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Pushing the iCalendar Standard

Detlev Zundel — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 16:52:21 GMT

A few years ago I found out that my local waste disposal company offered an Android App mymüll.de with the capability to remind me the day before the collections. Back then it was easy to install and it saved me a few times from missing to put out the garbage cans, so I did not think any further of it. Only when the App on a later update started to request privileges that were surely not needed for a simple reminder service, I revisited the topic.

In the meantime I have an established calendaring solution in the form of my own NextCloud server and I wondered why it would not be possible to import the dates into a shared calendar. Most Apps on Android nowadays seem to exist because of the data collection features much rather than the actual functionality, so getting rid of yet another one is a worthwhile aim. Although people not seem to care, I for myself have decided not to install apps anymore requiring privileges not related to their intended task.

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RSS Is Dead. Long Live RSS!

Detlev Zundel — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 15:42:17 GMT

Mozilla published its intent to remove RSS support in Firefox 63 or Firefox 64 . The reasoning is that the feature is not widely used and so the code has become a large burden on the rest of the code base. Without knowing the Firefox code base, this explanation makes a lot of sense.

A comment on the previous post An Increasingly User-Hostile Web got me started using RSS only a few months ago, but because this workflow naturally supports reading news from different devices, it has become part of my daily workflow. All that was needed was the installation of Nextcloud News App on my existing server.

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Migrating To Nextcloud

Detlev Zundel — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:30:15 GMT

Although I was aware that the original author of ownCloud moved on to work on the Nextcloud fork, it never bothered me enough to check if I should migrate my ownCloud instance to the new software. With the recent reports on insecure ownCloud instances found by a scanner offered by the Nextcloud team, I took the time to investigate the situation.

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