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A relevant audience are the corporate computing inmates, who cannot install anything locally... They are happy to find utilities wrapped behind some web front.

api 2y ago
Ahh good point. An often missed driver for the cloud-ification of everything is that it offers a way to escape corporate IT. Sending a 20mb file 2000 miles away to do something trivial to it and send it back is easier than getting permission to install an app.
- PeterStuer 2y ago
  It doesn't send the file though.
- maccard 2y ago
  It really is. At a previous job, the approval process for a tool involved a questionnaire that rivalled a census, and a wait time of 4-6 weeks for approval. I literally never had any software refused via this process - most people just didn’t bother filling it in.
Trufa 2y ago
What a silly take. > Why do such things need to be hosted at all? because: corporate computing inmates, who cannot install anything locally Basically, denying or not seeing the practicality factor of web hosted solutions is either trying to be edgy or worryingly myopic.
- liotier 2y ago
  > Basically, denying or not seeing the practicality factor of web hosted solutions is either trying to be edgy or worryingly myopic Are you unsatisfied with the myriad of Imagemagick, FFMPEG, sox or Ghostscript GUI front-ends ? What does a web deployment offer ? Even not taking privacy concerns in consideration, the local solution if better - I guess a one-off conversion might wish to eschew local installation, but such bread-and-butter operations are rarely one-off. Or should we consider the market for a zip/7zip/rar/tar.gz file compression web front-end ?
  - Trufa 1y ago
    I don't understand what we're discussing. Am I supposed to defend the usefulness of the internet?
graemep 2y ago
There are already lots of online convertors. This is FOSS and a bit more trustworthy but very few people in corporate environments will care about that

api 2y ago

Ahh good point. An often missed driver for the cloud-ification of everything is that it offers a way to escape corporate IT. Sending a 20mb file 2000 miles away to do something trivial to it and send it back is easier than getting permission to install an app.

PeterStuer 2y ago
It doesn't send the file though.
maccard 2y ago
It really is. At a previous job, the approval process for a tool involved a questionnaire that rivalled a census, and a wait time of 4-6 weeks for approval. I literally never had any software refused via this process - most people just didn’t bother filling it in.

Trufa 2y ago

What a silly take. > Why do such things need to be hosted at all? because: corporate computing inmates, who cannot install anything locally Basically, denying or not seeing the practicality factor of web hosted solutions is either trying to be edgy or worryingly myopic.

liotier 2y ago
> Basically, denying or not seeing the practicality factor of web hosted solutions is either trying to be edgy or worryingly myopic Are you unsatisfied with the myriad of Imagemagick, FFMPEG, sox or Ghostscript GUI front-ends ? What does a web deployment offer ? Even not taking privacy concerns in consideration, the local solution if better - I guess a one-off conversion might wish to eschew local installation, but such bread-and-butter operations are rarely one-off. Or should we consider the market for a zip/7zip/rar/tar.gz file compression web front-end ?
- Trufa 1y ago
  I don't understand what we're discussing. Am I supposed to defend the usefulness of the internet?

graemep 2y ago

There are already lots of online convertors. This is FOSS and a bit more trustworthy but very few people in corporate environments will care about that