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  1. How to make a popular toot in the Fediverse?

    That is simple, combine #3dPrinting, #GridFinity and #CatsOfMastodon

  2. Another question for you people from the information superhighway.

    I have a APC-1500 Smart UPS that I bought second hand for rather cheap. I bought for it two new 12V 20Ah lead acid batteries. I installed NUT and NUT-webGUI and here is how it looks like:

    That 7 minutes sounds rather short for such a low load? And yesterday I had my first real life test, the power was down for 2 minutes, and when it came back, the UPS reported battery level at 13%. And it charged the batteries from that 13% to full charge in less than two hours. Those numbers just don't look right.

    @homelab

    #ups #homelab

  3. New blog post!

    In which I show how I use Bunny Stream, Bunny CDN's video hosting and streaming service, to embed videos on my blog.

    I also talk how, if accepting the downsides, it can work as a simple alternative to PeerTube.

    https://stfn.pl/blog/95-bunny-cdn-video-streaming/

    #blog #video #europeanalternatives #peertube

  4. New blog post!

    I added human.json to my blog to show that I am indeed a human and not AI, and I am also vouching for others that they are of the human kind.

    It's a small step against the flood of AI generated sites, but I guess it's something?

    https://stfn.pl/blog/94-human-json/

    #humanjson #blog

  5. #BOINC World Community Grid is back! I got tasks from them and crunching them now

  6. NOT a new blog post!

    This time there is no new blog post, but I did a bit of spring cleaning and updates.

    I updated the About and /Uses pages, and added Projects and Talks.

    https://stfn.pl/about/
    https://stfn.pl/projects/
    https://stfn.pl/talks/
    https://stfn.pl/uses/

    #blog #webpage #uses

  7. In #BOINC news, I'm still crunching Einstein@Home, but I'm considering also going back to Asteroids@Home

  8. New blog post!

    A postmortem on how my VPS got infected with a crypto miner through, probably, a vulnerability in a docker container. And that has shown all things I have been doing wrong with administrating my server and self hosted services.

    With many thanks to @louis @agturcz and @cichy1173

    https://stfn.pl/blog/88-i-got-hacked/

    #blog #vps #selfhosting #umami

  9. Doing another crunch run for @einsteinathome

    Today it's BRP7 (Meerkat) tasks on the menu, my computer is searching for binary pulsar stars.

    If everything goes well, in two-three months I will update my server and my GPU, and then I will really burn through the tasks!

    #boinc

  10. I just realized I made a very serious omission when planning my future house.

    There will not be the right window to recreate that American Football album cover

    #midwestemo

  11. Ok Fedicians, what is your favourite #MidwestEmo album?

  12. I might at some point just get more solar panels, and build a solar-powered #BOINC machine/cluster. That would be fun

  13. in #BOINC news, @einsteinathome has started a new type of tasks, the Multi-Directional Gravitational Wave Search on O4 data (O4MD1), which runs on GPUs. On my 3060, a task takes around 5 minutes, but my BOINC machine is very CPU-bottlenecked when doing GPU calculations

  14. New blog post!

    Goodbye to corporate music streaming services.

    In which I talk how I no longer use Spotify, but buy music as audio files, store it in my self-hosted Nextcloud, and stream it from my NAS to my laptop and phone.

    Plus some millenial nostalgia memories.

    https://stfn.pl/blog/84-self-hosted-music-streaming/

    #homelab #selfhosted #nextcloud #streamingaudio #spotify

  15. Meanwhile in the #boinc world, it seems that Asteroids@Home is past the downtime and later technical issues, and has a lot of tasks to crunch, both CPU and GPU

    https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/home.php

  16. New blog post!

    In which I write about how I built a rack-mounted 2U NAS from easily available and sometimes second hand parts, and what obstacles I witnessed along the way.

    Did you know that even if something *technically* fits, it does not mean it fits in a way that allows it to work? Now I know that.

    https://stfn.pl/blog/82-2u-rack-mounted-server/

    #homelab #selfhosted #serverbuild

  17. Hey #enafore users. I use Enafore as the frontend for my #gotosocial instance, and lately the notifications feed stopped refreshing automatically. It used to work but now I have to manually refresh the tab to see new notifications. Anyone having a similar issue?

  18. Transmisja na żywo z opuszczenia ISS przez Sławosza i resztę ekipy Ignis na pokładzie Dragona

    youtube.com/watch?v=sTfHL_QOAz

    #Esa #ignis

  19. New blog post! :ggfun:

    A year has passed since my last State of the Homelab post, so it's time for an update.

    In this episode I talk how my homelab looks right now, what is the hardware, what I am running on it. NAS, ZFS, LXD, Docker, all those words. Also a bit on replacing a PSU for a more efficient one.

    https://stfn.pl/blog/77-state-of-homelab-in-june-2025/

    #blog #homelab #homelabbing #nas #zfs #lxd #docker

  20. New blog post!

    In which I once again talk about LXD. In this episode I migrate my monitoring services to LXD, move LXD storage to ZFS, and realize I have made a serious acoustic mistake.

    https://stfn.pl/blog/76-moving-more-to-lxd/

    #blog #homelab #lxd #grafana #zfs

  21. New blog post!

    In which I talk how I installed a self-hosted expense tracker, Actual Budget, using LXC.

