This Week in Self-Hosted (26 July 2024)

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This Week in Self-Hosted

For those following last week's Immich/FUTO licensing drama, the development team rescinded their decision to refer to financial support for the application as a license this week. Instead, they're now referring to financial support as buying a product key as they continue their push to normalize open-source software purchases in support of sustainable development.

The Ghost content management team also made significant progress towards integrating ActivityPub into the platform after syncing their first post to Mastodon this morning. (I find this particularly exciting, as I'm utilizing a self-hosted instance of Ghost to deploy selfh.st.)

In other news, a ton of new software launches popped up on my radar this week, so be sure to check them out if you don't normally scroll that far in the newsletter.

Happy selfh.st/ing!

In the News

Wording change and clarification for purchasing Immich · immich-app immich · Discussion #11313

Hello everybody, Alex here! After the last announcement on a wording change in response to our mishap of using the words licensed and unlicensed, the team and I gave it a long hard thought over the…

GitHubimmich-app

The Open Home is not for sale

As acquisitions continue to kill local and private options in the smart home, we explain how we protect Open Home projects from investor greed.

Building the Open HomePaulus Schoutsen

We now deliver settings & posts

For a good time, follow this newsletter on Mastodon.

Building ActivityPubGhost

Software Updates

• Apprise v1.8.1 | Notifications: New services – Splunk, VictorOps, Africas Talking, and Microsoft Power Automate
• BookLogr v1.0.0 | Book Tracking: Book search via OpenLibrary, reading lists, notes, book ratings, public profiles
• Calibre-Web Automated v1.2.0 | Book Server: Cover and metadata updates via Calibre-Web UI, one-step ePub v3 conversion, new CLI tools
• Docmost v0.2.7 | Documentation: Import Markdown and HTML pages
• Endurain v0.3.0 | Fitness Tracking: PWA support, theme/language switches, pagination
• LinkWarden v2.6.0 | Bookmarks: Fully page copy, user administration, new masonry view, new iOS and macOS apps, import from Wallabag, Google OAuth support
• Manyfold v0.74.0 | Digital Asset Manager: Removed unrelated tag display
• Music Assistant v2.1.0 | Library Manager: Apple Music support, stability and speed updates for the Jellyfin and Subsonic providers
• OpenSign v2.1.0 | Document Signing: Multi-user support, login validation, public profiles
• OPNsense v24.7 | Firewall/Router: New dashboard, WireGuard QR code generator, experimental OpenVPN DCO support, FreeBSD 14.1, Python 3.11
• Outline v0.78.0 | Wiki: Comment resolving, unified icon and emoji UI, Discord authentication
• RomM v3.3.0 | ROM Manager: UI redesign, 1080p cover fetching, setup wizard for new installations, collections, SteamGridDB integration
• Tasks.md v2.4.0 | Task Management: Improved drag-and-drop, auto-scroll when dragging elements out of their containers
• Zulip v9.0 | Team Chat: Renamed "streams" to "channels", in-app feature announcements, improved reading and composing experiences, design and usability improvements

New Software

• Beszel: Lightweight server resource monitoring
• Budget5S: Zero-based open-source budget manager
• ChannelTube: YouTube channel downloader
• Expedite: Encrypted file transfer service
• Fitbit Wellness Report: Interactive wellness reports and charts
• Immich Kiosk: Web slideshow for Immich
• Jetlog: Personal flight tracker and viewer
• LinuxServer.io: New containers – Kali Linux, Manyfold, Rustdesk, Ungoogled Chromium
• mdxish: High-quality blog posts in Markdown
• PG Back Web: PostgreSQL backups with a user-friendly web interface
• Unsearch: Cross-browser manager for browsing activity
• YouTube Downloader: Simply YouTube video and shorts downloader
• YT2Plex: YouTube live streams to m3u playlists with XML guides
• Zerox OCR: Document OCR for AI ingestion

Breaking Changes

• Endurain v0.3.0: Password hash updates (will need reset), database schema changes

Latest Directory Apps

• Docker Controller Bot: Telegram bot for managing containers
• MySpeed: Internet speed test tracking and analysis

Community Content

Getting Started with APIs in Home Assistant: A Friendly Guide

Hey there, smarthome enthusiasts! So, a friend of mine recently reached out, asking if I could help him understand the basics of APIs and how to integrate them into Home Assistant. And I thought, “Why not turn this into a blog post?” After all, if one person has a question,

Florian Wartner // Developer, Father, NerdFlorian Wartner

Control D and Tailscale: Granular DNS for every device on your network

We’re excited to announce an integration with Control D, a customizable DNS service. With Control D and Tailscale, every device on your tailnet can be protected from internet threats, unwanted and malicious content, or ads.

GitHub - DrDBanner/inmanage: Easily update and back up your self-hosted Invoice Ninja instance with a shell script.

Easily update and back up your self-hosted Invoice Ninja instance with a shell script. - DrDBanner/inmanage

GitHubDrDBanner

More From selfh.st

Self-Hosted Applications and Alternatives

A directory of self-hosted software and applications for easy browsing and discovery

selfh.stEthan Sholly

Content Spotlight: WhoDB

Meet WhoDB, a lightweight self-hosted database management tool. Along with similarities in functionality to existing tools, WhoDB comes packed with a snappy and user-friendly interface that takes a more visual approach to managing database tables and their relationships. Features include interactive graphs for visualizing databases, inline editing and previews, support for a wide array of database types, and a Jupyter Notebook-like scratchpad for performing database queries.

WhoDB can be easily installed via Docker and is currently under very active development with additional functionality (including an API) on the horizon.

Links: GitHub, Website, Documentation

What I'm Watching

• Introducing Purchase Options for Immich | FUTO
• Docmost: My New Favorite Note-Taking and Documentation App for Docker | DB Tech
• Syncthing Tutorial: Open Source & Private File Sync Made Simple | Lawrence Systems
• Some *EASY* Kubernetes Projects for beginners | Christian Lempa

What I'm Listening To

To Update, or Not to Update?

ESPHome dev dishes on device updates, Immich license drama heats up, Alex’s DIY server fix, and Chris reports on mobile tech trip test.

Self-HostedJupiter Broadcasting

The Homelab Episode 133 – Crowdsec and pfsense – The Homelab Show

The Homelab Show

All of a Flutter

Alan gets with the times and starts a self-hosted email newsletter, Mark updates the Flutter-based Quickemu frontend Quickgui, and Martin quietly smashes some hardware together.

Linux Matters

Command Line Corner: alias

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/$ alias test='cat example.txt'
/$ test
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Related News and Content

Switzerland Makes Open Source Software Mandatory For Public Sector

A big boost to the open-source community and an inspiration to other public sectors!

It's FOSS NewsSourav Rudra

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