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Products that do what Dillo Backup does

Fast, local-first, incremental backups for Win & macOS.

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   Resurrecting the Dillo browser▲599

   Hi, in mid 2022 the host dillo.org expired [0], taking down the website, mercurial repo, the mailing list and the email server used to reach the core developers of Dillo. Someone bought it and now serves a weird clone of the original page with missing content. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32448104 I felt sad as I didn't want it to die, so I got a copy of the repo from my hard disk, uploaded it to GitHub and decided to do some maintenance on the code to at least keep the build working. After some time, the folks at Atari Forum decided to use my repo to port it to…

   2024 · dillo-browser.github.io

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   I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze▲236

   Creator here. I was looking for something as simple as Backblaze Personal [1] but privacy focused and open source. This is my attempt to build that. Uses PyQt6 [2] for the GUI and Pyinstaller [3] for creating the platform specific binaries. The backup engine under the hood is Restic [4]. The server code is written in Laravel [5]. All the code is on GitHub [6]. I actually really like Backblaze (even use B2 for this offering behind the scenes) so this isn't meant to throw shade their way. Just wanted a private open source alternative. Something like Bitwarden but for backups. [1]…

   2022 · blobbackup.com

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   Maccy▲378

   Lightweight open-source clipboard manager for macOS

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   Plakar▲288

   Effortless open source backup platform

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   Clean Mac Desktop▲347

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    2022 · github.com

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    Barebackups▲78

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