2014-09-28 Cloud storages become more and more common. While they *might* be convenient for people who live in the web, they are a pain for those who don't. The problem begins with the need for a modern (= fat) browser and activated Javascript to access the files. I often don't have such a browser running. I just want to fetch those files, but wget or w3m won't work. Next is the sometimes missing ability to download the files at all. In one case, the files were too many and to large, thus the zip file to download would have been larger than 500MB or some- thing like that, which went over the (arbitrary set) max download file size limit. The sad thing was: I couldn't just download half of the files and then the other half. The only possibility had been to get each of the hunderets of files manually. And third, as I couldn't download the files, I must use their ``web application'' to access the files. It doesn't matter what perfect software I have on my computer, if their web application doesn't support some features, then I can't use them. In this web world, the content is not free from the application. This modern web world is NO step forward, but one backward, be- cause it struggles again with the problems already solved in com- puting: All major operating systems support some kind of glob- bing on file names, but the web doesn't. In the web, I can only either get everything or each single piece on its own. And the independence of data and application (through ideally free file formats) is also missing. http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke