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Imagine if your desktop used cloud services, it asks you for
your Cloud budget - how much you want to spend. Amazon,
Azure and others offer many
services for free, these could be integrated into a desktop.
Could accelerate local workstations with offloading of some
processing to the Cloud.
Such as search. (Send updatedb
locate database for unix systems to cloud system and run
the search there)
Cloud desktop mockups
https://github.com/...quire/cloud-desktop
[chronological, Dec 09 2019]
Cloud integration - early scepticism
https://en.m.wikipe...org/wiki/The_Clouds
[pertinax, Dec 19 2019]
[link]
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Not so. For your data. It's the new oil... |
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So, how would the computation be performed to keep it free exactly?
Homomorphic encryption? |
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Mindney, we'd be using the same services that developers
and corporations use to outsource their computers. There
wouldn't be need to worry about privacy of your data when
talking to Amazon or Azure assuming you encrypt it with TLS
while it makes its way over the network. |
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How do you expect arbitrary software that was made
without this in mind to work with this? |
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I'm creating mockups of this idea on Github |
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See the cloud acceleration section specifically. |
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notexactly, I imagine taking a normal desktop operating
system like Ubuntu and then adding Cloud extensions that
make the desktop faster through use of externally hosted
services. |
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That's sort-of OK for some types of application - accounting software already does this, being client-server rather than a browser-driven web-based architecture - but it makes the application critically dependent on a fast, reliable datalink. |
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For some tasks, a capability for standalone operation is always going to be mandatory. |
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// TLS while it makes its way over the network |
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That does not prevent cloud providers from secretly trading the uploaded
user data. Could be okay for some non-sensitive data though. |
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... or government snooping. |
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If you want a modicum of security, don't pass unencrypted data over IP, and don't use cloud storage. |
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I don't understand the spreadsheet part. It looks to me like
just a grid of randomly chosen software
development-related terms. What does it do? |
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notexactly, The spreadsheet part is how do you make
computer resources as simple to create as using a
spreadsheet, those are things you can create by typing =. |
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How you configure them after that is some thing I'm still
working on. |
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I wonder how quickly they'd've locked you up in a padded cell
if you'd said, 100 years ago "have you considered integrating
your desktop with the cloud?" ? |
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Isn't this essentially a chromebook? |
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Kind of like a Chromebook. But from a developer perspective
I can integrate with various services provided by public
clouds. |
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// notexactly, The spreadsheet part is how do you make
computer resources as simple to create as using a
spreadsheet, those are things you can create by typing =.
// |
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I'm not sure what you mean by that. I know how spreadsheet
formulas work, but I don't see how they come into play here. |
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notexactly, I want complicated things to be creatable as like
creating a cell of a given type in a spreadsheet. |
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OK. That sounds like it would be nice. How do you intend to
achieve that? |
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