[$] Syncing all the things
Computing devices are wonderful; they surely must be, since so many
of us have so many of them. The proliferation of computers leads directly
to a familiar problem, though: the files we want are always on the wrong
machine. One solution is synchronization services that keep a set of files
up to date across a multitude of machines; a number of companies have
created successful commercial offerings based on such services. Some of
us, though, are stubbornly resistant to the idea of placing our data in the
hands of corporations and their proprietary systems. For those of us who
would rather stay in control of our data, systems like Syncthing offer a possible solution.