What’s up, selfhosters? After accidently posting this in !solarpunk@slrpnk.net last week, here’s a new try. I usually post these in !selfhosted@lemmy.world but want to spread a bit to not concentrate on the mega instance too much.
Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found. Maybe even solarpunk related? In the last thread, someone posted their bird-listening setup, which sounded super cool.
I set up Pinepods recently, which is a selfhosted podcast player with web interface and device sync. I’ve been looking for a selfhosted pocket casts for years and was super excited to see Pinepods becoming a thing and am enjoying it since setting it up. The dev has also been asking for beta testers for mobile apps recently.
I’ve decided to stop using Podman for the moment since it was not allowing me internet to access my services. I’ll try again later when the motivation comes back.
Other than that, I’ve been slowly working on security, reliability and maintenance. For the moment I am happy with my device’s own security which I just finished last week. If I need extra security at this point, it will most likely be from a third party service but I don’t intend on having a known presence so I may get by just being unknown and obscure.
Ddclient on Alpine linux works very strangely so I made a script to check that it’s still updating my IP address and force restart it if necessary. Combined it with my targetted backups script to make the beginning of a maintenance script.
The last two steps are to setup an IRC client + IRC bouncer and a Snikket service and I’ll be happy. Anything I add after that is simply a bonus I can tinker with for fun but I’m looking forward writing for my blog without technical issues floating in the back of my mind.
Why not Biboumi as an IRC bouncer?
I was planning on using weechat and the relay extension for a simple, all-in-one package. Currently I just use IRC for tech support, especially with Alpine linux.
Biboumi seems like a good idea if I wanted to set up a server and I’ll keep it bookmarked. I’m still back and forth about an IRC server so that idea has gone into the bonus category for now. I think Snikket would be a service that’s far more accessible and easier to share with the people I want using it.
I do like that it has xmpp support. I assume it would go well with Snikket.
Snikket isn’t really meant to be customized with other components right now, but it is possible to get Biboumi working with it.
Most people use Biboumi as a bouncer for external IRC networks, but of course it also works with a self-hosted IRC server.