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by mawise 6y ago
I've thought about that, and I'm particularly interested finding a way to use IndieAuth[1] to support lots of alternative logins. I don't have any experience with Facebook login but I am worried about allowing Facebook to be
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by mawise 6y ago
You're right. This is a trust issue that's difficult to reason about. I'd like to encourage people to self-host as much as possible and I plan to be as open as possible about how I'll do hosting. Paid hosting means th
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by mawise 6y ago
I've been thinking about licensing, but haven't settled on a license yet. I might use AGPL, but I want to consult with someone with legal background before making that decision.
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by mawise 6y ago
This is a problem. Haven lets you share magic login links with people if you don't want to give them an email/password combination.
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by mawise 6y ago
Right now I don't have any size enforcement included in the hosted solution. And individually uploaded object can be up to 25mb (IIRC). If users start blowing out the S3 usage, then I might have to revisit this. The hosted solution (
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by mawise 6y ago
I actually tried building it that way first. I made a tiny static site generator and had Apache enforce basic auth. Creating new users required ssh-ing to the server and modifying the account list. I didn't see that as an approach t
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by mawise 6y ago
This is a problem. I initially couldn't get my wife's Grandmother to see the site because sending her a password was too complicated. I have since implemented magic links for login. When you create an account for someone you ca
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by mawise 6y ago
Thank you!
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by mawise 6y ago
Censorship is a tough topic. As long as Haven is restricted to private posting, then it should be able to operate with 100% freedom of speech. When you send an email to your friend, you get 100% freedom of speech. Private, access restric
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by mawise 6y ago
Thank you! Data export is important, and it doesn't exist yet. Exporting the users table and the text content of posts/comments will be straightforward, but extracting all the images is going to take a little bit more work.
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by mawise 6y ago
Thank you!
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by mawise 6y ago
Those are great feature-rich platforms, but their focus is on public distribution. Configuring them to be private isn't trivial and even then they're much more complex to operate. Haven focuses on privacy and I've tried to
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by mawise 6y ago
I embed username and password in the URL; each user gets their own dedicated RSS Url. Support for this among feed readers is admittedly spotty, for example Inoreader requires you to be on a paid plan and Feedly doesn't support it. If
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by mawise 6y ago
Hey HN, I’m the author, Haven has been my side project for a little while. The core idea is that we should be able to make it easy for anyone to host their own private webpage as an alternative to centralized social media. A lot of the dec
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Show HN: Haven – Run a private website to share with only the people you choose(havenweb.org)
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by mawise 6y ago
That makes sense, but it also means the selling point is data portability more than data privacy/security. Since I would already need to give an application access to my data, I might as well have them host it for me. It still feels
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by mawise 6y ago
I do them as part of work hours, and while not mandatory I do strongly encourage everyone to participate. I think the increased team cohesion is well worth 2 hours a month of "lost" productivity.
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by mawise 6y ago
I've never seen a compelling explanation of how this is supposed to work. Do people self-host their pods? Is the pod one more thing to sign up with an external provider? If I'm self-hosting my pod anyway, then wouldn't I wa
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by mawise 6y ago
I try to do this with my team at least once a month for a couple hours. Some games we've enjoyed: Among Us: https://innersloth.itch.io/among-us Telephone Pictionary: https://rocketcrab.com/game/dr
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by mawise 6y ago
> I feel like sometimes this pisses the hardcore rowers off but I’m not a rower, I’m a tech guy. I also think fitness is important and have been working out all of my adult life. Some other comments have mentioned the Concept 2 and how i
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by mawise 6y ago
I think stylistic self-expression is important! While this article focuses on desktop and owned devices, there's been similar sentiment about the web (for example: [1]. Facebook gives everyone's site the same uniform styling, so
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by mawise 6y ago
I was jumping through similar hoops for a while to get Amazon smile donations, but then I looked at their numbers for how much gets donated and it was a pretty trivial amount. I don't remember what I found (anyone have any stats on Am
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by mawise 6y ago
An open source private blogging platform designed for self-hosting and limiting access to your friends and family. https://simpleblogs.org
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There's another dimension that nobody seems to talk about, and that's what happens with access to content is restricted. There is basically no censorship and no abuse from "those who can't get away with stuff on other n
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by mawise 6y ago
RSS and Webmentions[1] do this pretty well on otherwise ordinary websites. The protocols exist, we just need to make them easier to use for non-engineers. [1]: https://indieweb.org/Webmention
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by mawise 6y ago
I don't see anything on the readme about OCR. In the PDF conversion, does OpenScan do any OCR? I guess I expect this from a document scanning app these days, but I don't really know the space. Are there any good open-source OCR
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by mawise 6y ago
If you have imagemagick installed and an svg icon, you can use the following to generate the other 4 types: convert -resize 48x48 icon.svg favicon.ico convert -resize 180x180 icon.svg apple.png convert -resize 192x192 icon.svg 192.png conve
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by mawise 6y ago
Disclosure, I have no specialized knowledge or experience. I wonder if he's already worked a deal with the investor? If he's offering the investor half of your stake to push you out (for example), you might be able to turn the ta
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by mawise 6y ago
I've been working on a side-project that aims to be a self-hosted alternative to centralized social media. The core idea that anyone should be able to easily host their own private website where they control access and retain control
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> One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting. - Salman Rushdie As soon as you get behind censorship, you are preventing things like cri

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