Escaping Surveillance Capitalism, at Scale

1. umbrel

   1 408 8,803 9.5 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

2. SurveyJS

   surveyjs.io featured

   JavaScript Form Builder with No-Code UI & Built-In JSON Schema Editor. Add the SurveyJS white-label form builder to your JavaScript app (React/Angular/Vue3). Build complex JSON forms without coding. Fully customizable, works with any backend, perfect for data-heavy apps. Learn more.

   

3. urbit

   2 18 3,496 9.8 hoon

   An operating function

   

4. Rsnapshot

   3 74 3,426 7.7 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/

5. auth

   4 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

6. TagSpaces

   5 63 4,288 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 ;)

7. PhotoPrism

   6 511 37,345 10.0 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

8. immich

   7 317 65,631 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

9. Civic Auth

   www.civic.com featured

   Auth in Less Than 5 Minutes. Civic Auth comes with multiple SSO options, optional embedded wallets, and user management — all implemented with just a few lines of code. Start building today.

   

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