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I even made a community for that! https://www.codeshelter.co/ It's abandoned, though.
Haha taking the long play to the punchline!
I've been setting this joke up for five years!
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#32I recently started using SyncThing, it seems just perfect to share between two people. Maybe I'll put it on a server as well so we can sync without being online.
It's definitely pretty nice, but the ergonomics of it for someone that's not that good with computers can be a little hard. I've gotten synced folders into bad states before that took a long time to fix. It's also kinda awkward having to send over a nominally private and very long ID string to set up the share in the first place.
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#33I recently started using SyncThing, it seems just perfect to share between two people. Maybe I'll put it on a server as well so we can sync without being online.
One convenient feature if you run a third instance on a server is that you can "distrust" the server by encrypting the files you sync (this is done at share level), then only entering the decryption password on the trusted end devices. That way plaintext file content doesn't sit on the server.
It's worth checking exactly what is encrypted as I don't think folder and file structure and names were encrypted.
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#34For one off for technical folks on both ends I like the magic-wormhole cli tool. https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
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I've seen probably four or five different brilliant file transfer solutions that totally solved the person to person file transfer problem posted to HN and every dang one of them was shut down or abandoned.
For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.
That sounds like a whole lot of effort. Just buy iCloud.
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I've seen probably four or five different brilliant file transfer solutions that totally solved the person to person file transfer problem posted to HN and every dang one of them was shut down or abandoned.
I can recommend PicoShare which I've been self-hosting for a while. It's a couple of years old now and still maintained. Also, it's very simple and allows for guests too. https://github.com/mtlynch/picoshare
So do guests need an account?
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PairDrop works: https://pairdrop.net/ https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop Other alternatives: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38915909
I've been using Send, which I really like: https://github.com/timvisee/send
Oh cool, I didn't realize Firefox Send has survived via a community fork. No commits in 7 months though, that's a bit long...
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I've seen probably four or five different brilliant file transfer solutions that totally solved the person to person file transfer problem posted to HN and every dang one of them was shut down or abandoned.
We use PsiTransfer [1] in docker. Recently updated, so not abandonware. Serves our needs really well. [1] https://github.com/psi-4ward/psitransfer
Has recent commits, but last release 2022-11-14.
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I've been using Send, which I really like: https://github.com/timvisee/send
Oh cool, I didn't realize Firefox Send has survived via a community fork. No commits in 7 months though, that's a bit long...
Yes but it doesn't need more commits I guess, it does what it does very well.
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How do you like Send and is it still maintained? I also use Nextcloud but use the Floccus browser extension to sync bookmarks to Nextcloud. Works well when it works.
I really like Send, I'm not sure it's still maintained, but it works well, so I don't know what there is to maintain. It comes with a cli utility as well. https://github.com/timvisee/send
There's almost always security issues to maintain. Software is never "done".