This Week in Self-Hosted (22 March 2024)

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selfh.stEthan Sholly

In the News

Threads opens beta to let users connect their accounts to the fediverse | TechCrunch

Threads has officially entered the fediverse. Meta announced on Thursday that its beta experience of sharing Threads accounts to the fediverse is now open Meta’s beta experience of sharing Threads accounts to the fediverse is now open to users ages 18 and up with public profiles.

TechCrunchLauren Forristal

Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing | Redis

Beginning today, all future versions of Redis will be released with source-available licenses. Read more on the blog.

RedisRowan Trollope

Podman 5.0 containers.conf changes

Containers.conf is our main configuration file for Podman, it holds various options to tweak the default Podman behavior. In this post you see the changes that we made to containers.conf with the P…

stack of multi-colored septagons, top one has a large CPaul Holzinger

xAI open sources Grok

What can people build with Grok?

The Verge

Software Updates

• 2FAuth v5.1.0 | 2FA Management: Admin panel for relocated user settings (encryption, version check, registration), improved user management
• Grocy v4.2.0 | Groceries / Household ERP: Prefilled dropdowns, number of shopping list items on shopping list dropdown, prefilled serving amounts based on base serving amount
• HortusFox v2.4 | Plant Tracker: Custom CSS, author info, multi-device logins, multi-line plant notes with support for hyperlinks, location removal if empty
• Immich v1.99.0 | Photos: New logo, sort for album items, on-disk cache for improved mobile loading times, upload progress and speed indicator, drag to select
• Janitorr v1.0.0 | File Management: Dry run mode, remote deletion, exclude items from deletion via *arr tags, expiration times, season removal for shows
• LinguaCafe v0.8 | Language Learning: Vocabulary import from CSV file, automatic word counts, new user manual, website import
• Linkding v1.25.0 | Bookmarks: Improved PWA capabilities, OIDC support, custom CSS
• Linuxserver.io | Containers: Deprecating Dillinger and endlessh containers due to lack of upstream development
• LubeLogger v1.2.7 | Vehicle Records: Odometer adjustments, bulk fuel record editor, support for webhooks, backup restoration logging
• Memories v7.0.0 | Photos: Support for changing cover photos, direct file upload from the web interface, improved image editor UX
• Papermark v0.11.0 | Document Sharing: Folder and subfolder support, improved analytics tracking, page previews, auto-tag visitors, page links
• PiAlert v24.3.19 | Network Security: Rebase to Alpine for reduced image size, improved navigation, multi-device edit
• umbrelOS v1.0.0 | Operating System: Revamped architecture, new interface and UI, search capabilities, quick actions, multilingual support

New Software

• jnv: Interactive JSON viewer and filter
• PHPForm: Headless form builder
• Radicle: Open source peer-to-peer code collaboration stack
• Shelly PDU: Remote power management with Shelly Plug S devices
• Thinker: Whiteboard with sticky notes
• Wanderer: Trail database and catalogue
• Yamtrack: Media tracker for movies, show, anime, and manga

Community Content

Set Up a Caddy Reverse Proxy with Let’s Encrypt and CrowdSec Using OPNsense LAPI

Going beyond the basics of home networking

Dustin Casto

Research for the Open Home

Save the date: on April 20, we will be livestreaming the State of the Open Home 2024! Also in this newsletter: drag & drop, voice assistant contest winners, Raspberry Pi 5 support, and all of our favorite community highlights!

Building the Open HomePaulus Schoutsen

Bonfire Setup Guide

Bonfire has some excellent ideas when it comes to access control and extensibility, two things lacking in current fediverse platforms. Initially, I was interested to see how I could utilize this to supervise social media use of relatives with dementia.

Jeff SikesJeff Sikes

TK reminders

A small detail designed to save you from frustrating mistakes, so you can publish with confidence. Didn’t even need AI for this one.

ChangelogTeam Ghost

Content Spotlight: EGG

Meet EGG (Extremely Generic (PHP) Gallery), a self-hosted, no-frills photo gallery. Designed with simplicity in mind, EGG is a drop-in solution for existing photo directories and intentionally built to have a minimal impact on resources while providing responsive views on desktop and mobile browsers. Features include readable URLs based on folder structure and file names, automatic thumbnail generation, and support for view tracking via extensions.

To install EGG, clone the repository into your root photo directory and run the accompanying shell script. Note the additional dependencies for the view count extension and video thumbnails if desired.

Links: GitHub, Demo

What We're Watching

• I Made My Own JBOD Enclosure For CHEAP | Hardware Haven
• How to Setup Minio S3 Object Storage on TrueNAS Scale | Lawrence Systems
• Secure authentication for EVERYTHING! // Authentik | Christian Lempa
• I Colocated My HomeLab in a Data Center | Techno Tim
• UniFi Network 8.1.113: Big Update! UI Changes, OSPF, Switch ACLs & More! | Lawrence Systems

What We're Listening To

Why So Many Llamas?

Alex rolls back a major server upgrade, and we have fun playing with local large language models.

Self-HostedJupiter Broadcasting

The Homelab Ep. 124 -Technical Debt – The Homelab Show

The Homelab Show Catch Up on the Vlog and Podcast

Smart Home and Automation

And the winners of our voice assistant community contest are 🥁 ...

We organized a voice assistant contest. Here are the winners!

Home AssistantJean-Loïc Pouffier

Upcoming Events

• 20 April 2024 | State of the Open Home 2024 (Home Assistant)

Bitwarden Secrets Manager Demo | March 26 | Bitwarden

Join us for a quick product walkthrough of Bitwarden Secrets Manager! Learn how it works and how to start securing your critical infrastructure.

Bitwarden

Nextcloud Enterprise Day 2024 - April 24 in Munich

The Nextcloud Enterprise Day provides IT professionals like project managers and decision makers the opportunity to define their own strategy to get the most out of their Content Collaboration Platform.

Nextcloud

Command Line Corner: Prefacing commands with <space>

Preface a command with a single space to omit it from being logged in the terminal's bash history:

/$ history
  1000 docker compose up
  1001 cd ~
/$ rm example.txt
/$ history
  1000 docker compose up
  1001 cd ~

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

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The US Department of Justice is suing Apple — read the full lawsuit here

Read the suit in full.

The Verge

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