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g4k commented on Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come   blog.muni.town/personal-d... · Posted by u/erlend_sh
brendoncarroll · 2 months ago
I work on a FOSS project in this space, Blobcache.

https://github.com/blobcache/blobcache

Trusting a server to store an application's state is a different thing from trusting it to author changes or to read the data. Servers should become dumber, and clients should become smarter. When I use an app, I want the app to load E2E encrypted state from storage (possibly on another machine, possibly not owned by me) make whatever changes and produce new encrypted data to send back to the server. The server should just be trusted for durability, and to prevent unauthorized access, but not to tell the truth about doing either of those things. Blobcache provides an API to facilitate transactions on E2EE state between a dumb storage server and any smart client.

Blobcache can be installed on old hardware along with a VPN like Tailscale and then loaded up with data from other devices. Configuration is like SSH, drop a key in a configuration file to grant access. It removes most of the friction associated with consuming and producing storage as a resource.

I'm using it to build E2EE version control like Git, but for your whole home directory.

https://github.com/gotvc/got

g4k · 2 months ago
There is also https://remotestorage.io/ for per-user storage.
g4k commented on Open source router firmware project OpenWrt ships its own repairable hardware   theregister.com/2024/12/0... · Posted by u/nileshtrivedi
g4k · a year ago
That is great news. I have been using OpenWrt for many years on a number of devices. Selling it for less then 100 USD with casing is a fair price.
g4k commented on The Shameful Defenestration of Tim   chrismcdonough.substack.c... · Posted by u/bluedino
g4k · a year ago
related video: Python Bans Prominent Dev for Enjoying the Wrong SNL Sketch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwQCyrXt4CM

u/g4k

KarmaCake day1112November 23, 2013View Original