Oktoberfest is coming to #Munich soon. But I will not participate. No alcohol for the next few weeks. I have to write Bind zonefiles for my Cute Homelab. And as we all know — It's Always DNS. So wish me luck ;)

Day two of my vacation and my power goes out at home.

So I can't catch up on the movies I wanted to because some of my proxmox nodes in my #homelab haven't popped back up.

PSA for #proxmox 9 users

#selfhosting #selfhosted #homelab

https://blog.ktz.me/proxmox-9-broke-my-docker-containers/

I recently discovered a project called #Jellywatch. It's an Android app that lets you manage your #Jellyfin server(s). It's not open source so I'm hesitant to use it and give it access to my server, but its user interface looks a bit more polished than the default Jellyfin app and they've got extra paid features and support.

I don't know a ton about it, but it's pretty cool to see decent quality alternatives. They're even on Mastodon over at @jellywatch .

Oauth working for Kubernetes authentication and authorization.

Very satisfying, if fiddly.

The nerd dilemma. "Let's spin up a container with $COOLSOFTWARE in my homelab. Oh, I also want to have it secured with https. So, oh, I want to do that LetsEncrypt style, so I need to setup my own Certificate authority that supports ACME. Oh, now I need a DNS server because my home router doesn't do CNAMEs. Oh, and why not use the dns-01 challenge? Oh, I can create S/MIME certificates with this?" A FEW DAYS LATER: "What was the $COOLSOFTWARE I wanted to try called again?" ;)

Good Morning Homelabs

Freitagsgrußküsse von dem verschlafenen annnyway, new place, new in-wall panel of cat6 terms and a 5GbE symmetric fiber line. I cleaned up the initial mess in June, second iteration this past week/ish. Generally, most of this hardware should be in one of the office racks (1U switch + 2x 0.5U patches + 1U UPS), specifically NOT in my walk-in closet. It's a work in progress.

#GitHub alternatives, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #BrickTracker - a platform for tracking #LEGO sets, and more in this week's #newsletter recap!

https://selfh.st/weekly/2025-08-15/

Blog-Update: Von #Ghost zu #WriteFreely gewechselt!

Nach jeder Menge manueller Anpassungen und viel Custom CSS habe ich nun einen schlichten Blog mit funktionalen Codeblöcken, 8 Callout-Typen, Medien-Anbindung per privatem „CDN“ und Bloganbindung für meine eigene Instanz per RSS-Feed.

WriteFreely ist im Grunde eine Aneinanderreihung von „Das geht nicht“ → „CSS-Hack“ → „...okay“.

Aber hey: Am Ende ist es sauschnell, funktioniert mit dem Fediverse (außer aktuell #GoToSocial und #BookWyrm) und sieht richtig gut aus!

Blog: https://blog.klein.ruhr (@matthias)

Manchmal sind die besten Lösungen die, die eigentlich nicht so gedacht waren!

Number of days since the last shell expansion incident: 0

Hi! This is my new #Introduction on my temporal new account.

My main account is @Appeasing3819, this is a server I've created for myself so I can test how it is to have a single-person mastodon instance.

Feel free to follow my another account, I'll post the same on both.

About myself! I'm an European citizen, 32 years old. I work as a sysadmin by day and by night i play #videogames and have a #HomeLab (it never stops).

I'm a big fan of the small personal internet

Does anyone understand this #cookie Notice? There's one button which says "Sorry!! accept all cookies" on the @iscdotorg ISC's #DHCP doc's website, does anyone understand what that means? I can't see any other buttons, can that be translated as "sorry we have to track you, there's no details and no consent, yolo!"

Now when my #SynologyNAS is off and all family photos and files are in #iCloud, I’m replacing WD Green with WD Red in my DIY NAS. One by one, because they are in a #ZFS mirror.

Stop exposing your homelab to the internet! There are much safer ways to get remote access.

I wrote a new guide comparing the top 4 methods for 2025:
The Easy Button (Tailscale)
The DIY Powerhouse (WireGuard)
The Web Gateway (Cloudflare)
The Sysadmin's Tool (SSH)

Find the perfect fit for your setup: https://homelabdad.com/secure-your-homelab-top-4-remote-access-methods-for-2025/

Question: How are people managing rotation of their personal or #homelab #SSH & #GPG keys? Maybe other secrets too.
At work I am forced to rotate everything every 3 months but they have entire systems to remind & facilitate it, finally they have support engineers who can reset my password. If I mess up in my personal life, I'd be really stuck.

Dear #family #homelab'ers: When do you update your shit? For me, updating #Proxmox means no internet in the home and no #HomeAssistant. How do you handle that shit? Wait until everyone is at sleep and hope the night doesn't get too long? Randomly during the day hoping nobody will complain/notice?