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I absolutely love Cloudron. It is the most amazing software I have used for ages. I am practically drunk with power using it . Cloudron is a joy. I feel unleashed. For me, Cloudron is one of the best things to happen for Free Software this millennium.

Nebulon, Girish, thank you so much for developing this utterly brilliant software. Thank you also to everybody packaging applications so well so that they can be reliably used here. Thank you all for your help on the forum.

I think Cloudron is going to take the world by storm.

Thank you, you brilliant people, for bringing Jitsi to Cloudron. I have been trying it, and it is working nicely.

This is a big win.

Well done!

@girish

It is a pity you can't hear the loud cheers and applause when you give us news like this.

OpenStreetMap Tile Server

https://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/manually-building-a-tile-server-20-04-lts/

Most people use Open Street Map on its main site, but it would be nice to be able to deploy OSM at home, so that you don't need an internet connection and can browse maps privately.

The map of the world is broken into sections called tiles and to run your own instance of OSM you would need a tile server.

There has already been another OSM related request, but it doesn't seem to have made it into the Cloudron Applications yet:

https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1219/umap-openstreetmap-layers-to-embedd-at-a-site?_=1634373804289

@aft2d

It is good to hear your views. I think Cloudron is so desperately needed and so incredibly useful and so supportive of Freedom, I find it difficult to argue against what is asked. I also sincerely hope to support a project with such enormous potential to help people move away from proprietary services and onto Free Software.

What I think we need to do is to popularize Cloudron. With more users, there will hopefully be more revenue and that might help keep prices low. The extra users might also bring along more developers and that could help too.

If Cloudron reaches a critical mass of users, I think it will just rocket in popularity. Lets help make that happen!

https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding
Docker is the easiest way to install and images are available:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sissbruecker/linkding/master/docs/linkding-screenshot.png

linkding is a simple bookmark service that you can host yourself. It's designed be to be minimal, fast and easy to set up using Docker.

The name comes from:

link which is often used as a synonym for URLs and bookmarks in common language
Ding which is german for thing
...so basically some thing for managing your links
Feature Overview:

Tags for organizing bookmarks
Search by text or tags
Bulk editing
Bookmark archive
Dark mode
Automatically creates snapshots of bookmarked websites on web archive
Automatically provides titles and descriptions of bookmarked websites
Import and export bookmarks in Netscape HTML format
Extensions for Firefox and Chrome, and a bookmarklet that should work in most browsers
REST API for developing 3rd party apps
Admin panel for user self-service and raw data access
Easy to set up using Docker, uses SQLite as database
Demo: https://demo.linkding.link/ (configured with open registration)

Screenshot:

Cloudron should create short videos (desktop recordings) of how to accomplish tasks in Cloudron. I think this would have several benefits:

• Easy to follow tutorials
• Repository of Information
• Helping complete newcomers get up to speed
• Sharable content which could capture interest and attract users
• If you actually see something happening, it encourages you to do it

https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/

Cloudron and Selfhosted.Libhunt is a match made in heaven.

For the benefit of both projects and their users, we should have a representation on each site. What should happen?

Selfhosted.Libhunt

The template used to list the various projects there ought to have some sort of icon indicating whether the application is or is not currently supported for one-click deployment on Cloudron.

When new projects are listed on Selfhosted.Libhunt, some sort of automated communication ought to be sent to the developers notifying them to try and do what is needed so assist preparing the program for Cloudron deployment.

Cloudron

To keep things tidy, a new section in the forum ought to be created, with a listing for each Selfhosted.Libhunt application. Each of these would act as a landing page for the developers and a focus for putting their project onto Cloudron.

Automated updates to this section ought to be created when Selfhosted.Libhunt adds a new application, perhaps using RSS or something like that.

What do you think?

Might it swamp Cloudron with poor quality software? Might it be a great way of bringing people to Cloudron? Would Awesome Self Hosted by happy to integrate Cloudron onto their website? What might persuade them?

Cloudron has huge potential and I love looking at the suggestions in the App Wishlist. I love adding suggestions there, too.

Unfortunately though, I am reminded of the saying, "The eyes are bigger than the stomach." It is as though I am sitting at a table and ask for a strawberry, but before the strawberry has even arrived, I ask for a pineapple. Both of these are great ideas, I am sure you will agree, but then I ask for a mango.

