Posts made by marcusquinn

@LoudLemur Not tried yet. Just spotted it on my Reddit travels, skimming past a post on it i the self-hosting sub-Reddit.

@LoudLemur Got another one for you:

• https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/8872/serge-llama-made-easy-self-hosted-ai-chat

I think we'll see a lot more. What an amazing time to be alive!

• https://github.com/nsarrazin/serge

chat interface based on llama.cpp for running Alpaca models. Entirely self-hosted, no API keys needed. Fits on 4GB of RAM and runs on the CPU.

SvelteKit frontend
MongoDB for storing chat history & parameters
FastAPI + beanie for the API, wrapping calls to llama.cpp

For what it's worth the full-text search is almost useless due to ti being the same very cramped and limited search interface being the same, but just with a lot more results on searches.

IMHO they would do better to copy the GDrive interface or similar.

@necrevistonnezr I guess that's what Nextcloud AIO is: https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/8383/nextcloud-all-in-one-aio

Although, given Collabora CODE is an app to install, maybe they should be packaging ElasticSearch as a Nextcloud app too.

Desktop Talk app and other improvements to that sound good.

• https://affine.pro/
• https://community.affine.pro/c/user-guide
• https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE
• https://community.affine.pro/c/dev-user-guides/deploy-affine-with-docker
• https://twitter.com/AffineOfficial
• https://alternativeto.net/software/affine/about/

Affine is the next-generation collaborative knowledge base for professionals.

Worth a follow for self-hosting the whole LLM part, too:

• https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1637871062246649856

@humptydumpty It was more about the apps within that ecosystem that the blog article references. Univention, as fas as I know, is one of the few ways to offer Active Directory Services without a Microsoft Server, so it does have unique use-cases. Just a similar but different tool, that happens to also champion open-source.

@fbartels @nebulon I see. I guess Cloudron Email Alias records are stored in the LDAP table then?

It would be handy for this integration if they were, just a good time-saver, and implementation consistency in using this provisioning setup tool for larger user groups.

• https://nextcloud-mail.readthedocs.io/en/latest/developer/

Anyone know if mailAlias is the correct value for Cloudron's LDAP service in the setup for Provisioning configurations here, please?

https://{nextcloudcloud.example.com}/settings/admin/groupware

Heard good things about this:

• https://omm.ovh.net/

Obviously not self-hosted, but if you're not encrypting your partitions anyway, then technically your host can see all emails just as easily as with migration tools. I doubt they have any interest in their contents, but then privacy and encryption is another conversation for another thread. Just posting this to help compare features and possibilities.

The future/present for all businesses/apps/documentation is AI chatting to get answers from the relevant product/service/company pages.

A.I. Cloudron support anyone?

Just discovered this, looks amazing:

And ChatGPT integration:

Youtube Video

And a Wordpress plugin:

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/typebot/

Although, works standalone. I think we need this packaged

@humptydumpty I wasn't shilling Univention . It's more the article suggest there's more appetite for an open-source first policy in German government procurement.

@jdaviescoates 🤭

• https://www.backblaze.com/b2/solutions/datatransfer/fireball.html

Perhaps others offer similar. If you can get the storage temporarily onto something with a faster connection, that's probably your cheapest route.

Well, the more open-source champions, investment and value is generated in the industry, the better for all of us I'm sure.

IMHO open-source should be the default choice throughout education, with proprietary and commercial systems competing based on their industry specific implementations.

• https://www.univention.com/blog-en/2023/03/digital-sovereignty-administration/

The reputation of the German administration in terms of digitalization is not always the best. In his blog post, Lars Hoeger from our product management team explains why he has come to see it differently and why he believes the negative image is not justified.

You can also learn more about forward-looking projects such as the open source platform Open CoDE and the Sovereign IT Workplace for Public Administration. This is currently being developed on the basis of a number of successful open source solutions as an alternative to Microsoft365 and a first version is expected to be available by the end of the year. Get an overview of its components and project planning in this exciting report.

Posting here for open-source in government interest, and those not subscribing to their newsletter, because I believe the interests of the community are also in the value of open-source for organisational security, data protection, and software freedom.

@ajtatum Worth being aware that a good 20% of apps, that look great, have issues in packaging that prevent them being fully-functional to the service levels expected from Cloudron users.

However, when hitting those issues, it can easily become 2-3x the effort in perseverance to exhaust all possible research and testing to see if blocking issues can be resolved with safe and reliable workarounds, and sometimes upstream requests or patch recommendations.

Sometimes this is regrettably for all, to no avail, especially whoever put in the many days to try everything possible to make it work.

