On 2018-07-10 at 16:08:39 +0200, [email protected] wrote: > Yes, I think It's important to maintain freedom box usable from a low > CPU machine, but I think that for reach our goal It's necessary to use > more powerful machines too.
I don't think that having a powerful server in each home is a sustainable target: they waste resources in providing services that, for a limited number of users, can be provided by much less resource intensitive hardware. A freedombox that can run on a computer that costs tens of eurollars, can be powered by a small solar panel and is easy to stuff on a shelf even in a <25 m² apartment is useful to way more people than one that requires a full-sized computer that costs hundred of eurollars, needs to be connected to the power grid (or to a full-sized off-grid power generator) and either requires its own room or will cause sleep distruptions with its noise. the former can't always run the same *programs* as the latter, but in most cases it's going to be able to provide the same *services* with comparable quality. > It's necessary that decentralized services are fast and efficient, > something that a low pc machine can't always grant. I would be wary to call platforms like gitlab and redmine “decentralized”: yes, they can be self-hosted, but they are still big platforms that are designed to be hosted centrally by some organization and most of their interesting¹ features only work when all of the user involved have an account on the specific instance. Installing them on a personal/household server that doesn't allow 3rd party registration of users would have pretty limited usefulness compared to lighter alternatives. github/gitlab style collaboration in a true decentralized way is AFAIK still not a solved problem, but I've seen some effort to integrate git hosting with some decentralized social platforms to allow functionalities like pull requests etc. between different instances. ¹ as opposed to the ones for which there are lots of lightweight alternatives, such as git hosting, pages, and even CI. -- Elena ``of Valhalla''
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