Mailshine - Tech & Selfhosting

Tech & Selfhosting #12

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Mailshine - Tech & Selfhosting #12

r/ExperiencedDevs

New codebase + AI code smells

205 comments • reddit.com

I started a new job. We have all of the AI tools etc.

I got assigned a new feature that seemed like a simple extension to our architecture.

The Claude plan looked reasonable, but upon seeing the code it appeared Claude had complicated the hell out of the implementation. It looked suspicious so I had Codex plan it separately, and it comes to the same conclusion. Every time I tried to simplify it, they both pushed back and argued for the additional complexity.

Now usually, I would take my time to untangle the chain of thought and identify the assumptions making AI do what it’s doing. But the customer has been promised this feature would be delivered (not by me - but you know how it is).

It appears to work. Unit and end to end tests look good. But I still do not fully grasp all of this code and why it’s there.

In today’s new fast paced world with insane expectations, would you push back on releasing it due to not fully understanding why all of that code is there? I did, but luckily, …
Joined a Fortune 500 company and struggling to adapt

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Hi all,

I’m a 7 YOE hardware/embedded engineer who recently joined a Fortune 500 company after a few years in an Research & Technology Center. It has been a few months that I’m working in a new environment, trying to ramp up as fast as possible, however I’m always surprised by some lack of professionalism:
- No one seems to care and somehow tries to wing it, the more vocal the better.
- When I ask people around, they don’t know, so I’m on my own to learn everything from scratch again.
- Whenever I try to take ownership to solve some problems like electronics problems & understand the root cause, people tell me it’s out of my scope and I should not tackle it. However, it still affects what & when I can deliver my software.
- Design specs, processes, reviews, etc. seems to be not applied anymore.
- Everything takes age to do, it is always urgent and nothing is documented.
The main purpose of this post is to ask engineers seasoned to corporate environment: …
For most of my career, I’ve been the only engineer in the company. How much am I hurting my future prospects?

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I’ve got 4 years of experience at the same startup. I was a junior when I joined and there were two others on the team - one mid-level engineer and one senior (who was titled CTO, but that’s a bold term to use for a company our side).

After one year in, the business went through some financial turmoil. They let go of the other two engineers, including the CTO mentor/manager, which was pretty brutal. The founder did tell me there was friction between him and the CTO, but also felt that I could lead the technical side of the business. This was always expected to be a temporary measure while finances were taken care of, and they promised they would hire a new senior to join me. I pushed back quite a bit, and they did eventually hire a temporary fractional CTO to support me.

Today, there is still no senior who has joined - it’s just me. They’ve gotten rid of the fractional CTO too. They gave me the title of CTO (yes again, I know it’s a bold title for a one man …
Feeling discouraged about my dev skills after an impromptu meeting

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I’m a software engineer with about 7 years of experience, in the financial sector. Most of my work is with .NET APIs and SQL Server. I’m currently working on a project involving internal employees who provide clearing services. The workflow is roughly:
1. A user selects one or more records.
2. They enter some additional data.
3. They submit the request.
4. My API validates the request, including checking permissions and whether any of the selected financial records are already pending.
5. If validation passes, the API generates a CSV file.
6. The CSV is uploaded to an SFTP location for the business.
7. records are written to the database.
In some cases, two CSV files are generated. To avoid filename collisions, I timestamp the filenames down to milliseconds, for example: “2026_2111056_664”

We’ve been finding bugs with unique test cases after releasing to UAT, and today we got on a call to test some scenarios together. Another developer suggested submitting the exact same …
Is a second sabbatical 2.5 years after the last one career suicide?

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In 2023 I took 6 months off because I was burnt out after 5.5 years. I hated my job, and I hated the work too. During those 6 months I recovered my enjoyment of the work ( programming ) and found a new job, which I’ve been employed at for the last 2.5 years.

I hate this job too now. Even more than I hated the one I left in 2023, for different reasons. The retarded way the company is forcing us to apply AI plays a significant part in it, but I’m not going to go into details lest I get the AI astroturfing bots swarming this post.

I look at job boards with disgust. I hate this job, but I hate the thought of switching companies only to end up in the same predicament even more. I’ve been burnt out for the last year, and I can feel myself reaching my limits as to how much longer I can force myself out of bed every morning for it. Last week I started taking sleeping pills for the first time in my life because of stress-induced insomnia. Both canine teeth on the right side …

r/selfhosted

Does anyone still run their homelab on plain Linux + Docker Compose ?

1186 comments • reddit.com

I’m wondering how many people still run their homelab in the most basic way possible: a normal Linux install like Ubuntu Server or Debian, Docker, and one folder with a docker-compose.yml file for each service.

I’ve tried things like OpenMediaVault and CasaOS before, and I totally understand why people use TrueNAS, Unraid, ZimaOS, CasaOS, Portainer, etc. The UI is convenient, a lot of things are simplified, and it’s probably much less intimidating when you’re starting out.

But personally I always end up preferring Linux + Compose directly. I’ve also sometimes found it harder to troubleshoot problems on those other platforms.

Basically, my current setup is one folder and one docker-compose.yml file per service, with sometimes several related services in the same Compose file/folder.

I do have Portainer installed, but I barely use it. Mostly to quickly delete old images or volumes, or check something when I’m too lazy to do it from the terminal.

What I like about this setup is that …
AI is making everything look and feel the same, and we should be sick of it

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What started as fun, interesting use of LLMs has, it seems to me, spiraled into something completely out of control. While new apps get created at lightning speed, especially if spearheaded by developers who have an idea of what they are doing, it’s made the self-hosted space from something with 2-3 options per media category into a very crowded, messy space.

Take a look, for example, at the book side : we now have Bookorbit, Grimmory. Completely new apps, and yet, somehow, they look the same. Why? Because the devs used AI during development. Take a closer look, and you’ll be able to make out immediately if an app was made with AI: bright pill-shaped buttons, often green, catchy “it’s not X, its’ Y!” descriptions, Docs with emoji, and the somehow same settings and menu layout.

And it’s not just a philosophical problem: how do people innovate if there’s nobody to make new stuff? and how about the old, beloved projects, with their …
Bookorbit is incredible

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I’ve been self hosting for quite some time now, I write software and I’ve seen many projects of all quality levels.

I just want to express my appreciation for Bookorbit and its developer, it’s truly a joy to use, and it clearly comes from a person that knows what they’re doing.

You built exactly the product I was eventually going to build myself, the attention to detail is incredible, it has the features I always wanted to have in other solutions, and they’re well put together.

This is also an occasion to showcase that AI is amazing in the hands of skilled engineers and we should take advantage of it in open source, hopefully while leveraging self hostable open weight models in the future (we’re slowly getting there, and we should fight for it).
Why Proxmox?

387 comments • reddit.com

I see so many people in here using Proxmox. I run Ubuntu + Docker, and my whole setup is just a list of folders with compose.yamls and supporting files (configs etc). It feels very manageable this way, fully declarative, easy to version control.

Am I missing something, that makes people recommend and use Proxmox instead?
Kitchen Board, a self-hosted wall planner for the family kitchen (v0.0.18)

68 comments • i.redd.it

Source: https://gitlab.com/g33kphr33k/kitchen-board

Docker: https://hub.docker.com/r/g33kphr33k/kitchenboard

I’ve been working on Kitchen Board on and off for roughly 5 months now.

Think of it as the old school planner your folks probably kept in the kitchen, on the wall or the fridge. I’ve tried to keep that same feel, but updated for today’s use, on yesterday’s hardware. The image is it running on an Amazon Fire HD 8th gen in Kiosk Mode (from F-Droid store).

Initially this was just a calendar with events, a shopping list for when things were used or eaten, and a countdown to events for my son, who is addicted to knowing how many “sleeps” until something happens. I posted a while back and had some good feedback, and since then people have reached out directly and via GitLab to add functions and features they wanted themselves. I only implement features that would be useful to my own family, and so far the suggestions have been great. …

r/usenet

AltHub registration open!

56 comments • i.redd.it
NZBGet v26.3 Client Release Notes

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NZBGet v26.3 is out! This update brings new features like extension translations and per-feed SSL options, updates core extraction tools, and packs in a ton of crash fixes and WebUI improvements for a smoother overall experience.

Features
- Extension i18n support
  - Enables translations for the following extensions #872 Updated versions are available in the Extension Manager
    
    ExtendedUnpacker
    
    EasySort
    
    NotifySickchill
    
    VideoSort
    
    Completion
- Per-feed certificate verification
  - SSL verification option can be set per feed #846
- 7-Zip and UnRAR updates
  - Updated 7-Zip to 26.02 and UnRAR to 7.23 #847
https://preview.redd.it/9uzfh7ztyxlh1.png?width=1701&format=png&auto=webp&s=8dd770733427ea3060edda0225861f947f04922f

Fixes
- Security
  - Improved security for generating web tokens and handling extracted symlinks #894
- WebUI
  - Fixed a WebUI crash on startup with non-English language #845
  - Resolved background glitches #834
  - Completed leftover text translations for Polish and …

Non-american providers

27 comments • reddit.com

Looking for providers that are not American. Would love to know if Canadian providers exist. If not overseas is good. Who do you recommend

Release Notes - SABnzbd 5.1.2

5 comments • reddit.com

https://sabnzbd.org/downloads

SABnzbd 5.1.1 and 5.1.2 resolved 3 serious vulnerabilities.

Critical remote code execution vulnerability resolved in 5.1.2 (GHSA-rgqj-28c2-gxwp)

You are only affected if an untrusted party can reach the web interface. By default, SABnzbd is only accessible from your own device and External internet access is set to No access. If either of those is still at its default, or if you use a proxy service for authentication, you are not affected.

In version 5.1.1 and earlier, an attacker who can reach the web interface could bypass authentication on configuration endpoints, even when SABnzbd is protected with a username and password. By changing SABnzbd’s settings this way, an attacker could ultimately execute arbitrary commands on the system running SABnzbd, with the same permissions as SABnzbd itself. This also means that all information in SABnzbd would be exposed.

See GHSA-xrfq-jhgh-wqch below for actions and mitigations. More information: …

Are all indexers safe?

21 comments • reddit.com

I am new to the usenet scene and I have a pretty basic question. I see that there are indexers that you need to pay for, but are they all safe? Or are there some to avoid? I appreciate the help!

r/plex+radarr+sonarr

Plex is selling your personal data, here's how to opt out of that

338 comments • neowin.net

Feel like ads on Plex know too much about you? Here’s how you can opt out of Plex selling your data to third parties.
No, I will not consent! This is one of the reasons I bought a Plex Pass

412 comments • i.redd.it
Thank GOD

111 comments • i.redd.it

Plex for Roku. I lol’d a little at “thanks to the feedback of our community,” but man I’m so glad to have side navigation back.

EDIT: I’m on Plex Preview. Not sure when the standard app is getting the update.
A lot of people complain about free movies and live tv that pop up in your Plex account so why don’t u guys just disable it?

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The TVDB is very often wrong and I'm sick of dealing with it.

82 comments • reddit.com

Why does Sonarr insist on using this crappy source that disagrees with everything else?

In particular it loves putting things in “specials” that really shouldn’t be. Two recent examples are the Twin Peaks pilot being considered a special instead of S01E01, which makes no sense. Spongebob S03E54 being considered a special also, I mean just why?! Every single other person agrees this is an episode in season 3. It’s really frustrating having to juggle stuff around or have to remember “oh now I need to watch this episode which is under the wrong name because Jellyfin doesn’t agree with TVDB’s insanity”. I feel it would be so much easier if it just used TMDB like Jellyfin, which has been the sane one in every case I’ve come across.

Sorry it’s a bit of a rant, I’m frustrated with it.

Tech & Selfhosting #11

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Mailshine - Tech & Selfhosting #11

r/ExperiencedDevs

I put all of my communications through AI first, because that's the first thing management will do

99 comments • reddit.com

I work in a large corporate environment where AI is being heavily (and blindly) pushed onto the masses. Most management above me is non-technical. The leaders that should be technical range from “Haven’t touched code in a decade” to “My greatest achievement is my friend is a VP.”

When I present management with a technical proposal, or escalate a technical problem, they don’t understand it, so they put it through AI. Knowing this, I put all my communications through AI, because if AI agrees with me, so will they.

But AI always gives me “the core argument looks good, but here’s what can be tightened” every time. I could accept every suggestion verbatim, and each iteration run it back through the same AI, and still it comes back with more suggested changes. So it becomes this optimization heuristic where I’m running my communication through different AIs to achieve the least level of disagreement. The error margin never reaches …
Follow-Up: What this year has been like as a newly-minted "Staff" engineer

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About 8 months ago, I made this post about my worries in getting a promotion above senior at a large non-tech company.

I got some great advice, and I thought there might be value in talking about my experience in the 8-ish months since then, and maybe extend an invite to the other senior+ folks here to talk about how 2026 is going for them.

A lot has changed since I wrote that post. I’ll try to keep it more focused than just stream of consciousness.

A little bit of background about me to ground this post:
- I work in ML - I have a background in CS (two degrees) and became an MLE just long enough before LLMs hit the scene to really appreciate what we had after being an SDE for about a year.
- I am squarely on the edge between early and mid-career. I will have 5 total YOE in January.
The Technical
- Starting with what I think is an ice cold take: I am sick of doing AI work. I enjoy MLOPs and the intersection data science and software engineering. AI, mostly, is not that. There …
Any company with great engineering culture?

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I have always heard about companies with great engineering culture, like earlier Google, or Sun. But I never experienced any in my 8+ years of tenure, anywhere. None of the people I know about experienced any, either – but I’m not a people person, so my sample size is not significant.

I’m beginning to think that it is just a myth nowadays, given the rampant of AI usage and the request of “velocity”. Only one team that I worked in had some culture that is remotely comfortable for me to recognize it as some sort of engineering culture (Thank you James in NC!), but the air is still pretty thin because the company was in chaos, and is still in chaos AFAIK.

By saying engineering culture I mostly mean:
1. Encouraging learning deeply in a topic.
2. Put quality ahead of velocity, and really meant it, not just a lip service. (Just to clarify, shipping is very important. I find it difficult to define this point so maybe ignore this one)
3. Great mentorship opportunity …
My coworker's lack of knowledge is starting to affect my work

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Hey all, just wanted to get your insight on this situation.

I’m a frontend developer working with React. Recently, we got a new backend developer. I had been working with our oldest backend developer, who is great to work with, but I was recently assigned to a new project where I have to work with this new developer.

She’s been with the company for about three months now, and the thing is, she doesn’t seem to know what she’s doing.

A week ago, she was taking way too long on a simple request, and she told me, “Hehe, AI isn’t able to solve this. Give me more time.” That was the first red flag for me because it was a really simple task.

A couple of days later, the same thing happened. She was taking hours on a small change, so I ended up giving her an AI prompt explaining what needed to be done. She came back five minutes later and told me she had fixed it.

The problem now is that she’s constantly coming to my office asking me if I can give her the AI prompt for whatever change I’m …
Might be fired from my job soon - how bad is the market in NYC at the moment?

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I’ve struggling at work for a year or so due to burnout and managing 2 surgeries for my medical transition. My manager told me that I have been bottom 20% of senior engineers and told me to improve.

I work at Bloomberg, C++ backend that deals with high throughput data. I have been working for 6 years. I would say that technically I am around mid level engineer.

At first, I didn’t worry too much since I thought Bloomberg and 6 yrs of experience would allow me to get a job quickly but from people here, even FAANG folks seem to have hard time getting a job.

If I get fired, how screwed am I? I am also thinking of taking sabbetical since doing 3 surgeries in a year is taking a mental toll on me.

r/selfhosted

self-hosting everything

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just kidding I love self-hosting …
So apparently Google will SPAM your self-hosted email just cuz **** you, that's why.

468 comments • i.redd.it

DKIM, DMARC, SPF, rDNS/PTR, EHLO… all correct and verified in the email “original source,” BY GOOGLE. Still goes to SPAM folder because **** you, apparently. I hate Google.

EDIT - RE: Title, for the grammar gang - No, Google will not SPAM you, as in “send you SPAM.” But I think everyone else got the idea……. so….
Old Kindle as an e-ink homelab dashboard

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A while ago I saw some posts in r/homeassistant about e-ink displays used as dashboards and wanted to try the same but for my homelab. So I bought a waveshare e-ink panel and bricked it pretty quickly and didn’t want to order another one. But I still had an old Kindle lying around which I hadn’t used in years, so I tried it again with that one and this time it worked.

It shows me if something is down (Uptime Kuma), how full my media pool is, the Proxmox uptime and the weather. During the day it swaps between the dashboard and a random photo from an Immich album every 5 minutes and between 22:00 and 07:00 it only shows photos, because I don’t need monitoring at night.

The Kindle itself doesn’t render anything. A service on my server collects the data, draws a 600x800 grayscale PNG and serves it at /dash.png and the Kindle just runs a loop which downloads that image every 5 minutes and puts it on the screen. So it is really only used as a display.

The …
My Homepage after 4 months on the self-hosting journey.

78 comments • i.redd.it

I just started my self-hosting journey in April after I got tired of my Xfinity modem. I ran what feels like miles of Cat 6, built a rack, bought the PCs and domain, etc etc and now I feel super accomplished. I knew practically nothing about all this back in March.

Possibly the most fun I’ve had is building this simple little homepage dashboard to give everything a face. I stole lots of inspiration from everyone here. It now serves as a true homepage with all the frequent sites and services I ever view. Just felt like sharing.

