You are most likely in France: your government does not allow publishing an app containing cryptography (in this case, Golang's crypto implementations and a package used by Syncthing - only using iOS libs should be fine) without authorization (which can only be obtained through French forms, at which point I'd want a French lawyer to be involved, so no).
You could of course build the app yourself from source.
Similarly, Trixie contains an updated version of Dovecot that (even though the version number seems to indicate otherwise) has a new configuration format that is not backwards compatible. This is clearly stated in the release notes but may be surprising nevertheless.
So, basically any local productivity tool, saving files in a synced folder.
While this works, Syncthing does not really provide anything for fine-grained collaboration or sharing (you only share full folders). Encrypted peers do allow storing files on a machine that you don’t have to trust.
What are you looking for? I used to use Notational Velocity in an encrypted volume hosted on Dropbox, but I ended up switching to Obsidian for the mobile support.
I’m not actually looking, Syncthing solves 90% and I’m hard pressed to believe anyone needs live document collaboration outside of an office context that screensharing doesn’t already solve. Most of the time when everyone “collaborates”, only 1-2 people of the group are doing the typing.
Unfortunately, most users don't know how to setup the tools you are talking about. Additionally they end up having to share some document at some point or another. They end up with browser based tools and a shared server. Google most of the time for individuals. Most users want their data in one place for all use cases.
Network effects make it so that only tools that allow you to invite anybody to your document (guests without accounts included) end up gaining traction. Desktop apps might be able to achieve this using some web proxy so who knows, it might change in the future.
Our goal at CryptPas is to make it familiar for them to move from Google while having e2ee here to protect their privacy, which also gives them a reason to switch
The more people can get out, to any open alternative, the more alternatives can then decide to fight each other.
In the mean time, we should not try too much to get the rest of the world on our own workflow, just let all the different approaches strive.
BTW maybe CryptPad's API ( https://github.com/cryptpad/cryptpad-api-examples ) could help you solve the case where you do need to edit a document collaboratively from your computer. Would you be interested in a tool allowing to create a session for editing with CryptPad allowing to sync back changes or save the end result back to your computer ?
Any tips for an app to use on iOS to capture the necessary .ply data?
Scaniverse is a great app by Niantic that can do this on-device, but it isn't very customizable and can't export its raw scanning data (exported .plys do not have the data this editor requires).
In my neighborhood (Netherlands) it appears the fiber network is physically point-to-point (subscriber to ODF), but is operated as XGS-GPON (so all subscribers see the same light signal so to say, but each over their own ptp fiber from the ODF). So point-multipoint only at the active layer.
I was told that this is because the company who is rolling out the fiber wants to make the network as attractive as possible to ISP’s who want to offer services over it (and wants them to compete) which may be more difficult in an actual physical point-multipoint network (which requires PON). The ISP currently likes PON more than AON (basically Ethernet over fiber to a switch) because the equipment is cheaper. In theory I should be able to switch to an ISP who offers AON or its own PON (they’d only have to physically patch my fiber in a different port at the ODF).
Even in Switzerland there were attempts of not building out AON. Swisscom was hoping they can get away with just having XGS-PON all the way to the customer and the other ISPs were also in favor of that (other than init7 which does not actually lay any fiber). The cost of P2P is pretty significant.
~CHF 65 more per connection is the cost difference that was calculated. For a de-facto future proof connection that should be considered insignificant.
Swisscom pissed away millions of tax payer money after the government ordered an injunction to stop building out on the P2MP network. All they did was continue but just not connect those lines hoping they would win the court cause.
Author here, I guess I could have chosen a better title. This article is about diving into complexity that seems insurmountable at first, with an engineer's mindset.
Author here - this figure is insane but also a bit of an exaggeration. I calculated it by running 'cloc' on the source code directory, not excluding node_modules. Many modules in there are actually unused or only used at build time. The built output (from Nuxt) that is actually run is much more compact (though partly minified so line counts are not that interesting). Also, Nuxt specifically is a bit overkill here, but greatly improved my productivity developing this website (and was chosen because it aligns with our other web applications, so less 'innovation tokens' [1]).