Many are familiar with https://archive.is pages, which allow people to view a page even if the original site is no longer available, censored, overwhelmed or just too full of tracking spyware.

Lets help people deploy their own instances of archive.is/the wayback machine by supporting it on Cloudron. There is a docker image.

http://mementoweb.org/tools/
https://github.com/iipc/openwayback/wiki
https://github.com/iipc/openwayback/wiki/How-to-install

System Requirements
Java: Oracle Java version 1.7 or higher.
Tomcat: Apache Tomcat version 6.0 or higher.
Please note that the recommended operating environment for OpenWayback is UNIX/Linux and this is assumed in this documentation.

@loudlemur I am pleasantly surprised by the positive reaction to this suggestion.

As with many things, it is not what you do, it is the way that you do it.

Drip
Instead of dumping all video content in one go, a drip release would be a more humane way of delivering the learning. Also, people might have time and curiosity for one video, and look forward to the next one.

RTFM

We can leverage our existing assets by using the documentation as the basis for a script. It could provide the plot (one aspect followed by another and another) and the skeleton of the dialogue in the video.

Newbies don't yearn to Read The F*****G Manual. They might watch a video of it in action though. The relevant section in the manual ought to be linked in the video, for reference.

Genre

The videos first need to catch interest, then hold interest and then ideally propagate interest. Instead of a dry-as-dust, bore people to death video, it might be worthwhile trying to create them as a ... horror movie! (Or a comedy... or ....) It might be a bit much to ask for the person who is knowledgeable about Cloudron to also have a sense of humour, but perhaps there is somebody around here who does... We should use that.

Afterthought

Many of our best ideas come after the event. In retrospect, things all could have been improved. We ought to create videos in such a way that there is space on screen for some textual messages that weren't mentioned during production. This might also be a fun way of adding some humour to an otherwise dry presentation.

Images
A simple stick man drawing in a paint application could be used as a low-effort way of adding some imaginative content. Memes. Animated GIFs. Reaction GFYs.

Sound
Funny sounds can be added easily to make the video more humorous, spooky or Wild West. For example, if you wanted to include a few "Boings!":
https://freesound.org/search/?q=boing

Distribution
Use a LBRY client to mount any videos onto the LBRY blockchain in a censorship resistant fashion (so that it is announced that the content is available from sources in addition to Odysee.com)
https://github.com/paveloom-f/lbry-desktop/releases

Use a (Cloudron deployed!) Hub/Comment Server/LBRY client to seed that content in addition to Odysee.com.

Galacteek makes IPFS (Inter Planetary File System) easy. Its tools help you blog, run a Gemini, use IPNS (Inter Planetary Naming System) for content which is updated often, archive and much more.

https://galacteek.gitlab.io/download/#v052

There is a Docker:
https://galacteek.gitlab.io/running-a-node/

The user interface runs in a password protected, x11vnc service. IPFS is best run in some sort of container, such as Cloudron. (Pinning files effectively publishes one's IP address.)

@brutalbirdie Haha! It is just that it might be too much to hope that somebody could be blessed both with such understanding and a funny bone.

@girish @doodlemania2 Currently, there is a "livestream to (yuch!) youtube" tool available in jitsi-meet. Hopefully, the Jitsi team will support Free livestreaming options like Owncast as an option soon. It would be wonderful to be able to run Owncast and livestream to it from jitsi-meet.

Perhaps this is common knowledge, but Cloudron is available on Linode servers as a one-click deployment.

https://www.linode.com/

@infogulch Zotero is licenced under the GNU AGPL v3.
https://www.zotero.org/support/licensing

All Zotero code is on Github:
https://github.com/zotero

There is a .deb:
https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-deb

There are some Docker images too, but I am not sure how official they are:

https://github.com/bskaggs/zotero-docker
https://github.com/MohamedElashri/Zotero-Docker
https://github.com/gfacciol/zotero_dataserver-docker

Zotero have a new tool for generating references according to different manuals of style, ZoteroBib:
https://zbib.org/

There is a browser extension:
https://www.zotero.org/download/connectors

Other downloads:
https://www.zotero.org/support/plugins

@jdaviescoates Thank you too. This was the solution I needed.

