Escaping Surveillance Capitalism, at Scale

• umbrel

  407 7,240 9.9 TypeScript

  A beautiful home server OS for self-hosting with an app store. Buy a pre-built Umbrel Home with umbrelOS, or install on a Raspberry Pi or any x86 system.

  

  I really thought this article was going to offer a solution, not just enumerate the problems. I'm already all too familiar with the problems.

  I like what Umbrel[0] is doing. They're essentially expecting that just like computing was able to move from centralized mainframes to homes, servers are poised to make the same migration.

  I think they really need to solve redundancy, though. If I'm to self-host anything important on a home server, I need to know I'll have some way to use it even if my home server fails, especially if I'm not at home when it happens.

  I'd love to see some kind of system where I could partner up with other Umbrel users for backups/the ability to restore connectivity. If I knew that in an emergency, I could call my friend in town or my brother out of state and there was some procedure that would allow me to connect to an encrypted backup of what I'm needing, I would feel a lot better about taking responsibility for my own system.

  [0] https://umbrel.com

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com featured

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

• urbit

  16 3,419 9.7 hoon

  An operating function

  

• Rsnapshot

  73 3,216 4.7 Perl

  a tool for backing up your data using rsync (if you want to get help, use https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsnapshot-discuss)

  

  Two things I want to try this month are:

  https://mastodon.social/@chromakode/110936177254839251

  https://rsnapshot.org/

• auth

  49 5,439 9.6 TypeScript

  Discontinued Fully open source, End to End Encrypted alternative to Google Photos and Apple Photos [Moved to: https://github.com/ente-io/ente]

  

  > there is no better alternative

  If your primary device is Android, please check out Ente[1].

  We are an E2EE alternative to Google Photos. We had launched on HN[2] a while ago, and have been working towards feature parity. We aren't "there" yet, but hope to soon be.

  If you've any feedback, please share it with [email protected], I'd be grateful!

  [1]: https://ente.io

  [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28347439

• TagSpaces

  63 3,691 9.8 TypeScript

  TagSpaces is an offline, open source, document manager with tagging support

  

  https://github.com/tagspaces/tagspaces

  Either way, will definitely be keeping an eye on your app, it seems ducking cool ;)

• PhotoPrism

  510 34,893 9.9 Go

  AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web 🌈💎✨

  

  Thank you!

  Ente was first a piece of hardware, then a self-host-able project, but we had a hard time monetizing both, which lead to the E2EE pivot.

  TIL about TagSpaces, thanks!

  Our server can be open-sourced, but we're unsure of the value E2EE will provide, with services like Photoprism[1] and Immich[2] already doing a good job of serving customers who prefer to self host. In this context E2EE might become a constraint, rather than a feature.

  [1]: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism

  [2]: https://github.com/immich-app/immich

• immich

  304 47,436 10.0 TypeScript

  High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.

  

  Thank you!

  Ente was first a piece of hardware, then a self-host-able project, but we had a hard time monetizing both, which lead to the E2EE pivot.

  TIL about TagSpaces, thanks!

  Our server can be open-sourced, but we're unsure of the value E2EE will provide, with services like Photoprism[1] and Immich[2] already doing a good job of serving customers who prefer to self host. In this context E2EE might become a constraint, rather than a feature.

  [1]: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism

  [2]: https://github.com/immich-app/immich

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