Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server • Hacker News Board

Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

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Post by floam » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 3:46 PM UTC

skibz wrote: post #3

The author of this tool uploaded a YouTube video demonstrating it a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0 At one point in his demo, he uploads a file but terminates the upload more or less halfway. Then he begins downloading the file - which only progresses to the point it had been uploaded, and subsequently stalls indefinitely. And, finally, he finishes uploading the file (which gracefully resume…

“Race the beam”

That’s really cool. I’ve never seen that work before.

Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

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Post by pachouli-please » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 4:04 PM UTC

I pop this up at an annual lan party amongst friends and its always a hit. Easy to use, easy to run, jam-packed with features

Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

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Post by __bax » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 4:04 PM UTC

..and with RSS feeds, very smart!

Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

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Post by monkmartinez » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 4:09 PM UTC

This is awesome. The readme is fun as heck and I just want to use the software based on that. I see nothing but complaints about nextcloud and others on r/selfhosted. I can't wait to try this out.

Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

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Post by angry_octet » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 4:10 PM UTC

No deps is great, but what I'm looking for is no bugs, authentication and encryption. I want features turned off by default, configs tight as a drum.

Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

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Post by pkulak » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 4:15 PM UTC

NKosmatos wrote: post #10

jjkaczor wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heh... I have one... have always wanted to make a little solar-powered "library" on my front-lawn... (You know, like the neighbourhood "take-a-book, leave-a-book" little libraries, except for... digital content... It would fly an appropriate "skull + crossbones" flag...)

And like most things nowadays, it would get filled with highly illegal content within hours of you putting it there. The good old (innocent) days are gone and the society we’re living is not mature/educated enough for such ideas.

I don't think the idea is to put it on the global internet; just make it broadcast a wifi SSID.

Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

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Post by 9029 » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 4:18 PM UTC

aredox wrote: post #2

I saw "Python" and was going to comment a completely stand-alone* executable would be simpler, and then I scrolled and holy moly , there are a lot of features there! It would be quite some work to redo it in another lang. *It already has no deps Great job there. A nice tool you've made. Edit: already adressed: https://github.com/9001/copyparty?tab=readme-ov-file#copypar...

I wonder if cosmopolitan libc[0] could be leveraged to create an actually portable executable™ without a rewrite, looks like someone has figured out compiling python 3.11.4 with it[1]

[0] https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

[1] https://ahgamut.github.io/2021/07/13/ape-python/