Self-Hosted

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Self-Hosted

Discover new software and hardware to get the best out of your network, control smart devices, and secure your data on cloud services. Self-Hosted is a chat show between Chris and Alex two long-time "self-hosters" who share their lessons and take you along for the journey as they learn new ones. A Jupiter Broadcasting podcast showcasing free and open source technologies you can host yourself.

  1. 1 NOV

    135: Rebuilding For the Last Time

    From Nextcloud Breakup to Blissful Reunion: Chris's journey back to a smarter setup. Plus, Jellyfin's game-changing features and a beloved self-hosted app get the upgrade we've all been waiting for. 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: Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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.🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Empowering sovereign ownership with free automatic self-custody 🔒🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.1 with Nostr support, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.Jellyfin 10.10.0 — This major release brings several new features, improvements, and bugfixes to improve your Jellyfin experience. With our faster release cadence between 10.9.0 and 10.10.0, this release should be far less daunting, so please read on for a quick peek at what's new and some important-to-know breaking changes! HA-Firemote: Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, Homatics, NVIDIA Shield, onn., Roku, Xiaomi Mi, and Android TV remote control card for Home Assistant — Firemote is a custom Home Assistant card that is capable of controlling your media devices directly from any Home Assistant dashboard. The Firemote dashboard remotes are designed to look just like your physical remote controls, but they also contain TONS of customization options to choose from!TrueNAS 24.10 (Electric Eel) — 24.10 (Electric Eel) brings many new features and improvements to the TrueNAS experiencemealie Release v2.0.0 — The introduction of Households is one of Mealie's most requested features and a huge technical change. The implementation of it touched 300+ files and 10k+ lines of code.Etebase - Your end-to-end encrypted backend — Think Firebase but encrypted in a way that only end-users can access their data.Nextcloud - NixOS Wikinixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/web-apps/nextcloud.nix at master · NixOS/nixpkgsdumb: Private alternative front-end for Genius. — With the massive daily increase of useless scripts on Genius's web frontend, and having to download megabytes of clutter, dumb tries to make reading lyrics from Genius a pleasant experience, and as lightweight as possible.gluetun: VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers, written in Go, and using OpenVPN or Wireguard, DNS over TLS, with a few proxy servers built-in. — Lightweight swiss-knife-like VPN client to multiple VPN service providersJawa — Get the absolute best prices on custom prebuilt PCs and gear, backed by buyer and seller protections that actually matter.

    57 min
  2. 18 OCT

    134: YouTube Unplugged

    "The" self-hosted app to archive your favorite YouTube channels and easily integrate into Jellyfin/Plex. Plus, our favorite WordPress alternatives and an update on No Google October. 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: Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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.🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Empowering sovereign ownership with free automatic self-custody 🔒🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.1 with Nostr support, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.macOS Window Manager | BentoBox 🍱 — A window manager that boosts productivity by snapping windows into predefined zones, like a Japanese bento box organizing meals. Ice: Powerful menu bar manager for macOS — Ice is a powerful menu bar management tool. While its primary function is hiding and showing menu bar items, it aims to cover a wide variety of additional features to make it one of the most versatile menu bar tools available.Easy AT&T BGW320 Gateway Bypass with UniFi UDM Pro Max via the WAS-110 SFP ONT on a stick from 8311 - YouTubejupiterbroadcasting.com: JupiterBroadcasting.com, hugo-based and community-driven!WordPress: The Drama Continues — The WordPress.org team has forked the Advanced Custom Fields plugin amidst a legal dispute with WP Engine, raising concerns about user awareness and security updates. Were they right to do so? It's complicated, but likely yes. Withdrawing contributions from WordPress Core and WordPress.org properties · GitHub — Before and since my WordPress Core contribution flow changed, I have tried to play my part, in the community’s interest, to encourage a change of approach by the project’s leadership. Despite this, further community-damaging actions have been taken. As a direct result of this continued unwillingness to respect the community, I am regretfully withdrawing from all contributing to WordPress Core and any WordPress.org property until further notice. WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin — WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg calls it “a rare and unusual situation” resulting from WP Engine’s legal moves.Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform — Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members. ktz.bloghugo: The world’s fastest framework for building websites. — Hugo is a static site generator written in Go, optimized for speed and designed for flexibility. With its advanced templating system and fast asset pipelines, Hugo renders a complete site in seconds, often less.Zola — Zola comes as a single executable with Sass compilation, syntax highlighting, table of contents and many other features that traditionally require setting up a dev environment or adding some JavaScript libraries to your site. Zola SSG is 4x faster than Hugo — Zola is a very fast static site generator written in Rust with 10k stars on Github.How to choose the right static site generator — Here's an in-depth look at 6 static site generators that deploy to GitLab Pages. SearXNG instances — This website shows the SearXNG public instances. It is updated every 24 hours, except the response times which are updated every 3 hoursSearXNG Documentation — SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally

