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I started training in my teen years to be a bench jeweler and over a decade later in the jewelry manufacturing scene and after the advance of tech, I found myself becoming a 3D modeler. I've given up on my hammer and torch a while back. CAD and 3D printing are mostly what I do all day long now. I'm in the process of expanding into other fields as I'm using my knowledge in CAD/CAM to create all sorts of things. It turns out if you know CAD/CAM + Rendering + general knowledge in coding/tech, there's nothing you can't create and sell online. At this stage, I'm not sure what my job title is. A modeler, a creator, or a retailer? This question always makes me pause and I end up telling people, "I do computer stuff" and they assume I'm coding all day long

Github: https://github.com/mirumee/saleor
Website: https://saleor.io/
Demo: https://demo.saleor.io/

Some Pros:

• Open Source
• Headless API
• PWA - Offline Browsing
• GraphQL
• Dark Mode in Dashboard

We need a good ecommerce app and this is an amazing alternative to WP/Woo.

The SNDS page/service is useless. It's good to tell if you're blocked or not and that's it. I signed up and added my server IP +8 months ago and I have yet to receive a single report from them. Anyway, I found the right page to apply for delisting if your IP is blocked: https://sender.office.com.

Hi,

I have a handful of apps that I elected not to back up automatically and it would be nice to have an option to group them to make it easier when I'm creating the backups manually.

Thanks!

@robi I'll get right on that. Thank you.

@marcusquinn I can't believe services like that exists. But I might have to use it if all else fails.

I dug a bit deeper and came across some interesting posts:

https://serverfault.com/questions/709736/how-does-dnswl-work-how-can-i-gain-better-trust

I visited DNSWL.org and registered for listing my domain and IP with them.

I ran a multi-RBL check against my server IP on Anti Abuse (http://www.anti-abuse.org/) and found out that SpamRats had it listed for spam. I just submitted a request for removal.

Now that I think about it. I regret getting rid of my old DO server. I've been using that for years and didn't have these issues. I should have used the new server as a transitional server while I installed Cloudron on the old one. Lesson learned.

@d19dotca My problem with Signal and most other apps is that you need a phone number or email address associated with the account which can be mined from the metadata.

Signal removed the "from" in the metadata but for an app that touts "secure communications", you'd think they would have done that since the app's inception.

You might say, "I don't have anything to hide" or "I don't care if they know some things about me" but all this info is being collected and they're building a profile about you so they can profit from it. That's the best case scenario. Now imagine dictators having that kind of power in their hands. What's stopping corporations, governments, organizations from abusing this power? Nada. We have to protect ourselves by denying them every bit of data no matter of irrelevant it may seem. Ask yourself, if it's that irrelevant, why do they want it so bad? Why does big brother want a backdoor into encryption?

I rest my case.

@necrevistonnezr It's not what but whom they chose to use is the real issue here. If a non-coder like me can install Ackee and put in some effort to have tracking without compromising the privacy of my visitors then so can they if they cared or wanted to.

I've stopped torrenting altogether because there are a ton of streaming sites that have everything I've been looking for. I have an LG TV (WebOS) and I stream the movies through the browser. It works great, never lags or buffers, and I haven't gotten any letters from my ISP. I'm too lazy to set up the VPN on the router and that would eliminate the risk but AFAIK, streaming isn't illegal, only downloading is. I don't want to share the streaming site publicly but send me a DM if anyone is interested.

P.S. If you have a WebOS based TV, you can stream media from your PC directly to the TV by right clicking the media file --> Cast to Device --> Choose the TV from the list and voila!

@jdaviescoates This doesn't make sense though. It's like we're being forced to use big tech solutions or get thrown under the bus. If I have all the proper records set up with a clean server IP and sending score then they should go to the inbox. You wanna know what's really funny? I receive 5-10 spam emails per day from GMAIL accounts and they come right into my inbox.

@marcusquinn I'm still considered somewhat new to Cloudron and I certainly am one of those folk who seek help on the forum but I never expected an answer from the Cloudron team. I would open a support ticket for that but I got on the forum because I felt bad opening a ticket for random questions. It was quite refreshing to see them this active on the forum though but like you said, it does take away from their development time. It would be great to have moderators to help out.

