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David J. Atkinson

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  • Presenting ilias, yet another dashboard because obviously the world needed one more

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  • @altphoto @selfhosted This is essentially what Pi-Hole does. It handles your DNS queries and blocks any that you want. It automatically updates blocklists from a variety of sources available. Some IPs are trackers, advertisers, malware, phishing and other notorious or otherwise obnoxious. You decide. Works great. I have about 1.7 million IP addresses blocked, but only a couple thousand or so show up on any day. Amounts to between 5% and 8% of my total traffic. I cannot fully express my joy with the FREE software. I have a dedicated Raspberry Pi 4B on my network for this purpose, but it can run on almost any Linux variant. #RPi #homelab #DNS #PiHole

  • Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026)

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  • @irmadlad This what I want too. It’s farther down my to-do list, but I’ll be sure to let you know if I discover anything. Good luck!

  • Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026)

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  • Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps

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  • @Dylancyclone @selfhosted This looks very useful. I will study your docs and see if it’s right for me. Thanks for sharing!

  • What's the laziest way to create a website that looks really nice and is maintainable?

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  • Self-hosting in 2026 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure

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  • @phant Pi-hole is super easy to set up and easy to build on. It’s been very robust for me and also eye-opening due to the excellent UI. About 5% of the network traffic in my house is now blocked. Thousands of DNS requests per day. Most of that is trackers. Apps and “smart” devices are very determined to phone home so you’ll have to block many of these domains manually as they show up. Be forewarned, some apps and web sites will simply stop working if you block their tracking and other info gathering on your network. Luckily, there is good #FOSS to substitute.

  • I didn't want to use AI, so I made something that detects it!

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  • What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website?

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  • @potatopotato @selfhosted Black Ice exists. Software is hand-to-hand combat. The most #cyberpunk sentence I’ve read today:

    “There are also various poison and tarpit systems which will serve scrapers infinite garbage text or data designed to aggressively corrupt the models they’re training. “

  • Interoperability between self-hosted services

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  • Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

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  • Beyond Pi-Hole

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  • @q7mJI7tk1 I have #Pihole and #unbound both running on an #RPi4 for over a year. Solid as a rock although new domain lookups take much longer the first time. After that they’re cached. About 6.5 to 7.5% of the #DNS queries get blocked. I’m super happy with the setup.HomeAutomation

  • DietPi is great!

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  • Jellyfin over the internet

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  • @EncryptKeeper That’s my experience. Zombied home computers are big business. The networks are thousands of computers. I had a hacker zombie my printer(!) maybe via an online fax connection and it/they then proceeded to attack everything else on my network. One older machine succumbed before I could lock everything down.

  • Long-term feedback: SONOFF SNZB-02D humidity/temperature sensor

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  • @shortwavesurfer You are exactly right. I like the Third Reality vibration sensor because it gives you a nice ability to tweak the sensitivity. Also, in Home Assistant I use a helper to sample the sensor over a second or two and compute the median. This eliminates a lot of spurious detections. Like any detector, there is always a tradeoff between false alarms and missed detections. This sensor has a nice sweet spot that is not hard to dial in.

  • Long-term feedback: SONOFF SNZB-02D humidity/temperature sensor

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  • @shortwavesurfer I use a vibration sensor #3RVS01031Z by Third Reality, Inc (Zigbee) in my mailbox and it works great. Sometimes, a heavy rain will trigger it but generally it only signals that the door has been opened.

  • What is a self-hosted small LLM actually good for (<= 3B)

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  • @kattfisk That seems to imply that you cannot personally listen to or watch recordings that you have made in public. In doing so, you are abstracting personal details that you might have missed before, refreshing your memory, and so on. What is the material difference between you doing this without machine help versus with automation that makes it ethically problematic? What if a friend helped you, not a machine?

  • Finished my 10" rack (for now)

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  • @tofu It depends on your local power system. At my house, I see frequent under voltage conditions. Also, some devices are more tolerant than others. You’ll find power conditioning in pretty much all data centers.

  • Finished my 10" rack (for now)

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  • @tofu UPSs have some glitches, but the benefits of the power conditioning they do (the good ones) outweigh the trouble of the rare glitch. For example, reducing wear and tear on the electronics they power. Also, the performance of some electronics is highly sensitive to the quality of power provided (e.g., no under- or over-voltage conditions). I don’t rely on the UPS for surge protection. For that, I use upstream Tripp-Lite outlets.

  • Finished my 10" rack (for now)

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  • @tofu I like it. Your “for now” comment is on point; there is always more to do!

    For comparison, here is my 19” 15U rack , also a work in progress: PDU, ventilation, 16 port switch, 2U mount for up to 8 Raspberry PI s or NAS., and a 8x KVM HDMI/USB switch to connect the RPis to a small monitor, keyboard and mouse on top. I use one RPi for #HomeAssistant, another for home security cameras and other video, one for HomeBridge, one for Pi-Hole, and other for experimentation and testing. A UPS is in back. I Iove that the rack is on wheels because I frequently move it to get access to the back.HomeAutomation.

  • Your recommendation for smart plug

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  • @Bronzie I’m partial to the #Meross smart outlets outlets, model mss315 in particular. Zigbee set up is super easy, highly reliable, and you get good energy use data from each one that works out of the box. #HomeAutomation #HomeAssistant