Racknerd.com has their Black Friday deals page still active and I’ve had good experience with their shared hosting and support!

I would recommend Tailscale for connecting to the home network. You could run it on each box if running it on the router is wonky.

Logseq fits the bill. By default it opens today’s date journal page and I just type everything into that and tag it (you can tag at any bullet level within the note). You can also create hierarchical tags like #topic/subtopic1 #topic/subtopic2, so the note will show up for topic regardless of the subtopic.

Nice, thanks for being open to suggestions. It’s hard to get columnar data to be responsive on mobile. Not sure if there are any card layout type css libraries that are compatible with tables.

Again, thanks for the cool project!

Cool project! Would be awesome if it had a mobile layout. Thanks for sharing!

Right? The zip ties even have trimmed tails!

Re: port-forwarding, I used traefik as a reverse proxy and that worked well (having a single domain cert instead of per service DNS is another layer but it’s just obfuscation), but it’s always a risk. I finally started using Tailscale after hearing about it for years and it is actually very good and deserves the hype. I had meant to setup wireguard myself but this is a lot easier. And if you don’t want to use tailscale server, you can run headscale (on a cheap VPS?) instead.

This person is trying to create a self hosting team to work with hosting fedi services, might be a good fit: https://wirebase.org/post/23321

Left a comment there pointing here.

Responding separately to the license bit…

MIT licensed projects (like the libraries, etc.) you’re using allows it to be packaged with products that are governed by other licenses. MIT is a very permissive license and while I’m not advocating for a more restrictive license, I wanted to point that out.

The other point that @Perhyte@lemmy.world pointed out is also a bit confusing about the conditional licensing. Can a commercial entity use this software as a MIT licensed software as long as the flag is set properly? If so, it would be helpful to delineate what functionality is restricted. I haven’t seen conditional licensing based on run time settings before so I can’t speak to that but it would concern me to use it in any commercial endeavor even if I agreed to the business license.

I hope you’re taking these comments in the spirit they’re written, asking for clarification and providing feedback to help and not just a critique aimed at a takedown. Cheers!

Thanks for the reply, being able to see the data collected and then click delete is great. Does Bespoke keep all the data on its server and allows the customer to get aggregated results or does the customer get to download the raw data? If it’s the latter, the delete functionality becomes… less functional.

Unsolicited advice from internet nobody: I think it’s great to allow any kind of transparency in a very opaque industry, thanks for doing that. Since you don’t/can’t control the data usage after collection, I think leaning too hard into transparency and alluding to data sovereignty/privacy (by presenting yourself as an alternative to exploiting user data) might create unrealistic expectations (like it did for me). This is inviting unnecessary critique and distracting from your main message.

Hello Afi, it’s great that you’ve decided to open source your software and want to drive transparency. If you’re willing to share, I have a couple questions.

While it’s great that the data collection can be transparently observed, it’s not just the actual collection that’s problematic. Data ownership, protection, storage, usage, associating with other data sources, creation of personas (accurate or misleading) is concerning.

• Do you have plans to address those in a transparent manner as well?
• How about user choice in opting-in to data collection?
• Or an observable deletion of the data (once collected) upon user request? In all the places the data is shared to?

Lastly, and unrelated, what made you choose an MIT license instead of say AGPL that would better protect your product/company while still being open source? I like the MIT license a lot, just curious.

Wish you the best in your open source journey!

Not what you’re asking for and others have provided a lot of options… but if you still want to support authors and get DRM-free audio books, check out https://libro.fm. It works like Audibe credits and easy to pause and resume membership (more cost effective than buying books retail and you can buy extra credits). They also support a local brick and mortar book store of your choice with your purchase.

Like the other user said following tags is a great way to engage with things you choose. Along the way, you’ll find people that you find interesting and then you can follow them directly. It’s much less about seeking people and more letting them come to you.

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Also, I recently learned about this standalone server but haven’t had a chance to try it out: https://github.com/bohwaz/micro-gpodder-server

Yes that definitely used to be an issue. But I haven’t quite experienced/noticed that lately (maybe since they revamped the new home tab?)… If it’s been a while, maybe give it another shot.

Antennapod is a Free Open Source Software (FOSS) podcast app. The app is well designed with great features. You can also use it for playing audio books locally as well.

Thanks for the write up, cool plant. So they’re just called ZZ plants at the box store? What does Raven ZZ mean, from your title?

Matrix (synapse server) probably fits the bill.

Came here to say this. It reminds me of the classic yellow smiley face buttons!

Wasn’t aware of koreader, thanks for sharing!