LinuxServer.IO Unifi Controller Deprecation

The Problem Within an article on their website, LinuxServer.io have announced that they will be deprecating the current linuxserver/unifi-controller public image as of 2024/01/01. Happy New Year! The README on the current tooling that I imagine most are using mentions a direct upgrade if you were using the mongoless tag which, due to what’s colloquially known as “Sod’s Law”, I am not. On the new repo as well as the DockerHub page, the docs currently have a brief mentioning of requiring an external MongoDB instance but the code snippits don’t actuall have one… This seemed a little problematic, and after migrating my setup last night, figured I’d include a quick walkthrough....

September 20, 2023 · 3 min · Josh J

ZNC + Docker - A Containerized IRC Bouncer

Twitter? Garbage. Facebook? Garbage. Do you enjoy having your data harvested and sold? No? Good. Back in the day, there was this thing called Internet Relay Chat. What if I told you… It still exists! Internet socializing without all the Silicon Valley data theft! But due to how the ecosystem works, any time you’re not actively connected to the server, you don’t receive any messages. This means that you don’t get to see conversations that happen while you’re offline, even if somebody mentions you!...

June 8, 2020 · 10 min · Josh J