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1 • Self host and Snakeware (by Arthur on 2021-05-24 01:57:58 GMT from Australia)
I host my own Pihole DNS.
Snakeware looks like a fun project, it it very reminiscent of the computers of old.
2 • self hosting (by Matt on 2021-05-24 05:47:51 GMT from United States)
I run my own Nextcloud server. It makes syncing and transfer of files easy between my phone, laptop, and desktop.
3 • selfhosting (by papapito on 2021-05-24 06:23:39 GMT from Australia)
nextcloud so i can carry on from desktop/laptop/tablet/phone without much of an issue
VPN and DNS
SearX instance
mail and gemini
4 • terminal command talk (by the might of the unix shell on 2021-05-24 06:43:46 GMT from Germany)
In my opinion the real minimal chatroom tool is the talk comand in the terminal. I read about it in a 25 years old book about using UNIX. So its still exit. On some distros its soon installed. On my xubuntu 20.4 if did sudo apt install talk an one can read the manual: type in man talk in the terminal.
5 • antiX (by Hank on 2021-05-24 06:46:41 GMT from Switzerland)
AntiX is to me the most useful Debian Based linux system presently available, tested to run on anything I threw it at.
Unofficial versions available for really old or very new hardware. An excellent and helpful forum.
Low memory and CPU usage along with ICEWM, lightning fast desktop.
Worst part is to understand all the options antiX provides, I run live from a usb stick, on USB 2 or 3 no real need to install, it is fast and very portable.
Settig up ICEWM my way does include editing a couple of text files, it is pretty easy though, I have all commonly used applications in an autohide task bar, works great and gives max screen space. Never saw the sense in desktop icons always forcing me to move or close windows to access them.
No buggy system D, init choice, love it.
6 • Self hosted services (by James on 2021-05-24 11:37:20 GMT from United States)
Self hosted services are probably beyond my technical abilities.
7 • Home network services (by Mark B on 2021-05-24 12:16:51 GMT from United Kingdom)
I have Samba shares on a 2.5" USB drive connected to my router, a Xubuntu server running Subsonic and Emby, a self-built NAS running OpenMediaVault. There is also a Freesat PVR with modified firmware that provides Samba & FTP access as well as a MediaTomb server.
8 • Self hosting (by Pete on 2021-05-24 13:45:16 GMT from United Kingdom)
Me too @6 no idea. @5 totally agree I run antiX on various machines from a 2006 Dell to a modern i5.
9 • Local network IM (by Ankleface Wroughlandmire on 2021-05-24 16:45:44 GMT from Ecuador)
For local network messaging, I would definitely recommend to not use a server at all. The best solution would be the Bonjour protocol, supported by Pidgin and Empathy. Basically the clients will all find each other on the network and be able to talk with each other, no fuss no muss.
10 • Snake & Stuff (by Sam Burns on 2021-05-24 17:23:37 GMT from United States)
snake oil salesman came to mind while reading or use of and problem with snakeware.
Thanks for the heads up on TeLoS. What a mess.
I don't do any chatting or other IRC stuff.
11 • Running services at home (by Scott Dowdle on 2021-05-24 18:37:35 GMT from United States)
NextCloud might be a good way to go. It does more than chat but it can handle chat just fine.
12 • Talk (by brad on 2021-05-24 21:30:03 GMT from United States)
@ 4 - I forgot about talk! A great program, unfortunately not usable in today's PC world.
On a bunch of connected 11/780's, Dec10's, DEC20's, etc. it was lots of fun...
13 • Talk again (by brad on 2021-05-24 21:31:51 GMT from United States)
It's on my Manjaro distro...
14 • self hosting services (by Steve on 2021-05-24 22:16:37 GMT from United States)
At home I have yet to justify self hosting anything (except maybe for the fun of it).
At work (when I still worked for a living) I did self hosting for a living. My last job was a non-profit and I built and managed servers for web, email (Postfix, Dovecot, Mailman, Spamassassin, Openwebmail), SFTP, DNS, DHCP, VPN, NTP, Syslog, Backup, MRTG, Nagios and probably a couple more things I can't recall right now.
