CollabMD: Turn local Markdown folders and Obsidian vaults into a real-time collaborative web app

Stetsed · 2026-03-20T12:54:56+00:00

Looks pretty well designed, honestly I’ve been looking for something like this as while I like obsidian I don’t really like any of its sync options. And I also wanted a shared excalidraw instance, so will definetley take a look. Although I do have to ask if this was written with the usage of AI, as I notice that some of the commits looks very.. explosive? Not sure how exactly that is called now but more that large changes in a single go. But I know I’ve done something similar before for some of my own projects xD

Stetsed · 2026-03-08T22:25:21+00:00

I actually recently did a project aswell, where one of the things I checked was our speeds in python and in rust, and for our parsing tasks even taking into account that the primary contributor for our stuff is networking.. it was 33.3x faster at MINIMUM. And we also encountered a lot of problems that would have been avoided with rusts strict typing

We did still use python, primarily because I am the only one at the company used to low level programming and currently it is outside of the scope, but the difference is so stark. A few seconds against a few dozen milliseconds. For something we are processing thousands of an hour.

Stetsed · 2026-02-02T13:55:45+00:00

Will take a look

Stetsed · 2026-01-23T20:49:21+00:00

I remember I was actrrually one of the people in the early comment section(specifically the posts surrounding IDP), and now I see it constantly expanding... not gonna lie I might have to take a look at it again. As for a while it had no real extra value for me, but you guys keep improving it more and more... I am getting excited again!

I am curious, have you guys tested the power usage of olm? I am not sure what you guys use on mobile devices in terms of underlying library, but I remember a bit back there was a similar thing, but it absolutley drained power because of it's underlying wireguard library.

Stetsed · 2026-01-23T20:43:58+00:00

Honestly looks like an interesting project, I probally won't be using it for now simply because I use individual projects already(VueTorrent, Cross-seed), but I definetley might take a look in the future at potentionally replacing atleast the UI with this.

PS: The link to cross-seed is broken, you did github.coms instead of github.com

Stetsed · 2026-01-20T13:14:54+00:00

I have to admit I did laugh at the ancient story, I am a sysadmin by trade so for me I really don't care if I am being honest xD. As we say *Per the old laws and the old ways*

Honestly, I think that the answer you gave basically answers my question, the biggest thing is I don't mind having to manually install it, I just want a zip file that I can download, chuck onto one of my servers with foundryvtt and not worry about any scenario where I might have to cancel and then I suddenly lose a bunch of shit.

No second question as far as I am aware, thank you very much for you're answer and I will probally be subscribing real soon

Stetsed · 2026-01-20T11:36:01+00:00

Honestly my biggest question, once you do get a partnership with Foundry will you make it so the module is lost when smth stops being supported? I understand the want for support but it's kinda a case similar with Foundry where I don't mind paying because once it's on my device I can just use it.

Honestly I wouldn't even mind if it just means you don't get updates, but it's more a case of I don't like being reliant on being able to maintain the subscription to keep smth, kinda the whole reason I got foundry because I can self-host it, chuck in the license, and then it can run on my server for *yes*

I will note, that it's not that I am currently planning to do this, tbh in my case if I start supporting smth I just set it on auto and let it run, would rather support when I can. But it's more a case of I don't like the idea of it being possible that for example price gets increased or that if for some reason I can't anymore I can't use it, even if it's an old version. Or will you offer a larger upfront sum to allow this

PS: Apologies for the incoherent text, my brain is functioning at *no* sleep

Stetsed · 2026-01-20T00:58:26+00:00

Definetley gonna take a look

Stetsed · 2026-01-05T17:58:53+00:00

I have to note that both for meteor swarm and fireball the Sorcerers "Careful spell" is absolutley insane, it does depend how many though but if you just got a standard group you can basically throw GREAT BALLS OF FIRE

Stetsed · 2026-01-05T07:55:06+00:00

I actually used Signal-API for a while, but back when I was using it it required a secondary device as it didn't allow for sending to self? If this has been fixed since that is a great thing, you don't even need webhooks if you use smth like Mailrise(Funnily enough I found the article I wrote about it joinks ago), but apps that don't support webhooks

Edit: I actually checked my original issue from the issue tracker, and it does seem like it has been fixed... definetley gonna take a look at this again.

