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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?
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…
It's very impressive, particularly if you remember waking up to a failed download from the night before over dial-up.
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 lik…
Coincidentally, I started to do media server similar to this 3 days ago. I just want to serve any folder, then be able to download a file and watch videos with a decent video player. Now I feel like crap seeing how amazing this project is.
Don't let others stop you. Pretend you never saw it
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Anyone remember DAP, Download Accelerator Plus? The colorful bars were nice. A part of my childhood, downloading shareware Windows games through dial-up.
Some apps still do the same, eg: https://www.downthemall.net/ (also a great app to download everything you wanted from a site, regex selections, etc.) Makes several connections and downloads chunks in parallel, for some sites with limited upload (their, your download) speeds per session it really speeds up the downloads. Sadly, not much development recently (9 months ago was the last commit)
This is the wet dream of every power-user. It has tons of features on top of the file server. And it also seems developed by a 10x (100x?) developer, I mean, just making/editing the video is a work of art and humor. If the author is lurking here, are you doing all by yourself? Do you use any LLM/agent? It really is impressive.
Hey o/ Yup, this is 97% just me hacking away in vscode -- I use pylance and the debugger but have everything else disabled, easier to focus that way. The only time I use any sort of AI/LLM is for translating new strings into Chinese, since it seems decently capable at that :-) The remaining 2% is friends coming up with new usecases/features, and sometimes finding bugs. But now that the project got way more attention…
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.
I don’t think I’ve ever used a piece of software in my life that had no bugs. At least with no deps (vs say a nodejs project with 500 of them) then the bugs will only be in one place, the main software so ideally they can be fixed quickly.
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... well, I live in Canada - my understanding is that the maximum lifetime fine for copyright infringement is about $5,000 when files are shared for personal, non-commercial use... Which sounds like alot, but if we factor in the extended family and cross-media sharing and the number of separate streaming services we all subscribe to across many many years, then this is a "deal"... OTOH - I don't want to be the first…
On the spectrum of illegality, things can get a lot more extreme than a bit of copyright infringement.
So yeah - this is probably one of those half-baked ideas that just wouldn't be a good one to actually implement "in-the-wild".