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Re: Host your own contacts and calendars and share them across devices

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Post by acidburnNSA »

jeeva wrote: post #9
dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #5

> I’m trying to learn ways to minimize my reliance upon large companies for handling my day-to-day personal data. Except that the moment you "share them across devices", at least one large company will silently grab your contacts anyway. And several others will try to, too, with one excuse or another.

To be fair, though, I read this as "I don't want a company closing down/sunsetting a service to end my ability to sync my data", not "I don't want companies to have my data". So though you have a point, I don't think it goes against the post.

Thanks, this is primarily what I was going for. I'm also trying to be just a bit harder to snoop on but do realize that I'm nowhere near unsnoopable.

Re: Host your own contacts and calendars and share them across devices

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Post by lorenzhs »

philtar wrote: post #7

You lack critical reading skills. His concern is not that they companies would grab a copy, his concern is that he used to rely on them for syncing. He no longer has to rely on them. Google can shut down calendar and contacts and he would still be fine.

Please don't use such stark language on HN. There's a much friendlier way of saying that, something along the lines of "I think you misunderstood the author's concerns".

Re: Host your own contacts and calendars and share them across devices

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Post by willhackett »

I've done this before. It becomes tedious to maintain, but I can imagine myself doing it again in the future to allow me to do what cannot be done in the common clouds (iCloud, G Suite, O365).

I would love a whitelist-only inbox. I'm sick of spam, marketing mail, etc. I'd like one public email address that catches all the garbage. Then, I'd like a private email address that accepts emails from my contacts, and bounces the rest.

Re: Host your own contacts and calendars and share them across devices

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Post by dijit »

I've been using radicale[0] for this for some time, it's a bit quirky with thunderbird but I've had tremendous success with Apple Calendar for iOS and the Contacts application.

And it's using standards (Carddav, Calddav) so you can be somewhat secure in the knowledge that other programs can implement the protocol (or should). :)

[0]: http://radicale.org/

EDIT: I guess I should have read the post, but eitherway I'm going to keep this comment up as a review of the software.

Re: Host your own contacts and calendars and share them across devices

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Post by Tharkun »

octopoc wrote: post #17
Nux wrote: post #3

People looking for easier ways, Nextcloud/Owncloud already does this and you also get with file sync/backup/share for computer/smartphone and more as a bonus; all you need is just a LAMP server.

I have about 1TB of data that I tried to sync with NextCloud. The Windows client crashed every night, so I finally gave up and moved to Syncthing. Has anybody else had a similar experience?

I don't have any experience with their Windows client, but webdav with nextcloud has been painfully slow in my experience.

Re: Host your own contacts and calendars and share them across devices

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Post by a3n »

willhackett wrote: post #23

I've done this before. It becomes tedious to maintain, but I can imagine myself doing it again in the future to allow me to do what cannot be done in the common clouds (iCloud, G Suite, O365). I would love a whitelist-only inbox. I'm sick of spam, marketing mail, etc. I'd like one public email address that catches all the garbage. Then, I'd like a private email address that accepts emails from my contacts, and bounce…

> Then, I'd like a private email address that accepts emails from my contacts, and bounces the rest.

You're doomed. Because at least one of your correspondents is going to upload their contacts to some service, and that service is now aware of you.

Re: Host your own contacts and calendars and share them across devices

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Post by adekok »

Nux wrote: post #3

People looking for easier ways, Nextcloud/Owncloud already does this and you also get with file sync/backup/share for computer/smartphone and more as a bonus; all you need is just a LAMP server.

I tried used Owncloud... and stopped. I tried using radicale... and stopped.

The software was fragile, slow, and broke often. Maybe it's better now (a few years later). But at the time it was negatively impacting productivity.

I've moved to Sogo. Zero problems after install.

File sync is Resilio. Bittorrent sync was unusable, the new re-branded (and fixed) Resilio works fine.

Just my $0.02

Re: Host your own contacts and calendars and share them across devices

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Post by jazoom »

a3n wrote: post #26
willhackett wrote: post #23

I've done this before. It becomes tedious to maintain, but I can imagine myself doing it again in the future to allow me to do what cannot be done in the common clouds (iCloud, G Suite, O365). I would love a whitelist-only inbox. I'm sick of spam, marketing mail, etc. I'd like one public email address that catches all the garbage. Then, I'd like a private email address that accepts emails from my contacts, and bounce…

> Then, I'd like a private email address that accepts emails from my contacts, and bounces the rest. You're doomed. Because at least one of your correspondents is going to upload their contacts to some service, and that service is now aware of you.

I think OP intends that mailbox to be the one that only accepts mail from a whitelist of addresses.

Re: Host your own contacts and calendars and share them across devices

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Post by Nux »

adekok wrote: post #27
Nux wrote: post #3

People looking for easier ways, Nextcloud/Owncloud already does this and you also get with file sync/backup/share for computer/smartphone and more as a bonus; all you need is just a LAMP server.

I tried used Owncloud... and stopped. I tried using radicale... and stopped. The software was fragile, slow, and broke often. Maybe it's better now (a few years later). But at the time it was negatively impacting productivity. I've moved to Sogo. Zero problems after install. File sync is Resilio. Bittorrent sync was unusable, the new re-branded (and fixed) Resilio works fine. Just my $0.02

As with many things open source a couple of years is a long, long time; Nextcloud has improved a lot as far as I can tell, for me it's decently usable and surprisingly problem free.

How's Sogo with regards to maintainability and upgradability?

Re: Host your own contacts and calendars and share them across devices

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Post by gravypod »

Something I've been looking for is a web service and android app that I can self-host that will allow me to read and send SMSs from my desktop. The important thing here is self hosted.

I think something like this would be really useful. I've seen services that provide this via a 3rd party hosted service but I don't trust someone at some random company not to read my messages.

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