No benchmark comparisons with Aspera or similar even though they compare pricing? Because my gut instinct is it's probably a good bit slower.
Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing
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#62Who else needs to share files bigger than 1 TB? Most cloud services, such as Google Drive or OneDrive, are more than sufficient for managing massive files. I don't see the appeal of this new service.
It would save you the time to upload first, effectively halving the time required.
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#63I wonder what tech stack they're using, given it supports all the major platforms. I like sendme [0] which uses iroh, a peer-to-peer library as well.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
So you run the app. The other person runs the app. How do those 2 programs find out about each other? Well, they need to use some server that will connect all users, allow you to find the other person in order to send them a file. Even BitTorrent needs tracker servers to connect downloaders to uploaders. Now, you could try to make it run without a company behind it, like BitTorrent. I guess it's an exercise for the r…
Universities, the Debian Foundation, Nvidia, the ccc, hell even Microsoft run magic-wormhole relays... the only thing new here is the subscription and the hipster gui client.
This is classic critique. Dropbox was criticized in the same way when it was announced years ago.
Magic Wormhole is cool (I just learned about it! Thanks! :)), but most people don't use nor care about the command line, and are probably afraid of it.
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#65I wonder how widely usable is file sharing nowadays when most of the non tech people just use cloud services for their data, be it google docs or some cloud photo storage
Most non-tech people do not just use cloud services for their data. Really not sure where you got that from, but even if it was true, most non-tech people will still shy away from putting a 250G file in a cloud service once they get prompted to upgrade their plan because they don't have enough space.
Cloud is kinda the default now. Most Americans just take pictures with their iPhones and it ends up in icloud.
Re: Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing
#66Free open source alternative: https://pairdrop.net
Magic Wormhole [1] also exists. [1] https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Syncthing [1] also exists
Re: Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing
#67Who else needs to share files bigger than 1 TB? Most cloud services, such as Google Drive or OneDrive, are more than sufficient for managing massive files. I don't see the appeal of this new service.
Oddly enough, I would argue the exact opposite direction; really big files are exactly where I want to do a direct p2p transfer without paying to store it in the cloud.
Re: Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing
#68Free open source alternative: https://pairdrop.net
There's also LocalSend, which I've found works the best for me personally and is a bit more polished than browser clients
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#69Re: Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing
#70Free open source alternative: https://pairdrop.net
There's also croc: https://github.com/schollz/croc