rako

If you’re not going to have many editors, don’t hesitate to look at https://feather.wiki/ . It’s a single-file wiki with everything embedded, so to modify it you actually do your changes then get the new index.html that you can push back to the hosting place. No server-side process, no scaling issues, SEO-friendly, portable, backupable, etc…

This means your pages would retain the classic wiki change log, so that it can all be generated from a Git repo that’s small enough to keep on a floppy disk.

That already exists: https://ikiwiki.info/ . It is by default a bit more raw than dokuwiki but does the same thing in the end.

fossil is made by actual engineers, maybe we should follow that path

When capitalism can’t find a new way to grow and is challenged by dominees, it funds fascism as an investment towards to guarantee their dominance

I have a vps I use for other stuff, and put syncthing on it. My files are replicated between it, my computer and my phone. On the vps I activated the setting to store old versions

For photos I use hetzner’s storage share, a nextcloud offering. Photos are browsable with nextcloud’s “memories” app, really useful.

I don’t really believe in “backups”, ie a full copy of the content in another format that is unusable unless you run it through a special restoring process. If the files are being copied, why not make it useful ? Syncthing makes it so all environments are equally usable, and the versioning prevents mistakes. There is no restore phase: the files are already usable.

I really think we need to move our thinking away from the one-machine-with-copies mindset, and architecture our usages around multiple-machines-by-default. If the goal of backups is resiliency, a syncthing clusters achieves that.

garage is a software project made for communal home hosting. Tech literates will talk about its S3 API but that’s the least interesting part: the most interesting is that it has been purposely built to be hosted on (actual) commodity hardware like second-hand nucs, running on flaky home power and internet and linked together through usual isps. Nodes may come up and down but the cluster withstands all of that.

Garage would be a pretty nice project to run a solar-powered mini-cluster. If sufficiently far from each other, you could even run without polluting batteries !

https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/