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The fact that you need a 3rd party service to send a file between two computers is a failure of the Internet as a whole. Instead of addressing it, the technica
by dpc_pw 6y ago
The fact that you need a 3rd party service to send a file between two computers is a failure of the Internet as a whole.
Instead of addressing it, the technical community as a whole just keeps putting bandaids on it.
- napolux 6y agoWe have FTP, but are you willing and/or able to manage an FTP server open to the Internet on your personal pc? I can do it, but FFS I won't.
- Sohcahtoa82 6y agoWhat makes it difficult are two problems: - Dealing with NAT - Security Making a protocol for connecting to another machine and sending (or requesting) a file is easy. We solved that a couple decades ago. But how do you do it when both ends are behind NAT? UPNP was supposed to solve this problem, but not everyone uses UPNP, and it's pain in the ass to deal with port forwarding, also, good luck trying to walk grandma through setting up a port forward on her router.
- dpc_pw 6y agoI know. And it's a failure of an Internet and software ecosystem as whole. Somewhere between 2000 and 2010 we just accepted how much of fiasco and garbage everything have became.