Flamekebab

Thanks, I appreciate it.

I’ve finally made my repo public thanks to your comment: https://codeberg.org/Flamekebab/FruitBatBot

I’m not here to fight you. I was replying with a cool thing I wrote to share baby pics to family and friends, not trying to be the most perfect hardcore op sec person on the internet.

People I know use Signal. I have never even heard of two of the three services mentioned higher up the thread.

When I wrote it I was dealing with a newborn, auditing whether Signal passes some No True Scotsman test for open source-ness was really not my priority.

Ugh, this kind of response is so off-putting. You can reply if you like but I’m probably just going to delete the whole damn comment thread because fuck this kind of purity test bullshit.

I wasn’t asking for fucking feedback on my work.

Also more secure and trustworthy because it’s open source.

But Signal is open source..?

Getting a phone number was relatively cheap and easy, so for a one-off implementation, Signal was an easy choice as it’s what many friends and family already use.

What would be the advantage?

Yep. I keep an old phone for the bot to be a linked device.

I’ve written a Signal bot that listens for messages from my wife and me. It’s for sharing pictures of our daughter with a small list of people that want baby pics. It takes the images we send it get blurred and sent as a preview, with an unblurred version sent as a “view once” image. Each blurred image contains an ID so that recipients can request the images again.

Slop as a Service?

I really enjoyed Receiver.

Similarly I gave up trying to keep up with the ever evolving mail server requirements. I’d wake up to find my emails weren’t reaching people because Google and MS had strongarmed some change into place again.

These days I just use inbox.eu for my email.

Optional is the way.

I have five users, max, and barely any files. I don't know which one Nextcloud AIO uses and I don't care. There's no wrong answer for such a small deployment. It uses whatever database Nextcloud felt was sensible as the default. They know more about picking the right tool for their requirements than I do.

If I'm building something for myself, then I care.

I thought it was just the lads in my flat that called them eeeeeeeeeeeepeecees!