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"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" is a dangerous cope

How to self-host rybbit properly

How to self-host rybbit properly
"This website is being recorded for quality assurance purposes" See the live analytics data from this website Rybbit.io is a privacy respecting website analysis platform that is free and open source to anyone willing to run it on their platform. At the moment, self hosting it gives you almost everything that the $13 a month tier does with the exception of the email related items (price list can be found here). It's exceptionally easy to get up and running, with a very intuitive and insightful display of information regarding how real users are interacting with your website. Since implementing rybbit on this site last week, I've seen traffic from 53 unique users from 11 different countries. Details you don't want to miss As I said above,...
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Migrate Matrix server database to PostgreSQL

Deprecation warning, read before proceeding! Note: This article was written in 2021. Some steps — particularly around synapse_port_db and password management — may be outdated for newer versions of Synapse. If you're running an older version of Matrix, this guide is for you, otherwise check the official Synapse docsfor the most current guidance. While getting a Matrix chat server up and running is a relatively easy and well documented task, managing and maintaining the server is somewhat nebulous as far as existing documentation is concerned. For example, when my wife asked me to reset her password on our server, I quickly realized that I had no idea how to do such a thing. After some digging around on the net, it became apparent that...
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