You have some web page material in English, and some material in either Spanish or Portuguese. You might want to check everything twice before posting on HN.
I built a browser-based P2P file transfer tool using WebRTC
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#12You have some web page material in English, and some material in either Spanish or Portuguese. You might want to check everything twice before posting on HN.
Not the poster but I had to go check the website to see this. I believe it is in Spanish. It makes me pretty happy to realize that even though I have had little or no conversations with Spanish speakers for about 30 years I was able to understand the untranslated text. There is so much that clicked once I had the context through the words that I recognized. The rest of it began to make sense. Thanks for that mental e…
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#13What happens when TURN is inevitably needed? Many people are behind something like CG or symmetrical NAT with no direct way to talk to each other. There are no reliable, fast AND free TURN servers (IMO), and even semi-private relays can quickly become overwhelmed or too costly to operate.
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#17But i just tried it in zen browser on fedora 44 and the system hard locked up. I guess I could try chromium next time.
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#19https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/fd6e275e44009b72f64d0570... I keep a handy list. Does this stream file directly to disc or keep it in browser cache or memory? In this list I think only web wormhole does that which means it should be able to transfer huge files without any problem. Most tools crash if files are in GBs.
So many of these tools just silently fail. And there's so many of them!
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#20https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/fd6e275e44009b72f64d0570... I keep a handy list. Does this stream file directly to disc or keep it in browser cache or memory? In this list I think only web wormhole does that which means it should be able to transfer huge files without any problem. Most tools crash if files are in GBs.