Tired of relying on Big Tech to enable collaboration, peer-to-peer enthusiasts are creating a new model that cuts out the middleman. (That’s you, Google.)
The article “The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?” by Gregory Barber discusses the growing movement towards local-first computing.
This movement advocates for a more privacy-focused and secure way of computing, where data is stored and processed locally on the user’s device instead of on remote servers. The author argues that the cloud is not as secure or private as we think it is, and that local-first computing offers a number of advantages, such as better performance, greater control over data, and reduced reliance on large corporations.
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The article “The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?” by Gregory Barber discusses the growing movement towards local-first computing.
This movement advocates for a more privacy-focused and secure way of computing, where data is stored and processed locally on the user’s device instead of on remote servers. The author argues that the cloud is not as secure or private as we think it is, and that local-first computing offers a number of advantages, such as better performance, greater control over data, and reduced reliance on large corporations.
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