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**#A quick edit to address something important and provide a disclaimer: **

Thank you all for your feedback! This project was "vibecoded" with Cloude AI and serves more as a "proof of concept" for what could be achieved with AI assistance. I'm just a tech enthusiast, and I'm excited to continue exploring new possibilities. I understand there’s a real concern about “AI Slop,” but that's exactly why I’m sharing this project with you all so that experts who are interested in the idea can offer guidance or even help improve it.

I’ve noticed that many people with home labs prefer to update their applications manually instead of relying on other apps that automate the process. Often, they have to check each one individually. That’s where Vigil comes in. The primary function of Vigil is to centralize the information and give users clear visibility of which applications are outdated, their current version, and the newer version available from several sources. This way, you can decide what and when to update.

To be honest, I hope it ends up being useful to others as it is for me.

If you have a few minutes, I’d really appreciate you trying it out and leaving a review or suggestions on the repo or even here. I'd do my best to answer most of the comments.

REPO: https://github.com/kumucode/vigil.git

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[–] chameleon@lemmy.today 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Slop alert. Use at your own risk

[–] DeckPacker@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I was looking for that info, because I don't trust any (especially new projects, that use AI).

How did you know, it was AI though? I am just curious

[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 days ago (4 children)

The OP says so in the comments, but also:

  • two week old github account, project created 2 weeks ago
  • initial commit is a large 1.0 release with everything committed at once
  • this also happens for 2.0 where everything is commited in one commit
  • the code and comment structure
[–] ishartdoritos@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

Also the look of the UI I can see default Claude UI a mile away these days. Always the same colours, fonts, layouts, ect...

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[–] auslegungssache@feddit.org 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

there has to be a better way than giving a slop coded project access to your docker daemon (im assuming?)

[–] 1step@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

'll keep an eye on it and keep asking around. I'm pretty sure there are better ways to do that.

[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 16 points 4 days ago (25 children)

Sorry, but you have posted only 1 sentence about the project and not even a link to the project.

Additional with the

scripts—basically "em dash" which is really popular among llm generated texts, i get a bad feeling about it.

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[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Make it support Podman next.

[–] Thaurin@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Their AI agent doesn't understand that.

[–] 1step@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd love too if I knew how to do that. I still have lots of things to learn and do before putting my toes on these waters, but I'm glad you showed some interest even to mention an integration with other tools. Thanks for that.

[–] Thaurin@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

My god. This timeline is so horrible.

[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
IP Internet Protocol
VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 16 acronyms.

[Thread #220 for this comm, first seen 7th Apr 2026, 13:50] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

[–] TypFaffke@feddit.org 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)
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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Great idea. Automatic updates (e.g. Watchtower) make me a little nervous.

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[–] dan@upvote.au 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Copying my comment from the homelab community:

I haven't tried it yet, but here's some initial thoughts:

Does it support multiple separate docker-compose.yml files? It would be useful if it could pull the list of containers directly from Docker rather than having to paste the docker-compose.

Does it pull changelogs so that the user can tell if a change is a breaking change that'll require extra work?

It would be useful to support Webauthn/FIDO2 2FA instead of just TOTP. TOTP is being slowly phased out due to its weaknesses (it's phishable). Similarly, it'd be useful to support single sign on using OIDC (OpenID Connect) as a lot of self-hosters use Authentik, Authelia, or Keycloak to have one login for all their self hosted services.

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[–] weissbinder@feddit.org 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can you provide a link to your repo?

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[–] Konraddo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for the proof of concept. I suppose it's essentially a self-hosted version of newreleases.io?

[–] 1step@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

That's pretty cool, I've never heard about newreleases.io I might take a look at it later. Thanks

[–] wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've been looking for a dashboard for my containers, might test it out later

[–] 1step@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Sounds great, I've just released a small update after some feedback here. There's still a lot to be done, but let me know what you think once you test it.

[–] IncogCyberSpaceUser@piefed.social 4 points 4 days ago (15 children)

Looks like a cool project. Starred. I'm no tech expert either, so I'll keep an eye on how the community reacts to it, in terms of security.
Keep up the good work!

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