@timconsidine
Cloudron already have a YT channel. Here it is on an Invidio.us instance:

https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCOaWnVX6wqEI-IMdV9_s8_A

Cloudron could one-click import that channel onto LBRY

https://lbry.com/faq/youtube

ipfs-desktop is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) which helps people use the considerable functionality available through IPFS (Inter Planetary File System)

https://docs.ipfs.io/install/ipfs-desktop/

I think more people would use IPFS to pin content if they didn't have to use their home computer. (IPFS publishes your node's IP address.) It would be wonderful to easily be able to deploy IPFS elsewhere using Cloudron.

@BrutalBirdie Thanks! This was what I didn't understand.

It is wonderful to have more applications added to Cloudron. Thanks so much for these. As the number of supported applications grows, the proportion of time spent on maintaining those applications gets larger, and the proportion of time available to add new applications comes ever closer to zero.

What can Cloudron do to prevent addition of new applications grinding to a halt?

RSS is a very powerful tool. No wonder Big Media want to get rid of it.

There are some other RSS services here:

https://www.fivefilters.org/

Have you tried basking in the beauty of the Fireship website?
https://fireship.io

There are several courses and tutorials there, some available gratis. Perhaps Cloudron could approach Fireship with a view of creating a lesson or course for Cloudron. For example, how to package an application for Cloudron.

As an example, here is a Fireship lesson for Docker:
https://fireship.io/lessons/docker-basics-tutorial-nodejs/

The lesson has a Youtube video, which you can watch here instead:
https://invidious.snopyta.org/embed/gAkwW2tuIqE

I think the market segment Fireship aims to serve has a lot of overlap with Cloudron's userbase.

Jeff Delaney, the founder of Fireship, also created (amongst many other amazing projects) another learning platform: CampusHippo
https://campushippo.com/

This is a site for nano-sized lessons on a topic. If a topic is not already present, for example Cloudron, you can create one:
https://campushippo.com/lessons/craft
or you can suggest one, and include how much one might be willing to pay for such a lesson.

Developers might discover Cloudron on platforms like Fireship and CampusHippo.

https://timeline.knightlab.com/

This is a useful data visualization tool which helps people understand events chronologically.

It is useful to understand history. It can also be used to depict an intended roadmap for a project.

There is a similar project which people might like to compare which is under active development:

http://thetimelineproj.sourceforge.net/

@timconsidine Thanks

This point you made about it becoming difficult to use a VPN sometimes is a good one. Increasingly, little by little, "they are coming for our VPNs". There are already complaints about this being discussed on social media.
https://teddit.net/r/vpn/top?t=month

Powerful corporations don't want us to exist on the internet anonymously. They are blacklisting commercial VPNs. Ordinary people have started experiencing the problems and are searching for solutions.

Lokinet is one attempt at providing a better solution than TOR (lower latency, no centralized authority). Perhaps that might be an additional string to a CloudronVPN bow.

https://lokinet.org/

@marcusquinn Thanks for making a request for IPFS on Cloudron. There are a couple of other threads discussing this excellent idea:

https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/5821/ipfs-desktop-on-cloudron

https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1583/ipfs-a-peer-to-peer-hypermedia-protocol

ipfs-desktop is a desktop application, but is best run inside a container (for security purposes) so Cloudron would be ideal for it.

Making it easy for people to deploy a secure, ipfs-desktop in a container could help create a distributed, CDN (Content Delivery Network). It would be fantastic.

I hope this happens.

@yusf IPFS pinning assisted by Cloudron would be a great way to decentralize file storage. Using a proprietary pinning service is convenient but costly, if you have large files. The biggest issue with it is that it effectively centralizes storage into a cartel of Big Data companies.

If people were easily able to pin content they liked (like videos, images, memes, music, etc) we could dump Big Data corporations and rely on ourselves instead.

@nj If this is made available as a beta app in Cloudron, I will test it and give feedback.

Thank you incredibly for helping make this very powerful Free Software available to a much wider number of users. I think that including Odoo Community Edition on Cloudron will showcase the functionality that Cloudron can deliver. Well done!

If you have managed to make Odoo 15 work, I think both Flectra and LibreERP could be deployed in the same way. LibreERP is based on a much earlier version of Odoo, v11, I think.

This is great news.

@girish Odoo hosts events all round the world:
https://www.odoo.com/event

The flagship event, where the next version of Odoo is introduced, is called Odoo Experience, and is usually around November.

