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Re: Cloudflare Drop

#132

What is this for ?

I have hosted my personal site on Netlify for many many years because it's just basic js/html/css, I picked Netlify because I can just updated the index.html in the "website" folder on my desktop and literally drag it to Netlify to update it, saves a lot of time/thinking if you need something simple online quickly to show someone etc. I presume this is a similar idea.

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#134

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

Don't forget Digital Ocean Droplets.

FWIW, We called them droplets because drop of water in the (Digital)Ocean.

Re: Cloudflare Drop

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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.

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Agreed. This is the same crowd that is mad about free tiers going away on other dev-friendly hosting services…

Re: Cloudflare Drop

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post #121
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.

Corporations acting as if naive is a bit of problem in reality. For one thing, CF is probably the largest entity serving pirated content internationally while hiding the identities of actual perpetrators for privacy . Same here: CF is basically giving malicious actors an ability to ship contents/data publicly while laundering the legal responsibility of those actors. Now tell me what is cool

> Now tell me what is cool

Not immediately being a copyright bootlicker.

The fact that you went straight to "BuT pIrAtEs" already shows who you actually care: Corpos, not people.

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There must be some really good protection on this. If I enabled such a thing on any of my servers it would be full of warez, porn, malware, CSAM and who knows what else within minutes. Curious how they manage to keep it clean.

At least when it comes to bad types of porn, it's be similar to Imgur allowing anonymous uploads. They already do CSAM scanning on uploads to their R2 storage: https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-simpler-path-to-a-safer-intern...

That makes sense. In that case I have to assume that Cloudflare will not permit encrypted archive files as one can hide the image fingerprints all together.

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#139

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A minute ago I had an HTML doc I wanted to share with a PM. It was a Claude prepared demo of a hypothetical feature. Lots of screenshots. I ended up just embedding them directly in the HTML as base64 and sending him a 15mb file, but hypothetically this would have been a nice solution instead.

Absolutely agree. There's an insane "feature" of Claude Design which means you can only share the link to the design with other users on your account?! You can export the design, though, but then you need somewhere to quickly drop a bunch of HTML + assets. This would be perfect for that.

Wow, that does sound like a serious hardship for someone who lets Claude write all their code for them.

Creating a folder for some files. Dude, maybe you should file for disability for repetetive stress disorder for "double clicking" or even single clicking twice.

This aggression will not STAND man!

We need computers to go back to pencil and paper but STILL be computers! But not operated by me? Wierd operated by a fake bot me? Wait! thats malware! Wha?

Re: Cloudflare Drop

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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.

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