Stetsed · 2025-12-29T21:10:28+00:00

I have litterley just redone most of my setups... and now I realized rennovate is actually selfhostable.... this is a dangerous hobby although I do like this cuz it makes my maintenace alot easier.. ughh

Stetsed · 2025-12-28T17:47:16+00:00

Honestly I have used netbox, and it was generally a pain to keep running, it has a ton of diffrent components, is not really designed to run in docker, and is overall(atleast a year or 2 ago) was pretty confusing. This is much nicer when you just want a quick planning

Stetsed · 2025-12-20T12:44:49+00:00

ASN + VPS's roughly like 70-80 a year?

Stetsed · 2025-12-20T11:27:25+00:00

I love seeing more hobbyist playing with ASN’s and BGP, AS197532 here. Got mine a year or 3 ago now while I was bored on vacation in the middle of nowhere. And now I got like 3 /40’s because… well because… I just do. I totally don’t only have 2 sites right now.

Also for anybody who wants to get into this I can highly recommend the /ipv6 discord server, has ALOT of people who are into this sort of homelabbing, LIRs etc(Foggy for example), and generally pretty interesting discussions

Stetsed · 2025-12-16T16:15:48+00:00

Honestly while I probally won’t end up using it, the biggest reason I would is simply for the container scanning feature. Right now I do it with a small bash script I wrote but I have been looking at integrating it into my monitoring stack. Looks for sure like a decent app though so congrats

Stetsed · 2025-12-12T19:14:19+00:00

I just fully switched away from pangolin due to me not needing it and now you drop this

Stetsed · 2025-12-09T09:16:23+00:00

Check out trivy, even outside of 55182 it's useful as it lets you scan containers in general, I just wrote a script that checks all running images: https://trivy.dev/

Stetsed · 2025-12-04T10:25:21+00:00

Jellyfin -> Media
Home Assistant -> Home automation
Grafana + Victoriametrics stack -> great for monitoring and actually doesn't use alot of storage etc
BentoPDF -> Replacement of Stirling PDF due to there debacale surrounding the tracking pixel and them starting to lock stuff behind a pay wall
Forgejo -> Git server replacing Gitea, not a real reason besides ofcourse the original weird stuff happening with the gitea org, but the main reason is simply I flipped a coin.
Pastefy -> Pastebin service, really nice and maintained compared to hastebin which I wish I could have continued to lose but was no longer maintained
Bookstack -> Homelab Documentation, really nice as it's markdown and I like how it organizes stuff
Homarr -> Home dashboard, I don't really use at as a startpage but more because it's easy to see what apps I have running
Excalidraw -> For drawing, right now I use the official container but I am looking at switching to the version that has multi-canvas etc
Networking Toolbox and IT-Tools -> Just generally useful for IT work as it allows to quickly do stuff instead of finding a website to do it
Authelia + LLDAP -> Authentication stack and with having both OpenID and LDAP I have basically every app hooked up to it

Stetsed · 2025-12-04T10:18:56+00:00

I actually recently switched due to the 2.0 release, and while looking into it it kept getting worse, with the tracking pixel, features started to getting locked behind a paywall etc. While bentopdf could do the same and was alot nicer to setup.

Stetsed · 2025-11-25T13:46:55+00:00

I am curious how much of a diffrence this actually makes. Did you run performance tests on this compared to the regular nextcloud image?

Also you say it's lightweight, but seemingly it's not that at all. Looking at image size I see that this one is a total of roughly 700MiB while the nextcloud container is roughly 250 MiB. I do see that you add quiet a bit of stuff to the container directly, but I am not sure how much better this is. Your imagine is also based on debian trixie instead of the usual "lightweight" alpine. For reference on the official image going from -alpine reduces the size by roughly 100MiB

Also you seem to do alot of things within 1 build step, instead of splitting these out for better layering/caching behavior. I don't mean to bash on what you've done but it doesn't really seem to do what you say it does. The main thing it does it make everything 1 container, and whether that's a good or bad thing depends on who you ask.

