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• Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call — 40,000 lines of flawed code almost made it into FreeBSD's kernel—we examine how.
• How to achieve smart home nirvana (or, home automation without subscription) — With some work and planning, Home Assistant sets your smart home.
• GeForce GPU Passthrough for Windows Virtual Machine
• LINUX Unplugged 308: The One About GPU Passthrough — Our crew walks you through their PCI Passthrough setups that let them run Windows, macOS, and distro-hop all from one Linux machine.
• Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” — Now a source who participated in the response to that breach alleges Ubiquiti massively downplayed a “catastrophic” incident to minimize the hit to its stock price, and that the third-party cloud provider claim was a fabrication.
• A USB Fan Controller that now works under Linux
• Linode on Twitter — This episode of Top Docs talks about the benefits of using Infrastructure as Code.
• Plausible Analytics — Plausible is a lightweight and open-source website analytics tool. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU 🇪🇺
• Guest Blog - TheOrangeOne
• Jake Howard 🍊 (@RealOrangeOne) on Twitter
• Tiny Tiny RSS — Tiny Tiny RSS is a free and open source web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) reader and aggregator

Plus his thoughts on automation, self-hosting, and more.

Special Guest: Jeff Geerling.

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• Nabu Casa has acquired ESPHome — Today I’m happy to announce that ESPHome is from now on under the Nabu Casa umbrella.
• ESPHome
• Jeff Geerling - YouTube — K8s, Ansible, Raspberry Pi, photography, tech, DIY, tools, etc. Most anything has the potential for showing up on this channel. I might focus on one thing someday, but it's more fun to do ALL THE THINGS!
• Hardware RAID on the Raspberry Pi CM4 | Jeff Geerling — Now I have actual enterprise SAS drives running on a hardware RAID controller on a Raspberry Pi, and it's faster than the 'fastest' SATA RAID array I set up in that other video.
• Enterprise SAS RAID ...on a RASPBERRY PI?! - YouTube
• I built the fastest Raspberry Pi SATA RAID NAS! - YouTube
• IT WORKED! - 16 Hard Drives on the Raspberry Pi (Pi Day Special) - YouTube
• Building the fastest Raspberry Pi NAS, with SATA RAID

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• Millions of websites offline after fire at French cloud services firm — The fire, which broke out on Wednesday shortly after midnight at OVHcloud, destroyed one of four data centres in Strasbourg, in eastern France, and damaged another, the company said.
• Pwned passwords and secrets - Home Assistant — We are using the Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) service for detecting leaked or compromised secrets, like passwords.
• Troy Hunt: Home Assistant, Pwned Passwords and Security Misconceptions — Two of my favourite things these days are Have I Been Pwned and Home Assistant. The former is an obvious choice, the latter I've come to love as I've embarked on my home automation journey. So, it was with great pleasure that I saw the two integrated recently.
• Validating Leaked Passwords with k-Anonymity — Cloudflare continues to support Pwned Passwords by providing CDN and security functionality such that the data can easily be made available for download in raw form to organisations to protect their customers.
• crt.sh — Certificate Search.
• Shelly 2.5 — No HUB required – Connect Shelly 2.5 directly to your Wi-Fi at home.
• filebrowser: 📂 Web File Browser — filebrowser provides a file managing interface within a specified directory and it can be used to upload, delete, preview, rename and edit your files.
• Tandoor Recipes — Today i am happy to announce that I have released a new version which finally gives the application its well deserved name and logo: Tandoor Recipes.