    55 min
  3. 4 OCT

    133: No Google October

    Ditching Google Search for an entire month! We reveal the tool that's helping us break free. Plus, a special guest shares his home lab to data center journey. And, Chris raves about the ultimate Jellyfin client (and confesses to an accidental network camera purchase). 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: Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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.🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Empowering sovereign ownership with free automatic self-custody 🔒🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.1 with Nostr support, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.streamyfin: A Jellyfin client build with Expo — Welcome to Streamyfin, a simple and user-friendly Jellyfin client built with Expo. If you're looking for an alternative to other Jellyfin clients, we hope you'll find Streamyfin to be a useful addition to your media streaming toolbox.SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. — Privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.SearX Search Provider - Chrome Web Store — A configurable browser extension that sets SearX as your default search engine.xSearch for Safari on the App Store — xSearch is a Safari extension that enables you to seamlessly switch between multiple search engines with ease, and even search directly from Spotlight, making your browsing experience more efficient and efficient.how do i make searx my default search engine? — In Firefox 89+ (no ... menu), here are two methods to add a site's search engine plugin from the address barWyze Cam v4 — 2.5K QHD resolution, Enhanced Color Night Vision, and motion-activated spotlighdocker-wyze-bridge — Create a local WebRTC, RTSP, RTMP, or HLS/Low-Latency HLS stream for most of your Wyze cameras including the outdoor, doorbell, and 2K cams.Self-Hosted 133 Boost Barn — Thank you Boosters! 🚀

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  4. 20 SEPT

    132: Uploading at the Speed of Light

    Alex has been playing around at the speed of light while solving Proxmox problems, and Chris has solved a Jellyfin issue. Plus, our thoughts on the new Plex features. Sponsored By: Unraid: Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.Grist: Grist - the open-source alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets. 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-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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.🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Empowering sovereign ownership with free automatic self-custody 🔒🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.1 with Nostr support, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.4Kn sector disk passthrough in Proxmox — Solving an issue with 4Kn sector disks and passthrough in Proxmox with direct KVM arg injection.Release 10.9.11 · jellyfin/jellyfin-web · GitHub — This minor release brings several bugfixes to improve your Jellyfin experience.[Bug]: Jellyfin after update to 0.2.0.8 is not supported (jellyfin 10.9.2) · Issue #188 · jumoog/intro-skipper · GitHub — I can't check it because the plugin is brokenintro-skipper for Jellyfin — Analyzes the audio of television episodes to detect and skip over intros. Plex Photos — Introducing Plex Photos Beta: We are thrilled to announce the release of the Plex Photos Beta, available today for iOS and Android mobile. This new app is designed to provide you with a focused experience to engage with your photo libraries stored on Plex Media Servers. Whether you’re reminiscing over family photos or sharing backups of your professional photography images, HEVC encoding is coming to Plex : r/PleX — This feature is still in active development and we do not yet have an estimated window for releaseHome Assistant is 11 years old! — We can’t thank our community enough for the past 11 years. You are the engine driving forward Home Assistant. Companion App for iOS 2024.9: Getting ready for iOS 18 — The new iOS also brings a new level of customization to Control Center, for which we are introducing five new controls: Assist, Toggle light, Run script, Activate scene, and Open page.⚪ Bubble Card — Bubble Card is a minimalist and customizable card collection for Home Assistant with a nice pop-up touch.WiCAN Pro | Crowd Supply — Advanced OBD scanner for next-generation vehicle diagnostics and Home Assistant integration Self-Hosted 132 Boost Barn

