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You are invited to join the CopyParty! This has a web UI accessible from the browser, also from mobile, files are stored directly on the filesystem (not encrypted or on a database) and you can mount it as a network drive on Windows and Linux. But it doesn’t let you sync files for offline use, at least not without the help of some auxiliary tools.
You won’t find anything simpler to install and configure than this.
Thanks for sharing your opinion and expanding.
In the past I used to think the same. Or rather, probably naïvely, I considered the GPL to be a bit of a nuisance, and preferred LGPL or MIT software.
Now I’ve changed my mind and started preferring AGPL for all my code. If a big company likes your MIT or LGPL code, they can legally steal it. If it’s GPL at least you get some safeguards, but they can still take it and put it on a server without the need to release the source code. That’s why I started to believe AGPL is the only “safe” license approved by the OSI, at least at the moment.
Of course I agree that MIT and GPL or LGPL make sense in some cases, but I would say in general they don’t protect users’ freedom anymore in today’s cloud-first world.
I would say AGPL is the “safest” license still approved by the OSI. Could you share your opinion?
Well… I assume that might be illegal. Or maybe these rules would only apply to public software? For sure it wouldn’t be enforceable, and it would still allow criminals to use it to communicate privately between each other, but it would make it harder to exploit mainstream public apps (e.g.: WhatsApp) to scam or exploit weaker individuals.
I am not OP, but that would be the ideal solution for me. Unfortunately, KPXC does not support communication with the GPG agent and the team is not interested in adding this feature due to it being «[…] far more complicated than ssh-key management. There are already excellent tools for this, Kleopatra being the best».
You will have to transfer your containers before you can see them.
Perhaps a bit unconventional, but CloudFlare R2 gives 10GB of free storage accessible as S3 with rclone.
Ah I see… I keep container configs in a specific directory, which contains one directory per-service, which contain all the config files + a compose.yml file to place them in the correct path in the container. I could commit everything to Git if I wanted to.
Regarding network and firewall, you could make a symlink to a versioned file and keep your config with the containers. Same for firewall rules.
I’m not sure what you mean by file sharing permissions. With containers you could give a different user to each service.
If you are worried about memory and disk usage, another option I’ve been exploring recently is using OverlayFS, which, among other things, allows you to inject a directory at a specific path. Again, this would let you keep all your configs where you fancy the best. I use it through Bubblewrap.
Anyways I realize that what I just described is far from standard… hopefully other users will suggest something less custom.
If your goal is to host services, I would recommend looking into Docker, and eventually Podman. Containerization lets you keep the configuration wherever you want, personally I use a dedicated a directory for each service.
Also, please note that a container is not a VM. It’s just a way to keep everything in one place.
Here’s my config for reference, which works for me:
name: forgejo
services:
forgejo:
image: codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo:12
environment:
- USER_UID=1000
- USER_GID=1000
restart: always
volumes:
- ./data:/data
- /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
ports:
#- 80:3000
- 2222:22
networks:
- nginx
networks:
nginx:
name: nginx
external: true
If you can share your error message we might be able to better pinpoint the issue.
EDIT: I searched a bit and now I understand better what you are trying to do. I didn’t know about this “SSH shim” idea. This is not what I have done on my setup, sorry.
Not FOSS, but OneShot: World Machine Edition is a great game based on this idea.
They provide decent defaults for all the not-so-straightforward configurations, and they provide a web UI to configure the rest. That’s the sole reason I would recommend it to get one’s feet wet without having to work too much.
If one is committed to do things “the right way” they could switch to Nginx and “proper” self-hosting later.
Yeah, I’m afraid you have to use a reverse proxy to host multiple subdomains. The CloudFlare daemon is the reverse proxy.
I would say this would be the proper way to do it (at least as a sysadmin), but since it’s OP’s first time I would simplify it to:
Let CloudFlare handle the certificates, DDoS protection, etc… Link if you’d like to give this setup a try.
There is a keyboard shortcut. It’s CTRL+ALT+Z for me. Unless you mean something else?
As for the “reveal on hover”, iirc there was a dismissable message that said it is coming soon.
