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"A drinking game recommendation (careful, it may and probably will lead to alcoholism): take a shot every time you find out how someone’s data has been locked and their business was jeopardized because they didn’t own, or at least back up their data." That one put a smile on my face.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
You don't really own any of your cloud data, even if it feels like it. If you want to own your data then it needs to reside on private computers in private spaces - though that does not preclude you from sharing but you lose control of what you share.
I always wonder why people don't trust their offsite back-ups to cloud providers. I know they're trying to get away from getting locked out of their data, but what are the odds a burglar steals their computers on the exact same day their cloud provider locks them out because they violated the 'no making fun of ridiculous cloud provider lockout policies' policy? As long as your house burning down and your cloud gettin…
I successfully extricated myself from Gmail to ProtonMail, only to be getting dragged back to Office 365 due to ProtonMail not having a working calendar and FastMail not supporting calendar sharing (to non-FastMail users) or delegation.
ProtonMail Calendar works fine now... give it a shot?
It's fine for simple use, but without the ability to create calendar invitations it's far from the competition. (To say nothing of sharing e.g. free/busy with my work calendar or delegation.)
Y'know what, Although I'm currently self hosting my email, my websites, my storage, my SQL, my Active Directory etc., I'm also in the process of migrating the whole lot to Azure and/or independent hosting. Why? It's just too much hassle these days; I want my down-time to be no longer dictated by my infrastructure. I don't want to have to spend off-work hours making sure my boxes are patched, my disks are raided, my o…
The reality is probably in excess of $1000/month. This only makes sense for people who have an abundance of spare time, and that's pretty rare these days.
Free software for DIY hosting like this is "free as in piano." Like a huge piano sitting on the street with a sign that says "free piano," it is actually not free at all when you factor in the hidden costs.
Hosting my own too. There's gmail as backup. But host my mail server, webmail, imap, smtp everthing. Blocking spam isn't that problem. But making sure your mail goes to the receiver's inbox is. You can block 90% of the spam by using only reverse DNS lookup -- doesn't match? Reject. 90% of the remaining can blocked using DKIM, SPF checks. No need for ip black hole check or spamassassin training. The benefit : I can bl…
Omg, yes, I really miss such a feature.
Where does he host his email? It doesn't say. Also, his website is very slow, probably because he's not using a CDN. A noble goal, but it has an impact on credibility. The slow website makes me feel like he doesn't care about user experience, which makes me assume that is true for his whole setup, and turns me off from even considering it.
i tried to use nextcloud for a good two years the mobile app is crucial to me and its search and performance let me down when the car broke down and the time i needed it at the most at the hospital i wish it was the not this way i really do
Ok, I’m SUPER into self hosting, but this article? No way. 1) Duck out isn’t a thing, just stop it. 2) Half the articles cited as examples of corporate abuse were later revealed to be mistakes by the user or easily avoidable pitfalls. 3) Self hosting still requires trust (software you’re running, DNS, domains, ISP, etc...) The line of who to trust and how far is a tough one to answer, even for the informed. How I sol…
I am perpetually confused about why people think that self-hosting on a VPS solves their privacy and security problems. While I'm sure there are controls in place at reputable VPS providers, it wouldn't be too difficult for them to grab absolutely anything they want. Even disk encryption doesn't save you. You're in a VM, they can watch the memory if they need to. Using a VPS can also make you more identifiable. Your…
“Using a VPS can make you more identifiable” I think you have a problem of “threat model” here. You’re mixing up hiding against hackers, governments, etc and just lumping it under “privacy and security” Using a VPS isn’t going to make you more identifiable to google, because you’re not using google now. Using a VPN isn’t going to make you more identifiable to your ISP, because all they can see is that you have a VPN up. Why not use a VPS for VPN? Well you’re only right it would suck if your threat model includes governments or hostile actors, me hiding from my ISP or on a public Wi-Fi? Not a problem.
You conflate a few ideas and threat models.
Security = The ability to not have your stuff accessed or changed. Privacy = The ability to not have your stuff seen. Anonymity = The ability to not have your stuff linked back to you. Threat model = Who are you protecting yourself from? E.g. The steps I take to not get hacked by the NSA are going to be different then the steps I use to make comments on 4chan or whatever are different than the steps I take to use public Wi-Fi.
Ref: I work for Amazon AWS, my opinions are my own insane ramblings.
Where does he host his email? It doesn't say. Also, his website is very slow, probably because he's not using a CDN. A noble goal, but it has an impact on credibility. The slow website makes me feel like he doesn't care about user experience, which makes me assume that is true for his whole setup, and turns me off from even considering it.
Why should he care about your user experience, for his own personal apps?