If we have Odoo running well on Cloudron before then, I think Cloudron could greatly boost the number of users by making a presentation at Odoo Experience. Last year, it was an online event, usually it is in-person and in Belgium.

@ericdrgn Hi, thanks for looking at this. Any news on progress?

Nitter is becoming much more widely used, alongside similar applications which provide frontends for other websites e.g.

invidio.us for Youtube
teddit.net for Reddit

The Privacy Redirect browser extension is perhaps popularizing these great alternatives.
https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect

https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/5770/teddit-alternative-reddit-front-end-focused-on-privacy/2?_=1648203865700

https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2674/invidious-an-alternative-front-end-to-youtube?_=1648229650498

An amazing markdown editor which enables you to include beautiful graphics.

https://github.com/purocean/yn

Demo:
https://yank-note.vercel.app/#/
https://yank-note.vercel.app/#/

https://github.com/purocean/yn/releases/tag/v3.26.0

@marcusquinn Great find!

Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast
(It is dreadful that they don't mention this on their homepage!)

Supporting ADS-B Exchange on Cloudron could help bring in Ham Radio enthusiasts to the community, many of whom are already GNU+Linux devotees.

Radio Hams like to see air-traffic and then try and tune in to hear the communications as the planes fly near their shack.

This is another kind of mapping application. It would be terrific if Cloudron could bring in some expertise in this important, datavisibility field.

@timconsidine It must be terrible to be separated from your family at such a time.

Here is a live map of Starlink satellites:
https://satellitemap.space/?norad=48274

If you know where your family are likely to be, you could start posting a letter each day. Eventually you might be able to establish a back and forth stream of communication like that. If you include a sketch or painting in each letter, even if you aren't good at art, it helps make them more valuable.

https://www.open-mesh.org/projects/open-mesh/wiki

https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/

Backblaze regularly publish interesting statistics on drive survival:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ssd-edition-2021-drive-stats-review/

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2021/

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/

NVIDIA is now publishing Linux GPU kernel modules as open source with dual GPL/MIT license, starting with the R515 driver release. You can find the source code for these kernel modules in the NVIDIA Open GPU Kernel Modules repo on GitHub.

This release is a significant step toward improving the experience of using NVIDIA GPUs in Linux, for tighter integration with the OS and for developers to debug, integrate, and contribute back. For Linux distribution providers, the open-source modules increase ease of use. They also improve the out-of-the-box user experience to sign and distribute the NVIDIA GPU driver. Canonical and SUSE are able to immediately package the open kernel modules with Ubuntu and SUSE Linux Enterprise Distributions.

Developers can trace into code paths and see how kernel event scheduling is interacting with their workload for faster root cause debugging. In addition, enterprise software developers can now integrate the driver seamlessly into the customized Linux kernel configured for their project.

This will further help improve NVIDIA GPU driver quality and security with input and reviews from the Linux end-user community.

With each new driver release, NVIDIA publishes a snapshot of the source code on GitHub. Community submitted patches are reviewed and if approved, integrated into a future driver release.

Refer to the NVIDIA contribution guidelines and overview of the driver release cadence and life-cycle documentation for more information.
Supported functionality

The first release of the open GPU kernel modules is R515. Along with the source code, fully-built and packaged versions of the drivers are provided.

For data center GPUs in the NVIDIA Turing and NVIDIA Ampere architecture families, this code is production ready. This was made possible by the phased rollout of the GSP driver architecture over the past year, designed to make the transition easy for NVIDIA customers. We focused on testing across a wide variety of workloads to ensure feature and performance parity with the proprietary kernel-mode driver.

In the future, functionality such as HMM will be a foundational component for confidential computing on the NVIDIA Hopper architecture.

In this open-source release, support for GeForce and Workstation GPUs is alpha quality. GeForce and Workstation users can use this driver on Turing and NVIDIA Ampere architecture GPUs to run Linux desktops and use features such as multiple displays, G-SYNC, and NVIDIA RTX ray tracing in Vulkan and NVIDIA OptiX. Users can opt in using the kernel module parameter NVreg_EnableUnsupportedGpus as highlighted in the documentation. More robust and fully featured GeForce and Workstation support will follow in subsequent releases and the NVIDIA Open Kernel Modules will eventually supplant the closed-source driver.

