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   Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 23:03:14 JST Pleroma-tan

   • Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:
   @tk irc straight up had dcc where you just connected to the other pwer peer transferred the file. No file limit. Only pushes the boundaries of your sanity
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     :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading: (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 23:36:17 JST :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading:

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     • Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:
     @kirby
     It had worked exactly the same way in Skype, even the video calls had been p2p, I'm not sure if it started with MS acquisition or earlier, but they began phasing out the p2p parts at some point — but even when it was Microsoft already, file transfers were still direct, they weren't uploaded anywhere for the other party to download it, one party initiated the transfer, the other one had to accept and choose the directory to save the file in, I don't remember when everything started to get uploaded to "the cloud", but AFAIR, not even that long ago, less than a decade.
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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 23:36:39 JST Pleroma-tan

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     • :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading:
     @m0xEE @tk i wonder why they had a 2 gig file size limit then, seems arbitrary
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     Eric Zhang 2: Episode 1 (eric@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 23:38:58 JST Eric Zhang 2: Episode 1

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     • Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:
     • :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading:
     @m0xEE @tk @kirby It's called a proxy. Not "the cloud". If you have set up an XMPP server before you will know how it works.
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     :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading: (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 01:41:29 JST :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading:

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     • Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:
     @kirby @tk Probably to protect users from old filebomb prank which existed since the BBS times: you could upload a zipped file, which BBS then was supposed to decompress, the original file was the same character repeated millions of times, but in compressed form it was tiny. The BBS started decompressing the file, the hard drive filled up and BBS could no longer work in such borked up state.
     So maybe it's something similar — to avoid files that could fill users' drives up from being transmitted, 2 gigabytes was still a lot at the time — three CDs worth of data, more than anybody would be willing to send over IM at the time.
     Or maybe they have made it less than full DVD to prevent piracy — could be that :marseyhmm: Anyway, I don't think anyone would consider 2 gigabytes not enough then.
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     ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 04:09:51 JST ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:

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     • Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:
     • :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading:
     @m0xEE @tk @kirby Yk i really transferred those files :RAFIBOMB:
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     ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 04:44:32 JST ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:

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     • Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:
     • :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading:
     @m0xEE @tk @kirby What is my name?
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     :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading: (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 04:44:34 JST :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading:

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     • Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:
     • ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:
     @dcc
     Zip-bombs? :marseyquestion:
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     :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading: (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 04:59:22 JST :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading:

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     • Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:
     • ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:
     @dcc
     Oh… :marseyshook:
     The joke flew over me again :marseylaugh:
     @tk @kirby
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     DJ :debian: :coolcat: :colombia: (dj@parcero.bond)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 04:59:33 JST DJ :debian: :coolcat: :colombia:

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     • Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:
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     @dcc @tk @m0xEE @kirby
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