#selfhosted

[proxmox-official]

AUR has been hit with malware

Per the CachyOS subreddit:

"As the title states, the Arch AUR has been hit by a huge malware infection campaign over the last couple of days. There's an earlier post referring to alvr. That's not the only package it's hundreds of them, many of them Aur packages average people would install like apple-music-desktop.

I don't have the full details of the scope of the malware campaign. I know it's a credential stealer so it steals ssh keys and browser login info and apparently has rootkit potential.

This was widespread and targeted orphaned packages. Aur for some reason allows other people to take over existing projects.

The bottom line is if you used the aur over the last couple of days you may have been infected and the problem with taking over orphaned packages I believe remains. I personally would not use the Aur for the foreseeable future, and ideally not at all. It's a security risk."

There is a script that you can run on your machine to detect if you have a package that is known to have been infected which you can view here. I have also linked the subreddit post here.

Just download it, make it executable and run the script with sudo and let it run, it will tell you what it found once it's complete.

⚠️ Also obligatory don't blindly trust random scripts on the Internet disclaimer ⚠️

Pls reblog to signal boost!!

[ffmpegofficial]

hey just a tip. if you want a streaming service-like set up for your ("legally acquired") media, DON'T use jellyfin to host it. And ESPECIALLY don't use it with kodi to have more power to theme and change the feel of it. I would hate it if you did that. That would be terrible. Wink Wonk.

[track-maniac]

The personal website is now live!! (still very much unfinished because i spend too much time crying to work on it)

it features such elements as

a :3 bouncing around (uses deprecated html. may not work in your browser)

2 (two) language options!

lightweight pages

a 88x31 button collection, including those of my friends' websites ( @kreetzel, @autumnvleaves, @foxgirlriley, @deadly-carp, @a-pakala, @maddiem4 ). if you have a website and want to be on the list, create a 88x31 button for it. and if you already have that too, why didn't you send it to me already?!

[rpadverts]

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[uncnsrdsworld]

Self hosting

With all that's going on, I can feel the joy in the self hosting journey I undertook. All brought to life due to learning about home assistant (that dammed thing) It all stated off with a touch of paranoia from escaping abuse and needing some CCTV to keep myself safe. So oh a RTSP compatible CCTV camera (later replaced with ONVIF compatible cameras from another vendor as eww Eufy security) But that's kinda the baseline to start, just getting things working like seeing when the washing machine is done, and making things to help manage AuDHD and executive dysfunction. Mind you this was also during COVID so time was a weird concept, but that was the perfect time to discover the basics of docker, learning proxmox on a cheap machine to learning domain management and DNS within a network. But as with all tech pursuits it doesn't end at controlling smart lights and recording cameras and maybe a movie server.

Finding repos and projects that actually had simple to follow guides and categories rather than searching constantly helped a LOT, git repo: awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted site: Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts

Now I honestly say I rely on my own stuff for a LOT more, password management. Yeah that's on site with Vault Warden, Control over my router and Wi-Fi yup it's Unifi'd and File management, gotta love next cloud, like this just feels like home, No AI in everything unless I decide to run Ollama on an older M1 Mac mini that got moved to HTPC usage after the last round of upgrades. What I'm basically saying is go forth and experiment, it's a fun chance to grow and then scream at companies locking down local control when their own app is just connecting over MQTT anyways.

[rootresident]

Self Hosting

I haven't posted here in quite a while, but the last year+ for me has been a journey of learning a lot of new things. This is a kind of 'state-of-things' post about what I've been up to for the last year.

I put together a small home lab with 3 HP EliteDesk SFF PCs, an old gaming desktop running an i7-6700k, and my new gaming desktop running an i7-11700k and an RTX-3080 Ti.

"Using your gaming desktop as a server?" Yep, sure am! It's running Unraid with ~7TB of storage, and I'm passing the GPU through to a Windows VM for gaming. I use Sunshine/Moonlight to stream from the VM to my laptop in order to play games, though I've definitely been playing games a lot less...

On to the good stuff: I have 3 Proxmox nodes in a cluster, running the majority of my services. Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, Calibre Web Automated, etc. are all running on Unraid to have direct access to the media library on the array. All told there's 23 docker containers running on Unraid, most of which are media management and streaming services. Across my lab, I have a whopping 57 containers running. Some of them are for things like monitoring which I wouldn't really count, but hey I'm not going to bother taking an effort to count properly.

The Proxmox nodes each have a VM for docker which I'm managing with Portainer, though that may change at some point as Komodo has caught my eye as a potential replacement.

All the VMs and LXC containers on Proxmox get backed up daily and stored on the array, and physical hosts are backed up with Kopia and also stored on the array. I haven't quite figured out backups for the main storage array yet (redundancy != backups), because cloud solutions are kind of expensive.

You might be wondering what I'm doing with all this, and the answer is not a whole lot. I make some things available for my private discord server to take advantage of, the main thing being game servers for Minecraft, Valheim, and a few others. For all that stuff I have to try and do things mostly the right way, so I have users managed in Authentik and all my other stuff connects to that. I've also written some small things here and there to automate tasks around the lab, like SSL certs which I might make a separate post on, and custom dashboard to view and start the various game servers I host. Otherwise it's really just a few things here and there to make my life a bit nicer, like RSSHub to collect all my favorite art accounts in one place (fuck you Instagram, piece of shit).

It's hard to go into detail on a whim like this so I may break it down better in the future, but assuming I keep posting here everything will probably be related to my lab. As it's grown it's definitely forced me to be more organized, and I promise I'm thinking about considering maybe working on documentation for everything. Bookstack is nice for that, I'm just lazy. One day I might even make a network map...

[bored-bi]

turns out setting up a minecraft server on the homelab was a mistake because now im just playing minecraft

[evamiaou]

I am a terrible parent (admin). I set up my server before going on vacation for two weeks. I enabled remote access to keep operating it. I thought it was fine because my ip usually doesn't change but there were roadworks or something, which temporarily cut my home internet, and now I can't find my server.

I made a big ping sweep but it's not there and now I feel terrible. I didn't set up automatic dns updates. I didn't even set up automatic emails yet. How will I take care of a human if I can't even take care of a metal box.