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Seven.zip
- planede 3y agoI guess the main purpose of the submission has been lost, as HN resolved the redirect ahead of time. https://seven.zip https://seven.zip redirects to 7-zip.org .
- gfisher 3y agoThank you for posting this - I couldn't figure out the intent of the initial post without this comment.
- endorphine 3y agoI guess a more useful title could be: "seven.zip redirects to 7-zip.org".
- furyofantares 3y agoI believe the point of the title was to make it feel like it's a link to a zip file and not a website.
- jve 3y agoNo, I actually just hoped there would be 7.zip that leads to 7-zip.org. But found out it was seven.zip. I hope apps will not make links out of .zip TLD.
- skrowl 3y ago[dead]
- quickthrower2 3y agoCan’t live without it on Windows!
- mobilio 3y agoI'm using this on Linux servers because it give me better compression and utilize all processor threads.
- stefantalpalaru 3y ago[dead]
- dxbednarczyk 3y agoAlthough potentially missing the point of the original submission: https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip imo better integration with Win 10/11 context menus and more compression codecs
- msephton 3y agoThanks for the recommendation
- mrWiz 3y agoThanks for the recommendation! NanaZip solves a problem that I have had with Explorer integration in 7zip. 7zip's right click menu does not appear for files that are synced on OneDrive but not downloaded to the local machine. NanaZip handles this correctly.
- satysin 3y agoI assume this post was to show a new URL - seven.zip - with the new gTLD .zip being popular news the past week? Sadly it seems the address was 'corrected' and instead was posted as 7-zip.org If you go to https://seven.zip https://seven.zip it does indeed redirect to 7-zip.org :)
- Aachen 3y agoDid HN resolve the redirect? The domain https://seven.zip https://seven.zip redirects here. I was wondering why this submission with this name, when the page title is 7-zip and the download is a .exe and not called seven.zip or so, but then remembered the recently (stupidly) approved TLD that is .zip Edit: well https://i.snipboard.io/uAo7BG.jpg https://i.snipboard.io/uAo7BG.jpg
- jve 3y agoYes, about the new TLD. Seems like HN resolved domain redirect and changed link to 7-zip.org I was actually hoping for 7.zip :)
- aaron695 3y ago[dead]
- jmclnx 3y agoI like 7zip except for one thing, you cannot redirect it to stdout, or I could not find a way of doing that. 7z -something < file.7z | whatever > out.file Personally, I would use 'xz -9' if I wanted high compression, it works better with UNIX type systems Systems.
- tyingq 3y agoSee https://info.nrao.edu/computing/guide/file-access-and-archiving/7zip/7z-7za-command-line-guide https://info.nrao.edu/computing/guide/file-access-and-archiv... -so Write data to StdOut and... -si Read data from StdIn
- HelloNurse 3y agoOn Windows there's a fair chance of mixing up three variants: command line (7z.exe), GUI (7zFM.exe) and alternative command line with GUI dialogs (7zG.exe).
- jmclnx 3y agoFWIW, I decided to compare the compress size between xz(1) and a very large 7z file, using 'xz -9'. Sizes: * uncompress: 36,495,045,244 * gz: 18,729,830,001 * xz: 16,739,567,484 * 7z: 16,257,755,606 7z ended up being about 480 meg smaller, in a way that was a bit unexpected. I was expecting xz to be slightly smaller. Also, this process took about 15 hours.
- planede 3y agoThese redirects are cute, but how can we be sure that the domain is owned by the same people as 7-zip.org? I can imagine an attack scenario where someone with malicious intent registers seven.zip, initially sets it up to redirect 7-zip.org. People start using this new URL and then after a while seven.zip starts to host a mirror of 7-zip.org with a malicious installer. Not trying to accuse anybody, just wondering.
- hyperhopper 3y agoThe real answer is that trust isn't needed, because you just shouldn't use it. You know that 7-zip.org is the official site. You see that's where you end up after the redirect. Just bookmark and use that. No reason to add more steps.
- calvinmorrison 3y agoThe real answer is: trust is not a problem that can ever be fully mitigated by smart technology and that's why we depend on things like the wonderful package maintainers of debian and other projects to do due diligence for the rest of us!
- tstrimple 3y agoEven typing in a domain you know can be fraught. There are still plenty of popular domains with common typos registered by shady people. Most of them I encounter tend to be spam sites rather than maliciously impersonating the site they are trying to steal traffic from but that's not a far leap. See https://news.ycombinator.co https://news.ycombinator.co
- euroderf 3y agountil a Node coder withdraws a tiny-but-widely-referenced package.
- planede 3y agoThat might be the real answer, but not very satisfactory, as it suggests that this domain just shouldn't exist. At least 7-zip.org could have a list of domains that they own and control if they wish people to use these alternate domains.
- tekni5 3y agoThat's cool, but I feel like .zip might get caught by spam protection so not the best choice for sending in discord/email/chat etc Speaking of domain names, what is the best option for the cheapest possible domain tld (including renewal), maybe something you can even get for 10 years and save a ton? Also would be nice if it had free whois? Extension doesn't matter as this would be for personal use. Is it still xyz or ovh?
- noman-land 3y ago.orgs are like $4 a year on Cloudflare.
- chrismorgan 3y ago.org cost is $10.11. (Source: https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/ https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/.)
