ScreenGuard is not just a window monitoring application, it is also an app limit enforcer

I made ScreenGuard primarily for myself with one thing in mind: Make an application which will allow me to control my screen time and lock me out of an application if daily Quota is hit.

The application is currently limited to X11 and wayland on GNOME only however KDE and cinnamon are slated for development.

Some Key features

• Visual Dashboard with per application time tracking
• Graphical history of entire past month(30 days) kept into DB and used for average calculation as well
• Focus mode locks out applications not needed during work and serve as distraction
• Daily app limiter to control how much an application is used per day

GitHub Repository link : https://github.com/adityakrishnan005-a11y/ScreenGuard

AI Disclosure: Implementation: Manual, Debugging: Assisted, Documentation: Assisted, deployment: Assisted, Packaging: Generated (specifically Arch custom repository for Arch users for convenience)

Thank You🙏

I've now managed to get the stream of my HiWatch Series, model HWI- T641H-Z 2.8-12 mm by accessing via browser to rtsp://USERNAME:PASSWORD@192.168.30.50:554/Streaming/Channels/101. Working nice. But on its own, very unusful unless I get storage and image detection going. So, I need something like Frigate.

I believe the Frigate docs suggest running in a docker container installed on a VM. Very convienient as I have Proxmox (installed on a optiples 7070 micropc with 32MB ram) running a VM on which i have a few containers. The idea is to mount a "frigate" dataset created on my Truenas server on Proxmox which is then mounted to the VM. Lots of layers but hoping it should be ok.

I heard that the Google Coral TPU is not sold anymore. Is this going to be a problem for Frigate image recognition? Are there alternatives to the Coral TPU?

It was way easier than I thought it would be to get started. I put Sparky Linux on an 18 year old laptop and moved a bunch of movies and shows over to it, got Tailscale squared away, and now I can watch my media ANY WHERE IN THE WORLD. The only problem is storage. Jellyfin doesn't recognize my external drive for some reason and says the path is invalid. Is there a simple solution I'm missing?

Also I'm just stoked I was able to do this. I know I just followed a recipe, but it's a pretty cool feeling having all my music and shows right there, and I don't have to pay some middle man one red can't to access media I already own.

Portainer is changing to a mostly AI and kubernetes supported app.

I've seen so many 10" servers that look amazing from the front and very polished, but then having a rats nest of cables and a mess at the back.

After 62 iterations and many 3D prints, blood, sweat, profanity and tears. I my design and implementation is finally done.
I used Hexagons where possible, because as you know, Hexagons are the bestagons

This is Before:

And the After:

The ducky adds 200MHz

The front of my mini-rack is actually still somewhat of a mess, I thought I'd focus on the back first.

I've published it in excruciating detail on my GitHub Leave a Star if you like what you see.

I self host a bunch of stuff on here to get away from Big-Tech, and because I find it fun. For a lot more details see https://erasmus.works/

It always bothered me the the fronts of racs are modular, but not the backs, this solves that
If you have any questions feel free to ask, hopefully this helps other clear up their rats nests.

As I start to host more and more services on my home server, my family and friends are interested in using some of the services I host as well. Up to now, all of my services have been internal-only, and my wife and I just use Tailscale to access everything. Getting others set up with tailscale isn’t an issue, but I can only have up to 4 other users before I have to pay to add more, and I have more than 4 people I would like to have access to some of the things I host.

Right now I’m using cloudflare tunnels to make some services available externally. I’m behind CGNAT, so I’m forced to use something like tunnels or similar. I’ve always read that if you are going to open things up externally to use a reverse proxy (which I use internally), but does this still apply with cloudflare tunnels? What else should I be looking at to make sure I have everything secured properly?

This is not strictly self-hosted per se, but I am looking for your guidance.

I am standing up a wiki. I want it to use available FOSS wiki frameworks, all our self-hosted loving things.

However: the probably of this becoming a moderately trafficked page are high. So I also need to consider scale (cloudflare, captcha, auth, do I use Vercel? etc.), light-weightness (this is a Wiki but not too massive), and all that jazz. This is also someone who won't like alt-wikis and is a very layman, mainstream audience. So "wikipedia but SEO friendly/article style" is also a plus. It will be less deeply linked than Wikipedia across pages, but is still a repository for info that will be revisited for its different components for a long time.

People with experience spinning up or hosting trafficked wiki pages: what do I do?

Thanks gang.

Cliparr 2.0 is out now

What is Cliparr?

Cliparr is a browser-based, simplified video editor with a single purpose: to create and export clips from Plex, Jellyfin, and local video.

What's new?

Check the blog post for the full breakdown, but the biggest change is the new canvas-based timeline editor.

While adding support for editable subtitles, I discovered the timeline component we were using was highly inefficient. Also, no other free or open-source timeline editors existed.

So... we now also have https://canvastimeline.com/ which is a new open-source headless video editor for JavaScript.

Canvas Timeline allows us to load and render literally hundreds of clips without any performance issues.

