[NBLUG/talk] talk Digest, Vol 166, Issue 1

Wed Mar 14 21:48:31 PDT 2018

sorry, haven't brushed up on the protocol and i don't pay much attention
to the lists. i missed tues march 13 NBLUG meeting and i very much
want to see whut the group was discussing that night.

so how do i get 'twitch' and where do i find NBLUG there?

thanks

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>    1. Entering the age of dumb. Advice on cloud storage for my
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> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:01:48 -0700
> From: Kendall Shaw <kshaw at kendallshaw.com>
> To: "General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions,
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> Subject: [NBLUG/talk] Entering the age of dumb. Advice on cloud
>         storage for my desktop stuff
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> Ideas about platform neutral, vendor independent, cloud based storage
> and applications for things like email, calendars, documents?
>
> Google docs and gmail don't fit, because they leave me tethered to
> Google and I am thinking in terms of persistence spanning decades, not
> days or weeks.
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> Kendall
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> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 08:59:14 -0700
> From: "Zack Zatkin-Gold" <zg at zk.gd>
> To: "General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions,
>         etc." <talk at nblug.org>
> Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Entering the age of dumb. Advice on cloud
>         storage for my desktop stuff
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> Most of the platforms out there are either built on open source software
> or have evolved from a predecessor that was built on top of or supported
> open source software, which means that you should be able to find a
> somewhat full fledged solution to meet your needs, minus a feature or two.
>  I recently set up all of these services (email, calendar, contacts, and
> more) for myself and had little to no difficulty in the process.  I would
> say that the biggest pain point was getting my outbound email to avoid the
> spam folders of my recipients and also having to accept that some
> functionality was lost.
>
> Your approach to setting up these various services depends really on how
> you want to start.  If you prefer to just dive in the deep end, I'd start
> by spinning up a virtual machine on DigitalOcean or AWS which will cost
> you upwards of $20/month.  Depending on which service you want to set up,
> here are some suggestions for what to dig into if you want to do it how I
> did:
>
> - Email: Postfix (for mail transfer), Dovecot (for IMAP / POP3 access),
> OpenDKIM (for security around email), SPF (another security related
> feature)
> - Calendar: CalDAV server (I use Baikal - http://sabre.io/baikal/)
> - Contacts: CardDAV server (also Baikal - http://sabre.io/baikal/)
> - Documents: WebDAV server (http://sabre.io/dav/)
>
> One of the challenges that you'll face after you've set up your own
> services is finding a client that works well with the service.
> Fortunately for email, a lot of the default clients across devices (e.g.
> Mail in iOS) still support open source protocols.  You shouldn't have too
> much difficulty with email (IMAP and POP3 are still supported).  Finding a
> client that works with your Calendar and Contacts services should be easy
> to find too as they are still built around the open-source protocols --
> Calendar on iOS and Contacts on iOS both work well with my services,
> though I had to make some tweaks to get more advanced features to work.
>
> I might be able to provide some general guidance if you get stuck with
> something specific on the above list I provided, though Google may be able
> to find you a better solution too.
>
> > Ideas about platform neutral, vendor independent, cloud based storage
> > and applications for things like email, calendars, documents?
> >
> > Google docs and gmail don't fit, because they leave me tethered to
> > Google and I am thinking in terms of persistence spanning decades, not
> > days or weeks.
> >
> > Kendall
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