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Weekly Highlights
It's official – MinIO, the self-hosted object storage platform and popular alternative to Amazon S3, has gone into maintenance mode. While disappointing, the move is hardly surprising given this year's warning signs from the development team, which include removing the admin interface from the platform's community edition and discontinuing pre-built Docker images.
Personally, I'm torn. In my opinion, MinIO was the poster child for competent alternatives to popular SaaS software – and the false sense of security that it'd always be around because of its open-source nature is a bit of a gut punch (don't @ me – I know there are forks). On the other hand, sustainable open-source software is hard, despite what FOSS absolutists (who think favoriting posts on social media is considered 'support') might want you to think.
If you haven't already, check out Garage or SeaweedFS when you're ready to move on – and consider throwing a few dimes their way to [hopefully] avoid a repeat situation.
In other news, the U.S. Supreme Court began hearing a case between Cox and Sony that will determine if ISPs are required to terminate accounts that have engaged in engaged in piracy. Oral arguments have already been heard, with Cox arguing that widespread usage of university, hotel, and local ISP networks would leave them more negatively impacted than individual residential accounts. (Something tells me we're not likely to see a crackdown on AI piracy any time soon...)
Other activity that may or may not interest you:
- Raspberry Pi announced price increases for their 4 and 5 product lines, with most iterations receiving a $5-10 bump
- Jellify, a mobile Jellyfin music streaming client with a very passionate development team, is celebrating its v1.0 release today 🎉
- Home Assistant's December update introduced Home Assistant Labs, a new feature that gives users a sneak peek into potential upcoming functionality (and don't miss the corny Jingle Labs song in the introduction of the blog post)
- Calibre's latest update allows users to ask AI questions about books in their collection
- Proton – the popular developer of privacy platforms no one wants to self-host – rolled out Proton Sheets, their Excel/Google Sheets competitor (here's to hoping they're also working on an alternative for secure toilet cams)
- SmartTube, an Android TV app commonly used to subvert YouTube ads, created a bit of a scare when it was unexpectedly removed from various app stores and user devices. As it turns out, the platform's digital signature had been exposed and subsequently replaced by its dev team to proactively avoid potential security incidents (see here if you previously had it installed).
- A group of Redditors put their heads together and built the Linux Platform Kit, an impressive open-source modular handheld development tool
Happy selfh.st/ing!
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Content Spotlight
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Poznote can be easily deployed via Docker and doesn't require any additional containers to run.
Links: Website, Source Code
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