This is what I do. I keep the old ones around for a while, and every time I realize that I’m not missing anything, and delete them.

Worst case, I’ll have to root around in my backups. But it has never happened wrt browser bookmarks.

I am running things locally.

Sorry, I missed that. It invalidates part of my comment.

I cannot get an ssl cert for my local network stuff

You can make a self-signed cert. If your mobile app does not have an option to accept it (“ignore SSL errors”) then it won’t work, maybe there’s an alternative?

caldav does not support recurring stuff on the todo … It seems that they all internally juggle how recurring stuff happens

CalDAV is a protocol, which remains the same. The server has little to do with how apps handle things. I have no experience with tasks, but under the hood it’s just another calendar and does not treat recurring events differently. I’m guessing these limitations/inconsistencies are app specific.

So your server is running NextCloud? I hope you have it locked down tight, with all it’s web ui access points.

I started out with by doing my own calendar.

Wasn’t the first thing for me, but the most consistent over time. Calendar and Contacts, synced between phone and laptop. I used first DaviCal, now Radicale.

The next move I did was to bring my todo list over.

AFAIK these are just CalDAV calendars labeled todo; all you need is a different client app, the server software is the same.

Only downsides is that it is a bit more strict (particularly on the mobile app) about an ssl cert.

Can you explain? Doing things encrypted by default is extremely important.

passengers clients

Reminds me of some TV show where a rookie cop tended to forget that and the cop on the other end just stubbornly waited for an answer, every time.

Of course you can always just stop listening after n bytes, no need for a null byte then.

I personally don’t like their kitchen sink approach.

Thanks for the tip. Already set it up. I like it - does just what I need and not much more. And the web UI can be disabled.

I’m not sure how you’re having compatibility issues as I would think CalDAV is a standard protocol?

There used to be a mismatch between the spec and Google’s implementation of it.

There used to be a mismatch between the spec and Google’s implementation of it.

the vast scale of the data imo makes most of it worthless outside of demographics ad targeting

Not when each point is matched to a unique machine (i.e. user) ID. It’s not anonymous, it’s “anonymized” which is just snake oil (replace your actual name with a unique ID).

Also, I find ad targeting bad enough all by itself.

I still call it stalking.

Yep. Certain patterns are easily recognizable even by machines. One could have a relatively simple “IHeartRadio algorithm” that should work 99% of the time (esp. with Ed Zitron who brackets the blocks with that insane guitar riff).

Hell, I could even write that with ffmpeg and a shell script.

OK I’m being arrogant now, but not wrong.

But there’s a lot of podcasts, especially from sources like IHeartRadio, that have scads of annoying ads

And they’re so repetitive. And each block is the same length if I’m not mistaken. This could even be automated - not relying on human input - or at least half-automated.

I know what GNU is because I witnessed the people this meme was modeled after.

It sure does.

Just came to say Thank You!

I’ve been using FramaGit ever since Github went Microsoft.

Now I’m curious, how do we know how many bacteria there are on earth?

All your requirements are a given, except for wanting to do things in Python.

For now I have settled on Pelican - both frontmatter and templating feel very familiar to me. I might even be able to port my PicoCMS theme over. Usage is very straightforward.

I have not tried to install plugins via pip yet.

The theme repository is a holy mess, and most of the themes seem to be from Pelican’s starting days in 2013. They’re moving themes to an organisation but so far it has only 2 themes in it.

For now I have settled on Pelican - both frontmatter and templating feel very familiar to me. I might even be able to port my PicoCMS theme over. Usage is very straightforward.

I have not tried to install plugins via pip yet.

The theme repository is a holy mess, and most of the themes seem to be from Pelican’s starting days in 2013. They’re moving themes to an organisation but so far it has only 2 themes in it.