# ssh (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 131 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover ssh. Page: Feed: --- ## [Home Assistant Energy Dashboard with Shelly](https://sumguy.com/home-assistant-energy-shelly/) _2026-08-22 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ Power monitoring with Shelly EM/Pro/3EM, Home Assistant energy dashboard, circuit-level metering, solar+grid tracking, and wiring sanity checks. ## [Z-Wave vs Zigbee in 2026](https://sumguy.com/zwave-vs-zigbee-2026/) _2026-08-22 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ Z-Wave vs Zigbee: range, mesh, cost, and which radio protocol to choose for home automation in 2026. ## [Matter and Thread for the Suspicious](https://sumguy.com/matter-thread-home-lab/) _2026-08-22 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ Matter and Thread protocol overview: what actually works in home labs, what's vaporware, and why you should be skeptical of the hype in 2026. ## [The Snakes Never Stop Coming](https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/the-snakes-never-stop-coming) _2026-08-22 · Vox Day · Sigma Game_ And killing them just never grows old ## [HyperDX vs OpenObserve](https://sumguy.com/hyperdx-vs-openobserve/) _2026-08-22 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ HyperDX (ClickHouse, session replay) vs OpenObserve (Rust, cheap object storage), two modern self-hosted observability platforms compared for homelabbers. ## [Home Assistant Backups That Actually Restore](https://sumguy.com/home-assistant-backups-restore/) _2026-08-21 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ Home Assistant disaster recovery: off-site backups, secrets handling, Z2M coordinator, restore drills that catch missing pieces. ## [FreeBSD backup libraries such as base/FreeBSD-kerberos-lib-backup-libkrb5profile.so](https://dan.langille.org/2026/08/21/freebsd-backup-libraries-such-as-base-freebsd-kerberos-lib-backup-libkrb5profile-so/) _2026-08-21 · Dan Langille · Dan Langille's Other Diary_ I build my own FreeBSD packages using poudriere. I do this for various reasons, which include: Getting security updates faster because I build nightly Some packages I install use non-default build options One of the monitoring checks I have in place will identify any installed package which is not in the package repository. That helps me identify any failed package builds or packages I have build… ## [Calibre-Web vs Calibre Server vs Kavita](https://sumguy.com/calibre-web-vs-calibre-vs-kavita/) _2026-08-21 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ Self-hosted ebook library showdown: Calibre-Web vs Kavita. Which stack handles your comics, manga, and ebooks? ## [Multiple Claude Code Accounts, One Config](https://sumguy.com/claude-code-multi-account-config/) _2026-08-21 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ Run several Claude Code accounts on one Linux machine. CLAUDE\_CONFIG\_DIR plus symlinks share your skills, hooks and history while each login stays isolated. ## [A Longetivity Hack](https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/a-longetivity-hack) _2026-08-21 · Vox Day · Sigma Game_ An experiment in staying fit and healthy in middle age ## [A Friend Gave You $30 (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/AofpLSOzlWFk) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Sign up, deposit $5 within 30 days, and start investing with expert guidance. ## [Navidrome vs Funkwhale: Self-Hosted Music](https://sumguy.com/navidrome-vs-funkwhale/) _2026-08-21 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ Navidrome vs Funkwhale for self-hosted music streaming. Subsonic API support, mobile clients, federation, and which one fits a homelab in 2026. ## [Tautulli Beyond Plex Stats](https://sumguy.com/tautulli-beyond-plex-stats/) _2026-08-20 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ Tautulli's notification webhooks, automation, transcode alerts, and custom triggers unlock Plex monitoring beyond leaderboards and statistics charts. ## [Blindsight](https://bruceediger.com/posts/blindsight/) _2026-08-20 · bediger8@gmail.com (Bruce Ediger) · Information Camouflage_ Blindsight Copyright © 2006 by Peter Watts A Tor Essentials book ISBN 978-1-250-23748-4 ## [Blindsight](https://bruceediger.com/posts/blindsight/) _2026-08-20 · bediger8@gmail.com (Bruce Ediger) · Information Camouflage_ Blindsight Copyright © 2006 by Peter Watts A Tor Essentials book ISBN 978-1-250-23748-4 ## [Overseerr vs Jellyseerr](https://sumguy.com/overseerr-vs-jellyseerr/) _2026-08-20 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ Overseerr vs Jellyseerr media request UIs: Plex-only vs Jellyfin/Emby. Setup, auth, Sonarr/Radarr integration. ## [The Marriage Risk Isn’t Real](https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/the-marriage-risk-isnt-real) _2026-08-20 · Vox Day · Sigma Game_ The 50 percent failure rate is decades out of date ## [The \*arr Stack Without 9000 Reddit Threads](https://sumguy.com/arr-stack-durable-setup/) _2026-08-20 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ Self-hosted \*arr stack (Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Bazarr) with durable Docker Compose. Hardlinks, folder layout, no breakage. ## [Synthetic Browser Monitoring with Playwright + Grafana](https://sumguy.com/playwright-synthetic-monitoring/) _2026-08-19 