GitHub: Reaparr / Reaparr: “Plex downloader that brings content from any server to yours!” YouTube: DB Tech: HomeHub - Your Family’s Private, Self-Hosted Home Organization Center YouTube: VirtualizationHowto: The First Services I Always Spin Up in Any Home Lab YouTube: Everything Smart Home: Everything New In Home Assistant 2025.10! YouTube: Veronica Explains: Using rsync for backups, because it’s not shiny and new

Linux It’s FOSS: How I Configure Polybar to Customize My Linux Desktop: “Polybar is a standout choice among these alternatives. It’s a fast, highly customizable status bar that not only looks great but is also easy to configure.” polybar: “A fast and easy to use tool for creating status bars” Ubuntu Touch on rabbit r1: I still had a spare r1 sitting around & happen to see that Ubuntu Touch supports it, so after some troubleshooting, i was finally able to get Ubuntu Touch running on my r1. I may end up writing a specific post about this because i ran onto some issues (probably of my own making) & also some other things that might not have been on me, so others may have the same issue. telegra.ph: Ubuntu Touch Installation on rabbit r1 - a detailed Guide GitHub: RabbitHoleEscapeR1 / r1_escape Rabbit R1 Flash Tool Friendly Elec: NanoPi R5C: I have had this for ages & never did anything with it… trying to actuall get some kind of use for it. Friendly Elect Wiki: NanoPi R5C Out-of-date version of Ubuntu on a ThinkPad, so just going to start that off clean…: Lenovo Support: How to boot from a USB Drive - ThinkPad: F12 at boot. Meshtastic Heltec: WiFi LoRa 32(V4), ESP32S3 + SX1262 LoRa Node, Meshtastic and LoRaWAN Compatible: I have a v3, so i figured I would look into the v4 to see if i should upgrade, or just get it as an additional node to use. Privacy GitHub: yaelwrites / Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List Miscellaneous Hack a Day: Trapped Soul In Time For Halloween ntfy: Example: Private instance: Looking into how i can configure users \ credentials for certain ntfy topics. I’m still running ntfy & Gotify, so just trying to see which i like more. I’ve been meaning to check if i should see about running Apprise to make using both services a little easier, but haven’t gotten to it yet. Self-Host Weekly (26 September 2025) GitHub: silverbulletmd / silverbullet: “An open source personal productivity platform built on Markdown, turbo charged with the scripting power of Lua” GitHub: SluberskiHomeLab / ditdashdot: “DitDashDot is a simple, clean, and easy-to-configure services dashboard designed specifically for homelabs. Built with React.js and containerized with Docker, it provides a central hub to view and manage your homelab services.” GitHub: LoredCast / filewizard: “File Converter, OCR, Transcription & TTS WebUI” GitHub: cassandra / home-information: “Home Information - Your home, your data, organized.” Saw this one on reddit too GitHub: surajverma / homehub: “A lightweight, no-login, self-hosted family utility for your home.” GitHub: rippleFCL / meshmon: “Distributed monitoring ting” GitHub: alexanderwanyoike / the0: “Open Source Algorithmic Trading Platform” GitHub: BookHeaven / BookHeaven.Server: “Official BookHeaven Server web app to manage your ebook library.” GitHub: jofoerster / habitsync: “Modern Habit Tracker featuring synchronization and challenges with friends” selfh.st: Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users YouTube: Techno Tim Ultimate Plex Dashboard | Monitor All the Things YouTube: Christian Lempa: Self-hosted automation for EVERYTHING! // n8n Tutorial

Meshtastic I spent the weekend trying to change my Nebra Helium Miner to me a Meshtastic node, but ran into a few issues. The LoRa radio used in the Helium miner does not work with Meshtastic, so I removed the Bluetooth USB adapter to free a port, then connected my Heltec WiFi LoRa 32(V3), ESP32S3 + SX1262 LoRa Node, Meshtastic and LoRaWAN Compatible board there instead. I reflashed a microSD Card with Raspbian (Ubuntu Server wasn’t booting for me) to use with the included Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+, which had the hardware on the connected boards working (mainly just cared if the USB ports & Ethernet port worked). I spent a few hours between meshtastic & meshtasticd & while I got meshtastic working fine, i could not get meshtasticd to see the Heltec board. I gave up on that for now, & just left use of meshtastic CLI & configured the board with the Meshtastic app. So, will see how this plays out moving forward… i was trying to get it setup so that I could be managing the Heltec board right from the CM3+, but in the end i still needed to use the app for the config. selfh.st: Self-Host Weekly (19 September 2025), by Ethan Sholly GitHub: operacle / checkcle: “CheckCle is a self-hosted, open-source monitoring platform for seamless, real-time full-stack systems, applications, and infrastructure. It provides real-time uptime monitoring, distributed checks, incident tracking, and alerts. All deployable anywhere.” GitHub: razchiriac / tunnel-chat: “Ephemeral peer-to-peer tunnel chat from the terminal” GitHub: polius / VAULT: “Securely encrypt and decrypt your files directly in your browser.” GitHub: DialmasterOrg / Youtarr: “An application to automate downloading of Youtube videos for Plex” GitHub: carbonatedWaterOrg / yt-dlp-co2: “It’s a modern web interface for yt-dlp with real-time progress tracking and multiple pretty cool themes.” GitHub: nikunjsingh93 / react-glass-keep: “Glass Keep is Keep Notes alternative using Glass design. Made in React + Tailwind” GitHub: jeffcaldwellca / mkcertWe: “Web based user interface for mkcert CLI internal CA” GitHub: omarmir / nanote: “Lightweight, self-hosted note-taking application with filesystem-based storage so you maintain 100% portability of your notes.” GitHub: Ipmake / NevuForPlex: “Nevu is a complete redesign of Plex’s UI using the plex media server API.” GitHub: spacebarchat/ spacebarchat: “📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform”