Re:Several Apple Services Down
by ghkklj on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @11:43PM
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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/
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Lost my attention when I saw the first feature listed is “Bitcoin”.
also loads a bunch of trackable stuff from google and such. not a good look when privacy is your main selling point.
Yeah. "Bitcoin", "crypto-", and "block-" are instant tab closers.
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.
What kind of spam is this?
Someone got lost on their way to their 2017 reenactment session
“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.
Re:Several Apple Services Down
by hevelvarik on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @11:58PM
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Lol, the landing page is so dense only an IT guy can make heads or tails out of it
> Embassy
> Privacy without trust
no kidding
Re:Several Apple Services Down
by BoorishBears on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @12:40AM
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> 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