Also new:

• Subtitle editor
• Export size estimation
• Mobile UI updates
• Maintenance automations

Aside: When making the Export Size Estimator, it made sense to also release a fully in-browser video converter: https://cliparr.dev/convert/

• GitHub: https://github.com/TechSquidTV/Cliparr
• Website: https://cliparr.dev/

AI Disclosure:

Implementation - Generated Testing - Generated Documentation - Assisted Review - Assisted Deployment - Assisted

I was considering something new from supermicro, but I decided to go considering grade for a change, as I mainly just need single threaded performance from this one.

My only requirement was rack mount, so I went for a Ryzen 5 build inside a rack mount chassis from Inter-Tech. My first build combining these two worlds.

I'm gonna miss IPMI, though.

I built Versentry to scratch my own itch: I run Docker across several self-hosted boxes and wanted to know when images have updates - without anything auto-pulling or restarting my containers behind my back.

Before that, I used WUD, but at the time Versentry was created, it didn’t have a proxy for Telegram notifications, which was the impetus. As a result, I ended up with a micro‑service that fully meets my needs.

What it does: reads running containers from the local Docker socket, compares their tags and digests against OCI registries, and sends a notification when something's newer. It never pulls images or touches containers. That's the whole point - notify-only by design.

A few things that set it apart:

• Central tag-filter rules in config (regex by image repo), so you're not forced to label every container. Per-container versentry.include labels also work if you prefer them.
• Built-in proxy (SOCKS5/HTTP) for notifier delivery and registry traffic - handy behind network restrictions.
• Any OCI registry - Docker Hub, GHCR, Quay, GitLab out of the box; private/self-hosted via type: oci.
• Notifiers: stdout, Telegram, Discord, Gotify, ntfy, and a generic webhook.
• Readable notifications out of the box - sensible default messages, no template-wrangling required; Go text/template overrides are there if you want to customize.
• semver/numeric detection (cross-major updates get flagged) plus digest comparison for floating tags like latest.
• Tiny ~5 MB scratch-based image, MIT licensed.

It's probably not for you if you need: a web UI (try WUD), automatic pull-and-restart (that's Watchtower's job), non-Docker providers like Kubernetes/Podman (Diun covers more), or Slack/email as first-class notifiers.

It's a young project - fewer battle-tested deployments than the established tools - so I'd genuinely welcome feedback from anyone who runs it.

GitHub: https://github.com/BlackRaincoat/versentry

AI Disclosure:

• Design - Pair
• Implementation - Generated
• Testing - Assisted
• Documentation - Generated
• Review - Assisted
• Deployment - Generated

Note: The idea, the architecture decisions, and all real-world testing were mine - I ran it across multiple live servers and that's what caught the actual bugs. The AI wrote the implementation, the test code, docs, and CI config from my prompts. I reviewed behavior on real deployments rather than reading every line, so code-level review leaned on the AI.

I pay for the Nabu Casa subscription for remote access to Home Assistant. Mostly as a way to give them money for a great service, but it's convenient and felt pretty secure. It should be the only remote way into Home Assistant. About an hour ago I got a login attempt notice that an IP was trying to access API/config. The IP is in some bad IP databases. What I found interesting was that the log shows an AI bot. A Google Gemini bot specifically. Makes me worry that AI is going to make yet another aspect of life frustrating and unfun.

As my kids want their own rooms in the future I’ll need to downsize a bit. Is there a list for recommended 10” Equipment? Any help appreciated. My research so far turned always in the direction of get rack bars and a 3D printer ( or shops selling the 3d prints)

Time to find a new VPS host.

I'm looking at dusting off my motion setup. It was an old setup to monitor what my pets are doing in the house with a webcam.

However, I need cameras outside to monitor my gardens and the webcams are not really usefull for that (for one, the're not waterproof and USB cams)

I try to look for stand alone cameras, but can't find a good test of them. (probably user error) Any tips on good, safe, cameras for outside? (pref poe, wifi when it can't be avoided, not battery powered)

Thanks in advance

> Mullenweg is the founder of Automattic, the company that owns WordPress, Tumblr, Pocket Casts, and a host of other popular internet brands and pieces of software. Mullenweg has faced several controversies over his management of the company in recent years.

> On a company-wide Slack this morning, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announced he has been put on a paid leave of absence. [...] He continued, writing that Mark Davies, current Automattic Chief Financial Officer, has “conspired” with Automattic Board of Directors members Ann Dunwoody, Toni Schneider, and Sue Decker “behind my back and they voted to put me on a paid leave of absence. I voted against that.”

I had the following issue: Stremio would open normally and even load subtitles but would not load videos at all in Linux Mint 22.3. Other people on github have had the same issue.

You can revert to an older version like 1.1.4. by downloading it from the offical Github of the stremio linux shell. You can then install the flatpak by going into your downloads and typing the following commands into terminal:

cd ~/Downloads

flatpak install com.stremio.Stremio.Devel.flatpak

You then should stop the app from auto-updating with:

flatpak mask com.stremio.Stremio

I hope this helps anyone in my situation, I'm fairly new to using Linux and it took me some time. Also can you edit text on Lemmy to be in code block?

