It will stop the lazy, which is 99% of the battle. If you want some form of security, then either a user generated pin or a captcha will do the trick to keep bots away. If you want to avoid both of those, then a longer url will also work. 12 characters will prevent attacks from getting anything but lucky.

Even a captcha would work. You wouldn’t have to have your users create a one time use password, you can just have a set of 5 random numbers that someone has to type in in order to access the data.

It says that once the content is accessed, it vanishes. So, you can have a max 2 day expiration length, but as soon as someone follows the link, it’s gone? It’s not a bad idea, but it is prone to abuse. I could write a scraper app that would give me all of the active URLs and in doing so would delete any message attached to them. I personally wouldn’t, because it doesn’t serve much purpose, but if there were a malicious agent, it wouldn’t take much to wreak havoc. It wouldn’t even be a DDOS level attack, just a simple scraper using minimal resources.

Truly, though, I do like it. I just think that the automatic removal might be a risky feature.

I hope it does. I’m trying to marry into royalty so I can have carte blanche to do whatever I want. Like eat pancakes for dinner. Or eat pancakes for lunch. Or have a second helping of pancakes for breakfast. Really, just more pancakes.

They pay the cat deposit on my new place, where ever that may be. I’ll take a cat as well, though.

I’ll do mine for 2.7 and a cat deposit.

It’s everything I’ve ever wanted.

Right, they are confirmed.

Which is exactly why I said TOS and not the US laws. I don’t really agree with the laws here either, because they create a safe harbor for illegal ends, but I understand that it is a lot easier, and arguably better, to self-police the content. That is what Patreon is doing. They view it as a violation of their TOS to generate revenue on a site that knowingly and willingly hosts CSAM. I’m with Patreon on this one. This wasn’t the first offence, and there is no way that the person that runs the site doesn’t know that material is on there. Pleading ignorant isn’t going to work. Running anonymous file hosting, no matter how good your intentions, is going to bring out the worst of the internet, guaranteed. If you can somehow get around that logic, you’ve got a bright future with the NRA.

How Libertarian of you.

Yeah, it really comes back to the idea of if a file hosting service is responsible for what the user uploads, which is an argument that has been going on since the beginning of the internet. Ultimately, yes, I think they are. I think you have to actively moderate what is uploaded, but on top of that, there has to be swifter and stricter punishment for those that do upload things that are against TOS and/or illegal. If someone is uploading CSAM, then law enforcement needs to go after them. Maybe they’ll actually do something people appreciate, instead of killing minorities.

Edit: If you are downvoting me without giving a reason, I just have to assume you are Libertarian, and that’s being generous.

Brass knuckles are ribbed for your pleasure.

You are correct. I guess what I should have said is that this is what they want us to see, no necessarily what they are using.

Sure, but you have to file FOIA and wait. It’s not truly open source.

It’s good in a sense that we can look over the code for any tomfoolery, but unless there is a smoking gun, it’s pretty worthless because it’s closed source by nature, and any changes they make won’t be published. Still, code nerds gonna code nerd.

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“What is my purpose?”

I literally just blocked an NSFW lemmit of misogynygonewild and it blew my mind it was even a thing. Fucking trash.

That’s what I tell my partners. They are, thus far, unimpressed.

I’m sorry. Weren’t the winter Olympics just in China? Yeah, the same China with an active genocide? And the world cup is still run by… Checks notes… FIFA. So, umm, yeah…