Truly appreciate everybody on r/selfhosted and r/homelab.

bookmarks.yaml: https://pastebin.com/4wwHRvSc

services.yaml: https://pastebin.com/MkeNjARK

settings.yaml: https://pastebin.com/uzXBM0Xz
Put Self Hosting on Your CV

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I work at a big tech company as a SE, and I’m just saying that if I saw a CV that included a serious self hosted setup I would rate it highly.

Self hosting is a microcosm of sorts of many important problems SEs have to deal with.

Managing deployments, reliability/monitoring, secrets, version control, docker, security etc. is all boring (imo) ops stuff that real SE teams spend a lot of their time doing. If you’ve created a great setup that automates this stuff or makes it run smoothly, that is very good signal.
Eg I built a tool called nethera to give me a heroku like experience for my homelab deployments
https://github.com/Nethera-io/nethera

r/usenet

DOGnzb restricted Lifetime users, 50 NZB downloads to 10 per day

72 comments • reddit.com

“Lifetime” Accounts converted to Lite Tier

Now converted to Limited Account.
What are the best usenet indexers for porn.

43 comments • reddit.com

So I’ve tried:

NinjaCentral

altHUB

NZBGeek

Usenet Crawler

Drunken Slug

So far from this I’ve concluded slug is the best by far. So I’d like to get others opions on what indexers are good for this. Also is it worth picking up Planet or Tabula Rasa since they seem to have a good amount? Im also open to any recommendations of ones I haven’t listed.
Release Notes - SABnzbd 5.1.1

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https://sabnzbd.org/downloads

Critical authentication vulnerability resolved in 5.1.1 (GHSA-xrfq-jhgh-wqch)

You are only affected if an untrusted party can reach the web interface. By default, SABnzbd is only accessible from your own device and External internet access is set to No access. If either of those is still at its default, or if you use a proxy service for authentication, you are not affected.

If the SABnzbd login page is reachable from outside your network, an attacker could obtain a valid session in version 5.1.0 and earlier, even when SABnzbd is protected with a username and password. This means that all information in SABnzbd would be exposed.

If you rely on the SABnzbd username and password to keep out other users on your network or the internet, it is recommended that you change the following sensitive information after applying the update:
- SABnzbd username and password.
- SABnzbd API-key.
- Usenet server passwords.
- API-keys from indexers used within RSS-feeds. …
Anyone else getting a lot of failures with NZBGeek?

61 comments • reddit.com

I’ve been using it for years and it’s worked great, but the last couple of weeks I’ve been getting enough failures that some of my stuff just can’t be downloaded…
List of indexers still missing 2FA support

33 comments • reddit.com
Which indexers are still missing 2FA support? Let’s put together a list and encourage them to add it as soon as possible, especially with everything getting pwnd left and right these days. I’d hate to lose a lifetime account.

List of indexers lacking 2FA support:
- Althub
- Drunken Slug
- Ninja Central
- Usenet Crawler
I noticed some recently added it and even coupled it with passkey support (👍), which made me go through my list of indexers again. I’ll try and add any missing indexers to the list above.

Edit: Adding a list for providers lacking 2FA (…some of these seem to be storing passwords in clear-text also, when you do a password reset they’ll send you your password in clear-text, instead of a reset URL 😲).
- Bulknews
- Eweka
- Easynews
- Newsdemon
- NewsgroupDirect
- Newshosting

r/plex+radarr+sonarr

Plex reportedly reverting to on UI

440 comments • neowin.net

Should make some people happy, my wife included if true.
Plex has fixed broken Samsung app

87 comments • neowin.net
Plex beta experience on Apple TV 4K 3rd gen plays AV1 4K in direct play

89 comments • reddit.com

I was trying the new beta and tried to play some av1 movies just to try the transcoding and imagine my face when it started playing in direct play while supporting hdr.

I tried several movies and everything played fine in direct play.
Navigation Updates Coming to Preview Users - Lefthand Side Navigation

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Full post here: https://forums.plex.tv/t/navigation-updates-coming-to-preview-users/941751

Navigation

Since we launched the new Plex experience to preview users last year, we have received consistent feedback from the start regarding the navigation. Our fall update was the first step in making improvements to address those concerns, but they weren’t enough. We greatly appreciate that many of you, all across our community, have weighed in and kept providing feedback. We’ve been listening and today the release has some changes that are both new and familiar.

What’s New

Today’s release, going out to preview users on Apple TV and Roku, and beta for Android TV, will be returning the primary navigation to the lefthand side of the screen.

In additional to the collapsible side navigation panel, we’ve made a few other improvements:
- Favorite libraries are now a top level source
- Live TV & DVR sources can be favorited and re-ordered like Libraries
- Easily switch between pages within a …
Samsung TV Unexpected Playback Error

177 comments • reddit.com

Hey community. I need some help. On my Samsung TV I am getting the play back error. Was working yesterday. I set allow insecure connections, I deleted and reinstalled the app, and I installed the update for the new server. Im at my wits end.

Thanks!

Tech & Selfhosting #10

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Mailshine - Tech & Selfhosting #10

r/ExperiencedDevs

Y'all really need to stop acting like your peers are dumb.

334 comments • reddit.com

I recently transitioned to an EM role so am observing a lot more peer-to-peer conversations rather than being directly part of them. I’m also getting the one-sided vent from my reports after certain meetings.

I really thought this was more of a Reddit thing but no it’s 100% all over the place in my industry and it’s really holding some of you back. If a person doesn’t understand X concept or hasn’t used Y tech or doesn’t know about Z feature, just fucking explain it. Don’t get exasperated. Don’t act frustrated. Just take the 15 seconds to explain it, it really really isn’t that hard.

I know of at least 2 IC’s at my company that are decent engineers and were only held back from promo because there was someone in the review board that discussed them being rude / disrespectful to people that asked questions / didn’t understand something.

Just be nice. Most of us are idiots so that probably includes you too.
Am I getting too old to be a software engineer?

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I’m 46 years old with a background in mostly infra, could and event driven systems. So I’m good with Kafka, cloud computing, and infra stuff. I’ve also done control plane work at cloud providers. My career has usually been telecom and banking. I’ve worked with a few startups in the past.

I’ve had a rough past 3 years in my career. Lots of short term contracts that get randomly cancelled or not renewed. I’ve relocated 4 times in the past 5 years. Some relocations weren’t really necessarily mind you

I recently took a contract in NY at a bank.

Due to AI I pretty much have decided that a job can’t be my primary intellectual outlet. In the past I tried to take in challenging projects to learn and grow. That really helped me grows experience and knowledge. I decided to start working on a game project in my spare time. And it has given me a fantastic intellectual outlet. Now I can see the job as a job

With that said should I start trying to make the pivot into management? A lot of …
New norm of interviewing as sr software eng?

196 comments • reddit.com
Hey all,

I have about 8YOE. I’ve been with 4 different start ups, I’ve more or less passed the first recruiter phase 95%+ more of the time since they were more of a vibe check and I’m a decent interviewee. This was about 4-6 years ago when I was on the market for my 2nd + 3rd job, so this was also when I had about 2-4 YOE.

I’ve been on the job market for past month or so as someone with 8YOE and I have a hard time passing even the first recruiter round, which is more or less a vibe check and non-technical. I’ve probably talked to 25 recruiters at this point and ~90% of them don’t go past the first round. Is this the new norm? It feels so weird that I’m now failing something that I used to excel at.

EDIT: bit more info about myself
- 8 YOE full-stack exp
- Last job was a 4 year stint, tech stack was Python, React, Docker, AWS, OpenAI integration (very standard start-up tech stack in the bay area)
- I was more or less a “vibe hire” …
Senior SWE Running out of PTO to do Interview Rounds

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Every job interview process I’ve been part of has 5-8 rounds, with each round ranging between half an hour to 2 hours. On average, every job interview process I get (well what few I get), takes on average 5 hours before I get rejected.

Most of the time, I fail the final round (or maybe I’m being led on even though I’ve failed an earlier round 😢 ).

I’ve run into a problem. I work at a place with unlimited PTO on paper, but every manager has been given the guidance that employees should be “put under heavy scrutiny” if they take PTO exceeding 20 work days a year (with it being heavily implied as putting you on PIP). I’ve already used 10 workdays for a family vacation (before I started decided I needed to leave), and have used 5 PTO days just on interviews. Note, my company makes you log PTO by the hour, so I don’t have to use an entire days worth of PTO on an interview. I’ve also used 3.5 PTO days worth of time on being sick. So …
How many of you are already employed in AI code remediation?

136 comments • reddit.com

Over the last 6 months, I spent between 30 and 70% of my time just doing AI cleanup. By which I mean refactoring and redesigning code that other people have generated using AI in the past. This includes a mix of new pull requests and existing code from previous months.

This is not voluntary work. I was specifically assigned to do code remediation because it was reaching the point where no one could understand what the code was doing without AI assistance.

I am not including the time I spend cleaning up new code that I personally created using AI. The reason for the range is that my role varies from week to week.

The reason I ask is that Brent Ozar, someone I generally respect, is claiming that AI code remediation is not going to be a long-term career path. My personal experience tells me he’s wrong, but I’m looking for a broader opinion.

r/selfhosted

Well, today I lost all my data.

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My homelab has two disks. One with the OS and files, and the other as a backup. Every night, I run dd to copy everything to the second disk. The idea was simple: if one disk fails, I can just switch to the other one. I’ve managed to rescue my data several times this way.

But not today. If one disk gets corrupted and then dd copies that corrupted data to the other disk, well… now both disks are corrupted.

What I lost:
- All my recipes in Mealie
- My unchecked-out code in Gitea, including my diary that I’ve had for 10 years
- My Home Assistant configuration
That’s pretty sad. Luckily, I have another backup for my holidays memories, and I have my homelab Git repo checked out on another device.

Still, I guess this is a good reminder that a copy isn’t necessarily a backup. If the backup gets overwritten every night, one bad night can overwrite the backup too.
Any downsides to taliscale? Seems like an incredible amount of value for free

301 comments • reddit.com

I’ve recently moved all my devices to it, and added some friends/family to my network so they can play with some of my self hosted tools

Any horror stories I’ve missed? Am i blindly opening myself up to exploits? Are there better alternatives?

Seems too good to be true tbh
The Self-hosted tools and apps that I rely on

74 comments • i.redd.it
Here is my self-hosted setup; below is a list of the hardware and apps I use daily. Overall, my setup has been rock solid and runs like a well-oiled machine; it’s a very light touch, and I try to keep things simple.

The hardware

Server, Proxmox VE:
- Supermicro X14SBM-TP4F, Xeon 6-6521P, 256GB DDR5
- Boot: 2x 1TB NVMe mirror
- VM storage: 4x 8TB WD_BLACK SN850X, RAIDZ1
- Media: 10x 18TB WD Red Pro, RAIDZ2 plus a hot spare
- LSI 9305-16i in IT mode, ICY DOCK 4-bay M.2 cage over MCIO
- GPUs: Tesla T4 16GB and RTX 2000 Ada 16GB, both passed through to one VM
- Dual 10GbE bonded, CX4712 4U chassis
- Media pool goes out over NFS to whichever VMs need it
VMs:
- Plex
- 4x Ubuntu container VMs, 1 has 2x GPUs passed through
- dev VM for development work
- PBS for backups
QNAP TS-435XeU, 1U, 4x 10TB Seagate, backup target only. Nothing runs on it. It presents a 20.7TB thin iSCSI LUN that PBS uses as its datastore, and PBS syncs from there out to B2.

Network:
- UniFi UCG-Fiber gateway
- UniFi …
Searched for Proxmox VE on the Internet

71 comments • i.redd.it

Shodan, searched pve-api-daemon/3.0, got 170k matches, big chunks on: - Hetzner - OVH - Linode

Many “just” the SPICE :3128 proxy,* but 30k just like that on :8006 too.

Is this normal? Expected? Why are people doing this?

* Thanks, u/firegore, for pointing out this is in fact Proxmox SPICE proxy:

https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/spiceproxy.8.html
What I wish someone told me when I started

94 comments • reddit.com

Just remember that not every self hosted application has a team of experienced devs behind it ensuring security is adequate. It’s super cool to setup 15 different services/containers and configure them exactly how you want, until it comes time to maintain and update.

Every other day I see a new self hosted program that someone made in an afternoon. Usually, there’s absolutely zero security or failsafe built in if a bad actor were to target you. Also, you never know who’s an upcoming, eager developer, versus a seasoned ~~red~~ black-hat trying to sneak malware into your Docker stack.

There’s been countless CVEs that affect self hosted applications. And many more we haven’t discovered yet. Last week my buddy had to take his main machine offline because the application he was hosting was unknowingly working as a botnet.

You’d have to pay me a lot of money to get me to self host some shit Bob Smith vibe coded in his basement. Even if the author doesn’t have malicious intentions, you can’t …

r/usenet

Release Notes - SABnzbd 5.1.0

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https://sabnzbd.org/downloads

This release brings a fundamental improvement to “Retry”: instead of re-downloading any files with missing data, only the articles that were actually missing are fetched again. RSS got an overhaul under the hood, the interface is refreshed, and we added quite a long list of of long-requested features and bugfixes.

New features in 5.1.0
- Refreshed the interface.
- When Retrying a job, only the actually missing articles are tried again. This only works for jobs downloaded in 5.1.0 (or newer).
- RSS items are now stored in the database instead of on disk.
- New RSS Age rule to filter jobs based on their age.
- Downloaded RSS items are cleared from the RSS database after 3 days.
- Added support for filename and path pattern matching to the Cleanup List.
- Unwanted extensions will also be removed after unpacking.
- Allow job setting changes directly from Extra queue columns.
- Added support for unpacking .tar files during post-processing.
- Improved anonymization …
Ninja central indexer is open for registration

89 comments • reddit.com

Ninja Central is open for registration currently from August 11-16, if you have missed out on it before
For Those Who Miss Out On Ninja Openings

84 comments • reddit.com

They currently have an announcement of upcoming opening of registration from 11 August 2200 UTC to 16 August 2200 UTC
PS5 NZB Downloader v0.1.0 - looking for testers

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I’ve been working on a homebrew payload that turns a jailbroken PS5 into a Usenet downloader. The idea is you skip the PC-download-then-transfer step entirely, the console grabs it directly.

This is a personal project and still rough around the edges, so I’d really appreciate testers to help find bugs. Obviously only relevant if you have a jailbroken PS5.

Features:
- Downloads NZBs over Usenet, TLS/SSL supported
- Verifies and repairs downloads automatically
- Unpacks archives when done
- Job queue that survives a reboot, so an interrupted download doesn’t mean starting over
- Web UI on port 4202 for adding NZBs, watching progress, and changing settings
Requirements:
- Jailbroken PS5
- Usenet provider access
- A place to grab NZBs from
Source code: https://github.com/lchmagKekse/PS5-NZB-Downloader
Release: https://github.com/lchmagKekse/PS5-NZB-Downloader/releases
Best provider alongside Eweka?

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If you are based in the EU what’s the best second provider to get alongside Eweka? If I understand correctly there is no point in getting another omicron backbone provider?
Which second provider would you guys recommend?
Thanks a lot in advance

r/plex+radarr+sonarr

Am I in the minority here?

596 comments • reddit.com

Sometimes I feel like I am in the minority of the Plex users in this group. I have been a lifetime Plex Pass holder for about 10 years, but I use Plex for myself and my immediate family members…. At home and when we travel. So many posts talk about people having large groups of users. I mean, I can read between the lines here, but I also have to read every post with a grain of salt to see if this is an average household plex user, or someone who regularly sees 10+ streams from their server.

UPDATE: I am not alone
Plex made over 22TB of tmp files on my synology NAS over 4 years

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Just posting in case someone else runs into this issue. TLDR: PlexMediaServer\AppData\tmp had over 22 TB of audio files generated by some Plex music-analysis-input that kept generating copies of 51GB folders that contained WAV files expanded from low res MP3s of a directory of podcasts.

I run a synology NAS with 51TB total volume size. It has been running for 5 years without any problems, and I have been running Plex server app on Synology without any problems. Pretty much always kept up to date with Plex Server app versions.

I recently started running short on space on the NAS, which I presumed was due to normal usage. I was literally about to buy new drives to increase available space but decided to see how prices change over the coming months when I noticed something odd about the folders. I wanted to see how much space I needed to backup my data before the rebuild, but total for all my media was only 23TB, but total array size was 51TB and Synology was telling me I only had 0.5% …
What the hell is this new Plex Update on Firestick? So shit.

228 comments • i.redd.it

I dont even… man… they just absolutely butchered app for Firestick in the new update yesterday.

Shit is slow as hell. Shuffle Show only plays 1 episode then stops now. Transport controls fully just gone. I have no way to skip episodes (no that little down arrow under the timeline only brings up chapters and other episodes). Somehow I now have more things to click to get to where I want to go.

This is a absolutely busted.

Good job guys, going to find an alternative to plex now and never paying for plex pass again.
Why is everyone suddenly talking about Plezy?

343 comments • reddit.com

Basically title. I see it everywhere lately. What is wrong with the native Plex app and what does Plezy do that Plex native apps does not? I do not see it..? Perhaps I am blind.
Why is my own library not front and center anymore?

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I’ll admit just as I typed my title I realized I didn’t go on the server to check things but what update put plexs own stuff on the home screen and now I have to go dig to find my personal library?

I’m using firestick and onn. This happening to anyone else

Tech & Selfhosting #9

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Mailshine - Tech & Selfhosting #9

r/ExperiencedDevs

What do you do when a developer submits AI generated code they clearly don’t understand?

