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With HEVC 2.5GB is perfectly fine for a 2 hour movie.
Maybe for 1080p. It's 10-15GB for 4k.
I think we can all agree 1080p is "good quality", right? Your average pirate probably isn't demanding 4K quality, I imagine.
Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
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Re: Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
#132It doesn't exactly meet the needs of "sending files to a non-technical person", but Magic Wormhole [0] has been truly great for flipping files around between me and anyone who is capable of being trusted to run `pip install --user pipe && pipe install magic-wormhole`. This is by no means everyone, but it's been very useful quite often. [0] https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ has
>pip install --user pipe && pipe install magic-wormhole
What am I looking at here? On PyPI 'pipe' is listed as a "Module enablig a sh like infix syntax (using pipes)", and magic-wormhole's own docs just say to install with pip like anything else.
Re: Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
Argh! I just went through this with a friend's iPhone when he asked spur of the moment to have a video on his iPhone displayed on some monitors for a presentation. The monitors are driven by a Win10 computer. My first thought was to transfer the file from the iPhone with Bluetooth to the computer, but apparently an iPhone can't be paired in that manner. So lame. The video was too big to email, so I used send.firefox.…
Not having a cable is hardly the same issue, iPhones let you easily share images and videos but not all files.
Beyond AirDrop which only works between like devices, how else can files on an iPhone be transferred to another device without iTunes, and without using a 3rd party? I'm not being adversarial, I really want to know.
Re: Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
#134How are they going to deal with bad content? Child porn? Pirated content? Illegal stuff?
Re: Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
#135I've been building a fully featured CLI tool for Firefox Send, supporting this new release. For anyone that is interested: https://github.com/timvisee/ffsend
FWIW, I built and successfully ran it on FreeBSD-current. The only hiccup I ran into was that it puked building due to not having /usr/local/lib in its lib search path & not being able to find libxcb. I had to manually add -L/usr/local/lib to the cc args and manually link it. Not sure if that is a FreeBSD issue w/Rust, or something in your package. At any rate, the tool works! Thanks so much.
Thanks for sharing your solution! Not sure what is causing it (maybe it's OpenSSL binding related), and am currently not really targeting FreeBSD yet.
I wasn't fully ready with this tool for the Firefox Send release to be honest, would have loved to be able to provide better binaries and packages for more platforms, which are a work in progress.
If you believe you can improve the README with your solution, be sure to submit a [PR](https://gitlab.com/timvisee/ffsend/).
Happy to see it's working! :)
Re: Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
#136I can't believe that there isn't a simple service to transfer data between my cellphone and my computer without going through the internet. iTunes is terribly bloated, MTP is a mess, and Bluetooth is slow and frustrating. Back in my hacker day I used to have an SSH server open on my cellphone and use it to transfer files back and forth with my computer. Why isn't there a mainstream service like that?
Plugging in a USB cable still works fine. I think the problem is if its too easy then people will be copying files off of each others phones without permission.
> Plugging in a USB cable still works fine.
That uses MTP which the OP already discounted as being "a mess". Frankly my experience matches his and thus I actively avoid MTP whenever I can.
> I think the problem is if its too easy then people will be copying files off of each others phones without permission.
You usually need to unlock the phone to use MTP. If an attacker has access to unlock your phone then it makes no difference if they copying the files via USB, Dropbox, email or whatever - your attacker already has the permission they need to do so.
Re: Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
#137This is perfect! I'm currently taking a networking class where we generate trace reports, and I've just realised how tricky it is to send files without logging in (I'm just averse into doing that in a machine that's not mine). I can email my trace files, but I need to login, I can store in dropbox/drive, but again I'll have to login.
I wish they added a QR code option as well. It would be perfect for quickly copying the link by snapping it with my phone so I can download later.
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#138I wonder if they've fixed the issue where one can force reuse of a link by slowing down a download, and sharing the URL ? Hence turning it into a cheap file hosting service: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15450524 I haven't been able to upload a file to try.
I've tested this and the link seems to expire the moment the user starts a download.
Nice.
Re: Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
#139I can't believe that there isn't a simple service to transfer data between my cellphone and my computer without going through the internet. iTunes is terribly bloated, MTP is a mess, and Bluetooth is slow and frustrating. Back in my hacker day I used to have an SSH server open on my cellphone and use it to transfer files back and forth with my computer. Why isn't there a mainstream service like that?
Resilio sync [1] is a great service I've used to transfer files using P2P technology. It still uses the Internet, but avoids any intervening parties. If you're using Android, you could just use USB transfer using Android File Transfer [2]. Super easy, super fast. [1] https://www.resilio.com/individuals/ [2] https://www.android.com/filetransfer/
If both computers are on the same LAN, Resilio Sync shouldn't hit the internet at all.