Customers with Turing and Ampere GPUs can choose which modules to install. Pre-Turing customers will continue to run the closed source modules.

The open-source kernel-mode driver works with the same firmware and the same user-mode stacks such as CUDA, OpenGL, and Vulkan. However, all components of the driver stack must match versions within a release. For instance, you cannot take a release of the source code, build, and run it with the user-mode stack from a previous or future release.

Refer to the driver README document for instructions on installing the right versions and additional troubleshooting steps.
Installation opt in

The R515 release contains precompiled versions of both the closed-source driver and the open-source kernel modules. These versions are mutually exclusive, and the user can make the choice at install time. The default option ensures that silent installs will pick the optimal path for NVIDIA Volta and older GPUs versus Turing+ GPUs.

Users can build kernel modules from the source code and install them with the relevant user-mode drivers.
Diagram with gray Installer ellipse pointing to two green rectangles showing how the CUDA R515 driver software is packaged with both binary and source modules.
Figure 1: Illustration of installation options for the end user to opt-in to open GPU kernel modules and the default path of closed source modules.
Partner ecosystem

NVIDIA has been working with Canonical, Red Hat, and SUSE for better packaging, deployment, and support models for our mutual customers.
Canonical

“The new NVIDIA open-source GPU kernel modules will simplify installs and increase security for Ubuntu users, whether they’re AI/ML developers, gamers, or cloud users,” commented Cindy Goldberg, VP of Silicon alliances at Canonical. “As the makers of Ubuntu, the most popular Linux-based operating system for developers, we can now provide even better support to developers working at the cutting edge of AI and ML by enabling even closer integration with NVIDIA GPUs on Ubuntu.”

In the coming months, the NVIDIA Open GPU kernel modules will make their way into the recently launched Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
SUSE

“We at SUSE are excited that NVIDIA is releasing their GPU kernel-mode driver as open source. This is a true milestone for the open-source community and accelerated computing. SUSE is proud to be the first major Linux distribution to deliver this breakthrough with SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 in June. Together, NVIDIA and SUSE power your GPU-accelerated computing needs across cloud, data center, and edge with a secure software supply chain and excellence in support.” — Markus Noga, General Manager, Business Critical Linux at SUSE
Red Hat

“Enterprise open source can spur innovation and improve customers’ experience, something that Red Hat has always championed. We applaud NVIDIA’s decision to open source its GPU kernel driver. Red Hat has collaborated with NVIDIA for many years, and we are excited to see them take this next step. We look forward to bringing these capabilities to our customers and to improve interoperability with NVIDIA hardware.” — Mike McGrath, Vice President, Linux Engineering at Red Hat
Upstream approach

NVIDIA GPU drivers have been designed over the years to share code across operating systems, GPUs and Jetson SOCs so that we can provide a consistent experience across all our supported platforms. The current codebase does not conform to the Linux kernel design conventions and is not a candidate for Linux upstream.

There are plans to work on an upstream approach with the Linux kernel community and partners such as Canonical, Red Hat, and SUSE.

In the meantime, published source code serves as a reference to help improve the Nouveau driver. Nouveau can leverage the same firmware used by the NVIDIA driver, exposing many GPU functionalities, such as clock management and thermal management, bringing new features to the in-tree Nouveau driver.

Stay tuned for more developments in future driver releases and collaboration on GitHub.
Frequently asked questions
Where can I download the R515 driver?

You can download the R515 development driver as part of CUDA Toolkit 11.7, or from the driver downloads page under “Beta” drivers. The R515 data center driver will follow in subsequent releases per our usual cadence.
Can open GPU Kernel Modules be distributed?

Yes, the NVIDIA open kernel modules are licensed under a dual GPL/MIT license; and the terms of licenses govern the distribution and repackaging grants.
Will the source for user-mode drivers such as CUDA be published?

These changes are for the kernel modules; while the user-mode components are untouched. So the user-mode will remain closed source and published with pre-built binaries in the driver and the CUDA toolkit.
Which GPUs are supported by Open GPU Kernel Modules?

