
47: Whose License Is It Anyway?
06/18/21 • 42 min
We take a look at a self-hosted TeamViewer alternative, give you our take on some Home Assistant drama and discuss the effects of a new crypto coin on hard drive prices.
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Links:
- RustDesk - Yet another remote desktop software — A great alternative to TeamViewer and AnyDesk! You have full control of your data, with no concerns about security. You can use our rendezvous/relay server, set up your own, or write your own rendezvous/relay server.
- RustDesk-server
- rustdesk-server-demo: A working demo of RustDesk server implementation
- Home Assistant drama
- “Please don't add any of my stuff to this project” | Hacker News
- Home Assistant Forum Thread
- Shuck 'em if you got 'em — WD external drive price tracker.
- Chia Network — Chia Network develops a blockchain and smart transaction platform created by the inventor of BitTorrent, Bram Cohen. It implements the first new Nakamoto consensus algorithm since Bitcoin in 2008. Proofs of Space and Time replace energy intensive “proofs of work.”
- ESPHome - Version 1.19.0 — Wow. Ok, so this release may not look big, but there are a number of new features that are not new components.
- ESP Web Tools — ESP Web Tools is a set of open source tools to allow working with ESP devices in the browser
- Tasmota v9.5.0 Release
- Monica - Personal CRM done right — Monica helps you organize the social interactions with your loved ones.
- tinyhome: Static homepage generator — tinyhome generates a static HTML homepage via shell script.
We take a look at a self-hosted TeamViewer alternative, give you our take on some Home Assistant drama and discuss the effects of a new crypto coin on hard drive prices.
Sponsored By:
- A Cloud Guru: You will learn what containers are and why use them; how to manage containers, pods, and images using Podman.
- Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh
- CloudFree.shop: CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED
Links:
- RustDesk - Yet another remote desktop software — A great alternative to TeamViewer and AnyDesk! You have full control of your data, with no concerns about security. You can use our rendezvous/relay server, set up your own, or write your own rendezvous/relay server.
- RustDesk-server
- rustdesk-server-demo: A working demo of RustDesk server implementation
- Home Assistant drama
- “Please don't add any of my stuff to this project” | Hacker News
- Home Assistant Forum Thread
- Shuck 'em if you got 'em — WD external drive price tracker.
- Chia Network — Chia Network develops a blockchain and smart transaction platform created by the inventor of BitTorrent, Bram Cohen. It implements the first new Nakamoto consensus algorithm since Bitcoin in 2008. Proofs of Space and Time replace energy intensive “proofs of work.”
- ESPHome - Version 1.19.0 — Wow. Ok, so this release may not look big, but there are a number of new features that are not new components.
- ESP Web Tools — ESP Web Tools is a set of open source tools to allow working with ESP devices in the browser
- Tasmota v9.5.0 Release
- Monica - Personal CRM done right — Monica helps you organize the social interactions with your loved ones.
- tinyhome: Static homepage generator — tinyhome generates a static HTML homepage via shell script.
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46: Pastebin Alternative
We'll share how we deployed a painless, Self-Hosted Pastebin replacement, and what we like the most about it.
Plus Chris enters the "No Change Zone" with a Project Off-Grid Update.
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- Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh
Links:
- Alex's Loop Buster
- Exbin: A pastebin clone written in Elixir/Phoenix. — Post pastes publicly and privatley List of all public pastes Use nc to pipe text and get the URL. (e.g., cat file.txt | nc exbin.call-cc.be 9999) "Raw View" where text is presented as is, ideally to share code for copy and pasting. Syntax highlighted view. "Reader View" where text is presented in a more readable manner. Better suited to share prose text.
- ExBin Demo
- awesome-selfhosted — A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
- Greyhole — An application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives, and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails.
- Perfect Media Server
- FolderSync
- LINUX Unplugged 408: Linux Road Warrior — We’re joined by a special guest who’s built his very own Linux battle bus. We get the technical details on how Linux is at the core of this open road machine.
Next Episode

48: A Solution Looking for a Problem
Tuya shocks us by announcing native Home Assistant support, we have an update on a smart doorbell Ring alternative, and we tell all about how PiKVM just leveled up in awesome.
Special Guest: Morgan Peterman.
Sponsored By:
- A Cloud Guru: Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.com
- Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh
- CloudFree.shop: CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED
Links:
- Wyze Doorbell
- Home Assistant on Twitter announces Tuya partnership — "We had a call with @tuyasmart this morning. They are working on an official Home Assistant integration maintained by them. The beta is already available as a custom component at https://t.co/71bjKySm4X It connects to their official cloud API. But local access will follow.
- mergerfs-tools
- PiKVM
- PiKVM - 4 servers 1 Pi - blog.ktz.me — This is every homelabbers dream isn't it? Controlling multiple systems that don't have IPMI natively, remotely. Thanks to PiKVM, we now can.
- Mailrise
- Apprise
- Feedback - Docker skeptic with some questions
- Feedback - Let's talk VLANs
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