267 comments • reddit.com

I honestly didn’t expect AI to blur the line between actual competence and just looking competent this much.

Few days ago I got a PR to review and the code looks like it was put through every AI tool under the sun from start to finish. There’s literally no way the guy who submitted it wrote it himself, or even pieced it together from smaller parts. The task requires a pretty deep understanding of the hardware and the codebase, and I know his work because I’ve reviewed his PRs plenty of times before.

You can also kind of see it in the code. One part is written in a very polished and profesional way, and then a small debugging section uses an incredibly naive solution. The kind of thing I’ve never seen an experienced dev do, but absolutely have seen from juniors writing basic stuff for the first time.

So what am I even supposed to do here??

To make things worse… AI tools are completely banned in this particular repo because of IP concerns…

I could ask him if he used …
Our calibration process rewards not finding problems over finding them

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Principal eng at a large company, just went through calibration. Watched something happen that’s been bugging me enough to write it up.

For context on the scale of this: this is basically a month-long exercise. A week to write your own self-assessment, then more time writing feedback for peers, then your manager writes a narrative for each report factoring all of that in, and then every single person gets discussed for real time (not a rubber stamp) in calibration sessions with other managers and senior engineers comparing people across teams, taking anywhere from an hour to multiple hour for each candidate across the calibrations. It’s a genuinely enormous amount of org-wide effort. Which is exactly why it bugs me that the thing all that effort converges on can be this backwards.

Short version: two teams hit the same landmine on a cross-team project, a critical dependency that got left out of the plan. One team caught it before shipping and flagged it. The other team …
Extremely toxic boss returned only me to office 5 days per week. How much do I work from now on? 13YoE FE DEV in EU.

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13YoE, FE DEV in EU.

I have a teamlead-manager who’s widely known across the whole company to be very toxic. For 2.5 years everything was going really well. I had always been receiving either “Meets expectations” or “Exceeds expectations”.

Suddenly one Sunday morning at 1:15 AM I receive a slack message with a RTO5 mandate just for me. Since then I go to the office or coffee badge every day. There’s almost no one at the office on most days - it’s like a ghost town. Also, my boss has never even set foot in the office and says he will never do it.

I asked him multiple times why only I was returned and he said “to get experience from other devs”. When I told him there’s no one at the office and insisted to know more, he responded “You are 30% higher paid than other workers on your position” and then cut my yearly bonus and annual raise since. My BE colleagues are 20%+ higher paid then me though.

One time I …
Leadership seems more misaligned with engineering than ever

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Came across a conversation yesterday where the CTO asked one of our engineers why they didn’t ask Claude to create their plan and mock the several hundred commits they’d need to deliver on something I will not name while also delivering on their existing initiatives

I didn’t say anything, but wanted to… Given the industry I’m in, this seems very ridiculous to me and I hate that this is the expectation… As though somehow that work should have already been done and could have been delivered on the whim of an idea by handing all work to Claude
Are sabbaticals are political perk only?

91 comments • reddit.com

I’ve been in this industry for 25 years now, and I want to confirm a suspicion of mine.

I’ve been employed pretty much continuously since I graduated college, other than 2 weeks after a layoff at a failed startup and then starting a new job. I’ve done well in all of my jobs, climbing the ranks with promotions and contributing more and more over time. Sure I’ve had some dust-ups with leadership, but nothing that really seemed to hinder my career.

Two of the companies I worked at I did so for over 10 years each. In all of those companies, there was talk of “if you cross (insert threshold here) you can take a paid sabbatical”. In both companies, I saw people take these sabbaticals.

However each time I would ask about them and the rules regarding them, I always got a “ooooh, sorry” and some excuse. Sometimes “we can’t do it right now, it’s a critical time for the business” or “you’re juuuust below the …

r/selfhosted

The 3 Stages of Self Hosting

267 comments • i.redd.it

I’m lowkey on stage 4
Petition to ban "I built" in post titles

385 comments • reddit.com

When we all know it was really Claude that built it.
Forgot and experienced true hell with :lastest

223 comments • i.redd.it

Remember to always set version numbers in your docker containers, or an unexpected update will creep up on you.

Now can you guess which popular service got a breaking change?
Reminder to BackupBeforeYouFKUP - Do you do off-site backups?

176 comments • i.redd.it

This is your reminder to check on your backups, setup backups and test your backups. 🙌

I’m currently using Duplicati with 2 local backup sites and hetzner/Google drive for remote. What are you using?
Is it safe to use a Galaxy S20 Ultra with a detached back cover as a 24/7 Minecraft server?

143 comments • i.redd.it

The back cover of my phone detached. Is it safe to use it in this condition? I plan to use this phone as a Minecraft server.

r/usenet

UsenetPrime - Back to School “Combo Block Party” - 1TB Prime + 1TB XSNews $20 | 2TB Prime + 2TB XSNews $35

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- 1TB Prime + 1TB XSNews | $20
- 2TB Prime + 2TB XSNews | $35
- Prime is a reseller of UsenetExpress
- XSNews is with Abavia
- US/EU Server Locations
- 50 connections
Back to School - Combo Block Party (click here)

Just a few combo block deals to hopefully help out as classes resume here soon!! Thanks for all the support. Welcome emails, etc have been corrected. Please PM me if you have any issues. Also, these blocks do NOT expire and can be stacked with previous purchases.
Would a second indexer or a provider on another backbone improve completion?

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Hi everyone,

I’m relatively new to Usenet and would appreciate some advice about improving the reliability of my setup.

My current setup is:
- Indexer: NZBGeek & DrunkenSlug (just got)
- Provider: UsenetServer
- Downloader: SABnzbd
- Indexer manager: Prowlarr
Recently, SABnzbd has reported missing articles on several downloads. I’m trying to determine which upgrade would provide the biggest improvement:
- A second indexer
- A block account or second provider on a different backbone
- Both
Which indexer would complement NZBGeek well?

Also, which block account or provider would complement UsenetServer while providing access to a meaningfully different backbone? I would prefer a block account rather than paying for a second unlimited subscription unless the difference is substantial.

Thanks for any recommendations.
Is it worth to get Easynews now or wait BF for newshosting + Easynews combo?

38 comments • reddit.com

ATM Easynews is $2/mo but last BF Newshosting had a deal where you get Newshosting + Easynews + Tweaknews at $1.67/mo.

Is it worth waiting to get a deal similar to that again? Even though they are all on the same backbone? I am US based and this is my first entry to Usenet, I am waiting for Ninja to open up as well.

I guess the real question is whether getting Easynews on top of Newshosting is something worth waiting for.
Indexer to comlement NZBGeek

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I’m currently using NZBGeek with Sonarr and Radarr. It works well overall, but lately I’ve come across several things that I haven’t been able to find.

I’m therefore looking for a second indexer that genuinely complements NZBGeek, rather than mostly returning the same releases.

ities are:
- Good coverage
- Older or less popular releases
- Reliable integration with Sonarr, and Radarr
Which indexer is currently the best addition to NZBGeek? I’d also be interested to hear how much the available content differs between these indexers.

What combination are you using, and does paying for a second indexer noticeably improve your results?
Greetings, I am an old fud, what am I missing, if anything?

45 comments • reddit.com

Hey, I started using Newsgroups in about 2002 and have ever since, and my MO hasn’t really changed.

I have an Eweka account, I manually search Geek and Planet for what I want, and then download it with SAB.

Works for me and always has, but am I missing out on any new fantastic things?

Thanks.

r/plex+radarr+sonarr

Elan Feingold, Plex Co-Founder and long-time CTO, quietly left the company in December 2025

222 comments • reddit.com

Yep… that’s right, and probably explains a lot.

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elanfeingold/

Kind of sad. I remember the beginnings of Plex and the first couple of years, when Elan was everywhere. He used to be the visionary, public face of the company.

Oh well… I guess venture capital and everything it entails killed his passion. Who knows.
Late Night Remote Streams

192 comments • i.redd.it

Thought it was nice to see some Remux streams at 2am
Fire Stick users: turn off automatic app updates before the new Plex app hits you

130 comments • reddit.com

If you use Plex on a Fire Stick and you still have the older app, do yourself a favour and turn off automatic app updates immediately.

The new Plex update is honestly brutal. I know some people may like the direction they’re going, but for my setup it completely wrecked the experience. The layout is worse, the usability is worse, and it feels like Plex took something that worked and decided to make it hostile to actually use.

I’m not posting this to debate every design choice. I’m posting it because if your Fire Stick updates automatically, you may not realize what happened until the app is already changed.

On Fire TV / Fire Stick, go to:

Settings → Applications → Appstore → Automatic Updates → Off

That should stop Amazon from automatically updating installed apps.

If you already got the update, you may be looking at sideloading an older APK, but that’s obviously more annoying than just preventing the update in the first place.

Maybe Plex fixes this. Maybe they don’t. But if you …
Every New Update It Gets Worse.

259 comments • reddit.com

Is it just me?

It seems like every major update of Plex seems to make it worse.

More bloat, more stuff that nobody asked for and nobody wants, more clicks to do the same things, things get slower, things move to places nobody seems to like, even small graphical changes look worse and are less intuitive, hell even the main website now takes extra clicks to get your content because after sign in you still have to go to “open app” which is of course a small and petty complaint, but its just the same thing everywhere it seems..

The small, in the background updates are great! Nice QOL fixes and added file supports and little power user tweaks. All seem to be on point.

but whoever is in charge of UI, and marketing, is just THE WORST.

It seemed like they were on a good path for awhile there, adding new isolated apps for photos, plexamp, dashboard app, etc. Were amazing! Plexamp is still my most used app, and I’d love to use the photos app as my main photo source.

Then …
Sorry, another unhappy user

285 comments • reddit.com

First, apologies.

I also hate seeing the same topic posted over and over.

However I think it’s important the volume of unhappy users is clear. This update, that UI… What the hell.

I won’t go in to details, it’s covered everywhere.

Fire stick user.

It’s horrible, slow, very unintuitive.

I honestly can’t keep telling people to use Plex over alternatives anymore…

Please think about reversing this.

Tech & Selfhosting #8

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Mailshine - Tech & Selfhosting #8

r/ExperiencedDevs

Vibecoders outside of IT playing political games - how to manage the situation?

265 comments • reddit.com

Senior engineer and technical owner of my platform, 10+ YOE.

How do you guys deal with non-technical people in the org trying to steal your entire department’s job by vibecoding some nonsense and being loud about it to senior leadership?

We’re dealing with a marketing bro that swears he can vibecode a replacement for a (different) platform we pay for because he set up his sick agent loop (token burning operation) that vibecodes ²⁴⁄₇ for him. My immediate response was to implement an agent loop for myself and create a starter prompt for the entire team to adopt the framework with minimal effort/friction.

It is extremely infuriating that these people hide behind the typical ‘haha I’m not a technical person but this is just what I put together!’ If you aren’t willing to stand behind it, then shut the fuck up and stay in your lane and quit wasting everyone’s time then?

If I, as an IT employee, put together an entire marketing master plan …
I miss when development was actually solving problems

283 comments • reddit.com

Lately I’ve been having thoughts about what the point is. Back in the day when I got into programming, I just wanted to make cool things.

I made a lot of cool things. They took time so I knew they were genuinely either unique, special, or in any other case, mine. I made twitter/reddit/discord bots, data visualizations for social media platforms, and useful tools for my communities I was involved in.

Now everything that gets created now seems to be just a load of AI crap. There’s no special-ness anymore. There is no problem solving. There is nothing. It’s just “We made an AI that does X” instead of “We solved X problem”.

It’s so ridiculous it’s genuinely killing my interest in the field. Copilot solves most of my problems at work now and I have to use it to keep up with demands from leadership + an increasingly difficult to use codebase. Tools we use otherwise like Zeplin, ms teams, etc all are only focusing on AI instead of …
Is anyone truly fulfilled by this career?

316 comments • reddit.com

I go through days of feeling grateful for the career I have, feeling motivated and looking forward to the work, and then I go through long spells where I just can’t stand it and feel trapped. Days where I truly don’t give a shit about any of it and would have no problem rubber stamping PR’s and just “getting it done”.

This isn’t about AI or anything (if anything AI has made it easier to just mentally check out), it’s just more about the job in general. The corporate feeling at most companies, building meaningless products, sitting behind a computer for 40 hours a week, the fight for recognition, the job search/interview process, really most of it.

I have a few hobbies outside of work that I enjoy, and spend time when I can with friends. My wife and I also try to make the most of the weekends. So it’s not really due to a lack of having a life outside of work, there’s just something depressing about SWE that I can’t put my finger on. It was truly fun for the first few years, but now …
The Best Part About AI For Those That Don't Use It

125 comments • reddit.com

Suddenly, developers are very interested in writing and maintaining readable documentation for processes. 😄

Edit: There seems to have been some confusion. I’m not talking about AI generated documentation. I’m talking about reading skill documents ment for teaching AI to understand how to do something without using AI.
2yrs at current company. new project is 99% ai generated. i don't know how to handle

163 comments • reddit.com

i don’t want to give away too many details but: my employer (small company) pivoted what my team was doing to focusing on a brand new project that has to be delivered by september. The issue is that the MVP was generated by Claude in its entirety and it’s very low-level code. I was assigned to this project and every time they ask me to review a PR (which can be small or thousands of lines), I either reject the task by asking someone else to review it, or approve it without really understanding what i’m approving. I feel like if I had to review it properly I would have to spend a week understanding the concepts and the codebase. But at the same time, the foundations of this project are changing rapidly, so I’m like, “what’s the point in spending time learning it?”

I don’t know how my teammates generating the code feel about this. I also don’t know if they themselves understand what Claude wrote. I already told my manager that I feel …

r/selfhosted

I self-host a tunnel in a country that actively hunts them. Here's what survives, and what keeps breaking.

171 comments • reddit.com

Threat model first, because it changes everything about the design.

I’m in Russia. My adversary isn’t a random scanner — it’s the ISPs themselves, operating under a regulator that does nationwide DPI and can null-route foreign IP ranges by geography. Assume the network operator is hostile, has full visibility of my traffic shape, and can actively probe any endpoint I stand up. I self-host a tunnel for myself and a handful of people under those conditions. I used to work at one of the ISPs, which is how I know roughly what the other side sees.
Sharing the current architecture because most self-hosted tunnel advice quietly assumes a neutral network, and none of it survives here.
Why the usual stack is dead on arrival
OpenVPN and WireGuard are both gone. Not blocked by IP — detected by shape. WireGuard’s handshake has a fixed message layout and a distinctive packet size distribution; DPI doesn’t need to decrypt anything, it just needs to recognize the silhouette. Same for OpenVPN’s …
RomM 5.0 is live! Ground-up UI redesign, new Save Sync engine, 10k+ GitHub stars & more!

200 comments • i.redd.it
Website | Github | Discord | Demo

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d be writing a release announcement for RomM 5.0, but here we are! It’s been an incredible journey building RomM alongside this amazing community, and today we’re dropping what is easily our biggest, most ambitious update yet.

Ground-up UI redesign

We’ve rebuilt the UI from scratch, with a new design system and fresh visual language. Also included are:
- Full controller and touch input support
- QR code pairing for devices
- Server-side ROM patching
- Interactive 3D boxart
- Play session tracking
- Built-in music player for your OSTs
- CRT shader mode for that authentic nostalgic aesthetic
Save sync engine

This is the first release to feature the new save sync engine, which allows you to sync your progress across devices. Cloud saves are currently limited to Argosy Launcher and Cannoli on Android, Grout on handhelds and Decky RomM Sync on the Steam Deck, but we are actively working on expanding support to …
Don't forget to check the batteries in your UPS.

99 comments • i.redd.it

It randomly shut off on me for about 15 seconds a few days ago, killing power to my PC and server.

After it turned back on the estimated runtime dropped to only 5 minutes, at a supposed full charge, but wasn’t telling me to replace the batteries. I knew they were around 5 years old so I immediately ordered replacements.

Once I pulled out the old ones I was met with this beauty. I’m glad I didn’t hesitate in ordering their replacements.
Absolute Cinema this week: Anthropic wants to ban open source models.

103 comments • i.redd.it

Oh, but illegally scraping and stealing data is okay, got it.
But sure, talk about “dangers”, Mr. Amodei, CEO of Anthropic.

“Dangerous capabilities” will then apply to any model that is actually useful, leaving the people dependent on big evil corpo, while they can push their agenda.
Piwigo is a bot trap 💀 685 legit requests, 266k from scrapers PER DAY

41 comments • i.redd.it

I have a very small german Piwigo site. Only a small amount of images are hosted there, not very relevant for any search engine. Less than 100 images I think.

In the last 24h: 685 requests from germany, 266000 from the US 😂

Its like 95% Meta, according to the user agents. Now I have to check how I can block them. Cloudflares AI Crawl Control doesnt even list it.

Its crazy how they are wasting their resources :D

And surprisingly my little 6€ VPS has no problem with the workload, so I only noticed it now.

Apparently piwigo is very good at trapping the Meta-Webindexer bot lol. Its so hilariously stupid that I wanted to share it.

I have sites with WAY more content, scrapers are no problem at all there.

r/usenet

Using both Eweka and Newshosting?

19 comments • reddit.com

Is it redundant to have both Eweka and Newshosting as my usenet providers? Can’t seem to find definite information as people say this and that. Granted those posts I found were at least a year old
Better way to Whisparr?

23 comments • reddit.com

Is there something more simple like Seerr for Whisparr things? Or is there a better way and I just don’t know what I’m doing?
Ahoy - Looking for clarification after switching over

26 comments • reddit.com

Got sick of crappy public indexers and using Qbit so decided to spend tonight making the switch to usenet.

