The podcast discusses the risks and insecurities of voice commands and integrating technology, switching from Plex to Jellyfin for media downloads, advantages of ED 25519 SSH keys and introduction to Tail Scale, setting up and organizing AudioBookshelf app with TailScale, editing and managing PDFs with a locally hosted web service, exploring Lube Log and service records, a privacy-focused note-taking app called memos, home automation solutions and experiences, productivity gurus, cable management, and sponsor mention, and a discussion on sponsorships, advertising, and upcoming conferences.
Memos is a self-hostable note-taking web app that prioritizes privacy and offers markdown support.
Obsidian Live Sync enables instant syncing between devices, supporting merging conflicts and seamless synchronization across platforms.
Tail Scale provides fast and private networking, eliminating the need for reverse proxies and allowing for fundamental changes in networking architecture.
Deep dives
Memos: A Privacy-Focused Note-Taking Service
Memos is a lightweight note-taking web app that prioritizes privacy. It offers a simple and clean interface, markdown support, and the ability to search notes by date, title, or hashtags. Users can attach pictures and mark notes as private, shared, or public. Memos is open-source and self-hostable, making it a viable alternative to services like Apple Notes.
Obsidian Live Sync: Instant Syncing Between Devices
Obsidian Live Sync is a feature within the popular note-taking app Obsidian that allows for instant syncing between devices. It supports merging conflicts before overwriting and works across iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS. Users can have multiple vaults and enjoy seamless synchronization across devices.
Masa Mini Split Controller: HomeKit Integration
The Masa Mini Split Controller is a home automation device that provides HomeKit integration for mini-split air conditioning units. It offers physical local control, displays temperature on the screen, and integrates smoothly with home assistant. Users have reported reliable performance and appreciate its compatibility with various platforms.
Tail Scale: Secure and Programmable Networking Solution
Tail Scale is a networking solution that offers fast and private connectivity between devices and services, regardless of their location. It is built on top of WireGuard's noise encryption and offers programmable networking. With Tail Scale, users can easily connect to services on their Tail Net by simply using the name of the server, without the need to set search domains or specify domains. Tail Scale goes beyond being a VPN and allows for fundamental changes in networking architecture, eliminating the need for reverse proxies or inbound ports. It provides secure and private networking by default, making it a game-changing solution for self-hosting.
Audio Bookshelf and Tail Scale Integration
Audio Bookshelf is a Docker container that simplifies the organization and management of audio books. By integrating it with Tail Scale, it becomes even more convenient and accessible. By setting up a Tail Scale service container and connecting the Audio Bookshelf container to it, the setup is simplified and no longer requires a reverse proxy. This enables easy access to the Audio Bookshelf app through a URL, without the need for complex networking configurations. With Tail Scale, multiple containers and applications, including Audio Bookshelf, VS Code Studio, and Jellyfin, can operate directly on the Tail Net, offering improved accessibility and centralized resource access across multiple locations.
🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 is out with a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.
Using the occ command — Nextcloud’s occ command (origins from “ownCloud Console”) is Nextcloud’s command-line interface. You can perform many common server operations with occ, such as installing and upgrading Nextcloud, manage users, encryption, passwords, LDAP setting, and more.
Jellystat — Jellystat is a free and open source Statistics App for Jellyfin
OpenSSH: Release Notes — This release contains fixes for a newly-discovered weakness in the SSH transport protocol, a logic error relating to constrained PKCS#11 keys in ssh-agent(1) and countermeasures for programs that invoke
ssh(1) with user or hostnames containing invalid characters.
audiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
Stirling-PDF: locally hosted web application — This is a powerful locally hosted web based PDF manipulation tool using docker that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files, such as splitting merging, converting, reorganizing, adding images, rotating, compressing, and more. This locally hosted web application started as a 100% ChatGPT-made application and has evolved to include a wide range of features to handle all your PDF needs.
Traefik 101 Guide - Perfect Media Server — In this article we will be discussing reverse proxies, how they will enable you to securely expose webapps running on your LAN to the outside world, and how to automate issuing TLS (the artist formerly known as SSL) certificates using Let's Encrypt, Traefik, Cloudflare and Namecheap.
