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I love the idea of data locality: your home server contains your trove of photos, videos, music, and you grant limited shares to visitors. The digital equivalen

I love the idea of data locality: your home server contains your trove of photos, videos, music, and you grant limited shares to visitors. The digital equivalent of pulling out the photo album from under the coffee table. This sort of idea dovetails nicely with the Secure Scuttlebutt concept that the social network graph mirrors the physical network: you swap the latest posts with others as you find yourself on the same local network. Perhaps someday we will live in a more sophisticated world that relies less on centralized cloud providers and everyone runs a home server. Stories of youth pushing back against social media are certainly a step in the right direction.

Jaruzel 8y ago
Commercialise a shiny black box that plugs into the power (like a Wifi Extender), that: 1. Connects to the internet 2. uPnPs silently port 80 to itself 3. Registers a name with a dynamic DNS service (remember those?) 4. Has ~4GB local storage 5. Runs a 'newsfeed' type web portal or API. 6. Has a Phone app for easy sharing/creation of content. Make this 100% turnkey for non-technical people and you MAY have a chance at getting people to stop storing personal stuff 'in the cloud'. I don't hold out much hope though.
- Mediterraneo10 8y ago
  > uPnPs silently port 80 to itself Besides the fact that in the post-Let’s Encrypt world we should start expecting port 443 by default for any web service, for many ISPs running a publicly accessible server violates the terms of service unless your contract with the ISP is their business tier. To make things worse, a lot of people are issued a router by their ISP where uPnP is disabled, and they do not have access to its firmware to change this or other settings.
  - Jaruzel 8y ago
    Yeah my bad - should have said 443, with auto-cert from XYZ provider.
asdff 8y ago
Why build a home server and sit every family member down to teach them how to ssh and ftp when you can just have a dropbox/icoud/onedrive/etc that is already plug and play and out of the way of the user? You take a photo and it's on icloud immediately and synced to every account and machine. It would be great to have your own home server and be off the grid or whatever but that's just a tall order for a lot of people's computer skills, and if you start selling these theoretical easy to use home servers and dominate the market suddenly you wake up and you are also the big bad dropbox/icloud/onedrive/etc central entity.

Jaruzel 8y ago

Commercialise a shiny black box that plugs into the power (like a Wifi Extender), that: 1. Connects to the internet 2. uPnPs silently port 80 to itself 3. Registers a name with a dynamic DNS service (remember those?) 4. Has ~4GB local storage 5. Runs a 'newsfeed' type web portal or API. 6. Has a Phone app for easy sharing/creation of content. Make this 100% turnkey for non-technical people and you MAY have a chance at getting people to stop storing personal stuff 'in the cloud'. I don't hold out much hope though.

Mediterraneo10 8y ago
> uPnPs silently port 80 to itself Besides the fact that in the post-Let’s Encrypt world we should start expecting port 443 by default for any web service, for many ISPs running a publicly accessible server violates the terms of service unless your contract with the ISP is their business tier. To make things worse, a lot of people are issued a router by their ISP where uPnP is disabled, and they do not have access to its firmware to change this or other settings.
- Jaruzel 8y ago
  Yeah my bad - should have said 443, with auto-cert from XYZ provider.

asdff 8y ago

Why build a home server and sit every family member down to teach them how to ssh and ftp when you can just have a dropbox/icoud/onedrive/etc that is already plug and play and out of the way of the user? You take a photo and it's on icloud immediately and synced to every account and machine. It would be great to have your own home server and be off the grid or whatever but that's just a tall order for a lot of people's computer skills, and if you start selling these theoretical easy to use home servers and dominate the market suddenly you wake up and you are also the big bad dropbox/icloud/onedrive/etc central entity.