Does anyone remember younity? Same exact product, same exact tag line "personal cloud" etc. (ex-engineer here)
Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is the purpose of having "the cloud" in your home at all? To me "the cloud's" primary value is that it is running off-site, in an environment that capably and regularly deals with broken equipment. If my work is backed up in Google/Dropbox's data center, I don't have to worry about it if my house gets flooded. Having the cloud in your house, running on whatever stuff is laying around, just seems one small step r…
You're not wrong about the benefits of the Cloud. Some people make bomb shelters in their basement, some people stockpile canned goods. I stockpile data. I even have an old text only offline copy of the English Wikipedia. My main issues are privacy. I don't want Google peeking into everything I upload for marketing materials. I also don't want to trust a third party company with my kids photos. They can change their…
Great dialogue here, you should turn it into a video with some epic music in the background, and fading images in and out, rock flag and eagle.
And host the video on a rasberry pi, at your home, on Peertube
I have been enjoying learning about self hosting, Matrix.org has been the next project I am interested in, once I get bored with other current hobby projects. Hosting my own node, that and I am waiting for the Google photos clone to get up version 1.0 so I can self host all my images too.
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#63This is the offer: "The beta version of Duple is now available. You can download it and use it for free. However if you’d like to participate in the Duple beta program, and get a lifetime discount as a reward, click here." But I don't understand what we are paying for going forward. Presumably you pay for the software once. Is there a recurring charge of some sort? What for? If the software is on premise, you can't r…
Better to use syncthing, simple equivalent & free / open source.
Syncthing is great (I use it for all my syncing needs), but it's scope is limited. It doesn't really solve file sharing in a user-friendly way.
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#64"military-grade encryption" in marketing materials always scares me. Just tell me what the algos are
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#65Terrible website design. Absolutely no reason to block all content just because I have js turned off.
While it would be nice if they provided HTML endpoints, there are valid reasons for using SPAs, even for text-heavy sites. That said, the loading bar is a bit mind-blowing IMO.
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#66From what I can gather from the FAQ, this won't work for routers behind a NAT, which is the case for me and I assume many others too, this should probably be mentioned somewhere. A bit worrying that it'll be forever closed source, especially since it needs to expose your router to the internet and that it's written in C and also this sentence from the FAQ: > Everything was built from scratch
Long live zerotier
Thanks for the tip. I'd never heard of it. For others like me: https://www.zerotier.com/manual/
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#67Blocked in South Africa.
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#68I found the FAQ[0] to be the most informative.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
>we need this sort of technology to take hold with non-technical users, I'm pretty sure non-technical users are not looking for a private cloud.
Are you sure? Eventually people are going to realize that the SaaS companies have sold them out. And they may not understand what a private cloud is, but that's what they're going to want: The convenience they're accustomed to in a device only they control which can't be shut down or taken away from them.
>Eventually people are going to realize that the SaaS companies have sold them out.
In what way? And which SaaS companies?
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Better to use syncthing, simple equivalent & free / open source.
Syncthing is great (I use it for all my syncing needs), but it's scope is limited. It doesn't really solve file sharing in a user-friendly way.
While I agree Syncthing is about seamlessly syncing files with devices you own, not file sharing as such, it does a good 98% of what this program offers with a more open source background and is completely free.
I share files, what, once a year? Syncthing works great for that use case. If I want to share files too big to email, I can stand to upload to Onedrive/Dropbox/an open directory on my web server for that one-time use. For more frequent setups, sure an Owncloud/Nextcloud instance wouldn't be amiss.