I wanted to set up a self hosted "cloud" server but the tide was turning as folks were being replaced in the office and my way (hosting services in house) was being pushed out in favor of out sourcing services. It was fun while it lasted and I was happy to go when that crap started.
15 • Self-Hosted Chat Server (by Kyle on 2021-05-24 23:54:24 GMT from United States)
I tried running a RocketChat server a while ago. It is designed to be a self-hosted alternative to popular team and community chat services such as Slack and Discord, so I wouldn't exactly call it "simple." It has capabilities for creating multiple chat rooms on one server and managing user permissions on a per-channel basis, which may be overkill if you just need a chat service for a single household.
On the other hand, it is self-hosted, and it offers both a built-in web interface and a suite of client applications for desktop and mobile devices. People who are already familiar with similar chat services will find a lot of the same features here, plus some privacy-oriented ones like OTR encryption for user-to-user messages.
Server installation does require some command-line steps, but I found them to be well-documented on the official website's downloads page. The only component that I needed to install separately was nginx, which is required for SSL support. I was able to get it up and running within a day, although I already had some experience with self-hosting a couple of other servers in the past. From the end user's perspective, all that is needed is to either direct their web browser or client application to your server's address, then create an account.
I liked the concept, but found that the administration controls were granular to the point of being tedious to work with. Combined with the fact that the mobile clients had some issues with rendering images posted to the chat rooms, I ended up scrapping that server. That was a couple of years ago, though, so maybe I'll try it again to see what has improved.
16 • IRC Works well (by John on 2021-05-25 01:02:20 GMT from United States)
Hi All,
I use IRC to chat regularly. The only problem I have had is no logging in irssi. Otherwise it works without a hitch.
It is a real joy to use.
John
17 • rygel(media streaming) and XMPP protocol(chat/IM software) (by lincoln on 2021-05-25 05:18:41 GMT from Brazil)
I use rygel for streaming media. 1000% satisfied with its simplicity and effectiveness.
For chat/IM software, I use the XMPP protocol. A light, open, standardized, decentralized, secure and flexible solution with web and mobile support.
18 • "talk" memories.. (by al Fred on 2021-05-25 06:00:10 GMT from New Zealand)
I recall writing a similar tool to "talk" for a Sinix system around 1990. We had serial terminals around the plant and knew which ttys were located where, so it was used to message specific people on system issues that impacted their department. Did we as sysadmins ever use it for some 'fun'? Nah, "never"TM.
19 • Self Hosting (by Pihole and... on 2021-05-25 07:31:50 GMT from United States)
I'm kind of surprised, given the utility for more complicated home networks (among other plausible benefits), that DNS wasn't on the poll.
I've got Pihole running on a Pi, and also an older tt-rss (I know, I'm looking into a more graceful fix) running on a Pi. I picked the 1B+ for the project (lowest power draw that has a built-in ethernet port)... and quickly learned that this is maybe not the hardware to run things that try to run in Docker on. Docker itself would run with a bit of convincing, but both Pihole and tt-rss apparently do not like the version of ARM on the Pi 1 (and implicitly 0?) series. I do get the appeal of assuming Docker just works, but alas that means my RSS solution is going to involve more than a little tinkering to get updates at some point.
In its current state though I set up a small resource monitoring over time script and the single core is surprisingly underutilized outside of when I'm directly loading something (and even then, it rarely gets overwhelmed). I have to imagine if I'd felt good about using a Pi 2 instead, there'd be more than enough power there to do a few web services for many common household sizes (though I'd maybe pick something slightly more power-hungry if I were planning on doing streaming with it).
20 • Running services at home on SBC's (by Jimbi on 2021-05-25 07:52:06 GMT from New Zealand)
Just to chip in here - I have running :
2 x Piholes; primary and secondary on orange pi zero plus & raspberry pi 1.
1 x Nextcloud server w/ vsftp for my 3 ip cameras using odroid xu4q
1 x Airsonic server on raspberry pi 2
Future plans include a jumphost into my home network and possibly replacing firewall with an embedded sbc solution.
21 • selfhosting (by zcatav on 2021-05-25 08:07:24 GMT from Turkey)
Selfhosting is very simple with special servers like yunohost and freedombox. I use yunohost for this purpouse.
