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Before hitting the road, we test the limits of local-first file sharing, debate what self-hosting really is, and share our all-time favorite apps.Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Wes Payne.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.Support Self-HostedLinks:⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 110 countries.Grab Sats with River — River is the best place in the US to buy and stack Sats. River has 100% reserve custody, a great interface, and only does Bitcoin.🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Podcasts and music powered by community. Share, discover and support over 4 million shows and emerging artists.SRE Jupiter.Party Discount — Support the network at the best price ever! Use this link, or the promo code: SRE Self-Hosted 150 Swag — Grab some Self-Hosted swag, the last run!Badgers Garage Sale — My wife and I are selling practically everything we own and moving back to England. There is a lot more available than is listed here, essentially this is an estate sale.PairDrop — Transfer Files Cross-Platform. No Setup, No Signup.Quickshare — Quick and simple file sharing between different devices.The DAM Software Podcast — Picking up where Self-Hosted left off. Reviewing Free and Open Source Software that you would want to run at home. Except this time even though we aren't sponsored its going to be entirely centered around Tailscale. SSH 150 BOOST BARN — Thank you to everyone who supported Self-Hosted!PipeWire: VBAN receiverPipeWire: VBAN sender

A week-long power blackout knocks out our guests homelab. We dig into Unraid 7.1, and push Home Assistant to keep things running—even when the power doesn’t.Special Guest: Stephen Schattin.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.Support Self-HostedLinks:⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 110 countries.Grab Sats with River — River is the best place in the US to buy and stack Sats. River has 100% reserve custody, a great interface, and only does Bitcoin.🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Podcasts and music powered by community. Share, discover and support over 4 million shows and emerging artists.SRE Jupiter.Party Discount — Support the network at the best price ever! Use this link, or the promo code: SRE Self-Hosted 150 Swag — Grab some Self-Hosted swag, the last run!Generlink Transfer Switch — This allowed DIY-friendly generator hookup without rewiring the electrical panel. Homeowners embraced the convenience and Generlink grew rapidly.Manual install method | Unraid Docs — If for some reason the USB Flash Creator tool cannot be used, or your USB flash device is not detected, it is possible to manually format and prepare a bootable USB flash device.Backup of Unraid Array Configuration & other critical files - General Support - UnraidAutomated Flash Backup | Unraid Docs — Unraid Connect offers users the ability to automatically back up your OS configuration settings to our cloud. In the event of flash device failure, you can download a zip file of your latest backup and restore it to a new flash drive using the USB Flash Creator.Unraid | Community Apps — Browse our large and growing catalog of applications to run in your Unraid server. ha-unraid — This custom integration allows you to monitor and control your Unraid server from Home Assistant. Unraid is a popular NAS (Network Attached Storage) operating system that provides flexible storage, virtualization, and application support.hass-unraid — This Docker container parses and forwards all WebSocket messages from your Unraid server to Home Assistant using the MQTT protocol. This enables you to create dashboards that provide a superior overview compared to Unraid's native capabilities.Unraid Pricingpocket-id: A simple and easy-to-use OIDC provider — Pocket ID is a simple OIDC provider that allows users to authenticate with their passkeys to your services.LINUX Unplugged 613 - Interview with Paulus Schoutsen of Home Assistant — Releases Sunday, May 6th, 2025.The Launch 20: Linux Goat North Van — Brent's crazy border crossing story and behind-the-scenes stories from LFNW. Then we will lay out the master rescue plan. Catch the Launch a day early, and with a special guest!Selfhosted - Lemmy.World — A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don’t control.tsdproxy: Tailscale Docker Proxy — TsDProxy simplifies the process of securely exposing services and Docker containers to your Tailscale network by automatically creating Tailscale machines for each tagged container. This allows services to be accessible via unique, secure URLs without the need for complex configurations or additional Tailscale containers.Self-Hosted 148 BOOST BARN! — Thank you everyone who supported episode 148!

