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Must fight temptation to buy an overpriced raspberry pi (sopuli.xyz)
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original post: https://mk.moth.zone/notes/a8zer7ypj6uv02ka

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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Lenovo thinkcentre tiny gang rise up!

I even use it as my daily driver (bumped RAM & storage), running Lemmy & Tenfingers plus all the usual jazz.

I will have to replace my old NAS one day because it's super old, I'll probably just chuck some drives into a think centre tower or something... I wonder how long time it will take before the electricity consumption would have made it cheaper to buy one of those increasingly expensive NASes...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Tenfingers needs to work on their SEO; I searched for exactly that and most of the first few results were 10fastfingers, which is exactly what came to my mind when I read your post! Even the first one that seemed to be what you're referencing was about how to install it, rather than what I was trying to find: what it is.

    Sounds like a nifty tool, I'll have to investigate it. Thanks for introducing me to it.

    For anyone who, like me, was unfamiliar but curious: https://www.tenfingers.org/introduction.html

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thank you, yes I (I'm the creator) have ironed out the last large potential known problem (a specific type of mitm attack) and have been a bit overwhelmed by ordinary life lately. I'm working on what you might hint at, a less technical introduction to tenfingers. Basically it works like a decentralised online file system where you give the reading rights (to anyone or a select few) how you see fit. FOSS, encrypted & so on, more info in the above link :-)

    BTW don't hesitate to hit me up if there are any questions!

    Cheers

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Hello! To be clear, first, this is all subjective. My opinion doesn't mean much.

    However, if you're inclined to consider my opinion, the intro page was largely fine. Yes, it could be improved, but so could pretty much any intro/about page. I, an amateur, wouldn't consider that my priority were I in your position.

    The problem I had was that you didn't show up when I searched for the exact name of your project. I have never done SEO so I can't specifically suggest improvements in that regard ... Except that your project name is fairly generic and not really related to the function of the software. Unless you get big, people are going to have trouble finding you. You should go for something more specific or at least unique.

    Otherwise, as I said, at a glance your tool looks pretty cool. I wish you luck with it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    But your opinion does count! Thank you again.

    This ten+ years project is coming to fruition, and I will have to switch gears away from dorky coding and, as you say, promoting the project. I'm a lousy promoter :-)

    The name officially comes from the ten "fingers" holding your data (like when your PC is turned off, (*up to) ten others serve it), and unofficially from the reaction to five eyes (the spy thing Snowden uncovered). Finger in the eye sort of, as it circumvents the spying on people and data.

    Time to promote I guess!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I personally hadn't heard the ten fingers metaphor - it makes sense but I wasn't familiar. I do know of the five eyes but likely wouldn't have made the connection.

    If you are taking my thoughts into consideration: no matter how meaningful your project name is, it doesn't matter if it's not unique. Now that I know what it means, I can appreciate it, but (until it gets big) I still need to look it up. If you called it something like "Avoid the Ten Fingers" or "Ten Fingers Privacy" it would be a lot easier to find (note that I don't recommend either of those names, but you're welcome to them if you find them palatable).

    I'm thinking of "ungoogleable." My best example of this used to be the band "The The" but I guess Google cottoned on to this because they're the first result now.

    Anyway, I've never done any promoting of any kind. Please do not take my advice as any kind of expertise. Good luck with your promoting!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thanks again!

    The full name is the Tenfingers sharing protocol (& implementation), but I think it's not high on the search lists because it's kind of unknown, I have now to publish it so that people can test it and start to use it regularly.

    I'm thinking of starting off in ask lemmy, to find places where people might want to check it out, lots of smart people around here :-)

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