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Does any one have good resources for getting into self hosting Email? I prefer written resources over video ones this seems to be one of the better things I found: https://youtu.be/6SfXXtb-nHM

I know email hosting is a pain in the ass and I know there are out of the box solutions, I'm just bored and want to try.

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I work for a local club we have some rarly used Social Media accounts. But we have also the problem our head does work voluntary and some - like me and not only me - do not like facebook instagram or tiktok. But we have to work with these tools.

We need a selfhosting, web accessibility tool that allows a club to send posts to several social media services and allow also to manage comments social media independent.

In best case it made social media management that easy that I could get also a Fediverse account.

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Pretty wild video about how LLMs can find vulnerabilities.

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Hello everyone, I just wanted to introduce you to my newest project. Its a simple time-based priority queue for your chores!

I suppose its a very niche area, I just wanted to have some queue from which any member of my family can take one of the top most priority chores.

Also, it is (going to be) kinda my reference project so you may find some weird stuff like why the heck am I using liquibase 😀 Simply because I use it at work and I want to show it off in the future when I am sending my CV!

I make no promises for the future feature, but I would like to have chore categories (so multiple dashboards baby) and maybe a home assistant plugin (for smart displays).

Oh and one more thing, I did not use any LLM's to create this stuff. I think at some point I will have to make some project with AI to "improve" my CV, I am seeing it in way too many job descriptions, but I don't want to do it for the fun projects like this one.

Anyway, I hope you like it, feel free to tell me your opinion, even if it's just saying that my sense for UI esthetics sucks (oh boy I do not have that sense I know it) 😀

Oh and here is the repo https://codeberg.org/Tony4dev/chorizard

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Hi everyone

Ive recently become aware of the 1.111b class domains from xyz and decided to buy one. They have serveral purchasing options from either themselves, namecheap, dynadot, porkbun, godaddy. All of these sites have slightly different options and prices. I like the idea of buying a 10 year lease too, not all of the providers have that options

What im wondering

  1. Do i need WHOIS privacy?
  2. Do i need SSL support?
  3. What else should i know before committing to buying a domain
  4. Do i need to use my actual details when registering a site? I dont like the idea of anyone being able to look up my personal information just because I have a domain for a server (but perhaps thats just the price of admission)

Thank you for reading, this is my first time buying a domain and i want to make sure i do it properly

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I have tried Raspberry Pi to stream emulator games, but I had issues with bluetooth controller (latency problems), so I thought about pc game streaming to raspberry pi and bluetooth controller will paired with PC. Its all in close range.

Raspbi is connected to TV.

Thats my last attempt to make it all kinda wireless. If it fails, I will have to connect my PC to TV...

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We open sourced Voiden a few months ago: an offline API tool where API requests live as executable Markdown and are versioned in Git. We wanted to build something that combines the power and flexibility of Obsidian-style files with the simplicity of curl.

The basic idea of Voiden is that instead of being static forms, API requests are composed by using blocks (endpoint, auth, params, body). Blocks that you can add, reuse, override, and stitch together across files (more like functions than requests).

Most of the feedback, requests and contributions that we have gotten since Open Sourcing, have been around defining workflows, chaining requests, scripting them, and structuring everything in reusable .void files.

These are some of the key highlights that I wanted to share:

– Real scripting, (instead of sandboxes): In most API tools scripting lives in a constrained JS sandbox, an environment that doesn’t take advantage of powerful runtimes that might be available locally for a developer. The biggest limitation here is the assumption that the tool should define the runtime. Voiden runs fully locally, so this allows you to just run your scripts with actual runtimes (JS, Python, shell, with support for others being added).

– Multiple requests per file (mini workflows): Allowing multiple requests in a single .void file turned out to be surprisingly useful. Instead of scattering related requests, you can group them naturally: an order flow (create - pay - confirm), or a full CRUD cycle in one place. The file effectively becomes an executable flow: run one request, or the entire sequence end-to-end. And since Voiden is executable Markdown, docs and tests are in the same .void file that can be organised better, preventing duplication and drift.

– Stitch (composable workflows across files): Instead of a single large collection, workflows (“Stitch”) are built from .void files that you can combine across scenarios. You define small flows (auth, setup, CRUD, etc.) and stitch them together into larger workflows, without duplication. This is just the first version of this capability, we still have a lot to do here.

– Agents :The file-based, local-first model also works well with agents. Since Voiden has a built-in terminal and uses Markdown, we added “skills” so that Claude and Codex agents can work directly with .void files (using your own subscriptions).

We also published an SDK for community plugins, and made improvements to performance, reliability, and DX (keyboard-first), with careful attention to performance given the Electron base

Looking for feedback and suggestions.

Github : https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden

Download : https://voiden.md/download

Latest Lemmy discussion : https://lemmy.world/post/43922166

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Hey all, I would like to do some brainstorming here :) People use ticketing systems for a variety of purposes and I can relate with that, since those systems make organizing collective work load in groups, especially those who don't meet everyday in person, a lot easier.