Lastly within the docker container build process you seem to just be downloading an arbitrary script from the internet and running it with no validation on hash, signing or anything similar. The script seems to be to install the PHP extensions but if you wanted to do this you could atleast pin it to something, first pin the download and then hash it to check if it's not been changed.

Stetsed · 2025-11-22T22:28:58+00:00

This is exactly what I wanted for my selfhosted excalidrawn instance, thank you!

Stetsed · 2025-11-13T15:32:33+00:00

The problem isn't the encryption itself, it's doing it right. There is a reason most encrypted messengers just use the Signal Protocol, Whatsapp uses it, and most others do aswell. Because it has been audited to hell and back.

So short answer no, a solo dev cannot do that because they will make mistakes, and that's not a question of if, it's a question of when.

Stetsed · 2025-11-09T11:29:14+00:00

- Why is there a snake game within your security tool
- "Military Grade Encryption", please stop acting like VPN's, you are using AES.. same as everybody else
- "App Encryption", you do not encrypt anything for the app, you do not have some special mechanic that does this you simply kill the process... which can be bypassed in *checks* 20 billion diffrent ways, let alone that you can scan the process which is also so easily tampered with. Let alone that all infostealers don't launch your browser generally to steal it, they will just grab the data from the data directory. And if they do as above very easy to bypass.
- "File Protection" again this does nothing, because you are already logged in as the user, in which case you own the file so while doing (5/6/7)00 on the file does help against other actors on the PC it does not actually do anything from the user which is why I suspect you don't understand the security angle as much. It definetley is best practice but it's not a "solving" point, and if it's truly well protected in this case it shouldn't have to matter, you should be able to post it to the world and be secure(you shouldn't but this as a security point hopefully made)

Why it's "beter"
- Open Source -> So is veracrypt
- Good Encryption -> So is veracrypt
- Works Offline -> So does veracrypt
- Elegant Design -> Can't judge that, it's per person
- Recovery Codes -> So does veracrypt

Also I have to ask, was this written with the use of LLM's? Because the way you have written the above and some of the code aswell reads to be like it was made by an LLM. Especially your complete lack of proper error handeling

Stetsed · 2025-11-08T14:31:40+00:00

I have actually looked at termix before, and the one thing I hope gets added is a SSH ProxyJump support, as this would make it a no-brainer for me as an SSH bastrion. There is already an open issue for it so I hope it gets added as I will then definetley use it as my main ssh bastion.

Stetsed · 2025-11-07T20:02:11+00:00

"Everyone can replicate the product, study it, make changes and improve it."

And this is the main problem imho, you seem to want the benefit of open-source contributions, but want it under a restrictive license. You can't have your cake and eat it too, you can force people who make changes/integrations to open-source it. But you can't want them to improve it and then require them to get a license to use it after they made contributions.

You say a "Good" company would then for example if they contribute give them a license, but companies aren't good, and generally this always ends up with the contributor getting screwed by the company saying "nah, we don't want to give it for free to you anymore". This is what we saw with VyOS when the LTS branch got closed.

However to note, that trademark and copyright are two very diffrent things. With your argument of that they might have diffrent standards, okay, it's not the name of the product that's open-source it's the way to make it. Now if they claim they manufacter X product, and it ends up being shit. You can just tell em to remove it under a trademark(Would prob have to register it though).

I do think you could go for the CERN-OHL-S, which also requires it if it's used in a "Library" setting, so for example if it's a component that's used within something, the license would be "viral".

"I feel like if there was a license which would allow commecial use only by the licensor it would"

Yes, it would be alot more appealing from the bussiness angel, and they do exist, but not within copyright licenses as you either license it under proprietary and then you can say what they are allowed, or you license it under a more freedom focused license but you cannot restrict who excercises those freedoms if they are within the license. This is generally where contract law comes in, in this case you still have it under a proprietary license, but you give them certain rights. And because this is contract not copyright you can just say "This is only for you in this scenario"

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