Starting off with Newshosting, NBZGeek, and SABnzbd. I paired it all up with my existing Arr stack and so far so good. Just looking for a bit of background in terms of safety while using.

I was always very strict about using my VPN (PIA) bound to my Qbit, to the point id regularly check and test it to make sure there are no leaks. Something about using a combination of Newshosting, SAB, and NBZGeek seems like a lot of doors im opening. I made use to use SSL when setting up connection between Newshosting and SAB, but is that really all I need?

Just trying to determine if by making this switch, should i be expecting any letters/theoretical knocks on my door anytime soon? A bound VPN to my client gave me somewhat of a reassurance, but I am still unsure about this new setup and wondering if there is anything else I should be doing to protect myself.

Thanks in advance

Dognzb finally updated and improved!

25 comments • reddit.com

DOGnzb 2.04 DOGnzb 2.04 is currently in development. Search Preferences

Added a Legacy search bar option to Profile > Settings for all members.
The compact V1 search bar is available only on Browse and includes category selection and Search History.
Legacy Search does not include the advanced options available in Global Search.
The / keyboard shortcut is not available while Legacy Search is enabled.
Search mode changes now take effect immediately after saving Profile settings.

DOGnzb 2.03 DOGnzb 2.03 was developed between July 20 and July 23, 2026. Watchlist Automation

Added Preferred Keywords for TV and Movie Watchlists.
Preferred groups and service names are prioritized when matching releases, while standard matches remain available as a fallback.
Preferred Keywords are now considered by scheduled Watchlist processing, Series and Movie Managers, bookmarks and Upgrades.
TV Watchlist entries can now be removed immediately, after 30 days, after the current season or after the …

What is the most modern and up-to-date open-source Usenet indexer today? (Demos/Screenshots?)

7 comments • reddit.com

Hi everyone,

I’m looking to set up an open-source Usenet indexer. I’ve noticed that many classic projects like nZEDb are no longer actively maintained.

What is currently the most modern, actively developed, and up-to-date open-source Usenet indexer stack? I’m looking for something optimized, ideally supporting Docker, de-obfuscation, and a solid Newznab-compatible API.

Also, if there are any live demos or screenshots available for the recommended projects, I’d really appreciate it if you could share them!

Thanks in advance!

r/plex+radarr+sonarr

Any clue wtf happened here?

141 comments • i.redd.it


I complained about vape advertisements on free kids shows & it seems to have changed!

16 comments • reddit.com

I sent a couple of messages complaining about vape advertisements on kids shows and they’ve seemed to be removed.

Posting bc good news
Just had the new Plex client foisted upon me. I think it has raised my blood pressure.

82 comments • reddit.com

My Fire TV stick updated to the new client last week and at first glance, I thought, “oh cool, it has a refreshed interface, more options, etc.” but after using it for a week, I cannot believe how bad this is. I literally use Plex less because of it. I thought y’all were exaggerating when you said it was bad.

The new player makes me want to snap my remote in half. There is so much lag everywhere. It does that weird thing where when you scrub through the video and stop, it may or may not be in the paused state so you’re waiting for it to buffer, only it’s paused with absolutely no indication that it’s paused.

And what in the unholy nightmare is the new “loading” animation? Only a psychopath could think up something so sickening. I don’t even know how to describe it.

Please tell me there’s a way to downgrade…
Plex is down AGAIN???

248 comments • reddit.com

Can’t access my libraries on https://app.plex.tv, I can access them on through http://IP:32400/web

Absolutely nothing changed on my machine.
Anyone with the same issue?
Maximum Users Reached - 4 Users??

25 comments • i.redd.it

I have the Plex Lifetime Pass and was trying to add a user but got this message. I only have 4 accounts with library access

Is this some kind of bug? Aren’t you supposed to be able to add ~100 users?

Tech & Selfhosting #7

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Mailshine - Tech & Selfhosting #7

r/ExperiencedDevs

Word vomit tech plans and spikes

200 comments • reddit.com

Does anyone else find the latest tech plans and spikes written by devs to be word vomits by AI? Don’t get me wrong, I’m ok with getting AI to write things for you as long as you understand what it wrote. But most things are just beating around the bush, and not getting to the real point concisely. I have to get my own agents to summarize the plans to figure out the important parts. Has anyone found a good solution for this? Are there any templates your team follow or any skills that you use?
are most of the jobs in the linkedin jobs section just fake now?

124 comments • reddit.com

i just saw someone share a story that they opened 2 AI engineer roles this week. In a bit more than a day, 600+ applications came in. That’s generally at least 4x more than they get for the other Engineering roles. On top of that, 30+ pitches on LinkedIn, 5 via work email, 3 via personal and 4 agencies reached out to them, and they’re not even the hiring manager

there are so many obvious Ai written posts on the linkedin frontpage everyday where it is announcing a new project they made, some platitude or lecture, or “advice”. the amount of Ai noise makes me want to punch sam altman

i just finished having 2 silent weeks in a row, meaning i have zero replies after applying to jobs and reaching out to people for various reasons. most linkedin jobs are just reposts for the appearance of keeping up growth

where do you usually go now to apply and build a steady pipeline. i dont want to rely plainly on cold dms from staffing agencies
What workplace philosophy has stayed with you over the years?

235 comments • reddit.com

Over the years, I’ve heard a few things at work that have stuck with me: - Spend more to earn more. - Don’t box yourself. - Life is not a sprint, it’s a marathon.

These changed how I think about work and my career.

What’s one workplace philosophy or mindset that has stayed with you?

Question may or may not be relevant, but with all the AI-related uncertainty, I wanted to hear some philosophies or motivations that have helped people keep moving forward.
Cheapest way to host about a postgress db of about 30tb ?

116 comments • reddit.com

Im not well versed in devops work and i will need to setup a rougly 30-35tb db for a client. Anybody got a recommendation of what to look for?

performance is of basically no concern, simple queries, only the monthly price (and it being an ok provider i guess).

I usually use Hetzner since im based in Europe, but prices are pretty unaffordable and i can only find configurations that also have a very high end CPU and 3x the storage i need, for a very expensive price, or ones that don’t have enough storage….
Beyond 10+ years of experience, how do you actually build and maintain a strong professional network?

66 comments • reddit.com

Personally speaking, I feel that beyond 10 years of experience, referrals and professional contacts work 9 out of 10 times compared to relying on job portals and random applications.

I’ve seen a few of my former leads and managers who have built such strong relationships that if they decide to switch jobs, people are ready to hire or refer them almost immediately, sometimes without even going through the usual interview process.

How do you maintain those relationships after changing jobs? Do you regularly stay in touch with ex-colleagues, attend meetups, help people, or is there something else you do to keep your network active without it feeling forced?

I’m quite bad at networking. Even after 13 years of experience, I still mostly depend on job portals whenever I look for opportunities.

For those who have built a strong network, how did you do it? What habits or approach helped you reach that point?

r/selfhosted

I got tired of having to go the toilet - so I built an app to do it

248 comments • reddit.com

I don’t know what I’m doing but I asked Gemini and it built it for me. I haven’t really studied this and have no way to test in other environments, so I don’t really know if its production ready, or what production ready is. But the AI told me I am the Design Architect, which brought me to tears. I always wanted to be an architect.

Anyway, I decided to make it a SaaS, charge a monthly subscription of a lot more than what people would be willing to pay if it worked, and am seriously going to post this in the selfhosted subreddit without seeing the irony in it.

Here are some 30-day free trial codes. They may not work.
I analyzed 30 days of traffic hitting my homelab reverse proxy. 1.16 million requests were attacks. Here's what they're actually looking for.

265 comments • reddit.com
Like most of you I run a bunch of services behind Nginx Proxy Manager (Emby, *arr stack, some personal apps, ~40 proxy hosts). I always knew the internet background noise was there, but I never actually measured it. So I pulled 30 days of NPM access logs (June 19 – July 19) and wrote a parser to separate real traffic from scanner/attack traffic.

I expected it to be bad. It was worse, and also weirder, than I thought.

FIRST: I WANT TO START A NICE DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS TOPIC - and thats why I bring in some numbers. Share your experience!

The headline numbers
- 5.4 million total requests in 30 days
- 1,158,788 of them (21.4%) were malicious(scans, exploit probes, brute force…)
- That’s ~38,600 attack requests per day
- From 10,316 unique IPs across 100+ countries
- This is a private webserver. Nothing here is popular…this is just what every public IPv4 with port 443 open gets. …
Codeberg bans vibe coded projects

160 comments • news.ycombinator.com

Codeberg seems to ban vibecoded Projects; reason might be german copyright law

It looks like Codeberg want only copyrighted material in their service, so it is reliable in the future that e.g. licenses must be followed (e.g. GPL), and copyright doesn’t suddenly get declared as being of the model owner, and it isn’t a copy of something else.
That is a cautious reasonable position - in early days of LLM coding (3 years ago!) indemnity from model companies was a major issue globally because of the lack of clarity of the law around this. The US specifically has settled on it being (effectively?) public domain. But I don’t think that is fully settled, and it certainly isn’t settled in international copyright law.
The goal of the vague “mostly” in the Codeberg change is to ensure there is enough human input to the code they host, to be reasonably sure under German copyright law it is copyright of the person sharing it.

edit: link to poll that caused it …
Impersonator copied my AGPL V3 open source project code and released on Play store with added ads for profit, what can I do?

120 comments • reddit.com

I am the developer of an fairly popular OSS project (which has Windows, Mac, Linux binaries and a play store app - all built directly from source code with Github CI/CD) which is completely free to use and 100% private and no ads.

Someone copied the project, the only “enhancement” they made was adding personalized in-app ads to the project and released it as their own app with some catchy keywords and the same project name - “Open DroneLog” but with a different identifier *com.opendronelogandroid.poser.py* instead of the one I have com.opendronelog

I find this so insulting to the OSS community. I could only leave a review and report it as inappropriate - but I am not sure if that changes anything. What can I do as a developer of the project?

Edit : Thank you everyone who reported the counterfeit app, It DID work and it was removed from the Play Store as far as I can see. We did it together :)
This furry convention I’m attending has a panel on selfhosting

107 comments • i.redd.it

r/usenet

Announcing NZBFAST - a free open source nzb downloader that's really fast and full featured

152 comments • reddit.com

Hi all - mods OK’d for me to post this. I’m the developer, so flagging that up front.

i’ve spent the last while building nzbfast - a usenet downloader written in Rust

it’s now at the point where I’d really like people other than me & close friends to kick the tyres

why do we need yet another nzb downloader?

i wanted something faster and lighter than the usual suspects. It has all the capabilities of nzbget and sabnzbd, but its faster, smaller, uses less ram and less disk space.

it verifies articles *while* downloading instead of doing a separate verify pass afterwards and it does its best with optimised code - to download at wire speed.

its one-pass. It does everything at the same time fully overlapped - downloading, verifying, extracting, and renaming etc. No 2nd pass like the others do.

the code is very optimised, so that it can run on low end cpus, with not much memory… though it thrives if you give it a fast internet connection, some ram, …
Curious if someone has analyzed the coverage of Usenet providers/indexers to some of the top private torrent sites.

29 comments • reddit.com

How does Usenet compare to PTP etc. In the end are the private torrent sites worth adding if you have Usenet?
Does DrunkenSlug ever offer lifetime memberships?

17 comments • reddit.com

Maybe on BlackFriday? Have they ever done this in the past?

I am a member, I am not asking for an invite.
House of Usenet down?

57 comments • reddit.com

Ich war jetzt ne Zeit nicht online, aber mindestens seit ich es vor zwei Tagen nutzen wollte, erreiche ich weder house-of-usenet noch scenenzbs die ja eng zusammenarbeiten. Bei HoU bekomme ich einen 502 Bad Gateway Fehler. Jemand ne Ahnung was da los ist? Geht das schon länger nicht?
NewsGroupDirect data usuage question

4 comments • i.redd.it

I bought 50 GB block usage on 5/11/26. My SABnzbd counter shows I used 10.4 GB since the purchase, whereas NewsGroupDirect says their counters are more accurate than SABnzbd, and I exceeded the 50 GB data block. In my account history, 250 GB blocks lasted 2.5-3 years consecutively, going back to 2014. Does anyone have experience with something like this?

r/plex+radarr+sonarr

Plex is down.. again. This is getting pretty old for something that’s supposed to be self-hosted.

469 comments • reddit.com

I’ve got local auth and DLNA setup, yet no access to my own server via any client apps. Yay.
Well dear me, this isn't looking very good, and most of my stuff is already 1080p HEVC... How are you all handling running out of storage these days? Deleting stuff? Just sucking it up and buying more storage?

433 comments • i.redd.it

Looked at the price of a new 24TB drive and almost had a heart attack. For now I think I’ll stop downloading things and actually try watching the shit I’ve downloaded lol. I’ll probably leave my remaining storage for new seasons of shows that I already have, since I’m kinda weird about not having seasons of the same show split across multiple drives.
If your Plex UI is slow, specifically the recommended tab, check for old tuners.

54 comments • reddit.com

My Plex instance runs on a powerhouse of a server and the SQLite DB is on an Optane 905P. Yet, for some time my interface (on nvidia shield pro) has been unbearable slow in some aspects, specifically the “Recommended” tabs for any given library.

Today I used Claude Code to review the logs and try to help me figure out wtf is going on and lo and behold, it found TWO old HDHomeRun tuners configured that did not show up in UI. They were so old they were on a completely different network (192.168.1.x) than I currently use (10.x) and on any page that used Plex /hub endpoint were causing over a 20s delay any time I tried to load those tabs until they would time out.

Anyhow, now my interface is back to normal. Just figured I’d share in case it helps anyone.
No downloads for new users without Plex Pass

149 comments • reddit.com

I’ve been using Plex for quite some years and before the first price increase I bought the Plex Lifetime subscription. I was never one to agree that you should pay to be able to stream over the internet but oh well… Personally I enjoyed the other features and Plex just worked so I just ignored that.

Today a new user was added to the Plex server and they created their account this month. For some reason they couldn’t download media, which was weird since every other user could.

So apparently, even if the owner has Plex Pass, the user to be able to download without a Plex Pass needs to have their account created before 2022/08/01…

https://preview.redd.it/69k5y6ifyueh1.png?width=628&format=png&auto=webp&s=718f043b9edcb9933bebe8c0515aa91ee6aaa6d0

source: https://support.plex.tv/articles/downloads-sync-faq/

I feel like this is the dumbest thing* ever…

Edit:
Im not saying Plex should be free. I’ve paid for the software.
Im not asking …
The onn 4K Pro is the best Plex streaming box I've used.

208 comments • reddit.com

I just want to share my success with this in case it helps someone here make a choice about a streaming box. As with anything like this: Your mileage may vary.

I’d always used Roku, but my roku was starting to deteriorate. The memory card went bad (or the roku fried it), videos that worked before were dropping after just a few seconds (while playing fine via Plex elsewhere), some videos were choppy for no good reason (and played fine elsewhere as well). The Roku itself is getting bloated with ads that have to load before the menus can, and just getting sluggish in general.

I tried the Apple TV, and it was honestly great, but the plex controls were weird, and it made my SofaBaton remote lock up daily. It many other viewers’ circumstances it would be perfect for their needs. I mention this to say, I’ve been on a years’ long journey to get a box that didn’t annoy me around every corner.

People had been mentioning the $60 onn 4K Pro as a good option and …

Tech & Selfhosting #6

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Mailshine - Tech & Selfhosting #6

r/ExperiencedDevs

"Code was never the hard part"

384 comments • reddit.com
I am sick and tired of all the posts (usually AI-generated by CEOs/CTOs/“thought leaders”) that start with “Code was never the {bottleneck, problem, hard part, …}.” I’m not sure whether this comes from a misunderstanding of what code is or a deliberate misrepresentation meant to promote AI usage.

For starters, two rhetorical questions. If code was never the hard part, why:
- do hundreds of different programming paradigms, languages, libraries, frameworks, design patterns, and system architectures exist? Granted, some of this is just programmers bikeshedding. Still, plenty of it reflects substantial differences and tradeoffs.
- didn’t you write it yourselves or hire a bunch of minimum-wage workers to do it for you instead of having to hire a ton of highly skilled (and highly paid) engineers?
A charitable explanation is that these people are genuinely clueless about what “coding” actually is. Perhaps in their mind coding is just …
"I don't know" is severely underrated in our profession

134 comments • reddit.com

> If you are a senior, don’t tell juniors to do something that you aren’t certain that is right and that you believe that it is right because another senior told you to do that when you were a junior. Don’t be a parrot.

Excerpt from https://lucasoshiro.github.io/posts-en/2024-04-08-please_dont_squash/

I don’t think I’m unreasonable to believe that engineering judgment should demand reasoning and evidence. And yet, across five companies, including big tech, I have repeatedly watched engineers choose instinct, convention, and authority. Many barely skim the documentation, much less read books or papers. Yet they confidently repeat “facts” they cannot explain with anything more substantial than:

- “This is how we do it.”

- “I believe I’m right.”

Or, God forbid:

- “Claude said it.”

More recently, I met self-described “AI engineers” who had not seriously studied prompt design or evaluation practices; they just winged it and hoped for the best.

The best engineer I ever …
Why do I rarely see women Principal Engineers or senior ICs with 20+ years of experience?

541 comments • reddit.com

This is simply an observation from my career, not a criticism.

