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  • Or make those secrets explicit. Tell them that you have a bank account on your name to which you only have access to and may be that you don‘t want to tell them how much money is in this account. Further tell them WHY you want that. Any reasonable partner would be fine with this.

    • Use sqlite instead of Postgres, MariaDB
    • Avoid enterprise software (Kubernetes, Elastic Search)
    • Only use projects with efficient programming languages such as Go, Rust, etc.
    • Try to run things bare metal
    • Lookout for projects which name themself minimal or light-weight

    I use a Raspberry Pi 2 to self host a Dashboard written in Rust (Axum), a RSS reader called yarr and a music streaming server Navidrome. The latter two are written in Go and very resource efficient. The electricity bill should be under a Euro a month (6.4W max power consumption).

  • The project controlled by only one entity can affect users in the future. Moving forward Hashicorp could do anything with the code or licensing and nobody could do anything about it. It is good that something is happening now, when there is still the chance to do it.

  • I‘ve recently started using Tailscale for my home setup and I really can‘t recommend it enough. In my opinion it takes a lot of the dangers regarding IT security out of self hosting. Depending on who you ask it is not true self hosting, but I couldn’t care less :)

    With Tailscale you can create a VPN for your devices including your phone and even expose services to the outside world with SSL already setup (havent tried that out, yet)

    They have guides/tutorials for a lot of stuff (web server, Minecraft).

  • Free software is not about free of charge, but about freedom. If you publish open source software under a license which allows commercial use or selling the software, you have given consent. If you don‘t like that, change the license. (Users will still be able to use the software for free if they choose to compile it themself, because the source code is available.

    Redhat does exactly what you are describing: Packageing open source software into a paid Linux distribution and I would say they had an immense net positive effect on Linux doing this. I believe that this the point. Don‘t be an asshole. If you partly profit of someone else open source software, give them money, bug reports, bug fixes, recognition, etc. Be part of the community.

  • In the Veritasium video about IQ they said that the American military actually has limits on how many people with below average IQ they can recruit. They found out that those people had a higher chance of dieing and needed way more training, so less people with higher IQ were better for the military success.

  • Not quite, it‘s only restricting competitors and so all companies and home labbers can still use it for free and contribute as in free speech.

    However this can bring a lot more financial sustainability to a project. I don‘t know the specifics, but the main problem is that companies make profit of the software, but don’t invest enough money back into the product. This cannot be good for users. Open source must be financially stable.

    Also right now all those competitors (and users) can create a fork and maintain it. So it is up to the community what will happen to the project.

  • There actually is! It is still on my list to actually try it out, but it claims to do exactly what you want: https://fileparty.co

    Tell me about your experience, once you have used it :)

    Unfortunately it is not FOSS, but I believe peer-to-peer (hard to know for sure without the source)