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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • i mean each of the individual programs that can load your keepass keyring is a password manager.

    the keyring itself isn’t a password manager and the main reason why i use it is because each of the individual programs that i actually use to open it (keepassxc on windows, keepassdroid on my phone, keeweb hosted on my vps on other devices…) can use the same file with the same specification that is shared everywhere.

    i’m not bound to any particular program with a particular set of features. just use anything that can open that file format from a place where i choose to host it.


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    it’s technically no password manager but an encrypted file format.

    there are dozens of apps that will work on any platform, including soft keyboard with “password” button for smartphone that will just work everywhere and browser extensions, static website, apps that allow you to use your yubikey to unlock and anything else. you can host your vault anywhere including a google drive or your own webdav or ftp server and keep local copies on your devices synchronized…


  • I understand your points and agree with them. For me the experience with support has been quite opposite though… I can always find a solution (or at least an explanation) with Linux (I can go all the way down the rabbit hole to the source code if I would be so inclined) but with Windows it’s always been just black magic rituals or random software from the internets that either work or tough luck.



  • I tried both hosting my own mail server and using a paid mail hosting with my own domain and I advise against the former.

    The reason not to roll out your own mail server is that your email might go to spam at many many common mail services. Servers and domains that don’t usually send out big amount of email are considered suspicious by spam filters and the process of letting other mail servers know that they are there by sending out emails is called warming them up. It’s hard and it takes time… Also, why would you think you can do hosting better than a professional that is paid for that? Let someone else handle that.

    With your own domain you are also not bound to one provider - you can change both domain registrar and your email hosting later without changing your email address.

    Also, avoid using something too unusual. I went with firstname@lastname.email cause I thought it couldn’t be simpler than that. Bad idea… and I can’t count how many times people send mail to a wrong address because such tld is unfamiliar. I get told by web forms regularly that my email is not a valid address and even people that got my email written on a piece of paper have replaced the .email with .gmail.com cause “that couldn’t be right”…



  • I also started to think about the concept where communities would not be local to the instance and they would work more like domains… kind of like BBS groups did. Individual instances would then just host subgroup of these.

    But I think I found problem with that idea after reading your comment. Due to different moderation policies these wouldn’t be (and shouldn’t be) having the same content and contributors so they might as well be separate as they are.