Local-first software (2019)
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Local-first software (2019)
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#2Unfortunately local-first software is incompatible with you being a slave to your preferred technology company of choice (Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft).
If it wasn't for GDPR, most of these companies wouldn't even offer exports of your data.
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#3Was this paper in a journal?
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#4I skimmed the desired qualities, the review of current tools, and finally the software centric approach to achieving the stated goals.
While we can reasonably expect software elements in any proposed solution, the hardware and physical elements of distributed computing may provide a far simpler pathway and likely will permit much greater reuse of existing proven software approaches.
For example, all future multi-unit residences could come with 'data center' along with the boiler, or possibly the actual units will host this equipment along with their air conditioning units. All your cloud apps can now point to this cloud. I don't see any fundamental reason why 'data center' can not become a modular utility unit, coming in domicile, commercial, and industry grade flavors.
In my view, the pure software solution approach to the 'modern informaton society' has implicit political dimensions. One of these is the concentrated private ownership and control over physical resources which are now a required substrate of modern society. I for one am not ready to accept that as 'acceptable'.
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#5Unfortunately local-first software is incompatible with you being a slave to your preferred technology company of choice (Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft). If it wasn't for GDPR, most of these companies wouldn't even offer exports of your data.
GDPR was born yesterday, and government intervention on such private matters can really cause a disaster. You want to have control over your data, and just to cite one case, Apple has started embracing it a while ago ahead of GDPR laws. Perhaps because it is a hardware company it has more incentives (like, it could very well create something akin to a 'family vault' that would be a fancy digital vault that you could buy and store your family data on it, and it would survive even fires - just thinking some crazy ideas, so don't judge me too much).
I am positive that market forces would achieve the same effect sooner if it were not by GDPR. One thing that has to change in my opinion is the idea of 'exporting out'. People should be using such services to import in what they have to share with others, instead of blindly relying on them to access remotely.
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#6Unfortunately local-first software is incompatible with you being a slave to your preferred technology company of choice (Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft). If it wasn't for GDPR, most of these companies wouldn't even offer exports of your data.
GDPR was born yesterday, and government intervention on such private matters can really cause a disaster. You want to have control over your data, and just to cite one case, Apple has started embracing it a while ago ahead of GDPR laws. Perhaps because it is a hardware company it has more incentives (like, it could very well create something akin to a 'family vault' that would be a fancy digital vault that you could…
Unfortunately in the real world, noone writes about the Honeywell basic-ass wifi AC controller but instead jizzes themselves over the Google Nest "with AI" which I will find time to write an extension that replaces "with AI" with "with if statements" sometime this century.
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#7TODO: build a local-first livestream remote conference zoom alternative software
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#8TODO: build a local-first livestream remote conference zoom alternative software
You mean jitsi?
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#9Unfortunately local-first software is incompatible with you being a slave to your preferred technology company of choice (Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft). If it wasn't for GDPR, most of these companies wouldn't even offer exports of your data.
GDPR was born yesterday, and government intervention on such private matters can really cause a disaster. You want to have control over your data, and just to cite one case, Apple has started embracing it a while ago ahead of GDPR laws. Perhaps because it is a hardware company it has more incentives (like, it could very well create something akin to a 'family vault' that would be a fancy digital vault that you could…
It's pretty common for up-an-coming players in a market to push for interoperability and then once they have dominance to shut it down. This happening is not proof that GDPR isn't needed as such measures only cover a small fraction of the market at any given time.
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#10I skimmed the desired qualities, the review of current tools, and finally the software centric approach to achieving the stated goals. While we can reasonably expect software elements in any proposed solution, the hardware and physical elements of distributed computing may provide a far simpler pathway and likely will permit much greater reuse of existing proven software approaches. For example, all future multi-unit…
There is whole bunch of reasons and that bunch of reasons has name IoT.
I mean that security of such utility units would be roughly what we already see with current breed of IoT devices. To keep some kind of quality level of such devices there would have to be one big company that produces them, which does not solve the problem. If you look at IoT devices manufacturers now there is so much crap floating around because there are so many of them.
I don't think it is "evil corporations concentrating power" it is more "normal people have better things to do". If you are plumber you want to spend time fixing pipes not setting up your homepage. Putting some ad on Facebook for a plumber is perfect solution.