All of that is a thankless task behind the scenes. What you do in researching and articulating the apps, what their advantages are (ideally with screenshots, and videos when available), all helps to save time in that same research to understand, and get votes to help prioritise based on demand.

I know you will be getting a lot more apps packaged this year, week by week, and some really high-demand ones.

Maybe this Schlink app will be a quick win and get in there too. The best help is keeping it positive, helping with the research, visuals and explainers, and I assure you the forum is so engaged and monitored by many in-house and community app packagers, that the best use-case apps will all be getting attention asap.

Just spotted this, too. Looks interesting. Wonder if it would be easier to use this for Cloudron logins where people wanted to use other oAuth providers?

• https://www.activepieces.com/
• https://www.activepieces.com/pieces
• https://www.activepieces.com/docs/getting-started/introduction
• https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces

An alternative to Zapier. Automate your work for free and without writing code, keep your data on your machine.

Youtube Video

I think @NoMan-0 is no more: https://forum.cloudron.io/user/noman-0

Hit n run post, but the Cloudron hive-mind evolves more answers from every question.

@robi Excellent answer! Another great use of the Affiliate program, and value of building the community and social media awareness.

@tshirt-chihuahu Have you edited the theme? Ghost also has a very good backup & restore feature in the admin. Download and upload a .zip. You could try that and fire up a new instance to see if that solves, then change the location if it does, keep the old one stopped until you're happy all is present and correct.

I reckon Cloudron saves me something like 500 hours a year from having to do the same without it. It's what Plesk should have been!

@Mad_Mattho Checkout iDrive.com e2 or Hetzner.com Storage Box, both well tested and liked by many here.

@girish Yeah, TBH you can do so much more with it, it's a full low-code business app development platform.

The things you're looking for are Campaigns, Target Lists, Email Templates. It also tracks email opens and clicks.

We've developed it a lot for internal use, you can pretty-much run a full business experience on it. Much faster that Odoo to work with, too.

Just logged in to look at the demo of the latest. It is a very nice UI, although credit to Discord for their original design. It is very fast too, perhaps the fastest chat UX I've seen too. Reaction emojis seem to be a missing feature but maybe that's intentional.

Honestly, I can see the value in having it packaged as a Cloudron app because the type of people using these communities have the numbers and attitude to broadcast their praise and viral referrals to anything, so maybe Revolt on Cloudron would gain a lot of referrals for Cloudron.

Between the Discord and Slack communities, the Total Addressable Market (TAM) for Revolt is huge. Element is OK. Rocket Chat we know the issues with that. Nextcloud Talk does the job. But from my experience with chat apps, since Atlassian's HipChat, I can see the distinction and USP of Revolt. So still a from me on this.

EspoCRM can do similar, too.

Wow, much nicer UX:

• https://dev.searxng.org/screenshots.html#config=Firefox+1920&test_case=search_general

@saint Definitely as solid Confluence alternative. Not sure how complex to package, but looks like a pretty vanilla app, so maybe simple. In the meantime, take a look at Documize as a newer alternative.

@yusf Agreed! Needs some campaigning on GitHub probably. You'd think they'd have noticed how close they are to offering an alternative to the fastest growing SaaS app in the same space! No point just trying to match Microsoft for features, as they lag everyone else.

• https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/tables
• https://nextcloud.com/blog/eu-governments-bet-on-nextcloud-to-replace-sharepoint/

Looks like another feature towards being a good open-source Notion alternative:

Manage data the way you need it.

With this app you are able to create your own tables with individual columns. You can start with a template or from scratch and add your wanted columns. You can choose from the following column types:

Text line or long text
Link
Number
Progress bar
Stars rating
Yes/No tick
Date and/or time
Share your tables with users and groups within your cloud.

Have a good time and manage whatever you want.

I have made some suggestions privately on having 6 tiers of pricing, that would be relative to the value to each user-type.

The open forum here is great for gathering all those user stories.

I think then we just have to respect it also takes a significant amount of time and cost/benefit analysis to make any pricing changes in an established business, since all change affects different needs, differently.

@robi Hmmm, I thought they used to have more of an upvote layout. Maybe my ageing memory.

Maybe also Astuto:

• https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/3001/astuto-for-user-customer-feedback-and-roadmap
• https://alternativeto.net/software/fider/?license=opensource
• https://alternativeto.net/software/astuto/?license=opensource

I still think Flarum is the more mature and polished option in this area:

• https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1206/flarum-next-generation-forum

@LoudLemur Is that an add-on for Superset then?

Ooooo, great find! Love a Sankey Chart! from me.

Data Analysis and report building is very much an in-demand role across all industries.

