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Has anyone reached out to the author and asked if they'd be willing to toss a few things into a repo between now and April? I'm not asking for open-source maintenance, but it would be nice to self-host something Slimvoice-like on my own domain.

I'm curious how it's implemented--maybe https://weasyprint.org/ for the PDFs?

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I think the author deleted herself / himself everywhere. I'd like to know if I could buy the service and leave it online.

If someone has contact to the author, I'd be pleased for some details.

It's ran by Sensor Station LLC, email seems to be `lookout@sensorstation.co`

Also this seems to explain why everything is gone (snippet from his site winduptoy.sensorstation.co):

> we go to great lengths to avoid being tracked, marketed to, and information being sold. we started using dumb-phones, deleted Google, social media, and SaaS accounts, and self-host whatever we need. we choose open source software whenever possible and max-out our ad blockers when on the web. we subscribe to zero subscription services.

Since Slimvoice removed the Google login for privacy reasons, I'm not surprised they've escalated their idea of living off the grid. Their ideals have left us out of their great service, and honestly it doesn't bother me but they should have at least left it self-host.

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