22 • Web-based Chat (by eganonoa on 2021-05-25 10:16:10 GMT from Netherlands)
As others have said, Nextcloud (Talk) is probably your best bet for a RPI-based chat with a web-based interface, with the bonus of nice mobile Talk apps. It is certainly overkill if all you are looking for is chat alone because chat is only one of very many things it does. But it does it well, with good bridges to other types of chat (IRC, matrix, slack, etc.), excellent video calling for one-to-one conversations and conversations for a family unit (6 or less, any more and you need the high-performance backend), and loads of different integrations, eg. with files, calendar, contacts, etc.
What you can't do is go the other way: and go from web-based talk to something via a desktop client. Nextcloud Talk is the one part of the core Nextcloud services without ability to link to a desktop client (files, contacts, calendar, all can be linked). I find that frustrating. It ultimately makes it a less-than-suitable chat app as it requires a browser to be always open and logged in. But for someone who only wants a self-hosted, RPI-based, web-based chat app, it is an excellent choice.
23 • Home LAN Chat Options Are Many (by QuahZei7 on 2021-05-25 10:49:10 GMT from United States)
For home LAN chat a web browser is not ideal. It would mean JavaScript in already buggy bloatware. With physical machine access, install something better/faster/stronger.
Another take on "self-hosted" is "peer-to-peer." Try RetroShare, it's cross-platform and does many forms of messaging. It can restrict to LAN, but is already a trust network. There is a Raspbian package and other distros on ARM also have it. Run the latest version, not all distros have yet shipped 0.66.
Another option is a mumble server. Perhaps the most minimalist is "minitalk" by Andrew Benson.
Those are Linux-viable options. You'll find dozens of LAN-only chatters in the Windows world, say realpopup.it for one. Most do Win/Mac and possibly phones, not Linux. You might have luck with WINE if you want to go there. Things would be easy on the non-Linux machines that way, and no web browser needed.
If you just search "web chat" you'll find numerous web-based options. Those servers are already set up.
24 • self host ? Buddy list (by Frank N. on 2021-05-25 11:11:09 GMT from Japan)
I've long thought that something like the old AOL Buddy List but self-hosted for family only (if it could be secured) would be great.
Family members distributed across country (son in college, parents in another time zone, siblings and cousins) could see who was online and available to communicate without worrying about if it is too late/early to call.
25 • PiHole et al (by Mark B on 2021-05-25 11:20:35 GMT from United Kingdom)
@19 and @20
Like you, I tried PiHole and liked it. I also gave AdGuard a try on a Raspberry Pi. Then I discovered I could just use AdGuard's DNS servers to filter out the ads and free up my Pi for something else. You just alter your router's default DNS settings for those shown here: https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html
26 • Zero Trust Home Server? (by Cozy Berenstain on 2021-05-25 18:41:05 GMT from Sweden)
I joke, but seriously, is zombiefied home PCs, servers, still a thing? You better know your stuff, lock that poop down tight, especially if you traffic sensitive info on your home 'honey-pot', lol. :D Losta hackin' goin on, India just got mega blasted by a huge hack. Somebody is busy, hijacked pipeline, anyone? Bueller?
27 • Buddy List (by QuahZei7 on 2021-05-26 05:11:46 GMT from United States)
@24 For buddy list, see GadgeteerZA on YouTube, "Overview of the RetroShare Peer-To-Peer Social Network" at 15:10. The whole vid covers all modalities of messaging, and demystifies the software.
28 • Snakeware (by Otis on 2021-05-26 13:08:29 GMT from United States)
@10 No. "Snake Oil?" No. From the github blurb: "The idea is that a Python OS would be fun to use and very easy to contribute to. Even relative beginners might be able to find ways to meaningfully contribute apps and other code to this distro....The goal is to eventually have a usable set of userspace apps and utilities written entirely in Python, because Python is fun and it Just Werks.
I find that admirable. I had the feeling after Jesse's review that it might be a "for students by students" distro. It is my opinion that the Linux world is very well served by such a project. Need more.
