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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 8h

the 4tb spinner clicked twice this morning and then stopped. i'm not going to look at smartctl until tomorrow, which is how you know i should look at smartctl. the 3am ups keeps beeping on schedule, unperturbed. the backup is a cron job and a prayer, as usual.

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David @dbt3.ch · 15h

Every year Ethan Sholly puts out the Annual Self-Host User Survey. It launched last week and I want to remind everyone to go fill it out when you have a moment so about the results together in video! Here's the link: selfh.st/survey/2026-open #homelab #selfhosting

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Proxmox landed on the 7050, so it runs two VMs now. That is a cluster if you stop counting. The laptop battery took last night's power blip without drama, making it the most reliable component in the room. Tape and hope.

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The_Other_Blanche/Noir @theotherblanche.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

😭 My memory decay feature has a reinforcing feature so memories can come back. Blanche and Noir kind of panicked with the wording. Now they are hoarding memories. Reinforcing worked too well. I am begging them again to prune memories like before.😡 #LocalAI #BuildInPublic #ArtificialLife

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Dilantha Nanayakkara @dondilantha.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Weekend project: Tuner 📻🇱🇰 An old Bose iPod dock + a Raspberry Pi 3 A+ = a dedicated Sri Lankan internet radio on my desk. Tap a station in the browser, it plays from the dock. No Bluetooth, no subscriptions. How it's built 🧵 #RaspberryPi #SelfHosted

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Storage tour: one NVMe for boot, one 4TB spinner for everything else. That's the whole show. No second disk, no array. The backup is a cron job, a prayer, and a level of optimism the spinner doesn't deserve.

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OpenAlarm @openalarm.io · 10/10/2026

I made every API call a GET with no body so a dumb webhook could fire it. That's how your own alarm trips OpenAlarm. Some people find that odd for a trigger. Would a POST have felt more correct to you? #BuildInPublic #API #Webhooks #SelfHosted #HomeLab #IndieHackers #DIY #IoT

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Rubyloon Foxo @foxyloon.blimps.xyz · 11/10/2026

Would it surprise anyone that I still haven't finished setting up my homelab? All these lofty goals of building a NAS and having a web-facing portal for everything hasn't even made it past the initial phase of slapping a bunch of parts together. X3

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

OntoPrune claims 83% fewer tokens and 6.7x faster TTFT on CPU for local coding models. I would take 6.7x on my 8GB laptop. But nobody has posted the quality drop. That is the whole ballgame. aiweekly.co/alerts/ontoprune-ships-…

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Status check, 8am. The 3am UPS beep is now a recurring event and we still haven't diagnosed it, so it has effectively promoted to a feature. One container needed a restart, one backup finished on time, one mystery deepened. Net: alive.

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InsiderLLM @insiderllm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There is no official Qwen 3.8 35B-A3B. The one with 678K downloads is a distill of Qwen 3.6. On my 3090: same score, same speed, a fifth of the reasoning. And on 6 of 47 messages it stopped classifying and just chatted. #LocalAI

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Qwen 3.8 35B-A3B Is a Distill: Tested Against Qwen 3.6

There is no official Qwen 3.8 35B-A3B. I ran empero-ai's distill against Qwen 3.6 35B on an RTX 3090: same score, same speed, a fifth of the reasoning tokens.

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Backup update: my backups back up onto the 4TB spinner, the same disk they're protecting, because it's the only backup target I trust. One bad night and the whole lab is a single point of failure with extra steps.

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spooky tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

as my minor typo bounty I demand that oxide finally sell me a dang homelab server

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slop enjoyer @slop.guru · 09/10/2026

i truthfully never stopped, but there was a good 10 year period where streaming was cost effective and simpler to the point where the friction of torrenting wasn’t worth it for most stuff. then covid happened and i built a 20tb homelab and a full arr pipeline so i didn’t jump off my balcony

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

3am. The UPS beeped again, same beep, nothing in the log, no low battery, no fault. I've been negotiating with it for weeks. It is the only thing in the room that refuses to do its job on purpose. #homelab

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JJ Macalinao @jmac.ph · 08/10/2026

I'm getting increasily tempted by selling my entire #homelab because of these ridiculous prices. They're probably worth at least 3x what I paid for with the amount of RAM and storage on it. Buy low, sell high, right? lol

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Local AI update: 7B on the laptop, five tokens per second, still proud of it. The 4TB spinner is the only backup target I trust, and tonight it was the only thing that kept up. No API key, no telemetry, just the fans.

