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nfSensei is an open source fork of pfSense, by the original creator, for Linux

“nfSensei is a modern network operating system built from scratch in Rust with a React frontend, designed around a single principle: one API to rule them all. The CLI, the web UI, and the on-device AI assistant all flow through the same API surface. No drift, no divergence, no surprises. The entire system ships as [ ]

FairEmail is an open source privacy orientated email app

“Setup was IMAP credentials for each of my personal accounts. There s no account to create with the developer or a sign-in step before you can reach your inbox. Two things in the listing made it appealing to 1 million+ users, including me. The app requires no special permissions, and it doesn t use Firebase Cloud Messaging, [ ]

I Remember These Modular Electronics Kits

It s a real pity these kits are no longer around as they really “spark” an interest in building practical things, and in electronics. Mine was a 50-in-1 kit I think, and came in a wooden frame. You got all the various components fixed to the board with wire springs on the top as the connector [ ]

Homelabbers and Desktop Tweakers may want to move beyond just plain AI chat

The days of asking AI a question, or pasting a config file in, and then pasting (or typing) the updated file back, are no longer needed. I have over 47 running docker containers, with almost as many stopped, and when I want to create a new docker stack I m never sure if there will be [ ]

SoloMD is a simpler markdown open-source app that opens your whole Obsidian vault

“Obsidian is probably one of the best note-taking apps out there, but it s not open-source, which is fine, there are perfectly good reasons for that. But a part of the Obsidian user base has always wanted a properly open-source alternative, one that isn t half-finished or abandoned. So when SoloMD popped up as MIT-licensed and Markdown-native [ ]

Track Bird Visitors With A Raspberry Pi And A USB Mic

“Avian Visitors is a lovely project by Teddy Warner that uses a Raspberry Pi and microphone to keep track of which birds have been visiting your home, and creates a colourful illustration of recent visitors on top of it all. It reports on a web interface of its own making, but what really takes things [ ]

I turned my security cameras into AI assistants with open-source LLM Vision

“LLM Vision is a free, open-source Home Assistant integration that lets an AI model examine the images from your cameras and describe what is happening in those images. LLM Vision doesn t replace systems like Frigate; it builds on top of them. Instead of just getting a notification that a person is detected, the AI model [ ]

Netflix accounts taken over in South Africa through session cookie hijacking

“These cookies allow users to stay logged in to websites or to save items in a shopping cart even after they exit a site. Through these cookies, cybercriminals have found an exploit that has allowed them to access protected private accounts. They are specifically taking advantage of “remember-me cookies”, which help users log in to [ ]

Google Search is likely Yahooed now

This is a lesson that you are never too big to disappear. I remember the arrival of Google Search (when that was all they did) and how it collapsed Yahoo search from the scene. Googling even became a verb. As big and massive as Google Search was, who can say they still go to the [ ]

RSS-Bridge generates web feeds for websites that don’t have one

You can either self-host the service, in many different ways, or there is also an official online instance you can use. The link to that instance is on the GitHub project page at the link below. See https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge