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

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Post by adekok »

Nux wrote: post #29
adekok wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Sogo: zero maintenance. No problem upgrades.

It's really, really, nice.

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

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Post by lwhalen »

lorenzhs wrote: post #22
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".

You are left-coast/euro sensitive. Nothing that he said was incorrect, non factual, or otherwise out of line.

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

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Post by pestaa »

gravypod wrote: post #30

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.

Nextcloud (and therefore probably Owncloud) has a 3rd party app, though only for reading at the moment.

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

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Post by lorenzhs »

lwhalen wrote: post #32
lorenzhs wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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".

You are left-coast/euro sensitive. Nothing that he said was incorrect, non factual, or otherwise out of line.

It's against the guidelines. They are very explicit about such things:

Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's not called "left-coast/euro sensitive", it's called manners.

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

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Post by fiatjaf »

toadkicker wrote: post #16
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 use http://mailinabox.email which totally automates running your own mail server. Highly recommend taking a look at it!

What about spam?

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

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Post by upofadown »

After spending way too much time messing around with stuff like DAV and syncing using same, my current scheduling and reminder system is based on this:

* https://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind/

Every day at 6am my server runs a cron job. If there are appointments I get an email and an SMS. The server also makes a unique noise over the house PA system (I live alone) but that is mostly because I can.

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

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Post by nrtd »

balladeer wrote: post #18
znpy wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am commenting to confirm that nextcloud works very very well. I am running the official docker image with an apache2 frontend (http/https) and it pretty much works flawlessly.

They don't offer client side encryption yet, do they? Just checked the GH issue and it is still open: https://github.com/owncloud/client/issues/4327 and https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/5145

Is this relevant? The connection to the server is encrypted (hopefully) and the server is selfhosted so you can trust it. In what use case is client side encryption important?

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

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Post by Silhouette »

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.

Isn't the whole point of running your own servers for mail/calendar/contacts/etc. that you don't have to rely on synchronising things via anyone else's infrastructure?

I want to have multiple devices able to access my important data.

I have no interest in sharing that data with Google, Apple, Facebook, LinkedIn, or $SMALL_TIME_APP_DEVELOPER and will actively avoid any system that requires me to do so.

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

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Post by acidburnNSA »

fiatjaf wrote: post #36
toadkicker wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use http://mailinabox.email which totally automates running your own mail server. Highly recommend taking a look at it!

What about spam?

I use a self-maintained version of the same email stack (Dovecot, Postfix, Spamassassin) and Spam is pretty much not a problem. I train the Bayes filter on my collection of 10,000 spams and a few thousand hams every 6 months and, while I do get an occasional false negative I feel that spam is pretty much fully under control. Self-hosting email is fun you guys!
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