There are lot of ticketing systems around and I really like some of them, such as zammad, e.g. In recent days I heard several people discussing different workflows for there community organizations or other civil projects, where ticket systems could really provide some help for them. The problem with all ticketing systems is, that non of them provides a real ability for end-to-end encrypted (e2ee) communication, which apparently was a proper concern.

The main problem here is, that real e2ee has to be implemented via a client (desktop) app. Yes, zammad also provides some "support for pgp", but the problem here is, that the pgp keys are stored on the server itself. So when the server gets compromised, the attacker will be able to just take the (d)encryption keys alongside with the actual encrypted messages. This obviously breaks the fundamental idea of e2ee, not having to trust the server itself for data confidentiality.

Thats why I think it needs a client side solution for this. Now I think there are two options here:

  1. Build a client app for an existing ticketing system
  2. Build a server applications, that can be talked to through existing (maybe modified) mail clients

I see pros and cons for both here. Pros:

  1. Building a client app for an existing ticketing service saves one the time to reinvent all the complex ticketing logic
  2. I don't know anything about coding frontends (GUI's, javascript, etc), I could just take an existing client

Cons:

  1. See Pro for 2.
  2. See Pro for 1.

Since I am not a software developer, I thought I'll ask around here for some thoughts, opinions and tips :)

Talking about taking/forking/using ether an existing client or server app, I would only considers a popular/proven and not some edge products. Thanks, if you made it all the way down here :)

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Self-hosting adjacent, but you have to watch your jellyfin content somewhere, or connect to your audiobook store... Or even music.. what do you guys use for music?

Anyway, Amazon's firetv stick had a great remote. But sideloading on it comes to an end and it needs replacing. What do you guys have? Anything with a good remote and UI?

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45721955

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45721951

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45721900

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45721589

Hi All, It has been while,

Dograh is an open-source, self-hostable voice AI agent platform. Think n8n but for phone calls. Visual workflow builder, inbound and outbound calling, bring your own LLM, STT, and TTS.

GitHub: https://github.com/dograh-hq/dograh

Setup

one command with Docker, about 2 minutes. No signup or API keys needed to get started:

What is new

Pre-call data fetch. Hit your CRM, ERP, or any HTTP endpoint during call setup and inject the response into your prompts. The agent greets the caller by name, references their account status, skips the "can I get your customer ID" step. Configure a POST endpoint in the Start Call node - API key, bearer, basic, or custom header auth supported. 10-second timeout; if the endpoint fails, the call continues without the extra context. Reference fetched values anywhere in prompts with {{customer_name}} syntax.

Pre-recorded voice mixing. Drop in actual human recordings for the predictable parts - greetings, confirmations, hold messages - and let TTS handle only what needs to be dynamic. The greeting sounds human because it is. Latency goes down, TTS costs go down.

Speech-to-speech via Gemini 3.1 Flash Live. One single streaming connection replaces the separate STT, LLM, and TTS hops. Turn response latency drops noticeably and the conversations feel more natural.

Post-call QA with sentiment analysis and miscommunication detection. Full per-turn call traces via Langfuse.

Tool calls, knowledge base, variable extraction are all there too.

What is coming

Real-time noise separation for live call streams - still the thing I most want to solve after last week's thread. BSD-2 licensed.

GitHub: https://github.com/dograh-hq/dograh

Special thanks to this community that supported me with my last post ❤️

Happy to get feedback and contributors. A star would mean a lot


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I'm putting together a bunch of my old PC parts to get a home server going, and i was wondering what the best OS would be. I have Mint installed on it currently, but I'm not sure thats the best option so I'm looking for alternatives.

I'm definitely a Linux novice, so I dont want anything super complicated. I was thinking of using Debian since it seems decent, but I really know nothing about the different distros and would appreciate a good starting point if anything

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I have a Syn DS 220+ 2Gb RAM and a GmkTec miniPC with Intel N100, 16 GB DDR4 running Proxmox V8.4...

NAS services:

  • Synology Office + calendar
  • Restic
  • Rsync

Proxmox services:

  • piHole
  • Jellyfin + related services
  • Docker with less than 5 stacks.

The miniPC is at its limits with NVME and sometimes even piHole hits a snag.

Recently I finished helping a friend setup TrueNAS 25.04 and I love it.

I could get my hands on a SFF PC at 180$ and some 64 GB DDR4 ECC with 90$.

I would like to also host Forgejo and maybe the frontend of some small website. Ideally, I'd like to setup Kerberos for NFS sharing too and with Synology that failed spectacularly.

So, after all this context, would you advise me to migrate from Syn+Nucbox to TrueNAS or not? What is your reasoning?

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Trying to figure it out and work on extensions but it seems their own plugins can’t work on your server as extensions…?

Also, would be curious to hear of anyone else’s TRMNL experiences (beside the cringe lord CEO).