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  5. 6 SEPT

    131: The Value of Community

    We celebrate five years of the show, chat about self-hosted Lightning, and why Alex loves his NanoKVM. Plus, it is a self-hosted replacement for Amazon Wishlists and more. 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: Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.Grist: Grist - the open-source alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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.⚡ Bitcoin Well — Empowering sovereign ownership with free automatic self-custody 🔒🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.1 with Nostr support, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.Deplatformed by PayPal, Antiwar Journalists Speak Out — According to the two organizations, the PayPal ban remains in effect. PayPal had also frozen the outlets’ funds, including $9,348.14 in Consortium’s account, and threatened to seize the money as “damages.” Patreon Policy Updates — The Community Guidelines have been rewritten to be clearer and more uniform in terminology, tense, and tone. Trust & Safety moderators have also been equipped with new support language to ensure that their interactions with creators are more educational.New Patreon policy updated on tuesday 30% fee on Patreon payments through iOS is cause for concernPatreon issues are causing paused payouts and canceled subscriptions — Some Patreon creators have noticed a dip in subscribers, and fans have gotten notices that their payments are being flagged.🚨🚨PAYPAL HAS ALL MY MONEY AND BANNED ME!!!! 🚨🚨Bitcoin Mining Council Survey Confirms Year on Year Improvements in Sustainable Power and Technological Efficiency — The results of this survey show that the members of the BMC and participants in the survey are currently utilizing electricity with a 63.1% sustainable power mix. Based on this data, the global bitcoin mining industry’s sustainable electricity mix has improved marginally to 59.9% and remains one of the most sustainable industries globally.What is the Lightning Network? — Essentially, the Lightning Network is a way to transact bitcoin faster, cheaper, and more privately than on the Bitcoin blockchain.ZEUS — Controlling and managing your Lightning node channels has never been easier.Onboarding to lightning | ZEUS Documentation — ZEUS' embedded node has many different ways to get onboarded onto lightning with payment channels. This doc details all of the different ways and tradeoffs.Start9 | Opening Your First ChannelUmbrel - Personal home cloud and OS for self-hosting — Store your files, run your own VPN, download and stream media, run a Bitcoin node, and more — all in your home.Alby Hub Introduction — Alby Hub is more than a lightning wallet. It's your Hub for instant bitcoin payments across a growing ecosystem of apps and flexible enough to serve your very own use case.Alby Hub v1.7.2: Friends & Family App — Friends & Family app let's you quickly onboard your friends and family to Bitcoin and Lightning via your personal Alby Hub instance. They get a wallet without having to understand lightning or have their own channels, and not rely on large custodial services. They can also get their own Lightning address with an Alby Account, or connect their new wallet via the Alby extension. Soon, they will also be able to connect to Alby's new mobile app, Alby Go.Lightning liquidity How do i get incoming liquidity and start routing payments? Racking and stacking an off-site backup server for Jupiter Broadcasting - YouTube — Join me, Chris, and Brent from JB as we fly to Toronto to deploy our shiny new colo server

