NoProvider2Push is a good call! Haven’t paid attention to that, thanks!

Yeah, as I said earlier it wasn’t completely clear to me if this was only a question about push notifications or just all-round play services replacement. That is why I also mentioned SunUp which uses UnifiedPush.

I’m not sure what you’re asking. There is microG that spoofs Play services to apps. That’s been around for several years.

You can also find open source push notification apps on f-droid. Some of those might require a self hosted server, while for example Sunup uses Mozilla’s server.

Whether those work on your device probably depends on your ability to root it 🤷

Have you tried the Wayback machine?

Companies like OpenAI built “Super AI”

Let me stop you right there. No they didn’t, and at this rate they never will. What we have is shit “AI”, and if your solution to that builds on more shit “AI”, you’ll end up with a Jurassic Park sized midden.

Everything past that first false premise is best read as satire.

Right, it was the local filesharing part (like at a W/LAN party) that I wanted to recommend pirate box for, so I overlooked the other functions 🙂

Either way, bookmarked your GH repo for future reference, excellent project!

Oh hey, this is just what I was looking for recently! I wanted to recommend PirateBox to another thread on here, but realised it was eol’ed six years back. This is pretty much similar usage, right?

That’s fine, mbin didn’t exactly provide the url I’d expect. Callinghttps://kbin.earth/m/vinyl@lemmy.world the “original post URL” rather than https://lemmy.world/post/28778258 looks a bit off to me.

Just plucked the URL from my own latest post to test: https://kbin.earth/m/vinyl@lemmy.world/t/1255550

According to mbin, that’s the original post URL, but does the site need a different format? Because trying another random post from my timeline I get a list of votes: https://programming.dev/post/29327147

Appreciate the effort, but

Failed to fetch votes

Even simpler, I love it! 👍

Simplest possible solution, Occam’s Inventory 😄

I use markdown extensively, but I’m honestly not fond of its tables function (which I assume you use for this purpose?). It works, but it’s a bit static in my experience. Do you run up against the same, or is it actually an advantage in your use case?

Agreed, Nextcloud has gone from a lean little personal cloud to a hulking enterprise hub.

If you’re after something that’ll just sync your files between devices, try Syncthing. If you need files available online, maybe something like filestash or, like somebody else suggested, SFTPgo.

There are also tiny, lean calendar and contact server apps out there if you decide you need those. After self hosting NC for years I’m really happy spreading out the tasks over dedicated services rather than having all my eggs in one basket.

I’d completely forgotten about those. Can we bring back “the right to air gap”?

+1 re WiFi. As I recall, with older laptops you may have to dig around to find some WiFi drivers for Debian — but they’re most likely there, just not in the default repo.

Well, you can use/link a mastodon account if you already have one.

Yeah, that’s what I did. I meant the feature set gave me more possibilities than I could handle 😄

According to their documentation:

login with other Fediverse identity and import social graph

• supported servers: Mastodon/Pleroma/Firefish/GoToSocial/Pixelfed/friendica/Takahē

It’s pretty cool in that it allows cataloguing more media types than just books, so that’s a leg up over Bookwyrm. IIRC it also pulls item information from relevant (open API) databases, so you get the synopsis etc filled in?

For me starting a new account that also made it kind of overwhelming. I’ve never catalogued my books anywhere, so the possibility of doing that, and input watched film, TV shows, etc — suddenly my media habits turned into a bit of a chore 🙂

Oh, never actually tried Bookwyrm, but I’d expected it would have a social aspect as well? That seems like a lost opportunity.

[Edited to add:] Have you had a look at NeoDb? Also a tracker, but apparently with more social aspects —

users can share their collections, publish microblogs, and engage with others in the Fediverse

I only had superficial experience with NeoDb, so can’t say with certainty if a Lemmy community and threads for individual books may be better for you.

we’re trying to make a federated bittorrent tracker, in the short term as an emergency information preservation vessel to avoid a fascist memoryhole, in the long term as a merger between the lessons of the federated and pirate web:

• web: https://sciop.net/
• code: https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/sciop
• in re: @SafeguardingResearch@fedihum.org : https://safeguar.de/
• Safeguarding forum: https://forum.safeguar.de/

Dunno about you all, but I think “the lessons of the federated and pirate web” sounds intriguing at least.

Scratching my head over this as well. Yes, it might diminish casual discovery uptake that the app isn’t in the Play Store, but for this target group I think most users would be comfortable downloading the app from Fdroid.

The larger issue with closing down the entire project including notification servers(!?) is probably a tell that there have been other factors weighing on the developer?

Either way, if the source code is openly available maybe others will pick up development in a way that isn’t as vulnerable to corporate policy changes.