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by buckleyc 2082 days ago
Along with the comments about ULIDs and KSUIDs, some people might want to check out C4 IDs. Webpage at http://www.cccc.io/, which has a link to its Github page.
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A website asking you to drag in a file, yet it doesn't support TLS. Any MITM can trivially modify the delivered javascript to exfiltrate the file or show a wrong identifier for it.

In addition, those "drag a file to upload" dialogs are just awful. I don't have a file explorer installed that supports dragging (I just use midnight commander). If you give me a 'browse' button, I can use the gtk file-picker to get something, but "drag and drop" doesn't work. It's also an accessibility issue: screenreaders can click buttons, but they're much worse at dragging files into specific webpage areas.