I'm against expanding the forum categories since trying to find the right section to post in becomes a hassle. For example, it took me this whole time to stumble upon the "Help Wanted or Offered" section under "App Packaging & Development" and that's only one category deep. Since these categories are meant to help newcomers and people with no coding skills (like myself), they should be the first thing we see.

After frequenting the forums lately, I've noticed that most of the regulars on here are developers but Cloudron is meant to connect regular people with better hosting and apps so the main focus of the forum should be around that goal. To keep the development channel clean, perhaps there should be a special group for app developers with their own sub-forum. You can limit replies and new topics to the group or making those categories hidden from other users altogether.

TIL = today i learned

so if you click on the search icon in Firefox in the top toolbar while browsing this forum, you can easily add this site to the search engine list. You can then type a keyword in the search box, and then click on the forum favicon from the list, and it'll search the forum for you. Neat! I tried it for other sites and it didn't work, so it must be a nice feature in NodeBB.

https://freescout.net/module/chat/

This is a great online app. For personal use, I'm using TinyPNG's API but it's limited to 500 images/mo. It would be awesome to have a self-hosted option. For work, I use IrfanView (installs locally on your PC) and it can do batch conversions. With the right settings, I got it to work just as good as TinyPNG. I use it mostly to optimize 360 degree product renderings so I have thousands of images at a time. Works great.

I'd like to add to this. The ability to select the pass length and whether we want special characters. Or if it's easier to do, allow us to add our own passwords instead of them being generated for us.

@girish I got a 10/10 with one yellow "Your message does not contain a List-Unsubscribe header". I don't send bulk emails from my server so I guess it doesn't apply to me. I've been sending emails from the server to my gmail accounts for the past hour and removing them from the spam folder and replying to each one. I think it's starting to work but now I have to test other providers like hotmail and yahoo.

@ruihildt I just signed up for an account and installed the Wordpress plugin. I'll report back in a few days. Hoping it'll stop those pesky bots from abusing my contact form

Day 3: almost forgot to post today, zero spam all day.

@girish @imc67 Quoting a closed issue on their github...

Hi, after doing a bit of research, I've realized that FriendlyCaptcha isn't entirely open source.

    Alternatively, do it yourself

    FriendlyCaptcha is open source allowing you to build out this service yourself.

https://friendlycaptcha.com/

    Its front-end and algorithms are open source (MIT), the SaaS wrapper around the hosted version is not [yet, I set it as a sponsorship goal], I hope that’s ok.

https://codeberg.org/swiso/website/issues/133

I will appreciate if the website makes it clear that some bits are proprietary.

Source: https://github.com/FriendlyCaptcha/friendly-challenge/issues/10

I think that means someone could use a different wrapper for their source code and make it work for Cloudron and elsewhere, right?

I'm using this WP plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-piwik/

WP-Piwik Settings

Matomo-Mode: Self-Hosted (HTTP, API)
Auto-Config: Checked
Add Tracking Code: Default Tracking
Javascript code position: Footer
Enable Cache: Checked

Matomo Install Settings - I'm running the bare minimum tracking to protect user privacy as much as possible while collecting enough info to understand my traffic

Anonymize IP by 2 Bytes
Keeping a short timeframe for deleting old logs
Enable DNT support
Geolocation - DBIP / GeoIP 2 PHP

@timconsidine You can use whatcms.org to check any site you want to know what platform/CMS they use. Just copy the site URL you want and paste it in whatcms and it'll do a quick scan and let you know.

@jdaviescoates No problem. I forgot to mention that Firefox might give you a problem with error messages (just ignore them) but if Matomo doesn't seem to be registering any hits then try to disable DNT. With DNT on, I had issues with the hits showing up in the WP dashboard.

@rosano I like going through lists because that's how I discover new awesome apps!

Here's how to edit your profile pic: Top right icon --> Edit Profile --> Change Picture

I needed a feature phone last month when I decided to resume my daily walks at the nearby trail so I landed on the Nokia 6300 4G. It's a good phone for the price ($70 USD) but I tried de-googling it with no success but here are some phones that I've come across that are worth a mention.

Mudita Pure
Enjoy Life. Offline.

Your Modern Minimalist Phone. Mindful design, essential functionalities, an eye-friendly E Ink display, an open source OS and ultralow SAR value.

