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Memos - Easily capture and share your great thoughts. Open Source and Free forever (www.usememos.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 81 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I thought I’d give this a shot, but the metrics/data collection flag was turned on by default and when I added a command to my docker-compose to turn them off, it was ignored. Then, I created an account and looked for a way to turn them off in the settings and there was none. You expect people interested in self-hosting OSS to be cool with sending data out of their network every time the server is started, a memo is created, a comment is created, a webhook is dispatched, a resource or a user is created?! Also, the metrics are collected by a 3rd party with their own ToS that could change at any time?

Holy hell, hard pass. I’d rather use a piece of paper.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Saved me the effort, thanks. Although, couldn't you just block the container from talking outside your network? I can't see why I'd need a memo app (server) to have access to the internet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

See my adjacent comment

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ah, nice one. Still, a bit annoying that it's opt out, rather than opt in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'd rather it be an initial setup question and/or at least a UI toggle in the settings, yeah

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

That’s not good enough in my opinion, it should be opt in, not opt out. They’re marketing it on their site as being more secure because you can self-host. It all just seems really skeevy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It would appear that blocking app.posthog.com on the host/network resolves this. But I got the parameter to work, too, as per https://www.usememos.com/docs/advanced-settings/metrics use '--metric=false' and bam, no DNS queries!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I’d assumed it would respect the —metric=false flag when building with docker run, but docker-compose is ostensibly supported and easier to work with. I was able to successfully change other configuration options (such as setting the db to use MySQL instead of the default SQLite) using the docker-compose ‘command’ block, but the metric flag specifically was ignored. It’s entirely possible that this is a bug and not an intentional attempt to hoover up user data. Either way, data collection should be opt-in by default (by law, imo).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Aww, I love their icon!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

ngl, at first glance I thought it was a ghost boy singing into a headset ^^;

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

how does this compare with silverbullet?

can i link pages? do queries?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Ooh silverbullet looks nice too, thanks. Link for the lazy: https://silverbullet.md/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Nice! But I'm currently using Obsidian for note taking

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So this is like a public notebook?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

"public" to registered users, it seems (but by default, memos are private; and the ability to set them as publicly can be disabled by the admin)