conda/mitmproxy/wireshark are already Linux-gated in the shared home modules, and verible is unreferenced, so replacing them with emptyDirectory is unnecessary.
Hosts used to trust the router as the only boundary (servers ran with the
firewall off; service ports were opened globally), so any LAN device could
reach every host service. Move filtering to the hosts as defence in depth
behind the router, which keeps its firewall on and uses a port mapping for
the few ports we actually need.
- base: nftables backend; deny inbound by default; trust the home LAN by
source and the tailnet by interface (restrict the tailnet with ACLs);
suppress per-service `openFirewall` global ports; allow node_exporter only
from the monitoring host. The local podman bridge, the tailnet and the pod
CIDRs are accepted only after the node_exporter drop.
- servers: stop disabling the firewall; drop redundant global port opens
(caddy 80/443, NFS 2049, Jellyfin, localsend/test ports); delete the
redundant desktop firewall module; aarch64/riscv64 import the firewall
explicitly (akane was missing it).
- k3s: Cilium pods (10.0.0.0/8, fd00::/8) may reach host services; drop the
flannel-era cni0/flannel.1 trust.
- youko: postgres listens on localhost + the LAN with pg_hba limited to the
LAN; the NFS export stays LAN-scoped; remove the unauthenticated v2ray
proxy.
- tests: `security-firewall` asserts every host runs the shared firewall, has
the LAN CIDR rule and no global ports.
timerConfig was set with lowercase onCalendar/randomizedDelaySec, which systemd treats as unknown directives. The generated timer had no schedule, so `systemctl list-timers` showed NEXT=- and no backup ever ran. Use the real keys OnCalendar/RandomizedDelaySec.
Give the idols-ruby and idols-kana VMs a headless computer-use
environment: Xvfb plus i3, driven by cua-driver (and computer-use-linux
as a fallback). Includes the system module (AT-SPI, fonts, Mesa, Clash
Verge proxy, proxy-region timezone), the home i3 module (Xvfb/i3/x11vnc
services, browser flags), host wiring and an eval test.
Only three secrets are readable as the login user (nix-access-tokens,
ssh-key-romantic and the nushell one); everything else is root-only and
the filesystem already keeps agents out.
A failed backup was silent. Post to alertmanager (which routes above-info
to telegram), and have caddy answer 404 instead of its empty 200 for
*.writefor.fun names that are not services.
The design (layers, password groups, retention, restore steps) was only in
code comments. Also make the timer configurable: a whole hour of random
delay defeated any staggering, and the desktop's push, youko's own run and
btrbk all otherwise contend for the same disks.
Split the repository password into desktop and homelab groups, add the
environmentFile/pruneOpts module options, and point the desktop at youko's
REST endpoint.
* feat(hosts): per-host restic backups to the SMB remote
Replace the disabled aggregate job (which rsynced every host's /persistent
into /tmp - a tmpfs - and silently produced incomplete backups) with one
restic repo per host, backing up its own data directly:
- shared module lib/genResticBackup.nix: secrets, rclone/SMB target
(rclone:smb-downloads:/Downloads/homelab-backup/<host>), retention, and
excludes for the regenerable/bulky paths (podman overlay layers, microvm
and libvirt disk images, nfs golden images, logs, caches)
- youko additionally backs up the service state under /persistent/var/lib
and dumps all postgres databases first (a consistent SQL artifact beside
the crash-consistent data dir)
- shoryu/shushou back up /etc/agenix, /etc/ssh and the k3s token
Needs three agenix secrets before it can run: restic-password,
ssh-key-for-restic-backup and rclone-conf-for-restic-backup.
* refactor(hosts): only restic does off-host; btrbk stays local
btrbk works at the subvolume level, so a would ship the whole
@persistent - including podman's overlay storage, the microVM/libvirt
images and the nfs golden images - which is exactly the regenerable bulk
we want out of the backups.
So: btrbk keeps making the cheap local CoW snapshots (quick rollbacks),
and restic owns the off-host copies with file-level excludes. Back up the
whole /persistent minus those excludes, so nothing is missed.
Update the btrbk module's comment to say so.
* fix(restic): never back up keys; drop the implicit /etc/agenix
restic's own password lives in /etc/agenix, so backing that up would store
the repository's password inside the repository. Exclude agenix, the ssh
host keys and the usual credential dirs (.ssh, .gnupg, .aws, gcloud).
* refactor(restic): make the backup a proper module
Replace lib/genResticBackup.nix with modules/nixos/base/restic-backup.nix,
which declares modules.restic-backup options (enable, repository, paths,
exclude, requiresMountsFor, postgresDump) like the btrbk module does.
youko just sets the options now.
* refactor(restic): exclude the whole podman storage, trim retention
Exclude /persistent/var/lib/containers wholesale: the image layers are
re-pullable and podman's storage DB is not consistent when copied from a
running podman. uptime-kuma's named volume lives there, but its data is
not wanted anyway.
Retention: daily 3, weekly 2, monthly 2 - no yearly.
