Crazy New Ideas

Re:Crazy New Ideas by louissm_it on Thursday May 06, 2021 @07:09PM (#27070016)

“For a Linux user, you can already 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.” - Dropbox

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

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Re:Crazy New Ideas by llaolleh on Thursday May 06, 2021 @07:14PM (#27070062)

I knew this would show up again. It's a comment that will live in infamy.

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Re:Crazy New Ideas by StavrosK on Thursday May 06, 2021 @07:59PM (#27070340)

I love how what ended up happening was "Or you can pay Dropbox to not have to do any of this".

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Re:Crazy New Ideas by sjg007 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @08:44PM (#27070641)

I don't want to manage my backups or I guess file syncs between machines.

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