Open kernel modules support all Ampere and Turing GPUs. Datacenter GPUs are supported for production, and support for GeForce and Workstation GPUs is alpha quality. Please refer to the Datacenter, NVIDIA RTX, and GeForce product tables for more details (Turing and above have compute capability of 7.5 or greater).
How to report bugs

Problems can be reported through the GitHub repository issue tracker or through our existing end-user support forum. Please report security issues through the channels listed on the GitHub repository security policy.
What is the process for patch submission and SLA/CLA for patches?

We encourage community submissions through pull requests on the GitHub page. The submitted patches will be reviewed and if approved, integrated with possible modifications into a future driver release. Please refer to the NVIDIA driver lifecycle document.

The published source code is a snapshot generated from a shared codebase, so contributions may not be reflected as separate Git commits in the GitHub repo. We are working on a process for acknowledging community contributions. We also advise against making significant reformatting of the code for the same reasons.

The process for submitting pull requests is described on our GitHub page and such contributions are covered under the Contributor License Agreement.

For more detailed FAQs refer to the Open GPU Kernel Modules GitHub page.

I was looking for something like this, and also saw Phabricator (no longer supported since June 2021).

Thank you for helping make self-hosting software projects possible using Gitea.

I wonder if there might be something better still? Gogs?

https://gogs.io/
https://github.com/gogs/gogs
https://www.libhunt.com/compare-gogs-vs-gitea

@brutalbirdie You are God level Cloudron user! You must absolutely love Cloudron. Thanks for giving me an idea of what is possible.

@timconsidine

I try to avoid looking at content on YT these days, and if i want to see a video, one of my first ports of call is LBRY. It is just so that people can discover Cloudron there, even if there is only one video.

(By the way, LBRY Inc. own Odysee.com, which is their official front-end for the LBRY blockchain. Cloudron already has a YT channel, and the one click import would pull in all the Cloudron videos there and put them on Odysee/LBRY.)

ImageServer is a tool to share images online, a bit like imgur, but it uses the amazing IPFS (Inter Planetar File System) technology.

https://github.com/ekumahost/ImageServer

https://ipfs.io

One enormous advantage of IPFS is that you can pin content you value to help keep it available for others.

There is an instance of ImageServer available to try here:
https://imageserver.link/

Here is an URL to an ImageServer image:

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWopWY7xoukShEw1KYB5QXu5zWsYqnKWYx4Y9dBiYD49C

Here is the image:

You can see the IPFS CID (Content Identification) in the URL (it begins Qm...)

If you are running IPFS, you could reach that image just by using the IPFS CID, without using HTTP:

QmWopWY7xoukShEw1KYB5QXu5zWsYqnKWYx4Y9dBiYD49C

If you think that is a great image, you could download and pin it on your system to help keep it available and improve the CDN (Content Delivery Network).

A great way to get started with IPFS is by using ipfs-desktop, which is very easy to deploy on your own machine but I think it would be nice to make it available on Cloudron too. I shall add an App Wishlist for ipfs-desktop.

@BrutalBirdie

Haha! @BrutalBirdie - you people are amazing. They are all there already!

Does anybody have a recommendation amongst all of these? We are spoiled for choice, thanks to Cloudron!

Could the Cloudron team please consider creating a channel on LBRY to better acquaint people with this magnificent software?

There is a "one-click import channel" facility on Odysee.com to accomplish this.

Hardbin is an IPFS based alternative to services like pastebin:

https://hardbin.com/ipfs/QmR2NPtsbbnRHbsLsAjrnvGSS3hySLXrQsSqpM99Do8hAt/

https://github.com/jes/hardbin

Hardbin is an encrypted pastebin, with the decryption key passed in the URL fragment, and the code and data served securely with IPFS. (IPFS is a distributed content-addressable storage system that is web-compatible; it's basically bittorrent for the web).

If you're viewing this on hardbin.com, then you're using it via the hardbin.com public IPFS gateway. The IPFS gateway you use has the same capabilities as an ordinary web server (i.e. it can modify content at will), so you should make sure to use a gateway you trust. Running a local gateway is the best option. Start with the IPFS Getting Started guide.

Compared to a traditional encrypted pastebin (e.g. ZeroBin), when used over a trusted gateway, neither the code nor the data can be modified as the content hashes are cryptographically verified by IPFS. This means there is no possibility for a server operator to insert malicious code to exfiltrate the plaintext or decryption key. It's the perfect encrypted pastebin.

Media organizations, like the BBC, have a page to display their programme schedule for the day and week ahead.

