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Steam Users: Understanding and Responding to the Recent Data Leak
Earlier this week, data purportedly containing 89 million Steam users’ phone numbers and one-time SMS authentication codes was listed for sale on the dark web, though Valve confirms its own systems were never breached and Twilio likewise reports no compromise on its end. But what must WE as users do?
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Go Paper-Free! Your Guide to Organizing Documents with Hosting Paperless-ngx at Home
Is your desk buried under piles of paper? Do you spend ages digging through folders (both physical and digital) to find that one important document? We have all been there. But imagine a service that can archive, read and tag your documents automatically before storing them for you. Imagine hosting that service yourself. Welcome Paperless-ngx
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Build Your Homelab: 44 – Updating Your Docker Container Easily (And Automatically)
Any homelab, be it big or small, mature or starting out, will have quote a few Docker containers running. Today we will look at keeping these containers up to date via Portainer by using Watchtower.
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Build Your Homelab: 43 – Updating Existing Helper-Scripts Containers
Any growing homelab will surely start to notice updates for the services they are running. Let’s see how easy it is to update services that were installed with the help of helper-scripts.com.
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Take Control of Your Music: Your Guide to Navidrome and Self-Hosting
As we continue to try to move all our services to self-hosting, one of the most popular paid services is music streaming. Let’s take a look at a self-hosted music streaming solution.
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Node-RED: Your Friendly Guide to Visual Automation (and How It’s Different!)
Building complex automated workflows does not need to be difficult, all you need is the right set of tools. Node-RED is the perfect fit for an easy and intuitive way to automate a lot of your smart home.
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New Raspberry Pi OS Rolls Out: A Look at the Latest Features and What’s Next!
Raspberry Pi has released an exciting update to their Operating System. With Debian Trixie releasing later this year, this will be the last update on Debian Bookworm. Let’s take a look at what this means.
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What’s the Buzz About Gemini 2.5 Pro? A Simple Explanation
Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro have officially launched and the buzz is real. But what does this release mean and what makes Gemini 2.5 Pro different from other models?
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Build Your Homelab: 42 – Configure Your Turnkey Nextcloud
Now that we have a successfully installed a VM with Turnkey Linux’s Nextcloud, we can get it set up. While the helper scripts simplified the process, the installation itself presented a workflow notably different from the stock-standard VM (or LXC) deployments we typically handle in our Proxmox environment. However, Nextcloud is a fantastic solution to…
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Build Your Homelab: 41 – NextCloud VM In Proxmox
Installing Nextcloud in our Proxmox environment is a bit more hands-on that our normal installs we are going to be using multiple sources to make our lives easier.
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Build Your Homelab: 40 – Configure Your Self-Hosted Immich
Now that Immich is running in a separate LXC with a load of space, let’s start using it by setting up a reserve proxy and access rules.
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Build Your Homelab: 39 – Installing Immich In Proxmox
Let’s start saving come money with a service that the majority of smartphone users have: a service that backs up their photos and videos to the cloud. This is something that is very each to self-host with the help of Immich.
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Build Your Dream Resume With Reactive Resume – A Self-Hosted Wonder
If you have ever wanted to properly show off your technical skills to a prospective employer, you need a fantastic resume. Reactive Resume will make you stand out from the rest of the crowd.
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Nextcloud vs. Immich: Which Self-Hosted Option Is Best For Mobile Phone Photo Backups?
In today’s privacy‑conscious age, self‑hosting your photo backups offers unparalleled control, security, and cost savings. Two standout open‑source solutions are Nextcloud and Immich: let’s compare the two options and see which would work best for your use case.
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Build Your Homelab: 38 – Access Plant-it From The Web
Let’s add a reverse proxy so that we can access Plant-it when we are not connected to our home network and secure it with SSL
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Build Your Homelab: 37 – Configuring Plant-it
After installing a new Plant-it server, there is still quite a few things we need to get done before our Plant-it service will be secure and useful. Let’s take a look at the configuration of Plant-it.
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Build Your Homelab: 36 – Plant-it in Docker With Portainer
Using Portainer, it is very easy to install Plant-it in our Docker environment. If you prefer to rather have it in an existing environment in stead of creating another LXC, the install is very straightforward and easy.
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Build Your Homelab: 35 – Manage Your Flaura: Plant-it In An LXC Container
For all the green fingered users out there, but probably more so those that don’t quote have that magic touch with plants – let’s install the magic wand called Plant-it in our homelab
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Take Your Surveillance Footage Out Of The Cloud With Frigate
In this article, we’ll introduce Frigate NVR – a free, open-source, locally-hosted network video recorder with built-in AI-powered object detection.
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The Cerebro Clusterboard – Immense Processing Power For Your SBCs
The Cerebro Clusterboard is an upcoming modular “motherboard” designed to host up to four interchangeable compute modules—such as Raspberry Pi CM4/CM5, NVIDIA Jetson NX, or Radxa CM5—on a single micro-ATX/1U rack form factor
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How Image Upscaling Is Giving Your Gaming Rig More Performance
In modern gaming, GPU upscaling technologies allow graphics cards to render at lower resolutions and then intelligently scale images up to higher resolutions, boosting performance without sacrificing visual quality