Best posts made by LoudLemur

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.

Merry Christmas, Cloudron!

Thank you all for the incredible software and help this year.

I wish everybody a very peaceful and prosperous New Year!

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

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:

@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!

For home security and to monitor your baby, ZoneMinder uses AI (Artificial Intelligence) to identify people and obejects.

https://zoneminder.com/
https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder
There is a Docker Image:
https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zmdockerfiles

ZoneMinder is under active development and has several nice features:

https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/zoneminder-alternatives
https://zoneminder.com/features/

LastPass just had a security breach. Many people might be looking for more secure alternatives and Cloudron makes one available with Vault Warden.

This might be an opportune moment to mention Cloudron and its solutions in places where the LastPass community discuss matters.

https://resistthemainstream.com/major-password-manager-suffers-another-security-breach/

A huge percentage of searches on Big Data search engines are for geographic information. For privacy and to establish a Free digital infrastructure, we need to start self-hosting maps and the businesses that exist in our locations without relying on proprietary corporations.

GraphHopper is a fast and memory-efficient routing engine released under Apache License 2.0. It can be used as a Java library 
or standalone web server to calculate the distance, time, turn-by-turn instructions and many road attributes for a route between two or more points. 
Beyond this "A-to-B" routing it supports "snap to road", Isochrone calculation, mobile navigation and more. GraphHopper uses OpenStreetMap and GTFS data by default and it can import other data sources too.

https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper

https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper/blob/master/README.md#graphhopper-maps

https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper/blob/master/docs/core/deploy.md

There is some support for Docker:
https://github.com/IsraelHikingMap/graphhopper-docker-image-push

There is a request for OpenStreetMaps on Cloudron here:

https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/5831/openstreetmap-on-cloudron?_=1657630449190

GNU Health is a libre, digital health care ecosystem comprised of:

• GNU Health HMIS (Hospital Management Information System) component for Health Practitioners, Health Institutions and Governments.
• GNU LIMS, (Laboratory Information System) also known as Occhiolino, is a modern Laboratory Information Management System for the healthcare and biomedical sectors, that has emerged as a GNU Health sub-project.
• MyGNUHealth The GNU Health Personal Health Record (PHR) MyGNUHealth is the GNUHealth Personal Health Record application for desktop and mobile devices that integrates with the GNU Health Federation.
• The GNU Health Federation allows to build large, nation wide federated networks with thousands of heterogeneous nodes.
• GNU Health Embedded Single-board Computers (SBC) are devices with a huge potential for the Public Health System when partnering with GNU Health.
• Social Medicine GNU Health as a social movement: GNU Health is a social project with technology behind.

Website: https://www.gnuhealth.org/
Download: https://www.gnuhealth.org/download.html
Demo script: https://github.com/amwolff/health-demo
Docker (I do not know how official this is) : https://github.com/mbehrle/docker-gnuhealth-demo

https://github.com/OpusVL/gnuhealth-docker

Both GNU Health and OpenMRS would be particularly useful in 3rd world settings where there are few resources.

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

@nj said in ERPNext - cost-effective ERP solution:

Okay, here is the good news. Please try it out and let me know if it works.

If you're not ready to build the image yourself, you can simply install the image that I created. cloudron install --image njsubedi/cloudron-erpnext -l erp.<yourdomain.tld>.

ErpNext v14 is now available on Cloudron. See the README file for usage instructions.

Features

• ErpNext v14 - running on Frappe Framework v14
• HRMS Module - Includes HR and Payroll modules
• Plug n Play - Automatically configured to use the subdomain you install it on, no setup needed
• Independent - Does not depend on Cloudron Addons for redis, mysql or such

Gotchas

• Installs its own database servers, but data resides inside /app/data, so it gets backed-up, no not a big issue
• Hasn't been tested a lot, but it's working pretty fine
• Multi-tenancy isn't set up, even though that's pretty trivial to do

Good to know

• After installation, look into /app/data folder using cloudron's file manager for a file that ends with -credential.txt.
• Raise issues on Github if you run into problems, not here.

You are a Free Software hero right there, @nj !

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.

Cubby is available on Cloudron now and under heavy development.

I tried it and found it was excellent for organizing files kept on a remote server, some of which you might be making available elsewhere.

Learning Cubby only takes a few moment, and it requires few resources.

I recommend it and hope more people find it useful too.

https://getcubby.org/

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

@marcusquinn said in icedrive as backup solution?:

Usual cautions on any race-to-the-bottom pricing models with startups. Who's "lifetime"? Yours or theirs?

Hahah! Great one!

@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

We ought to be able to host our own maps. This project uses MapTiler.
Tiles are a representation of a map at a particular resolution. If a part of the world is of more relevance to you, e.g. Europe, you could host and serve higher resolution tiles (larger file sizes) for that region. If there were a particular city that is important, you could provide the highest resolution tiles for that district.

Open-source maps and schema
Host the world maps on your own server or private cloud.
Generate your own vector tiles from selected
OpenStreetMap tags or your geospatial data.

Code on GitHub. BSD/CC-BY license. Attribution required

There is a Docker.
https://openmaptiles.org/docs/host/tileserver-gl/

Main Site:
https://openmaptiles.org/

Documentation:
https://openmaptiles.org/docs/

Github:
https://github.com/openmaptiles

MapTiler
https://www.maptiler.com/cloud/pricing/

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

@BrutalBirdie Did the pizza eat itself?! Haha

@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/

Goteo is a Free Software alternative to proprietary crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Crowd Supply. Some organizations are excluding people from the economy by closing bank accounts or shutting down crowdfunding on proprietary sites.

