https://www.federated.computer/ Recent content on Federated Computer | A fast, responsive replacement for Google Workplace and much more Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Tue, 06 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.federated.computer/blog/introducing-federated-core/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.federated.computer/blog/introducing-federated-core/ We are very proud to introduce Federated “Core” to the wide world. We built Federated Core because we were tired of the surveillance happening with common productivity tools on the web, our collection of tools was costing a small fortune every month, and it was a pain to get everything to work together. Design Goals Federated Core was built to provide regular users who wanted privacy, great features and functions, the right price, basically all the benefits of today’s software-as-a-service offerings, in a self-hosted environment but without the aggravation and technical commitment self-hosting requires. https://www.federated.computer/blog/bitcoin-time-fourth-revolution/ Mon, 05 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.federated.computer/blog/bitcoin-time-fourth-revolution/ How Bitcoin Becomes Money in the Next Decade I have followed bitcoin for over a decade now and one of the best quotes I have seen is from Paul Buchheit, “Bitcoin may be the TCP/IP of money.” Just as TCP/IP facilitated the free flow of information and transformed how we communicate and access data globally, Bitcoin will have a similar impact on the transfer of value and the way we perceive and use money, MoIP, money over Internet protocol! https://www.federated.computer/blog/digital-sovereign-toolbox/ Fri, 26 May 2023 20:18:07 +0600 https://www.federated.computer/blog/digital-sovereign-toolbox/ At Federated, we try to put our tools, our digital tools, where our mouth is. We don’t used centralized software for almost nothing to run our business preferring to use Federated Core and other self-hosted open-source projects. While we have systems running (virtual machines) for Windows and macOS testing, we run Linux on the desktop with most of us choosing to run Pop!_OS. The “tile windows” manager and integration with Federated services makes this a winner. https://www.federated.computer/blog/the-future-of-cloud-computing/ Thu, 25 May 2023 20:18:07 +0600 https://www.federated.computer/blog/the-future-of-cloud-computing/ Cloud 1.0 At Joyent, my previous startup, we literally invented “cloud computing”. We figured developers would appreciate the ability to purchase an “on-demand data center” in order to build web applications at scale without the enormous up-front infrastructure costs previously associated with datacenters. This all seems like old-hat today, but at the time, in the early 2000s, we were felt like pioneers. Centralization Sucks What happened with cloud infrastructure is a story, in the technology universe, as old as time. https://www.federated.computer/blog/in-praise-of-thunderbird/ Tue, 02 May 2023 20:18:07 +0600 https://www.federated.computer/blog/in-praise-of-thunderbird/ Email is Important Email is an ancient service and, often left in the dustbin, the clients that support email are often left to digitally rot. Email service providers have embraced and extended email (example: Gmail) or decided they won’t receive email from unknown email servers from unknown domain unless paid tens of thousands of dollars per month to “ensure” delivery. It’s a racket and a scam. Email is important to how the internet works. https://www.federated.computer/blog/we-built-federated-using-federated/ Tue, 02 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.federated.computer/blog/we-built-federated-using-federated/ Using All The Software Components to Build Federated Core One of our best decisions, and we also had a number of bad decisions (but that’s for another blog post), was to “trial” test different open-source software packages to see if we could fruitfully use them as a distributed, decentralized team building a stack of software, documentation, marketing materials for Federated Core. We used Nextcloud as a traffic control. Nextcloud Files worked for sharing files and commenting on content. https://www.federated.computer/blog/dark-side-of-centralization/ Mon, 01 May 2023 12:57:56 +0600 https://www.federated.computer/blog/dark-side-of-centralization/ Much like the incredible expense of all the software-as-a-service offerings today, when taken in aggragate, in the 1960s and 1970s, computing was a “big company” sport because of expense. Large computer companies sold mainframes and smaller mainframes (called “minis”) and were very content with the status quo and profits. When the idea of personal computers came along, no establish computer company had any desire to play along. In fact, when Steve Wozniak created the Apple I personal computer, he offered it to his employer Hewlett-Packard five times but the big-computing company had no interest. https://www.federated.computer/blog/power-of-free-and-open-source/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 12:59:58 +0600 https://www.federated.computer/blog/power-of-free-and-open-source/ Choosing Free and Open Source Maybe Federated Core is the first time you and your team or business are explicitly choosing free and open-source software over some other solution that is costly and proprietary. In that case, we thought we would lay out why you’ve made the right choice. Is it Really “Free”? But let’s get the elephant in the room out of the way first. Federated Computer charges $39/month, so how is anything “free”? https://www.federated.computer/blog/federated-founders-and-our-joyent-history/ Sun, 06 Sep 2020 20:18:07 +0600 https://www.federated.computer/blog/federated-founders-and-our-joyent-history/ The Origins of Federated Most of the founders of Federated Computer come from an earlier company that worked on decentralization called “Joyent”. You can read some of that story in a blog post I wrote when Joyent was sold to Samsung at this link. The picture above shows the first few engineers and designers who worked on Joyent, including the now tremendously successful Apple, Dallas Cowboys, and other topics blogger and podcast John Gruber in the red shirt. https://www.federated.computer/careers/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.federated.computer/careers/ Federated Computer is working to build the next version of the “cloud” but in a “point-to-point” or “federated” way. We seek to accomplish our goals using a