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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 globular-toast »

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.

The trouble is those special tools also needed downloading. So I could either sacrifice an evening's, ahem, download, or just chance it yet again. I eventually got an FTP client and it was like a superpower. BitTorrent was honestly more impressive to me than AI. Ah, the good old days.

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

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Post by snerbles »

bakugo wrote: post #28
angry_octet wrote: post #15

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.

If you're looking for security and stability, I would personally avoid this. I took a glance at the code and it's... not great. It's absolutely full of short, meaningless 1-2 letter variable and function names that make it very hard to read and understand if you're not the original author. Wouldn't be surprised if it's full of security holes that will never be found.

According to the author it was mostly written on the train with his phone, that could explain the terse naming.

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

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

Shank wrote: post #45

As someone who has tried and failed to upload 2gb files on mobile data, only for the upload to fail at the last minute, this genuinely makes me want to play with it. There aren’t a lot of good drop-in solutions like this.

FTP/SFTP support resuming file uploads

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

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Post by gknoy »

justusthane wrote: post #41
monkmartinez wrote: post #14

This is awesome. The readme is fun as heck and I just want to use the software based on that. I see nothing but complaints about nextcloud and others on r/selfhosted. I can't wait to try this out.

If you think the readme is fun, check out the demo video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0

You weren't kidding. I was amused by the humor in the first few minutes, but then I got to its showcase of what you can do, and am just even more blown away. They weren't kidding about doing _just about everything_ pretty well.

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

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Post by Datagenerator »

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.

The server that has moved countless Petabytes is glFTPd that allows FXP ( clients without bandwidth can initiate to transfer files from server to server ).

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

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Post by echelon_musk »

jjkaczor wrote: post #26
NKosmatos wrote: post #10

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And like most things nowadays, it would get filled with highly illegal content within hours of you putting it there. The good old (innocent) days are gone and the society we’re living is not mature/educated enough for such ideas.

As others have said - it would be standalone, not connected to the internet. Have debated making it "read-only", but then I would be culpable for the curation of content... That and perhaps I just don't want to encourage people loitering around in front of my house for long-transfers... OTOH - this could be useful for essentially a "dead-drop" independent standalone box for, uh... "civil disobedience" reasons... (or…

It would still be physically located on your property with potentially illegal content on it. Sounds like a nightmare.
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