37 pointsby MarsB10 hours ago13 comments
  • defanor9 hours ago
    Apparently the "Show HN" prefix would be appropriate here [0]. And this kind of a service is usually called a pastebin [1].

    [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastebin

    • MarsB8 hours ago
      Thanks for the heads up! I update the title to show the appropriate tag. I'm familiar with the term pastebin, but this is not limited to just text and I do feel like pastebin.com has taken ownership of the term so I wanted to avoid confusion.
  • AfterHIA9 hours ago
    This is the kind of neat, small, useful tool I carouse HN for. I'm going to add this to my giant list of, "neat ass little tools that I found on Hacker News."

    Now if only somebody could make a tool that can audit my giant ass list of neat little tools so that when a use case comes around I remember, "ah yes this!"

    • air7an hour ago
      I'd be happy to see that list. Perhaps consider sharing it.
    • staindk8 hours ago
      Can probably set up some kind of AI workflow that exports your bookmarks -> attaches them to an LLM chat -> asks the LLM if anything across your bookmarks can be useful for the problem you're tackling/googling/etc.
    • MarsB9 hours ago
      Appreciate the comment, feels great
    • blacksmith_tb9 hours ago
      Carouse != peruse? Though maybe on Fridays everything has a party atmosphere...
      • therealpygon5 hours ago
        I can’t think of a more relevantly time to carouse than when browsing my deep archive of ADHD-sorted bookmarks.
      • AfterHIA4 hours ago
        I'm influenced by Tom Nook's usage of the term in, "Animal Crossing" or, "どうぶつの森" for the Nintendo Gamecube.
  • BobbyTables28 hours ago
    What happens if people use this to publish base64 versions of pirated works?

    Or other illegal activities?

    • MarsB6 hours ago
      I've added a report functionality. It's not the perfect solution, that's for certain. But it's something while I figure out better ones :)
  • AlexClickHouse7 hours ago
    I've implemented a similar site a few years ago, with one crucial difference, which makes it even simpler: https://pastila.nl/

    The difference is that there is no "share" button, so you don't have to press it, and just copy the page URL any time.

    • MarsB7 hours ago
      Neat! I like your solution, much better for simple text sharing.
  • matthewtse10 hours ago
    Can I curl this file to a linux machine easily?

    I was just the other day looking for a tool to easily move a non-sensitive file from my macbook, to my network-locked production machine. Rather than doing many hops through SSH tunnels, the easiest thing to do would be to host the file online, and wget it down to my linux machine.

    The options out there were lacking. I used https://bashupload.com/ for a bit, but the problem is that after you download the file once, it gets deleted. Sometimes I want to share the file to multiple machines.

  • codefined9 hours ago
    Looks fantastic! As someone who has done it before, if this gets popular you'll run into some abusive users that you'll want to deal with. Microsoft will often give out free access to it's PhotoDNA service for detection of explicit images of minors. VirusTotal will often do the same for malware in exchange for samples. You'll also want to have a structured retention process, e.g. size is inversely proportional to storage time.

    Good luck, get in contact (see my profile) if you run into any issues.

    • MarsB9 hours ago
      wow thank you so much for the tips! I had mostly just worried about piracy and thought that the maximum 24 hour retention policy would be "good enough". Naively, I had not thought of things I'd want to nip right in the bud (Like CP). So I will definitely be looking into the solutions you've mentioned. Thanks again!
      • morkalork9 hours ago
        Hackers like to use these types of services (eg pastebin) as remote C&C servers too where infected computers both retrieve commands from them and also exfiltrate data to them
        • MarsB9 hours ago
          Thanks for flagging this! I will definitely be doing a deep dive into all this this weekend
  • nomel9 hours ago
    Why not simplify the URI?

    https://www.dum.pt/25d16868-60b7-4a5e-bf2f-828341ff7c1a

    "dump" seems redundant.

    • MarsB9 hours ago
      I've been giving this some thought... While I definitely agree with you, adding the extra route seems more "future-proof". And it's not like the urls are rememberable anyway... But it might be worth just making the whole link much much shorter over all. I'll think about this!
      • nomel6 hours ago
        > And it's not like the urls are rememberable anyway

        They're what everyone sees, when a link is shared. It's a fundamental part of the user experience, for a service like this. As stupid as it is, I would be a bit embarrassed to share a link with "dump" in it. Dump.ty is fine/great.

        > adding the extra route seems more "future-proof".

        I'd claim this is a separate issue. "routing" isn't real, after all, it's just string matching. Most/all routers have regex match options that might take some ns longer. You're free to do whatever you want in the future, trivially so if you make sure whatever future path doesn't look like an ID.

      • chrisstanchak7 hours ago
        The $0.01 solution is to use /d/
  • crtasm8 hours ago
    Thanks but I'll continue to use similar services that don't embed google tracking.
    • MarsB6 hours ago
      Thanks for the feedback! I've removed google analytics in favour of minimalistic in-house (public!) analytics

      https://dum.pt/analytics

  • fsflover9 hours ago
    The page uses Google Tag Manager. Related discussions:

    Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020) (woolyss.com)

    1384 points by thyrox on Feb 21, 2022 | 883 comments

    Incapacitating Google Tag Manager (2022) (backlit.neocities.org)

    213 points by fsflover 70 days ago | 155 comments

    • MarsB6 hours ago
      Thanks for the feedback! I've removed google analytics in favour of minimalistic in-house (public!) analytics

      https://dum.pt/analytics

    • msephton6 hours ago
      Please link to the discussions!
  • eth0up9 hours ago
    I love these websites. I think as bapak (and codefined) suggested, they tend not to last though, which is unfortunate. I also imagine it's fun to build. Good old fashioned simple utility.

    Thanks for sharing.

    • MarsB8 hours ago
      This was in all honesty a very self-serving project! Fun to build, something I wanted and that's that. Fingers crossed it's smooth sailing and it doesn't end up in the graveyard like all the other :')
  • josefritzishere9 hours ago
    Oh that's nice!
    • MarsB8 hours ago
      Thank you!
  • jaharios8 hours ago
    And another one! How long will it last? All bets on the table.
    • MarsB8 hours ago
      Hopefully longer than the other ones, but who knows. Time will tell :)
  • bapak9 hours ago
    [flagged]
    • MarsB8 hours ago
      I considered it, but I (naively) thought that the 24 hour maximum retention policy would take care of most abuse. As others in the comments have pointed out, it won't! So I will be taking more steps towards abuse prevention :)
      • 7bit7 hours ago
        If someone uploads just one CP picture, our are fucked for live.
        • quesera7 hours ago
          One has to believe that law enforcement forensics folks have the wherewithal to distinguish a stray image in browser cache, from a large downloads folder full of similar content.

          One has to believe this, for their own sanity.

          One does wonder though, particularly in countries with increasingly-weakenened rules of law.

          • MarsB6 hours ago
            I ran a social media site years ago, had a few instances of CP where we personally notified law enforcement. It was taken care of, we got in absolutely no trouble. But it's worrying how inefficient the whole process is. Or at least was back then.