On iOS/MacOS you can just use the Apple Notes app to share text betweenn your phone and mac, it's updated in Real-time (instantaneous!)
Piknik – Copy and paste anything over the network
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Re: Piknik – Copy and paste anything over the network
#32"Installation" - Game over. Relevant: https://xkcd.com/949
You don't generally use a clipboard to share files with other people, you use it to share files between your desktop applications, and in this case between your computers. I have been emailing myself files, because synergy doesn't copy files and airdropping with an old mac is annoying.
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#33Not the same thing at all, but the title of the post somehow reminded me of the synergy app for mouse and keyboard sharing.
Google 'synergy app'.
Update: Noticed just after commenting, that user falcolas had also mentioned Synergy here in this thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16177216
Others too, just noticed.
Re: Piknik – Copy and paste anything over the network
#34"Installation" - Game over. Relevant: https://xkcd.com/949
Misread that for a moment as "just drone it over to your house" and pictured a DJI Mavic with a thumb drive taped to it.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a drone covered in micro SD cards hurtling across the city."
Relevant: https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
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#35I love such generalized titles. My mathematically modified brain automatically searches for an example when you cannot copy something, then the whole statement is not true. My dog agrees, he cannot be copied over the network :)
Pedantically, the state of any material object is just information and should be transferable over a network?
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#36Thank you, thank you, thank you! I've been looking for something like this for ages. I use QubesOS, and copy + paste between HVM(Windows) and paravirtual domains(Linux) just did not work with Windows 10. I previously used a little webserver on a separate VM on my virtual network where I had to go with a browser to copy and paste stuff in a shared chat window. And files were even worse. That solution was not as secure…
There is also Ditto for Windows and Parcittox for Linux which are compatibles:
http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net
https://app.assembla.com/spaces/dittox/wiki
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#37It's nice that this is open-source, but if it involves an intermediate server anyway, PushBullet also does a great job, and on various platforms: https://www.pushbullet.com/ (No affiliation)
Synergy does the same thing but is FOSS and also allows cursor sharing.
Re: Piknik – Copy and paste anything over the network
#38I love such generalized titles. My mathematically modified brain automatically searches for an example when you cannot copy something, then the whole statement is not true. My dog agrees, he cannot be copied over the network :)
Pedantically, the state of any material object is just information and should be transferable over a network?
No.."Chaos theory has taught us" that it would take an infinite amount of information to precisely-enough specify 'state'.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pedantically, the state of any material object is just information and should be transferable over a network?
No.."Chaos theory has taught us" that it would take an infinite amount of information to precisely-enough specify 'state'.
Doesn't this depend on the universe being not entirely discrete? If the universe is entirely discrete, then it should be possible to represent the exact state of it?
In any case, I don't think it follows that an infinite amount of information is necessary to describe e.g. a dog to the extent to which it could be transferred and there being no functional difference to the copy, even though the exact state is not represented.
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#40Better not have KeePass open while this is open. Accidental leaks are just too risky that way.
It doesn’t interact with the system clipboard.
Unless I'm missing a subtlety here, the docs indicate it does. https://keepass.info/features.html#lnkclipboard (at least in Windows)