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• Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust — This is a Bitwarden server API implementation written in Rust compatible with upstream Bitwarden clients*, perfect for self-hosted deployment where running the official resource-heavy service might not be ideal.
• bitwardenrs server Docker
• Changes to LastPass Free — As a Free user, your first login on or after March 16th will set your active device type. You’ll have three opportunities to switch your active device type to explore what’s right for you.
• How to Self-Host the bitwarden_rs Password Manager | Linode
• DDoSers are abusing the Plex Media Server to make attacks more potent — Plex Media servers using SSDP let DDoSers amplify attacks by a factor of 5.
• Intel GVT-g — Intel GVT-g is a technology that provides mediated device passthrough for Intel GPUs (Broadwell and newer). It can be used to virtualize the GPU for multiple guest virtual machines, effectively providing near-native graphics performance in the virtual machine and still letting your host use the virtualized GPU normally.
• Ghost Membership Software: Sustainable revenue for publishers
• Ghost Docs — The Docker image for Ghost is an unofficial community package maintained by people within the Ghost developer community.
• systemd-homed — systemd-homed is a systemd service providing portable human-user accounts that are not dependent on current system configuration.
• 3D Printing a custom Vantrue S1 dash cam bracket for a Golf R
• Prusa3D - Open-Source 3D printers by Josef Prusa
• Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects

Plus our tips to manage and stream audiobooks.

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• OpenAudible - Audio Book Manager — OpenAudible is a cross-platform audiobook manager designed for Audible users. Download, view, convert to MP3 or M4A, and manage all your audio books with our easy-to-use desktop application.
• Booksonic — The selfhosted audiobook server
• ‎Prologue on the App Store — Prologue is the best (and possibly only) audiobook app for Plex.
• ‎BookPlayer on the App Store — A wonderful player for your M4B/M4A/MP3 based audiobooks.
• Cozy—Linux Apps on Flathub — Cozy is a modern audio book player for Linux.
• MQTT - Home Assistant — MQTT (aka MQ Telemetry Transport) is a machine-to-machine or “Internet of Things” connectivity protocol on top of TCP/IP. It allows extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport.
• AdGuard Home — Network-wide software for blocking ads & tracking
• Using Pihole with pfsense or opnsense — Pihole is a network wide ad blocker. Using DHCP we can tell every device on your network to automatically and transparently use Pihole for DNS.
• PhotoPrism — PhotoPrism® is a server-based application for browsing, organizing and sharing your personal photo collection. It makes use of the latest technologies to automatically tag and find pictures without getting in your way. Say goodbye to solutions that force you to upload your visual memories to the cloud.
• PhotoPrism: Try our demo
• Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage on June 1st, 2021 - The Verge — After 15 gigs, you’ll need to pony up for Google One

Plus how Chris built the most reliable and high-performance mobile internet setup possible in his RV.

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• Datadog: Try Datadog today by starting a free 14-day trial and receive a Datadog t-shirt after creating just one dashboard.

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• Review: Pepwave MAX Transit by Peplink (Mobile Router) - Mobile Internet Resource Center — Peplink is also a key provider of bonding technology that allows a router to combine multiple network connections together for increased performance, or extreme redundancy and reliability.
• Poynting 7-in-1 4xLTE, 2xWIFI & 1xGPS Roof Antenna — 7-in-1 Roof Mountable Cellular Wifi GPS antenna Perfect for Dual Cell Modem Applications
• Dual 4G LTE Router for Public Transportation MAX Transit Duo — With a compact form factor, simultaneous dual-band 11ac Wi-Fi, and two embedded LTE modems, the MAX Transit DUO is ready to deliver fast, reliable connectivity in transportation and public safety deployments
• SpeedFusion Cloud - Peplink — From video streaming to online collaboration, everything depends on consistent Internet.
• LTE UE Category & Class Definitions — LTE utilises the LTE UE Category or User Equipment categories or classes to define the performance specifications of LTE devices
• Ethernet Adapter for Chromecast with Google TV — Power adapter with Ethernet port
• NymphCast: Audio and video casting system — NymphCast is a software solution which turns your choice of Linux-capable hardware into an audio and video source for a television or powered speakers. It enables the streaming of audio and video over the network from a wide range of client devices, as well as the streaming of internet media to a NymphCast server, controlled by a client device.

