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Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution

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Post by dceddia »

igor47 wrote: post #150
dceddia wrote: post #88

I have the weirdest calendar problem: if someone sends an invite to my Fastmail account, it gets swallowed up by Gmail. It never shows up in Fastmail, and in the calendar invite it appears as if it was sent to my Gmail address even though it wasn’t. It’s the strangest thing and I don’t know how to stop it or even what’s causing it (Fastmail support also had no idea).

Is your Google email forwarded to the fastmail? If someone invites my personal email from Google calendar, my Gmail account gets put on the invite. I always attributed it to the forwarding. It's odd but also pretty convenient as I still use Google calendar.

Nope, there's no forwarding either direction.

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Post by johntitorjr »

snapplebobapple wrote: post #125
johntitorjr wrote: post #110

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same. super convenient to be able to go to photos.[domain].com for my photos. the immich android app is great too. cloudflare tunnels is a game changer, I can't believe it's free.

Check out pangolin. You can get all the awesome of cloudflare tunnela without having your traffic sold to dat aggregators. Jims garge on youtube just did a decent video on it.

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Post by mergy »

Been fairly happy with Nextcloud and OwnCloud prior to that for over a decade now. Caldav support for apps is a challenge like Zoom and others offering to connect to you calendar and assuming you either have Office365, Apple, or Google.

But, solutions like FreeBusy.io do offer connections and work well on calendering polls, etc.

When working with a world locked in Google, Apple, or Microsoft calendaring/groupware solutions on scheduling, it can be a hassle. But, if AI had to roll my own caldav, I probably would not so kudos to the author and effort here.

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Post by eikenberry »

8fingerlouie wrote: post #114
eikenberry wrote: post #109

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> Ownership is not about storing everything at home (or well, it's part of it), but having control over your data, which you can easily have while at the same time using the convenience that the cloud offers. Ownership is not just about r/w control of your data but also over what software gets access to it and what that software does. Not just about privacy, but knowing the process and being able to alter it to your…

Does it matter if data is encrypted ? If it does, I assume you also roll your own network equipment. If you're worried about surveillance, know that you're far more likely to be targeted at the network port than at your data. As for the process, the cloud (for storing data) is nothing more than a remote fileshare that someone else keeps running. If you have an up to date copy of your data you can change the process a…

As long as they don't need to decrypt your data, then that is fine as they are working strictly as a dumb storage at that point. Eg. I have keep encrypted backups in the cloud.

For other things it's about being in control, if just for tinkering. I self host mostly to not being reliant on 3rd parties for everything and to just know how it works. I don't do it for privacy. IMO if you want something private, you don't put it on the internet.

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Post by jesterson »

eulenteufel wrote: post #24

Another CalDav server I can recommend is Radicale. It's written in python and designed in a pretty modular way, enabling authentication and authorization (and more) plugins. Data is saved in plain text files and I track/backup it using git. Over the time I've accumulated some interesting modifications: - Authentication runs with pam on the host system. - To enable sharing of calendars I run a periodic script symlinki…

This. Have been using Radicale for years. Except occasional issues with BusyCal it's been a very smooth ride.

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Post by kridsdale1 »

m463 wrote: post #112
bflesch wrote: post #46

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Would be nice if you use your experience and financial stability of a Google job in order to build a better open-source protocol. Just like when ZX2C4 decided he's fed up with OpenVPN and went to create Wireguard this might be your moment to shine. IMO the quality of software is only pushed forward by motivated individuals with the right skillset.

https://xkcd.com/927/

This is one of those xkcd index numbers I know exactly the mapping of when I see the url.
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