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>We have the infamous "Dropbox" is a weekend project... Oh really? Then why is syncthing (for example), still so much harder to use than dropbox?
by 1over137 5mo ago
>We have the infamous "Dropbox" is a weekend project...
Oh really? Then why is syncthing (for example), still so much harder to use than dropbox?
- CamperBob2 5mo agoBecause you're trying to use it yourself. Don't do that, tell Claude to write a script that does what you want. I'm only being half-flippant here.
- gottorf 5mo agoWould you trust your private files to a Claude-generated Dropbox/syncthing clone?
- Foobar8568 5mo agoGuess how 90% of the code today is done in F500? Offshored to the lowest bidders in India/elsewhere. I trust more what claude is spouting than any code from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech_(India) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech_(India)
- CamperBob2 5mo agoSure, if GPT5 says "LGTM." Again, only half-kidding. Access to the source covers a multitude of sins, both real and potential. Control of the source covers the rest. Right now I sort of trust Dropbox, but considering how much enshittification it has already undergone relative to its original mission statement, the company could do any number of things to lose that trust in a hurry. Someday they will, probably, and I won't be able to do anything about it except complain... ... except that's no longer true. Which is awesome.
- LoganDark 5mo agoSyncthing doesn't have a well-designed UX. It does what it does, but it's just a bunch of independent shares, and you have to worry about P2P and etc. I tried it for a while but eventually left it behind because it's just not particularly helpful. You practically have to draw the rest of the owl before it can work well, and at that point you can use any circle.