Just throwing another alternative out there which I’ve been very happy with: lissen - ‘Clean audiobookshelf player’.
Has streaming/downloading for offline listening, sleep timer, custom bookmarks and custom speeds. Just the browsing functionality is at best ‘functional’ (nice search but if you don’t know what to listen to next just gives you one long list sorted by title)
I read the farseer trilogy last year and… man it’s a tough read. Not because of the writing - I was blown away by the prose, it is incredibly evocative - but just because they’re so relentlessly harsh.
Still taking some time off before any further Hobb books for that reason alone.
aerc is a very nice, a little less fiddly modern alternative for me nowadays
I may be misunderstanding your argument but just to make sure I want to point out that
desperate people will do desperate things to survive
does not run counter to
if you can’t afford to live, then you certainly can’t afford to move to another country
I am one of those happy taskwarrior users. For more advanced recurrence syntax in taskwarrior there’s also the relatively new nautical extension. It essentially splits recurrence into things that recur based on calendar/clock events (e.g. every first workday of the month, every second Sunday, etc.) or based on previous completions (e.g. do something 3 days after last time, or every x hours after last doing it).
It’s pretty neat and functional but, fair warning, also early on in development and changing quite radically through its versions still.
Otherwise also codeberg.org has a pages feature for a while.
And others that come to mind are surge.sh, Netlify, and Vercel that I think all offer simple one-push static hosting. Vercel and Render can also do dynamic pages, not sure about the others.
Edit: oh and of course GitLab if you’re looking for an almost 1-to-1 Pages experience.
While I’m a big proponent of version pinning your critical services, if you’re running stuff in docker swarm shepherd is a solid service updater for the less critical things.
Very happy you had fun making the little script! One thing that will become important pretty quick if you continue making these scripts is that it’s almost always better to wrap your variables in quotes - so it becomes yt-dlp -x “$a”. It’s okay here but if you ever paste something that has a space in it, this will keep it together ‘as one’.
If you want to expand your knowledge with this, some fruitful paths to go down are the following:
The last one is already quite a bit advanced but if you can do that you have enough of the ‘programming’ basics of the shell down to a degree that you can create many little helpers like this with ease.
Of course don’t feel forced to do any of that - if you’re happy with the improvement as-is, that’s all you need to enjoy the fun of Linux!
I have long had a switch to pangolin for my homelab services on the roadmap. Can you explain what you mean with internal connections making more sense?
It uses a completely different paradigm of process chaining and management than POSIX and the underlying Unix architecture.
I think that’s exactly it for most people. The socket, mount, timer unit files; the path/socket activations; the After=, Wants=, Requires= dependency graph, and the overall architecture as a more unified ‘event’ manager are what feels really different than most everything else in the Linux world.
That coupled with the ini-style VerboseConfigurationNamesForThatOneThing and the binary journals made me choose a non-systemd distro for personal use - where I can tinker around and it all feels nice and unix-y. On the other hand I am really thankful to have systemd in the server space and for professional work.
That’s really cool. After I replied I also remembered you can have multiple libraries in audiobookshelf so even if side-by-side doesn’t work it shouldn’t be an issue.
Unfortunately I love my Readest reading app too much to switch away but it’s nevertheless good to know for other family members.
Wait you use it also for epub/pdf? How does that work, can you connect a client and grab it from there? Can you have both an audiobook and text version of the same book?
Relying too heavily on one option is what got us into this mess.
I agree with the sentiment but still feel the need to point out: specifically, relying heavily on one proprietary, non-federated option is what did it.
Open software with an established, open protocol (yes, even one as bloated as Matrix) has way less eggs-in-basket danger. The difficulty, last I checked, of self-hosting stoat is one thing that makes me a little wary of it too.
Just in case you wanna try again with readarr, after all the little drama and the main app being unmaintained, there’s 2 forks which are maintained and work pretty well
I’ve successfully been running bookshelf for a bit now, after the original stopped working for me completely.
The code forge is gitea/forgejo, and the proxy in front used to be traefik. I tried fail2ban in front for a while as well but the issue was that everything appeared to come from different IPs.
The bots were also hitting my other public services pretty hard but nowhere near as bad. I think it’s a combination of 2 things:
A small interesting observation I made was that they also seemed to ‘focus’ on specific projects. So my guess would be you get unlucky once by having a large-ish repo targeted for crawling and then they just get stuck in there and get lost in the maze of possible pages. On the other hand it may make targeted blocking for certain routes more feasible…
I think there’s a lot to be gained here by everybody pooling their knowledge, but on the other hand it’s also an annoying topic and most selfhosting (including mine) is afaik done as a hobby, so most peeps will slap an Anubis-like PoW in front and call it a day.
I’m providing hosting for a few FOSS services, relatively small scale, for around 7 years now and always thought the same for most of that time. People were complaining about their servers being hit but my traffic was alright and the server seemed bulky enough to have a lot of buffer.
Then, like a month or two ago, the fire nation attacked the bots came crawling. I had sudden traffic spikes of up to 1000x, memory was hogged and the CPU could barely keep up. The worst was the git forge, public repos with bots just continuously hammering away at diffs between random commits, repeatedly building out history graphs for different branches and so on - all fairly intense operations.
After the server went to its knees multiple times over a couple days I had to block public access. Only with proof of work in front could I finally open it again without destroying service uptime. And even weeks later, they were still trying to get at different project diffs whose links they collected earlier, it was honestly crazy.
I ended up adding go-away in front of my code forge and anything showing dynamic info, and it turned out to be way less of a hassle than I feared with two redirects and a couple custom rules.
If you already have traefik redirecting to your services, shouldn’t be too tough to get the extra layer of indirection added (even more so if it’s containerized).
What’s generally a recommended age to get it at?
Wow, this looks like it has the potential to become something very very special. I already love the various forge integration possibilities and with a couple more upcoming block types (already dreaming of Nextcloud integration or perhaps even custom blocks) this could be an amazing planning hub.
Well done, I’ll definitely keep an eye on this!
That’s brilliant news!
I know this is still just very basic federation with mutual following of users, etc. - but having a working mvp implementation of this makes me really hopeful for the stepwise introduction of more and more federation goals to come to fruition.