    The twist is that Actual Budget requires HTTPS to run at all, so I added Tailscale with their provided certificates, allowing me to reach my self-hosted service from anywhere using a secure connection.

    https://stfn.pl/blog/75-actual-budget-lxc/

    #selfhosted #homelabbing #blog #lxc #tailscale

  22. @pluszysta #mzf kebab przywiózł Jan III Sobieskiego z odsieczy wiedeńskiej, a pizzę przywieziono z Ziemi Włoskiej do Polski

  23. Does anyone know what is happening to Pineboards?

    They used to sell Raspberry Pi 5 accessories, I have an NVME HAT from them.

    But their shop in unavailable now, and looks like it has been down since March (https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=384981)

    #pineboards #raspberrypi #raspberrypi5

  24. New blog post!

    This time a bit of this and that.

    I crunch Folding@Home.
    I (almost) finished moving my services from US servers.
    I add more self-hosted stuff.
    My instance (this one) federates with a lot of other Fediverse instances.

    https://stfn.pl/blog/73-updates-and-milestones/

    #blog #foldingathome #gotosocial

  25. New blog post!

    This time I talk how I am blocking ads and trackers from all my devices, including mobile phones. I do that using PiHole and Tailscale, and thanks to using Tailscale the whole setup process is very simple, any device I add to my private network gets adblocking automagically.

    https://stfn.pl/blog/72-pihole-tailscale/

    #blog #adblocking #tailscale #pihole #selfhostedapps #selfhosted

  26. Fellow Folding@Home crunchers, do you also get work units so rarely? I get maybe one CPU work unit per day

    #foldingathome

  27. Is there a reliable live update source about the #cosmos482 ?

  28. I also have a third VPS which I use solely as a DNS server with PiHole. Does it make sense to also merge that one and have pihole on the same server that will host my blog and GTS? Opinions?

    #pihole #dns #selfhostedapps

  29. I got a badge in World Community Grid for crunching Africa Rainfall project for 14 cpu-thread-days. Another badge to my slowly growing collection.

    "The Africa Rainfall Project (ARP) aims to simulate rainstorms in sub-Saharan Africa to improve regional weather forecasts."

  30. Na ćwiterku był kiedyś hasztag #cebulaDeal, może warto go tutaj wprowadzić? Łapcie dwa kody promocyjne, mi nie potrzebne

  31. Another failed attempt at . Not sure what happened, but my mount, an iOptron GEM28, will not track anymore. Slewing works fine, but guiding does not. Calibration fails both in PHD2 and in EKOS. Maybe it's backslash, maybe communication errors, maybe something else. I am so frustrated right now. I tried different cables etc. The balancing is perfect. I'm running out of options.

  32. New blog post!

    In which I talk about Pinchflat, a self-hosted tool to automate downloading videos from Youtube, both old and ones, and new as they are released.

    There's also a comparison between Pinchflat and Metube, two tools for downloading YT videos.

    stfn.pl/blog/45-archiving-yout

  33. I finally bought an 18650 charger, something I've been planning for a long time

  34. Hey people, if you are looking for some cool looking and sustainably, responsibly made clothes and accessories, there is this Polish small clothing company, Lewacka Szmata that could use some financial help right now:

    lewackaszmata.pl/

  35. Scott Manley (I really wish he was here) delivered a great summary of the life of Ingenuity. Did you know that the smol chopper was "the first vehicle to have a flight delayed due to weather on another planet"? Now we know.

    youtube.com/watch?v=cIrX6gpUxyw

  36. I finally worked out out a way how to use with both local access, and via VPN.

    Dashy allows to create subpages, and so right now I have a main page with links pointing locally (192.168.0.XXX), and a subpage with links pointing at the VPN IP of my homelab. This way I can easily switch between dashboards.

    This has been bugging me for some time, I am so happy to find a clean solution.

    It's described in the docs how to make subpages: dashy.to/docs/pages-and-sectio

  37. OK, I went through the release notes I am loving the GeneratedField option and being able to set SQL-level defaults in the db. Both will be useful.

  38. I finished the first chapter of the fast.ai course on Machine Learning, and I am amazed! It's incredible how easy now people without a technical background (aka me) can start diving into ML and actually doing something cool, like creating an image recognition script. By following the Jupyter Notebook code in the course I created a script to differentiate between images of birds and forests, and later on I modified it to recognize Airbus A320 vs Boeing 737 :D

  39. I'm looking for alternatives. I usually don't care much about UX/UI, but airsonic's user interface is so unbearably ugly and counterintuitive, that I would love to try something else.