• E Ink display
• Ultralow SAR
• Music - Harman loudspeaker
• Bluetooth 4.2
• Headphone jack plug
• Meditation Timer
• Desktop apps (Windows/MacOS/Linux) to manage the phone (SMS, file transfer, etc.)
• Dual Nano-SIM slots
• Long Battery Life ~1600mAh
• MuditaOS (Open Source)
• Made in the EU

Full Specs: https://mudita.com/products/pure/specs/

Light Phone II

The Light Phone II is an unlocked, 4G LTE mobile phone. It's a simple phone with a few essential tools. It uses a unique e-ink display and has a completely custom typographic-based interface.

It's a phone, it calls and texts. There is a customizable menu of simple tools, and a dashboard website to manage everything. There is a headphone jack, bluetooth, and it can be used as a personal hotspot.

Available tools currently include an alarm, a calculator, a simple music player, and a podcasts tool. The phone also supports hotspot tethering.

Weird website - browse through their FAQ to read the tech specs: https://www.thelightphone.com/faq

Punkt MP02

• Tough build - reinforced with glass-fibre, Gorilla Glass 3 screen
• 4G LTE connection & Bluetooth 4.1
• OS: AOSP 8.1
• Sunlight-readable display (Transflective LCD)
• Digital security - BlackBerry Secure
• Pigeon, Signal-Compatible
• Splashproof to IP52
• 2GB RAM, 16GB Storage
• 180 hrs Standby time

Full Specs: https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/#specs

Source: https://github.com/freescout-helpdesk/freescout/issues/1069

Method 1

This requires two steps to get it to work if you follow the github page:

• Upload & Activate the dark mode module that places a toggle in the top bar (/app/data/Modules/)

• Add the CSS code to the stylesheet (folder path: Darkmode\Public\css\darkmode.css)

Method 2

Alternatively, you can use the zip from the link below which includes the needed css code. All you need to do is upload it to the server as mentioned above and you're all set.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/r7hofncs26vsb0q/Darkmode.zip?dl=1

P.S. The colors aren't that great looking. I'll share my version of the css code once I tweak it to my liking.

You got my upvote for this. I ran into this exact thing yesterday. I just set up a B2 bucket w/ rsync and it took over 16 hours before I had to kill it. Tgz took less than 10 minutes today. My entire server is around 28GB.

Edit: Just found out how to upvote lol.

@marcusquinn I don't mind. He's interested in jewelry manufacturing, CAD/CAM, or both? DM me their email address when ready.

@mehdi Other than custom jewelry design jobs that I do for jewelry retailers, I work on creating accessories for all kinds of products. I aim for the hobbies (RC toys, gamers, etc.) because they spend without thinking logically lol.

@ei8fdb Thanks. Most people that ask me what I do, don't even know what 3D modeling means. I get that blank face and then I just say "computer stuff" and they're like OHHHHHH.

Day 1 looks promising! I'm used to waking up to at least a handful of spam messages sent from the contact forms. So far, I got none! Will report back tomorrow.

I don't know about NodeBB or Discourse but Wordpress is a spam magnet. The first thing I do for fresh WP installs is set up Wordfence and 2FA TOTP and within the first 48 hours, I would have hundreds of bot login attempts that get blocked.

@jdaviescoates I checked out the ecommerce requests/recommenations you posted and some didn't have demos so I skipped those but the rest felt like a step down from what I can accomplish with WP/Woo and only Saleor feels like a step up. The second best option is Spree. I'm looking into what it takes to self-host either Saleor or Spree because I want to have PWA for the new site I'm working on.

I'm a bit late to the party but just want to say Cloudflare be damned. I use a VPN online and every site that has Cloudflare CDN blocks me out. Oh, and you can add Google Captcha to the naughty list.

It's expanding from a simple email alias app to an "online identity protector" with the addition of phone number masking, bank card masking, and a sign in button.

Hi all,

I'm using Cloudron's mail server for sending out mail. I have set up SPF, DKIM, & DMARC but for some reason my mail end up in Gmail's spam folders. Yesterday, I added my domains to Google's Postmaster page. My server isn't blacklisted according to online lookup sites. What could be causing this?

@marcusquinn As you've mentioned, social engineering and phishing pose a greater risk than brute force attacks. I read an article once about SMS hijacking that shows that SMS/phone numbers shouldn't be used to secure an account at all. I'll post it if I find it again.

