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I also have no clue why people use it. You can build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and
by omnimus 6mo ago
I also have no clue why people use it.
You can build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.
- j1elo 6mo agoWait a moment, you just gave me an idea for a product
- burnte 6mo ago1 out of a thousand people might do that, the others will buy the product. That's why people use it, most people don't want to build everything themselves.
- srdjanr 6mo agoIt's a reference to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
- burnte 6mo agoLOL I should have remembered. :D Sorry!
- Dylan16807 6mo agoBut as usual it forgets the "For a Linux user" part. If we remove the whole linux section and just ask "why not map a folder in Explorer" it's a reasonable question, probably even more reasonable in 2026 than in 2007. The network got faster and more reliable, and the dropbox access got slower.
- PunchyHamster 6mo agoSlow as fuck compared to 2 synced dirs
- zymhan 6mo agoThis cannot be a serious proposal. You should probably talk to people who don't use technology because they love it, but because they need it.
- jibal 6mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
- jkl5xx 6mo agoIt’s kind of wild to read through these comments and realize hn is still riffing on the same ideas. Is it e2ee? Does it run on Linux? Who would pay for something you can slap together in a weekend with a few bash scripts? Really highlights this community’s values, skills, and blind spots. Also a bit of a bummer that the privacy and open source situations today are even worse in many ways.
- snowwrestler 6mo agoThis reference is 19 years old this month, in case anyone who recognized it was still feeling young.
- morganf 6mo agonoooooooooooo!!!!!!!!
- lazide 6mo agoObvious. Explorer even has support built in for transparent ‘native’ gui support. I’m not even sure why you felt the need to explain it in detail. Next you’ll be explaining how to walk. (/s, I loved it)
- pseudohadamard 6mo agoThe equivalent of this is advice from a friend of mine who likes different teas, "just learn to read hanzi like I did and then you can select the ones you like". Apparently there's one called "government tea" (in the original) which he expected to taste of old leather, musty paperwork, and stale cigarette smoke.
- johnthescott 6mo agoor use rsync.net and a cronjob.