- noman-land 3y agoMy bad! I was misremembering. It's .uk and .co.uk that are $4.71.
- tekni5 3y agoI see around $10 for .org on Cloudflare, .win seems to be $3.16 Do prices change a lot?
- noman-land 3y agoThey do fluctuate a big. I was misremembering though. It's .uk and .co.uk that are $4.71.
- Aachen 3y ago.tk and .ml. It doesn't get cheaper than free and .ml is a great typo squatting TLD for .nl which nobody seems to realise yet so a lot of domains are still available. Educational purposes only!!
- msephton 3y agoThis reminded me to check, I had an old outdated version installed!
- _Microft 3y agoIs there an easy way to block/blacklist certain TLDs on Windows, or at least in Firefox or Chrome? Ideally without requiring additional tools.
- dbg31415 3y agoSure is! Just modify your hosts table. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
- _Microft 3y agoThe Windows hosts file doesn’t support wildcards though, does it?
- jug 3y agoNope. :( You can try something like CoreDNS or maybe Acrylic DNS Proxy which is a small local proxy that adds wildcard and even regexp support: https://mayakron.altervista.org/support/acrylic/Home.htm https://mayakron.altervista.org/support/acrylic/Home.htm
- dist-epoch 3y agoPeople are hyperventilating about the "danger". .sh also exists and the world didn't burn. https://get.sh https://get.sh
- bell-cot 3y ago".sh" is not a file extension that Joe User sees much of, to be more vulnerable to oopsies.
- Wowfunhappy 3y ago.sh probably shouldn't exist either. But I think .zip is a much more common file extension than .sh among the general populace.
- orra 3y ago.sh legitimately exists as a TLD because it's a ccTLD. ccTLDs are based on ISO country codes. In contrast, .zip only exists as a TLD because of ICANN money grubbing.
- Y_Y 3y agoI'm still annoyed that ICANN approved .org without sparing a thought for the poor users of emacs org-mode which had been released -18 years earlier!
- pantulis 3y agoThose rascals must use vim!
- RunSet 3y agoI propose that perhaps the problem is not top level domains but rather a certain operating system family's tendency to conflate file name extensions with file types, despite its default setting being "hide file extensions for known file types".
- 8organicbits 3y agoThe world won't burn, but .sh and .zip are different. If I send an email to my (less technically minded) family I may attach photos.zip. If I mention photos.zip in the body then the mail client may now convert it to a link. If http[://]photos.zip is a malware site, my family may download malware. I may inadvertently link to a malware site by talking about a zip file. I could also send an email with "install.sh" as an attachment, and mention it in the body. http[://]install.sh could be a malware site too. The differences. Non-technical people send, receive, and talk about zip files much more often. .sh was also registered with a clear reason, it's a ccTLD, it's for a country. .zip is just a vanity gTLD. If Zipland was a country, I'd support .zip or ideally .zp. Without a clear purpose and with clear malicious uses, people are just going to block the TLD. Lots of IT folks talking about implementing it on Reddit.
- SonicSoul 3y agohttps://medium.com/@bobbyrsec/the-dangers-of-googles-zip-tld-5e1e675e59a5 https://medium.com/@bobbyrsec/the-dangers-of-googles-zip-tld...
- bertylicious 3y agoSo I guess 7.zip isn't allowed?
- devrand 3y agoIt's registered: https://domains.google.com/registrar/search/whois/7.zip https://domains.google.com/registrar/search/whois/7.zip
- vrglvrglvrgl 3y ago[dead]
- theusus 3y agoThe best archiving software on windows. Missing it on Mac.
- 35988125 3y agoWhat do you miss about it on Mac? Have you tried Keka? https://www.keka.io/en/ https://www.keka.io/en/
- HelloNurse 3y agoFor example, RAR support is not listed.
- 35989196 3y agoSince RAR decompression is listed, I'll assume you mean compression: https://github.com/aonez/Keka/wiki/Rar-compression https://github.com/aonez/Keka/wiki/Rar-compression Sounds like it is a licensing issue more than anything? People still compress to RAR?
- HelloNurse 3y agoYes, I mean compression. From the home page (https://www.keka.io/en/ https://www.keka.io/en/): Keka can create files in these formats: 7Z ZIP TAR GZIP BZIP2 XZ LZIP DMG ISO BROTLI ZSTD LRZIP AAR WIM And extract all of these formats: 7Z ZIP ZIPX RAR TAR GZIP BZIP2 XZ LZIP DMG ISO BROTLI ZSTD LRZIP LZMA EXE CAB WIM MSI PAX JAR WAR IPA XIP APK APPX XPI WPRESS IS3 CPGZ CPIO CPT SPK
- Ryccardo 3y agoYep - I think it's mostly people who go by word of mouth and don't know about the leading free-without-cracks alternative, but RAR does still have some genuine merits like [native] optional redundancy!
- theusus 3y agoSomehow using default zip functionality creates files that are corrupt according other software.
- rsiqueira 3y agoI think it's not secure to have a domain extension like .zip. Imagine if people were to search for, for example, "install.zip," and there is a domain with that name and extension automatically assigned to it. It could potentially lead users to automatically download a malicious version of the "install.zip".
- Heleana 3y agoNice redirect!