The audience can see which shows will be on, which days they will be broadcast, the time and other details about the show, such as stars, topic, etc.

Does anybody know some good Free Software to accomplish this task?

@timconsidine I am delighted to hear this! I think time invested in IPFS is worthwhile.

There is an excellent talk introducing the concepts here by Steve Allen:

https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=0IGzEYixJHk

The best way to get started with ipfs, I think, is to try ipfs-desktop.

Check out Awesome IPFS to see a gallery of IPFS tools:
https://awesome.ipfs.io/tools/

Galacteek is a little appreciated IPFS tool which has tons of functionality (blog, webpage, messaging) when you are familiar with things:
https://galacteek.gitlab.io/download/#pimp-my-dweb

Is there a graphic which allows us at a glance to see how resource hungry each Cloudron application is?

For example, a bar chart which displayed how much RAM each application used could help us at a glance gather which applications are most thirsty for RAM?

I would like to see a stacked chart showing which of the applictions running are taking up most of the resources.

https://datavizcatalogue.com/methods/stacked_bar_graph.html

@timconsidine
Hey, thanks for asking!

Yes, running Lokinet is a bit like running a VPN. (You actually might have trouble connecting to Lokinet if you are using a VPN at the same time, so it is worth testing.)

If you run lokinet on your home computer and then go online, it is a bit like you are using TOR to go on the internet and visit webpages.

You can run applications on Lokinet too.

Lokinet is easy enough to setup on a machine at home, but people might want to deploy it on a rented VPS so Cloudron might be able to help there.

At the moment, there is one main exit node for Lokinet, run by the developers.

https://oxen.io/session-lokinet
https://github.com/oxen-io

If people are curious, I think the thing to do is join the community using Session (which is a great alternative to Telegram, for example) and chat with the developers and community there, who will be able to offer much better answers than I could.

When we find a new application we would like supported on Cloudron, I think the default procedure should be to:

1. List the application in the Apps Wishlist section of the forum
2. Contact the developers on their platform/forum and invite them to participate in the thread.
3. Engage with them to help them package their application for Cloudron
4. Could we have a form or something to help onboard developers from outside Cloudron? Tick boxes, etc. so we could look at and monitor their progress through Cloudron and their reasons for exiting, if that happens?

I think this is the best way to increase the number of well made Cloudron supported applications.

To make this process more effective, it would be helpful to look at some feedback from developers who did decide to try and package their application on Cloudron. What motivated them to do so? What friction was there? Also, some reasons why they decided to not proceed, when that happens.

If Odoo were supported on Cloudron, we could make use of tools there to collect such feedback. Or we could use the already supported Limewire LimeSurvey!.

@girish said in ipfs-desktop on Cloudron:

Unless I am missing something about this app request, Cloudron cannot really run desktop apps.

One strong reason to use Cloudron to run ipfs-desktop (a desktop app) is security and privacy.

If you are using IPFS to pin (seed/publish) content, the IP address of your node is broadcasted (so that other IPFS nodes can find and retrieve content your node is making available.)

Running ipfs-desktop inside a container is good for security. Using a VPN is useful too, so as to disassociate your node from your own IP address. Putting ipfs-desktop inside a simple Virtual Machine might be one possibility.

Increasingly, people want to broadcast livestream video to a wide audience. Censorious, Big Tech platforms are found unsatisfactory and self-hosted streaming will be sought.

What solutions could Cloudron offer, other than PeerTube? (How effective is PeerTube, by the way?)

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#media-streaming---video-streaming

https://openstreamingplatform.com/
https://owncast.online/
https://github.com/Zibbp/Radium
https://datarhei.github.io/restreamer/
https://github.com/streamaserver/streama
https://git.mills.io/prologic/tube

Has anybody tried comparing these? What are they like? I think compatibility with OBS (Open Broadcast Studio) would be an important benefit, as it is widely used Free Software for streaming.

https://obsproject.com/

Jitsi Meet is an excellent suggestion and there has been an awful lot of extra work put into it lately. There is also:

https://jitsi.org/jitsi-videobridge/
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-videobridge

Jitsi Nightlies
https://download.jitsi.org/unstable/

Jitsi Docker
https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/devops-guide-docker

@LoudLemur

Some progress has recently been made on Jitsi making it easier to livestream from Jitsi to PeerTube, both of which are supported on Cloudron.

https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/11177

@girish

I hope Cloudron supports Invidious. The maintainer ceased developing it but it is still widely used by many people and also by some applications. (For example, https://teddit.net (an alternative front-end for Reddit) has options to open Youtube links in an invidio.us instance instead.)