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ Set up Playwright synthetic monitoring: scheduled headless browser checks, login flow validation, and pass/fail metrics piped into Grafana dashboards. ## [The Original Semantic Line Breaks](https://bruceediger.com/posts/more-semantic-line-breaks/) _2026-08-19 · bediger8@gmail.com (Bruce Ediger) · Information Camouflage_ I found the advice from an Enlightened Unix Master about arranging input text for the the venerable troff typesetting system that seems to be ancestral to Semantic Line Breaks . ## [VictoriaMetrics vs Prometheus](https://sumguy.com/victoriametrics-vs-prometheus/) _2026-08-19 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ VictoriaMetrics as a Prometheus drop-in replacement: lower RAM footprint, longer retention, better compression. When the switch actually pays off. ## [Brisk AI News Briefings (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/OaFfWHdhohHD) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Read AI summaries and listen to audio briefings for top stories. ## [Always Do Background Checks](https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/always-do-background-checks) _2026-08-19 · Vox Day · Sigma Game_ The wicked never cease attempting to infiltrate and destroy ## [Node Exporter Internals That Actually Matter](https://sumguy.com/node-exporter-metrics-that-matter/) _2026-08-19 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ Which 30 Node Exporter metrics matter for Prometheus monitoring. Skip the 200 noisy ones. Textfile collector trick included. ## [Grafana OnCall + Webhooks: Paging Without PagerDuty](https://sumguy.com/grafana-oncall-paging/) _2026-08-18 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ Self-host Grafana OnCall as a free PagerDuty alternative: escalation policies, Alertmanager webhooks, and phone alerts for your home lab (plus the 2026 catch). ## [Smurfs Lip Balm](https://bruceediger.com/posts/smurf-lip-balm/) _2026-08-18 · bediger8@gmail.com (Bruce Ediger) · Information Camouflage_ A not-quite-so-baffling Smurfs™ product from Dollar Tree. Full disclosure : I didn't buy this, nor have I used it. ## [Smurfs Lip Balm](https://bruceediger.com/posts/smurf-lip-balm/) _2026-08-18 · bediger8@gmail.com (Bruce Ediger) · Information Camouflage_ A not-quite-so-baffling Smurfs™ product from Dollar Tree. Full disclosure : I didn't buy this, nor have I used it. ## [Healthchecks.io Self-Hosted: Cron Monitoring](https://sumguy.com/healthchecks-self-hosted-cron/) _2026-08-18 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ Self-hosted Healthchecks.io for cron monitoring with dead-man-switch alerting, Docker setup, and backup integration. Never miss a silent failure again. ## [A New Reason to Back the Byron AI](https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/a-new-reason-to-back-the-byron-ai) _2026-08-18 · Vox Day · Sigma Game_ 30 hours left to help make future history ## [Vector vs Fluent Bit: Modern Log Shippers](https://sumguy.com/vector-vs-fluent-bit/) _2026-08-18 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ Vector vs Fluent Bit log shippers: Rust-based transforms and sinks vs lightweight C agent. Config, VRL, footprint, and when each wins. ## [Push vs Pull Metrics: Pushgateway, Pushprox, and Why](https://sumguy.com/push-vs-pull-metrics/) _2026-08-17 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ Prometheus pull metrics are great until they aren't. When batch jobs, NAT, and ephemeral containers break scraping, Pushgateway, PushProx, and alternatives explained. ## [Troff Permanence](https://bruceediger.com/posts/troff-permanance/) _2026-08-17 · bediger8@gmail.com (Bruce Ediger) · Information Camouflage_ You can download the troff source of Brian Kernighan's UNIX for Beginners - Second Edition from the Plan 9 archive of the 7th Edition Unix documentation. The Plan 9 people re-packaged the various files as bun archives probably sometime in the 1990s, but you can extract the troff input files and run them through GNU groff today, in the 21 st Century. ## [Open directory of blogs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/EheZiZLSWXdJ) _2026-08-17 · **Sponsored**_ Drop URLs or OPML — get per-blog pages plus machine-readable JSON, OPML, text ## [Troff Permanence](https://bruceediger.com/posts/troff-permanance/) _2026-08-17 · bediger8@gmail.com (Bruce Ediger) · Information Camouflage_ You can download the troff source of Brian Kernighan's UNIX for Beginners - Second Edition from the Plan 9 archive of the 7th Edition Unix documentation. The Plan 9 people re-packaged the various files as bun archives probably sometime in the 1990s, but you can extract the troff input files and run them through GNU groff today, in the 21 st Century. ## [Passive-Aggressive Control Freaks](https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/passive-aggressive-control-freaks) _2026-08-17 · Vox Day · Sigma Game_ Playing the rhetorical retard is obnoxious and manipulative behavior ## [Blackbox Exporter: HTTP/TCP/DNS/ICMP Probes](https://sumguy.com/blackbox-exporter-probes/) _2026-08-17 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ Blackbox exporter Prometheus probes HTTP TCP DNS ICMP synthetic monitoring without paying for Pingdom or SaaS uptime tools ## [Replacing security/pam-ssh-agent-auth with security/pam-ssh-agent](https://dan.langille.org/2026/08/17/replacing-security-pam-ssh-agent-auth-with-security-pam-ssh-agent/) _2026-08-17 · Dan Langille · Dan Langille's Other Diary_ Yesterday, I learned that security/pam-ssh-agent-auth is abandoned and deprecated. Looking back, I first used this about 13 years ago, and wrote about it while describing how I set up ansible clients. Today, I tried one of the two recommended replacement: security/pam\_rssh – mentioned by Romain Tartière security/pam\_ssh\_agent – the one I’m trying Very much a drop-in replacement Here’s what I did.