* refactor(restic): back up a short-lived btrfs snapshot, drop pg_dump
A live copy of a running postgres data dir is only crash-consistent. Instead
of a daily pg_dumpall (which duplicates the data in the repository and gets
slower as the DB grows), take a short-lived read-only btrfs snapshot in
backupPrepareCommand, back that up, and delete it right after - a
consistency step, not a second backup. The excludes are relative now so they
work for both the snapshot and a direct path.
* feat(secrets): restic-password for modules.restic-backup
With the rekeyed secret in nix-secrets (storage group, alongside
hdd-luks-crypt-key), the module's passwordFile resolves.
* fix(restic): agenix's secret is under /run/agenix, not /etc/agenix
* fix(restic): take the password path from agenix, not a hardcoded one
config.age.secrets."restic-password".path follows agenix's secretsDir, so it
stays correct if that changes.
The k3s-test workers never ran (they were stuck waiting for volume
binding) and will be re-added as microVMs, so remove their KubeVirt
configs and everything that only existed for KubeVirt guests:
- hosts/k8s/k3s-test-1-worker-{1,2,3} and their outputs
- lib/genKubeVirtGuestModule.nix and lib/genK3sAgentModule.nix (the
latter was only used by the workers)
- the KubeVirt image upload recipes (upload-vm, upload-idols,
upload-k3s-test) and the kubevirt image package in the idols outputs
- refresh the docs; keep only accurate historical mentions (e.g. the
restic backup path must stay as it is)
The file is not KubeVirt-specific: it is the hardware configuration for
any QEMU guest that boots from a disk (KubeVirt or libvirt). All it does
is pull in qemu-guest.nix and set fileSystems."/" from the disk labeled
nixos.
English stays the default (LANG=en_US.UTF-8). Drop the Chinese overrides for
LC_TIME, LC_NUMERIC, LC_ADDRESS, LC_NAME, LC_TELEPHONE and LC_IDENTIFICATION:
LC_NUMERIC matches en_US, the others are effectively unused, and LC_TIME forced
Chinese date and weekday names.
Keep zh_CN only where the en_US default is wrong for China: metric units, A4
paper and CNY.
Noctalia v5 is the native C++/Wayland rewrite; the Quickshell-based v4 line (pkgs.noctalia-shell) is EOL and its JSON config is not migrated upstream.
- use the upstream home-manager programs.noctalia module (present at our pinned HM revision) instead of the hand-rolled package + symlink module: it installs pkgs.noctalia, validates config.toml at build time via checkConfig, and supports customPalettes; drop the v4 Qt/Qt6ct session setup
- replace the v4 settings.json/plugins.json with a minimal shared config.toml (font, Catppuccin shell palette, templates off, screenshot annotation, accessibility/bar scale, night light, wallpaper, location/weather); host-specific bits live in per-host files (shoukei's eDP-1 backlight in noctalia/host-shoukei.toml), which merge after config.toml. Application theming stays with catppuccin/nix
- treat config.toml as the single source of truth: do NOT persist ~/.local/state/noctalia and set setup_wizard_enabled = false, so UI tweaks are promoted back into the repo instead of accumulating in app-owned state
- port niri keybinds to 'noctalia msg ...', update spawn-at-startup and the backdrop layer namespace, fix the broken 'octalia-shell' media-previous bind, and replace the grim/slurp/satty screenshot stack with Noctalia's native region/fullscreen/annotate commands (drop the unused packages)
- drop the now-redundant swaybg and swaylock (Noctalia owns the wallpaper and lock screen, the latter authenticating against the PAM 'login' service) and its PAM entry; keep wlogout as an emergency fallback
- update hypridle's lock commands and the matching eval test
- refresh the noctalia docs
networkd enables systemd-resolved by default, and resolved's own mDNS responder conflicts with avahi (duplicate answers, avahi logs 'Detected another mDNS stack running on this host'). Keep avahi for DNS-SD (cups-browsed depends on it) and turn resolved's mDNS off.
trash-empty lacked Persistent=true, so a host that was off or suspended at the scheduled time never ran the purge and trash retention silently stopped.
Guix was enabled on every desktop host, but shoukei had no /gnu mount (store and state lived on the tmpfs root) and it was not used. Drop the module, the modules.guix option, the @guix subvolume and the /var/guix preservation entry.
* feat(btrbk): make snapshots explicit and guarded
Replace the always-on, hardcoded module with modules.btrbk options (enable/volume/subvolume/snapshotDir/target/onCalendar), and assert the btrfs top-level subvolume is mounted so a missing mount fails evaluation instead of silently failing at runtime.
Store snapshots in the @snapshots subvolume (snapshot_dir=@snapshots) rather than next to the live subvolume, make the off-host target explicit and off by default, and document that local snapshots are not off-host backups.
Enable the feature explicitly on idols-ai, shoukei and the three kubevirt hosts; qemu-guest now disables it through the option. Add eval tests for shoukei and ai.
* feat(monitoring): alert on btrbk snapshot failure
Add HostBtrbkSnapshotFailed on node_systemd_unit_state for btrbk-btrbk.service, so a broken snapshot schedule alerts instead of only surfacing in the journal.
