Comment by xeromal
1 month ago
For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.
Sir, this is a Docker, not Dropbox
I'm replacing Dropbox with Unison [0] over ssh, BTW. It's a great piece of software (multiplatform, and it even has a GUI).
[0] https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison
I'm so surprised to see that folks rediscover Unison in 2026 :) It is a unique piece of software which has been around for 20 years or so. The two way sync is great but also a bit scary since it can wipe files.
BTW, Rclone has bisync now.
It's not the 90s anymore.
It that comment says is “I don’t know what docker solves”
it's a parody of the infamous https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
I mean, isn't that just about what happened to Docker?
They wrote a really nice wrapper around cgroups/ns/tarball hosting and then struggled to monetize it because a large portion of their users are exactly the kind of people who could set up a curlftpfs document cloud.