… ## [Self-Host SigNoz: Install Guide](https://sumguy.com/self-host-signoz/) _2026-08-17 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ Step-by-step guide to self-hosting SigNoz with Docker Compose, wiring an app via OTLP, and configuring retention and alerts, zero to traces in under an hour. ## [SLO/SLI for Home Lab Services](https://sumguy.com/slo-sli-home-lab/) _2026-08-16 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ SRE error budgets for home lab. Build Grafana SLO dashboards, understand SLI/SLO, pick sane availability targets. ## [Vehicle Size Envelope](https://bruceediger.com/posts/vehicle-size-envelope/) _2026-08-16 · bediger8@gmail.com (Bruce Ediger) · Information Camouflage_ Trees that overhang roads give you some idea of the size of the biggest vehicles that drive along the road. ## [Vehicle Size Envelope](https://bruceediger.com/posts/vehicle-size-envelope/) _2026-08-16 · bediger8@gmail.com (Bruce Ediger) · Information Camouflage_ Trees that overhang roads give you some idea of the size of the biggest vehicles that drive along the road. ## [Alertmanager Routing Trees That Don't Lie](https://sumguy.com/alertmanager-routing-trees/) _2026-08-16 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ Master Alertmanager routing trees: severity labeling, inhibition, grouping, and multi-receiver logic for reliable home lab alerts that work at 3 AM ## [The Whispering of Snakes](https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/the-whispering-of-snakes) _2026-08-16 · Vox Day · Sigma Game_ Evil never stops trying to deceive and corrupt ## [Tempo + Grafana: Tracing for Self-Hosters](https://sumguy.com/tempo-grafana-tracing/) _2026-08-16 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ Distributed tracing with Tempo and Grafana for self-hosted multi-service stacks. OpenTelemetry, sampling, exemplars, and when tracing actually matters at home scale. ## [Bots Ate 90% of My Worker Quota](https://sumguy.com/bots-ate-my-worker-quota/) _2026-08-15 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ A WordPress login bot burned 90% of my Cloudflare Workers free tier in two hours attacking a site that has never run PHP. Here's what actually stopped it. ## [Mimir + Grafana: Long-Term Prometheus Storage](https://sumguy.com/mimir-long-term-prometheus/) _2026-08-15 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ Mimir for long-term Prometheus storage. S3-backed, horizontally scaled alternative to Thanos for capacity planning and compliance. ## [Loki vs Vector for Log Shipping](https://sumguy.com/loki-vs-vector-log-shipping/) _2026-08-15 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ Promtail vs Vector: which log shipping agent fits your setup? Loki's purpose-built simplicity or Vector's transform power and multiple sinks. ## [HTB: Cobblestone](https://0xdf.gitlab.io/2026/08/15/htb-cobblestone.html) _2026-08-15 · 0xdf hacks stuff_ Cobblestone hosts a cluster of Minecraft-themed PHP sites across a few subdomains. I’ll find a second-order SQL injection, use it to read the application source, and abuse stored cross-site scripting to hijack an admin session. That admin access opens up a Twig template injection for code execution as the web user, which is locked down hard by AppArmor. I’ll pull credentials from the database and… ## [Fortunes: Some Good and Some Bad](https://bruceediger.com/posts/mixed-bag-of-fortunes/) _2026-08-15 · bediger8@gmail.com (Bruce Ediger) · Information Camouflage_ Three terrible and two good fortunes. ## [Prometheus Federation for Multi-Site Home Labs](https://sumguy.com/prometheus-federation-multi-site/) _2026-08-15 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ Prometheus federation for multi-site home labs: hierarchical scraping, cross-cluster aggregation, federation vs remote\_write, practical config. ## [The Myth of the Absurd](https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-the-absurd) _2026-08-15 · Vox Day · Sigma Game_ In which Camus's masterpiece is set to music ## [rclone Crypt: Encrypted Cloud Buckets That Stay Yours](https://sumguy.com/rclone-crypt-encrypted-cloud/) _2026-08-15 · SumGuy's Ramblings_ Client-side encryption with rclone crypt keeps your cloud backups opaque to providers. Key management, filename encryption, and restore drills for B2, S3, Drive. ## [Set Up a Basic Firewall on FreeBSD](https://www.dwarmstrong.org/freebsd-pf/) _2026-08-15 · Daniel Wayne Armstrong_ I use Packet Filter (PF) to set up a basic firewall on FreeBSD. To start, the only service I’m running that requires inbound access is SSH. SSHGuard is added for an additional layer of security. Start Here Enable PF SSHGuard ICMP Final Config Resources Start Here PF requires a ruleset configuration file to operate. Example rulesets are found in /usr/share/examples/pf/ . I…