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This Week in Self-Hosted (6 December 2024)

Self-hosted news, updates, launches, and content for the week ending Friday, December 6, 2024

This Week in Self-Hosted (6 December 2024)
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In the News

OpenWrt One: A Repairable FOSS Wi-Fi 6 Router From Banana Pi
If you love open source hardware or the ones that give you full rights to do your own thing, this is one of them!
It's FOSS NewsSourav Rudra
Threads Beta Feature Enables Fediverse Profiles - We Distribute
Meta’s social microblogging platform has enabled a new, fundamentally important feature: the ability to look up and follow profiles from the network.
We DistributeSean Tilley
Senators implore Department of Defense to expand the use of Matrix
Senators Ron Wyden and Eric Schmitt push the Defense Department to expand the use of Matrix to deliver sovereign, end-to-end encrypted and interoperable communications.
Element BlogSteve Loynes
Revealing my new investment
It’s finally here! Almost. It’s finally almost here. HexOS is a layer that goes on top of TrueNAS that will make the great software more user friendly that unRAID and even, dare I say it, Windows? Join us as we walk you through the features that make HexOS such a great option for hosting your own…
Linus Tech TipsAdamFromLTT

Software Updates

Breaking Changes

New Software

Latest Directory Apps

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Content Spotlight: Fli.so

Meet Fli.so, a simple and gorgeous self-hosted URL shortening service. With Fli.so, users can easily connect a domain (or subdomain) to build custom URLs and shortcuts for sharing links with others. Features include user-specified URLs, meta data controls, auto-generated QR codes, tags for organizing links, passwords and expiration dates, and analytics for performance tracking.

Fli.so can be installed via bare metal or Docker and requires an instance of PocketBase for backend functionality.

A screenshot of Fli.so's user dashboard with a grid of tiles featuring the details of the various shortened links for that particular domain.

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What I'm Watching

Command Line Corner: ls -lt

Use ls -lt to list files and folders in a directory sorted by modification time, which can be helpful for quickly finding recently modified files in large folders:

/$ ls -lt
  Dec 06 05:01 docker-compose.yml
  Dec 05 11:56 example.txt
  Nov 01 08:34 log.txt

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

Related News and Content

Automatically sync your streaming services!
I’m super excited to announce the new Streaming Scrobbler! This feature is a game changer and allows automatic syncing from Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, and Apple TV+ (and more services to come). First, make sure you have the most recent iOS or Android Trakt app installed. Next, follow these steps: After you connect a service in the Trakt app, it asks if you want to sync existing data or just new data moving forward. Your initial data will be imported about 10 minutes after you link a…
Trakt Forumsjustin
Ending OCSP Support in 2025
Earlier this year we announced our intent to provide certificate revocation information exclusively via Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs), ending support for providing certificate revocation information via the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP). Today we are providing a timeline for ending OCSP services: January 30, 2025 OCSP Must-Staple requests will fail, unless the requesting account has previously issued a certificate containing the OCSP Must Staple extension May 7, 2025 Prior to this date we will have added CRL URLs to certificates On this date we will drop OCSP URLs from certificates On this date all requests including the OCSP Must Staple extension will fail August 6, 2025 On this date we will turn off our OCSP responders Additionally, a very small percentage of our subscribers request certificates with the OCSP Must Staple Extension.
Let's Encrypt
Mozilla’s New Brand Logo is Here: Time For a Trip Down Memory Lane!
With the new brand identify, let’s hope for a better future for Mozilla!
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