Working on my new home (https://davidaugust.ghost.io/ on day 2 of my 124 day trial) for my articles and #blogging, I am realizing that unlike in the past, it might not make sense to use feedburner anymore.

My new home will allow me to have the whole thing served from a domain I own and control, including the feed.

Making a #proxy for the #feed, to preserve #subscribers if I were to change #tech or companies, seem a little superfluous. Am I missing compelling reasons to use #feedburner in 2025?

'Sudan has been wracked by a civil war since fighting broke out between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April 2023, causing one of the world's worst humanitarian crises with more than 12 million people forced to flee their homes. '

link below:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgee0q590qo

Oh snap! `YARR - Yet Another RSS Reader` has a new version and I missed it in March!
https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr/releases/tag/v2.5
YARR is like Feedly or NewsBlur, except more like TinyRSS or FreshRSS - you can self-host.

UNLIKE those, you can tell yarr to run at `<ip:port>`, so you can stick it at port 7666 for your reverse #proxy. And its lightweight, I run my own AND 3 other instances for fam. members on the same host accessed via different subdomains re-proxied by #nginx.

#Cybercriminals Are Hiding #Malicious Web Traffic in Plain Sight

In an effort to evade detection, cybercriminals are increasingly turning to “residential proxy” services that cover their tracks by making it look like everyday online activity.
#security #privacy #malware #proxy

https://www.wired.com/story/cybercriminals-are-hiding-malicious-web-traffic-in-plain-sight/

#Proxy Services Feast on #Ukraine’s IP Address Exodus

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/06/proxy-services-feast-on-ukraines-ip-address-exodus/

My homelab got it's final touches. I finally removed #Nextcloud and switched completely to #Stalwart, i added automatic #database backups using #cronjobs for all my #databases, i've set up most of my publicly exposed services to run behind the #cloudflare #proxy, improved the directory structure for my #docker #containers, and finally set up pihole as the #dns server on my router. This feels so good.

VPN & Linux - also NordVPN now offers 100% UI support on Linux

VPN? Internet connection flows via proxy server (can be chosen specifically *which country* too) offering also more privacy in comparison to a regular connection.

Many use VPN for example to circumvent geo-blocking in entertainment services; resulting for more content.

NordVPN has been tested several times to prove their NO-LOG policy.

https://nordvpn.com/blog/linux-gui-release/

Police dismantles #botnet selling hacked routers as residential proxies

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/police-dismantles-botnet-selling-hacked-routers-as-residential-proxies/

Just released: #swad v0.3!

https://github.com/Zirias/swad/releases/tag/v0.3

swad is the "Simple Web Authentication Daemon", your tiny, efficient and (almost) dependency-free solution to add #cookie + login #form #authentication to whatever your #reverse #proxy offers. It's written in pure #C, portable across #POSIX platforms. It's designed with #nginx' 'auth_request' in mind, example configurations are included.

This release brings a file-based credential checker in addition to the already existing one using #PAM. Also lots of improvements, see details in the release notes.

I finally added complete build instructions to the README.md:

https://github.com/Zirias/swad

And there's more documentation available: manpages as well as a fully commented example configuration file.

A general purpose HTTP reverse proxy and forwarding tool. Now written in Go!

https://github.com/tobychui/zoraxy

did a thing!

Big problem in #selfhosting is making sure you've set things up right: #dns resolution, #ports, rev/ #proxy. _Sometimes_ its helpful to query _from the outside_ of your local network.

`canuseeme` - a single binary #webservice that will query the URI you give it and see if its reachable by randos/services on the internet. A bit like a #webproxy, but can exercise it programmatically, and not limited to HTTP/S ports.

https://github.com/tezoatlipoca/canuseeme

Setting up Nginx Proxy Manager was easier than I thought! A few hurdles at first (longer blog post in the works) but I got it all working without much issue.

I am seeing things timeout every now and then but it seems a common problem so hopefully I can get that fixed.