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This Week in Self-Hosted (16 August 2024)

Self-hosted news, updates, launches, and a spotlight on HandBrake Web - a native web interface for the popular video transcoding tool

This Week in Self-Hosted (16 August 2024)
This Week in Self-Hosted

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GitLab is reportedly up for sale
As AI and cloud computing fuel acquisitions in the technology sector, these mergers and acquisitions are increasingly under review.
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Changes To Our Image Deprecation Process | Info :: LinuxServer.io
Currently, when we deprecate an image, we add a note to the readme and to the startup logs to make users aware that the image is no longer actively supported and will not receive further updates. Users can then make their own decision as to whether to continue using it or not. Despite this, we still see a significant number of pulls for images that we have long since stopped updating, primarily because users don’t read the notices, or use a container management platform that doesn’t expose them.
Info :: LinuxServer.io

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The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 3: Friendica)
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Elena RossiniElena Rossini
ESPHome voice assistant with local wake word – Tristam
Tristam
Everyone should have a PiKVM in their desk area
What do you do when you want to tinker with a bare metal system? For years, I’d go drag an old monitor, keyboard, and mouse out of a cupboard. Then, I’d inevitably spend 20 minutes looking for an ethernet cable that was the right length before finding that I had
ktz.Alex Kretzschmar
PSA Regarding Potential Misconfiguration of Unifi-Network-Application and MongoDB | Info :: LinuxServer.io
We have recently been notified that if Role Based Access Control (RBAC) is not enabled in MongoDB, the official MongoDB container allows remote access to the db contents over port 27017 without credentials even though the official docs suggest that should only be possible when connecting from 127.0.0.1. The previous instructions for setting up MongodB we had provided in our Unifi-Network-Application image readme set up MongoDB without RBAC. If you set up the MongoDB container with the old instructions we had provided, do not map or expose port 27017.
Info :: LinuxServer.io

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Content Spotlight: HandBrake Web

Meet HandBrake Web, an unofficial web interface for the popular video transcoding tool. Designed primarily for users seeking the simplicity of Handbrake vs alternatives like Tdarr and FileFlows, HandBrake Web provides a native web interface for managing jobs while also adding support for distributed transcoding via workers across machines. Other features include adding and automating jobs by directory, queues, and preset management (note that presets will need to be created externally for the time being).

HandBrake Web can be installed via Docker and includes containers for a server and any number of workers.

A screenshot of Handbrake Web's dashboard, showing a list of media items in the queue and other relevant information (presets, watchers, and workers).
Screenshot from the project's repository

Links: GitHub

What I'm Watching

What I'm Listening To

Forged Alliance
The battle for code forges is heating up. We chat about HexOS’ big promises and get excited about Meshtastic.
Self-HostedJupiter Broadcasting

Command Line Corner: head

Use the head command to view the first ten lines of a file (modifying the number as needed with the -n flag): 

/$ head example.txt
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/$ head -n 5 example.txt
  T
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Click here to view an archive of commands shared in previous newsletters.

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