I’ve noticed that I rarely come across women Principal Engineers or senior individual contributors (ICs) with 20+ years of experience.

Do many women developers tend to move into engineering management after 10–15 years, or is my observation just due to the companies I’ve worked at?

For those with long careers in tech, what has your experience been? What factors do you think contribute to this?
What are some technical books and blogs with a great signal-to-noise ratio?

52 comments • reddit.com

Maybe it’s just me, but it feels like it’s getting harder and harder to find sources of information that (a) don’t try to sell something, (b) have a high SNR, © are not entirely generated or rewritten by LLMs.

Here are some recent findings from me that match the criteria:

* https://brandur.org/
This is a great blog from Brandur Leach who writes a lot about Go, Ruby, and Postgres. Brandur used to work at Heroku and Stripe, and now he works on his own project.

* https://increment.com/
Speaking of Stripe, they have this fantastic magazine (now abandoned, I believe) on various software engineering subjects.

* https://notes.eatonphil.com/
Also a very DB-heavy blog from Phil Eaton.

* https://www.morling.dev/blog/

Lots of insights on Kafka, Postgres, API best practices

* https://www.seangoedecke.com
Sean is one of my favorite authors. His post on good software design is a gem, in my opinion. https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-system-design/

* Designing …
Did you miss the chance to switch for a higher salary during COVID?

154 comments • reddit.com

How many of you missed the high-paying offers during the COVID hiring boom and are still working at the same company?

Do you ever feel you missed the chance to significantly increase your salary by switching jobs during that period?

Looking back, do you regret staying, or did it work out well for you in the long run?

r/selfhosted

It's 3am on a Saturday, now i get it

172 comments • i.redd.it
I’ve a 32gb server that had an initial attempt of a file storage; today i didnt have much to do so I restarted this project.

8 hours later
- Secured the server for remote development through ssh,
- Learn about podman compose (all my homies hate docker desktop now)
- Setup nginx proxy manager (how could I not live with this)
- New domain for our home with the respective A records for subdomains and force ssl.
- New service for movies(Jellyfin)
- ~~New service Gitea~~ New Forgejo(all my homies hate github and Gitea)
- New service search engine for privacy (searxng)
- New openwebui + ollama (had previously lmstudio+openwebui)
- New immich (thank you for the suggestion)
Pending
- OpenNotebook
- ~~Photo storage (heard about nextCloud, hoping to migrate from Google Photos)~~
- Add Cron to copy to another drive said multimedia
- Implement AdGuard
- Dashboard? Graphana? suggestions?
- At this point, PagerDuty? lol this is a jk…unless?
Edit: Removed Gitea and added Forgejo to the family, also added Immich to …
Chat Control 1.0 was passed through the Backdoor, while most of the MP where on vacation, driven by Roberta Metsola, President of the European parliament. 2.0 yet to come. Time to self-host even more than before?

261 comments • i.redd.it
This subreddit used to be fun

340 comments • reddit.com

This subreddit used to be a fun place for me to get fresh ideas of cool projects to self-host and hear about people’s experiences, and seeing people build things, even sometimes with 32GB or 64GB of RAM.

Now I feel like many of the posts are talking about: some new ai slop app someone vibe coded overnight, while drinking too many red-bulls, or about how lucky someone is to have just bought a M1 MacBook with 8GB RAM.

Is it just me?
I preferred the old world… 😀
Pocket ID is now OpenID Connect Certified™ + OAuth 2.0 API support

57 comments • reddit.com

Hey everyone

I just wanted to share this because we are pretty proud of this milestone. Since v2.10.0 Pocket ID is now OpenID Connect Certified™ which means that we pass all tests of the OpenID Connect test suite.

Additionally we’ve introduced the support for OAuth 2.0 APIs and permissions (or in more technical terms “resource servers” and “scopes”). This is very useful if you are building your own application and you want to delegate authorization and authentication completely to Pocket ID.

Our main goal remains the same; make Pocket ID as easy-to-use as possible while providing the features that matter most. I hope you’re enjoying Pocket ID! If you have any questions, feel free to join our Discord. And if you have ideas for new features or improvements, please share your suggestions on GitHub.

If you’ve never heard of Pocket ID, it is an easy-to-use OpenID Connect Certified™ and OAuth 2.0 provider that lets users sign in to your …
PSA - root access vulnerability in tailscale ssh

56 comments • tailscale.com

If you use tailscale ssh, you rely on ACLs, and anyone else in your tailnet you should update as soon as possible. Even if you’re alone in your tailscale don’t write off the possibility of chained vulnerabilities.

Generally, when it comes to something as important as ssh, consider using openssh instead.

r/usenet

nzb360 v24 Released :: Now with Radarr 2.0!

58 comments • play.google.com
the good times

30 comments • reddit.com

I used usenet in the late 80’s and 90’s for development purposes and social commentary, and this reddit place is an f’ing disgrace compared that culture. Jesus. They delete your comments for the most benign stuff. The monitoring is pathological. They “promote” free speech values but act like the worst hall monitors. I wrote a comment Opposing naziism and the holocaust and got threatened with a ban. I miss the the old usenet you accessed via a terminal.
How is Drunkenslug different to other Usenet Indexers? Is it worth it over others like NZBGeek and Althub?

48 comments • reddit.com

Hey there lads, just coming on here asking what the real difference is between Drunkenslug and other indexers like Nzbgeek and Althub.

For some context, yes, I am on Drunkenslug. My subscriptions for Nzbgeek and Althub are expiring and I’m on a tight budget, so I’m debating which one is worth paying for: lifetime nzbgeek, lifetime althub, or paying for drunkenslug each year.

It’s pretty expensive compared to the others being 25 euros a year for the Unlimited plan (which is the one I’ll need), is it really worth it over lifetime nzbgeek and althub?
Permanently banned because of what? (scenenzbs)

76 comments • reddit.com

So I just noticed, that scenenzbs.com moved to treasure-maps.com, idk why I haven’t got notified but that’s not my problem.

I tired to log into their website, because I saw, that the login stays the same. After login in, this message popped up:

https://preview.redd.it/e5081c5ot0dh1.png?width=1714&format=png&auto=webp&s=f839cc4586eec056c60ba8f0dd4056ea1af25e9f

I have no idea how this could’ve happen, because I only use one account and I don’t share it with someone else.

Did anyone ever had the same problem and is there something I can do about it, or do I just need to create a new account and pay again? If so, how can I prevent it from happening again?

-—————————————————————————————————————————

EDIT:

I …
Digital Carange IP Ban

8 comments • reddit.com

Anyone have a support email for Digital Carange. I got a discord alert that I had been booted from the discord channel because i no longer had an account. I attempted to just visit the website to try to find one, but i can’t even load the site because it says I am IP banned from loading it.

I am paid up until June 2029. I just visited the site in the last two weeks, so it’s not like I would appear as dormant to them. I checked my other indexers and none of them have any crazy API hits happening to them, so I don’t think it would be an issue of me flooding their server inadvertently.

Thank you for any help you can offer.

r/plex+radarr+sonarr

I have a confession…

565 comments • reddit.com

My name is u/CoppellCitizen and I have recently downgraded almost my entire library to 1080p and below.

To be honest, I was the only person in my house (also out of the house) who truly appreciated 4K. Since that was the case, I decided to just downgrade my movies and gain back much needed HDD space.

Have no fear, the movies I love the most on 4K stayed that way, but the vast majority of my library didn’t warrant the 4K appreciation if I was the only one who cared. My wife and kids have not said a thing about the quality change so in the long run it’s a win. To be completely frank, 1080p looks really good on our 4K TVs.
Plex services are down [7/14/26 10:25am CST]

416 comments • reddit.com

I’ve noticed that I can’t match any new content that I add to my server. Watchlist also appears to be down.

Plex.tv is even down. Not good.

*Edit: Keep checking https://status.plex.tv/ for updates and resolutions. As of 12:20pm CDT, some things may still be acting up. Some users report things working though. I can use my local server and match newly added items now.

*Edit 2: It looks like everything is fully operational as of 12:40 CDT
How do I hide the 3/5ths of useless bullshit in the Plex iOS app?

41 comments • i.redd.it
What's a show you have that you think others might not have?

905 comments • i.redd.it

I love this show.
Can someone explain the outages?

181 comments • reddit.com

I was surprised that Plex’s internal servers being down caused peoples’ servers to go down. I always thought that Plex servers ran locally on devices and didn’t rely on Plex’s own servers to run them…

Am I missing something?

It reminds me of EA’s Sim City issue back in the day, when they tried to make an offline game always online.

Tech & Selfhosting #5

Sat, 11 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Mailshine - Tech & Selfhosting #5

r/ExperiencedDevs

Juniors are valuable and not hiring them is a mistake

196 comments • reddit.com

yes, it takes more work to write reasonably scoped tickets for a junior and then review their code than it does to just write it yourself or slopmaxx it with claude.

that has inherent value, though. having impressionable juniors around forces your team to keep their shit together, keep standards high, keep the DX and documentation good.

richard feynman, in addition to being a samba percussionist, lockpicker, and nobel-prize-winning physicist, had a lot to say about education and his technique for learning things was to teach them to someone else using simple language. having to mentor juniors has forced me to grow more than anything else i’ve done at my job.

orgs which get rid of co-ops/juniors are quietly* harming themselves in a way that can’t be immediately measured, but which has long-term negative consequences.

agree, disagree, any interesting experiences mentoring a junior where you learned something from it?

^(*yes, ai has turned my brain to slime, thank you for …
Devs who make or have made printer drivers: what's the deal?

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I’ve been making software for over 10 years and I am genuinely curious what goes on with companies that make printers. It struck me, after pulling my hair out trying to print a 2 page paper form, that I’ve been struggling with printers for decades at this point.

Is there some insane culture at companies that make printers that makes the software and/or drivers terrible? Do they not test? Do they hire their managers under bridges? Are they drunk all the time?

For a while I thought it had to be some connectivity issue. Some bad connection problem that would be resolved with a solid Ethernet connection. When that didn’t work I bought a USB printer and that also didn’t solve it. I’ve tried different brands. Then I thought it had to be the Windows print queue just being useless. I then got a Mac and the same crap happens on Mac as it does on Windows.

After years of fiddling, clearing queues, reinstalling drivers, plugging and unplugging, restarting, finding …
Reliance on LLMs is killing people's mental models and stripping people of the ability to process the information and generate ideas/insights in the background - when resting.

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I used to be able to see to fully visualize the solutions I wrote manually in my mind and navigate these solutions line by line, having a strong mental model of how things connect, what lives where, what are the alternatives etc.

But then I took a LLM to the brain… Anybody else seeing people’s mental models degrade gradually over time? In some cases - a significant degradation? Also - people over-relying on tools, offloading their thinking to the pattern of “just 1 more question…” and coming up with solid stuff themselves less and less often?

Here’s a sensational hypothesis - perhaps we’re gradually approaching the death of our brains when it comes to creative and complicated tasks?

IMHO, complexity is a relative thing - if your brain gets accustomed to solving complex problems by going through them methodically and slowly, then you’re capable of solving hard problems more often, with better judgement and confidence. But if you …
What's the best advice you've received from a manager or senior developers?

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What’s the best advice or feedback you’ve received from a manager, senior developer, or colleague that changed the way you think or work?

I’d love to hear the advice and how it impacted you.
Appropriate behaviour when on call

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Okay, this might be a ridiculous question, but my current job is the first time I’ve ever really had to be on call, with a chance for calls that need immediate action in the middle of the night. It’s typically been fine and I haven’t even gotten that many alerts to respond to. However, last night, while on call, I unthinkingly had a couple glasses of wine before getting an 11PM page and having to go fix something. Now, this wasn’t a problem, I could resolve the problem just fine, but my immediate reaction was shit, that’s unprofessional. It didn’t occur to me that drinking on call was like drinking on the job until I got the actual page. Are there any other common behaviours that you guys think can/should be avoided when on call that are easy enough to forget is fine on your time, but not when you might have work to do?

r/selfhosted

Girlfriend approved homeserver setup

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I recently moved in with my girlfriend and we were trying to find solutions for the computers and hard drives I want to have attached to the modem.

We found this Ikea Gillersberg coffee table/shelf hybrid for 35€ and it was a perfect solution!
Wealthfolio v3.6 released: the local-first investment tracker is now a full personal finance app (net worth, spending, goals, FIRE simulations), now with SSO

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Wealthfolio is an open source, local-first finance tracker I’ve been building for a couple of years (~8k stars now). It started as an investment tracker, but as of this release it covers the whole picture: investments, net worth, spending, goals, and FIRE / retirement simulations (when can I stop working, what happens if I change my savings rate).

New in 3.6, with self-hosters specifically in mind:
• SSO / OIDC authentication — one of the most requested features here, so you can bring your own identity provider instead of a separate login
• Multilingual support, short positions, tax recording, and rebalancing

Self-hosting is first-class: Dockerfile and compose.yml in the repo, plus Proxmox and Unraid guides. There are also desktop apps for macOS, Windows, and Linux if you prefer. Either way, everything lives in a local SQLite database, no account required, and your financial data never touches our servers.

The app is free and open source (AGPL). The one optional paid add-on is …
Banning Slop Posts

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Can’t we just ban them via a (more detailed) low-effort rule?

I don’t mean experienced and skilled developers using AI to assist in their projects. I am talking about reoccurring posts almost always in this scheme:

- Tagged as non AI “oh i thought it was about the post not the project”. (No, you lied.)

- “I sketched/architected/hand-designed the structure myself and only used AI to help me write code.” (You did shit.)

- “The post was written by myself to describe my project.” (It clearly wasn’t. Everyone knows this.)

Some of the time these projects are closed source too, looking for some free testers and/or aren’t in any other means providing any value to this community.

It isn’t about just scrolling past them. It’s about dishonest people flooding this sub trying to take advantage of the people in here.
SparkyFitness turns One - A Self-Hosted alternative for MyFitnessPal, Flo, Hevy, Shotsy & More

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Hey All,

I can’t believe it’s already been a year since this project started! When I created SparkyFitness, I never expected it to grow into a full-time passion project. Huge thanks to this community for giving me the opportunity to build a tool that helps you and your families stay healthy.

We just crossed 4.5k+ users and have 73 amazing developers contributing to the project. We are scaling faster than ever and even gained over 1,000 GitHub stars in just the last month alone!

We’re evolving way past legacy calorie and exercise tracking. Recently, we’ve added several major features:
- Period cycle and pregnancy tracking
- Comprehensive medication management
- GLP-1 medication tracking
If you haven’t tried SparkyFitness yet, I’d love for you to give it a spin and let us know what you think.

The main reason for this post is to get your input on our upcoming Workout & Exercise module for our mobile app. The third screenshot attached shows what we have …
DroppedNeedle (formerly Musicseerr) - self-hosted music request, discovery, and downloads, now with no Lidarr

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Hello everyone, my name is Harvey - I’m a backend software engineer from the UK. Some of you might remember a project I shared here a while back called Musicseerr. An unbelievable amount has happened since then, and development has continued steadily. V2 is now here. Rebranded: DroppedNeedle.

It started as a way to bridge slskd and Lidarr - search for music and request it straight to Lidarr, a bit like the Seerr/*arr flow. The further I got, the more I kept hitting the limits of leaning on Lidarr for the library side - so I replaced it. DroppedNeedle now scans, tags, fingerprints, and organises your library itself, and finds and downloads music on its own. Lidarr is gone entirely, which (along with the rename) is why it’s jumping to v2.0.0.

Point it at your own Soulseek (via slskd) and/or Usenet (via SABnzbd, with built-in Newznab indexers) and it searches, downloads, verifies, and imports - whole albums or single tracks.

It currently supports:
- Native library engine - …

r/usenet

Scene NZB url changed.

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Now called https://treasure-maps.com/

same login and password
HoU House of Usenet Registration is open

19 comments • reddit.com

I just discovered that signing up works just fine. You don’t need to enter an invite code, even though the field is always active. Have fun 😊.
Treasure Maps - Birthday Promo

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I just saw that Treasure Maps (formerly SceneNZBs) is celebrating its 4th birthday and is running a birthday promo until July, 12th 2026, 10 p.m. CEST.

180 extra days for the yearly subscription.

You can find the URL for this Usenet indexer in the Wiki (registration is open):
https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/indexers/

I just wanted to let you know.
NewsgroupDirect Terabyte Tuesday is back! 1TB block for $10.

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Got the e-mail this morning. The block doesn’t expire.

https://newsgroupdirect.com/member/billing/?plan=40d0&deal=2xrjEW1PSi4qnkxE
just started today, i have some questions...

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so i decided to dip my toes into usenet to see kind of whats going on over here. so for the downloader i’m using sabnzbd. its simple. straight forward. no big deal. for the indexer i’m using nzbplanet. not sure if there are better ones or whatever, but thats where i’m starting, and for the provider i set up frugal for a one month use to get a hang of how things work.

i tested a few downloads, tweaked some settings, and things are humming along, but then i’ll go to download something and it will fail. it will say multiple articles missing, and then just dumps out. are these things just lost to time? or are there alternate ways to find the missing pieces? i think thats where i’m needing help in understanding because i’m used to using p2p, but then you are at the mercy of if someone is online or not. and i’ve used websites that interface with cloud download lockers, but with those you nearly have to maintain a rapidgator premium sub to download …

r/plex+radarr+sonarr

ANOTHER Reason Watch Together is amazing

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I know they “dropped support” once it stops working it stops working, I know regardless of support from people they’re ignoring it, but another to the pile.

