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Re: Show HN: Real-time file sharing site

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Post by aperture »

There seems to be a twitter account here for it: https://twitter.com/volafile

Also, in chat I found https://github.com/binlain/volafile-bugs for solutions to fixing the site. However, I cannot vouch that is an official bug report location.

Considering this issue (nfsw): https://github.com/binlain/volafile-bugs/issues/5

I find this website a little amusing, but also creative. I think it's quite exciting overall! Good luck!

Re: Show HN: Real-time file sharing site

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Post by dsrguru »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #30
dpiers wrote: post #25

The 12-hour lifespan of content links is interesting; it prevents indexing or hot-linking content on the site. Even if the RIAA/MPAA/etc. set up bots watching the room and issuing takedowns for infringing files, the time allowed to comply with a DMCA takedown is greater than the lifespan of a file on the service. In other words: this should be fun, until they get sued out of existence.

Feature Request: Host on infrastructure outside of the US. EDIT: DISREGARD. It's already hosted outside the US. (Germany: https://www.ip-projects.de/ )

I know a lot of this post-PRISM fear of the US government is to be expected and is certainly popular on HN, but comments that single out the US like this really make little sense to me. The governments of Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand all share tech-related intel with the United States and, potentially if not presumably, have similarly intrusive methods of surveillance. China goes so far as to ban social media sites that they don't have control over (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube) and replaces them with sites that they do (renren, weibo, and youku/tudou). That, combined with general censorship of the web, is far scarier than what the NSA does, even assuming the NSA's scope is as wide as television shows make it out to be. And even in most other countries, the scope of domestic Internet surveillance is unknown, which is very different from "known to be minimal".

Edit: Ah if this was about intellectual property takedowns, then currently the US situation is a bit worse than most of the rest of the world. But still, China friggin censors their Internet, and comments like the above still seem to always single out the US.

Re: Show HN: Real-time file sharing site

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Post by zhemao »

fragsworth wrote: post #41
toomuchtodo wrote: post #32

You should probably block EXE files for the safety of your users.

And .bat, .scr, .pif, .com? And .zip, .tar, .gz, .rar? And then a shit load of file extensions that potentially run arbitrary code if you have the tool installed. Seems kind of pointless.

Or they can just take the executable and change the extension. Extension-based blocking doesn't really work. However, these types of files generally have magic numbers in their headers that you could inspect to determine what they are.

Also, it'd be rather inconvenient if you couldn't upload a compressed archive to a file-sharing site.

Re: Show HN: Real-time file sharing site

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Post by toomuchtodo »

dsrguru wrote: post #58
toomuchtodo wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Feature Request: Host on infrastructure outside of the US. EDIT: DISREGARD. It's already hosted outside the US. (Germany: https://www.ip-projects.de/ )

I know a lot of this post-PRISM fear of the US government is to be expected and is certainly popular on HN, but comments that single out the US like this really make little sense to me. The governments of Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand all share tech-related intel with the United States and, potentially if not presumably, have similarly intrusive methods of surveillance. China goes so far as to ban socia…

I suggested it due to DMCA takedown notices, not NSA-related concerns.
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