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Send: Open-source fork of Firefox Send

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276 points leonry | 4 comments | 19 Oct 24 12:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.854s | source
1. mlok ◴[19 Oct 24 16:43 UTC] No.41888852[source]▶
I wonder what limits sends to 2.5GB ?
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2. ranger_danger ◴[19 Oct 24 16:56 UTC] No.41888939[source]▶
There doesn't appear to be a technical reason, it appears to just be a default configuration setting that was a holdover from Mozilla's imposed limits when Firefox Send was still around.

https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1bwqxit/is_ther...

3. LWIRVoltage ◴[19 Oct 24 18:35 UTC] No.41889657[source]▶
There are other variants with different file size limits https://github.com/timvisee/send-instances Maybe performance based or something depending on those hosting these instances?
4. melicerte ◴[20 Oct 24 14:26 UTC] No.41895573[source]▶
Don't forget the encryption step is done locally by the browser before the file is transmitted to the server. As such, you better have a limit.