Install microsoft-edge on x86_64 Linux via Home Manager and on macOS via
a brew cask. Enable the chromium and brave-origin Home Manager options
alongside google-chrome, dropping the google-chrome aarch64 fallback to
chromium since google-chrome supports aarch64-linux.
Persist the Brave Origin and microsoft-edge profile directories on the
ephemeral-root hosts.
- render Niri on the Intel iGPU while retaining NVIDIA-connected physical outputs
- encode Sunshine streams with Intel VAAPI and wait for a Niri output before startup
- load VKMS persistently for headless sessions and configure `Virtual-1` at 2560x1600@60
- let Moonlight request the stream bitrate instead of enforcing a 20 Mbps host cap
- remove unsupported Dynamic Boost and global NVIDIA session overrides
- grant Sunshine access to virtual input devices
- add a Nushell recovery helper that starts a temporary greetd/Niri session from SSH
- identify and safely replace normal, standalone, or previous transient Niri sessions
- launch the transient service in the background and verify greetd, Niri, and Sunshine before returning
- ignore local `.worktrees` directories and keep eval regression coverage focused on structural behavior
Enable gnomeKeyring for the passwd PAM service so pam_gnome_keyring
updates the login keyring password when the login password changes.
Fixes 'Unlock Login Keyring' prompt desync after changing the password
via passwd (greetd session unlock alone does not update the keyring).
The zram module was auto-imported on all hosts via base scanPaths, and its
swappiness=180/page-cluster=0 tunings leaked onto hosts that disabled zram
(e.g. idols-ai with a disk swapfile, pushing cold anon pages to disk swap).
Wrap the whole module in modules.zram.enable (default true); idols-ai now
turns off zram and its tunings with a single switch.
* security: make firewall secure-by-default, disable explicitly on servers
Flip the base firewall default to ON so new hosts are protected by default. Servers keep the firewall off (trusted internal LAN, WAN protected at the router) via explicit overrides in modules/nixos/server/{server,server-aarch64}.nix. Behavior-preserving for all 18 current hosts; adds a security-firewall eval test guarding the per-host state.
* test: fix security-firewall eval test to scalar per-host values
* security: enable AppArmor (complain) on all Linux hosts
* security: bind aquamarine metrics exporters to loopback
* security: restrict k3s kubeconfig file mode to 600
* security: disable SSH X11 forwarding on servers, keep on desktops
* security: add conservative systemd hardening to aquamarine services
* docs(apparmor): correct FHS-alias comment (nixpkgs has no broad FHS layer)
nixpkgs only creates /run/current-system, /usr/bin/env and /bin/sh; it does not
provide a broad FHS->store alias tree, so FHS-oriented abstractions are incomplete
on NixOS. They are safe only because the profiles run in complain mode.
* fix(aquamarine): scrape same-host exporters over loopback
The v2ray/postgres/sftpgo exporters were bound to 127.0.0.1 but VictoriaMetrics
scraped them via the host's routable IP, so those scrapes refused connections.
Point the three same-host scrape targets at 127.0.0.1 (VM runs on the same host).
node-exporter keeps the host IP since it binds 0.0.0.0.
* Revert "security: add conservative systemd hardening to aquamarine services"
This reverts commit f9cf99dadb.
* feat(nushell): add trash command using the home trash can
On a tmpfs root with persistent dirs bind-mounted in, `rm --trash`
scatters items into per-mount .Trash-$uid dirs that file managers never
show, and gio refuses to trash on those internal mounts.
Add a `trash` command implementing the freedesktop trash spec
'failsafe' mode: items are moved to ~/.local/share/Trash with
spec-compliant .trashinfo entries, so Thunar can list and restore them.
Also preserve ~/.local/share/Trash on idols-ai so the trash survives
reboots.
* feat(nixos): manage scattered trash dirs with trash-cli retention timer
Replace the hand-written nushell trash command with the established
trash-cli tooling. On a tmpfs root with persistent dirs bind-mounted
in, the trash crate (nushell rm --trash) scatters items into per-mount
.Trash-$uid dirs that file managers never show and nothing cleans up.
- add trash-cli to system packages: trash-list scans/trash-restore
handles every mount point's trash dir
- daily systemd timer runs 'trash-empty 30 -f', purging items older
than 30 days across the home trash and all mount points
- drop the hand-written trash.nu module
- note in preservation.nix: do NOT persist ~/.local/share/Trash; a
bind-mounted trash dir breaks the trash crate's home-topdir match
for files straight under $HOME (it would try /.Trash-$uid, EACCES)
* fix(nixos): order trash-empty after preservation.target
The scattered .Trash-$uid dirs live inside the preservation bind
mounts, which use DefaultDependencies=no and are therefore NOT ordered
after local-fs.target. Add preservation.target to After= so trash-empty
only runs once all those mounts are up.
At login the xdg-autostart-generator starts apps at
graphical-session.target, racing the portal user services. Sandboxed
apps (nixpak firefox/telegram) end up with broken FileChooser/OpenURI
until manually restarted.
Add a template drop-in on app-@autostart.service that makes every
autostart app wait for the portal stack.
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