We're joined by Xe Iaso, who discusses a creative solution to relentless AI bots and the unexpected delights of running an outrageously overpowered homelab.Special Guest: Xe Iaso.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.Support Self-HostedLinks:⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 110 countries.🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Empowering sovereign ownership with free automatic self-custody 🔒🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Podcasts and music powered by community. Share, discover and support over 4 million shows and emerging artists.Xe Iaso's BlogSupport Xe on PatreonBlock AI scrapers with Anubis - Xe Iaso — I got tired of this and made a tool to stop them for good. I call it Anubis. Anubis weighs the soul of your connection using a sha256 proof-of-work challenge in order to protect upstream resources from scraper bots. It's a reverse proxy that requires browsers and bots to solve a proof-of-work challenge before they can access your site, just like Hashcash.Building native packages is complicated - Xe Iaso — Normally when I make projects, I don't expect them to take off. I especially don't expect to front page news on Ars Technica and TechCrunch within the span of a few days. I very much also do not expect to say sentences like "FFmpeg uses a program I made to help them stop scraper bots taking down their issue tracker". The last week has been fairly ridiculous in that regard.TecharoHQ/anubis — Anubis weighs the soul of your connection using a sha256 proof-of-work challenge in order to protect upstream resources from scraper bots.Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance — In a “cry for help” blog post in January, FOSS developer Xe Iaso described how AmazonBot relentlessly pounded on a Git server website to the point of causing DDoS outages. Git servers host FOSS projects so that anyone who wants can download the code or contribute to it.The surreal joy of having an overprovisioned homelab - Xe Iaso — Tonight I’ll tell you what gets me excited about my homelab and maybe inspire you to make your own. I'll get into what I like about it and clue you into some of the fun you get to have if one of your projects meant to protect your homelab goes hockey-stick.Talos Linux — Talos Linux is Linux designed for Kubernetes – secure, immutable, and minimal.Apollo: Sunshine fork — The easiest way to stream with the native resolution of your client deviceansible-vault-bitwarden: Manage ansible-vault passwords securely with Bitwarden CLIAmcrest 4MP ProHD Indoor WiFi Camera — – 2. 4ghz WiFi IP camera features immaculate 4MP (2688x1520P at 30fps video using excellent low light capability utilizing the CMOS image sensor and chipset. Cover more ground using super-wide 90° viewing angle and remote pan/tilt. IPTV+: My Smart IPTV Player on the App StoreJupiter Broadcasting MeetupSSH 146 Boost Barn — Thank you to everyone who supported episode 146!

The battle for code forges is heating up. We chat about HexOS' big promises and get excited about Meshtastic.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Grist: Grist - the open-source alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.Support Self-HostedLinks:⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries.🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.Toronto Meetup, Thu, Aug 29 — Chris and Alex are slinging servers in Toronto. Come join us after we get our new box racked.Google is no longer making Chromecasts, updates to continue — The Chromecast with Google TV 4K and HD will remain on sale until inventory runs out, but Google is not replenishing stock after that.The Google TV Streamer might be the Apple TV 4K rival we’ve been waiting for — es, there are some Gemini AI tricks thrown in, and with other hardware upgrades like a built-in ethernet jack, the Google TV Streamer seems poised to be a much better entertainment hub than its predecessor. The only downside? Since it’s not a dongle anymore, you’ll have to provide your own HDMI cable when it ships on September 24th.The Magic Behind HexOS — HexOS combines a simplified UI, automations, workflows, and managed services with user-provided hardware to offer elegant home server management for off-the-shelf server appliances, custom-built hardware, and even recycled PCs. Powered by TrueNAS, the world's most deployed enterprise-grade storage platform, HexOS provides a highly reliable and easy-to-use solution to store, use, and protect your data. In this article, we'll take a closer look at how HexOS works to make all of this possible.Forgejo v8.0 is available — It comes with a number of new features, as usual. But the most impactful changes are of a different nature: increased stability, less random UI modifications and almost no breaking changes.ForgeFed — ForgeFed is a federation protocol for software forges and code collaboration tools for the software development lifecycle and ecosystemOpen Letter to Gitea - Restoring Trust in the Gitea Project — After many days of hard work and preparation by a team of former Gitea maintainers and enthusiasts from the FOSS community, we are proud to announce that the Forgejo project is now live.Rallly — Schedule group meetings with friends, colleagues and teams. Create meeting polls to find the best date and time to organize an event based on your participants' availability. Save time and avoid back-and-forth emails.Fully automated DNS and DHCP with Ansible, Dnsmasq and Pihole — This post will detail how I solved a few interesting problems as I fully automated DNS overrides and DHCP reservations using Pihole, and the program it's built on top of Dnsmasq.Self-Hosted 129 Boost Barn