mixture of open-source “Web2” tools, and new tools for money and commerce. We are currently hiring for the following positions: Systems Engineers You know everything about everything, everywhere. You understand Linux, LDAP, OAuth, Nostr, DNS, networking in general. You are an everything-digital-mechanic. You have worked in/on open-source technologies for a long time. https://www.federated.computer/comparison/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.federated.computer/comparison/ There are some amazing offerings available for individuals, teams, and small businesses today. The trouble is, kinda like cable and entertainment pricing, all the subscriptions really start to add up, and they don’t really work well together. Federated Core Compared to the Competition We’ve done the math and we come up with some significant saving for Federated Computer Customers. Federated Core: $39/month. Competition: $393.65/month. (Assuming five users. Here’s a handy reference list to understand how Federated Core stacks up to the competition. https://www.federated.computer/developers/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.federated.computer/developers/ How developers can publish to Federated Computer. https://www.federated.computer/documentation/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.federated.computer/documentation/ Federated Computer documentation can be found at this link. Federated Computer offers an open-source documentation project where customers and collaborators can work with Federated Computer folks to document how to use the various software components best for work, team collaboration, with desktop and mobile devices, etc. This documentation was written for the end-user. We will be publishing a further set of documentation once we open-source our stack and you can install Federated Computer on your own hardward or cloud server. https://www.federated.computer/description/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.federated.computer/description/ Federated Core is a self-hosted server, you don’t share resources with other Customers, with 100% privacy, included backups, updates, and uptime reliability. What’s Included For $39/month you get all of the following: Single-sign-on User Management to manage users and access in one place. Mail with the latest spam and abuse filters built in. Nextcloud for groupware, files, calendar, contacts, project management, bookmarks, tasks, photos and much more. Jitsi, the open-source video conferencing solution which power Google Meet. https://www.federated.computer/merchandise/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.federated.computer/merchandise/ Want to live the Federated lifestyle? Then you’ll need a “founder’s 2022 belt buckle”. These buckles are limited edition, made to order, and will tell everyone in the room “Hey, I think ‘centralization sucks!'”. The belt buckle is four and a half inches across, made from silver, studded with costume cubic zarconia “jewels” and on-of-a-kind. These won’t last long. US$120. Please click on the Buckle up! link or the image to buy. https://www.federated.computer/partners/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.federated.computer/partners/ How to sell and promote Federated Computer. https://www.federated.computer/privacy/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.federated.computer/privacy/ It is Federated Computer’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to any Federated Computer website (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “federated.computer”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. https://www.federated.computer/projectswelove/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.federated.computer/projectswelove/ We think the following projects deservce your attention. They are working to bring sovereignty to individuals and teams worldwide. Self Hosting These folks are building tools for digital sovereignty alongside our efforts here at Federated: Umbrel A slick, well package project for installing and running tons of great open-source projects. They even have their own cool hardware. A great solution, if we might opine, for running a bitcoin/lightning node. System 9 https://www.federated.computer/purchase/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.federated.computer/purchase/ Please check again. We aren’t yet open for business. https://www.federated.computer/sovereignreset/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.federated.computer/sovereignreset/ We started Sovereign Reset to provide a place to talk about living a sovereign lifestyle in full beyond just digital sovereignty. Sovereign Reset is a partnership between Federated Computer and a number of individuals and companies in the areas of: food relationships digital health exercise money There is a weekly Sovereign Reset Podcast where we talk with interesting individuals working around the globe to bring the sovereign lifestyle to others. https://www.federated.computer/blog/stop-being-a-bitch/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.federated.computer/blog/stop-being-a-bitch/ The Condition Oh, this is different than my iProud! I can’t use that. I don’t understand how to use this…Google does it for me. I don’t care if they are watching me! Everybody likes Furries. What do I have to hide? We’d change, but it’s going to mean we can’t benefit from being limp cucks for Microsoft. They will tell us how we should work on our team and what we can or cannot do with our data. https://www.federated.computer/support/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.federated.computer/support/ We never want to leaving you searching a website, fumbling around Reddit, or throwing questions into the dark hole of Telegram looking for an answer or solution. The Customer is the most important person in the Federated galaxy, so we offer you a number of ways to get the support you need! Support Options We’ve got lots of ways we can stay in touch and get all the wrinkles, questions, comments ironed out and answered. https://www.federated.computer/team/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.federated.computer/team/ David Young: wow! Photoshop can make anyone appear thin and pant-suited. Barry Goers: professional hockey player, still a player. Will biz dev you until you giggle. Blake Burris we financed this ***ing company using that gold chain as collateral! Derek Crudgington (front row) the lifter in the bunch. I wonder what he sees, ladies? (c) whoever, whenever, whatever.