If I can share my opinion, they are more than big enough if you toggle the checkbox “optimize for touch screen”. I would have to try Arc or Zen again to understand what you mean.
The only complaint I have is that I need to hover (or expand) to see the title. It becomes annoying when I’m reading documentation and I end up with multiple tabs with the same icon.
EDIT: I can’t seem to find the “optimize for touch screen” checkbox anymore, but I’m sure there is something like that somewhere because I enabled it on one of my devices which has a touch screen.
EDIT 2: the “optimize for touch screen” option can be seen by right clicking the toolbar and choosing “Customize toolbar”. Changing the density to “Touch” (on the bottom) makes these icons bigger.
I’ve started using vertical tabs in Firefox as soon as I got the notification. I never thought I would have liked them so much.
Why are you asking for decent vertical tabs? Are they inferior to some other browser you have in mind?
I have to admit that I didn’t really think about reminders. That would perhaps make more sense for Simple Calendar, perhaps in the future I might consider linking notes and reminders. Or maybe it would make sense to implement it directly in Simple Notes? I don’t know, I’ll keep that in mind for later, thanks!
the number of clicks/menus/presses it takes to create a note
I strongly agree on that. It must be at most as many clicks as on Google Keep, i.e. two clicks (plus a few to open the app).
import existing Keep notes from a Google Takeout into your Simple Notes
I didn’t think about that. That shouldn’t be too hard. After the MVP (minimum viable product) will be ready, imports from various common formats should be implemented, and I guess Google Takeout for Google Keep should be supported too.
Thanks for the suggestions!
Okay, I get it now :P
DXVK was born from a Nier Automata player Linux enthusiast? That’s cool! I never checked, I assumed it was build by some big company like Valve or something. Kudos to Philip Rebohle!
use case is a shopping list for my SO and I. I want to be able to add stuff throughout the day, and cross them off once I grab them from the shelf, and separately be able to clear completed tasks
Sorry for the late reply. Oh yes, that’s what I like about Google Keep, the collaborative aspect. What do you mean by “separately be able to clear completed tasks”? Do you mean being able to do it from multiple devices which are synchronized in real-time?
[Simple Chat] Why not just use one of the other Matrix clients?
Yes, you have a point… let’s keep Simple Chat for later then. I had this idea of making an app for each of my needs and let them all connect to a single server with a single unified user. Good quality Matrix clients already exists, I guess there is no need to build a custom client for the chat if I end up adopting Matrix as the protocol.
[Simple Docs] This seems overly ambitious.
Let’s say that’s a longer term goal for the future. I might be underestimating the complexity of Google Docs, but if you think about it I would say it’s not much more than a rich-text editor. Basically it’s the same things as text notes, just with a bit more formatting options. I couldn’t say the same thing about Google Sheets and Google Present.
No. Matrix is designed for chat, not data, and self-hosting it requires a fair amount of resources.
Why do you think so? I have tried it and it seems to be as simple as any other server thanks to Docker. I have a script to launch it here (mirror). It seems to use 160MB of memory and about 1% of my CPU when idle. I haven’t done any serious tests though, maybe it wouldn’t scale as well as I think.
I’d personally just DIY it since it’s really not a ton of logic
Well… there must always be a protocol behind it, it can be as simple/specific or as complex/generic as you want, but there must always be an agreement of the format of data exchanged between client and server.
By adopting the Matrix protocol, there wouldn’t be any need to write a custom server, because Matrix servers already exist.
Matrix is designed for chat, not data
What’s the difference between chat and data? A chat is a list of messages. A collaboratively-editable document is a list of changes. As far as I understand, Matrix uses “events” to describe things happening. When a user sends a message, the server emits and event like “add user X’s message Y to your list of received messages”. It shouldn’t be too different than emitting an event “replace text at position X with Y” every time a document changes. They even have ephemeral events for temporary state, such as “the user X is currently typing”. That should be similar to “the user X placed their cursor at position Y”.
Do you think I might be oversimplifying or thinking it wrong?
No, only the local FS. But they have recommendations in their README for integrating with S3 with the help of other tools.