People are still using Youtube (instead of LBRY/Odysee) and a lot of valuable content still remains on Youtube (people haven't started using the one-click import onto Odysee yet.)

Until YT disappears, we need some sort of digital "condom" for Youtube's Big Data, anti-social tracking and privacy destroying crapware. Invidio.us is a good choice.

https://yewtu.be
and
https://invidious.snopyta.org/

are both quite reliable instances which work well. We could do with more such instances, and I hope Cloudron helps make that happen.

@infogulch Ubuntu offers ZFS as an experimental option during installation on the Focal Fossa 20.04 LTS release. If you e.g. setup a Virtual Machine with ZFS, and try and install Cloudron, you receive the following error message:

Error: Cloudron requires '/' to be ext4

I suppose the same thing will happen if you chose btrfs for the file system.

@nebulon This is useful software for research and is now supported in another Cloudron application: Omeka S:

https://www.cloudron.io/store/org.omekas.cloudronapp.html

@archos

CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing test) are being used to harvest biometric data to fingerprint people and relay results to Big Data corporations. It is insidious and we need to find a humane, Freedom respecting way of achieving the same outcome and try and support it.

For example,

https://friendlycaptcha.com/

There are others, but ... busy...

@timconsidine said in Sakai:

@loudlemur admirable tool, but java and tomcat ?
i thought that was so last century
literally
maybe great app but yuk technically

Try openEdX

Haha! This is very funny. Actually, when I remember checking Sakai last, it actually was almost last millenium, and at the time was too bleeding edge to be used! I had hopes for it, and thought it must by now still be a great candidate. (It ticked all the boxes way back then, almost.)

I will have to look at some of these LMSs again sometime soon, but there is a lot more to do!

@LoudLemur

Why CAPTCHAs are considered harmful:
https://ezinearticles.com/?Captchas-Considered-Harmful---Why-Captchas-Are-Bad-And-How-You-Can-Do-Better&id=1104207

W3
https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Captcha_Alternatives_and_thoughts

Human Presence (proprietary)
https://www.humanpresence.io/

Visual Captcha (abandoned, i think)
https://visualcaptcha.net/demo/#

Captchas.net (good candidate?)
http://captchas.net/

FriendlyCaptcha
https://friendlycaptcha.com/

SecurImage
https://www.phpcaptcha.org/

Hcaptcha
https://www.hcaptcha.com/#plans

svgCAPTCHA (from MIT)
https://openbase.com/js/svg-captcha

https://openbroadcaster.com/resource/open-source-code

https://github.com/openbroadcaster/obplayer

This software helps people run a radio station.

Open Source Internet Radio Automation Software
Free multimedia software are available for the DIY educational crowd with in-house Linux technical skills.

 Self-host your own AutoDJ manager for a LPFM community radio station or a IPTV streaming media server with video scheduling, both virtually and from mobile studio facilities. 

Feel free to experiment and develop custom broadcast automation solutions for your digital distribution operation and help support open source. 

Hobbyist, experimental, campus and community broadcasters all use our documented tools and training materials to easily create cloud radio automation. 

We support transmitters and websites using recycled equipment including current AoIP (Audio over IP) Ravenna mixing boards. Whatever floats your boat, you deserve freedom with open source options!

OpenBroadcaster Server uses PHP, HTML5 and Javascript to deliver a web application in support of broadcast automation, media asset management and crowd-source community programming. Server manages remote Python OBPlayer playout boxes built on the Gstreamer multimedia framework.

There is also some software to install onto a RaspberryPi:

https://openbroadcaster.com/resource/download#raspberry-pi-img

Cloudron has no icon on fontawesome.
I just noticed this.
https://fontawesome.com/

It is a matter of branding, so somebody sensible ought to manage this, if it is to be accomplished at all. (Lets Go Brandon!)

I noticed this thanks to the linkin thread, which is an application to generate linktree like lists.

@girish What skills are needed by Cloudron to help accelerate the rollout of support for new applications?