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Self-hosted hosting control panel using Cloudflare Zero Trust Tunnels to securely route multiple domains from a single machine, even on a residential ISP without opening firewall ports. Includes SSL, Multi-PHP, PHPMA, DB, DNS, Backups, WireGuard management and more.

https://inetpanel.info/

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Hi there, i have a few questions about GL-Mt3000 and Openwrt.

Context Wall fell free to skip:

spoilerI bought a year ago a Gl-Mt3000 and have been using it as a home router since then.

It was fantastic, since the interface is really easy, i put all my iot on a guest network, my family cellphones on another and activated Adguardhome with little knowledge needed.

Now, i wanted to start learning a bit more, so i decided to host the dns sinkhole (Adguard Home) by myself on my main network.

I more or less got it working, it shouted a few errors but it worked. My problem is that the iot devices on the guest network can't access it.

Tinkering with the gl-inet interface i was able to proxy all dns request to the Adguard server, but since they are redirected from the router i lose the statistics since every query appears as if it was done by the router itself.

From what i read, there are ways to make the udp 53 port reach the guest network but it flew a bit over my head, and i don't know how touching luci will mess with the gl-inet interface.

Questions:

Is there any benefit to host AdguardHome outside the router? I did it to learn, but i don't know if it has any advantages.

I plan to learn openwrt and flash the router to vanilla openwrt. My reasons are that:

  • I feel restricted by the gl-inet interface.
  • Gl-inet doesn't seem to update too frequently their firmware.
  • I'm worried their custom software will cause problems if i tinker Luci too much.
  • I think it will easier to learn the vanilla version than a custom version.

Does all of this make sense? Do you think is worth to spend time on this?

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New release: Newspipe 11.3.0 🚀

Security & privacy take the spotlight in this version:

  • Fixed multiple XSS and SSRF vulnerabilities (thanks fyrepaw13 🙌)
  • Safer API with stricter field validation and sanitization
  • State-changing routes now protected with POST + CSRF tokens
  • More privacy-friendly bookmarks page

Plus UX improvements across bookmarks, forms, and charts.

https://github.com/cedricbonhomme/newspipe

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I built ActuFeed because I wanted a simple, distraction-free way to follow exactly the news sources I care about — without algorithms, ads, or tracking.

Key features:

  • Fully customizable tabs and feeds (add any RSS or website) Smooth bilingual interface
  • Clean reading experience optimized for desktop (works on mobile too)
  • Very lightweight and easy to self-host with Docker
  • No account required

You can try it instantly here: → https://actufeed.com/

GitHub repo (open source + Docker): https://github.com/drenlia/actufeed

Would love your feedback or suggestions!

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A very jovial greeting to all,

About 20 minutes ago, I started the build for Hubzilla 11.2; as usual, it will be available for all to enjoy, and update their own instances after about an hour or so, so please don't update until then.

If you're curious about the code, you are most welcome to check out the Hubzilla code at: https://framagit.org/hubzilla/core/-/releases

and, of course, the docker image code at: https://github.com/dhitchenor/hubzilla

Questions, issues and PRs are all welcome; I'm looking forward to speaking with you.

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نُشر تبادليًا من: https://hexbear.net/post/8061686

We have been without support for over five days. My children and I are struggling, and we desperately need help to survive. Every little donation can make a huge difference in our lives.

💙 Please, do not forget us. Your kindness can bring hope, food, and safety to my family.

Donate here: https://gofund.me/00439328

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I upgraded from a thinkpad x220, i5 2520M and 4gb of ram to my old desktop computer, with a FX6300, 16gb of ram and a GT 1030.

I already run my own mbin instance in there (the reason for the upgrade), but as it's a lot faster than the instance needs it to be, I would like to host other stuff too, mainly to Brazil.

I want to host things like searxng, invidious, maybe redlib too, but idk about other services. As there's the GPU in there, there could be some transcoding too.

Maybe a mixture of private and public services.

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Hi guys, I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on called xSpa. It's an implementation of Single Packet Authorization that works at the XDP level.

I built this because I wanted something faster and more DDoS-resilient than traditional port-knocking or SPA tools that rely on userspace processing or iptables. Here, the "drop-all" logic happens right at the driver level.

Key bits:

L1 verification (SipHash) in kernel space.

L2 (ChaCha20-Poly1305) in Go userspace.

It uses the eBPF ring buffer for communication.

This is my first Go project and my first shot at Open Source. I’m still a bit of a noob when it comes to kernel-level programming, so I’d love to get some feedback on the architecture and security. If anyone has time to check the code, I’d love to hear your thoughts on how to make it better.

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نُشر تبادليًا من: https://hexbear.net/post/7952295

نُشر تبادليًا من: https://hexbear.net/post/7952294

نُشر تبادليًا من: https://hexbear.net/post/7952199

I am Abeer, a mother of four children from Gaza. We went through very hard times and lost everything because of the war. These days we are simply trying to survive and meet the most basic needs.

Today we only need $100 so I can buy some essential things for my children like food and milk.

Any help, even a small donation, can make a big difference for us. And if you cannot donate, please share our story so it can reach someone who might be able to help Link in bio or message me privately. 🙏💔🇵🇸

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