One popular way was that Internet Explorer 6 included something called ActiveX, which basically allowed any website to run code on your computer as though it was a locally-installed program. You could just click on some URL and next thing you know it’s writing files to your hard drive. This is one of the main reasons why the Internet Explorer 6 / Windows XP era was particularly virus-filled. A website could open your freaking CD tray.

From the ActiveX wikipedia page:

Developers had to register with Verisign (US$20 per year for individuals, $400 for corporations) and sign a contract, promising not to develop malware.

Promising not to. And they did it anyway. The bastards.

Gotcha. The web UI in wallabag is nice and works pretty well with ereaders. It’s already black-and-white, although it doesn’t have pagination, so you’ll have to scroll.

I’ve been using Wallabag for a few years now and really like it. (It’s the one thing I’m not selfhosting, though – I’ve been using their hosted service. But it should run on a raspberry pi with no problems.)

You can also export to epub, but you have to do that manually. OP, does your ereader run android? There are wallabag apps available, which are nice because they usually work offline after downloading articles from your wallabag server.

When Redis messed with their licensing terms a while ago, I thought to myself, “which project that I rely on will be next?” And I kept thinking it was going to be Minio.

So I switched from Minio to Garage a few months ago and it has worked great. I used the AWS cli to start copying everything over one evening, and when I woke up the next day, it was done. My S3 use is just one giant bucket for my music collection in Funkwhale, so I only had the one command to run. After updating the S3 urls in Funkwhale’s configuration, everything was good to go.

This has all made me start paying closer to attention to what kind of organization is behind the various open source projects that I use. Garage is made by a web development shop in France – they might even be a coop, or I might be thinking of someone else. I could be wrong about that last part. But they’re definitely not a VC-backed operation like Minio.

Yeah, a few years ago they advertised themselves as the perfect storage solution for blockchain projects.

I installed Grafana, simply because it was the only one I had heard of, and I figured that becoming familiar with it was probably useful from a professional development standpoint.

It’s definitely massive overkill for my use case, though, and I’m looking to replace it with something else.

Teen Vogue has been running some very good political commentary for a few years now. Here’s another good one from last week: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/moms-for-liberty-public-schools-christian-education

I think they started during Trump’s first term. (Or, at least that’s when it got noticed.) A lot of people were like, “Wow, they used to print articles about which jeans will get you a prom date!” I guess somebody had to do the job that the NYT won’t do.

Nice. I’ve noticed a few user-agent strings containing “Claude” visiting my blog recently. Was wondering what to do about it.

What are you trying to host?

That’s a very slick setup, nice.

I’m guessing that most iPhone users just use Apple Podcasts, and Apple themselves probably want it that way. (E.g. less promotion of third-party podcast apps on the app store.)

That minimalist UI looks very nice.

Pinepods looks so cool! I just created an account on the demo instance. The “smart playlists” feature just absolutely sold me.

Oh cool, I wasn’t aware of gpodder.net. I actually thought you were talking about the desktop gpodder application, which I had used before. Didn’t realize there was a server-side component to it as well. Thanks!

Thanks! Haven’t heard of Audiobookshelf before, and that’s the kind of thing I was looking for.

I use wallabag.it for this. I don’t actually self host it, I’ve been a paying subscriber to the maintainer’s hosted service for a few years now and I’ve had no complaints. It hasn’t had many new features lately, but it does do what I want it to.

It doesn’t capture comments in fediverse threads (see here: https://app.wallabag.it/share/6813d1f1616096.02317152 ), and there are some websites where it doesn’t detect the contents of the article, but it does work the vast majority of the time.

I’m not sure what you could do about a Nextcloud integration. You can export articles as epubs and pdfs; I’ve done that a few times and put the exported files on my Nextcloud server. But there are also a bunch of wallabag apps for your different devices, which is what I use to read articles on those devices.

edit: Oh, I forgot to add that you can generate an RSS feed of your unread articles. So that could be added to Nextcloud’s RSS reader.

Hand planes are the classiest looking tools. If a hand plane was a person, it would always be calling you “old chap.”

I’m an advocate of running all of your self-hosted services in a Docker container and even I can admit that this is completely accurate.

You can think of Docker as something that lets you run all of your self-hosted services inside of their own virtual machine. To each service, it looks like that service is running on its own separate computer. (A Docker container is not actually a virtual machine, it’s something much faster than that, but I like to think about it the same way. It has similar advantages.)

This has a few advantages. For example, if there is a security vulnerability in one of your services, it’s less likely to affect your whole server if that vulnerable service is inside of a Docker container. Even if the vulnerability lets an attacker see files on your system, the only “system” they can see is the one inside of the Docker container. They can’t look at anything else on the rest of your actual computer, they can only see the Docker “virtual machine” that you created for that one service.

I love the way this looks! Is that some kind of UI library, or did you design it that way?

I have my music collection in Funkwhale now, which relies on metadata for organizing the library. But I want to check this out anyway – maybe I’ll create a few folders for specific listening cases.