Ah… But there is another. The all mighty creator (app developer of voyager) whose name is in purple!

I’m guessing you are using Voyager app. It’s because I’m your instance (sopuli) admin :)

I’m not going to push anyone who uses a secure decentralized FOSS chat already to signal, but someone who uses telegram/viber/whatsapp is easier to get gradually on signal, which is super low effort compared to the ones you mentioned.

I’ve tried. I’m happy that I got friends and family to move from SMS and WhatsApp to Signal. Some I got to move to e.g. matrix but that’s only a few.

Just my two cents since you asked. I agree with you but I don’t want perfect to be the enemy of good.

Subscription based service, huge yearly “inflation adjustments” (chase of record profits), include ads, track the person via sensors to sell the data, offer luxury packs (just enjoyment without ads, but tracking still included, just more subtle), market it and pay influencers to spread the word and document the “enjoyment” experience, lobby for government aided yearly enjoyment experiences for plebs so they don’t revolt, go public… Stonks and not an ounce of humanity left

YUP I gave up quickly! it’s truly a CSSHell lol.

My body is ready

I had not heard of ubicloud, that’s pretty cool! Thanks for the tip!

And sure:

I don’t self host it, I got managed owncloud space from a domain and web host provider.

I manage my own VPS that I got from them but the cloudspace came extra with buying the domain + email services (I’ve managed email server at my job and no way in hell will I do that for myself, too much headache).

So basically, in short, I have a managed email + owncloud space (just 5gb, don’t honestly need more) from a commercial provider and just use owncloud app on my phone and PC to sync folders on both. I keep my encrypted joplin notes and (encrypted by default) keepass database on this cloud. Owncloud takes care of syncing and I just use Joplin and KeePass on both devices and set them to use the files in owncloud folder. Never had an issue in 2 years with anything.

Technically my provider could scan my stuff, but they won’t get anything out of joplin notes or keepass.

Your idea for a setup sounds way more private, but i think for my usecase I’ve been happy since it’s so low effort and still does what I want it to do.

I have seen on lemmy people recommend syncthing (https://syncthing.net/) for keepass, which directly synchronizes a folder between devices without a middleman if you wanr. But everytime you want to sync you need to have both devices on for that as there is no automatic middleman that is always available. Maybe that could be done with a raspberry pi?

Anyway: you can easily set this up with proton if you already have proton cloud no?

Didn’t see this comment but: I trust enough my cloud provider + the database file is encrypted with the masterpassword you set for your keepass.

I also use this cloud to host my Joplin notes, which are also E2EE (joplin supports it) so even if my cloud provider would take a peek it’s all encrypted.

Nice tip, thanks! still haven’t given simpleX a try. Mostly because it was hard enough to get family and friends to move to signal :)

You can of course. I think the selling point is that you control it and it’s a single file that you can decide where you’ll keep it, how you access it, and what app you use to interact with it.

I can copy, delete, move it all without needing a service for it. Can modify it offline and everything!

I don’t host the file on a password manager dedicated cloud, it’s my own cloud space with other files I have there as well. So the file is just in my cloud space, with other files, and i have a synced folder on my phone + pc and just access that cloud folder with the file from keepassXC on my PC and keepassDX on my phone :)

For me keepass offered a single databae file that I can decide where and how I keep it. Also works offline because the cloud syncs folders and even without internet a version exists on my phones cloud folder (until it gets synced again with internet).

Oh shit… Damn. sorry that happened to you :(

I do back it up with the rest of my stuff to an external hard drive, but that’s… Like once in a year so could be better.

I have my keepass database file in my cloud that i use to sync it between phone and PC. I create a backup of all of my files on my PC + cloud folder once a year to an external hard drive. Better than nothing but probably would be better to do this more frequently 😄

I also empty my phone from time to time and move everything I want to keep to my PC (like photos).

For me that has lately been always

KeePassDX, nice choice! I really wish I could have DX or XC on both phone and desktop. Love both but would prefer to donate to one. Wallet is unhappy but I really try to donate to all FOSS apps I use…

That redirect was a bit unexpected and creepy. Didn’t know medium allows your own domains for posts.

Here’s a privacy respecting frontend for that article: https://scribe.private.coffee/@trevorwooll/safe-by-default-building-a-minimal-rootless-sandbox-on-linux-4fcc02d9bed0

Yeah no I’m not complaining about their decision. Quite happy about it! I just comment this in every “github alternative” comment section when codeberg is brought up for the sake of codeberg too because we don’t want to flood them with people who would also set up private repos that break their ToS.

I have an account and contribute on Codeberg but keep my private, non FOSS/not-sure-of-license-yet repos somewhere else (currently gitlab).

There are terms and conditions for private people too regarding this (read next two sections): https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/faq/#before-i-start-using-codeberg

I love codeberg but can’t move my private, non-foss repos there. FOSS repos for sure though.

Couldn’t you just place a sticker on top? I know that you’ll either not get the led light or it’s gonna look a bit funny in the dark if part of the windows logo shines through if the sticker is not thick enough, but you can place a tiny tux sticker there!

You put it well. Big Companies who rely on these libraries should put in the work. They have the money and resources to help FOSS projects reach compliance.

Exactly. At the same time the same businesses are claiming record profits, and not contributing to that central piece of foss software at all in any way (like the car manifacturers mentioned in the post).

I knew people in general are terrible to whoever is providing something for free but WTF.

Atleast he also gets occasionally nice emails

He concluded the brief talk with one last email; it was from an 11-year-old child who had found curl useful in some project they were working on. It included an expression of gratitude that, Stenberg said, was truly heartwarming.