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Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

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

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Post by 3036e4 »

MostlyStable wrote: post #34
visil wrote: post #5

Absolutely amazing piece of software, the kind that makes you wish you had a use-case for that. Kudos to devs for taking security seriously, too. By the way, the youtube video showcases this project really well.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but wouldn't this work great (albeit huge overkill) for the extremely common problem of trying to get files from one device to another (especially when one of those devices is a phone)? I see tools that are supposed to do that posted to HN all the time, with the comments usually pointing out one or another problem with any given utility. This seems like it would be pretty great s…

Termux and python -m http.server. I use that embarrassingly often, except for cases where I can just use scp or rsync (e.g. between two Android devices that both have Termux installed and I have bothered to copy the public ssh key from one to the other).

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

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Post by amlib »

bsenftner wrote: post #53

Is anyone else have their antivirus alarms go off on visiting this repo's URL?

The main distribution file for this project consists of a python file that embeds multiple python files inside itself encoded as a binary bitstream in a bespoke archive format attached to the end of the file. Maybe this is triggering your AV heuristics?

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

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Post by adityamwagh »

I also like SendMe [0]. I’ve used it to share files between local PC and server sometimes. And also to send large files to friends without cloud links. It’s written in Rust and based on iroh p2p library [1].

[0]: https://github.com/n0-computer/sendme

[1]: https://www.iroh.computer/

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

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Post by ssernikk »

brewtide wrote: post #66
MostlyStable wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but wouldn't this work great (albeit huge overkill) for the extremely common problem of trying to get files from one device to another (especially when one of those devices is a phone)? I see tools that are supposed to do that posted to HN all the time, with the comments usually pointing out one or another problem with any given utility. This seems like it would be pretty great s…

If you have not tried "localsend" I would highly recommend.

There is also https://pairdrop.net - same thing, but you don't have to download anything, it works on the web.

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

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Post by megablast »

paulryanrogers wrote: post #33
nkrisc wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's very impressive, particularly if you remember waking up to a failed download from the night before over dial-up.

I recall we had special apps to queue and schedule our downloads, and resume them where servers supported it. They were a dream compared to the boredom of staring at progress bars.

Getright!

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

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Post by pluto_modadic »

paxys wrote: post #21
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…

Sounds like...BitTorrent.

bittorrent needs to know the complete file at the beginning to make the pieces. This tool doesn't need to know the complete file to start the upload, nor the download...

IIRC webtorrent /can/ do streaming though....

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

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Post by eadmund »

From https://github.com/9001/copyparty/blob/hovudstraum/docs/vers... (kudos for doing this, BTW!):

> seafile … and nextcloud … their license is problematic

There’s nothing problematic about the AGPL, really. It protects users. It protects developers against someone taking over their projects. The only people it bothers are those who wish to take a free software project and integrate with an unfree one. That seems like a feature to me!

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