Hi,

As you probably know by now, Mozilla is shutting down Pocket on July 8th, 2025 to focus on other products.

If you're affected by this change, I've compiled some of the best open-source alternatives to Pocket:

https://openalternative.co/alternatives/pocket

This is by no means a complete list, so if you know of any solid alternatives that aren't included, please let me know.

Thanks!

For every time I bricked my server by making an update that I thought would be fine, I’d have 3 dollars now. Live and learn!

Someone just randomly joined my Tailnet

Hey! Crossposting is not allowed here, but I think it's good that everybody that is currently using or thinking about using Tailscale check this thread that has just dropped on r/Tailscale.

As title says. Outside of a corporate/sterile (secure) environment, why are people selfhosting URL shorteners? What are the benefits?

Hey,

I'm self hosting multiple FastAPI applications on my linux server and I've been using tmux for running multiple apps at once. What better solutions are there?

Hi everyone,

i want to build a small home server under 300€ and am considering the RPI 5 with 16GB and the M.2 HAT for Storage. Will it be good enough for hosting the following Services?

• Portainer
• Homepage
• PiHole/AdGuard
• Paperless-NGX
• maybe some others in the future

Edit: I went with the Raspberry Pi 5 16Gb after considering the comments. Thanks for your input :)

Hi,

This may be a niche tool, but I wrote a self hosted Stremio Addon to allow you to proxy Torrentio streams through your network, so Real Debrid only sees the one IP regardless of the Stremio clients' IP. Real Debrid allows many concurrent streams, but only one concurrent IP address.

https://github.com/IrrelevantSoftware/TorrentioDebridProxy

Essentially it replaces the Torrentio Addon in Stremio. It takes your Torrentio Addon URL (pre-configured with your settings), and rewrites the stream URLs to pass through a proxy layer before being returned to the Stremio client.

The search results are identical to your Torrentio results, as it still uses your configured Torrentio URL.

It also locally caches the resolved RD stream URLs directly, to reduce round trips to Torrentio's API, and speeds up the streams.

As it's Docker, it easily integrates with Gluetun to route all connections through a VPN.

Give a whirl if you want. Just set it up, and add https://{{your_proxy_url}/manifest.json as a new Stremio addon.

Could not find a simple self-hosted solution so I built one in Rust that lets you securely run untrusted/AI-generated code in microVMs. Spins up in milliseconds, runs on your own infra, no Docker needed. And it works on macOS and Linux.

Python, Typescript and Rust SDKs are available so you can spin up vms with just 4-5 lines of code. Run code, plot charts, tear down VMs programmatically with no complex setup.

Still early days. Thoughts appreciated if you're building dev tools or AI agents that need proper isolation without performance headaches.

https://github.com/microsandbox/microsandbox

Hey everyone,
I'm exploring the idea of building an all-in-one, easy-to-configure software that combines tools like Cockpit, Ansible, and Proxmox into a single interface.

The goal is to make it easier and faster for people to self-host services without needing a sysadmin or spending hours on complex setup. It would handle things like:

• Automating OS installation
• Simplified deployment of common services
• Managing everything from one place
• Acting as an abstraction layer so beginners aren’t overwhelmed by technical details

I’m curious:

• Do you think this kind of tool would be useful?
• Have you found tools like this too complex or time-consuming in the past?
• Would this help you or someone you know get started with self-hosting?

It would be aimed at small businesses, hobbyists, and people who want more data control without getting stuck in cloud provider ecosystems.

Would love to hear your thoughts!

I have some SignalWire virtual phone numbers and want to receive SMS messages on them (mainly for OTP codes). Looking for something I can self-host on my homelab.

Most SMS gateway solutions I found need physical GSM modules, but I just want to use SignalWire's API to pull messages and display them in a simple web interface.

Anyone know of existing docker containers or projects for this? Or should I just build something basic with their REST API?

Running Proxmox with docker/LXC containers.

Hello

New to cowmail

I have proxmox and on one of vm have installed cowmail

Logged in to admin and registered my domain

Asked me to set in dns records which I tried in cloudflare

However my isp does not provide static public ip

I use closflare tunnel rather to access any Lan ip.

How do I configure the A record in dns Can't send or receive emails without it

I am trying to create an Argon2 hash for Vaultwarden. I am using .env file. So i have used ''. i HAVE not set $$.
I have done this:

set +H
salt=$(openssl rand -base64 32)

echo -n “MyStrongPassword” | argon2 “$(openssl rand -base64 32)” -e -id -k 65540 -t 3 -p 4

What comes uit here i pasted into .env file.

