Vaultwarden allows a bit of downtime, the vault is cached by the clients

When the server is not reachable, no writes are allowed

Why not both?

I use this on desktop https://github.com/Tichau/FileConverter but then on mobile how you would convert files, especially niche technical ones? I used to rely on cloudconvert.com but now I can install this on my server

I like this https://github.com/CappielloAntonio/tempo

Except for federation, you described Notesnook, although it’s a bit hard to self host because the server parts are in alpha with few documentation. I wanted to try it but it looked too complex (hard to backup and hard to maintain) with all those server components, mongodb in a replica set and S3

For self hosting, why e2ee? It makes backups much more complicated than having plain text/images on the server. Consider making it optional 😊

That 4 miles long military parade for his 79th birthday doesn’t pay by itself, unfortunately 😢

The reason that I’m pissed so much for just a name (karakeep can be found with a search engine much easier) is that I had a domain that started with “er” so it was so funny to have it installed as hoard.erXXXXXXX.com 😂

The other app is called similarly, but with the “e” missing.

“Hoarder” but misspelled, like Grindr

It’s a massive success, Google play says downloaded between 1 to 10 times worldwide

What the fuck, the asshole that won the dispute had TEN downloads on Google play and launched only a few months ago

TL;DR: the “stable” release of nextcloud is glorified crowdsourced alpha testing. Stay behind 2-3 versions to get the real stable version.

i don’t think that there’s no check at all. There’s either a server side check or a digital signature to verify, or both. You can trick the train ticket check (here they don’t even scan the qr code, they see the screen on the phone and continue) or the lazy airbnb landlord, but that can be done also today

it’s more like searching messages for some keywords, then use the result to justify a full car search

and they accept that as a valid id? I mean in a store ok, but a public official? It’s incredibly easy to make a fake screenshot

the digital version of id cards are glorified qr codes: they scan it and their device downloads from the government servers the official version. Or, for offline usage: the qr code contains all the data, signed with their key, they check if the signature is valid

When you enter China, you have to run their application on your phone to fill the immigration form. Way more convenient compared to the paper slip, right? 😉

It’s this https://apkpure.com/zhong-guo-ling-shi/com.gov.mfa

Luckily, you don’t need to install full malware but only medium malware, there’s a way to run it as a web app inside tencent WeChat by scanning a special qr code.

I run this stuff inside insular because tencent is tencent and even on fully patched Android 15 without any file access permission they still manage to drop fingerprinting files disguised as images in /pictures/.gs_fs0

For connecting to my servers, technically ssh on standard ports isn’t blocked (otherwise it would hurt their bots, no?) but I don’t want to show my server IP address, so I use a hysteria2 proxy hosted on a Oracle VM in the Japan datacenter. There are services like doggygo that rent access to those proxys for literal pennies (like $2 per month) but payment need to do with alibaba’s alipay or tencent wepay which is ultra traceable (linked to Chinese id+Chinese bank account+Chinese phone number) and very stupid. Honeypot?

There are reports of evil maid attacks where a secret service agent poses as room cleaner in your hotel room and tampers with your laptop when you’re away, but for normal people this seems unlikely. Keep your electronics with you at all times, always use a VPN, check hashes of executables if really need to run them (better not) and you’re going to be ok

sure, but why solve problems in 10 minutes when i can do it way more sophisticated using 10x more time and resources?

(at the moment reverted to the easy html form + php send mail)

I had a similar problem when using nginx proxy manager. In the end I just gave up and directly used cloudflare tunnels+cloudflare ssl

What about Publii?

WYSIWYG static site generator but personally I like to keep the content in markdown pages in a git repository so i can keep unlimited edit history; this saves everything in a local sqlite database.

Unfortunately the most powerful one that checks all the boxes, including automatic upload to s3 is hugo, but as you said the learning curve is high. Maybe try to see if you can run the example site of this theme, install hugo in your system, then go in the examplesite directory and run hugo serve. Slowly edit the files until you understand how it works.

I tried nextcloud photos for ten minutes and it looked like you can add photos to an album only at the moment of their creation. And you need to choose them one by one, don’t have “select all”. And you can’t select photos already uploaded in the past. What? Couldn’t think of a worse gallery than this.

Me too, just saying that encryption isn’t always a pro

Encryption in self hosted when you’re hosting only your personal data isn’t really a positive feature

For the case of ente, having all the photos in encrypted blobs in a minio container, means you have to export the content every night using their cli tool, verify it, repeat for every family member, then backup the result

Technical question, if it’s e2ee, it means videos can’t be transcoded? Modern smartphones encode video at a bitrate that doesn’t allow real time streaming on 4g