There is a Docker.

https://github.com/GoteoFoundation
https://goteofoundation.github.io/goteo/docs/install.html

Server requirements
PHP v7 (PHP 7.1 recommended) or later with extensions gd, mcrypt, curl, mbstring, json, mysql activated
Access to the terminal in the webserver and cron.
Apache, Nginx or any other server with ModRewrite activated
MySQL 5.7 (or MariaDB 10.2) or later
At this point, there are still no production-ready releases.

Qr codes are increasingly useful with widespread use of smartphones. People can point the camera in their phone at the Qr code and be taken to a website.

Qr codes are also useful for embedding into memes.

Does anybody have some suggestions on self-hosting Qr code generators? Proprietary solutions can result in censorship.

https://noted.lol/qr-code-generators/

@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.

Has anybody tried running a .onion website using Cloudron? Would it be possible to deploy and run most Cloudron supported software just like you would run it on a conventional http website?

It might be worthwhile asking at the same time whether Cloudron could equally well support an i2p eepsite:

https://mhatta.medium.com/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-i2p-eepsites-e4dfe6bb7a45

@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.

It might seem lazy and fanciful to lay about and ask for things and expect them to materialize and be somewhat disappointed when they do not, but hey...

I want Cloudron to support the entire suite of Privacy Redirect alternatives. It would mean we could easily run our own services and hopefully it would normalize getting people off of Big Data, proprietary solutions that dominate the Internet.

Privacy Redirect is a browser extension which auto-magically changes links to Free alternatives. For example, if you click on a yewtube link, it will open the link in your favourite invidio.us instance. If somebody links to Twitter, when you follow the link, it will take you to Nitter.

Unlike most requests, this isn't for a single application but for a suite of independent applications.

https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect

Lokinet is like a more secure, low-latency alternative to TOR.

https://lokinet.org/

Lokinet, developed by the Oxen team, will soon be supported on the secure messaging application, Session:

https://getsession.org

You can get in touch with the Lokinet developers using Session, try KeeJef here:

05d871fc80ca007eed9b2f4df72853e2a2d5465a92fcb1889fb5c84aa2833b3b40

@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.

https://www.red5pro.com/open-source/
https://github.com/Red5/red5-server
https://teddit.net/r/red5

Licence: Apache 2

This is the Free Software edition of Red5pro. I think it auto-scales on Linode and Digital Ocean. It has a java-based RTMP (Real Time Messaging Protocol) client and a media server. There is a demo and free-trial of the pro-version on their website.

"Red5 is an Open Source Flash Server written in Java that supports:

Streaming Video (FLV, F4V, MP4, 3GP)
Streaming Audio (MP3, F4A, M4A, AAC)
Recording Client Streams (FLV and AVC+AAC in FLV container)
Shared Objects
Live Stream Publishing
Remoting
Protocols: RTMP, RTMPT, RTMPS, and RTMPE"

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.

@eddowding
I think any request for an application on Cloudron meets with more enthusiasm from the community here if one mentions whether there is a Docker image available. A Docker image makes it a lot easier for packagers here to try out the application. A lot of packaging work is reduced, too.

Fortunately, in Apache Superset's case, there is indeed a Docker image available, and instructions are provided:

https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/superset
https://superset.apache.org/docs/installation/installing-superset-using-docker-compose/#installing-superset-locally-using-docker-compose

I hope Cloudron supports this application. I would like to see D3 / Observable supported too:

https://observablehq.com/@d3

@luckow When that day happens, I shall be grinning from ear to ear! I shall probably be jumping up and down in joy too!

@timbo Nice find and a nice suggestion.

I have started seeing proprietary Linktrees around the place and we need something like this.

Lets make it happen!

@nj Thanks for all your hard work. Few have the necessary skills.

OpenMRS is an eMRS (Electronic Medical Record System) that can be used by hospitals, surgeries and pharmacies to help manage patient details, their appointments, prescriptions etc.

In the UK, it is quite frequent that a health centre has their online system down and patients are not able to interact with it. Hopefully, OpenMRS might be able to do better.

OpenMRS received support from Google with their Google Summer of Code, and unfortunately they have allowed (scandalously in my opinion) some Google features into their code.

There is an unrelated project too, GNU Health, which serves a slightly different purpose.

Licence: Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0
Demo: https://o3.openmrs.org/ (User: Admin Password: Admin123 Location: Any)
Webpage: https://openmrs.org
Docker: Support is available, including Docker Compose: https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aopenmrs+docker

@marcusquinn said in OpenMRS (Medical Record System) on Cloudron:

@humptydumpty And a cross-post link for fonts.coollabs.io that offers a drop-in replacement for Google Fonts.

• https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/7204/anyone-using-https-fonts-coollabs-io

I would like to see Cloudron offer the Apache string replace runtime feature to update the font URLs to CoolLabs.

Haha! That would be so cool!

@p44 said in WhatsApp proxy:

«If you are unable to connect directly to WhatsApp, a proxy can be used as a gateway between you and our servers. To help yourself or others re-establish connection to WhatsApp, you can set up a proxy server»

https://github.com/WhatsApp/proxy/

Comment: I think this app can be useful in countries where governments applies restrictions to WhatsApp use.

It might be worth pursuing this with the privacy-redirect project:

https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect

This thread might be relevant:

https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/8218/i-want-a-ballroom-made-entirely-of-waterfalls

@girish From the docs, I have the impression they just got fed up trying to contribute and wanted to improve the GUI.

They are on IRC

Matrix
#searxng:matrix.org
IRC
#searxng on libera.chat which is bridged to Matrix.

@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.

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