When i try to create the container, i get an unhealty error. When i look at the logs of vaultwarden container i see this:

The configured Argon2 PHC in ADMIN_TOKEN is invalid: 'salt invalid: value to long'

My docker compose file:

version: '3.8' services: vaultwarden: image: vaultwarden/server:latest container_name: vaultwarden hostname: vaultwarden restart: unless-stopped networks: docker-network: ipv4_address: 172.39.0.140 ipv6_address: 2a**:****:****:****::140 environment: # Admin-pagina token (escapen met enkele quotes) - ADMIN_TOKEN=$VAULTWARDEN_ADMIN_TOKEN # Beperkingen voor signups (optioneel) # - SIGNUPS_ALLOWED=false # - SIGNUPS_VERIFY=true - INVITATIONS_ALLOWED=true - globalSettings__mail__replyToEmail='vaultwarden@mydomain.com - globalSettings__mail__smtp__host='mail.smtp2go.com' - globalSettings__mail__smtp__username='MyUserName' - globalSettings__mail__smtp__password='MyPassword' - globalSettings__mail__smtp__ssl=true - globalSettings__mail__smtp__port=2525 - LOG_FILE=/data/logs/access.log - WEBSOCKET_ENABLED=true - ROCKET_ENV=prod - ROCKET_WORKERS=10 - TZ=Europe/Amsterdam - LOG_LEVEL=error - EXTENDED_LOGGING=true ports: - '8888:80' volumes: - /docker/vaultwarden/data:/data - /docker/vaultwarden/logs:/data/logs healthcheck: test: ["CMD", "curl", "-f", "http://localhost:80/"] interval: 1m30s timeout: 10s retries: 3 vaultwarden-backup: image: bruceforce/vaultwarden-backup:latest container_name: vaultwarden-backup hostname: vaultwarden-backup restart: always depends_on: vaultwarden: condition: service_healthy networks: docker-network: ipv4_address: 172.39.0.141 ipv6_address: 2a**:****:****:****::141 init: true volumes: - /docker/vaultwarden/data:/data - /docker/vaultwarden/backup:/myBackup - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro - /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro environment: - TIMESTAMP=true - DELETE_AFTER=30 - UID=0 - GID=1000 - TZ=Europe/Amsterdam - BACKUP_DIR=/myBackup - CRON_TIME='50 3 * * *' # tussen quotes! networks: docker-network: external: true 

My .env file. Which is in the same folder as my docker-compose.yml file. Which is /docker/vaultwarden

VAULTWARDEN_ADMIN_TOKEN='$argon2id$v=19$m=65540,t=4,p=4$4odGRWh5VTZOdENqQzRCNzZ6RmNXNDdHbTNrWitxenFvL382MHZaVDYrTituQT3igJ0$ifpdQM5qrEkaAza9ugjKaIDfTZUE3q3YUiRdJzwoC56’ 

I changed the value of the Token to something random. I also tried removing the ' ' .

I am running Debian 12 as a virtual machine on ESXi 8.0u3.

I do not know what i am doing wrong. Any ideas?

One of the problems I had when sharing my plex library to friends (and allowing them to use overseer) is that disk space fill up pretty quickly.

So we came out with an idea : an app where everyone "vote" for the media they want to remove, so everyone could see what could be deleted.

It's called "removarr" : https://github.com/Thomas-Philippot/removarr

Let me know your thoughts 🤗

So I have a webserver and I dont know if I should host my dbs separate from the webserver vps or just run it locally. I am using lightsail from AWS, I know the risk of not having a back-up but what do you guys think or know as you may have experience. For me personally I trust AWS and that the vps would be up almost all times and if its down then at least data should? still be persisted once its up again. This is because budget wise, trying to be as efficient as possible. I was thinking I can do backups myself with a bash script to run everyday where it sends a snapshot of the db to my s3 bucket.

Just need some opinions and insights, thanks!

I'm currently building up my home lab and I want to create emails for my friends and family so that when they use whatever services I provide, their personal inboxes don't get filled. I have a domain, but I'm unsure at which mail service to look at (or how to even set one up). I'm not looking to spend any money (if possible), I just want something that will allow for my friends and family to remotely open their email accounts up wherever they are. Any input? Thanks!