Small thing- But rewatching Cyberpunk Anime S01 with my Dad, whom prefers dub, I prefer sub.

It syncs video, but lets the individual users choice audio type and if subtitles or not seperately, its a small thing, but damn is that ever fantastic.

Consider this a acknowledgment of the dev(s) that designed this and thank you for even thinking about the smallest of details like that, even if it never comes out on the new crap app version, thank you for it existing to begin with, but also COME ON PLEASE KEEP IT AND BRING IT BACK TO THE OTHER DEVICES YOU KILLED IT FOR!!
Just a little personal achievement!

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The most I’ve had simultaneously is 5 (probably more but I was probably not awake) but I’m quite thrilled to see such a number tuning at the same time tonight! I feel like Netflix, haha
How are you handling running out of space in 2026?

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Hi,

Just curious how are you handling running out of space in 2026? I probably have about 16 - 24 TB of space left on my server (total space for all media is about 193 TB). I really don’t want to delete any content. Are you just sucking it up and purchasing new drives? If not, are you deleting media, and how are you determining which media to delete? I’m deciding on which way I want to go? Most of my movies are blu-ray remuxes, and tv/anime are 1080p. About 98% of my music is lossless (Flac/Hi-res). I have a few people that watch stuff and request stuff to be added. Unfortunately, I don’t see the storage prices coming down anytime soon, and honestly I don’t think they ever will go back to what we used to call normal. Even refurb/used drive prices are crazy high.

Edit:

In case anyone was wondering this is my current server. It’s old hardware but it works:

Dell PowerEdge T430

Xeon CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz (2 processors)

128 GB ECC RAM - I’ve …
TV Show Editions Release

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Source: Plex Forum
Category: Announcements
Posted by: PlexInfo — July 9, 2026

Today we’re opening up Editions for TV Shows to Plex Pass subscribers.

If you’ve ever had both a dubbed and original-language version of an anime show in your library, or The Wire in 4:3 and the remastered 16:9, you know the awkwardness: they’re the same show, but they’re not, and Plex had no clean way to treat them as two distinct things.

You may already be familiar with Editions from movies. Same idea: when you have two genuinely different releases of a TV show (not just different quality encodes of the same content) you can label them as separate editions. Each gets its own listing in your library, tracked independently for watch status, ratings, and metadata.

Some examples of where this comes in handy:
- Dubbed vs. original-language releases (anime fans, you know who you are)
- Color and black-and-white editions of the same series (Spider Noir)
- Shows re-released in a different …
Anyone else have a friend where most of your conversations these days are just them asking you if you can add something on Plex?

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I have a lifelong friend, we live on opposite sides of the country now, great friends and all that. But these days the majority of our texts are just him asking if I can add something on Plex. It’s maybe like once every 2 weeks. No biggie. I mean, I rarely text with most of my good friends anyway. Everyone moved and got busy, classic stuff in your 30s.

Anyway, just kind of a bummer lmao. But we still catch up sometimes and see each other when we’re in town.

Also, getting ahead of it, I don’t want to set up Ombi or anything (tried it and I didn’t like it). I really don’t want to give people any freedom when HDDs are so expensive or deal with the security or explaining how it works etc.

Just curious if anyone can relate. I know the solution (if I even feel like saying anything), it’s just nice to hear someone can relate.

Tech & Selfhosting #4

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Mailshine - Tech & Selfhosting #4

r/ExperiencedDevs

The more I advance my career the less I want to work with same level engineers

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I started from the bottom now I am here, working as a Sr.Eng for a major software company with several very technically skilled engineers.
I also know many people who work for the most prestigious companies of our times: FAANG, AI, Fintech…

I have realised that I don’t really connect them on a personal level and I don’t like working with them much.
Not because of toxicity (Never had a truly toxic coworker or employer yet) but because of the following personality and cultural characteristics

There is a lot of bro culture about programming and insecurities that manifest by trying to look smart all the time.
Also a lot of technical talk ²⁴⁄₇ which usually is in the form of bike shedding.

They are usually very skilled on the details and bureaucracy but not as much on the big picture and they do have huge problems in communication.

I started this careers dreaming of working for “builders” of the late 2000s - early 2010s eras.

I miss old workplaces where they people were less …
New job doesn’t allow local admin access and it’s driving me nuts. Is this common now?

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Started a new job this week and I learned developers have no local admin access. Every single thing has to be requested, and it’s slowing me down considerably. Onboarding is already a huge PITA and the cherry on top is needing to create a ticket for every little thing I need.

It took 2 days to get Homebrew installed on my Macbook, but come to find out I have to raise a ticket to install any package. Every ticket goes to India and they remote in and install with admin access. And I have not even scratched the surface for things I need installed. Every standup update this week was “waiting for IT ticket to be resolved” and at first I was thinking it was just me until a few people on my team told me they were not up and running for nearly 3 weeks when they started. What the hell!

In my 8 YOE I’ve never worked for a company like this. It’s insanely frustrating. How is this a reasonable process for developers? Is this what bigger companies are like now?
Armin Ronacher is very uneasy about the agent loops future

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From https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/23/the-coming-loop/

Present-day models tend to produce code that is too defensive, too complex, too local in its reasoning. They avoid strong invariants. They add fallbacks instead of making bad states impossible. They duplicate code, invent bad abstractions, and paper over unclear design with more machinery. Worse though: I so far see very little progress of this improving. If anything, on that front it feels to me that we might even be making steps in the wrong direction. At least for my taste, present-day hands-off harnesses like Claude Code with ultracode produce worse code than what we were producing last autumn. That’s because Claude Code, with Fable for instance will be working uninterrupted on a problem for thirty minutes or more, when previously the process would have been much more human in the loop.
(…)
Today I do not like much of the code that I see from systems built that way and neither do I enjoy interacting with too much of …
The AI burns the toast, I scrape it.

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What I mean by the title is that I feel like the teams in my company are in a huge anti-pattern where the majority of the building is done (badly) by AI, then everyone scrabbles around manually reviewing and fixing the shit it’s spewed out. It’s like putting bread in a toaster that always burns it, and sitting with your knife ready to scrape it.

Is this just my company? Is this really the best way to work and I’ve just lost the plot?

I’ve been thinking about it a lot, how would we get out of this scenario?

I’m wondering if the token price hikes are actually a good thing, if limited tokens will force people to think about what to use them for. If we had a strict budget, would we realise we’d prefer the AI writing tests and doing code reviews to it writing the code?

LinkedIn seems to believe that burnt toast is all we need and we should stop bothering to scrape (aka loop engineering).
Does anyone else feel stuck at the Senior Engineer level?

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I’m seeing a pattern in my organisation.

Junior developers are becoming Mid-level developers, and Mid-level developers are becoming Seniors. But once you reach Senior Engineer, career progression seems to slow down dramatically.

There are plenty of Junior and Mid-level positions, fewer Senior roles, and only a small number of Principal, Staff, or Distinguished Engineer positions. Companies seem comfortable promoting Juniors to Mid and Mid to Senior, but promotions beyond Senior are much rarer.

Is anyone else seeing the same thing in their organisation? Has the Senior level become a bottleneck?

r/selfhosted

Public reminder: Protect your apps. My unprotected qBittorrent instance ended up running a cryptominer.

294 comments • i.redd.it

I host a public qBittorrent instance for my small group of friends. This has been fine for at least a year.
For some reasons, I noticed my server has becoming slow.
After checking, I found a program named `tcrond` running a cryptomining.

Apparently qBittorent could execute command, which I only learned about it today.

If you have unprotected apps, this is a reminder for you.
protect you apps, unless you are 100% they can’t do anything dangerous.

Lucky me I am running it inside docker. This could be worst.

Lesson learned
Maintenance Day

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NostalgicPod now supports Jellyfin, Navidrome, Subsonic and OpenSubsonic!

239 comments • reddit.com

Hi everyone :)

(My previous post was removed because apps like this can only be shared on Wednesdays, so I spoke with the moderators and they told me I could post it today)

I’m the developer of NostalgicPod, a mobile music player and companion app for self-hosted Jellyfin, Navidrome, Emby, Subsonic and OpenSubsonic servers. It connects directly to your own backend, imports your music library, covers, playlists and existing ratings, lets you stream without storing the full library on your phone, and syncs star ratings back to the server.

The app is inspired by the iPod Classic and has been built with a lot of feedback from the r/iPod community. The complete version is currently available on Android and also supports local music in MP3, FLAC, ALAC, OPUS and other formats, along with a click wheel, classic menus, Cover Flow, lossless playback, lyrics, podcasts, radio and a few retro-style games.

NostalgicPod has also been added to the official Navidrome apps repository, where the …
GeoPulse - selfhosted alternative to Google Timeline - big updates

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Hi r/selfhosted,

A few months ago I posted about GeoPulse, a self-hosted, privacy-first Google Timeline alternative - https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1r805jh/geopulse_a_selfhosted_privacyfirst_google/

Since that post, I’ve kept actively developing it based on feedback from Reddit/GitHub users. GeoPulse has gone from v1.17.0 to v1.33.0, with ~29 releases and ~250 commits since the previous post. The project is now close to 1k stars on GitHub.

What is GeoPulse?

GeoPulse turns raw GPS data into a clean, searchable timeline with trips, stays, maps, sharing, stats, location analytics, and more. It supports GPS data from OwnTracks, GPSLogger, Colota, Traccar, Home Assistant, GPX, GeoJSON, Google Timeline exports, Dawarich exports, and other compatible sources.

Everything is self-hosted and designed to run on small home servers/VPS setups.

Github: https://github.com/tess1o/geopulse

Biggest changes since the last post

Vector maps

GeoPulse now supports MapLibre vector maps …
Replace YouTube Premium

218 comments • reddit.com

I have been building out a self hosted stack for each media type in my homelab to escape subscriptions and cut costs down to $0. Movies and shows, covered by Jellyfin + arr stack. Books/audiobooks covered by calibre + arr, and even adult content covered by Stash + my own automated built system.

What I haven’t been able to figure out yet is replacing YouTube Premium, which keeps increasing in cost for little to no value. I use both YouTube Music and YouTube daily for watching YouTube and listening to music, and I have been doing this for years upon years. I used to be able to say the price was worth it , but now that I have managed to cut all other subscriptions out, this is pretty much the last one left.

What am I asking is, do you any of you know a good way to replace Youtube premium with a YouTube/YTM with no ads and similar features to premium at no cost? From what I understand self hosting music can be difficult and I by no means listen to mainstream music, but Im not sure …

r/usenet

DS Registration Open

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Just passing along info from another sub
NewsgroupDirect Summer 2026 Special: Triple Play (three backbones) for $35/yr and Grand Slam (Four backbones) for $45/yr

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The best deal in Usenet just got better! Three or four different backbones at once!

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These prices will renew at the same price until you cancel.

Quantum encryption is included on the UsenetExpress backbone login. …
NewsDemon Summer/Winter 2026 Sale: Unlimited Usenet Access for $0.50/month for the first three months, billed monthly. Then $28/year, billed annually, with your price locked in.

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https://www.newsdemon.com/summer-sale/

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Frugal Usenet Summer Sale w/ Receipts!

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Hi All-

Was surprised to see sales dropping this time of year as they mostly stopped about 5 or 6 years ago.

Either way, stop by Frugal for a great summer deal with various options available:

- $35 per year (no Blocknews)

- $40 per year with 300 GBs of Blocknews

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Besides Blocknews differences, all products include:
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- Up to 200 connections on the main servers / another 50 on the bonus server (not that you need them all …
looks like dognzb finally finished their server upgrades

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that being said, i can’t login because their new system requires them to send an email code to you… but their system isn’t emailing me anything! psych! uggh. anyone else able to login?

r/plex+radarr+sonarr

Please stop posting about buying your plex pass in 1865 for $12.16

485 comments • reddit.com

I’m tired, boss.
Maintenance Day

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Plex has quietly introduced a five-year Plex Pass plan priced at $250, the same cost as its lifetime Plex Pass before the price hike

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Now that we’re charging $1000 for plex pass. Can we get a native working Apple TV app?

208 comments • reddit.com

Going to rant. Over a year without an update. I don’t care about the new ui as anything is better than infuse. Old UI/new UI, don’t care just want a working app. Can’t watch half my 4k rips because they just stutter constantly. And before the ten people come in here saying oh it’s you mInE wOrKs, check your transcoding, or your server sucks. It’s not that. It’s 100% an app issue, hundreds of posts about it. It’s inexcusable to have a platform as big as Apple TV not have a working app and especially for over a year. My shield works flawlessly, infuse on Apple TV flawlessly. It’s the plex app, how it processes, and how it throttles. I’ve seen the stories that they had one developer for tvOS and he left. Ok but it’s been over a year??? We get people every other week building their own clients from scratch that work better than the native app. I don’t know why we’re acting like there was only one guy in the world who can code for tvOS.
Everyone, but specifically those with lifetime membership, setup 2FA.

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If you have or are getting lifetime member before the end of the month your account is going to be worth $750. Take the 5 minutes needed and setup 2 factor authentication.

Tech & Selfhosting #3

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Mailshine - Tech & Selfhosting #3

r/ExperiencedDevs

Anyone else notice supercharged junior/new grad dunning-kruger behavior lately?

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I’ve noticed the young guys in my org behave very differently from how juniors have historically acted.

First, I suspect these guys could not survive at all without llms. They don’t have the metal models to problem solve and work through tasks to develop domain expertise. They have some kind of token induced learned helplessness. I think they might not even have code editors on the systems; literally all work they do is typing into the prompt box of codex.

Despite this, they have extremely high confidence and no filter. They will throw out bizarre business and architectural ideas that are just totally nonsensical to anyone with domain expertise or even just some general engineering battle scars. The proposals will often be ai filtered to sound plausible and look impressive but they make no sense. They will initiate meetings with vendors and other teams, go above peoples heads and get management and directors involved in random stuff.

They will also frequently do low value …
Good intuition is one of the most underrated traits of your top engineers

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I see these posts all the time “What makes a great senior/staff/.. etc Engineer” and nobody ever talks about just having good intuition.

Over the past year, my engineering org has gone from <200 to >500 engineers and my reports specifically have focused on hiring senior and staff level engineers.

Now there are a few things that we did wrong, but in my defense, most of this was outside of my control.
1. We hired externally for positions instead of promoting some of our better engineers who exceeded. This seemed to be some sort of notion that our talent level was shit (and to be fair, we do have a lot of shit talent at the company), but the baby went out with the bath water.
2. We over indexed on pedigree during the hiring process. A number of engineers who I gave a thumbs down on were hired anyway because they came from a well known tech company. Even though it was obvious that they were probably dead weight at said company.
3. We failed to retain our top talent. We kind of forced this …
Over reliance on AI

285 comments • reddit.com

It feels like we’ve reached a point where even senior/staff engineers are making code changes through AI without fully understanding the changes themselves.

Recently, a staff engineer on my team opened an MR. I pointed out an obvious bug, but their response was basically a copy-paste from AI and barely had any meaning given the context. So not just the code changes but we’re also using AI to “complete” the conversations, and I’d be ashamed of myself if I were a staff.

That worries me. Not because AI is bad, but because of how over-reliant we’ve become on AI to the point we stopped using our inner creativity and the feeling of solving hard problems.

Is this becoming the new normal? Are we moving toward a version of SWE where people spend less time understanding systems and more time blindly prompting tools? At the same time, companies are also widely expecting more productivity from their employees and I am not sure if it’s the pressure of delivering …
Management started introducing "productivity" metrics that's rubbing me the wrong way

224 comments • reddit.com

So management started introducing some new things they are tracking for “productivity” which is starting to kind of put me on edge.

The first thing they are now starting to track: Pull Requests.

Not because they think having smaller PR’s makes reviewing easier, or to make the codebase healthy, but they are now using PR’s as a way to sort of grill Engineers or use as a “you’re not being productive” if PR’s haven’t been opened. My tech lead has told us that ANY change we are doing has to be done through a PR. PR’s are not being tracked at a team level but rather by each individual Engineer, so it has caused some of the engineers to do some odd things. Example, if two engineers are working on a PR and one of them submit the PR for review and then finally merge it to the main branch, that other engineer that was working along in the branch is shit out of luck and will probably get a talking to at the end of the week. So, now …
Feeling very behind right now

131 comments • reddit.com

Where were you all at 32?

I been in SWE for almost 8 years now, my salary does not reflect my skillset but I do like the place I work, they treat me well. I tried doing some interview the past month and no offer yet.

But I’m feeling so behind in my career, my goal is to be a system architect and I feel like I don’t deserve to ever get there and that’s its impossible for me to reach there.

Did anyone else feel like there career did not have much runway left?

r/selfhosted

Rad little eReader that connects to Calibre

131 comments • i.redd.it

I’m kind of super into this thing. I haven’t been this excited about reading since bookfairs in elementary school.
It’s the XTEink X4 running Crosspoint Reader Custom Firmware. I’m pretty sure it’s an esp32-C3 running inside but I’m not 100% sure.
TREK: the self-hosted realtime trip planner I posted here 3 months ago, rewritten and a lot bigger now

117 comments • i.redd.it
Hey everyone,

About three months ago I posted the first version of this here, back when it was called Nomad. It got way more attention than I was ready for and also took a fair beating in the comments, and a good chunk of that criticism was right. I have been working on it pretty much nonstop since, and at this point it is a different app, so a second post felt fair. It is called TREK now.

Quick recap of what it is: a self-hosted trip planner. You build an itinerary day by day, drop in places, times and notes, see everything on a map, and anyone you share a trip with edits it live alongside you. It runs on your own box and none of your travel data leaves it.

