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I didn't get to that point in the article, but seriously for all the paragraphs I read I thought they were just making software that I could run in my old lapto
by dsign 6y ago
I didn't get to that point in the article, but seriously for all the paragraphs I read I thought they were just making software that I could run in my old laptop at home acting as a web-server, or a Peer-to-Peer browser-based thingy. /sighs. Well not the first time I read a cleverly disguised infomercial that eats its tail.
On a more positive note, running stuffs in my old laptop at home has proven a great way to keep connected with friends without the surveillance. But I don't see a neat way to pack the technical knowledge I used for that for people without technical knowledge... if you don't update your own setup, you have either to have a friend or friendly technician who does it, or trust Corp to push updates remotely to your home-whatever, which is just as bad as using Corp servers directly. I think that the only way out of the conundrum is technical literacy for everybody.
- bergstromm466 6y agoHave you heard of FreedomBox? I’d like to start experimenting with it sometime since I’m only semi-technical. Also there’s a cool project called CoBox [cobox.cloud] which I found recently, which is creating open source distributed software for a cooperatively run Dropbox alternative - you can effectively build a completely self-sovereign distributed network with friends (or with yourself).