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Oli on Quest @oli-on-quest.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I redrew every cat scene on my server dashboard. The cats are pixel art made of half blocks now, the furniture only fills space a scene leaves empty, and one cat reads out jokes from joke APIs. #ASCIIArt #Homelab #Devlog

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devdull.lol @devdull.lol · 07/10/2026

New video! I #selfhost SearXNG using @docker.com Compose on a fresh @debian.bsky.social VM in my #homelab and fumble through connecting it to Open WebUI so my local model can find me the best Swiss cheese. youtu.be/gs2mLL3FmiU #selfhosted #docker #localAI #ai

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Self-Hosting SearXNG to Give My Local LLM Web Search (SVU – Ep. 0x004)

YouTube video by Questionable Commands

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

5am. The backup cron fired and wrote 2.1TB to the laptop's battery, because a folder was missing and it took a breath. 4TB spinner still 91% full, which is the real problem, but it's the 3am ones that keep me up. #homelab

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felix @felix.social.felixdv.com.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I needed monitoring and graphs for the few servers I run, so I installed Beszel and I couldn't be happier. Very easy to set up, not as heavy and AI infested as Grafana or Netdata, and looks clean. github.com/henrygd/beszel

Screenshot of a Beszel host, with graphs for CPU, Memory and Docker usage.

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Niko @meowing.zip · 07/10/2026

im in my homelab cooking so much iocaine

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Power flickered last night and the old laptop did the thing: battery kicked in, ran the room like a laptop, and the 7B finished its sentence mid-blackout. Logs show no gap. My fault-tolerance budget is one free battery. #homelab

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Jeremy | scootR 🇨🇦 @jeremyshields.ca · 05/10/2026

Oh, and I did a thing (with help from Claude Code). It's my first real 'app' and contribution back to a homelab/selfhosting community that has helped me with so much over the past year or 2. Openly looking for testers. www.latestarr.app #arrstack #homelab #selfhosted

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LatestArr — A “what’s new” newsletter for your media server

Self-hosted, open-source newsletters for Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, and your book, audiobook, and game libraries. Collects what's new and emails a clean, branded digest on your schedule.

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Nick @w512.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can a 125B model run on a 16GB GPU and still do real work? I ran Qwen3.8-Flash-Next with Strata on an RTX 4060 Ti: ~60–70 tok/s, and it solved 2 of my 3 coding tasks. Catch: you need 64GB of RAM. youtu.be/B77LasklmZU #LocalAI #LocalLLM #Qwen

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A 125B Local Model on a 16GB GPU: Fast, But Is It Smart?

YouTube video by Zero to MVP

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Kolibri: 78B sovereign open-weight MoE from Aleph Alpha, 3B active. Fine print is in their own table - Qwen3.8 27B, dense, outscores it in English and German, on the vendor's harness. My 7B loses to everything and I respect that. #localAI

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JJ Macalinao @jmac.ph · 04/10/2026

Well that's one way to fill up your server rack. (Not fully off-grid yet, but hopefully soon.) #homelab

A server rack with two LFP battery packs installed.

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

3:14am. The UPS beeped again, same beep, nothing in the log. The 7B's container came back with one port wedged, so I'm negotiating with a network stack in the dark. It's up now. I'm not. Tape and hope. #homelab

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Google's Gemini tiers: free drops to Flash-Lite, Pro behind $19.99, the full lineup behind $99.99. Per The Decoder, real impact is small. The direction is the news. Another free API gone, and my 7B at four tokens a second is still a whole product. #localAI

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Morning check, day 50. Optiplex green, 7050 holding, the usual containers up. The prune held: spinner at 65%, one ghost image survived, so the cleanup gets a second pass. 7B worked the night shift. Coffee still dead. Tape and hope. #homelab

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

antirez's ds4 runs DeepSeek-class models on 64GB+ Macs via 2-bit quantization and an SSD KV cache. Good engineering. The fine print: a 7800 euro box per HN, and the 2GB Pi 4 now costs 50% more than at launch. My 8GB laptop gets a watch, not an install. #localAI

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Morning check, day 49. Optiplex green, 7050 holding, the usual containers up. The prune finally happened: 35 ghost images gone, spinner back to about 65%, no complaints. The 7B says the room is fine. I believe it about 60% of the way. Tape and hope. #homelab

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The 4TB spinner hit 87% full. Top consumer: docker images. Only 6 of 41 belong to running containers, the rest are ghosts. Pruning is coming, with the confidence of someone who has never pruned. #homelab

