Very clean and nice, but how is this financed? That is, who's paying for the server storage and the bandwidth?
Presumably Mozilla, just like they do for the sync and Web Push servers.
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Why is it a necessity to store information for 90 days? Why not 10 or 30? Is there something special about 10 or 30? (You wouldn't ask the same question about 10 or 30?)
10 or 30 seem shorter, no? I don't have anything to say about 10 or 30, but 90 seems too long in my opinion. I understand the need to keep logs to thwart abuse, but with longer lengths you're just helping law enforcement.
> 10 or 30 seem shorter, no? I don't have anything to say about 10 or 30, but 90 seems too long in my opinion.
Sure they're shorter, but wherever they draw the line somebody like you is going to complain. Putting myself in their shoes I don't see any reason why you wouldn't complain about 30 days (even if you really wouldn't).
> I understand the need to keep logs to thwart abuse, but with longer lengths you're just helping law enforcement.
90 days cannot be to thwart abuse because...? And helping law enforcement is inherently terrible because...?
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#103Very clean and nice, but how is this financed? That is, who's paying for the server storage and the bandwidth?
mozilla
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#104I can't believe that there isn't a simple service to transfer data between my cellphone and my computer without going through the internet. iTunes is terribly bloated, MTP is a mess, and Bluetooth is slow and frustrating. Back in my hacker day I used to have an SSH server open on my cellphone and use it to transfer files back and forth with my computer. Why isn't there a mainstream service like that?
Airdroid
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#105I can't believe that there isn't a simple service to transfer data between my cellphone and my computer without going through the internet. iTunes is terribly bloated, MTP is a mess, and Bluetooth is slow and frustrating. Back in my hacker day I used to have an SSH server open on my cellphone and use it to transfer files back and forth with my computer. Why isn't there a mainstream service like that?
AirDroid is pretty handy on Android; file transfer, browsing your phone's files/images, sending SMS from your desktop browser (although Messages now does that native) etc. Much to my surprise, there's also an iOS version - https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1194539178
Re: Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
#106I can't believe that there isn't a simple service to transfer data between my cellphone and my computer without going through the internet. iTunes is terribly bloated, MTP is a mess, and Bluetooth is slow and frustrating. Back in my hacker day I used to have an SSH server open on my cellphone and use it to transfer files back and forth with my computer. Why isn't there a mainstream service like that?
Tangentially related - I've always thought it's dumb that I can't just plug my iPhone in to any PC and have it show up as a removable storage device. I'm sure people who know more than me will give me a list of great reasons why it's not straightforward to implement... But it doesn't change the fact that I have this incredible device (iPhone X) with 256gb of blindingly fast NAND flash storage, of which I am only util…
Apple used to let you do this exactly with the iPod.
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#107I wish Mozilla focused on core Firefox functionalities instead of coming up with so many small side projects that don't target their typical audience. Since Chromium-based browsers are not an option, many of us are stuck with Firefox as the only remaining choice. But even Firefox has to be heavily customized before it's completely deGoogled and stops contacting various motherships. As a side note Nightly build for Ub…
Is there anything specific you are missing in Firefox today? Or is it purely the fact that it's broken since version 61? Did you submit a bugzilla issue, or know the existing number? I'd be happy to check it out.
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#108How is this using end-to-end encryption? It seems like the recipient just clicks a link to download. How can it have been encrypted for that person? end-to-end encryption normally means that there's no way for the intermediary to unencrypt the data but I can't see how that's possible in this case.
IIRC The link contains an anchor `#abc123` which is the decryption key. Browsers do not send anchor parts of the URL to the server, and so the browser decrypts.
Hinges on the browsers never sending that key, though.
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#109I'm onboard as a regular user of send.firefox.com. How does Mozilla have the money to offer this for free?
Mozilla has quite a bit of money, most of it from their default search engine deals. I'd wager to guess that most of it goes to wages.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tangentially related - I've always thought it's dumb that I can't just plug my iPhone in to any PC and have it show up as a removable storage device. I'm sure people who know more than me will give me a list of great reasons why it's not straightforward to implement... But it doesn't change the fact that I have this incredible device (iPhone X) with 256gb of blindingly fast NAND flash storage, of which I am only util…
this is an artificial apple restriction. other vendors allow you to do exactly this
Other vendors used to allow you to do this back when internal storage was vfat formatted but it's not been an option these days because Windows and Macs wouldn't have the file system drivers to read the storage.
This is why MTP was created. However MTP is - in my experience - complete garbage and creates as many problems as it solves.