Episode 3: How to lose friends and alienate people

What we cover

• Getting to know Stephen and his MSP business
• The sad saga of the fall of MinIO
• MXroute/SimpeLogin and self-hosting email
• Quick Hits:
  • Snapraid v14 release, now with a GUI!
  • Jellyfin 10.11.7 release, patch immediately to address 4 major CVE's
  • Opt out of Microsoft/GitHub training CoPilot on your data
  • Trivy (popular CI/CD vulnerability scanner) compromised
    • See also Dockhand release notes
  • FCC Bans Commercial Routers in US

In Episode 3, Adam is on vacation (or something like that), but Alex, Geoff and Stephen are here to close out our "meet the hosts" segment as we talk to Stephen about his tech origin story — from disassembling the family PC as a kid to enterprise storage work and eventually founding his own MSP.

Then we dig into MinIO's troubled relationship with the open source community, how it affected two of the hosts directly, and whether alternatives like Garage and SeaweedFS are worth exploring for home lab S3 storage.

Next, Geoff walks us through his email journey — from Gmail to ProtonMail to FastMail to MXRoute — and how a newly discovered API in MXRoute let him ditch his SimpleLogin subscription entirely. We also get into email aliasing, privacy, and why self-hosting email is a hill none of us are willing to die on.

We close out with our new Quick Hits segment: SnapRaid 14 ships with a GUI, a critical Jellyfin security patch, GitHub Copilot training opt-out, the Trivy/Dockhand compromise, and the FCC's controversial router ruling.

Topics: MSP, Minio, S3 object storage, Garage, SeaweedFS, MXroute, email, SimpleLogin, Snapraid, Jellyfin, GitHub, Trivy, FCC, routers

Links

• Replace GitHub with This - Tailscale YouTube
• https://blog.fuzzymistborn.com/restic-server-over-minio/
• https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/
• https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs
• https://blog.fuzzymistborn.com/mxroute-email-aliases/
• https://mxroute.com
• https://simplelogin.io
• https://mxroutespammer.com/
• https://gitlab.com/tomhello56/mxroute-alias-manager
• https://github.com/bfpimentel/bitwarden-mxroute