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I have a vps I use for other stuff, and put syncthing on it. My files are replicated between it, my computer and my phone. On the vps I activated the setting to store old versions

For photos I use hetzner’s storage share, a nextcloud offering. Photos are browsable with nextcloud’s “memories” app, really useful.

I don’t really believe in “backups”, ie a full copy of the content in another format that is unusable unless you run it through a special restoring process. If the files are being copied, why not make it useful ? Syncthing makes it so all environments are equally usable, and the versioning prevents mistakes. There is no restore phase: the files are already usable.

I really think we need to move our thinking away from the one-machine-with-copies mindset, and architecture our usages around multiple-machines-by-default. If the goal of backups is resiliency, a syncthing clusters achieves that.

Wait, China is an enemy now ? The West is historically responsible for climate change and its continued existence, how is it (and the US) not the enemy ? Are we going to solve anything if we still think in terms of good guys/bad guys ? I don’t think that’s a point of view that makes sense in a solarpunk space. I’m surprised to see that here.

Why embargo it ? What does it accomplish ?

I love this graph though

garage is a software project made for communal home hosting. Tech literates will talk about its S3 API but that’s the least interesting part: the most interesting is that it has been purposely built to be hosted on (actual) commodity hardware like second-hand nucs, running on flaky home power and internet and linked together through usual isps. Nodes may come up and down but the cluster withstands all of that.

Garage would be a pretty nice project to run a solar-powered mini-cluster. If sufficiently far from each other, you could even run without polluting batteries !

This is really nice, but I don’t understand what the willow part really brings, unfortunately

rsync and rclone are two different projects

The hosting part is, indeed, a technical part but a tool like copyparty can help here:

https://github.com/9001/copyparty/blob/hovudstraum/README.md#markdown-viewer

It runs everywhere, is just a single file you double-click to open and browse from your browser. Makdown files are automatically rendered. You can upload a bunch of files directly, or just send them by mail and put them in a directory served by copyparty

That’s basically what gopher is: a capsule of hierarchically ordered documents, easily browsable thanks to a normalized interface

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

The web is one of its spiritual successor and is plenty usable to share text files. Most if not all software can generate indexes of content in a directory. wget and friends can be used to retrieve the whole archive. If you generate html files you can then style them independently of the content.

And with garage hosted on multiple places you can even have an S3 endpoint, with redudancy, without the cloud !

https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

If not hosting anything is ok for you, deltachat allows you to share locations to people in a chat. It’s fully e2ee. You can use it with existing relays, but if you want you can host one that will be useful to everyone: https://chatmail.at/