SAsametmax·Mar 11, 2024Submission
0bin.net back after CP abuse took it down a year
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0bin
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0bin
Client side encrypted pastebin
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
8 sourcesUnless I missing something, there are a ton of open source client side encrypted pastebins around.
E.G: 0bin.net (https://0bin.net/), with a lot of good faith in the FAQ (https://0bin.net/faq/), a basic and open source code (https://github.com/Tygs/0bin), zero JS stats on the main instance and alternative instances already in the wild. It does feature self destruct.
In Show HN: Share It, Anonymously with Self Destruct MessagesI came to say say that's not a language problem, that's a packaging problem. But that would be misleading.
The reason packaging is still a problem in Python are linked to the language:
- to get perfs, you need compiled extensions, which java doesn't need. So a Jar can be fast and portable, while in Python it's an "or" proposition. Wheels help, but they still are OS dependent, so you need a build per OS.
- PYZ arrived very late in Python, while WAR were a very early thing in Java. Few people even know you can distribute a whole Python program in a single zip file with dependencies using something like shiv (shiv.readthedocs.io). So few people do it, and it's a shame. We do it for 0bin though: https://github.com/Tygs/0bin/releases. And it doesn't solve the wheel problem, although nuitka does but it a higher prices to pay.
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g have been a mess for 2 decades. Setuptools/distutils/setuptools2, easy_install/pip, and setup.cfg/setup.py/pyproject.toml. We failed as a community on this one. It's getting better, but it's a slow process.
- the Python community is at least half composed of amateurs. It's a good thing for the dynamism of the community, but it also means the software are not very polished. Hard packaging + amateurs = packages that are releases when they reach "just good enough" stage, not one inch more. It also means you'll get things like leaking stack traces, config files in src and the likes.
So yeah, compared to Java, Python packaging and distribution sucks.
But compared to rust all packaging and distribution for all languages do, so there is that.
Have you seen clientside-encrypted pastebins like 0bin[0]? The idea is to absolve the host of legal responsibility, since they can't even access the data without the decryption key in the URL.
[0]: https://github.com/sametmax/0bin
In Show HN: Kvak.io – Online NotepadHere's a PR aiming for that, for what it's worth. https://github.com/sametmax/0bin/pull/128
In Ask HN: How do you share passwords simply and securely?Go crazy, either email lesametlemax@gmail.com or go straight to the source and submit a patch, relevant parts seem to be here: https://github.com/sametmax/0bin/blob/master/zerobin/static/...
In Ask HN: How do you share passwords simply and securely?Does anyone else find it ridiculous that a platform supposedly committed to open standards releases something that doesn't even work cross-browser?
For a cross-browser, self-hosted tried and tested alternative, there's 0bin: https://github.com/sametmax/0bin
In Mozilla’s Send makes it easy to send a file from one person to anotherIt is open source on another website that is ... blocked. Funny. For the curious: https://github.com/sametmax/0bin
Replication would be cool feature.
In India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin