Been running my own podcast on Castopod for the last year and it has been quite the learning experience. First, realized that part of running the show was making it available through mainstream platforms, but started with basic RSS feed and fediverse integration (for Mastodon users and such).

op3 analytics easily allows anyone to have basic understanding of their audience. Added basic podcasting 2.0 support, which also allowed IPFS support, but still haven't dug too deep into this (beyond knowing it is working). Added transcriptions with local-only Whisper and chapter support with ChapterTool, because people expect this in podcasting 2.0 clients.

Setup a chat on matrix.org and got a friend to help with a Draupnir moderation bot (which we were also testing for a community Open Source project chat). Decided to migrate my domain to a new registrar supporting Let's Encrypt certificates natively (I was maintaining them via a cron command unofficially, otherwise not supported by the domain registrar). Transition was smooth and no problem.

Created a dedicated podcast email account for people to contact the show and migrated my email smtp/imap to a dedicated service I could trust (and use as a relay once I eventually begin selfhosting the email server as well). Added a Flarum forum, since somewhere is needed for longer form conversations. Plugged in Uptime Kuma for monitoring and added all of my services to FreshRSS in order to keep tabs on all of my work. These days I'm wishing I'd simply used a wiki, or even a collaborative chat platform like HedgeDoc. Found LimeSurvey a bit too much for my needs, but Nextcloud Forms has worked just fine for people to send in their anonymous feedback.

Things are fairly quiet in terms of the show, but working out just fine. No doubt I'm forgetting tons of steps in regards to all of what I've learned, but it has been a fruitful year. Been using flat VPN network approach to connect to any servers and homelab applications being tested. Looking forward to more progress this next year. You can checkout the show here if you are curious.

Happy Birthday to Linux from 8/25. Detailed show notes available here.

Selfhosted apps

• Jellyswarrm
• iSponsorBlockTV

Desktop apps

• Anki

• Thunderbird

• Steam key giveaway

• Share your thoughts on Matrix Chat and Truenas

Seems this just released 10 hours. Was mentioned in this other thread, but figured it was worth granting it's own topic. Very Cool! I'm not the dev, but this is awesome. Was originally posted to Reddit here.

Oh wow, repo is https://github.com/LLukas22/Jellyswarrm

Jellyswarrm is a reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place. If you’ve got libraries spread across different locations or just want everything together, Jellyswarrm makes it easy to access all your media from a single interface.

Working

• Unified Library Access – Browse media from multiple Jellyfin servers in one place.
• Direct Playback – Play content straight from the original server without extra overhead.
• User Mapping – Link accounts across servers for a consistent user experience.
• API Compatibility – Appears as a normal Jellyfin server, so existing apps and tools still work.

⚠️ In Progress

• Websocket Support – Needed for real-time features like SyncPlay (not fully reliable yet).
• Audio Streaming – May not function correctly (still untested in many cases).
• Automatic Bitrate Adjustment – Stream quality based on network conditions isn’t supported yet.

🚫 Not Planned

• Admin Functions – Server administration (user management, settings, etc.) won’t be supported through Jellyswarrm.----

I run a Jellyfin server, but I have several friends running Jellyfin servers and several more friends running Plex servers. What is the sanest way to go about accessing all of them? How can I get some sort of media overview, even using an external tool like RSS or some other dashboard-like app. Also useful would be a way to search what is on all of the different servers in the same search. Have considered:

• Running a dedicated device (Apple TV, Nvidia Shield, Kodi) and manually clicking between servers with the dedicated client app. This only displays one at a time and is too confusing for non-technical types. Also not totally sure if this is supported...
• Perhaps there is a way to run multiples of the Jellyfin and Plex apps in order to browse between all of these servers on a device like an AppleTV. Treating the client apps like running multiple browser profiles...
  • A "dashboard" app could be used to display information from all of these servers simultaneously.

Is there some method I'm missing here? Thanks for the ideas. My current answer is to simply not use most of them out of sheer laziness, but certainly would be cool to better unite access. Everyone has their own solid setup with multiple users, so need to meet them where they are at.

Thanks for any ideas!

Specific suggestions appreciated! Here is admin doc related section and more info on scopes. Here is github issue.

Curious about thoughts on Garage as an alternative to Minio. It has been in development since 2020. Here is the project git. Documentation looks nice.

Curious what others think of it as a project that has been around for a few years and seems like a solid, open source contender now that Minio has removed most of their community edition functionality.

Access directly from Fediverse

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30039870

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Detailed Show notes, because tons of links this episode

(01:38)

Air Conditioned Nightmare - Mr. Bungle

(02:51)

SFTPGo - Simple Folder Sharing

(05:49)

Sponsor - Ameridroid. Use LINUXPREPPER at checkout.

(06:45)

ChapterTool - Show and Chapter Notes for Audio & Video Platforms

(07:49)

openDAW - Browser-based Multi-track Recording

(09:13)

Kanboard - Project Management

(18:09)

• Offline Tools. What do you use?
• Dead Tech. What do you use?

(18:34)

No more Skype. Try Signal!

(25:58)

Figlet, Toilet - Terminal ASCII Artwork

(27:15)

Meme

(27:56)

Dead Tech - What do you use? Take a quick survey

(29:18)

Offline Tooling. What do you use? Take a quick survey

(29:49)

Epson Ecotank Printers. Can be converted to Sublimation

(34:07)

Kill Doctor Lucky - A print and play boardgame

(35:43)

Root as a Print and Play game. Insanely popular as a modern, commercial board game

(36:04)

Skull card game. Classic bar game, played on napkins, etc.

(39:03)

Paper Circuits

(44:08)

• Pinecil Soldering Iron
  • Soldering is Easy web comic by Mitch Altman
  • Fine Soldering Tip Set
  • Large Soldering Tip Set
• PinePower Travel Charger w/ International Adapters
• PinePower 120w Desktop Charger

(51:21)

• Paperless-NGX - digitize that paper
• Kavita
• Komga
• Codex
• Calibre-Web
• LibreOffice Suite
• pdfarranger. Fork of pdf-shuffler: a small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split PDF documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. It is a front end for pikepdf. Available on Windows, as flatpak, snap, in repos, etc.
• pdftk - terminal app for universally password protecting pdf files.
• pdfbook2 - terminal app to convert your pdf document page layout into a printable book, or zine.

(56:01)

Ronin Solo RPG

(57:20)

Notorious Solo RPG

(58:12)

Snake Acid web browser game

(59:23)

• Lutris, which includes Itch support, Steam, GOG, Epic, local games, etc.

(00:42)

Detailed Show notes, because tons of links this episode

(01:38)

Air Conditioned Nightmare - Mr. Bungle

(02:51)

SFTPGo - Simple Folder Sharing

(05:49)

Sponsor - Ameridroid. Use LINUXPREPPER at checkout.

(06:45)

ChapterTool - Show and Chapter Notes for Audio & Video Platforms

(07:49)

openDAW - Browser-based Multi-track Recording

(09:13)

Kanboard - Project Management

(18:09)

• Offline Tools. What do you use?
• Dead Tech. What do you use?

(18:34)

No more Skype. Try Signal!

(25:58)

Figlet, Toilet - Terminal ASCII Artwork

(27:15)

Meme

(27:56)

Dead Tech - What do you use? Take a quick survey

(29:18)

Offline Tooling. What do you use? Take a quick survey

(29:49)

Epson Ecotank Printers. Can be converted to Sublimation

(34:07)

Kill Doctor Lucky - A print and play boardgame

(35:43)

Root as a Print and Play game. Insanely popular as a modern, commercial board game

(36:04)

Skull card game. Classic bar game, played on napkins, etc.

(39:03)

Paper Circuits

(44:08)

• Pinecil Soldering Iron
  • Soldering is Easy web comic by Mitch Altman
  • Fine Soldering Tip Set
  • Large Soldering Tip Set
• PinePower Travel Charger w/ International Adapters
• PinePower 120w Desktop Charger

(51:21)

• Paperless-NGX - digitize that paper
• Kavita
• Komga
• Codex
• Calibre-Web
• LibreOffice Suite
• pdfarranger. Fork of pdf-shuffler: a small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split PDF documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. It is a front end for pikepdf. Available on Windows, as flatpak, snap, in repos, etc.
• pdftk - terminal app for universally password protecting pdf files.
• pdfbook2 - terminal app to convert your pdf document page layout into a printable book, or zine.

(56:01)

Ronin Solo RPG

(57:20)

Notorious Solo RPG

(58:12)

Snake Acid web browser game

(59:23)

• Lutris, which includes Itch support, Steam, GOG, Epic, local games, etc.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29272849

Timestamps

(00:07) Welcome

What is included in the episode, and what will be released as part of episode 8 later this month. Revised description of what Linux Prepper is.

(04:50) Ameridroid Sponsor

• Home Assistant Green
• Home Assistant Green w/ Skyconnect Zigbee & Matter Controller
• Skyconnect Zigbee & Matter Controller

Use LINUXPREPPER coupon.

(06:22) Trivia Challenges at Linuxfest Northwest

• Saturday Winners
• Sunday Winners
• Linux Unplugged 612, around 7 minutes in.

(17:26) On tabling at my first conference.

Gratitude for meeting so many people and having this shared experience together! Ways to support me, especially in sharing the episodes to social media or with friends that would find this interesting!

Thank you to those who are donating to support the show!

• Paypal

(24:45) Tahoe LAFS

Decentralized object storage

• Request to mirror federated storage locally in Nextcloud server
• Join our attempt to self-host Tahoe for a year!
• Is it worth hosting decentralized services for others?
• Is storing encrypted data for other people not worth it?
• Have you hosted distributed tools between yourself and other people's servers? Did it succeed? Fail?

(45:54) Alby Hub Fundraising to register a Self-hosted node.

Thank you to those supporting the show on Podcasting 2.0 clients.

• Direct Donation link
• See related forum post

(47:20) Sequoia Fabrica Makerspace

• See related forum post

• Wiki for Sequoia Fabrica

• Networking layout of the space

• How to Host Events

• FAQ

• Noisebridge Hackerspace

• Spacebridge launches since 2024

• Noisebridge's infrastructure Ansible

• List of International Hackerspaces in your Area.

Timestamps

(00:07) Welcome

What is included in the episode, and what will be released as part of episode 8 later this month. Revised description of what Linux Prepper is.

(04:50) Ameridroid Sponsor

• Home Assistant Green
• Home Assistant Green w/ Skyconnect Zigbee & Matter Controller
• Skyconnect Zigbee & Matter Controller

Use LINUXPREPPER coupon.

(06:22) Trivia Challenges at Linuxfest Northwest

• Saturday Winners
• Sunday Winners
• Linux Unplugged 612, around 7 minutes in.

(17:26) On tabling at my first conference.

Gratitude for meeting so many people and having this shared experience together! Ways to support me, especially in sharing the episodes to social media or with friends that would find this interesting!

Thank you to those who are donating to support the show!

• Paypal

(24:45) Tahoe LAFS

Decentralized object storage

• Request to mirror federated storage locally in Nextcloud server
• Join our attempt to self-host Tahoe for a year!
• Is it worth hosting decentralized services for others?
• Is storing encrypted data for other people not worth it?
• Have you hosted distributed tools between yourself and other people's servers? Did it succeed? Fail?

(45:54) Alby Hub Fundraising to register a Self-hosted node.

Thank you to those supporting the show on Podcasting 2.0 clients.

• Direct Donation link
• See related forum post

(47:20) Sequoia Fabrica Makerspace

• See related forum post

• Wiki for Sequoia Fabrica

• Networking layout of the space

• How to Host Events

• FAQ

• Noisebridge Hackerspace

• Spacebridge launches since 2024

• Noisebridge's infrastructure Ansible

• List of International Hackerspaces in your Area.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28274434

(00:00)

Welcome to our first long format interview! Consider this a bonus episode. Please share it with others if you enjoy it! Let me know what you think; your feedback appreciated.

(00:20)

LinuxFest Northwest in Bellingham, WA April 25th - 27th

(00:37)

Quick Intro on Marcel - Developer behind Nextcloud Bookmarks, Floccus, Recognize

(01:04)

Recognize AI & ML for Nextcloud Photos documentation

• Project Github

(02:30)

Floccus - Browser Bookmark Syncing Extension for Chrome, Firefox, mobile clients, etc. Supports Nextcloud Bookmarks, Google Drive, Git, webdav and more.

• Project Github

(02:54)

Be sure to send in your feedback with this anonymous form!

(03:33)

Spread the word and share this show with others if you enjoy it! Thank you so much!

• You can donate to support me here.
• Podcasting 2.0 listeners to donate to support my upcoming Alby Hub node here. Fundraising 50k Sats.

(03:45)

Interview with Marcel Begins

• EfficientNet
• TensorFlow
• WhisperAI
• Stable Diffusion Image Generation by Stability AI
  • See some generated Mascots for Nextcloud
  • Try it here
  • Github repo

Beatles use AI to complete a new song

Nextcloud Assistant

• Project github
• Context Agent documentation

Summary Bot for Nextcloud Talk Chat

What are Common AI Models & How to Use Them

Ollama, supporting Deepseek and other kinds of models, from small to large.

• Project Github

Perplexica AI Search

• Built on Searxng

(00:00)

Welcome to our first long format interview! Consider this a bonus episode. Please share it with others if you enjoy it! Let me know what you think; your feedback appreciated.

(00:20)

LinuxFest Northwest in Bellingham, WA April 25th - 27th

(00:37)

Quick Intro on Marcel - Developer behind Nextcloud Bookmarks, Floccus, Recognize

(01:04)

Recognize AI & ML for Nextcloud Photos documentation

• Project Github

(02:30)

Floccus - Browser Bookmark Syncing Extension for Chrome, Firefox, mobile clients, etc. Supports Nextcloud Bookmarks, Google Drive, Git, webdav and more.

• Project Github

(02:54)

Be sure to send in your feedback with this anonymous form!

(03:33)

Spread the word and share this show with others if you enjoy it! Thank you so much!

• You can donate to support me here.
• Podcasting 2.0 listeners to donate to support my upcoming Alby Hub node here. Fundraising 50k Sats.

(03:45)

Interview with Marcel Begins

• EfficientNet
• TensorFlow
• WhisperAI
• Stable Diffusion Image Generation by Stability AI
  • See some generated Mascots for Nextcloud
  • Try it here
  • Github repo

Beatles use AI to complete a new song

Nextcloud Assistant

• Project github
• Context Agent documentation

Summary Bot for Nextcloud Talk Chat

What are Common AI Models & How to Use Them

Ollama, supporting Deepseek and other kinds of models, from small to large.

• Project Github

Perplexica AI Search

• Built on Searxng