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• Introducing SWAG - Secure Web-server And Gateway — SWAG is a rebirth of our letsencrypt docker image, a full fledged web server and reverse proxy that includes Nginx, Php7, Certbot (Let's Encrypt client) and Fail2ban.
• Lychee v4 - Albums
• Alex's docker-compose file with Traefik lables
• Traefik, The Cloud Native Edge Router — Simplify networking complexity while designing, deploying, and operating applications.
• 0.115: B-Day release! - Home Assistant — There's a party goin' on right here 🕺 A dedication to last throughout the years 🥳 So bring your good times, and your laughter too 😂 We gonna celebrate our party with you 🎁 It's a celebration! 🎉
• One more thing… - Home Assistant — Home Assistant Companion is a new application for Mac to control your Home Assistant instance, exposing your Mac sensors to Home Assistant and to receive notifications.
• Add card by entities — Are you a bit overwhelmed by all the different types of cards Lovelace has? You can now just select the entities you want to use for a card, and have Lovelace suggest a card for you.
• Hard Drive S.M.A.R.T Monitoring, Historical Trends & Real World Failure Thresholds — WebUI for smartd S.M.A.R.T monitoring
• linuxserver/docker-scrutiny
• Scrutiny - A SMART Hard Drive Monitoring tool
• CloudFree — Providing tinkerers with the cloud-free gadgets they need.
• Outdoor Grade NFC tags — Outdoor Grade NFC tags
• GitHub - IronicBadger/infra: 99.9% less leaked credentials — 99.9% less leaked credentials
• Traefik v2 and external services like Home Assistant and Blue Iris — How do I use Traefik to route traffic for services that aren't containers or published via another service discovery backend? In the case of this post it's Home Assistant and Blue Iris. Two critical services in my LAN that run on dedicated hardware.
• Secret Management with docker-compose and Ansible Vault — Secret management with docker-compose doesn't have to be an enigma.

Plus some power monitoring updates, and more from the community.

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• Lychee: A great looking and easy-to-use photo-manager — Lychee is a free photo-management tool, which runs on your server or web-space.
• Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, whether it is shared with some third party, and how it's transmitted over the internet.
• Syncthing | Security
• Syncthing Discovery Server
• Syncthing Relay Server
• Introducer Configuration
• CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota — This product runs Tasmota, which requires some technical skill to set up. The Tasmota project will not provide technical support.
• Raspberry Pi Power Monitor — This project is an extremely affordable, yet highly capable “build-your-own” energy monitoring solution. With up to six total inputs, you can monitor many different consumption and production sources.
• blog.ktz.me - Send a Pushover notification from Linux — How can you make a Linux system notify your phone when it reboots?
• Apprise - One notification library to rule them all — Apprise allows you to send a notification to almost all of the most popular notification services available to us today such as: Telegram, Discord, Slack, Amazon SNS, Gotify, etc.

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• Boxee Box — Boxee Box by D-Link is a Linux-based set-top device and media extender that first began shipping in 33 countries worldwide on 10 November 2010.
• Getting Started with Media Browser for Windows Media Center
• MythTV, Open Source DVR — MythTV is a Free Open Source software digital video recorder (DVR) project distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. It has been under heavy development since 2002, and now contains most features one would expect from a good DVR (and many new ones that you soon won't be able to live without).
• Popcorn Hour A-100 review
• Microsoft Windows Media Center Extenders — The Media Center Extender with DVD Player (DMA2200) from Linksys, a division of Cisco, is an elegant solution that combines an upscaling DVD player with a dual-band Wireless-N Extender for Windows Media Center.

