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It's high time for somebody to make an appliance running open protocols that behaves like cloud applications but that is owned and hosted at one's home. Maybe i
by pishpash 6y ago
It's high time for somebody to make an appliance running open protocols that behaves like cloud applications but that is owned and hosted at one's home. Maybe it's what NAS is turning into, but open, and more broadly conceived: for email, chat, etc.
- mehrdadn 6y agoI imagine unreliability of home networks just makes this a bad idea for things like email even if you somehow managed to get around all the other obstacles like security/privacy/trust issues (spam, etc.)
- pishpash 6y agoBut all of this is separable: storage at home, transport/computing provided by Google. So security and trust verification can come from Google (or any other provider) but emails stay home. Or photo processing provided by Google, but photos stay home. That would however relegate them to a pipe and service provider and possibly force them into openly competing, so they would never do that. Owning your data for the lock-in is the point.
- pnutjam 6y agohttps://clarkconnect.com/ https://clarkconnect.com/
- inquirerofsorts 6y agoNextcloud Hub does all of this: https://nextcloud.com/hub/ https://nextcloud.com/hub/
- msh 6y agoThats what the helm appliance tries to do: https://www.thehelm.com/ https://www.thehelm.com/ If you search HN there is a quite interesting thread on it.