Comment on Securing a 'public' service for family

ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• IanTwenty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve got probably 30+ households of people and multiply that by number of devices…this is also something that will only be live for 12 months maybe. I think if I was doing something long-lived it might be worth the effort to get everyone onto VPN but for this…just can’t justify the time. Thanks anyway.

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• Pixel@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have a few qualms with this app:

  1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

  2. It doesn’t actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them somewhere online to be able to perform presentations, but they still carry a USB drive in case there are connectivity problems. This does not solve the connectivity issue.

  3. It does not seem very “viral” or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wtaf are you talking about?

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    • Pixel@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m mocking you for insisting that the general public should use complex technical solutions because you think they’re easy to deploy at scale.

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  • IanTwenty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Was this comment meant for a different conversation? We’re talking about VPNs here.

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