What is different since the Nomad post:
- It got fully rewritten. The first version was a “prototype” held together with tape. It is a clean monorepo now (client, server, shared contracts) and contributing no longer requires an archaeology degree.
- Realtime collaboration is solid. Two people editing the same day …
What's the most useful thing you self-host that isn't media related?

441 comments • reddit.com

I run the usual stuff: Pi-hole, Jellyfin, NAS. The basics. Lately I’ve been diving into self-hosting AI tools and it’s a different beast entirely compared to just running a media server.



The hardware requirements alone are a conversation. A 4K movie stream uses your GPU for transcoding maybe 5% of the time. Running a local LLM pins your GPU at 100% for minutes straight. The power draw difference is noticeable.



But the tradeoff is interesting: no API costs, no rate limits, no random service shutdowns. Once the hardware is in place, it’s yours. You can throw a million requests at it and the only cost is the electricity.



I’m curious what non-obvious things people in this community self-host. What’s the weirdest or most useful thing you run that surprised you with its value?
Safebucket v0.6.0 - Self-hosted file sharing, now with file preview, bulk download and LDAP

32 comments • i.redd.it
Hello!

We’re two friends working in tech, and we’ve been building Safebucket: a simple, S3-agnostic, open-source alternative to WeTransfer, Dropbox and Palmr.

What’s new in v0.6.0:
- File preview: Preview images, videos, text, etc directly in the UI
- Bulk download: Select several files and download them in one click
- LDAP support: Add your LDAP as an authentication provider
We’re open to feedback, contributions, and questions. What features would you like to see next?

Github: https://github.com/safebucket/safebucket
Documentation: https://docs.safebucket.io
TIL The next release of DokuWiki will finally have built-in Markdown support

31 comments • patreon.com
DokuWiki (the self-hosted, file-based wiki) was created before Markdown was popular, so the author created his own syntax specifically for DokuWiki.

Since the rise of StackOverflow, GitHub, and Reddit, Markdown is now everywhere. People have been creating third-party plugins for DokuWiki to add Markdown support, but it’s been mediocre. The next release of DokuWiki will finally have built-in Markdown support 🙏
- https://github.com/dokuwiki/dokuwiki/pull/4636
- https://www.patreon.com/dokuwiki/posts/dokuwiki-support-158080793

r/usenet

New to Usenet? Here’s a simple place to start

60 comments • reddit.com
We’ve had a lot of newer users finding the sub lately, so here’s a simple starting point.

What is Usenet?

Usenet is one of the oldest parts of the internet that is still actively used today.

It is a decentralized network of servers where articles are posted to newsgroups and carried across Usenet providers. It existed long before the modern web, and people still use it because it can be fast, reliable, private over SSL, and very powerful once it is set up correctly.

Unlike a single website or app, Usenet works through a few different parts: providers, indexers, NZBs, clients, and automation tools.

That is where the learning curve comes from. To fully use Usenet, you need to understand what each piece does and how they work together.

The basic pieces are:
- Provider — gives you access to Usenet servers
- Indexer/search — helps you find NZBs
- NZB — points your client to the articles it needs
- Client/newsreader — SABnzbd, NZBGet, etc. This connects to your provider and retrieves the …
Newshosting Summer Sale 2026 - Save 92% - $25.05 for 15 Months ($1.67/month)

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Summer is here, and we’re kicking it off with one of the best Newshosting deals of the year.

The Most Complete Usenet Bundle for $1.67/month

Includes:
- Unlimited Newshosting access
- 6,523+ days retention across 125,000+ newsgroups
- 100 SSL-secured connections
- Free newsreader with built-in search
- Free VPN account
- 250 GB Easynews bonus account
- 500 GB Tweaknews bonus account
Grab the deal: LINK

$25.05 for 15 months ($1.67/month)
- Includes 3 free months
- Renews at $71.88 per year thereafter
- 30-day money-back guarantee
Summer Bundle Highlights:

Unlimited Usenet Access

Unlimited access with full retention and access to Newshosting’s highest-completion network.

Free Newsreader with Search

The included newsreader makes it easy to search, browse, and access articles without needing extra software.

Bonus EU Backbone Coverage

The included 500 GB Tweaknews account provides access to a separate high-retention EU backbone for added coverage and completion.

Browser-Based …

☀️ Summer 2026 Usenet Deals Roundup

39 comments • reddit.com

I’ve gathered the current Summer 2026 Usenet promotions in one place to make it easier to compare the available offers. If I missed a provider or an existing deal changes, let me know and I’ll update the list.

Provider	Price	Backbone	Extras	Retention	Connections	Server / Policy	Reddit
Easynews	$1.99/mo ($29.85 / 15mo)	Omicron	Free VPN	6523+ days	60	US / DMCA	Post
Eweka	€2.50/mo (€37.50 / 15mo)	Eweka	Free VPN + 1TB Easynews	6520+ days	50	EU / NTD	Post
Newsgroup Ninja	$3.99/mo ($59.85 / 15mo)	Omicron	Free VPN	Full Retention	50	US / DMCA	-
NewsgroupDirect	$35/yr (Triple Play), $45/yr (Grand Slam)	UsenetExpress, Giganews, ViperNews, Usenet.Farm	Triple Play, Grand Slam, Free VPN	5797+ days	100	US / EU / DMCA & NTD	-
Newshosting	$1.67/mo ($25.05 / 15mo)	Omicron	Free VPN + 250GB Easynews + 500GB Tweaknews	6523+ days	100	US / EU / DMCA	Post
TurboUsenet	€38.47 / year (30% off)	Abavia	Non-recurring	3500+ days	50	EU / NTD	Post
Tweaknews	€2.99/mo (€44.85 …

Eweka Summer Deal: Unlimited Eweka Usenet + 1TB Easynews + VPN - now €2.50/month (83% off)

42 comments • reddit.com
Eweka is celebrating Summer with a deal that combines unlimited Usenet access, Easynews access, and VPN protection in one plan.

€2.50/month for the first 15 months (€37.50 total). This promotion includes 3 additional months at no extra cost.

Renews at €71.88 per year (€5.99/month).

EWEKA DEAL LINK

What’s included
- 6520+ days of retention
- Unlimited Eweka Usenet access
- 50 connections with SSL
- Newsreader with search included
- 1TB Easynews account (web-based Usenet access)
- Premium VPN account
- 30-day money-back guarantee
Every subscription includes a free newsreader with Usenet search, making it easy to search and access Usenet from a single desktop application.

The deal also includes a free 1TB Easynews account for web-based Usenet access and a free VPN account at no additional cost.

Behind every Eweka subscription is a trusted European Usenet backbone serving the Usenet community since 2002, delivering fast and stable speeds, excellent completion, and access to one of …
Easynews Summer 2026 Deal - $1.99/mo Unlimited Usenet + Web Access & Search

54 comments • reddit.com
Great news! Our $1.99/month special offer was originally expected to end, but due to popular demand, we’ve decided to extend it as our Summer 2026 promotion.

Thank you for your continued support, and we hope you enjoy Easynews at this special summer price!

The Easynews Summer Deal is now available for just $1.99/month. Unlimited Usenet. Built-in search. No setup required.

Easynews combines unlimited Usenet access with a built-in web interface and search engine, making it possible to search, browse, and access Usenet articles directly from your browser.

GET DEAL HERE

$1.99/month ($29.85 total for 15 months), renews at $79.99/year.

This includes:
- Unlimited Usenet access
- Web-based access with built-in search (no newsreader needed)
- Full NNTP access (works with any newsreader)
- 6,523+ days retention
- 60 connections
- Free VPN included (with kill switch, SmartDNS, and ad blocking)
- 30-day money-back guarantee
Why Easynews?

No setup required

Log in through your browser and …

r/plex+radarr+sonarr

Plex at kid’s Dental office

147 comments • reddit.com

I have never seen Plex being used in a professional setting like this so I am happy to see this. They are using it to have complete control over the options the kids can watch (plus don’t have to pay for a Netflix subscription like they had before) shout out to them for this!!!!

Anyone else experience plex on a business setting?
I caved and purchased a lifetime plex pass…

328 comments • reddit.com

I’m usually not a fan of financially supporting poor decisions, and I know I played right into the classic marketing trap, but after talking with my wife about ease of use and “turn-key” solutions we elected to pull the trigger and purchase the lifetime plex-pass before the price hike. We figured it’s better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it; plus, it will essentially pay for itself in 3-4 years, so there’s that. I know I’m not the only one to make this move, so hopefully I’m in good company lol.
I finally have all (I hope I didn't miss anything) of Doctor Who, including recreations of missing episodes and title cards. Now I just hope I end liking the show, cause I've never seen any of it.

92 comments • reddit.com

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Storage Purgatory

199 comments • reddit.com

I basically maxed out my 20 TB of storage right as the cost of storage has skyrocketed. Nobody can predict with certainty when the cost for hard drives will come back down, but it will probably be at least a year or two. Not sure what anybody else’s plans are. Just saying this sucks.
"To Boldly Go..." (This is why I freaking love Plex).

45 comments • reddit.com

“To Boldly Go…”

This is why I freaking love Plex.

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Tech & Selfhosting #2

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Mailshine - Tech & Selfhosting #2

r/ExperiencedDevs

20 YoE 'high coupling, low cohesion' led to my current survival mantra: 'income, not outcome'

286 comments • reddit.com

Stealing “income not outcome” from someone over in r/overemployed (I’m not OE, I just follow)

I finally had a breakthrough today. I think. I (20 YoE) have been struggling in my role at a startup as someone who wears many hats from SA to ML eng to product eng to data eng, etc etc as I watch the amount of tech debt and security concerns (or lack of concern) accelerate in my young org. The drivers are mainly vibe-coding non-engineers and actual engineers that have kind of thrown in the towel on any logical design or planning of the system/software.

It kind of all culminated around a more mid-level engineer telling me “I gave up with everyone sending me AI summaries in Slack and tickets. I just feed it right back into Claude Code and let it do the thing.” I find those giant text walls unreadable myself and his mentality of “slop in, slop out” isn’t exactly unreasonable. The ‘outcomes’ aren’t great, but…..

Over the …
What traits have actually correlated with your best hires?

193 comments • reddit.com

We’ve hired a lot of people over the last 8 years. Our interview process works okay, but it’s far from perfect, one of our best hire we’ve ever had didn’t do amazing on our interviews but has really shined through later on.

Looking back at the people who turned out to be genuinely great hires, I’ve started noticing a couple of recurring traits:

* Low ego, but confident, they are happy to flag problems or suggest improvements on their own, and didn’t get defensive when challenged.

* Fast self-learners, could pick up new things without much hand holding.

Curious what others have found. What have you been able to correlate with your best hires, and just as interesting, did any of it surprise you / contradict what your interview process actually screens for? Or do you have any questions that you ask for now after making a few regretful hires?
Just some lady's opinion

53 comments • reddit.com

I’m a principal engineer and I’ve worked a long time in IT.

I’ve seen a lot of posts lately about the impacts and use of certain tooling, career anxiety, and whether or not they still matter.

I just wanted to say: you do!

Whether you’re new to IT or have been here a long time, use certain tools or don’t, at the end of the day you’re the person solving the complex tasks.

Your work still matters and so do you.

Don’t lose sight of that.

BTW - yes I’m a human. I’m trying to help put some positive messaging out there into the world.
Has software development shifted from building to last to building to replace?

145 comments • reddit.com

I’ve been in software engineering for 15 years, and one thing I’ve noticed is that earlier we’d build a system, take it to production, and it would run for years with small enhancements and maintenance.

Now it feels like every few years there’s a push to rewrite everything with a new tech stack, often because the existing system is considered “outdated” or “not sustainable.”

Have you noticed a similar shift in software, or is this just my perception? Are frequent rewrites driven by real business needs, or are we too quick to replace systems instead of evolving them?
What do you think about Mythos and Fable?

388 comments • reddit.com

I’m not american, so I can’t test them. In the age of LLMs, every week we hear that we’re all gonna be out of jobs by next week. Vibecoders get, of course, more insufferable, claiming that software engineering is gone.

Are the models really that good? Do you guys see an actual “replacement” coming? More job losses? Are they actually a good tool or is it all just smoke and mirrors to raise more money? Are they economically sustainable?

For me personally, they have been useful, but my company pays a shitload in tokens, I made some rough calculations and economically, they’re still too expensive to be more than a really expensive tool.

r/selfhosted

PSA: Oracle is changing free tier limits. Update by the 15th to avoid charges

255 comments • reddit.com
Original post (can’t crosspost): https://www.reddit.com/r/oraclecloud/s/jypxIpfvqT

https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm

New limits:

- ARM: 2 OCPUs and 12GB of RAM (from 4 OCPUs and 24GB of RAM)

- AMD: Unchanged (still 2x 1 CPU, 1 GB)

Billing starts on the 15th (in 2 days). Update your instances by then, otherwise free instances will be shut down and PAYG instances will be charged $10-15 at the end of the month. Oracle decided to not notify their users about this…

To update the instance:
1. Back up any important data
2. Log in to Oracle Cloud dashboard, head to the “Instances” section and click on your instance.
3. Click on Actions -> More actions -> Edit (see 3rd image)
4. Change “Number of OCPUs” to 2 and “Amount of Memory” to 12 (see 4th image)
5. Click “Save changes”. The new limits will be applied and your instance will restart.
EDIT: More confirmation from Oracle …
University of California launches first of its kind datacenter powered by 2,000 Pixel phones - A low-carbon computing platform from retired phones

200 comments • research.google

Found this news interesting, confirming what most of us here already realized: creating a self-hosted server out of used phones is an incredibly cost-efficient solution, especially with today’s storage and memory costs.

They’re essentially stripping out the motherboard from the phones, installing a Linux distro that doesn’t contain all the consumer device protections like a low-memory killer daemon, and finally organized together in 25-50 device clusters

Some highlights:

“The single-threaded performance of modern smartphones’ performance processor cores is on-par with or better than those of modern multicore servers “

“SPEC benchmarking results indicate that 25-50 phones equate to a modern server”

“Early experiments show that even a moderately-sized cluster of 20 phones is capable of supporting peak submission rates for a 75+ student class, with grading latencies below the default AWS backend. A 2,000 phone deployment will be capable …
Running a Mac as home server and couldn't be happier. Power efficient, fast, small. Roast me!

335 comments • i.redd.it

I finally decided to get a home server a while ago. I’ve built my own PCs since I was a kid, my first was an AMD K6-2 at 400 MHz with an NVIDIA Riva TNT2 Pro. So I did what I always do: hand-picked the components for a box to host and back up our photos and videos. In November that build was €800. By December the same parts were €1,200. (The same setup is now €1800) for 16GB of RAM and no GPU. I hesitated. And the part that really bugged me: I’m a software engineer, and I wanted to be able to run local LLMs. And that build couldn’t do it.

I used to laugh at Apple fanboys back when they soldered Intel chips.
Fast forward to March ‘26: I bought a used Mac Studio M1 Max (64GB, 4TB) for €1,700 and made it the home server instead.

Then I plugged in a wattmeter and left it running for 16 days. Literally could not believe the numbers first and had to double check. It showed 8 watts during “idle” (No inference running)!

Real use: 25 Docker containers …
I stopped hand-drawing my homelab diagram. Now it rebuilds itself from code on every push

51 comments • i.redd.it

My network diagram used to go stale the second I changed anything, so I made it a build artifact instead of a drawing.

It’s a .d2 text file (D2, diagram-as-code) in my repo. A GitHub Actions workflow watches that file, renders it with the ELK layout engine to SVG, rasterizes that to PNG, and commits the result back. The image in my README can’t drift from the source anymore. I add a node or a service, edit a few lines of text, and the diagram redraws itself on the next push.

The icons are the bit I like most. Proxmox, Talos, ArgoCD, Cilium, Falco and the rest aren’t stored in the repo at all. They get pulled from public icon repos at render time and inlined into the SVG, so the output is self-contained and I never touch an image file. It’s all public if you want to lift the setup: https://github.com/mortennordbye/homelab. The .d2 source and the workflow live in docs/diagrams/ and .github/workflows/render-diagram.yaml.
Human curated, no-slop list of selfhosted apps?

96 comments • reddit.com

For a long time, I have been using the awesome-selfhosted Github repo to browse/shop for stuff I could selfhost on my stuff. But with the influx of one-shot slopware, I am looking for a place where I can find a good list of selfhosted things. :)

Any index/list that you can recommend?

r/usenet

Ninja Central is open for registration

117 comments • reddit.com

https://ninjacentral.co.za/register



Get it while it’s open!
[StingyUsenet] 30% discount + 5% for every goal for Curaçao

12 comments • reddit.com

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Waddap y’all!

14-06 19:24 - Edit #1: So yes, Curacao scored a goal. Who would have thought. Stop the cheering already; it’s costing us money. We’re at 35% discount now.

The World Cup is full of football (USA, pay attention here: FOOTBALL, where you play with YOUR FOOT), but StingyUsenet is backing Curaçao. The smallest country in the tournament somehow made it this far, which is already more than most people expected.

To celebrate, we’re starting with a 30% discount. For every goal Curaçao scores, we’ll add another 5% discount. One goal, more savings. Two goals, even more. If they keep finding the net, we’ll keep increasing the deal. Being the football (USA, pay attention here: FOOTBALL, where you play with YOUR FOOT)-super power they are, we’re taking a HUGE risk here.

The offer lasts as long as Curaçao does. Once they’re out, …
Do not purchase ViperNews supscriptions!

