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Helm is a personal server that lives where you do
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
People who are consciously trying to de-couple from big tech are the same people who are conscious about lock-in effects.
There isn't any lock-in using a Helm. You can always access and export your data on the LAN using standards-based clients to get your data wherever you'd like it to be.
Arguing with people who are trying to tell you how to market better isn't going to help you market better. Quite the opposite.
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#153If I'm drawing an analogy here, owning your server and hosting your own services is like having your own house and having a SAAS is like renting a house. A lot of people want to own their house while too many service/hardware providers are trying to be your landlords. This is a cool idea but I think having a mandatory subscription killed it for me. It does not even provide an illusion that I can still have my own ser…
If Nextcloud is all you need, you are welcome to check out HomeDrive: https://www.homedrive.io/
It also terminates TLS at the box, and has no recurring charges.
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#154Is no one going to mention the name collision with the kubernetes tool?
This. I was surprised to find this comment so deep.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you access your NAS remotely? Does it end up creating some kind of backdoor into your network with cloud support? That makes me nervous…
In a very boring and traditional way: you buy a domain name, configure dynamic DNS, and then use port forwarding in your home firewall. No 3rd party proxies.
Not sure that makes me anymore comfortable! Open port to my storage from the internet?
But I’m glad they’re not backdooring anything….
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#156I like the product, I understand the subscription, but I don’t get it when someone tries to sell « secure email » (looking especially at you, Protonmail). Email in itself is never going to be universally secure, that cause is lost to the simplicity and the federated aspect of the protocol, and it’s ok… just don’t try to tell me otherwise.
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#158I feel like this is just capialising on people's privacy and security fears.
Helm provides an offsite backup anyway, so why not just use a NextCloud provider + Cryptomator?
And email is a nightmare to self host and maintain, especially for a primary address. If you need real secure communication just use something other than email.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the TLS is terminated on the device and all it's using AWS for is a static ip and inbound port for email, that seems pretty harmless.
That's exactly how it works
I feel that the internet is doing the full circle again, mediated by rent seekers -
1. all IPs are the same, email for everyone
2. residential IPs cannot into email cause spam
3. consumers don't get into IPs anymore cause CGNAT
3. AWS collects all the other available IPs and rents them out
4. consumers can now get IPs again, rented from AWS
5. ...
6. profit !
Re: Helm is a personal server that lives where you do
#160I feel like this is just capialising on people's privacy and security fears. Helm provides an offsite backup anyway, so why not just use a NextCloud provider + Cryptomator? And email is a nightmare to self host and maintain, especially for a primary address. If you need real secure communication just use something other than email.
There is a quite good review here: https://theintercept.com/2019/04/30/helm-email-server/
That also explains why you might want it.