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joeldebruijn,

Sailforms Android app!

groups.google.com/g/sailforms-users

Use like 12 years for keeping track of lots of personal stuff. It’s a generic database / table / forms app that’s very powerfull. Buttons, queries, reports, calculated fields etc.

But: the app developer stopped despite a rather enthusiastic community. Now it isn’t even on the Play Store anymore and I guess everybody must have an exit strategy.

joeldebruijn,

Not until now, thnx, will investigate!

joeldebruijn,

For example, because its autocorrect in a multi-language setting is pretty bad (autocorrecting wrong language even if its manually switched).

joeldebruijn,

Was wondering…

If I would invest $10 a month … How many computing power I could get … For an Adnauseam-As-A-Service server … And how many ad-budget that would vaporize?

Would it make $100, $1000 or more ad budget worthless?

Just curious what the numbers would be?

joeldebruijn,

Agree, also I never encountered other software so flexible in user interface. Every feature can be placed with panels everywhere to your own liking. The whole app interface is like a canvas. Took me a while to get the hang of it but after that …

Wished other apps were this flexible.

collaborative map software?

Avenza seems to be the go-to app. It works pretty well and all, but I’m wanting to know if there’s any software available that can allow a team of people to simultaneously access and make edits/notes to a geo-referenced map. It also need to have kind of the same base functionality of being able to show your current location...

joeldebruijn,

Like Felt? felt.comNot free or anything and although OSM based I dont think their geo-stack is “open”.

joeldebruijn,

One of the few times I miss Files-on-demand for Win11. Connect an Office365 library with 500 GB to my laptop with an 128 GB harddrive. Integrates with file explorer, only caches local what you open, after a while you can “free space”, meaning deleting local cache version. NextCloud has the same on Win11 because its an OS feature.

joeldebruijn,

Sometimes I wish we could re-allocate half the dev hours poured in to the 10th txt/code editor, music player or terminal app in to this kind of thing.

joeldebruijn,

Did you over engineer? Yes! Also: this is very cool!!

joeldebruijn,

One example which was hard for me to remove, at least in bulk: contributions to Google Maps (photos). I also answered survey questions about POI and I dont think they can be removed at all.

All before I discovered OSM…

Legitimate interest? (lemmy.world)

I never consent to give my data away or being tracked, but how do you deal with so called legitimate interest? I tried several times to untick them but it is a long list (in fact at the bottom there is a “vendors” link with even longer, much longer list. It took me 10 minutes to get to the bottom of it once)....

joeldebruijn,
  1. It’s not gdpr compliant in the way shown here or IAB TCF uses it.

Legitimate interest is a sort failsafe which can be used to cover certain exceptions.

  • the datacontrollor must have an exceptional situation, so not on a regular basis.
  • the balance between personal and business interest must be considered carefully under case by case basis.
  • the dataprocessor isn’t the one doing the consideration

Automating all this is kind off against all the above.

joeldebruijn,

Yes techcrunch.com/…/noyb-second-cookie-complaints/

joeldebruijn,

And the “we play nice” respons of IAB: iabeurope.eu/iab-europe-tcf-and-noybs-war-on-cook…

How do you handle your passwords?

I rely on Bitwarden (slooowly migrating from… a spreadsheet…) and am thinking of keeping a master backup to be SyncThing-synchronized across all my devices, but I’m not sure of how to secure the SyncThing-synchronized files’ local access if any one of my Windows or Android units got stolen and somehow cracked into or...

joeldebruijn,

I prefer another tactic if I may share:

  • Database in production: let Bitwarden clients sync the native way Bitwarden offers.
  • Database in backup: let a dedicated backup service keep your database save.

I dont know if this could be done automatic (just backup the production database) or if this has to be done by export (by hand once in a while).

Doesnt matter from which device the backup originates because the native sync will keep them all the same usually in seconds.

