w33k in g33k: May 01, 2026

Fri, 01 May 2026 17:00:00 -0400

🎮 Games

Engadget: The sequel to the iconic emulator ZSNES is called Super ZSNES, of course
Notebook Check: Modder releases PS5-Linux that turns the console into a fully functional Linux gaming PC
- GitHub: ps5-linux / ps5-linux-loader: “Linux payload implementing the HV exploit and a custom bootloader”
- I wouldn’t mod my PS5 now, but maybe a future project & i’m interested it just seeing how it’s done.
Windows Central: A modder got Halo: Combat Evolved running natively on Nintendo Switch without cloud streaming
GitHub: JRickey / libultraship: “Porting games to the PC”
- This is a PC port of Super Smash Bros., from the Nintendo 64.

🖥️🔐 IT Security

GitHub: dougburks / ohmypcap: “A standalone web application for analyzing PCAP files using Suricata”
Nerds.xyz: Copy Fail exploit lets 732 bytes hijack Linux systems and quietly grab root
- Xint.to: Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distributions
- Copy Fail: CVE-2026-31431 GitHub: theori-io/copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431

🐧 Linux

OhMyDebn: “OhMyDebn is a debonair Linux desktop for power users. It gives you the stability of the Debian distro, the ease of use of the Cinnamon desktop, and the power of AI, containers, and virtualization.”
BunsenLabs: “BunsenLabs Linux Carbon is a distribution offering a light-weight and easily customizable Openbox desktop. The project is a community continuation of CrunchBang Linux. The current release is derived from Debian 13 “Trixie”.”
- I remember running CrunchBang Linux back in college on my ASUS Eee PC, so seeing this as continuation of that, i wanted to look into it.
IT’s FOSS: 7 Features I Like in Ptyxis (The New Default Ubuntu Terminal)
- I dug old my old Surface Go to play with & saw i still had it running a very old version of Xubuntu. While i was first looking into upgrading it to the most recent Ubuntu-flavor release (before i thought of CrunchBang \ BunsenLabs), I was looking a bit into the new Ubuntu release & came across the posts about Ptyxis & wanted to take a look.
- Ubunlog: This is Ptyxis: the new GNOME terminal for modern Linux environments that will run Ubuntu 25.10.
Rockford Lhotka: Running Linux on My Surface Go
- Since it’s been a while since i set anything up with the Surface Go, I just wanted to double check documentation because i believe there was a custom kernel i needed to run for everything to be working properly. Even with this from 2025, will still be more up-to-date than what i might have saved.
https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/linux-lite-8-rc1/

Miscellaneous

IT’s FOSS: Good News! AI-first Warp Terminal is Now Open Source
- warp: Warp is now open-source
- GitHub: warpdotdev / warp: “Warp is an agentic development environment, born out of the terminal.”
Lifehacker: This App Lets You Use All Your AirPods’ Features on Any Android
- GitHub: kavishdevar / librepods: “AirPods liberated from Apple’s ecosystem.”
- I think i may have found this a little while ago on F-Droid, but maybe that was not as full-featured as this. Time to take a look.
GitHub: ckolos / humblebundle-downloader: “Download your Humble Bundle Library”
- I had recently purchased another book pack off of Humble Bundle & was trying to use the tool to mass download them all versus having to go one-by-one, but ran into a few issues.
- First… had to remind myself about Python virtual environments (Python venv: How To Create, Activate, Deactivate, And Delete). - python3 -m venv venv - source venv/bin/activate - And specifically for the Humble Bundle downloader: pip install -e
  - With Ubuntu 26.04 adding a “Projects” folder, of course this was the one “server” where i had moved my “Development” folder into “Projects”, just because. That caused a problem because the virtual environment was hardcoded to use the path that included “Development”.
  - After figuring that part out, received an error when trying to use the tool. I believe it’s that my session cookie is expired, so just have to give it another try later.

selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (1 May 2026), by Ethan Sholly.

