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>1 points by tomc1985 10 days ago | parent | on: OneDrive reduces free tier from 15GB to 5GB

>Never trust the cloud, it will always stab you in the back... eventually

Posted this before, got downvoted...

...posting this again, and will probably get downvoted again...

Seriously people, suck it up and run your own shit if it matters at all

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Lots of people here undoubtedly agree with you, but you're probably going to get downvoted again, because:

    Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.    
    Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you or announce that you expect to get downvoted.

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You can do that if you have unlimited time. Eventually there's just too much "own shit" to take care of, if you keep adding all kinds of services. This is quite familiar to me, having run a bunch of email/web/container/database/file servers for personal use. After a while, it's pretty tempting to just trade money or privacy for time and convenience.

Also if you know how to do it in the first place, have the resources to afford learning-related mistakes, etc.

Hence the "suck it up" part. Find the time.

I do trust the cloud. But I also don't trust other peoples' servers (what we usually think of the cloud).

Clouds I trust: IPFS (interplanetary filesystem), Tor.

I store .5 TB in IPFS right now, and it just works. Nobody can stop me, nobody can "remove" my access, and it's permanent as long as a single copy on the internet still exists.

I also use Tor Hidden Services, where I get my own domain name [hash].onion . With a script I wrote for Linux,every program can handle .onion addresses natively. Nobody can stop this, or even detect it well. That means every node on my network is secure and anonymous in its location.

I'm looking for a 3rd piece: a way to run distributed applications across a pool of machines. Ethereum seemed to be a way, but the speeds are rated in instructions/second. Undoable. I want to add all my machines to a computing cloud and do work on all of them. That still doesn't look like it exists, yet.

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