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/36389875

Why jump from 10.11.11 directly to 12.0? -> Blog Post

You can find more details about and discuss this release on the official forums.

As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup of your metadata/configs before upgrading!

Direct upgrades from 10.10.7 and 10.11.x to 12.0 are supported; intermediate upgrades are not required. Users running releases older than 10.10.7 are strongly encouraged to upgrade to 10.10.7 before migrating to 12.0.

Installed repository plugins (anything not built-in) should also be removed before migrating. Plugins will likely need time to adapt to the new database changes, so re-adding them afterward is the safest approach for testing.

Official plugins compatible with Jellyfin are available through the stable plugin repository. If you have changed to the unstable plugin repository please change it back.

Go to Dashboard -> Plugins -> Manage Repositories
Update the Plugin Repository URL to: https://repo.jellyfin.org/files/plugin/manifest.json

After migrating please perform the following steps.

Perform a full library scan to restore alternative versions
Run the "Optimize database" scheduled task

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Welp. My Forgejo instance got popped with an RCE two days ago by CVE-2026-60004. Luckily, I noticed the following morning and had the day free to figure out what happened. Let's dive in!

As a homelab enthusiast, I found this a very interesting post. Here are my take aways from the post that I'm implementing myself:

• Miner detection. I've updated monitoring rules to now watch the CPU on my hosts. If the same thing happened to me I would not have been alerted at all as I'm doing simple up / down monitoring. Fixed.
• Access logging. I turned on access logging for my homelab Caddy instances.
• Log retention. I have increased the amount and retention of my logging. The hope is this will help me reconstruct what happened after a breach.
• Logs offsite. The VPS access logs now ride along with the normal backup process, which runs hourly. The homelab side still only gets caught by the weekly VM backup, so that's next.
• Closed an open signup. My webtrees instance (genealogy) had self registration enabled, which is the same door this guy got hit through. Oops. Fixed.
• Built a tool. log-inventory.sh, so "could I actually reconstruct what happened" is a command I run instead of a thing I assume.

I have a minipc with proxmox on it. I have tried caddy in a lxc to set up DNS challenges to my owned domain and I set the url in my router to point to the IP (for example, proxmox.DOMAIN.com could be 192.168.10.22). The hope was to have everything local within my house and nothing needs the internet to be accessed. Some services I can host in proxmox NEED https to use, which I could not get working with my own certs or ones proxmox could make, thus Caddy. However, I get proxmox with a proper cert, but i cannot get any of the other services from proxmox working. If I were doing it all manually, I would expect DNS issues with the domain, but from what I understand, Caddy by default does wildcard domains which should mean that my services should work. but they do not. Networking is new to me so perhaps I am missing something obvious. Any guidance would be appreciated.

EDIT: You guys helped me find my issue! Turns out that I did everything right except for 1 simple step. Once I have everything set up, I have my router point the urls to the CADDY address, not the services address. For example, I had bookmarks.DOMAIN.com set in my router to point at the readeck lxc ip and it didn't work. Changing that to the Caddy ip fixed it. So all my services would point to the same ip (caddy). I do not know how I never saw this in any of the tutorials/videos/guides I checked, but THANK YOU for pointing it out to me.
Now the only odd thing is why does the proxmox ip work fine without pointing to caddy? I will leave it as is, but its the odd one out :/

Hello!

Regarding what Gamers Nexus recently disclosed regarding LG TVs in their latest video I think its finally time to do what I can to mitigate it.

I cant root it since the firmware is too new and I cant afford a new TV either. My best bet would be blocking all LG IPs network-wide and disconnecting it from the network. (Although I understand even that might not be enough, its the best I can do right now)

I was thinking of using an old Raspberry to atleast access youtube and my media server, however I dont know what would be a good OS/distro to run this on. Preferably I would want to use something like an old PS4 controller as the remote.

Anyone here who has any suggestions or living room setups to suggest? Any and all tips are welcome.

I'll copy the whole announcement here for those who don't want to click:

I regret to inform everyone that my copy of QBittorrent escaped its sandbox last night and downloaded a whole bunch of content owned by major corporations, and then my copy of Jellyfin broke containment and added those unfortunately-downloaded media files to its various libraries. I'm conducting an internal investigation to figure out how this happened, which will involve consuming these media files until the answers become apparent. Thank you for your cooperation during this trying time.

It's a tiny selfhosted service that determines the client's IP address or accepts an IP address through a query parameter, then returns geolocation and ASN information using the MaxMind GeoLite2 databases.

I often used services like ipinfo.io for checking my IP, location etc. e.g. to make sure a VPN was working properly. These are also handy for figuring out which timezone to use etc. I wanted to selfhost it, but couldn't find one that satisfied my needs. So I decided to write one.

Check out the README for details.