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• LINUX Unplugged 355: Chris' Data Crisis — Chris' tale of woe after a recent data loss, and Wes' adventure after he finds a rogue device on his network.
• Jupiter Extras: A Chat with mergerfs Developer Antonio Musumeci — mergerfs makes JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Drives) appear like an ‘array’ of drives. mergerfs transparently translates read/write commands to the underlying drives from a single mount point, such as /mnt/storage.
• Duplicati — Duplicati works with standard protocols like FTP, SSH, WebDAV as well as popular services like Backblaze B2, Microsoft OneDrive, Amazon S3, Google Drive, box.com, Mega, hubiC and many others.
• restic · Backups done right! — Backing up your data with restic should only be limited by your network or hard disk bandwidth so that you can backup your files every day.
• Backblaze — Cloud storage that's astonishingly easy and low-cost.
• How does Backblaze support Linux Users? — There are a variety of options for using Linux with B2. These include open-source (free) and commercial applications, command-line (CLI) and graphical interface (GUI) tools, and tools that include encryption, automation, hybrid NAS/B2 support, mounting remote archives as volumes, and other capabilities.
• How to configure Backblaze B2 with Duplicity on Linux — Duplicity can store backup data in many destinations, including Backblaze B2. This guide will help you get setup and give you the commands to do a full backup and restore of a specific folder.
• duplicity — Duplicity backs directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server.
• rsync.net — We give you an empty UNIX filesystem that you can access with any SSH tool
• Amazon S3 Glacier — Long-term, secure, durable Amazon S3 object storage classes for data archiving, starting at $1 per terabyte per month
• Installation Methods & Community Guides Wiki - Home Assistant — Today I want to take a step back and take a holistic view of installation methods. What installation methods do we support as a project, and what does supported mean.
• TiddlyWiki — a non-linear personal web notebook — A unique non-linear notebook for capturing, organising and sharing complex information.
• An opinionated approach to TiddlyWiki

Plus why Chris continues to collect Raspberry Pi's at an alarming rate.

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• Raspberry Pi 4 Storage Benchmarks
• Home Assistant on Twitter — "We're deprecating the Home Assistant Supervised installation on Generic Linux. Alternatives are to run Home Assistant Core in a Docker container or run our OS in a VM."
• [On hold] Deprecating Home Assistant Supervised on generic Linux — We’re going to put the deprecation plan on hold for now. Anyone running this installation method today can continue running this. We will offer more clear information in the future.
• traefik host mode example
• HomelabOS — Your offline-first privacy-centric personal data center.
• HomelabOS - Syncing Settings via Git — HomelabOS will automatically keep the settings/ folder in sync with a git repo if it has one. So you can create a private repo on your Gitea instance for example, then clone that repo over the settings folder. Now any changes you make to settings/ files will be commited and pushed to that git repo whenever you run make, make update or make config.
• Introduction - HomelabOS — Ansible templates out the HomelabOS config file using Jinja2 templating, which is then used to deploy HomelabOS itself.
• sanoid for ZFS Snapshots — Policy-driven snapshot management and replication tools. Using ZFS for underlying next-gen storage.

Plus our favorite travel router with WireGuard built in, and Chris kicks off Project Off-Grid. Meanwhile, Alex adopts proprietary software.

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• 5.11 Taclite Trousers — Constructed using premium polyester and cotton mechanical stretch Taclite ripstop fabric with a triple-stitching built, this pair of pants is sturdy and flexible to ensure maximum performance in the field.
• Amazon.com: Gigabit Travel AC Router OpenWrt — Slate Comes with Pre-installed VPN server and client functions in WireGuard and OpenVPN.
• GL-AR750S - The SLATE Our favorite travel router — The first dual-band Gigabit AC travel router. We upgrade Ethernet ports (totally 3) to Gigabit ports so that it get faster speed in your travel. We also added 128MB Nand Flash to provide dual flash for more storage and faster operation speed. It has a MicroSD (TF) slot which increase your storage space up to 128GB.
• Raneto - A free, open, simple Markdown powered Knowledgebase — Raneto is an open source Knowledgebase platform that uses static Markdown files to power your Knowledgebase.
• raneto - Docker Hub
• SmokePing — SmokePing keeps track of your network latency.
• smokeping - Docker Hub
• Find the Containers Chris Uses
• Migrate qcow2 images from KVM to VMWare — I recently switched from Proxmox to ESXI for my primary Hypervisor due to better support for automation tools like Ansible and Terraform plus better integrations with Red Hat Satellite.
• Gotchas when migrating Fedora qcow2 images to vmware — My issue was that the initramfs didn't contain the necessary drivers for the emulated hardware and as such the VM refused to boot except into emergency mode.