We kick off the new year with new apps in our home lab you’ll want to try and a new way to do networking.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-HostedLinks:⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries. 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 is out with a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.Using the occ command — Nextcloud’s occ command (origins from “ownCloud Console”) is Nextcloud’s command-line interface. You can perform many common server operations with occ, such as installing and upgrading Nextcloud, manage users, encryption, passwords, LDAP setting, and more.Jellystat — Jellystat is a free and open source Statistics App for JellyfinOpenSSH: Release Notes — This release contains fixes for a newly-discovered weakness in the SSH transport protocol, a logic error relating to constrained PKCS#11 keys in ssh-agent(1) and countermeasures for programs that invoke ssh(1) with user or hostnames containing invalid characters.audiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook and podcast serverStirling-PDF: locally hosted web application — This is a powerful locally hosted web based PDF manipulation tool using docker that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files, such as splitting merging, converting, reorganizing, adding images, rotating, compressing, and more. This locally hosted web application started as a 100% ChatGPT-made application and has evolved to include a wide range of features to handle all your PDF needs.lubelog: Vehicle Service Records and Maintainence Tracker — Because nobody should have to deal with a homemade spreadsheet or a shoebox full of receipts when it comes to vehicle maintainence.memos: An open source, lightweight note-taking Apple Notes killer — A privacy-first, lightweight note-taking service. Easily capture and share your great thoughts.How to setup a reverse proxy with LetsEncrypt SSL for all your Docker apps — The reverse proxy. One of those projects you put off for years but when you finally get to it you find that it was relatively simple all along. Traefik 101 Guide - Perfect Media Server — In this article we will be discussing reverse proxies, how they will enable you to securely expose webapps running on your LAN to the outside world, and how to automate issuing TLS (the artist formerly known as SSL) certificates using Let's Encrypt, Traefik, Cloudflare and Namecheap.Sengled Smart Plugs — Work as Zigbee RepeaterSSH 114 Boost Barn! — Thank you to everyone who supports the show with a Boost!

Chris integrates full home power monitoring into Home Assistant, while Alex tames the AI and rushes to replace Dark Sky.Special Guest: Brent Gervais.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/sshSupport Self-HostedLinks:Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups — Two meetups in April!KTZ Systems - YouTube — Creating videos and tutorials about Self-hosting, Homelabs, Networking, Linux, Containers, Home Automation and much more...WAAS: Whisper as a Service — GUI and API for OpenAI Whisperweb-whisper — A light user interface for OpenAI's Whisper right into your browser! Features - web-whisper + openAI API — Web-whisper allows you to add an OpenAI token and make use of the OpenAI API as backend, this brings some advantages as well as some concerns.Victron GX modbusTCP integration — This integration scans for all available registers of a provided GX device. It then uses the defined register ledgers to create entities for each and every register that is provided by the GX device.Modbus TCP/IP Protocol Overview — The most common use of the protocols at this time is for Ethernet attachment of PLCs, I/O modules and gateways to other simple field buses or I/O networks.Energy Management in Home Assistant — Home Assistant is adding official support for home energy management. Our energy management will help users monitor the energy usage, transition to sustainable energy and save money.Automation to Restart ModBus TCP Connection to Victron — So i think that this addon does not detect connection-disconnects and does nor reconnect automatically?Let the credits next episode roll. — By default, the results of all your local credit detection efforts are anonymously submitted to our new service, so if you ever need to do a rebuild or install, the results are available in seconds instead of burning hours of CPU time recomputing them.Pirate Weather — Weather forecasts are primarily found using models run by government agencies, but the outputs aren't easy to use or in formats built for the web. To try to address this, I've put together a service that reads weather forecasts and serves it following the Dark Sky API style. TomsDad's Obsidian Daily note taking scriptsAlby: Boost from the Web — Alby brings Boosts to the web.Self-Hosted on the Podcastindex.org — Send a Boost into the show via the web. First, top-up Alby, then head over to our entry on the Podcast Index.chatbot-ui: An open source ChatGPT UI. — Chatbot UI is an advanced chatbot kit for OpenAI's chat models built on top of Chatbot UI Lite using Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS.