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Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely

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Re: Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely

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20MB/sec is 160Mbps, so wormhole wasn't that far off the 1Gbps. Sure not maxing out but within a factor of 6.

A factor of six is a very long way off, pretty much universally.

Not as far off as the casual reader might think 20MB vs 1Gb sounds way more than the actuall 160Mb vs 1Gb - one shouldn't use Bytes and bits in a direct comparison together. One or the other, otherwise it's misleading/confusing.

Re: Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely

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I'm assuming it won't be open-source? I don't really see why I would use a propietary/non FOSS version of this (magic wormhole). The great thing about magic wormhole is that the protocol is open, and anyone could implement it for themselve. For example there is the reference implementation in python, then there are implementations golang, rust and haskell. Flutter bindings so you can use it in flutter. Multiple GUI i…

Hey. We are not planning to open source it, but who knows what the future might bring. I too love and appreciate open protocols and tools, heck, I also tend to gravitate towards that by default as well, but when something better comes up that's not open source and I can use it better/easier, I do. We'll release a CLI for Windows, macOS and Linux which will easy to use and flexible/scriptable so you could use that to…

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Re: Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely

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Got fixed pretty thoroughly though, it seems! https://schollz.com/tinker/croc9/

I found this quite uncomfortable to read because of the complete lack of capitalisation - it's a very odd choice.

Definitely. Who writes like that and expects to be taken seriously?

Re: Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely

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> For some more exotic testing, I was able to run my own magic wormhole relay[1], which let me tweak some things for faster/more reliable huge file copies. The lack of improvement in these tools is pretty devastating. There was a flurry of activity around PAKEs like 6 years ago now, but we're still missing: * reliable hole punching so you don't need a slow relay server * multiple simultaneous TCP streams (or a carefu…

20MB/sec is 160Mbps, so wormhole wasn't that far off the 1Gbps. Sure not maxing out but within a factor of 6.

If you sit down and need to wait one hour for one and 6 hours for the other to do the same thing I doubt you would say they are 'not that far off'

Re: Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely

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I'm inexperienced and I see a lot of posts like this where open-source that's seemingly loved by the community just don't get the support that they seem to need to survive for a long time.

Why aren't people who know about this and hold important positions doing something about the ecosystem? What can people with no experience but care do to ensure the longevity of open source tools like this?

Re: Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely

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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.

Variance in accuracy of this statement also safely within one order of magnitude

Re: Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely

#218

A similar project with some nice features that I use is croc: https://github.com/schollz/croc

I've used https://file.pizza a bunch before, only because of the memorable name

It hasn’t been working for me for years, but somehow I always end up there when I need to transfer a large file. It’s just so easy to remember the name and url!

Re: Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely

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There are a few others p2pcopy https://github.com/psantosl/p2pcopy pcp https://github.com/dennis-tra/pcp wormhole-william https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william

And more https://github.com/mat-sz/filedrop https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole https://github.com/schollz/croc https://github.com/dutchcoders/transfer.sh https://github.com/timvisee/send https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/pairdrop https://github.com/SnapDrop/snapdrop

I was going to say SnapDrop was discontinued but I see it is back again thanks for the reminder this must be the third or fourth time I have thought they pulled the plug and see it get fixed back to normal bravo developers !!
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