How to make it so frequently used sites don't constantly require 2FA? [SOLVED]

EDIT: After reading all the responses, I’ve decided to allow cookies to persist after they close the browser, which I expect will make it so that 2FA doesn’t kick in as often, at least not on their most frequently used web sites. I may also look into privacy oriented browser extensions that might offer some protection, such...

joeldebruijn,

For my family my setup slightly different for reasons in other comments:

  • do change browsers away from Chrome or Edge
  • do change search engines
  • allow cookies
  • drop tracking surveillance traffic at the network level with something like pihole or nextdns
joeldebruijn, (edited )

To understand correctly: You have friends that care about moving files of their mobile by sync? Or is their only concern switching to Signal, but the lack of backup besides on the device?

Asking because:

  • I have the same solution as you but the android folders - foldersync - Nextcloud variant.
  • My motivation comes from privacy / sovereignty.
  • My friends lack this motivation so they are happy using the cloud (iCloud or Googles) to “backup” everything.
  • Any hassle by not using that needs strong motivation to endure and overcome.

So when their photos are in the cloud and their documents stay happy in mail attachments often there isn’t much more to backup besides configuration. Which all those bigphone (Samsung Lenovo Apple etc) suppliers provide.

For the chat backup:

  • I got my whole family to switch to Signal (at least with me and for group chats, we have them for events and topics). The leverage I used was to only use Signal for baby photos of our newborn kids which my sisters and mom just couldn’t live without. 😎
  • They complain about running out of local storage and not being able to bulk delete media in Signal.
  • As a workaround they sort by filesize and delete a dozen big files (eg video).
  • Or they leave a group, delete it along with media and join again.
  • I was surprised they don’t care about the files after consuming it (foto video) and happy delete them.
  • After that … the backup becomes small again.
joeldebruijn,

Cwtch

cwtch.im

Decentralized and Open

Participants in Cwtch can host their own safe spaces, or lend their infrastructure to others seeking a safe space. There is no “Cwtch service” or “Cwtch network”. The Cwtch protocol is open, and anyone is free to build bots, services and user interfaces and integrate and interact with Cwtch. Privacy Preserving

All communication in Cwtch is end-to-end encrypted and takes place over Tor v3 onion services. Metadata Resistant

Cwtch has been designed such that no information is exchanged or available to anyone without their explicit consent, including on-the-wire messages and protocol metadata.

Is there a License that requires the user to donate if they make revenue?

I tried a couple license finders and I even looked into the OSI database but I could not find a license that works pretty much like agpl but requiring payment (combined 1% of revenue per month, spread evenly over all FOSS software, if applicable) if one of these is true:...

joeldebruijn,

Just a remark about “can donate profit anyway” which I understand for corporations doesnt apply to public and semi-public services (ofcourse).

Which often happens to be a target group that is well aware of public values etc and the notion of community-culture among each other. Often other libraries or other schools for example treat each other as collegues etc.

BUT those type of organisations arnt allowed to donate (Giving away taxmoney) AND often cant allocate developer time (because there arent any within those organizations).

Here (NL in EU) we depend on the same FOSS as everyone else, but cant donate. We do must look for other ways to contribute tho.

joeldebruijn,

Oh thnx, I should search more around. 😁👍

Solid answers there.

joeldebruijn,

No I did try and since you’re interested in my learning curve versus my personal effort: Since two weeks I learned css for the first time, hobby related and just about to start knowing about flexbox css grid float div and styling them.

joeldebruijn,

Fair point, done!

Looking for a privacy focused travel assistant on mobile

Heya, as the title suggests. I have tried the KDE Initary (on mobile), but the user experience didn’t quite flop-my-mop. It is however the better one in terms of privacy as far as I have found. Are there any other ones that you folks know of and would recommend? Looking for an app that specifically can hold boarding passes....

joeldebruijn,

Totally going to use flop-my-mop elsewhere, but urban dictionary doesnt have an entry about it I think? 🫢😁👍

Curious about suggestions but for itinerary I just use “event folders” like “20240801 France” and I put every pdf, jpg, gpx, mail I have in it.

