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• ⚡ 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 concern
• Patreon 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 Channel
• Umbrel - 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 in Canada. We'll be deploying the 45homelab HL15 server.
• Everyone should have a PiKVM in their desk area — A few weeks ago I had an epiphany. The kind that once you have it, is so stinkin' obvious you wonder what on earth you were thinking all this time by not seeing it!
• Sipeed NanoKVM Review - Affordable RISC-V IP-KVM - StorageReview.com
• NanoKVM — Affordable, Powerful, RISC-V Nano KVM over IP
• wishthis — wishthis is a simple, intuitive and modern wishlist platform to create, manage and view your wishes for any kind of occasion.
• Microsoft to host CrowdStrike and others to discuss Windows security changes — Microsoft, CrowdStrike and key partners who deliver endpoint security technologies will come together for discussions about improving resiliency and protecting mutual customers’ critical infrastructure,
• Team Toronto Matrix Chat room
• Untrusted Source Store
• AutoPi: Telematics IoT Infrastructure for Fleets and developers - Built on Raspberry Pi — Get the most out of your vehicle or fleet. AutoPi provides the tools you need to extract and visualize the data that matters most to you or your business.
• SSH 131 BOOOOST BAAARN
• Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale — Find some Self-Hosted swag in the Jupiter Garage.

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• 45drives: The HL15 from 45HomeLab is an open-source, open-platform, 15-bay homelab server.

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• Berlin with Brent, Sat, Jul 22, 2023 — Brent loved his time in Berlin so much, he's going back for more!
• Berlin Buds Matrix Chat — Join the realtime Berlin chat room on Matrix.
• MicroBin v2 Released — I am proud that MicroBin now contributes to a world-wide effort towards making privacy accessible and easy, and I hope v2 will help it towards becoming the secure self-hosted file-sharing solution.
• Docker | MicroBin — For Docker, you can either use our setup script, or download the Dockerfile and .env file in the repository and set it up yourself. The image is also available on DockerHub.
• MicroBin Demo Page
• Fully Kiosk Browser - Home Assistant — Fully Kiosk Browser is a powerful kiosk browser for Android devices. It provides a number of features for monitoring and controlling your Android device. This integration gives you access to control your device and view the status in Home Assistant.
• Fotoo - Photo Frame Slideshow — Turn your tablet/TV/phone into an elegant digital photo frame and photo slideshow player!
• Fotoo - Digital Photo Frame Photo Slideshow Player on Amazon
• Samba - NixOS Wiki — This guide will help you on how to use samba on nixos.
• USB Smart WiFi Adaptor for USB — Splenssy Tuya Micro DC 5V. Turn on/off the light with your smartphone from miles away.
• What Exactly Is Federation, Anyways? — Really, federation is just, well, decentralization with extra features. Decentralized software is where, in effect, anyone can run their own instance, there is no one ‘central’ location.
• Configuring Federation Sharing — Nextcloud — Federated Cloud Sharing is now managed by the Federation app (9.0+), and is now called Federation sharing. When you enable the Federation app you can easily and securely link file shares between Nextcloud servers, in effect creating a cloud of Nextclouds.
• Include | Docker Documentation — A Compose application can declare dependency on another Compose application.
• introduce include to load sub-compose projects as dependencies by ndeloof — Pull Request #416
• Plex Dupefinder — Plex DupeFinder is a python script that finds duplicate versions of media (TV episodes and movies) in your Plex Library and tells Plex to remove the lowest rated files/versions (based on user-specified scoring) to leave behind a single file/version.
• Free your notes - Obsidian — The first conversion format we have added is .enex for Evernote.
• Why I stopped using Intel GVT-g on Proxmox with Quick Sync — The promise of GVT-g technically was very high. One box to rule them all. However in practice, it just didn't live up to expectations.
• Crackpipe — the decentralized gaming platform for 'alternatively obtained' games
• ⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Send a Boost into the show, first grab Alby and then top it off directly or with the CashApp.
• ⚡ Self-Hosted on the Podcastindex.org — Once Alby is topped off, head over to the Podcast Index and Boost from their website! 🍻

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• London Meetup August 5th at 6pm GMT — VENUE: Jubilee Park & Garden on the Southbank of River Thames near the London Eye. August 5th at 6pm GMT
• Matrix Meetup Space — Let's plan future meetups, both physical and virtual in our Matrix space. ✅
• Nanoleaf Elements - Wood Look Hexagons — Nanoleaf Elements are both beautiful wall art and customizable ambient lighting made to look beautiful on or off.
• Nanoleaf - Home Assistant — The Nanoleaf integration allows you to control and monitor Nanoleaf Light Panels, Canvas, Shapes, Elements, and Lines.
• Josh's Raspberry PI Projects List — Josh has been keeping a list of awesome projects he uses his Raspberry Pi's for.
• Josh's Lab Hardware
• Self-Hosted Storage Leaderboard
• Fountain.FM Chris' Favorite Podcasting 2.0 App — Try out Fountain, a Podcasting 2.0 app with Boosts.
• BoostCLI — Command-line tool to send and review Podcasting 2.0 Value.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps — Grab a Podcasting 2.0 compatible app with tons of new features like: Boostagrams, Chapters, Hosts info, Sat Streaming, Search, Value, and clips.

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• Join our Discord — Join our growing community of Self-Hosters!
• London Meetup *PROVISIONAL* — Alex from Self-Hosted will be in the UK in August and is proposing a meetup in London.
• scrutiny: Hard Drive S.M.A.R.T Monitoring — WebUI for smartd S.M.A.R.T monitoring, Historical Trends & Real World Failure Thresholds.
• Cartridge — A self-hosted game library made with Laravel + Vue.js.
• Servas — A self-hosted bookmark management tool.
• Pinkt — Pinkt is an unofficial Pinboard Android client. Pinboard is a fast, no-nonsense bookmarking site for people who value privacy and speed.
• Dogsheep — Dogsheep is a collection of tools for personal analytics using SQLite and Datasette.
• Gitea Webhook Change — In PR #17482 the Gitea project introduced a breaking change for security reasons. They introduced a new webhook.ALLOWED_HOST_LIST value which needed to be configured in order for webhooks to work.
• Welcoming Rocket.Chat to Matrix — We just wanted to take a moment to welcome Rocket.Chat to Matrix, given the recent announcement that they are switching to using Matrix for standards-based interoperable federation!
• OliveTin — OliveTin gives safe and simple access to predefined shell commands from a web interface.
• Did Google just change it’s mind about ending the G Suite legacy free edition? — What if I use G Suite legacy free edition for personal use? If you’re using the G Suite legacy free edition for non-commercial purposes, you can opt out of the transition to Google Workspace by clicking here (requires a super administrator account) or going to the Google Admin console.
• Google Graveyard - Killed by Google
• Send a Boost with a New Podcast App — New Podcasting 2.0 apps with Boost support.