This Week in Self-Hosted (8 November 2024)

@homeassistant recognition from GitHub, software updates and launches, a content spotlight on #Koillection - a self-hosted physical collection manager, and more in this week's self-hosted recap!

youtu.be/wopHJOXxLs8
selfh.st/newsletter/2024-11-08…

#selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #foss #opensource #homelab #homeserver #collection #tracking

This Week in Self-Hosted (8 November 2024)

Self-hosted news, updates, launches, and content for the week ending Friday, November 8, 2024

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Darf man sich beim #FollowFriday selber empfehlen? Egal, alles genau wie die anderen machen, liegt uns eh nicht so ;).

Denkst auch du, dass #Kinder, #Jugendliche, #Schule, #Eltern bei #Technik und Digitalem nicht einfach alles machen sollten, wie es "ja alle machen"?

Dann folge uns hier, schau dir unsere fast fertige neue Website an oder spende sogar!

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Und wenn du gerade dabei bist: @kde @fsfe @neuSoM @digitalcourage @netzbegruenung @topio

#FOSS #TeamDatenschutz

"One of the critical issues is that the web is fundamentally centralised in some sense and grants too much power to its centralised components", says @jens Finkhäuser, founder of the @interpeer project.

Based on an analyses of the existing web technology stack and alternative architectures, Interpeer has derived an alternative, human-centric architecture.

To learn more about the Interpeer project read the entire interview here: nlnet.nl/project/Interpeer-SDK…

#FOSS #NGI0 #NGI

Today is the last day to apply for the fellowship for maintainers, our new program that will pay #FOSS maintainers for a year to work on the important work of critical software infrastructure.

For the pilot year, we're looking for up to 5 fellows, with freelance contract and employment options. Submit your application by the end of the day: Sunday, 20 Oct 2024!

Boosts appreciated!

Details: sovereigntechfund.de/news/appl… #GetFediHired

Who's attending @allthingsopen this month?

🗣️ I will be speaking at ATO about #opensource #foss monetization/funding.

💙 You can also find me at @nextcloud booth, if you want to chat about #Nextcloud.

Would love to meet and chat! ☕🍻

nextcloud.com/blog/event/nextc…

Boosts appreciated 🙏

#allthingsopen2024 #allthingsopen #mastodon #raleigh #linux

Here is a tool to annotate PO translation files using LibreTranslate, so that project maintainers can make sure the human-provided translations look plausible, even when they don't speak the target languages.

codeberg.org/a-j-wood/po-trans…

I developed this to be able to vet submitted translations for Pipe Viewer and other projects, to have some confidence that the submitter understood each string they translated in the context I'd intended, and to limit the likelihood of malicious mistranslations or vandalism.

It relies on LibreTranslate, but the project README outlines how to quickly install that on your local machine.

The project is hosted on the @Codeberg platform and was developed with their Translathon (codeberg.org/codeberg/translat…) in mind.

#FOSS #FLOSS #Translation #i18n

po-translation-auto-assistant

Read a PO file and annotate it using LibreTranslate, so a project maintainer can check that the human-provided translations are plausible.

^Codeberg.org

Although the Vivaldi web browser has a handy language translation tool built in, I'm not keen on having to post every snippet I want to translate out to the Internet (and rely on someone else's CPU time and goodwill).

LibreTranslate - libretranslate.com - turned out to be easy to set up. It's free, open source, and you can run it on your own hardware.

There are instructions on their GitHub page, but I just set up an LXC based on Debian 12 with 2GB RAM and 30GB disk, added a Python venv, and ran "pip install libretranslate". After downloading everything, it occupied 4.6GB of disk for the code and 8.7GB for the data. Then, I gave it a systemd service file to make it start on boot, and stuck HAProxy in front of it along with a self-signed certificate.

So now I have my own offline translation tool and thanks to a trivial shell script wrapper for the API (using curl), I can translate short snippets from the command line, too. I recommend trying it out if you've got a bit of disk and RAM to spare.

