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I realize this is a dumb question, but what's a good way to do this between an iPhone and a MacBook? Airdrop is disabled (by policy), iCloud storage is full (because I'm lazy), and I use syncthing on every other device, but I haven't found a client I can use on my work iPhone.
https://mobiussync.com/
But getting iOS to sync was a pain. Still, now it works just fine.
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^ found the astronomer
I (Electrical + Software Engineer) once worked for a physicist who believed that anything less than an order of magnitude was merely an engineering problem. He was usually correct.
I've used wormhole once to move a 70 GB file. Couldn't possibly do that before. And yes, I know I used the bandwidth of the relay server, I donated to Debian immediately afterwards (they run the relay for the version in the apt package).
(magic-wormhole author here) Thanks for making a donation! I run the relay server, but the Debian maintainer agreed to bake an alternate hostname into the packaged versions (a CNAME for the same address that the upstream git code uses), so we could change it easily if the cost ever got to be a burden. It hasn't been a problem so far, it moves 10-15 TB per month, but shares a bandwidth pool with other servers I'm rent…
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I wonder what it would take for AWS to lower their outbound BW pricing to something that's not insane. I'm beginning to think that the only feasible solution is changing the law.
I'm suffering from fatigue from all the political commercials in which every single Democrat apparently single-handedly reduced the price of insulin. As if government-mandated pricing were a good thing. If something is overpriced, somebody should jump in and take advantage of a business opportunity. If nobody is jumping in, perhaps the item is not overpriced. Or perhaps there is some systemic issue preventing willing…
I realize this is a dumb question, but what's a good way to do this between an iPhone and a MacBook? Airdrop is disabled (by policy), iCloud storage is full (because I'm lazy), and I use syncthing on every other device, but I haven't found a client I can use on my work iPhone.
I've used wormhole once to move a 70 GB file. Couldn't possibly do that before. And yes, I know I used the bandwidth of the relay server, I donated to Debian immediately afterwards (they run the relay for the version in the apt package).
It took this far down in the comments to get to some inkling of the meat of this. It relys on some singular or small set of donated servers? NAT NAT traversal is obviously the biggest motivator, since otherwise you just scp or rsync or sftp if you don't have the dual barrier. Is the relay server configurable? Seemed to be implied it is somewhat hardcoded.
All of them require an account on the other machine and aren't really suitable for quick transfer one-off file transfer from one computer to another that you don't own.
If I have a direct network connection I tend to go with:
python3 -m http.server
tar ...| nc
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There are two servers. The "mailbox server" helps with handshakes and metadata transfers, and is super-low bandwidth, a few hundred bytes per connection. The "transit relay helper" is the one that handles the bulk data transfer iff the two sides were unable to establish a direct connection. I've been meaning to find the time to add NAT-hole-punching for years, but haven't managed it yet. We'd use the mailbox server m…
The folks on the wormhole-rs fork (who appear to share your Github organization? [1]) already have NAT punching working 95+% of the time in my testing, so maybe what they're doing could be ported over to the Python implementation. [1] https://github.com/magic-wormhole
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You cant make a p2p connection over a NAT without exposing a port on the public side of the NAT.
Go check out STUN and ICE. The best article I've found about NAT traversal is this article from Tailscale: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works