@girish I prefer having it all on the same page. Even if I wasn't using TOTP for that account. For those that aren't tech savvy enough to know what TOTP is, it might push them to look it up and educate themselves. Win win, really.

seems fine to me too

Last times the churches in the village.

Is this an actual saying in Germany? What on earth does it mean?

I'm using Cloudron for both business and personal use on the same server but its for my own use and I don't resell services (hosting/apps) so I don't make money from Cloudron's features exactly but even so, the price tag is worth it for me. I can see where you're coming from though because you can resell access to apps to unlimited users and pay the same price as I do (within server resource limits). I snatched the coupon a while back and pay $15/mo but @nebulon pointed out once, keeping up with monthly payments increases the risk of payment failure, etc. and that takes more time to manage so I'm thinking of paying yearly when CR 7 is out and I redeploy the server. At the end of the day, you have a choice what to use and whom you choose to support. The CR team and the whole community here are just awesome, it's a shame you can't (or don't want to) see that.

@girish I think it's fine to keep it as it is. I only embed iframes on 1 out of 4 WP installs that I have running so I can see the benefit of having it set like that by default.

I've never went through this before and had no idea what to look for after I ruled out any plugins/themes as being the culprit. It just left me scratching my head. It would be nice if you could add a mention of it in the docs though https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/wordpress-unmanaged/

@d19dotca said in How have you got your Matomo set-up?:

** I also enabled in that plugin to not count visits from sign-in admin users, I feel that keeps me from throwing off the analytic data a bit whenever I'm making a bunch of changes to the site where I'm needing to load up all the pages to check stuff in.

Nice catch. I forgot to turn that on after I was done setting things up. Thanks!

@murgero You can send emails to multiple Gmail accounts and replying to them. It helps for a while but then Gmail will start putting new mail in spam again. Repeat as needed. I've only done this for Gmail so I can't say if it works for other providers.

Don't laugh at me but I use Notepad++ for quick notes but I retired one of the laptops I had been using at work and installed pop!_os on it. I was going through the app store and found Joplin. It's open source, has apps for linux, mac, windows, android, and ios. The notes can be synced to your nextcloud or you can just use it locally on your device. Oh, and it has markdown support!

@marcusquinn In that case, between Cloudron and Bitwarden's pass generator, we're all set.

@marcusquinn The pricing is a bit misleading or so it felt to me. The advertised pricing is for a 3 year term. The server I selected had a $89/yr tag but ended up at $129/yr when I selected a 1 yr payment term. I haven't heard back from them yet. If it's this hard to get help when I'm throwing money at them, imagine what it's like when I need tech support. I'm glad the order got marked as fraud. I dodged a bullet there.

@necrevistonnezr It's working great. Thank you!

I know I'm going to need this when it's time to update the plugin. Make sure to remove the -master from the folder name so it's just "twofactor_gauthenticator" and use the code mentioned in the Cloudron doc page, and not the one on the plugin's github page.

array_push($config['plugins'], 'twofactor_gauthenticator');

@jdaviescoates Precisely. Looking for a Commento/Disqus/TrustPilot/etc. replacement.

@girish Someone already asked this on there:

https://community.vikunja.io/t/how-to-delete-users/17

There's no way to delete users on the frontend or through the API. It's low priority for them but it's on the roadmap. This was back in May 2020.

Yesterday, I tried viewing that post and I thought it was a forum hickup but even today I still can't access this specific post. Everything else works just fine. Just an odd thing. Anyone else running into similar or any problems with the forum?

https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2189/ldap-ad-server/1

@sysadmin Actually, I didn't see this option yesterday. I saw "self-hosted" and immediately clicked on it . Thanks again!

@robi I just did the same in uBlock Origin and it works for me too now. It's under settings --> Trusted Sites.

P.S. I love that I can snip a screen in Windows and paste it in here without having to save/upload the image!

Audacity to add telemetry to track its users. Time to find an alternative, folks.

Source: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835

@scooke Thanks. It's weird that these phones don't come up in a regular search. I was browsing through r/dumbphones and all you see are reviews for crappy ones but in the comments a mod mentioned "de-googled" phones and listed some of the above.