    1h 2m
  6. 23 AUG

    130: Make it or Break it

    Prusa's Mk4S 3D printer seems to have hit the mark. Alex gets a tour of an awesome new maker space, we take a look at AdventureLog, and much more. Special Guest: Jscar_Hawk. Sponsored By: Grist: Grist - the open-source alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets. Unraid: Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.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-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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, 2024 — Chris and Alex are slinging servers in Toronto. Come join us after we get our new box racked. 6PM EST (meetup is in PDT). $50 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 comes with a lower price and a tweaked, cheaper CPU — Despite changes, 2GB Pi 5 is "functionally identical" to other iterations. Redbox app axed, dashing people’s hopes of keeping purchased content — "Redbox is currently not supporting this app. For questions about the service on your account, please contact Redbox” and recommends other streaming apps, like Apple TV+. Disney backpedals on saying man can't sue over wife's death because he signed up for Disney+ — “We believe this situation warrants a sensitive approach to expedite a resolution for the family who have experienced such a painful loss,” Josh D’Amaro of Disney Experiences said.  0 of 3 minutes, 51 secondsVolume 0%   Manyfold - Organise your 3d print files — View and enjoy your collection, and easily find the models you need; all in full interactive 3D.The Original Prusa MK4S is Here! Powerful 360° Cooling, High-Flow Nozzle, Prusa App, Hackerboard and More! — he MK4S is now available as a “plug and print” assembled printer (take it out of the box, let it finish the 10-minute Selftest, and start printing) and printer assembly kit. AdventureLog — AdventureLog is designed to simplify your journey, providing you with the tools and resources to plan, pack, and navigate your next unforgettable adventure.AdventureLog - GitHub — Self-hostable travel tracker and trip planner. Self-Hosted 130 Boost Barn — Thank you boosters!Pluralistic: “Disenshittify or Die”ossem-holon – OSSEM HOLON — OSSEM is an acronym Open Source Security Engineering & Modification Group

    1h 6m
  7. 9 AUG

    129: Forged Alliance

    The battle for code forges is heating up. We chat about HexOS' big promises and get excited about Meshtastic. Sponsored By: Unraid: Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.Grist: Grist - the open-source alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets. 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-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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

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  8. 26 JUL

    128: To Update, or Not to Update?

    ESPHome dev dishes on device updates, Immich license drama heats up, Alex's DIY server fix, and Chris reports on mobile tech trip test. Special Guest: Keith Burzinski. Sponsored By: Unraid: Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.Grist: Grist - the open-source alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets. 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-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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.Kelly Vaughn on X — How a massive publicly traded company is only going to just now start doing canary deployments is so far beyond my comprehension…MoKo 400x300mm DIY PC Case Dust Mesh Filter — A custom magnetic dust filter for the Sliger CX4712 server case.Licensing announcement - Purchase a license to support Immich! — With those notes, we have enabled a way for you to financially support the continued development of Immich, ensuring the software can move forward and will be maintained, by offering a lifetime license of the software. We think if you like and use software, you should pay for it, but we're never going to force anyone to pay or try to limit Immich for those who don't.Wording change and clarification for purchasing Immich — I thought about it when I went to bed, I thought about it in my dream, I thought about it while doing the dishes. Taking into consideration all of your feedback and suggestions, and on behalf of the team, I am happy to show you what we came up with.LinuxFest Northwest 2024: Deploying NixOS Anywhere - YouTube — NixOS, the declarative operating system taking the world by storm, can be challenging to deploy on many hosting providers. In this talk, we'll unlock the full potential of NixOS by exploring how its unique architecture enables installation just about anywhere—from bare metal and VMs to a VPS provider near you.nixos-infect — A script to install NixOS on non-NixOS hosts.simple-nixos-mailserverDocker-OSX — Run Mac OS X in Docker with near-native performance! X11 Forwarding! iMessage security research! iPhone USB working! macOS in a Docker container!Moshidon for Mastodon - Apps on Google Play — Moshidon is a modified version of the official Mastodon Android app adding important features that are missing in the official app, such as the federated timeline, unlisted posting and an image description viewer.SchildiChat — SchildiChat is a feature-rich messenger for Matrix based on Element with some extras and tweaks.SendGrid — Email API and Email Marketing Campaigns SSH 128 Boost Barn — Thank you Boosters!

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Discover new software and hardware to get the best out of your network, control smart devices, and secure your data on cloud services. Self-Hosted is a chat show between Chris and Alex two long-time "self-hosters" who share their lessons and take you along for the journey as they learn new ones. A Jupiter Broadcasting podcast showcasing free and open source technologies you can host yourself.

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