Post B3QL3e9t19i21zxkau by infosecdj@infosec.exchange
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(DIR) Post #B3QKX50AC7HFjAsydE by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-02-17T20:41:53Z
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Fucking current internet just sucks.I emailed about a dozen large images to a friend with a short deadline. I got rate-limited by my mail provider. I've appealed to them to lift the block from my one-time indiscretion.But in 2026, 30 years of modern networking, why is there any limit at all on image size? It's stupid. I'm lucky enough to have a well-connected server on the net so I'll rsync images there and they can fetch via browser. But what do normal folk do? Use evil services I assume. The internet is a fucking shit show. These are trivial asks. "Hey, here's the photos you want!" Nope, can't do it.
(DIR) Post #B3QL3e9t19i21zxkau by infosecdj@infosec.exchange
2026-02-17T20:47:44Z
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@tomjennings I dunno what everybody else does, I have a NAS box serving static content when I need to share something. I found this much more appealing than putting stuff on corpo services and being constantly pestered with "upgrade now for $$$" bullshit.
(DIR) Post #B3QLhERS3Dspr73Qfo by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-02-17T20:54:55Z
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@infosecdj Yeah, that's sort of equiv to my host, but probably cleaner, and likely solves the workflow part. For me I have to rsync each, or collect into a folder to rsync, etc. Email allows comment: "this image has blah blah..." then browse for the next, write comment, drag, click send.why doesn't everyone have those tools as trivial defaults? It's not 1995 any more. a15 megabyte image today is NOTHING. One a minute for 15 minutes is NOTHING.I know the answers, just griping, lol.
(DIR) Post #B3QLoZK4oXKye06Sqe by rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2026-02-17T20:56:12Z
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@tomjennings You can self-host Mozilla's abandoned 'Send' app. It integrates with Thunderbird really nicely so the upload to Send happens transparently in the background when you attach a large file to an email.https://ahmedmusaad.com/self-hosting-firefox-send/https://github.com/mozilla/sendAlthough it is abandoned by Mozilla I found a maintained fork at https://github.com/timvisee/send-docker-compose which I've been using for months. It's solid.
(DIR) Post #B3QMrNtnqNLA2LijNA by fisher@toots.nu
2026-02-17T21:07:56Z
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@tomjennings as you may probably know, e-mail was designed to send text. I'm sure you know that your attachment is mime-encoded, so it's not a good idea to send really huge images. No offence implied.What do "normal" folk do? I don't know since I'm certainly not normal, but usually my contacts have some kind of instant messengers (telegram is most popular I guess), so I usually send files via this thing. At least it works instantly and it is aware of binaries, not just text.
(DIR) Post #B3QN9ay5zWbdmbPbJA by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-02-17T21:11:15Z
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@fisher I fully and deeply understand all those reasons. Those reasons suck. Things can change. These machines are supposed to work for us. These are shit excuses for 30 years later. They're intolerable. They're stupid limits.MIME, I get it. But we have no other means to do very conceptually simple human tasks "here's athat photo of X ...". No way to do that, even if you pay a shit corporation money, and allow them to surveil and exploit you.Honestly it's past time to stop defending these shitty old systems. Of course we're abusing them. There's no alternatives.
(DIR) Post #B3QNJ9oLoeA4S6Pgwq by 3rz@freiburg.social
2026-02-17T21:12:55Z
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@tomjennings https://xkcd.com/949/ …
(DIR) Post #B3QNNQ3NMx2nz9TQ1I by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-02-17T21:13:45Z
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@3rz Lol, exactly! It's appalling.
(DIR) Post #B3Qbc95q6l1r5OXfeK by dec23k@mastodon.ie
2026-02-17T23:53:14Z
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@tomjennings @fisher My day job includes running some email servers. They all have size limits and rate limiting and account quotas.Our "shitty old systems" need to have some limits, so that everyone's mail can reasonably get through. Attaching files to email messages (using shitty old encoding schemes) is guaranteed to increase their size.Everyone wants more storage. How much more? Naaah, double that.
(DIR) Post #B3TFIpu5cBY6YFJUKO by dec23k@mastodon.ie
2026-02-17T23:35:57Z
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@rimu @tomjennings There are some public Send instances too. I recommend upload.nolog.cz (hosted in CZ by an activist collective that also runs their own Fedi server).Find a list of public instances here: https://gitlab.com/timvisee/send-instances
(DIR) Post #B3TFIrOy2rqJCIlf60 by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-02-19T06:27:23Z
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@dec23kEveryone misses the point. Things are rechnically possible. Doesnt matter. This isn't a nerd thing its s culture thing. Rhe answer is not technical proficiency or a skill 99% of the planet doeesnt hafe or caee about. We the nerd folk claimed tochave built a system for all folk. We did not. Its a failure, a tool of oppression, that a handful of us know how to game. There is shame in this, not pride. That it takes advanced skills, 30 years in, to share a simple photograph with a comment to s friend, is slmethig cto ne ashamed about. This is failure. @rimu
(DIR) Post #B3TFX9eWz8jnr8rbMW by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-02-19T06:30:00Z
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@dec23k @fisher You're defending the needs of machines, not the needs and desires of humans.
(DIR) Post #B3TRG4R2KW9eCWAhyS by fisher@toots.nu
2026-02-19T08:41:20Z
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@tomjennings @dec23k Humans aren't a homogeneous group; they're diverse. For some, the ideal world is a reservation with friendly nature, birds, and flowers. These are degenerates. They're incapable of survival and are doomed to extinct.Come on, we're already in the era of AI. It could happen that people themselves won't even notice how they find themselves in some kind of a reservation.I'm actually defending the needs of humanity, I want us to survive in a hostile world.
(DIR) Post #B3TRaokfppytdpFY7k by fisher@toots.nu
2026-02-19T08:45:06Z
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@tomjennings @dec23k Human desires can be reduced to stimulating the pleasure centers of the brain. Satisfying such human desires is incredibly dangerous. Let's instead stimulate higher nervous activity, shall we? Thinking, for example...
(DIR) Post #B3UTc4NxaaYpU5JJ8C by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-02-19T20:42:29Z
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@fisher @dec23k I fully understand why and how eg. smtp mail works and why the limits in place are there. That's not my problem. My problem is our problem: these services are frozen in place, and treated as if they're immutable aspects of nature. After all these decades, were still force fitting our needs into the shit tools we're given. Sending a friend a photo and a note is s pretty low level, technically easy task. Yet sfter sll these decades, its still like that xkcd shared back in this thread. What frustrated me, and still does, are tech folk either unable or unwilling to look at where we are, historically and specifically, where the electronic tools we have just suck, dont do useful things outside very narrow snd largely exploitation friendly tasks. And when i do point it out, mostly but not completely rhetorically, i get these defenses of why the things are the way they are. And TBH some of it sounds turf-ish, defending shit tools a priori.Frustrated also that even if you do find usable solutions, they they're not generically deployable, platform or OS specific.... Especially for stuff so dumb and basic, like hey "heres a photo for you".