Memos - Easily capture and share your great thoughts. Open Source and Free forever (www.usememos.com)

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[-] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 80 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 12 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

See my adjacent comment

[-] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 1 points 9 months ago

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

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

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

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

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!

[-] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 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).

[+] EVERGREEN@lemmy.one 2 points 5 months ago

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[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Ah - I actually moved away from Memos (I just wasn't using it and it was taking resources for no benefit) so I can't actually directly help, buuuuuut I want to be optimistic and assume that the 'feature' was removed given the page 404ing.

You could use something like NextDNS (or any other DNS solutions that offer logging, I just use ND on my network), set up as the server's DNS provider, and see if the domain (above) shows up in the logs after a couple days. Though if you're running other software alongside it, then it might not be from Memos, which can lead you down a 'disable, wait, check, repeat' rabbit hole. But that's how I would do it, myself.

Sorry I don't have a quick and easy solution for you :(

[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Aww, I love their icon!

[-] Akui@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Discover5164@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

how does this compare with silverbullet?

can i link pages? do queries?

[-] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

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

[-] jcrabapple@infosec.pub 1 points 9 months ago

So this is like a public notebook?

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 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)

[-] namelivia@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

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

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