Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
I’m developing a thesis around “cozy tech” to complement my cozyweb thesis, and need to collect more examples. Examples so far: - Tailscale - Zerotier - Pihole for ad blocking - llamafile (client grade LLM from Mozilla) - RPi used in any physically collocated role - Maybe digital ocean? - IP cameras on home wifi that don’t need an app or cloud - Any robotics that aren’t appliances attached to a cloud and can function without internet access Can you think of others? Criterion is: A function normally served by a trusted third party operating at Internet scale being provisioned at workgroup/family/tribe scale (“intranet” but not F100 scale) with low/no-code level of expertise. Software maintenance dependency only, but ideally to open source and on very slow, conservative update cadence. Very strong bias towards updates not breaking backward compatibility, and old versions being maintained far longer (and therefore conservatively built up front)
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Eric Platon
@ic
Perhaps some VPN service?
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Centauri.eth
@centauri.eth
Tailscale is a VPN, you can configure your devices to use any node on its network as an exit node. By routing the exitnodes traffic through another VPN such as Mullvad you can both have a VPN to your home network and route your normal internet traffic through Mullvad for better privacy if your ISP suck on that front
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