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Wouldn't get this with a FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.

stewartmcgown 3y ago
Excellent reference
- windock 3y ago
  For reference, it is referred to the first comment under announcement of Dropbox https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
  - scarface74 3y ago
    This is the HN equivalent of “No wireless. Less space than the nomad. Lame” https://m.slashdot.org/story/21026 https://m.slashdot.org/story/21026
    - jareklupinski 3y ago
      second comment: > Plus, you can use it as a portable disk. No "content protection". Yay! good times
      - scarface74 3y ago
        In the grand scheme of things, music bought on iTunes was only DRMd from 2003-2009. Steve Jobs actually proposed to the music industry to allow it to sell DRM free music as early as 2007 in his famous “Thoughts on Music” open letter that at the time was posted on the front page of Apple’s website.
mikae1 3y ago
Or use an open source client without telemetry such as https://maestral.app https://maestral.app ㋡
- dspillett 3y ago
  “On other platforms, you can install the Python package or a Docker image based on Alpine Linux” isn't going to fly for a lot of users, though maybe there is quite an overlap between people who know the details of why they might want to install it and people with the ability to.
  - notpushkin 3y ago
    Other platforms being Windows? :^) That's a valid point though, I hope somebody contributes a Windows GUI at some point.
  - hoistbypetard 3y ago
    If you're using Windows at this point, you must have decided that this sort of telemetry is acceptable for you. It's about the same level as the stuff you can't disable in current versions of that OS.
- japanuspus 3y ago
  This. Recently came back to macOS after a decade on the other side, and one surprise was how terrible the official Dropbox client was. Installed Maestral instead and it just works -- just like Dropbox used to. <begin rant>I see Dropbox as one of the biggest failures of the VC model. If only they had been bootstrapped, they would probably have stuck with their initial sync offering: A perfectly executed solution to a problem everybody has. And a small team could have made a good living here -- even with reasonably priced non-free options. Instead I imagine some VC partner convinced them to "grow their market" (or maybe "prepare for cloud"), and now they are descending into irrelevance. <end rant>
  - geophile 3y ago
    Yeah, I remember when they were briefly going to solve the problem of being a universal translator of file formats. They announced this at a conference I attended and I could see the thought bubbles of everyone in the audience: What? That will fail, are you nuts?
AH4oFVbPT4f8 3y ago
I bet you could setup all that up over a weekend roo
- donio 3y ago
  If you go with a modern equivalent ("rclone mount" or sshfs) you could probably set those up faster than the Dropbox client.
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rsync 3y ago
… sshfs pointed to your rsync.net account. Your immutable daily snapshots would be mounted in your local file system in: (Mount point)/.zfs/snapshot … and even Mallory can’t alter them since they are read-only.
donio 3y ago
BrandonM was right all along. Nowadays you'd probably use "rclone mount" or sshfs though. (For anyone wondering the parent is channeling https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863)
- bachmeier 3y ago
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stewartmcgown 3y ago

Excellent reference

windock 3y ago
For reference, it is referred to the first comment under announcement of Dropbox https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
- scarface74 3y ago
  This is the HN equivalent of “No wireless. Less space than the nomad. Lame” https://m.slashdot.org/story/21026 https://m.slashdot.org/story/21026
  - jareklupinski 3y ago
    second comment: > Plus, you can use it as a portable disk. No "content protection". Yay! good times
    - scarface74 3y ago
      In the grand scheme of things, music bought on iTunes was only DRMd from 2003-2009. Steve Jobs actually proposed to the music industry to allow it to sell DRM free music as early as 2007 in his famous “Thoughts on Music” open letter that at the time was posted on the front page of Apple’s website.

mikae1 3y ago

Or use an open source client without telemetry such as https://maestral.app https://maestral.app ㋡

dspillett 3y ago
“On other platforms, you can install the Python package or a Docker image based on Alpine Linux” isn't going to fly for a lot of users, though maybe there is quite an overlap between people who know the details of why they might want to install it and people with the ability to.
- notpushkin 3y ago
  Other platforms being Windows? :^) That's a valid point though, I hope somebody contributes a Windows GUI at some point.
- hoistbypetard 3y ago
  If you're using Windows at this point, you must have decided that this sort of telemetry is acceptable for you. It's about the same level as the stuff you can't disable in current versions of that OS.
japanuspus 3y ago
This. Recently came back to macOS after a decade on the other side, and one surprise was how terrible the official Dropbox client was. Installed Maestral instead and it just works -- just like Dropbox used to. <begin rant>I see Dropbox as one of the biggest failures of the VC model. If only they had been bootstrapped, they would probably have stuck with their initial sync offering: A perfectly executed solution to a problem everybody has. And a small team could have made a good living here -- even with reasonably priced non-free options. Instead I imagine some VC partner convinced them to "grow their market" (or maybe "prepare for cloud"), and now they are descending into irrelevance. <end rant>
- geophile 3y ago
  Yeah, I remember when they were briefly going to solve the problem of being a universal translator of file formats. They announced this at a conference I attended and I could see the thought bubbles of everyone in the audience: What? That will fail, are you nuts?

AH4oFVbPT4f8 3y ago

I bet you could setup all that up over a weekend roo

donio 3y ago
If you go with a modern equivalent ("rclone mount" or sshfs) you could probably set those up faster than the Dropbox client.

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rsync 3y ago

… sshfs pointed to your rsync.net account. Your immutable daily snapshots would be mounted in your local file system in: (Mount point)/.zfs/snapshot … and even Mallory can’t alter them since they are read-only.

donio 3y ago

BrandonM was right all along. Nowadays you'd probably use "rclone mount" or sshfs though. (For anyone wondering the parent is channeling https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863)

bachmeier 3y ago
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