Copy Fail: I have this listed above as well, but since it’s pretty significant, it can’t hurt to have it added a second time.
- NIST: CVE-2026-31431
GitHub: grimmory-tools / grimmory/: docs(governance): define the project’s governance structure and decision-making framework#1000
- Really just making note for myself to check on my container & see if i loaded all my books or was still in the middle of anything. I thought the post would be an interesting read as well.
GitHub: Hound-Media-Server / hound: “All-in-one Media Server—Find, watch, track, and manage your media”
- Interesting, but since it uses P2P sources, i don’t want to have to be concerned with copyright violations. As much as i want to get off Plex to Jellyfin, the former at least has the feature of showing you where something is available, if you don’t have it on your own server.
- “Watch and Track Movies and TV Shows. Self-hosted version of Plex/Stremio + Trakt, Simkl, etc. Hound aims to be a complete ecosystem of watching, tracking, downloading, and archiving media. Hound is a fully-featured media server, like Jellyfin or Plex, but with the additional ability to stream content through P2P (torrent) or HTTP/Debrid sources. With Hound, you get the benefits of fully controlling your media like Jellyfin, but can also stream instantly like Stremio. It’s the best of both worlds.”
GitHub: dmunozv04 / iSponsorBlockTV: “SponsorBlock client for all YouTube TV clients.”
- SponsorBlock: “SponsorBlock is an open-source crowdsourced browser extension and open API for skipping sponsor segments in YouTube videos. Users submit when a sponsor happens from the extension, and the extension automatically skips sponsors it knows about using a privacy preserving query system. It also supports skipping other categories, such as intros, outros and reminders to subscribe, and skipping to the point with highlight.”
- I don’t really use YouTube anymore (& no longer have a YouTube TV subscription), but wanted to look into it.
Download Notepad++ for Mac: “Notepad++ for Mac is the free, native macOS build of the popular open-source code editor — the same Scintilla editing engine, the same syntax highlighting for 80+ languages, the same macro recording and plugin system, rewritten on top of native macOS Cocoa APIs so it feels at home on your Mac. Built as a Universal Binary for Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3, M4, M5) and Intel Macs. No Wine, no Rosetta, no emulation needed. Every release is code-signed with an Apple Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple. For the official Windows version of Notepad++, visit notepad-plus-plus.org.”
- I mainly stick with VS Code or VSCodium on my devices now, but maybe I’ll play around with Notepad++ again.
BookStack: BookStack Has Migrated From GitHub to Codeberg
Bitwarden Community Forums: Bitwarden Statement on Checkmarx Supply Chain Incident
SimpleX: SimpleX Channels, SimpleX Network Consortium and Community Crowdfunding — to Preserve Freedom of Speech
GitHub: Lissy93/dashy: Release 4.0.0
- Dashy
- “🚀 A self-hostable personal dashboard built for you. Includes status-checking, widgets, themes, icon packs, a UI editor and tons more!”
- I don’t think i still ahve this running anymore, but i wanted to look again to see if i should go back to it.
GitHub: Freika / dawarich: “Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)”
- Dawarich: “Your Timeline, Forever. Google killed browser Timeline and is limiting data retention. Import your entire location history into Dawarich in minutes — private, encrypted, yours. No ads. No data selling.”
- I’m currently using Reitti, but wanted to see if i’d like this better.
GitHub: simplex-chat / simplex-chat: v6.5.0
- “SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps 📱!”
- I know I’ve had the app saved or installed for a while, but i don’t think i ever really took advantage of it. Maybe with this v.6.5.0 release I’ll give it another look.
GitHub: nandyalu / trailarr: “Trailarr is a Docker application to download and manage trailers for your Radarr and Sonarr libraries.”
- I actually have the trailers turned off on my Plex install, i think due to performance or some kind of issues they caused… so maybe this isn’t worth looking into.
GitHub: zulip / zulip: “Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused”
- Zulip: “Organized chat for distributed teams”
- This would probably be overkill for anything to self-host, but i wanted to look into it. Maybe as a local Discord replacement? All i really used Discord for was local network alerts, so not like i need channels \ users available to use it.
GitHub: thehijacker / codexa: “A self-hosted EPUB web reader with multi-user support, OPDS browsing, KOReader sync, and a built-in dictionary lookup — all in a single lightweight Node.js container.”
- I do have to revisit my whole eBook setup & see if I’m going to try Calibre again, stay with Grimmory, try something like this… it will take a little bit before i settle that.
GitHub: qiaeru / couplecards: “A self-hosted web app that lets couples draw activity cards to break the routine and spice up their daily lives.”
GitHub: hymns / hostiqo: “Simple Server Management”
- Hostiqo: “Hostiqo orchestrates webhooks, servers, and deployment pipelines for you. Provision infrastructure, enforce security, and roll out updates with a single command.”
- This looks to have a ton of features, so i’m going to look it over & see if it would be helpful.
GitHub: floatpane / matcha: “A beautiful and functional email client for your terminal, built with Go and the charming Bubble Tea TUI library. Never leave your command line to check your inbox or send an email again!”
- Matcha: “Matcha is a modern TUI email client for people who live in the shell. Vim keybindings, PGP, IMAP multi-account, markdown composing, visual-mode batch ops, and a CLI that speaks your language.”
- It looked like it could be fun to try out.
GitHub: hhftechnology / Dock-Dploy: “A web-based tool for building, managing, and converting Docker Compose files, configuration files, and schedulers.”
- Dock-Dploy: “A powerful web-based tool for building and managing Docker Compose files, configurations, and schedulers. All in one place, completely free.”
- I haven’t neeeded to deal with Compose files or anything recently (with services providing the sample one, it’s not hard to just edit as needed), but i wanted to see if it could be helpful.
GitHub: denho / faved: “Free open-source bookmark manager with customisable nested tags. Super fast and lightweight. All data is stored locally.”
- Faved: “A bookmark manager that combines powerful tagging, instant search, and a clean interface that doesn’t break as your library grows.”
- I’m currently using Karakeep for “read-it-later” purposes, & wanted to see if this would be a replacement for that, or really just a pretty bookmark manager.
GitHub: grimmory-tools / grimmory: “Grimmory is an independent community fork of Booklore.”
- Grimmory: “A modern way to organize, access, and self-host your digital library.”
- As mentioned above, i need to revisit my eBook situation & see where i left off on configuring this.
GitHub: html2rss / html2rss-web: “🕸 Generates RSS feeds of any website & serves to the web! Automatic scraping. Ready to use configs. Write your own.”
- I didn’t have anything in mind for this, more just wanted to save it if i needed it in the future.
Codeberg: endurain-project / endurain: " Endurain is a self-hosted fitness tracking service designed to give users full control over their data and hosting environment https://docs.endurain.com/"
- I think i started up another fitness tracker-type app but haven’t gone far with it, so i wanted to compare to this one.

PlayStation 5 on v3ritas.TECH

w33k in g33k: May 01, 2026

🎮 Games

🖥️🔐 IT Security

🐧 Linux

Miscellaneous

selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (1 May 2026), by Ethan Sholly.