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I 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?
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Syncthing is in dire need of an iOS client. There's an unofficial one, but it was unmaintained and didn't sync with recent versions of Syncthing last I checked.
Is it a technical limitation, insufficient developers, or a license issue? IIRC GPL doesn't work with the store.
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The client encrypts the file that is uploaded, along with some metadata. The key is appended to the share URL provided by the URL, in the fragment/hash, and is never sent to the remote server. Only people having the URL including the secret will be able to download and decrypt your shared file. See https://github.com/mozilla/send/blob/master/docs/encryption....
Anybody who can catch the link in transit can get the file. Emailing these links with the decryption key right in the fragment is going to allow any party in between the sender and the receiver to fetch the file. (If the file is set to only allow downloading once, the receiver can at least let the sender know that it got intercepted.) So you have to send the link through some previously-negotiated secure channel. At…
This fills a handy gap for a lot of people with smaller needs.
Is the source available for this? A self-hosted version of this would be nice... (Update: Yep, just found it: https://github.com/mozilla/send , just before the comment below was posted :))
boop: https://github.com/mozilla/send
EDIT: Apparently there's a way to use filesystem instead of S3, it's just not well documented.
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>I can't believe that there isn't a simple service to transfer data between my cellphone and my computer without going through the internet. KDE Connect, https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect#What_is_KDE_Connect.3F i've been using it for years
I've been using this, but I just switched to the Sway for my WM and I'm unsure of how to use KDEConnect with Sway. Any ideas?
export $(dbus-launch)
kdeconnect-cli -l
*then I sent the file from the phone*
I 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?
Dozens of responses, and not one mention of Dropbox. Works perfectly for this exact purpose on Android.
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Mounting MTP is transparent to the user on non-apple OSes as well. You can drag and drop files as you could when it was when mounting the VFAT block device. Its only on MacOS that this isn't handled gracefully. So yeah, apple is only mobile you cant do this on at all, and apple is only desktop OS you cant access other phones that permit it on (without installing some 3rd party tool). As an aside, I write this as an a…
I've used MTP and my experience is it that it leaves a lot to be desired regardless of the platform. My wife's Samsung phone never worked right with her Windows 7 laptop. Neither my Huawei nor the HTC handset I had before worked properly with any of my Linux machines either. I get the point of MTP is that is't supposed to be a transparent (to the user) interface but my experience is it falls short by a long way of ac…
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The client encrypts the file that is uploaded, along with some metadata. The key is appended to the share URL provided by the URL, in the fragment/hash, and is never sent to the remote server. Only people having the URL including the secret will be able to download and decrypt your shared file. See https://github.com/mozilla/send/blob/master/docs/encryption....
Anybody who can catch the link in transit can get the file. Emailing these links with the decryption key right in the fragment is going to allow any party in between the sender and the receiver to fetch the file. (If the file is set to only allow downloading once, the receiver can at least let the sender know that it got intercepted.) So you have to send the link through some previously-negotiated secure channel. At…
I think this fills the gap for when you want to share not-critically-secret stuff with non-technical people and would today likely send it over something like e-mail, Drive or Dropbox.
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I recently switched back to iOS after years on Android, and on this point I've been very impressed with Airdrop. Dead simple UI, very quick transfer speeds, uses WiFi or Bluetooth as available. It's just a shame that it's limited to Apple devices.
Agreed. And app hand-off (for the small number of apps that use it, basically only Safari for me) is fantastic as a "task transfer" tool as well.
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It's a BSD world thing :). Local (i.e. non-system) executables and libraries go under /usr/local around here (i.e. libraries under /usr/local/lib, binaries under /usr/local/bin and so on, the hierarchy under /usr/local has the same structure as that under /usr).
You can work around it by creating a cargo config with a wrapper. Eg: cat ~/.cargo/config [target.x86_64-unknown-freebsd] linker = "/home/drewg123/bin/cargo-ld" Where cargo-ld is just a wrapper: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/ld -L/usr/local/lib $*