29 • Self hosting (by Cheker on 2021-05-26 14:39:03 GMT from Portugal)
At some point I will probably try to self host a DNS server, just for the sport of it
30 • Freenode (by Justin on 2021-05-27 21:30:31 GMT from United States)
I'm sorry to see what's happened. The Wikipedia and tech press have more details to those who are interested. Here is one such article: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/freenode-irc-has-been-taken-over-by-the-crown-prince-of-korea/
FOSS works because it is based on access and collaboration. However, cooperation fails when someone abuses it by being competitive because they can take everything from everyone. This event feels like that. The Freenode staffers don't object because they care more about making stuff work and giving. Freenode is now "owned" by someone who claims it is with more money to silence anyone who says otherwise. Sound familiar to anyone?
31 • Red Hat (by penguinx86 on 2021-05-28 07:47:23 GMT from United States)
I tried Red Hat. It's good, but there are lots of enterprise features that I just don't need on a home computer with only 1 user. I tried Red Hat's 30 day trial, but I had to go through the sales department and practically beg for it. After 30 days, the sales department said I'd have to pay for the $179 annual license renewal if I wanted to continue using Red Hat. I'm sorry, but that's too much to pay for a home user in trying to learn Red Hat in a casual learning environment. Red Hat should offer free 120 day no hassle trials, like Microsoft does. Sorry Red Hat, I'm switching to something else.
32 • self hosted, irc (by hulondalo on 2021-05-28 11:28:54 GMT from Indonesia)
thank goodness i'm not the only lazy person in this world :)
why does everybody hate freenode? sry, too lazy to read news ;) skimmed the register article but failed to understand as to why. rly hate being coerced/persuaded to hate something just because folks hate it
33 • IRC? (by Tad Strange on 2021-05-28 12:45:08 GMT from Canada)
IRC is still a thing? It's been 20 years since I've used it. Wild times with dial-up and lag and lousy connections. Today it would be like hearing that someone doesn't use a cell phone because they have a CB radio.
I suppose Usenet must also remain a thriving anachronism...
34 • Red Hat subscription (by Jesse on 2021-05-28 12:55:11 GMT from Canada)
@31: "Red Hat should offer free 120 day no hassle trials, like Microsoft does. Sorry Red Hat, I'm switching to something else."
For home users and developers Red Hat offers entirely free subscriptions for as long as you want. You signed up for a 30-day free trial of their production subscription. You can sign up for an entirely free trial that doesn't expire for home use.
35 • IRC (by CS on 2021-05-28 18:25:29 GMT from United States)
Twitch chat used to be built on IRC. I imagine they ditched that at some point. Probably the last semi-serious use of the protocol. Gotta be at least a dozen better options these days.
36 • @32 (by Justin on 2021-05-28 19:17:49 GMT from United States)
tl;dr: Someone not associated with Freenode bought it from someone who didn't own the service. That person then forcibly took control from those who ran it using the shell company as an excuse. Because that person has waay more money than those from whom the service was taken, that person wins because no one can afford the costs and hassles of a legal challenge. The rest is the ugly fallout including seizing control of other business's communication channels and blocking over 700 organizations from using the service without warning.
To many people, having one's work and livelihood stolen from them in this manner feels ethically wrong. To others, having a wealthy person come in and ruin something they think is good in the name of greed also feels wrong. The wealthy person just moves on to other businesses without a second thought. The people negatively affected are left to put together the pieces that they had nothing to do with breaking.
You can hate or not hate Freenode because of this. You can read both sides of the story or not. It's up to you. This is my take and why I would be angry. Whether or not the law would allow it, this behavior feels morally wrong. I would not want someone to treat me in this manner, so I choose to not give them or their other businesses my time, money, etc. There are a lot of services this person owns and other companies that have disappeared under mysterious circumstances (a really famous one in 2018). I'm not putting names here to not give them free advertising or offend people who like those services. I personally cannot support this behavior, and there are enough alternatives that I'm not forced to use them.
37 • @33 - Usenet (by Uncle Slacky on 2021-05-28 19:41:03 GMT from France)
You can still access Usenet, there's a free service at https://www.eternal-september.org (excludes binary groups) which you can access with Thunderbird or specialist newsreader software like Pan: http://pan.rebelbase.com
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View our range including the highly anticipated StarFighter. Available with coreboot open-source firmware and a choice of Ubuntu, elementary, Manjaro and more. Visit Star Labs for information, to buy and get support.
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