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Re: Cloudflare Drop

#102
post #42

Wow the people in this thread are a huge bummer. This is much cooler and I doubt this is a real safety issue. You can already sign up for a free cloudflare account and deploy it for free, on your own, on a free workers.dev domain. The friction removal here isn't going to meaningfully change the security / amount of malicious content.

Well according to the people in this thread it was previously impossible for bad actors to host a website, and CloudFlare has now given them this unique ability.

I really hope/imagine this project specifically has a LLM of some kind doing real-time analysis on the uploaded files for malware from the get-go. How good that is could be is anyone's guess (and chances are there would be blind spots / evasion techniques).

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#103
post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are numerous products like this out there. Isn’t that where Dropbox got its name in the first place?

I thought it was a reference to the Mac OS X `~/Public/Drop Box` directory, which was a write-only place for people to send files to your user, which has been around since the first OS X beta came out in 2000.

I vaguely remember being told to put assignments in a drop box (like a mail box on campus) in the mid 2000s at least, and I'm sure it wasn't a new concept then.

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#104
post #42

Wow the people in this thread are a huge bummer. This is much cooler and I doubt this is a real safety issue. You can already sign up for a free cloudflare account and deploy it for free, on your own, on a free workers.dev domain. The friction removal here isn't going to meaningfully change the security / amount of malicious content.

When you see a group of people being critical, you can either see it as a “bummer”, or you can see it as people critically thinking about a thing.

Is it really more useful to have everyone expressing how much they like something instead of identifying problems?

Is seeing people talking about the things they don’t like something that makes you unhappy? Why?

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#105

Hmm, that's fun and useful. Here is snake game for 60 minutes. https://drop-e7e6d363-601.important-seat.workers.dev

$ curl -I https://drop-e7e6d363-601.important-seat.workers.dev/ curl: (7) Failed to connect to drop-e7e6d363-601.important-seat.workers.dev port 443 after 47 ms: Couldn't connect to server Tried from two hosts, different countries.

Yes, it's expired I think - it only lasts for 1 hour

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#106
post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought it was a reference to the Mac OS X `~/Public/Drop Box` directory, which was a write-only place for people to send files to your user, which has been around since the first OS X beta came out in 2000.

I vaguely remember being told to put assignments in a drop box (like a mail box on campus) in the mid 2000s at least, and I'm sure it wasn't a new concept then.

Oh dang, you're right. Mac OS X was my first Mac OS, but it looks like the Drop Box concept existed long before OS X. Here's a reference from 1991 titled "AppleShare Drop Box: Access for System 6 and 7 Clients" https://www.savagetaylor.com/TIL/TIL09033.pdf

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#107

Netlify made this 10 years ago... they even copied the name! https://app.netlify.com/drop

Its not exactly a very elaborate name.

Elaborate enough?

Funny story: I used to work for a startup which had a trademark on "Airdrop". When Apple announced that feature, it took everyone there by surprise. Ended up reaching out and selling it to them for a buck or two in favor of maintaining goodwill.

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#108
All I ever get is "Something went wrong An unexpected error occurred. Please try again or contact support."

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#110
post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My... Aviato?

Infatrode, wtf is Infatrode (I might be butchering it, course it is an Office Space reference) He was my absolute favorite character in that show.

I think it was Initrode. I used to watch it every day haha
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