Jeremiah LeeLocal-first? Offline-first? There is more to ditching The Cloud!
π The leaf architecture describes apps that are:
Local
Encrypted
Autonomous
Federated
@bert_hubert Thatβs a terrible user experience to gate key functionality of an appliance. We need leaf computing as policy. Smart home devices should be required to be operable within the local network without external cloud dependencies.
The annual reminder of #LeafComputingβs relevance is today. https://leafcomputing.net/?ref=activitypub
Roblox, Snapchat, Venmo, HBO, Hulu, Reddit, CapitalOne, TMobile, AT&T, Signal, and hundreds of other apps are offline because AWS is offline.
https://www.theverge.com/news/802486/aws-outage-alexa-fortnite-snapchat-offline?ref=activitypub
My husbandβs ability to participate in the smart home from Android is a primary motivation for trying Home Assistant. I want to make sure this works well for him first because I can tolerate papercuts.
Google Home support requires a fucking cloud service. In the year of our lard 2025. This is dumb. Apple Home gets this right. Google engineers should go watch my conference talk on leaf computing.
The organization behind the Matter smart home standard created the IoT Device Security Specification. Adoption would be a good baseline for Internet-connected smart devices.
However, the specification says nothing about the cloud services many smart home devices rely on.
β’ Can a customer support person see your security camera feed?
β’ Can a developer access the production database for your door lock?
The answer is yes for too many IoT products.
Smart doorbells shouldnβt have cloud services. #LeafComputing
Your security camera should not allow other people to spy on you, but that is what poorly designed Wyze cameras didβagain.
https://9to5google.com/2024/02/19/wyze-camera-thumbnails-breach/
A leaf architecture minimizes the risk of a cloud infrastructure misconfiguration exposing you by not relying on cloud infrastructure.
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If you're looking for a smart home air filter, I recommend the Mila.
It doesn't use #LeafComputing, but it does now have HomeKit support. You can save $50 with HOMEKIT.
Mila is beautiful, quiet, has air quality sensors, adjusts automatically, and has a great pulsing white noise mode for sleeping if you're into that (I am). Filters are effective and reasonably priced.
Mike AmundsenChanging The Status Quo With Leaf Computing
https://nordicapis.com/changing-the-status-quo-with-leaf-computing/
"Below, weβll explore what leaf computing enables and why API designers might want to incorporate more βoffline-firstβ principles that grant clients more control over their data, processing, and state." -- #BillDoerrfeld
