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I don't know if the s is actually "SSL" or "secure" but the point is that the are the same protocol, running over an encryption layer. So adding an s suffix is running the same protocol over some encrypted transport. You see this s suffix for lots of things like irc/ircs and dav/davs.

This is different to sftp which isn't related to ftp at all other than they are both protocols that transfer files.

I wouldn't really recommend NFS unless you need to remote mount as a "true filesystem" with full support for things like sockets, locking and other UNIX filesystem features or you need top performance. It is so difficult to do authentication and UID mapping that it typically isn't worth it for simpler use cases like "add, remove or download files".

scp can be slow with large numbers of small files. rsync is much better at that and can do differential transfers if you need that. Since rsync can also run over SSH it can be very easy to just use it as a default.

Generally you can even just type it into the location bar, no need to find a specific dialog. For example if I type CTRL+l then sftp://myserver.local into Nautilus it pops up a username+password dialog (or just logs in using my keys).

Unless you went out of your way to set up FTP and get a TLS certificate I would put my money on you using SFTP which uses SSH for authentication and transport security. It doesn't require anything to set up other than TOFU server keys and a client key or password for authentication.

Which is probably the right thing to use. Really you shouldn't be using FTP anymore. Probably you just want HTTP for public data and SFTP for private authenticated data.

Yup super confusing. The way I remember it is that https is http + SSL so ftps is ftp + SSL. The weird one sftp is an entirely different protocol that uses SSH to transfer files.

Right now I am just using nautilus (default GNOME file manager) but in past I was using Thunar (default XFCE file manager). I'd be pretty surprised if whatever file manager you are currently using doesn't support SFTP out of the box. Typically you can just enter something like sftp://myhost.example into the location bar. They may also have a dedicated network connection section with a wizard to add it.

Also hold down the power button for a few seconds after unplugging just to help drain out any residual power from capacitors.

Also if it is a laptop or other battery-operated device you will want to disconnect the batter temporarily.

ftp ans sftp are completely different things. ftp is a very old protocol and can be run encrypted as ftps. sftp runs over SSH and is pretty common to use.

Naming is truly one of the hardest problems in computer science.

IDK what OS you are on but on Linux most file managers have support for remote filesystems. SFTP (SSH-FTP, not to be confused with FTPS which is FTP-secure) is ubiquitous and if you use scp then you already have SSH set up.

If you need Windows support it is more of a pain. You may need to set up Samba or WebDAV and permissions can suck. But you can also download a third-party file browser that supports remote protocols.

So basically SFTP, and I fairly regularly just use a graphical file manager when I am doing one-off operations.

I wish they had a feed for posts like these. Their mail feed is mostly release notes but sometimes they post great articles like these and I would love to subscribe.

This isn't true. HTML5 made a very strict set of rules and there are a large handful of compliant parsers. But yes, you absolutely can't use an XML parser. You can't even use an XML emitter, as you can emit valid XML that means something completely different in HTML.

...what a fucking disaster. I still wish XHTML won.

DisplayPort supports CEC and HDCP DRM.

I have yet to see a reason why HDMI is better than DP other than what port is available on your device.