The Cloud is a Prison (article)

[OpenXTalkPaul]

Nice to read an article about 'local-first software', pushing back on 'The Cloud'.

I've been telling other people this for a decade, my kids in particular since they've grown up in an era when people have given up on physical media ownership for the short-term convenience of 'the cloud'.

“There is no cloud. There is just someone else’s computer.”

https://www.wired.com/story/the-cloud-i ... t-us-free/

[tperry2x]

A very interesting article, and one that resonates with me on several areas in my line of work.
Nice find Paul.

[FourthWorld]

Good find. Thank you.

You may enjoy this:

Why Companies are Kicking Cloud to the Curb
https://youtu.be/O66xpoRpyRk

[richmond62]

I am just visiting Mother in England and discovered a cloud of mine from about 5 years ago: a 1 Tb external hard-drive up in the attic . . . which is the best cloud I know as no-one is going to poke their hooter in there.

Also, recovered several interesting files I thought I had lost.

This reminds me of a sci-fi novel I must have read about 45 years ago: set in a police state: the resistance were communicating by AM radio because everyone had forgotten about it and was using FM.

[tperry2x]

This reminds me if a sci-fi novel I must have read about 45 years ago: set in a police state: the resistance were communicating by AM radio because everyone had forgotten about it and was using FM.

Reminds me of the days of Hotline, Carracho and KDX

[OpenXTalkPaul]

This reminds me if a sci-fi novel I must have read about 45 years ago: set in a police state: the resistance were communicating by AM radio because everyone had forgotten about it and was using FM.

Reminds me of the days of Hotline, Carracho and KDX

Maybe we should run our forum as a Hotline or KDX Server (Carracho was Mac only IIRC?), LOL.
Seriously though, those were good times, before much of the rest of the human race got on to the internet.

I guess the closest thing to those BBS over IP apps now is Discord.
Here's a good one:
https://discord.com/invite/TAvA6TauZB