This Week in Self-Hosted (15 December 2023)

In the News

Silicon Labs partners with Nabu Casa to support Open Source

Silicon Labs, the company behind Z-Wave and designer of chips used in Z-Wave, Zigbee, Thread, and more, has entered an official partnership with Nabu Casa. Our work is fundamental to the growth of…

Home AssistantGuy Sie

Synapse now lives at github.com/element-hq/synapse

Element is switching to use the Affero General Public License (AGPLv3) for its future contributions to Synapse and related backend Matrix projects.

Element BlogMatthew Hodgson

Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration

Threads has begun connecting to the fediverse.

The VergeDavid Pierce and Wes Davis

Nextcloud Hub 7: advanced search and global out-of-office features - Nextcloud

Nextcloud functions as a single platform, bridging together all apps under one roof in synchronization. Today, we’re introducing our most integrated platform yet - Nextcloud Hub 7.

NextcloudMikhail Korotaev

Cloudflare 2023 Year in Review

The 2023 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is our fourth annual review of Internet trends and patterns observed throughout the year at both a global and country/region level across a variety of traffic, connectivity, and speed metrics, based on data from Cloudflare’s network

The Cloudflare BlogDavid Belson

Software Updates

• Dockcheck v0.3.0 | Container Updates: Added flag to specify image age restrictions before being pulled and updated
• DweebUI v0.07 | Docker Interface: Removed Redis, added ability to view container logs, web UI port specification
• Fasten Health v1.0.0 | Medical Records: Data encryption at rest, Windows/Mac desktop apps, manual record entry, HIPAA compliance
• Jellyfin Android TV v0.16.0 | Media Streaming: Music playback rewritten from scratch (faster playback, media sessions, reduced transcoding), redesigned screensaver, improved search
• Jellyfin Roku v2.0.0 | Media Streaming: User select screen, auto-login, music video support, Quickplay support across entire application, support for television season extras and episode versions, home section arrangement sync
• Keila v0.13.0 | Newsletters: Support for double/confirmed opt-in
• Komga v1.9.0 | Comics: ePub improvements (read progress, navigation, progression percentage, reading direction), increased PDF image resolution
• LinkStack v4.6.0 | Landing Page: New admin bar, dynamic contrast support, directly map domains to user pages
• Memos v0.18.0 | Note-Taking: PostgreSQL and webhook support
• OPNsense v23.7.10 | Firewall: FreeBSD source code changes, plugin updates
• Piwigo v14.0.0 | Photos: New search engine with multiple criteria, new file type support (HEIC, WebP, PSD, and EPS), improved album editor, notification groups
• Stirling PDF v0.16.0 | PDF Editor: OCR updates, PDF-to-CSV updates, dark mode cleanup, language updates
• Umami v2.9.0 | Analytics: Metrics search, activity log filter, external links, improved translations

New Software

• cf-tlsa-acmesh: TLSA DNS records update/automation (e-mail)
• Dokemon: Docker container management

Community Content

• Immich recap for 2023 with accomplished milestones and vision for the future | Reddit

How to Implement a Captive Portal in OPNsense

Going beyond the basics of home networking

Dustin Casto

Year of the Voice - Chapter 5

More hardware options and intents

Home AssistantMichael Hansen

Mobile App, redesign, new dev, promotion… let’s build a bright future for PeerTube !

Developing an ethical and emancipating alternative to YouTube, Twitch or Vimeo without Surveillance Capitalism’s means is a huge undertaking. Especially for a small French not-for-profit that already manages several projects to promote digital commons. 🦆 VS 😈: Let’s take back some ground from the tech giants! Thanks to your donations to our not-for-profit, Framasoft is…

FramablogFramasoft

Travel tips from Tailscale

It’s the holiday season, which means many of us are traveling to be close to family or loved ones, but that also means being far from our home networks. Tailscale can be a real help on the road, and traveling to familiar and faraway places can be an opportunity to set up connections that can come in handy for the rest of the year. In both cases, though, you may need a little bit of preparation. Today we’re sharing a few of our suggestions for Tailscale users headed out from home in the next few weeks. We’ve also adapted this blog post into a video on our YouTube channel, if you prefer to watch it that way!

TailscaleTailscale

Content Spotlight: Dockge

Meet Dockge, an easy-to-use tool for building and managing docker compose stacks. Once deployed, users are greeted with an intuitive web interface where they can deploy containers via compose.yml files using an interactive text editor. Aside from deployment, additional container functionality includes controls (start, stop, restart, edit), image updates, web terminals, and a converter for docker run commands. Users with existing stacks can transition to Dockge after migrating existing compose.yaml files to its mapped stacks directory.

Dockge can be installed via Docker and is maintained by the developer of Uptime Kuma – users of which will immediately notice design similarities upon spinning up the container. (If you're also wondering, the developer intended Dockge to be pronounced similar to dodge, but also accepts the more common mispronunciation dockage.)

Links: GitHub, Website

What We're Watching

• Year of the Voice - Chapter 5 | Home Assistant
• Forget spaceships, I just want my music | Jeff Geerling
• Proxmox + NetData for Better Insights and Notifications | DB Tech
• Wake Up Your Unraid - A Complete Sleep/Wake Guide | SpaceinvaderOne
• Don't Use A Firewall, Use 2! OpnSense High Availability Guide | Jim's Garage

What We're Listening To

Red Light, Green Light

Alex shares a new build integrating WLED, and Chirs reviews hardware that can get you started with WLED in 45 seconds. Then, one last big update on the Year of Voice and our thoughts on self-hosting push notifications.

Self-HostedJupiter Broadcasting

Snap, Crackle and Desktop

Giving Ubuntu Core Desktop Preview a shake, developing AWS Lambdas on Linux and creating an open alternative to Apple AirDrop.

Linux Matters

Smart Home and Automation

How To Control Your Phone with Home Assistant

We’ve all been using our mobile devices to control Home Assistant, but what about controlling our mobile devices with Home Assistant?

SmartHomeScene.comSHS

Hardware

• Choosing the Perfect Ethernet Cable for Your Homelab | Christian Lempa

Upcoming Events

Passkeys & You | December 19 | Bitwarden

Learn about the future of passkeys and how you can start using them in this webcast from Bitwarden and the FIDO Alliance.

Bitwarden

Privacy

GitHub - libreom/predirect: A manifest v3 web extension with minimal permissions that automatically redirects popular sites to privacy friendly frontends

A manifest v3 web extension with minimal permissions that automatically redirects popular sites to privacy friendly frontends - GitHub - libreom/predirect: A manifest v3 web extension with minimal…

GitHublibreom

Pushover Updates- A Note About Notification Encryption and Privacy

A Note About Notification Encryption and Privacy

How to share sensitive information securely | Bitwarden Blog

Share sensitive information securely with colleagues, family, friends, and just about anyone who needs it using Bitwarden Send.

Bitwarden

Command Line Corner: Ctrl + e

Similar to last week's command, use Ctrl + e to relocate your cursor to the end of the line when typing a long command. The shortcut is much quicker than holding an arrow key and easier than using the Home key as your fingers won't need to leave the default typing position.

/$ dcker co|mpose up ghost-blog
/$ dcker compose up ghost-blog|

Click here to view an archive of commands shared in previous newsletters.

Other News in Tech

Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used

AI feature turned on by default worries users; Dropbox responds to concerns.

Ars TechnicaBenj Edwards

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