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Home Assistant
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
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Joplin
Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
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awesome-selfhosted
A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
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Nginx Proxy Manager
Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface
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InfluxDB
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drone
Discontinued Gitness is an Open Source developer platform with Source Control management, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. [Moved to: https://github.com/harness/gitness]
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gitness
Discontinued Harness Open Source is an end-to-end developer platform with Source Control Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Hosted Developer Environments, and Artifact Registries. [Moved to: https://github.com/harness/harness]
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self-hosted_docker_setups
A collection of my docker-compose files used to setup self-hosted services on Raspberry Pi 4 running 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS
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Ditching Obsidian and building my own
As I mentioned in a previous post - you can use "git" without Github by hosting an instance of the open-source Gitea service.
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea
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Live Syncing to a Git Repository with a VS Code Extension
As mentioned in the last post, I keep my notes in git repositories. I originally used Obsidian for years as my note-taking application of choice after migrating away from Google Keep, using the vast library of community plugins (namely obsidian-livesync and obsidian-git) to back up and sync my notes on an interval to my 3 remotes; GitHub, my private Gitea instance for my private "second brain" type notes, and my Otterwiki instance (a wiki that runs on a git server of markdown files).
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Setting Up Gitea on AlmaLinux 9
The solution to this is to use fake e-mails.
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Gitea 1.22 is the last version to allow a transparent ugprade to Forgejo
I can't say what Forgejo has over Gitea, but I can tell you Forgejo is missing everything from the 888 merged PRs in Gitea 1.23: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.23.0-rc0
Repo license support, integrated Arch package repository, automatic issue suggestions, and the new review+homepage UIs would be notable ones for me.
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Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO
See this issue: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029
For years, "self-hosting" Gitea wasn't done because it was missing a bunch of useful collaboration features. Now, it looks like that gap has been closed. All of the specific features mentioned in that issue seem to have been fixed, and the big remaining task is figuring out below to actually migrate all the existing data out of GitHub -- which doesn't seem to be super high on the priority list.
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Gitea is charging $$ for open-source contributions
We're not, and they're still in the process of discussion. It seems a bit early to fork and witch-hunt [0]:
> So clarification here: you asked me about that, but I haven’t been able to respond to you due to my illnesses and I’m just getting back on my feet now. So it’s not that it hasn’t been well received, it’s that I’ve been physically unable to respond to you.
[0]: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/24257#issuecomment-23...
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Go's old $GOPATH story for development and dependencies
Yeah, I'm actually doing that with Gitea: https://about.gitea.com/
Some people went with the forgejo fork: https://forgejo.org/ though Gitea itself was a fork of Gogs, if I remember correctly: https://gogs.io/
I also ran GitLab in the past: https://about.gitlab.com/ but keeping it updated and giving it enough resources for it to be happy was troublesome.
There's also GitBucket: https://gitbucket.github.io/ and some other platforms, though those tend to be a little bit more niche.
Either way, there's lots of nice options out there, albeit I'd still have to admit that just using GitHub or cloud GitLab version would be easier for most folks. Convenience and all.
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Easy Self-Hosted Git Installation on Ubuntu Server
Create a system service. Download the file and save it to /etc/systemd/system/ or view the raw file in a browser and replace the URL with the version of Gitea you installed. You can find the list on https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/release/v1.22/contrib/systemd/gitea.service:
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Mermaid Chart, a Markdown-like tool for creating diagrams, raises $7.5M
Same [1]. Zoom being outsourced to the implementing platform is one major pain-point. That example from us has grown in size.
We are clearly using the wrong tool for a diagram of this complexity, but the practicality of seeing commit changes in the diff, what property was changed by whom and instantly having the visual feedback in the Pull Request is just way too useful to use a "proper" tool.
[1] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/25803
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go-gitea/gitea is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
Gitea is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of Gitea is Go.
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