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- Rebranding is the right thing and way over due. I honestly hadn't checked them out before but this has made me read through the site a bit. I am intrigued by their privacy claims. I will definitely be looking into them more if those claims hold up.by jmward01
- From a pure branding perspective, I think there is something to this. We are building a new "cloud" at exe.dev (everything from racking machines, building a global load balancer, and new APIs onto VMs) and yet it is very hard to bring ourselves to use the word cloud. We don't really want to be associated with the experience or mindset that "cloud" implies. I certainly wish there were a better way to describe this.by crawshaw
- To me, a "cloud" always felt like it should be describing something decentralized. So I recently made an alternative to the Big Tech clouds, and I'm giving it away as open source. Anyone can use it on their site, to have their site's members store data in their browser tabs, it's like IPFS pinning, but far more efficient and easy to use: just open a tab and that's it.
https://safebots.github.io/Safecloud
It has three types of participants:
Oh, and one more thing. It encrypts everything end-to-end, supports streaming video (!) and lets you share specific intervals or chunks if you want, so that the decryption happens only of those intervals. You can sell content that many people around the world store encrypted, and don't know what they're storing.Drops - this is regular normies opening a tab Jets - this is people running a node to route requests Client - this is what's embedded in iframes etc.Here is an article about it in a security magazine: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/19/safecloud-browser...
by EGreg - (H)ome (A)ssistant (L)ink.
Might as well add 9000 at the end of it.
by TwoNineA - I'll wait for someone to do a network call audit before I trust something like this
I've been working on a small project running mitmproxy on a lot of 'privacy-focused' baby-tracking apps and only one of the ones I've tested doesn't send back a bevy of analytics data (none of which they openly promise to anonymize)
some of the worst culprits had things like the Facebook SDK and Google Ads installed and sending data in spite of literally promising not to generate an Ad ID and three (Baby+, Nanit, and Pregnancy+) straight up had Microsoft Clarity sending data (ie basically screen recordings and full input logs)
by paimapi - Guys, you don't have to use it. That's the _entire_ point. Every comment in here is some version of "But it's still a cloud". Sure. But if the entire thing can be replaced with a Tailscale free account, or a Cloudflare tunnel, or a port forward at your router (in descending order of "should you do it"), is it really the same thing? Hence the name change.by pkulak
- Nabu Kasa keeps ignoring the elephant in the room of security and permissions. They have no native ability to set user groups and permissions. There is no serious RBAC. I guess it doesn't sell cloud subscriptions. I cant keep my children from affecting devices they shouldn't. I ended up replacing my automation with mqtt
- I feel like Cloud means something now, and as part of the general lexicon, it's okay to use it for what it means. At this point, Cloud kind of means that it's a service hosted somewhere on the Internet, that you don't control directly, usually that you pay for. Sounds like they're still doing that.
Changing the name to distance yourself from AWS and Google Cloud is fine, but "Link" doesn't really tell you anything about where it's hosted or that you still have to pay for it. In fact, by announcing this change with the specific goal of distancing yourself from Big Tech it kind of implies that you're no longer a paid service that happens in some remote data center.
But whatevs. Words don't actually mean anything anymore anyway.
by benabus