This Substack is well worth a subscribe to see some great financial charting:

• https://www.appeconomyinsights.com/

Seems to use these tools:

• https://www.sankeymatic.com/
• https://ycharts.com/

@jsilence It's a good question. We've been using it for a while. Bear in mind it doesn't have LDAP, but you might not need that for your use-case.

@LoudLemur Ultimately Cloudon is one of the best promoters for all these open-source app packages, because it helps more people to set them up and use them.

I think focus on that, which is actually the majority of the attention people have for the platform anyway, the platform itself is ultimately driven by the founders, and we all know that delivering on a vision and paying the bills is a challenge, so I think that's best left to their wisdom, and we focus on all the ways that growing the community might eventually make those decisions evolve too.

@LoudLemur Great stuff! Make sure you tweet about it, comment on other forums, sub-Reddits, GitHubs, wherever you get the opportunity.

The more this community can reach out to other communities with all your authentic enthusiasm, the more those back-links turn into more users, participants here, fans of the platform, and all that helps afford more apps and support. Win-win-win!

@LoudLemur I think yes, but with the disclaimer that it will be a much larger and longer install process.

Give it a try if you have the space.

@vladimir-d may know more in the morning.

I like the idea. Attracting more devs to Cloudron is effectively attracting more influencers for using the platform. from me on anything that does that.

A fair few apps have various .mp4 vids for their explainers, be handy if they can be used in the Image Link (image url) embeds.

I can see the value in this! Sqlight DB, nice & simple.

@humptydumpty business is done with email, I can't see that changing for a long time. I think best to treat it as if it were an open database, like a forum, because at any time it can be.

The bigger issue here is de-platforming risk from moving Ts & Cs goalposts, or not even knowing where the pitch lines will be for the whole game.

Just doubles-down on my belief that it's a sensible investment to manage your own email server with Cloudron and your own IP reputation with a dedicated VPS. Over time I see the same deliverability confidence with my self-hosted email, it just takes a little time and organic usage to build the reputation than Google to Google seems to have, or maybe that's just an illusion.

@ianhyzy If I sent out my CV to 20 companies or people from the email addresses they publish on their website or social profiles, that's unsolicited.

Data Protection laws allow for "legitimate interest". This "unsolicited" term is more onerous, and implies they could interpret in any way they like.

Imaging sending a Bcc email you though was updating a bunch of business contacts, none of which have any email subscription, you risk having your entire productivity setup cancelled and all the disruption there is in changing provider.

@necrevistonnezr Might know more on these things?

https://workspace.google.com/terms/use_policy.html

"You agree not, and not to allow third parties or Your End Users, to use the Services:
to generate or facilitate unsolicited bulk commercial emails; "

Massively protecting their ad-click business model from people finding new business by email.

Not your server, not your rules.

@fbartels Sorry, I just mean branding the URL, not the actual product. so that simple surfer equivalent option could work.

Been testing this. Can confirm it does work well on their hosted version, which seems to just be the UI for brokering the P2P connections.

Given that it's just brokering, I can't imagine it'd be that difficult to package for more confidence in that privacy, and of course having branded links.

I'm not sure if free, but seems to be open-source for self-hosting:

• https://uibakery.io
• https://uibakery.io/intro
• https://uibakery.io/on-premise-ui-bakery
• https://uibakery.io/git-integration
• https://uibakery.io/pricing#On-premise
• https://uibakery.io/integrations
• https://github.com/uibakery/self-hosted
• https://twitter.com/UiBakery

Does look slick, and active. If I were looking at building a portable SaaS UI that doesn't rely on the framework's hosting infrastructure or lock-ins, this does look like an interesting option.

Git CI/CD feature looks inspired!

Even a setting of a few seconds is useful

The rabbit hole is when you have to delete from backups too. Some people I'm sure try to weaponise GDPR to cost you time and the most inconvenience.

(Best not even say here if you think that's the case, they might even try to claim they are identified by implying.)

I like the look of Protectli

• https://protectli.com
• https://protectli.com/integrations/
• https://protectli.com/kb/coreboot-build-guide/

And been quite happy with Bee-Link as a mini Proxmox server:

• https://www.bee-link.com/

And this looks like a good read:

• https://homenetworkguy.com/review/opnsense-hardware-recommendations/#500-usd

@jdaviescoates I'm using IDrive e2 (S3 compatible) and tarball backups. Seems to be the best speed & cost ratio.

Instructions: https://bitwarden.com/help/generator/#generate-a-username

Self-hosting setup instructions: https://anonaddy.com/self-hosting/

@necrevistonnezr Good spot, I forgot about that. Seems you can't update the Simple Login URL with it though. You can with AnonAddy, so maybe this will work as a solution:

Say doing something like this:

Seems this is in Vaultwarden now. The only service you can customise the domain for is AnonAddy: