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Screw it, I’ll host it myself

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Re: Screw it, I’ll host it myself

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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 always wonder why people don't trust their offsite back-ups to cloud providers.

Oh I trust them not to delete my encrypted data and that's all that I'd ask. But I still don't have backups on hardware that I don't own: it's super expensive. From the cost of hosted backups, I could buy a hard drive of the same storage space every three months or something. And hard drives live longer than three months.

Putting a raspberry pi with a big hard drive at a friend's place is rather power efficient, dead simple to setup if you have any technical knowledge at all, and off-site. Use Restic or something to avoid having to trust your friend or whoever will burglarize the place. They have an Internet connection anyway and where I live, there are no bandwidth caps.

Re: Screw it, I’ll host it myself

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Eh? People who installed Sandstorm in 2014 are still getting regular security auto-updates today, even if they haven't touched their server between then and now. The very first app package ever built for Sandstorm -- created before Sandstorm was even announced publicly -- still works today, on the latest version of Sandstorm.

No, there are no backports of security fixes for the applications.

Sandstorm's security model inherently mitigates most application security bugs.

That said, it's definitely true that Sandstorm's app library suffers from insufficient maintenance.

Re: Screw it, I’ll host it myself

#493

"Is it worth the time and hassle? Only you can answer that for yourself." No. Absolutley not. The little sys admin work I have to do at work is all that I want to. I trust Apple and Google with all my stuff -- icloud storage, passwords, Google for email, etc. It just works, and I can move on with my life and focus on things of value to me instead of worrying about an upgrade blowing things up, security patching, back…

Exactly.

"If I had to guess, I would say ~40 hours"

That's just the tip of the iceberg if you're going to maintain this for years upon years. No thanks

Re: Screw it, I’ll host it myself

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Doesn't look very simplified on mobile, that's for sure.

As much as I love the way HN's design goes against many trending "UX" conventions, I think the long-time refusal to put in very very basic simple fixes like this one is bizarre. The messed up presentation on mobile is 100% a mobile bug, for which there is a very easy fix on the dev side, and no good workaround on the commenter side. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think they recently changed it so pre-formatted areas wrap. They used to not wrap which made text hard to read on mobile.

Re: Screw it, I’ll host it myself

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I wonder where you live, do you mind sharing the region? (I have the privilege to live in central Europe, where OSM is actually chock-full of information.)

I live in the rocky mountains area of the USA.

I'm genuinely interested, but when I zoom in to a 'random' town in the Rockies I see this

- on OSM: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/40.3730/-105.5230 (or https://www.qwant.com/maps/noresult#map=16.00/40.3730000/-10...) - on Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3730,-105.5230,16z

Seems mapped quite good to me. You might find some time to contribute a bit to make OSM even better, all users profit, not only Google :)

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