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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Situation: we live in europe, there's PRISM and Privacy Shield and all that, to which selfhosting is the solution. Now, my sister, mostly on Apple, got concerned with all the hacks and privacy violations over the years. She's a tech noob, so i can't really recommend her prism-break.org

There's a bunch of hosted solutions geared towards small to medium business, like Univention Corporate Server, NethServer, etc.

Are there similiar bundles for private use, basically Apple cloud alternative? With services like cloud storage, cloud office, media share, maybe chat, videocall?

Or should i let her wait until i got my box up, VPN her over? I'm only semi-professional tho.

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[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Host solution for what?

Each service you want will probably have a different set of options.

When you say Apple cloud, that could mean all sorts of things.

Specificity in tech is crucial.

You may want to start with one type of service, and go from there. You're about to head down a deep rabbit hole that includes things like Security Posture, Risk Management, etc.

[-] Findmysec@infosec.pub 14 points 10 months ago

Tell her to pay for Proton. Easy way out

[-] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago

Someone else wrote about how you’ll have a problem creating feature parity and integration like apple services. They’re right.

A better idea is the thing everyone always says: make a threat model.

The easiest thing to do for an Apple user is to simply make an iCloud recovery key, turn on advanced data protection and remove any account recovery method other than the key.

I would also gently counsel against trusting prismbreaks recommendations without research as they still point people at federated services where any bad or coerced administrative actor federated with the target users platform has access to a huge swath of data that most users would put in the category of “private”.

[-] ParadeDuGrotesque@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 10 months ago

OwnCloud and Yunohost are the two that comes to mind. I will let you Google them.

[-] Julian_1_2_3_4_5@slrpnk.net 5 points 10 months ago
[-] mr_pip@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

just found out about this! why isn't this more widely known/used (assumption)? just because of the lack of fine grained control?

brief question, as I couldn't find it in the docs after a quick scroll through: if I create a user in the yunohost interface, is that user then able to login to the yunohost admin interface or will they get a user in every service that is and will be hosted, or would one have to manually create that user in every hosted app?

[-] Navigator@jlai.lu 5 points 10 months ago

You should setup a yunohost server for her.

But you should be upfront about being a teacher for her not being a helper.

For the others in the topic, yes teaching people to be autonomous with the digital is a lot of work (and a lot of phone calls), but it's also really rewarding for both you and "the student".

[-] me_ow@feddit.nl 3 points 10 months ago

I've been using infomaniak for a while which suits my needs pretty well. It's mostly intended for businesses but it's very usable as an individual. Lots of storage for a decent price too and has all the functions you mentioned. Hosted in Switzerland.

[-] philpo@feddit.org 3 points 10 months ago

Cloudron is also an option. More polished than Yunohost, created by a German company. Very low rate of admin interaction required. But not for free if you need more than two Apps.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks, i'll take a look.

[-] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago
[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

It takes time and skill to maintain. Totally worth it but don't jump in without expecting some hurtles.

Side note: make sure you backup the database as well as the files. I've scene a lot of people lose data because they didn't backup the database.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 10 months ago

I guess you don't want e2ee

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

Technically it does support it. However, why would you bother.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 10 months ago

It breaks a lot of things when you turn it on. It doesn't really work. It is off by default for a reason

NextCloud doesn't support e2ee

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

Nextcloud does support e2ee but it is useless as it is web based. It isn't really needed anyway as it is self hosted.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 10 months ago

What makes you think your next cloud instance isinvulnerable to being hacked??

Of course client-side encryption is a must

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

It isn't invulnerable

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 10 months ago

Why would you expect that your self-hosted solution is less-likely to be hacked than a hosted solution with literally teams of people paid to secure and update them?

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Because it isn't public facing.

[-] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

If it's available over the internet, it's a target.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It isn't tho. That's why i played with the idea to share via VPN to my sis. But no.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Yunohost seems what i look for. Thanks!

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

So what are you wanting?

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