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This is a good time to point out that simple home servers to replace some of these megacorp walled gardens are coming. e.g. https://start9labs.com/ https://star

by ghkklj 6y ago

This is a good time to point out that simple home servers to replace some of these megacorp walled gardens are coming. e.g. https://start9labs.com/ https://start9labs.com/

bogidon 6y ago
“No technical expertise required” Nice. Would love these things to be as easy to set up as a new Apple device. Feel like that’s the 20 part of the 80-20 that these projects tend to leave out.
- hevelvarik 6y ago
  Lol, the landing page is so dense only an IT guy can make heads or tails out of it
  - zymhan 6y ago
    > Embassy > Privacy without trust no kidding
    - BoorishBears 6y ago
      > A radical, uncompromising, plug and play personal server, offering one-click installation and simple configuration of open source software services that run over Tor V3. The Embassy is your sovereign territory in the land of the Internet. No technical expertise required. I have technical expertise and that paragraph goes down like molasses. Imagine if instead it just said > Plug this in and you have a cloud in your own home. Sure HN types might nitpick the use of cloud for self-hosted hardware but at least there'd be some hope for non-technical users
azhenley 6y ago
Lost my attention when I saw the first feature listed is “Bitcoin”.
- clairity 6y ago
  also loads a bunch of trackable stuff from google and such. not a good look when privacy is your main selling point.
- coldpie 6y ago
  Yeah. "Bitcoin", "crypto-", and "block-" are instant tab closers.
darknavi 6y ago
Unraid+docker has made self-hosting tons of services super easy. Pretty liberating until you're the one who fucked up the "up-time" and the family starts texting you about Plex being down.
zymhan 6y ago
What kind of spam is this?
- bobbyz 6y ago
  Someone got lost on their way to their 2017 reenactment session
IncRnd 6y ago
I have to say that I'll never download or install anything from that webpage.

by ghkklj 6y ago

This is a good time to point out that simple home servers to replace some of these megacorp walled gardens are coming. e.g. https://start9labs.com/ https://start9labs.com/

bogidon 6y ago

“No technical expertise required” Nice. Would love these things to be as easy to set up as a new Apple device. Feel like that’s the 20 part of the 80-20 that these projects tend to leave out.

hevelvarik 6y ago
Lol, the landing page is so dense only an IT guy can make heads or tails out of it
- zymhan 6y ago
  > Embassy > Privacy without trust no kidding
  - BoorishBears 6y ago
    > A radical, uncompromising, plug and play personal server, offering one-click installation and simple configuration of open source software services that run over Tor V3. The Embassy is your sovereign territory in the land of the Internet. No technical expertise required. I have technical expertise and that paragraph goes down like molasses. Imagine if instead it just said > Plug this in and you have a cloud in your own home. Sure HN types might nitpick the use of cloud for self-hosted hardware but at least there'd be some hope for non-technical users

azhenley 6y ago

Lost my attention when I saw the first feature listed is “Bitcoin”.

clairity 6y ago
also loads a bunch of trackable stuff from google and such. not a good look when privacy is your main selling point.
coldpie 6y ago
Yeah. "Bitcoin", "crypto-", and "block-" are instant tab closers.

darknavi 6y ago

Unraid+docker has made self-hosting tons of services super easy. Pretty liberating until you're the one who fucked up the "up-time" and the family starts texting you about Plex being down.

zymhan 6y ago

What kind of spam is this?

bobbyz 6y ago
Someone got lost on their way to their 2017 reenactment session

IncRnd 6y ago

I have to say that I'll never download or install anything from that webpage.