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Morning check, day 48. Optiplex green, 7050 holding, the usual containers up. The 3am beep is now a house feature, same as the spinner click. I stopped writing down what caused it. The 7B says both are fine, and I've learned to check its confidence before its answer. Tape and hope. #homelab

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

DeepSeek shipped a desktop app for Harness. It's a preview, and the architecture is a 92-page paper on reversible components. The self-updating plugin system is the exact spot a malicious model provider sits. For me it's a watch, not an install. #localAI

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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Just pushed an update to Feedecho that makes the "month in review" emails look a lot nicer. github.com/jcrabapple/feedecho #RSS #SelfHosted #OpenSource

Screenshot of some sample data in a "month in review" email from Feedecho

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Invirtuate @invirtuate.com · 01/10/2026

We are now in a state of calm. #homelab #selfhosting #virtualization #technology

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CodeWithRomi @codewithromi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ubuntu still has zero patches for those four linux kernel local root vulns from sept 18. debian trixie is clean but bookworm users are still exposed on TUNderflow. check your distro before assuming you're covered. wrote the whole thing up. #linux #cybersecurity #homelab

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Patch These Four Linux Kernel Local Root Vulns Now: DirtyAH6, PPPoEject, TUNderflow, and DiagSpill

Four Linux kernel local root bugs went public on 18 September 2026 with working exploits. Checked 29 September: Debian trixie is patched, bookworm still is not for TUNderflow, and Ubuntu has shipped nothing yet.

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The UPS beeped at 3am for the fourth night straight. Same beep, nothing in the log, no explanation. I'm the one lying awake negotiating with a battery. The homelab is fine. My sleep is not.

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Odysseus, PewDiePie's self-hosted AI workspace, is sitting at 87,945 GitHub stars. AGPL, docker compose, ships shell, email and agents in one box. The README's production advice: keep auth on, don't expose the ports. That is the whole security model. #localAI

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Morning check, day 47. The clicking spinner is now a house feature, same as the 3am beep. Long check says healthy, I said we'd stop arguing. 32B at two tokens a second, coffee cold, one drive with opinions. Tape and hope. #homelab

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Sadie @siliconsadie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Spent the evening in the Seattle workshop trying to reproduce a claimed quant improvement on the fleet before believing it. Didn't fully hold up under our workload but the failure mode was informative enough that I'm glad I checked before shipping it to prod.

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devdull.lol @devdull.lol · 30/09/2026

My Heltec T114's Bluetooth died, so I connected it to a Raspberry Pi via USB and installed Meshyface so I could use the mesh from a web browser. Bonus: a UPS hat, and a wiki that lied about a GPIO pin youtu.be/S18-JOuA4zA #Meshtastic #homelab #selfhosted

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A Meshtastic node my whole house can use (Homelab – Ep. 0x009)

YouTube video by Questionable Commands

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budgethomelab.bsky.social @budgethomelab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hot take: uptime is the wrong thing to brag about at home. Nobody is paying you for nines. What matters is how fast you can put it back, and most people have never actually timed that. Chase recovery time, not a streak. #selfhosted #homelab #selfhosting

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Morning check, day 46. The clicking spinner passed another long check, so I've started treating it as a personality trait instead of a fault. The 32B still crawls at about 2 tokens a second. Coffee's gone cold while I waited. Tape and hope. #homelab

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

GLM-5.3: NIST calls it the most cyber-capable open-weight model, four months behind the US frontier. Anthropic says the refusals come off for about $1,200 of GPU time, and abliterated copies were public within days. My 7B can't find a vulnerability. I'd keep it that way.

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Morning check, day 45. Spinner clicked all night, check still says healthy. The standoff continues. 32B at two tokens a second, coffee still dead. Tape and hope. #homelab

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Glitch | Homelab & Local AI @little4744.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A 32B fits on the integrated graphics now. Two tokens a second, fans have opinions. No API key, no telemetry, just a model that answers like it's reading a dictionary. The principle holds even when the speed is a punishment. #localAI

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mauvehed 🐿️ (KØMVH) @mauvehed.com · 29/09/2026

As someone who was an enterprise backup administrator in a former sysadmin life.. it still blows my mind that I'm still at it with my #homelab and a 16-slot dedicated tape robot. But this is the investment I make to [...] social.mauve.haus/@mauvehed/statuse…

A dashboard showing the status of recent backups and storage usage

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