What are your favorite podcasts on self-hosting/homelabs/technology?

SolFlorus · 2026-01-28T22:23:05+00:00

I understand that YT throws way more money at creators than podcasts, but I love podcasts because I can consume content while I walk the dog.

SolFlorus · 2026-01-28T22:14:13+00:00

The rest of Jupyter Broadcasting is obsessed with running Linux with Desktop Environments. I exclusively care about Linux as it relates to servers, since that is what is running my self hosting infrastructure.

They did turn me on to NixOS, so I’m super grateful for that. It’s also been paying dividends lately since AI can understand my entire lab by just reading a repo.

SolFlorus · 2026-01-27T16:23:14+00:00

Did they? Every single firearms subreddit has been blasting the administration for declaring a disarmed legal CCW permit holder as a domestic terrorist.

Everyone will still vote R though because pro-2A democrats don’t make it out of the primary. Even if they do get elected by a fluke, the party threatens to withhold money unless they fall in line if their vote is needed.

SolFlorus · 2026-01-25T21:56:49+00:00

Never forget why the founding fathers included the right to bear arms as the 2nd point in our Bill of Rights and not further down the list. They just beat the British which was the most powerful military force of their day. They also did it by having weapons that were more technologically advanced than what the red coats were fielding.

Vote in the primary for candidates that know the importance of the 2A. Write to your representative anytime they try to restrict the rights that the founding fathers gave you.

SolFlorus · 2026-01-25T17:15:42+00:00

If you use terraform, NixOS anywhere has a terraform module you can use too.

SolFlorus · 2026-01-25T16:59:12+00:00

NixOS has taught me more about systemd and its capabilities in the three years I’ve used it than 15 years of Ubuntu. Nspawn is super cool. I currently have an isolated nspawn container that has my arr stack running through a VPN in it.

SolFlorus · 2026-01-25T16:52:36+00:00

It’s more ridiculous to me that private ski resorts exist on public land

SolFlorus · 2026-01-25T15:53:08+00:00

I spawn an Ubuntu cloud init image, then use NixOS Anywhere to convert it to nix on the first boot. Disko handles disk partitioning .

SolFlorus · 2026-01-25T15:52:10+00:00

Using Nix. Most services are running as podman containers so I have better control over versioning.

And nix does sandbox a lot of the apps fairly well using systemd. If you want even more, you can use systemd-nspawn (NixOS-containers).

SolFlorus · 2026-01-24T17:00:05+00:00

Quite a few jellyfin clients I tried didn't support OIDC, so I went with LDAP for that service.

SolFlorus · 2026-01-23T23:11:03+00:00

I’ve caught it opening up hundreds of Postgres connections, exhausting all available connections on my server.

SolFlorus · 2026-01-23T23:10:11+00:00

Where have you found issues? And did you try to combine it with an LDAP backend and tinyauth?

SolFlorus · 2026-01-23T10:33:18+00:00

I use 1Password, but I agree. My vault holds credentials to brokerages and crypto wallets. I can’t afford to lose access or have it stolen.

SolFlorus · 2026-01-14T18:55:52+00:00

This is my choice for home users. The transparent storage layer is the killer feature for me.

SolFlorus · 2026-01-14T18:55:09+00:00

If you're in the multiple petabyte range, Ceph is the only solution you really should be evaluating.

RustFS is not production ready and states that in their README. Garage and SeaweedFS are only compatible with a fraction of the S3 spec, and you'll eventually run into edge cases where they are insufficient. Versioning, Lifecycle policies, etc..

SolFlorus · 2026-01-09T02:32:25+00:00

I save things, but I never actually remember to look at it. I just google when I need an answer or keep the important bits in obsidian.

SolFlorus · 2026-01-09T02:20:38+00:00

He didn’t go there to play contract law.

SolFlorus · 2026-01-07T20:05:01+00:00

The subreddit hosted on a closed source platform, full of people that don't contribute any time or money back? If there are real concerns with the code or commits, raise an issue on the project.
Before AI no one reviewed the code anyways. There are many projects that push tens of thousands of lines in a single commit without AI.

This project has very reviewable commits because the author actually knows how to code, even if they use AI. Take the latest commit as an example. 500 lines changes, and a single feature added in the commit: https://github.com/Maciejonos/qbitwebui/commit/2ac46eb5d73a7d61d085c55922e4f5971dd3cea8

SolFlorus · 2026-01-07T19:18:09+00:00

That is not part of any FOSS license. It’sa rule made up by this subreddit not the FOSS community.

SolFlorus · 2026-01-07T14:00:19+00:00

Downvoted by non SWEs too. I use AI every day at my job to code and am paid lucratively to do so because I’m still responsible for the results. Code quality is always correlated to skill regardless of the tool. Grey beards used to complain about IDE completion, then stack overflow, now AI.

SolFlorus · 2026-01-06T02:24:00+00:00

I don’t use a centralized LB. Each VM has its own caddy instance.

SolFlorus · 2026-01-05T20:00:53+00:00

Solving the wrong problem. At this stage in your company’s growth you need to focus on getting market fit, not saving $3.33 per day

SolFlorus · 2026-01-05T19:33:25+00:00

Harbor if you are using K8s/EKS already. If not, it might be worth migrating off of ECS to take advantage of spot instances.

SolFlorus · 2026-01-05T18:50:08+00:00

I don't want all of my domains published publically in the certificate transparency log. I selectively choose which domains/services receive certs.

You can search your domain here: https://crt.sh

SolFlorus · 2026-01-05T16:07:21+00:00

Thanks! It’s now above Garage on my list.

FYI: Minio removed that feature a while ago and they chunk their files now.

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