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- Comment on Selfhosted chat service 1 month ago:
TL;DR - use Signal.
Re: self-hosting – go for it! The DIY route is an excellent learning experience, so this is the way to go if you want your own privacy-friendly chat service. There’s quite a lot to achieving “privacy” and “security” though (heck, even defining these is challenging)… have you self-hosted before? How important are service quality / speed / reliability, backups, mobile + desktop? Will the folks you want to chat with use/like it too?
Re: Signal – definitely check out this app as well. They (the Signal Foundation) take privacy very seriously. Messages are only stored on devices running Signal, and they are ephemeral by default. Actually, that’s a good thing to consider: How important are durable / offline archives of your chats, useful with other tools (like
grep?). Signal makes offline archiving difficult by design (for the sake of security/privacy).Note that Signal is technically self-hostable, but I gather this is very difficult.
I self-host Nextcloud and I use Talk. I don’t love it, but I do find it useful for some things. Flipping on Nextcloud is pretty easy, but it is challenging to make it secure, reliable, fast, etc. And you still have to convince others to use it.
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- Comment on Why I still self host my servers (and what I've recently learned) 2 months ago:
I think “VPS” in Christian’s blog post does refer to shared hosting.
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- Comment on GitHub - timelinize/timelinize: Store your data from all your accounts and devices in a single cohesive timeline on your own computer 2 months ago:
Fans of timelineize might also like activitywatch.net . (I didn’t, but YMMV)
- Comment on Self-hosting workshop in Portland tomorrow 2 months ago:
There’s one in Seattle called the Home Internet Server group. It is run by Steve Herber and is I think loosely tied with KEGS and BELUG.
Dave presented his walkthrough of my book yesterday at BELUG.
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- Comment on Phone home tracking image in DocuSeal, and how to remove it 4 months ago:
this isn’t a “phone home”
are you sure? I’m not. In truth, only they know. Here’s the code I worked around in my fork. Why does it fetch an external image? They could just include it in the repo. Why is it fetched from
docuseal.co? I would guess GitHub renders badges like this too.Blocking the DNS of the GitHub host
Sure, but why not default to privacy in the upstream source? Why make users and self-hosters do extra work? Feels more like a penalty for non-Enterprise users than a benefit for paying up: you’ll either pay with money or your data.
Also note: it is actually
docuseal.cothat would be blocked (I incorrectly guessed it pulled the image directly from GitHub), so that’s probably not as big of a deal than blocking, say, GitHub for a LAN with multiple tech-savvy users.they were very clear about it
I disagree. I’ll grant you they made a clear decision (and quickly), but didn’t explain further. Frankly I found their replies a bit confusing; they implied the issue as entirely about OEM/white-labeling and avoided the tracking/phone home question. They should just clarify why the badge actually exists when the question came up the second time.
Maintaining a fork is an insane amount of work
Agreed that maintaining a fork is work. But, I mean, check mine out, please. It’s 3 lines, and could probably be reduced to a few characters. I’d still love to avoid the fork because your other reasons are quite valid, especially about trust. That’s what this is really about, to be honest. I don’t trust this isn’t a phone home, and I don’t want to have to trust them on this.
I’m not going to worry about doing that every time a release is missed by you
100% agreed.
they have a pro version, so aren’t removing the customizations that exist
I don’t understand. Will you explain what you mean here?
It’s part of a lot of open source projects.
If you mean badges on GitHub repo home pages then yes, I agree.
If you mean mandatory phoning home or, really, reaching out for any images/static assets from a self-hosted service, I disagree.
Here’s the right way to do it (again, assuming this is a phone home): be 100% transparent that/if it is a phone home, have a privacy policy around data collected, and make it disabled by default. Traefik does this, for example. They have a phone home called
TRAEFIK_GLOBAL_SENDANONYMOUSUSAGEthat defaults tofalse. Note the especially privacy-concerned (and perhaps less upgradae-concerned?) may wish to disableTRAEFIK_GLOBAL_CHECKNEWVERSIONas well.it’s of no security concern, freal
I never claimed it was. Maybe my fork will have security improvements as well someday, but right now it just has this one tiny patch. And I agree: best case is this fork becomes unnecessary (as transparency around the badge increases).
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