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adrn10

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    Comment #46234251

    So how do you like the article's suggestion to separate "growth hacking" from "commoning"? Are you saying that both are misleading, or agreeing with it? Not sure I get your point

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    Comment #30271789

    And you are cordially invited to our chatroom on Matrix, if you want to hack around Garage: https://matrix.to/#/#garage:deuxfleurs.fr We used to mostly talk French there - until ye…

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    Comment #30262540

    This depends on your workload. It would work, but we first target fiber optics domestic connections.

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    Comment #30261923

    We haven't looked too much into VPNs, although we do need some plumbing to distribute our whole infrastructure at Deuxfleurs.

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    Comment #30261890

    Thanks for your enthusiastic feedback, fellow breton! It's an interesting take you make about ML workloads. We haven't investigated that yet (next in line is e-mail: you see we tar…

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    Comment #30261146

    It was actually deliberate to present our project through the political lens, today. You will find a more streamlined presentation of Garage on our landing page at https://garagehq…

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    Comment #30259558

    This article broadly explains the motivation and vision behind our project. There are many object stores, why build a new one? To push self-hosting, in face of democratic/political…

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    Comment #30259211

    It's the layer below: a sound distributed storage backend. You can use it to distribute your Nextcloud data, store your backups, host websites... You can even mount it in your OS' …

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    Comment #30257988

    Busted! We might even have a Bagage[0] side-project... [0] https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/bagage

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    Comment #30257922

    We made a comparison here: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/design/benchmar... Other comments from my colleagues also shed light on Garage's specific features (do check…

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    Comment #30257781

    (Deuxfleurs administrative council member here:) Starting from a little association with 200€ in a cash box last year, we were indeed amazed to actually get this funding. I strongl…

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    Comment #30257592

    My bad T_T My colleagues keep picking on me for this. Now that you, complete stranger, you see it too, I'm feeling obliged to improve the situation!

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    Comment #30256994

    Basically, our association is trying to move away from file systems, for scalability and availability purposes. There's a similarity between RDBMS (say SQL) and filesystems, in the…

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    Comment #30256872

    So basically, we are a hosting association that wanted to put their servers at home _and_ sleep at night. This demanded inter-home redundancy of our data. But none of the existing …

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    Comment #30256838

    This is an actual object store - we just have a talent for naming artifacts

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    Comment #28549427

    Hey! NGI is funding Nyxt browser as part of the same sub-grant call. Check it out, I was quite thrilled! https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/

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    Comment #28549152

    (I'm also part of Deuxfleurs) With Garage, we are trying to eschew the need for a VPS, or at least provide on-premise failovers for individuals and tiny organisations. Our argument…