29 comments • reddit.com

I should have known better.

The price was tempting so I went for it. Their product is absolute garbage and the service is nonexistent.

50 to 70% of all nzbs didn’t finish becaue of missing articles.

They have a “risk-free 7-day money-back guarantee”. I contacted them 4 times - nothing.

Wasted timd and money. Dont do the same mistake.

edit:
My 50 to 70% estimate was a gut figure made out of anger. Thanks for your input. 70% completion is still garbage. The poor completion rate alone doesn’t even bother me. There are surely use cases for that.

Ghosting a customer who wants to use their “risk-free 7 day guaranteed money back” option is scammy corpo bullshit.
Does anyone even use usenet for communication?

37 comments • reddit.com

…or is this all [p-word] and [w-word]?

I mean, like as the thing is; as a mailing list or forum?

From my understanding, it’s email style?

Where are the chats happening?
NZBGet v26.2 Client Release Notes

11 comments • reddit.com
As teased recently, with v26.2 the WebUI is officially no longer English-only! This release also brings network speed unit switching, support for standard ~/.config locations, 7-Zip and UnRAR updates, and bug fixes.

Features:
- Multi-Language Support: The WebUI natively supports 20 languages with auto-detection! Layout responsiveness and config text readability have also been improved to make sure everything looks great in any language [#813].
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Alongside this massive translation update, here are the other quality-of-life additions:
- Unit Switching: Added the ability to toggle network speed display between MB/s and Mb/s [#813].
- Config Support: Added support for standard ~/.config …

r/plex+radarr+sonarr

I just got hit with Plex’s new TV updates… It’s horrible

317 comments • reddit.com

Idk if other platforms have had this update already but I have all FireTVs in my home. I just turned on my TV this evening, like I always do, and BAM. My TV app looks completely identical to the ugly mobile app. AND ITS SUPER BUGGY AND SLOW and unresponsive. Like such a mess it belongs still in Beta. Why was this rolled out???? I actually liked the old Plex UI. This is terribly not functional. It looks like they just wanna copy Netflix with this UI. Anyone else been having issues with this new update?

Jeez, they even removed all the player controls. What a mess. I tolerated it on mobile but TV too???

UPDATE: I just side loaded the older version of Plex. I feel so much better now, it’s great to be home.

To all the people saying “You’ll get used to it”, sure I would if it actually worked. The update is cool looking but completely unusable to me right now. I’m not dealing with that. I built my server for a better streaming experience, not bs.
Plex now shows file sizes for downloads.

18 comments • i.redd.it

Just wish we could have more bitrate options

Edit: as for bitrate it gives the option to download each time, same options
Original
1080p 20Mbs
720p 4mbs
And 480 1.5mps

That’s fine but it should be more like the regular trascoding
Found my original Plex library, kind of...

26 comments • reddit.com

I’m doing some deep cleaning at home and I found one old box of VHS tapes from the mid to late 90’s. As a teenager I used to record shows. I’m sure that a lot of these are even commercial free. I used to stop recording at commercial breaks and start back up again when it came back on. I would like to see some of those old commercials though. I am sure I have more boxes too. I just need to find them.



So I’m wondering when did your obsession with saving media start? How many of you also used to do this, if you’re my age or older. I was there for the start of Napster which changed everything. I was also one of the first Netflix customers with the 8 DVD at a time subscription. I also have books filled with DVD’s ripped from that Netflix subscription. I remember at first how they would come super fast, but they must of realized what a lot of us were doing because they slowed down how fast they would come. Oh the good old days.

 …
Why Spectrum, why?

98 comments • reddit.com

I’m at my folks visiting and they have a new cable modem and router from their provider. So I see the Plex app in the UI and get logged in. I connect as my mom and start to get her home screen set with favorites and everything, and my server isn’t showing. Ok, I switch users and it’s the same for me. Hmm, maybe my server is down or something, but everything is working fine on my phone.

It turns out that Spectrum Xumo has basically nerfed the Plex app and does not allow personal streaming servers. I guess they think that their services should be enough, why would anyone ever want anything else. #%$#@@%\^

And my folks are old enough to not want to switch back and forth, they’re OK ditching my stream because the cable company has stuff…

So question, is there a way to get the Plex app unlocked?
Building plex library in 2026- still viable?

314 comments • reddit.com

I’m trying to decide whether it still makes sense in 2026 to build a Plex-based library by ripping discs, or whether I should shift toward buying digital movies through Apple instead. My main draw to Plex is local ownership and potentially higher quality from UHD Blu-ray sources, but I’m increasingly concerned about the long-term practicality of the ripping ecosystem itself. UHD Blu-ray drives seem to be getting harder to find and more expensive, and it feels like the hardware/software stack for ripping is becoming more niche over time.

At the same time, my actual use case is mostly convenience-driven—rewatching TV shows and movies in bed or on different devices, not necessarily building a massive archive. So I’m trying to understand whether Plex still makes sense as a system to invest in today if the initial ripping phase is increasingly constrained by hardware availability. For those actively building or maintaining libraries now, do you see ripping as still sustainable long term, …

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One Kind Thing to Do When a Coworker Is Laid Off: Reach Out

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It’s always interesting to me how when coworker gets laid off suddenly after 2,5,10, even 20 years who actually reaches out to them after on Linkedin.
They get their slack and laptop shut down immediately so they can’t tell anyone and then throughout next few days your colleagues find out you were.

REACH OUT if you worked with them!! Say Hey how are you doing? It was a pleasure working with you and wish you success.

It is sad in our industry we work 10-12 hour days a huge part of our lives in at work everyday interacting with the same group of people yet when you’re done some of them say nothing at all. Or worse they linger on your profile and disappear like all those years were just nothing. At a human level, if you had positive interaction say something.

It feels good to the laid off person having some connection to bring closure to it. No one’s expecting long notes or that every person will but you would expect the PM you talk to everyday the SWE constantly mingling on ERD to say …
Did the AI hype cycle damage your relationship with leadership?

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There’s a lot of posts on here about, of course, AI and how it’s caused havoc and anxiety amongst developers, and something I’ve been thinking about is the attitude given off by a lot of companies and non-dev leaders and workers in general. There was almost a delight in the idea of completely replacing full teams of human beings with a robot that could replace them. Lots of smirking and snide comments.

I remember seeing ads for AI solutions (many of which were garbage and are now gone) happily brag that you’ll be able to cut massive amounts of people. I know progress is progress but still there was a tone of “thanks for your service, don’t let the door hit you on the ass on the way out, dorks.”

Now that some of the hype has scaled back a bit and companies are either rehiring devs or greatly reducing their estimates for layoffs, I’m just wondering if it’s made you look at leadership the same way? I’m not trying to sound like …
The biggest problem with AI is not correctness - it is architecture sanity

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Most of the experienced folks say - of AI is not production ready because it produces bugs or shitty code overall. They add more tests and do manual code reviews, and hope it fixes the AI problem.

Well, it is true if you use shit models (anything < the latest Anthropic/OpenAI), but the story is about something different.

Good models generate production-ready code, covered with tests - there’s not much you can improve actually.

The biggest issue is overengineering.

I did not see an agent ever suggesting to drop 3 tables and 30% of code to simplify the app.

You ask for updates - and it will keep generating shit by adding mode code, + extending your schema, + converters + migrations + tests.

Everything looks solid and kinda production ready, but the whole thing is already poisoned - it keeps accumulating the tech debt.

Eventually you will need some major feature added and it does not fit the schema, and you realize there’s not much you can do in reasonable amount of …
Any other experienced developers just not have the time to prep for the difficulty of interviews?

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during my unemployment period, there were multiple jobs that were transparent about the interview process. While I appreciated the transparency, it was also a bit taken back that some where four, six, seven plus rounds in total. Like what?? I personally have a young family and with the wife picking up more hours, I obviously had more responsibilities at home, and with that barely any time to search for jobs, do interviews, and then restudy/relearn all my Data Structures and Algorithms for the leetcode challenge. And why?? If they’re just gonna Make me us AI to prompt my way to not writing a line of code. Guess it’s my fault for not being a cracked engineer? Lol

And not just parents I imagine if someone currently has a job and perhaps less responsibilities at home, how are you gonna explain to your employer that you’re gonna be absent for an hour plus the coming weeks? oh and also time to study and prepare for the interviews.

again maybe it’s my fault for not keeping up with DSA, i …
Has the bar actually gotten lower?

317 comments • reddit.com

First off, I’ll acknowledge that this is probably one of the most confusing times to work in technology. AI is reshaping the industry in how we work, in how we solve problems, in how we get information.

But I feel like I’m losing it a little bit. I’ve been hiring for a few weeks now and have been wildly disappointed with the candidates I’m seeing. We’re using the same panels we used half a decade ago, a time where good devs were at a premium, and finding that candidates can’t get halfway through the problem. It’s gotten to the point where my interviewers are asking if they should use different questions because these are too hard.

And it seems to be true across the leveling spectrum. Mid levels who don’t know the difference between map and forEach and seniors/managers who don’t know how state is managed.

Maybe this is my “Ok boomer” moment and I need to understand that devs are prompting more and writing less code themselves. I’m prepared to receive that feedback. But I expect my …

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Blue checkmark on emails

152 comments • i.redd.it

How can I get such a blue verification check mark on my personal domains?

Is it something I’d need to pay for or something only available for big established brands?
I think I might be living with some disabilities

63 comments • i.redd.it

Atleast according to perplexity..
PSA: Oracle is changing free tier limits. Update by the 15th to avoid charges

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Original post (can’t crosspost): https://www.reddit.com/r/oraclecloud/s/jypxIpfvqT

https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm

New limits:

- ARM: 2 OCPUs and 12GB of RAM (from 4 OCPUs and 24GB of RAM)

- AMD: Unchanged (still 2x 1 CPU, 1 GB)

Billing starts on the 15th (in 2 days). Update your instances by then, otherwise free instances will be shut down and PAYG instances will be charged $10-15 at the end of the month. Oracle decided to not notify their users about this…

To update the instance:
1. Back up any important data
2. Log in to Oracle Cloud dashboard, head to the “Instances” section and click on your instance.
3. Click on Actions -> More actions -> Edit (see 3rd image)
4. Change “Number of OCPUs” to 2 and “Amount of Memory” to 12 (see 4th image)
5. Click “Save changes”. The new limits will be applied and your instance will restart.
EDIT: More confirmation from Oracle …
20 apps i actually run on my home server and which ones are worth it

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been self hosting for a while now and theres a huge difference between apps people recommend and apps that are actually worth maintaining long term

ones i actually kept running:

- nextcloud — replaced google drive and photos, worth the setup headache

- vaultwarden — bitwarden but yours. rock solid

- jellyfin — media server, no subscription ever again

- pihole — network-wide adblock, cant imagine going back

- uptime kuma — monitoring dashboard, super clean

- immich — google photos replacement, still in heavy development but already solid

- paperless-ngx — document scanning and organisation, way more useful than expected

- mealie — recipe manager, actually use it

ones i set up and abandoned:

- gitea — cool but i just use github, no real reason to self host this unless youre paranoid

- matrix/element — tried to get people to switch, nobody did lol

- bookstack — wiki is nice but overkill for personal use

the pattern i noticed is that apps replacing paid subscriptions are …
Reverse engineered BLE protocol of a $7 generic Chinese smart ring from Temu, and built an iOS app for it

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I loved the idea behind the Google Fitbit Air: an LLM wrapped around your health data, daily briefs, and a coach you can ask questions.

But there app is really terrible, it’s expensive $100 band plus $10/mo, and Google getting a constant stream of your heart rate, sleep, and other private data. Whoop is worse, with a subscription that runs up to $360 a year. It won’t take much for these companies to start selling our health data to health insurances.

So I bought a $7 generic Chinese smart ring off Temu. It came with an app with an abysmal UI, and again, you have no idea whether it’s shipping your data to some server. I used a BLE dongle to sniff the packets between the ring and the app and worked out the protocol, then built my own iOS app that keeps all the data locally on your iPhone.

Introducing PulseLoop: a no-subscription, open-source iOS app. Your health data stays on your phone, paired with an AI coach that reads your real ring data, draws charts, and …

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Release Notes - SABnzbd 5.0.4

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https://sabnzbd.org/downloads

In this fifth major release of SABnzbd, we included:
- Smarter (and potentially faster) downloads with NNTP Pipelining and Direct Write.
- Reliability gains from a reworked cache and safer processing.
- A significant number of bug fixes and platform updates.
Features and bug fixes in 5.0.4
- RSS feed modifications no longe require clicking Apply Filters.
- Fixed RSS priority handling.
- Server Test could block the queue.
- Use reduced progress bar width in Compact layout.
- Replaced unreliable directory access check.
- Prevent crash in idle-jobs check.
- Jobs with invalid date would show as Fetching.
- Windows and macOS: Updated Python to 3.14.5 and Unrar to 7.22.
Features and bug fixes in 5.0.1, 5.0.2 and 5.0.3
- Fetching NZB’s failed on new installations.
- Queue entries from older versions now load correctly after upgrading.
- nzo_id now uses GUIDs to prevent duplicates.
- Updating to 5.0 now succeeds even when duplicate nzo_id values exist.
- URL fetching no longer …
UsenetPrime 7 Year Anniversary Sale!!! | Discounted Annual, Semi-Annual Combo Plans and Combo Blocks

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7 Year Anniversary Sale (click here)

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Usenet and VPN.

45 comments • reddit.com

If usenet is secure, why do some places bundle it with a VPN? Always curious about this.

Has anyone gotten a letter about downloading anything from their ISP or from anyone else?

Curious before I dig in and start downloading.

if you’re using an indexer site, couldn’t they hand over your information? Some dont allow throw away emails, so wouldnt be too hard to figure out the user then.
Anyone else having issues with NZBgeek

15 comments • reddit.com

Currently keep getting an error when trying to download nzbs, it brings me to another page and says server temporarily unavailable. Just wanted to make sure it wasnt just me. Never had this issue before.

Update: Someone on discord said “An upstream provider is currently experiencing large scale volumetric DDOS attacks.”
[UsenetAgency] The World Cup 2026: 25% off (and 5% extra for every round the Dutch make advance)

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Hi All!

The 2026 World Cup is just around the corner! As teams gear up for their first matches, we’re kicking things off with an attractive discount on your UsenetAgency subscription. At UsenetAgency, reliability, professional service, and a stable connection are our top priorities. That’s why we’re launching this 2026 World Cup promotion with a whopping 25% discount. And that’s just the beginning.

During the tournament, the discount can actually increase even further. For every round the Dutch national team (Oranje) manages to advance through, we’ll increase the current discount by another 5%. If “Oranje” moves on to the next round, you’ll automatically benefit from an extra discount. This way, following the World Cup isn’t just exciting on the field, but also for your wallet. The further the Netherlands advances, the higher the discount …

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Elan confirms he is the only person working on Plexamp

278 comments • reddit.com

So we knew its bad with maybe 2-3 people working on it…but never thought literally no one is except the person who left in his spare time out of passion

Elan response “ Plex kindly allowed me to keep access to Plexamp source and make changes to it, but I’m the only one working on it.”
Made a digital movie poster for my man cave.

133 comments • reddit.com

Used a cheap Roku tv and a pi to make a dynamic poster. Cycles every 10 seconds or so. Displays random movies, stuff coming soon via sonarr and radarr etc. It all runs on a pi and Posterr. The screen is powered on and off via my home automation system so when I leave the screen shuts down.
While others move away from Plex, I did the opposite

292 comments • reddit.com

I know most people don’t care, but I still feel like posting my experience.
This is the internet after all, lol.

With all the recent ongoing stuff, this place has obviously been filled with people who say they are moving away from Plex because they are unhappy with the direction its going.
I’m not going to comment on what I think about that, other than that I think everyone is always entitled to their own opinion.

But for me personally, I have actually moved over from Emby to Plex.
I’m probably in the minority to do so in recent times, but here we are.

Not because I’m unhappy with Emby, in fact, I will keep it on in the background, because I still love messing around and being very free in what I can do to it.
But the stuff a lot of people call “feature bloat” are actually things I was missing in Emby and Jellyfin.

I’m a sucker for User Interfaces and User Experiences, and no matter how much time and effort I spend in customising the Emby …
Feature that Plex should implement: auto-subtitle grabbing.

142 comments • reddit.com

I feel like one feature that actually makes sense for plex would be for Plex to use it’s avaliable index of subtitles and be able to automatically grab subtitles for titles on your server missing them. Since I find programs like Bazarr to be very finicky and pretty bad at downloading stuff, it would be nice if plex could automatically download and sync up captions. I’ve already posted this to the Plex feature recommendation page, but I wanted to see what the good people of reddit would think.
Transatlantic Plex

101 comments • i.redd.it

Thought I’d post this as I thought it was cool. I have a home in Texas and a home in the UK with my Plex server being located in Texas. I was able to setup a HD Homerun in both locations, with the UK Homerun accessible over my Tailnet. So they all appear in one Plex feed and I can watch from anywhere on earth. Works really well. Can also happily stream my 4K Blu-ray rips.

Perfect for when I want to watch football in the US and rugby in the UK.

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Features

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Critical remote code execution vulnerability resolved in 5.1.2 (GHSA-rgqj-28c2-gxwp)

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Critical authentication vulnerability resolved in 5.1.1 (GHSA-xrfq-jhgh-wqch)

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The hardware

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New features in 5.1.0

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Ground-up UI redesign

Save sync engine

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The headline numbers

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What is GeoPulse?

Biggest changes since the last post

Vector maps

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