Very nice. It reminds me of a similar all-in-browser file transfer tool I built ages ago called nearshare. This was WAY before webrtc was a thing so my approach was to actually run a web server in the browser via a java applet. :)
Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser
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Re: Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser
#32rather 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.
I wonder how much LimeWire pays to buy all of these foss projects, must be a decent amount if everyone is selling his solution
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Re: Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser
#33It still needs middle out compression imo
WebRTC is compressed, unless I misunderstand your possible term of art “middle out“?
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#34I really like PairDrop https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop
Thanks for sharing!
Most other solutions don't allow pairing of devices across networks.
TFA's "file.pizza" only allows to initiate a session on the device that uploads a file, which makes it tricky to share a file from a mobile device to a laptop (due to tricky QR code scanning with the laptop camera).
PairDrop allows cross network pairing (mobile device can scan QR code from laptop screen), and file uploading from both sides afterwards.
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#35rather 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.
I wonder how much LimeWire pays to buy all of these foss projects, must be a decent amount if everyone is selling his solution
limewire aint touchin soulseek
and it has people building alt.clients
https://nicotine-plus.org
https://github.com/slskd/slskd
Re: Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser
#36rather 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.
I wonder how much LimeWire pays to buy all of these foss projects, must be a decent amount if everyone is selling his solution
Wouldn't be surprised if the prices are fairly low actually, I would wager most of these projects make no income.
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#37It'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?
It was solved a decade ago, BitTorrent protocol
I think people mean something seamless like AirDrop is on Apple devides, but some public standard that gets implemented on all platforms like iOS, Android, Windows, macOS and Linux, so all these platforms can just easily send files to each other simply and securely over WiFi.
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#38Opera browser used to have P2P file transfers as a short lived feature in ~2010, called Unite. I remember it also had skeuomorphic GUI of a 'fridge' where users could put post-it style notes that could be seen by others. One of many everything-and-the-kitchen-sink features Opera Presto had during its heyday. Others included a separate Bittorrent client, desktop widgets that could be moved outside of the browser windo…
Can we have that do-it-all Opera back? RSS, email, torrents.
Feels like we had it all internet wise in 2007-2010 and then decided to throw it all away.
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#39I 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.
https://github.com/n0-computer/sendme
iroh's stuff is great but their local peer discovery can't work in a browser, since it uses an mdns-like protocol to do it
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was solved a decade ago, BitTorrent protocol
I think people mean something seamless like AirDrop is on Apple devides, but some public standard that gets implemented on all platforms like iOS, Android, Windows, macOS and Linux, so all these platforms can just easily send files to each other simply and securely over WiFi.
There’s no incentive for big players to play nicely with other platforms so they just won’t. Hardware standards like Qi2 are different since it affects costs directly. Software is usually built for lock-in since quite some time.
“Buy your mom an iPhone” and how Apple buried beeper mini into nonexistence was a nice example.