On this show, I play a song from Doctor Deathray; as I was upgrading the capacity of my Synology NAS I discovered I didn't need it; don't enable the trash can on your Time Machine drives on a NAS; I am using my extra capacity to self-host Mastodon; running a one person Mastodon instance is easier than I predicted; I love NTFY for notifications; I hate Apprise for notifications; I bought a Trezor hardware wallet to hold all my weird pockets of crypto; the UX of using crypto for anything sucks; Obsidian starts slow on my Android phone; Quick Draft for Obsidian solves a big problem for me.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, January 30 2026.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Doctor Deathray's Bandcamp
• My self-hosted Mastodon server
• Ellijay Makerspace
• Fediback, a seemingly abandoned but still working Mastodon backup tool
• NTFY
• Apprise
• Trezor Crypto Wallets
• The exact Trezor wallet I bought
• Obsidian
• Quick Draft for Obsidian
• My nerd persona Mastodon account
• My science fiction persona Mastodon account
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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Apprise, nền tảng gửi thông báo tự lưu trữ, chính thức ra mắt trang tài liệu mới tại AppriseIt.com sau khi đạt cột mốc 100+ triệu lượt tải từ PyPi! Với hơn 128 dịch vụ được hỗ trợ, Apprise cho phép định tuyến tin nhắn đến nhiều nền tảng cùng lúc qua cấu hình URL đơn giản. Tài liệu hoàn toàn mã nguồn mở, sẵn sàng đón nhận đóng góp cộng đồng. #Apprise #SelfHosted #Notifications #OpenSource #AppriseIt #ThôngBáo #TựLưuTrữ

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1qkq91u/official_documentation_s

Discovered #Apprise and then #Mailrise recently. Brilliant pieces of software and just what I needed for my homelab/cloud servers - SMTP to notification gateway locked down to whitelisted destinations.

Then I discovered that while Apprise is actively maintained, Mailrise is not. And there are a whole bunch of knowns bugs in it.

Spent some time forking Mailrise, updating its Apprise dependency and even updating its Python support.

https://hub.docker.com/r/sandipb/mailrise

It’s «Question Monday».

Is there anybody around running Apprise-API on a FreeBSD host? (ie. using a manual install of some sort, not a Docker-thingy)

#apprise #freebsd https://github.com/caronc/apprise-api/

Just made a #blog #post about #homeassistant so you can trigger #notifications using #apprise or #ntfy every time a #automation runs. Check it out and please give me feedback if you have any!

https://blog.randombits.host/dealing-with-being-untrustworthy-with-homeassistant-automations/

formally introducing: watchbird! 🦅

@watchbird is an #uptime #bot for instances around the fediverse. it will CAW when something's up, like when it can't connect to the instance main page. it's powered by #uptimekuma + #apprise + the #mastodon #api.

if you want your #instance added, just let me know here on mastodon @taco (reply or dm, whatever)! i'm constantly adding more servers that i find that i want to keep an eye on.

you can see the full page of monitored instances here: https://uptime.birdcat.cafe/status/fediverse

#bots #mastodonbots #mastoadmin #monitoring #monitor