Hi guys! I was wondering:

What self hosted software are you missing? What would you which existed?

Background: I am a quite Senior Dev and have 6 months between gigs. Would be fun to start a side project to keep my skills sharp.

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    10 months ago

    It’s been suggested before, but I’ll echo it. We need a Portainer competitor with different goals. Fork Portainer & sail the seas. I think you’ll find a lot of hidden support here from other developers. Portainer not acknowledging backup/recovery is a major gap IMO. Proxmox has Proxmox Backup Server, where is my Portainer Backup Server? Good luck!

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      10 months ago

      Meh … not really. … I don’t want to read hours of docs/architecture first, before I write code.

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    10 months ago

    Think about reaching out to some charitable organizations - especially small ones like local pet reduces, food banks, social services, and so on - and volunteer your time.

    They might be less interesting projects like updating a website or adding registration services, or you might do something interesting with data analysis, but it might have a huge impact for that organization and for the community.

    You may also be able to deduct your donated time as a donation in kind for tax purposes, but talk to an accountant to get the details on how you’ll have to work that out.

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    10 months ago

    A good SamsungNotes-like self hosted web app with Android/ios clients and pen support would be GREAT

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    10 months ago

    After all of the hype about various GPT’s, I still can not find the one thing I’ve been looking for from the start:

    A completely local and private LLM on M-series Mac that can ingest and learn from all of my sent mail (from Mac mail) along with any documents I manually add and answer new emails or write other documents in my voice/as me

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      10 months ago

      That’s because LLMs don’t do that.

      The companies that offer those services basically do some tricks behind the curtain.

      Like let’s say you want an LLM to learn your corporate docs. LLMs can’t do that because they need millions of text from across the internet just to learn to speak English… You can’t feed your 1000 docs and 10,000 emails in and point to it and say “Forget the billion documents you injested and pay attention to this… but also retain the ability to speak English”

      What they actually implement is a standard text search engine, that returns matching paragraphs from the relevant documents, prompts to LLM with something like "This paragraph may contain an answer to user question X. If it does, please paraphrase it.

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        10 months ago

        Yes, that’s exactly what I want it to do

        Most of my 60-70 email replies per day are answered in almost the exact same way

        I want it to read an email and then, using paragraphs or sentences from my previous emails, automatically generate a response

        There are already companies out there who are generating what they term small language models - basically hybrid models of say gpt 3.5 plus a large volume of corporate data - but they are all cloud based

        Others offer plugins to help answer your emails

        I’d like a combination of the same to run locally

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          10 months ago

          There are already companies out there who are generating what they term small language models - basically hybrid models of say gpt 3.5 plus a large volume of corporate data - but they are all cloud based

          I think you will find most of these are not small language models, but are instead the thing I said above - a llm like gpt + a search engine. Even small language models require millions of texts and only perform very specialised tasks.

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    10 months ago

    OBDII web ui that can interface with bluetooth or wifi elm327. I don’t need apps on my phone taking up battery tracking my whole trip. All I need is a quick update when I’m within wifi or bluetooth range to give all the important data of my choosing in one quick burst. If there is a observer page I can have home assistant scrape from it. Torque is just not ideal for my use, I am currently one of the few users of it in home assistant but will not be using it any more just because it’s kind of a pain in the butt.

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    10 months ago

    Self Hosted version of

    https://www.filejuggler.com/

    With WebUI.

    Can connect to your local, self hosted or cloud storage and manipulate files.

    Yes there is a few options for automation, but they all require scripting your automation, and while that’s fine for a lot of people, for others that will always be a dead end.

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    10 months ago

    Hey man. I have a few ideas. PM me if you haven’t settled on a project and want to chat. Do you use Home Assistant at all?

    • DerCommodoreX@alien.topOPB
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      10 months ago

      Yes I do. Why not share them open?

      Those who could “steal” your idea have plenty themselves, and those who can’t steal them are not to worry about ;)

      As for myself: I have plenty of ideas, but want to build something people need.

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        10 months ago

        Lol. I’m not worried about people “stealing” open source project ideas. Go for it! Just I have a lot of half formed ones and it’s not too clear what you are looking for.

        One for example:

        I use Bring! which is a great - and simple to use - grocery shopping list app. They refused to open the API though so no HA integration. I think creating an open version of that that works with the new HA list integration would be awesome. You can set up automations to say scan empty bottles from the fridge, and alert you when you go near the grocery store.

        Happy to write a design spec or such and do testing but I’m not much of a coder.

        I was going to get my kid to make the generic icons, but maybe more like Material theme. Wondering if AI can generate them quickly.

        https://web.getbring.com

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    10 months ago

    Honestly, what I’m missing is I wish Keybase would release their server source code.

    Zoom has ran that software into the ground and buried keybase in a pile of sh*t. It would be like 10 Christmases in one if someone reversed the client to create an open-source server solution or Zoom released the server code for keybase.

    I love Keybase. Absolutely love that program. I HATE the company who owns it.

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      10 months ago

      VLC can do a lot of digital signage tasks on its own. I built out a raspberry pi for a startup that would just plug into a TV and run whatever videos were on the device, or slideshow through pics if no vids were there.

      Add a touch of rsync or similar, and you’re pretty much set for everything I can think of for digital signage.

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    10 months ago

    Still looking for a full features replacement to aCar.

    Hammond doesn’t fit the bill as it doesn’t actually do maintenance tracking and reminders, just fuel efficiency and expense tracking.

    MATER popped up just recently and looks promising, but has a long way to go!