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Re: Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

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Post by KomoD »

zplizzi wrote: post #64
KomoD wrote: post #50

These guys have been spamming issues in repos trying to promote this project and no disclosure whatsoever that they are associated with the project. https://github.com/search?q=%22cloudinabottle.toml%22&type=i...

(author here) I'm checking with my team to confirm these came from us, but if so I apologize for this - posts like these should come from a real account with proper disclosure, but also these sorts of requests feel premature for a project like ours that doesn't yet have a sizeable user base.

The user was called adl-collab, when it forked repos to add implementations it made them under a branch called "andrew".

The biggest contributor to the project in the last 3mo is andrewlaack... and we can also just take a guess that "adl" in adl-collab is AnDrewLaak.

Re: Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

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Post by pkulak »

KomoD wrote: post #50

These guys have been spamming issues in repos trying to promote this project and no disclosure whatsoever that they are associated with the project. https://github.com/search?q=%22cloudinabottle.toml%22&type=i...

Hardly seems worth the pitchforks.

Re: Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

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Post by Retr0id »

nicerice wrote: post #71
KomoD wrote: post #50

These guys have been spamming issues in repos trying to promote this project and no disclosure whatsoever that they are associated with the project. https://github.com/search?q=%22cloudinabottle.toml%22&type=i...

shouldn't we hold back with allegations while there's a non-0 chance this is just a user wishing their other services were supported too?

I checked, it's an Imbue employee (or someone impersonating one, which seems a bit far fetched). I could could cite my sources but it feels like doxxing / drawing too much attention to the mistake of an individual. My read is that it was a separate github account that they let an agent control.

Re: Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

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Post by yoz-y »

nepthar wrote: post #83

I have been working on literally this exact project for the past 6 months, down to the nomenclature used. Running into this on HN is… strange.

Happens. Had an idea (simple and stupid one), built it (with LLMs) went to register the domain. Found out somebody had the same idea and already put it there :)

Re: Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

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Post by rtpg »

nicerice wrote: post #71
KomoD wrote: post #50

These guys have been spamming issues in repos trying to promote this project and no disclosure whatsoever that they are associated with the project. https://github.com/search?q=%22cloudinabottle.toml%22&type=i...

shouldn't we hold back with allegations while there's a non-0 chance this is just a user wishing their other services were supported too?

project literally launched yesterday... come on

Re: Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

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Post by yoz-y »

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #59
marknsikora wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yea. When people talk about how simple things were in the past, I think they oblivious to the fact we were all writing out X11 configs by hand and having them break in all sort of strange and interesting ways. Open source has always been very "I gave it to you for free, I'm not going to hold your hand".

I've written X configs by hand, but only to get a few extra pixels of overscan. I've never needed to do this. My experience has always been that things just work. The UI has never been great, in that I need more explanation than the built-in manuals provide – unlike, say, Windows 95, where you can learn everything you need to know by clicking around – but it's not hard to avoid breaking things, and it's not that hard…

The amount of sleepless nights because an update broke sound, video or networking on Linux is uncountable. It was fun though.

Re: Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

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Post by yoz-y »

I think what this needs to be truly accessible by general public is a mobile app (most people don’t have computers) and to be able to deploy it (including setting up domains) from there. Payments would definitely be a problem because of the various app stores’ rules.

Re: Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

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Post by yoz-y »

One thing that I found LLMs useful for is devops.

I had rather good experience using agents to setup and deploy own cloud, Jellyfin and co. I experimented also getting a VPS, just giving the LLM the ssh keys and having at it. It’s pretty good.

If the AI stays afloat, then I think the future lies somewhere there. Not too sure about the security side of the things …

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