I forgot to post the TLDR for each phone so here goes:

Mudita Pure: connectivity (desktop apps and bluetooth) & low SAR

Light Phone II: really limited (by design) for those that want the simplicity

Punkt MP02: dedicated buttons for the most used tools and Pigeon (Signal Protocol)

There's also another phone that I should have included in the list and it's the SunBeam F1. The phone has three different models with each having a bit more tools than the rest (same price tag though).

SunBeam F1

It has all the bells and whistles you'd expect but it also has GPS/Navigation!

Thanks for the post Marcus!

Hey guys,

Any idea how to enable notifications in the browser for new tickets?

I saw the modules on freescout's website and they're for mobile, slack, or telegram and I didn't see any options in the settings either.

Suggestions? Thanks!

Dear Google,

May your holidays be filled with bounces

@marcusquinn WP-Rocket is the only plugin that works out of the box for my all WP sites without breaking anything. I've tried all the known caching plugins and I've hit a wall of some kind on each site. There's a lot of things at play like the themes and plugins I'm using, also the server setup (this was back on my previous server with DO+ServerPilot. If the site didn't break, the issue would be with speed/performance. I finally gave up and got WP-Rocket and it might not be the ideal plugin but it's not breaking my sites and I'm saving server resources. For me, that's a win until I gather enough stamina to go on another diagnostic run.

@marcusquinn I know. I just mentioned it for the giggles. My needs are pretty simple but the extra year offer made it worth the hassle of switching them over. I estimated about $30 per year savings (without the extra year offer). I just didn't expect a registrar to be THAT behind and I thought Enom was outdated, lol.

I like their new look a lot with one exception. If you log into the new account area, at the top left there's an ad for cheap hosting. It's extremely annoying to have it there and I feel like it's blocking my menu so I keep trying to scroll to get rid of it.

But like you said, if it works then that's all that matters. I have DNSMadeEasy for my DNS needs so I won't be logging into NameSilo more than once a year to top up the account.

It's a great find and thanks again for sharing them.

Edit: It just occurred to me, you should have posted your referral link (assuming they have such a thing, haven't checked).

Here's my version of the CSS code. This is a full replacement to what's in darkmode.css (Darkmode\Public\css\darkmode.css).

https://paste.cloudron.io/osabijokan.css (rev. 2)

Here's a screenshot of it:

Edit: rev.2 - new tickets have highlighted background to make it easier to spot

@girish I closed the upgrade notification by mistake. What's the changelog for v6.2.1?

Edit: Nevermind! I found it in the "Event Log".

    "version": "6.2.1",
    "changelog": [
      "ovh: object storage URL has changed from s3 to storage subdomain",
      "ionos: add profit bricks object storage",
      "update node to 14.15.4",
      "update docker to 20.10.3",
      "new base image 3.0.0",
      "postgresql updated to 12.5",
      "redis updated to 5.0.7",
      "dovecot updated to 2.3.7",
      "proxyAuth: fix docker UA detection",
      "registry config: add UI to disable it",
      "update solr to 8.8.1",
      "firewall: fix issue where script errored when having more than 15 wl/bl ports",
      "If groups are used, do not allow app installation without choosing the access settings",
      "tls addon",
      "Do not overwrite existing DMARC record",
      "Sync dns records",
      "Dry run restore",
      "linode: show cloudron is installing when user SSHs",
      "mysql: disable bin logs",
      "Show cancel task button if task is still running after 2 minutes",
      "filemanager: fix various bugs involving file names with spaces",
      "Change Referrer-policy default to 'same-origin'",
      "rsync: preserve and restore symlinks",
      "Clean up backups function now removes missing backups",
      "Avoid updown notifications on full restore",
      "Add retries to downloader logic in installer"

I'm just using the default Cloudron name but I use DWS to remotely access my PC's and I have them named after animals + their case form size. For example, my CAD ITX PC at work is called GrizzlyCub while my CAD PC at home is PapaGrizzly.

@potemkin_ai There's another pit stop before 6.3. Please see this post for more details: https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/4721/cloudron-6-2-released/12

@marcusquinn I don't have collabora installed but I have a 4K monitor if you want me to test a link for you.

@jimcavoli This is already posted upstream on their github by another user. All I did was modify their CSS since I didn't like the color palette they used.