(i own this in digital format, we are not the same)
strangest thing. i updated firefox and now i have no notifications. only a limited number of sites have notification perms; they still say they have that permission and my system settings still have firefox allowed. i have another machine running ubuntu (with firefox from the PPA for apt) and notifications are unchanged there.
cargo install mollysocketmollysocket executable if desiredmollysocket once so that it will emit the default config.config/mollysocket/default-config.toml and copy it somewhere.allowed_endpoints line with allowed_endpoints = ['*']. The default 0.0.0.0 config appears to be a bug; this setting controls access to endpoints within the app, not IPs from outside. Leaving the original value causes mollysocket to reject everything.db = './mollysocket.db' line rather than just having it land wherever you're sitting.mollysocket.db that was created on first run (even if it's already where you're intending to put it). This is just to make sure the web server creates it and has the correct permissions.export ROCKET_PORT=8020
export RUST_LOG=info
export MOLLY_CONF=/path/to/your/config.toml
/ to your mollysocket server and ROCKET_PORT.you probably already found this, but for others who might be curious:
in the settings if you change notification method from websocket to unified push, the UP settings come up, including a server address (which is what they intend to be used) or some air gap mode that i can't find documented
if your threat model were 'encrypt everything at rest', invitations to people outside your own service would be tricky as they have to be machine-readable text in a specific format. i'm sure it's possible but you'd have to be specific in looking for that as a feature.
my needs are more modest - don't store email in GAFAM or particular regimes - and i use runbox, which is bog-standard except for being stored somewhere else, being paid, and having slightly more homely webapps. using 'evolution' on linux, a bog-standard email program that's also a bit more homely than alternatives, invitations go out to whomever i choose and look normal. i make recurring events for myself all the time and remove individual occurrences. i've added on ical subscriptions for things like country holidays, which are the first thing you'll notice missing when you leave outlook.
the mail's just imap and the calendar's just caldav. when you get into providers that don't provide imap or caldav for (valid) security reasons, that's when you're more likely to get integration issues with regular people.
i'm shopping for mp3 players for precisely this reason - a friend has an ipod touch that abruptly stopped scrobbling. the last.fm app is stuck in a loop sucking battery. and she needs bluetooth anyway. she has always kept music and phone separate but now we have to ask the five whys on that before getting her a new unfamiliar gadget.
part of humans learning to drive safely is knowing that flouting traffic laws increases your chance of being stopped, fined, or if you're not the right demographic, worse things. we calibrate our behavior to maximize speed and minimize cops, and to avoid being at-fault in an accident, which is a major hit to insurance rates.
autonomous vehicles can't be cited for moving violations. they're learning to maximize speed without the governor of traffic laws. in the absence of speed and citation data, it's hard to measure how safe they are. there is no systemic incentive for them to care about safety, except for bad press.
again not foss so won't dwell at length — but i use fund manager from beiley software. commercial, but works double-entry and handles more investment complexity than a human could ever need. windows app, i run it under wine on linux and crossover on mac. (i don't own a windows box — that's how irreplaceable it was for me.)
asus pn51, a mini nuc-like box
so per wikipedia and confirmed at MDN, firefox is the only major browser line not to consider certificate transparency at all. and yet it's the only one that has given me occasional maddening SSL errors that have blocked site access (not always little sites, it's happened with amazon).
i don't understand how firefox can be simultaneously the least picky about certificates and the most likely to spuriously decide they're invalid.
ooooh, give you up
h/t @cmconseils@mastodon.social
i rather doubt a government would push people out of signal-protocol apps and into Some Other App if they didn't already have a backdoor into the designated substitute