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Too bad. I really enjoyed using it while it was up. The code is open source, and they have docs on how to set it up for self hosting. I wonder if there is a chance some active forks might live on? https://github.com/mozilla/send https://github.com/mozilla/send/blob/master/docs/deployment....
For transferring large files between machines that don’t necessarily have the same clients installed I find file.pizza quite convenient. My understanding is it basically loads a JavaScript BitTorrent client and let’s you transfer using that protocol, so both ends needs to be online, but there is no file size limit, and good support on flaky connections. There’s a few services like this, but I always find file.pizza t…
Either Send is more long lived than I realized, or I have a very different definition of "legacy" From the Mozilla Blog: ... we are announcing the end of life for two legacy services that grew out of the Firefox Test Pilot program: Firefox Send and Firefox Notes.
Probably not a great word choice though.
Too bad. I really enjoyed using it while it was up. The code is open source, and they have docs on how to set it up for self hosting. I wonder if there is a chance some active forks might live on? https://github.com/mozilla/send https://github.com/mozilla/send/blob/master/docs/deployment....
I really don't understand it. - Content was used to spread malware/illegal content - It was not profitable How are those two things something you find out after the fact? What was the reasoning for launching the product in the first place?
Mozilla Foundation, as owner of Mozilla Corp, is a non-profit. Thus the second argument is not that important. Also a single feature can be unprofitable if it helps to drive the related products. First argument is more relevant, I see it as underestimated the risk there and coming out of a technical experiment ... That all said: Mozilla Corp's "focussing" doesn't convince me.
“Non-profit” doesn’t mean “don’t make profits” or “set a pile of money on fire”.
Too bad. I really enjoyed using it while it was up. The code is open source, and they have docs on how to set it up for self hosting. I wonder if there is a chance some active forks might live on? https://github.com/mozilla/send https://github.com/mozilla/send/blob/master/docs/deployment....
We still have Magic Wormhole though and it's awesome! (at least for techies) https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/welcome.html
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Between Unix-based machines on the same network my go-to is netcat. receiver$ nc -l 2000 > file sender$ nc receiver 2000 I usually check MD5 sums when I’m done.
SCP. simply for the encrypted transmission, and most *nix machines have ssh
(cd /right/place && tar -cf - patt*) | ssh remote '(cd /dest && tar -xvf -)'
Of course, you can also use the compression flags with tar.
I really don't understand it. - Content was used to spread malware/illegal content - It was not profitable How are those two things something you find out after the fact? What was the reasoning for launching the product in the first place?
Mozilla Foundation, as owner of Mozilla Corp, is a non-profit. Thus the second argument is not that important. Also a single feature can be unprofitable if it helps to drive the related products. First argument is more relevant, I see it as underestimated the risk there and coming out of a technical experiment ... That all said: Mozilla Corp's "focussing" doesn't convince me.
I included that argument because it's mentioned explicitly by them:
> as we weighed the cost of our overall portfolio and strategic focus, we made the decision not to relaunch the service.
I really don't understand it. - Content was used to spread malware/illegal content - It was not profitable How are those two things something you find out after the fact? What was the reasoning for launching the product in the first place?
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> Wish it had chrome style profiles Could you explain what you mean by this? Firefox does have profiles, and more than one can be active at a time. (There's also the newer containers feature which allows further compartmentalization.)
Chrome style profiles that are a 1st class feature; that isn't accessed with a secret url, doesn't require multiple instances of Firefox in my dock, can be toggled between profiles easily, can be easily identified with a icon in the top corner of the browser. I heavily use the firefox containers feature which is awesome.