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Hosting drivers on mega.co.nz. Totally fills you with confidence.

codetrotter 1y ago
I’ve seen other hardware companies that host firmware downloads for their products on Google Drive and some Chinese cloud drive. I don’t think doing that, nor Dropbox link, is different really from hosting it on Mega.
- bolognafairy 1y ago
  Okay. It still doesn’t fill me with confidence.
  - MathMonkeyMan 1y ago
    Trust us, bro. We paid bottom dollar for this software.
djfergus 1y ago
“ It is also worth noting that I contacted Procolored support four times over the course of my testing, for help with figuring out the software and settings. Every single time, the agent requested multiple times that I allow them to connect remotely to my computer”
- tough 1y ago
  lol are procolored just a NK hacker unit or something ffs
jeroenhd 1y ago
At least mega.co.nz is a file sharing name I recognise. My keyboard's drivers are hosted on "egnyte.com"
Lammy 1y ago
There's nothing wrong with Mega
- msh 1y ago
  It implies that the company does not give a shit when they don’t even use their own web server.
  - jiggawatts 1y ago
    The worst part is that setting up static web content hosting with something like an Azure blob store, or just a NGINX server somewhere is hilariously trivial. This is an afternoon's effort for the junior intern, but was "too hard" for these people.
    - eyegor 1y ago
      That costs money to maintain, even if it's just a few bucks a month. I've seen plenty of Chinese companies using mega/gdrive/etc just because it's free. I used to think it was just cheapness, but depending on the company it can be a huge hassle to set up recurring small bill items. At my current company for example, it's much easier to pay $5-10k once than pay $5/mo.
      - moi2388 1y ago
        Nope azure blob storage hosting can be completely free
      - perching_aix 1y ago
        With Google Drive specifically, scale becomes an issue though. Once too many people download a given shared file, it gets flagged for possibly being a piracy operation. Not sure about MEGA, but they also have some limits (although for normal drivers this shouldn't be an issue).
  - barbazoo 1y ago
    CDN? Cloud? What’s the obsession with running your own web server?
sidewndr46 1y ago
If you distribute SHA256 or similar hashes through a secure mechanism, it seems OK to me.
- fph 1y ago
  Ah yes, it's totally secure for those 5 users who check the hash of the files they download.

I’ve seen other hardware companies that host firmware downloads for their products on Google Drive and some Chinese cloud drive. I don’t think doing that, nor Dropbox link, is different really from hosting it on Mega.

bolognafairy 1y ago
Okay. It still doesn’t fill me with confidence.
- MathMonkeyMan 1y ago
  Trust us, bro. We paid bottom dollar for this software.

djfergus 1y ago

“ It is also worth noting that I contacted Procolored support four times over the course of my testing, for help with figuring out the software and settings. Every single time, the agent requested multiple times that I allow them to connect remotely to my computer”

tough 1y ago
lol are procolored just a NK hacker unit or something ffs

jeroenhd 1y ago

At least mega.co.nz is a file sharing name I recognise. My keyboard's drivers are hosted on "egnyte.com"

Lammy 1y ago

There's nothing wrong with Mega

msh 1y ago
It implies that the company does not give a shit when they don’t even use their own web server.
- jiggawatts 1y ago
  The worst part is that setting up static web content hosting with something like an Azure blob store, or just a NGINX server somewhere is hilariously trivial. This is an afternoon's effort for the junior intern, but was "too hard" for these people.
  - eyegor 1y ago
    That costs money to maintain, even if it's just a few bucks a month. I've seen plenty of Chinese companies using mega/gdrive/etc just because it's free. I used to think it was just cheapness, but depending on the company it can be a huge hassle to set up recurring small bill items. At my current company for example, it's much easier to pay $5-10k once than pay $5/mo.
    - moi2388 1y ago
      Nope azure blob storage hosting can be completely free
    - perching_aix 1y ago
      With Google Drive specifically, scale becomes an issue though. Once too many people download a given shared file, it gets flagged for possibly being a piracy operation. Not sure about MEGA, but they also have some limits (although for normal drivers this shouldn't be an issue).
- barbazoo 1y ago
  CDN? Cloud? What’s the obsession with running your own web server?

sidewndr46 1y ago

If you distribute SHA256 or similar hashes through a secure mechanism, it seems OK to me.

fph 1y ago
Ah yes, it's totally secure for those 5 users who check the hash of the files they download.