And during planning sometimes export website pages, wiki entries to pdf etc. Routes in gpx, POI in KML etc.

joeldebruijn,

Train it online. Use it offline.

joeldebruijn,

Agree, no small feat. Two caveats tho:

  • These models prioritize plausibility above factual correctness. So verification often is needed.
  • Data from after the creation of trainingmaterial is absent of course.
joeldebruijn,

Also the reason I pay the €3 monthly fee covering 2 laptops, 3 tablets and 2 phones. Worth it imho.

It consistently drops 20 - 25% of DNS requests.

joeldebruijn,

I hope to get there one day (being able to DIY) but so much to learn (in the middle of getting away from MS, Google and migrating to NextCloud, Linux, Yunohost etc.)

joeldebruijn,

Was just thinking the same.

I prefer something:

  • static site: a linktree page doesnt change that often so having a database seems overkill for cheap/fast hosting.
  • without setting cookies, hosted fonts elsewhere and tracking.
  • responsive yes

Searched for “bio link site”, “linktree alternative DIY”, “profile page” but most of them are Wordpress or other cms variants. Needing a complete docker setup to serve one page also seems to much.

So just a clean (in tracker free meaning) template with html css and some assets?

joeldebruijn,

Just found a gooed starting point, a repository of 64 templates, with each just index.html, some style.css and sometimes more but not much:

github.com/MichaelBarney/LinkFree/…/Templates

joeldebruijn,

True, but managing expectations is needed tho, mainly about exit strategy:

If a community needs to leave, the content on Discord must be considered “not important”, “not transferable” and “not archive worthy”.

If Discord changes freemium, limits users or otherwise applies enshittification just leave your stuff and start over.

joeldebruijn,

Ah that makes sense, I gave strawberry my Nextcloud path to scan for mp3 and add them to its library.

joeldebruijn,

Thanks, this doesn’t say anything tho about 2 levels deep in bullet 10. But I get anything in run/user/1000 serves the same purpose.

joeldebruijn,

Or it comes back the same way but doesn’t pose a problem either?

joeldebruijn,

Thanks! And I will remove it from my search index to restrain from “decluttering”. 👌👍

joeldebruijn,

Ow … this … just realise its my Windows “legacy-skills” to unlearn …

Although its indeed more confusing it does explain rather well I cant just “port” my habits from Windows to Linux (Debian Gnome in my case).

Also it gave me hints for more research. Thanks!

joeldebruijn,

I learned a lot in these comments but in this specific context:

  • a flatpak app uses a base directory (mp3 player).
  • I set it to my NextCloud folder.
  • Now run/usr/1000 is “filled” with all my thousands of pdf from personal archive, several times per file (because multiple flatpaks).

These don’t need decluttering I learned, but aren’t managed by package managers either.

joeldebruijn,

Thanks, definitly positif first time experience with posting also.

joeldebruijn,

Sound advice, thnx

joeldebruijn,

When I let fsearch index from root, it counted 1.9 million files, which baffled me a lot. Before knowing the things in this thread. A typical windows install can have 50k ~ 100k files, but … 2 million I thought it was insane.

But in this context its something like if LibreOffice Calc had an API and upon start it registers a filesystem with a ‘folder’ for every worksheet and a ‘file’ named A1, A2, B1 … for every cell. Not real I know but a novice way of understanding.

joeldebruijn,

Thanks, gives me direction in which way to do research.

joeldebruijn,

Yep, I learned they have ‘portals’ for file-managing on their own.

joeldebruijn,

Thanks everybody, I learned a ton these 2 days. Like a ’ jump’ in understanding. Not only the specific answer to my concrete question but also on a conceptual level as well.

The thing that makes Linux next level for me now is the extra ‘abstraction layer’.

Thing is, for me, digital files always were as tangible as the analog object they represent. A digital document is as ‘real’ as a paper document. An email as real as a letter. But untill now files where ‘real’ digital artefacts. And thats … a bit different with ‘virtual’ files, sort of.

Anyway, new concepts to explore which is great!

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