I think for matrix to be usable in a homelab setting, Matrix needs to enable a way to handle these huge data storage with prune or something similar.

I found snikket to be quite decent, give it a whirl.

Awesome <3

If you need feedback, testing etc. on this feature, I’m happy to help. Just pm me and I’ll give you my github account.

This is really cool. Happy that you included the comments, as I find them often quite insightful. Look forward to spin this up and try it.

Edit: I know this is really hard to design and implement, but is it possible to bring in certain amount of child comments as-well? E.g., past a certain vote threshold or only X child comments deep. This might be a requirement that want to “move” the social media platform into the RSS feeder, but I want to entertain the idea.

There are so many monitoring tools with various degrees of complicated setup / configuration or the amount of information you get. And honestly, I’ve looked into various tools: checkmk, monit, Prometheus… And realised that I rarely look into that information anyway. Of all “fancy” tools, I liked the ease of Netdata to set up and the amount of information that you get. However, beware that their in the process to make their free / homelad offering worse. I’ve been eyeing beszel and don’t forget CLI based tools that are avaible such as atop, btop, htop or glances.

If you want to delve deeper into the rabbit hole of monitoring, I can recommend you to read this article below: https://matduggan.com/were-all-doing-metrics-wrong/

I’ve tried different approaches with fail2ban, crowdsec, VPNs, etc. What I settled on is to divide the data of my services in two categories: confidential and “I can live with it leaking”.

The ones that host confidential data is behind a VPN and has some basic monitoring on them.

The ones that are out in the public are behind a WAF from cloudflare with pretty restrictive rules.

Yes, cloudflare suck etc., but the value of stopping potential attacks before they reach your services is hard to match.

Just keep in mind: you need layers of different security measures to protect your services (such as backups, control of network traffic, monitoring and detection, and so on).

I like this thread :-)

I have just checked off a long standing item in my backlog: implementing OIDC on at least two apps. I’ve used a remote keycloak instance for authention for my household and so far so good. Now I’ll try to understand the configurations a little better before take on other items on my backlog.

I found the UI to be horrendous, and managing tags was very painful. During the time I was paying for the cloud-service, there wasn’t any noticable development of the web-app, so I stopped using it. Mind you, this was pre-pandemic and things might have changed since then.

I’m really fond of readeck. After being dissapointed with Pocket and Wallabag, I went with omnivore until they pulled a skiff. Out of all the FOSS read-it-later solutions - it was a very even tie between Shiori and readeck, and I went with the latter since it supports highlights.

I was also eyeing this, but wanted to use another provider than openAI or ollama. So I’ll wait until that’s implemented.

Never heard of go-proxy, seems like it will fit my needs well as I only use Caddy for rev-proxying.

Thanks for the awesome blog!

I used freshrss for quite some time, but the themes always looked a bit “off” for me. Went to miniflux and its awesome in its minimalism.

Have you tried a low-code database, such as nocodb? I tried satisfy my need for structures data that way and it works for simple usecases. There are formulas too, but they (like spreadsheets) require some knowledge to set up.

I was a pocketcast user for years, switched to antennapod a few months ago. Here’s what’s bothering me:

• Antennapod has a weird separation between new episodes (inbox) and what you’re listening to now (queue). PC has that abstracted away where you only have to check one place for your podcasts.
• There is no simple service to sync your subscriptions and listen progress. Gpoddersync is basically abandoned and the protocol lacks features. Hopefully this will change with openpodcastAPI, but they haven’t managed to secure funding yet.
• I’ve been spoilt by having a server doing the heavy lifting of refreshing my podcasts. It’s a minor annoyance that I need to wait approx. 1.5 second per feed to refresh. It’s just the way it is.

There are also things that antennapod does better:

• chapters actually works in AP.
• episode pictures also works in AP, PC only showed the static image of the feed.
• search is just as good as PC.
• its FOSS and hopefully resistant to enshittification (unless all producers go into a closed ecosystem like Spotify tried with their recent purchases of pod-studios).

Best of luck from another pod-nerd.