Flame - a homelab dashboard

Need a place to keep track of your growing services in a simple, easy to use homepage-like display? Then the Flame dashboard has you covered. Flame offers a simple UI for adding your services and/or bookmarks to make access easier. Flame offers a single page dashboard with search functionality (search includes local and web search) along with multiple themes to get it to your liking. Originally developed by jeroenpardon under the name SUI, contained a minimalist design and required you to edit config files to get it working....

July 1, 2022 · 2 min · Mark Antony

Storj - Run your own node (Part 3)

Use your existing hardware and allocate a portion of your storage and bandwidth for Storj DCS (Decentralized Cloud Storage). By operating a Node you’ll be a part of making data more private and secure, giving ownership of data back to the people. Running Storj is a very simple task that can earn you that beer money. If you’re running any system at home 24/7 (NAS, Media, CCTV etc.), chances are you can run Storj on it with some free disk space....

April 11, 2022 · 6 min · Mark Antony

Dietpi - complement your pi

Today I will show you Dietpi, my favorite Raspberry Pi operating system (OS). Dietpi is a lightweight OS built for single board computers (SBC). It is a stripped back version of Debian, on the same grounds as Raspbian. Dietpi bundles a range of tools to help you manage the system with easy setup of software for your device. This OS is designed to maximize performance for a range of SBC devices but will also work in virtual environments and x86 systems....

April 4, 2022 · 3 min · Mark Antony

Storj - what is Storj? (Part 2)

With Storj DCS (Decentralized Cloud Storage) files aren’t stored in centralized data centers—they’re encrypted, split into pieces, and distributed on a global cloud network. That’s the message they convey on their website. They’re a decentralized cloud storage network. Much like AWS, Azure and the many other cloud storage providers out there. The difference is where this data is being stored, and for Storj, that data gets hosted on consumer run systems, not Storj itself....

March 15, 2022 · 4 min · Mark Antony

Endlessh - blackholing port scanners

Intro What is Endlessh? Endlessh is a network based service that catches port scanners and nefarious users by sticking them in a permanent loop. Try as they might the terminal will never proceed to the authentication part of the shell. Lets install! git clone https://github.com/skeeto/endlessh cd endlessh make && make install A precompiled binary is also available: endlessh-1.0.tar.xz After cloning the repo, here’s how you can try it out for yourself (default port 2222):...

February 15, 2022 · 3 min · Mark Antony