#FOSS #Linux #InternationalTranslationDay #curl

LibreTranslate - Free and Open Source Machine Translation API

Free and Open Source Machine Translation API. Self-hosted, offline capable and easy to setup. Run your own API server in just a few minutes.

^{libretranslate.com}

Do you enjoy making music and sounds, but you just don't feel like relying on Bandcamp anymore?

In that case, @freebliss's Faircamp is an excellent static site generator made just for you!

Free software, translatable, written in Rust. Perfectly suitable for your experimental noise rock album, your videogame's original soundtrack or your fire mixtape. 💥 (It is also very customizable!)

Codeberg: codeberg.org/simonrepp/faircam…
Web: simonrepp.com/faircamp

#CommunitySpotlight #FOSS #musicproduction

faircamp

A static site generator for audio producers

^Codeberg.org

Pipe Viewer 1.8.10 is released today - ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml

Pipe Viewer - pv - is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a Unix pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.

This release adds a new option to redirect output to a file, supplied by xmort.

PV uses the resources of the @Codeberg platform for free software development.

#FLOSS #FOSS

Pipe Viewer 1.8.12 is released today - ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml

Pipe Viewer - pv - is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a Unix pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.

This release corrects the handling of zero sized or interrupted writes that could cause an early exit in some circumstances, and also corrects the detection of the output device size (when writing to a block device), which was broken in version 1.8.10.

PV uses the resources of the @Codeberg platform for free software development.

#FLOSS #FOSS

Pipe Viewer 1.8.13 is released today - ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml

Pipe Viewer - pv - is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a Unix pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.

This release incorporates a submitted patch which extends the "--size @" syntax. Normally, "--size @FILE" tells PV to assume the size of its input is the size of FILE, and FILE must be a regular file. This change ensures that if FILE is a block device such as "/dev/sda", PV will correctly use the size of that block device.

PV uses the resources of the @Codeberg platform for free software development.

#FLOSS #FOSS

Pipe Viewer 1.8.14 is released today - ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml

Pipe Viewer - pv - is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a Unix pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.

This release corrects a "double-free" error on exit when using the "--watchfd" mode.

PV uses the resources of the @Codeberg platform for free software development.

#FLOSS #FOSS

This Week in Self-Hosted (20 September 2024)

Activity across major platforms (#Plex, @homeassistant, @nextcloud, and @matrix), software launches and updates, a spotlight on #DockingStation - a web app for managing #Docker container #updates, and more in this week's self-hosted recap!

selfh.st/newsletter/2024-09-20…

#selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #homelab #opensource #foss #software #automation

This Week in Self-Hosted (20 September 2024)

Self-hosted news, updates, launches, and a spotlight on Docking Station - a web interface for managing container updates

^{Ethan Sholly (selfh.st)}

"A sophisticated malware attack on Free and Open Source Software can be disastrous for developers, users, companies & countries", says Philippe Ombredanne.

His project FOSS Code Supply Chain Assurance improves the security of FOSS packages.

"The project scans code to observe and recognize distinguishing features, and then matches the code against databases of those features to identify outliers or red flags."

Read the entire interview here: nlnet.nl/project/FOSS-supplych…

#FOSS #security #NGI0

Love how you're making the videos available on a decentralized, community-run platform like Peertube, in alignment with your stated values!

Even better is how you've continued to engage with the community on this issue rather than just ignoring it and funneling users onto centralized surveillance platforms like YouTube! Way to go!

...Right?

#Nextcloud #Hub9 #Peertube #Youtube #FOSS #Google #Privacy #Decentralization

Distributed version control decentralization spectrum

GitHub - Microsoft controls it

Codeberg - a nonprofit controls it

Forgejo - I control it

Radicle - nobody controls it

Did I get that right?

#git #github #codeberg #decentralization #forgejo #radicle #software #foss #microsoft #opensource

@Codeberg @forgejo @radicle

Is there any ethical donation service like @Liberapay, but which pays out via SEPA or something not owned by the likes of Techbro Thiel (Stripe/Paypal)?

#Donations #LiberaPay #FOSS #Developers