Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser
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#2I love this WebRTC based attempt to send files browser to browser.
Too bad I’ve not yet seen it working without hiccups.
I’m currently testing keet, which is in beta but promising as well. https://keet.io/
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#3I love this WebRTC based attempt to send files browser to browser. Too bad I’ve not yet seen it working without hiccups. I’m currently testing keet, which is in beta but promising as well. https://keet.io/
Thank you for the information.
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#4I wish there was a way to do local peer discovery with WebRTC. Right now both endpoints need an active Internet connection and a shared identifier (in this case a special URL) in order to find each other. Can't do offline local sharing.
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#5rather worried that it's going to go the same fate as ShareDrop (https://github.com/ShareDropio/sharedrop) and Snapdrop (https://github.com/SnapDrop/snapdrop) where they recently got taken over by LimeWire the crypto/AI company.
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#6There is also Magic Wormhole [1] which is not in-browser.
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#7There is also Magic Wormhole [1] which is not in-browser. [1] https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
And https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william which is a Go reimplementation of the client. I only want to point this out specifically because an apt-install of magic-wormhole on Ubuntu 24.04 actually results in a program that does not work (the beauty of python dependencies at play?)
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#8It's so strange that this should have been a solved problem decades ago, but somehow a robust and secure non-commercial solution never gets off the ground.
Speaking of which, how is the IPFS project doing these days?
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#9kids these days...
in my time, we used to know each other's IP addresses and just used netcat
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