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		refracture on April 19, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox 88.0 SFTP is not only just preferable but so unrelated to FTP that it frustrates me that it's often brought up in the same sentence... why did they call it that.. uhg.

majewsky on April 19, 2021 [–]

Well, it is a Secure File Transfer Protocol after all. That's the trouble with descriptive names.

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