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Re: Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]

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Copyparty is an absolutely incredible tour-de-force and has an absolutely insane feature set. But if you want something rock solid that probably solves your actual problem, I'd recommend looking at rclone - specifically the 'rclone serve webdav' command.

I use rclone to give me command line access to Google Drive from Debian. What would be the use case for webdav via rclone? Usually a cloud service like this has a native way to perform file transfers from a browser.

Re: Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]

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post #38

Copyparty is an absolutely incredible tour-de-force and has an absolutely insane feature set. But if you want something rock solid that probably solves your actual problem, I'd recommend looking at rclone - specifically the 'rclone serve webdav' command.

I use rclone to give me command line access to Google Drive from Debian. What would be the use case for webdav via rclone? Usually a cloud service like this has a native way to perform file transfers from a browser.

Mac, Windows, and most Linux desktops all support webdav for mounting folders.

That means you can mount, natively on your desktop, anything rclone supports.

Re: Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]

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What I find coolest about Copyparty is how small of a footprint it has. My local Copyparty server uses 38mb of ram. I couldn't imagine a piece of software like it with as many features have such low ram consumption until I saw it.

Re: Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]

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> Works great over Tailscale/home lab setups

I think it's better to avoid commercial dependencies like Tailscale in a "home lab" setup if you can. You can set up a plain Wireguard tunnel and manage your own keys just fine at that kind of scale without some third part identity provider collecting your data.

Re: Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]

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> Works great over Tailscale/home lab setups I think it's better to avoid commercial dependencies like Tailscale in a "home lab" setup if you can. You can set up a plain Wireguard tunnel and manage your own keys just fine at that kind of scale without some third part identity provider collecting your data.

What about Headscale?

> Headscale is an open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server.

https://headscale.net/

Re: Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, a small correction regarding this... What I /meant/ to say in the video was that a lot of the INITIAL code was written this way, so the statement is mostly true for v0.2.3. Since then I've primarily been using vscodium (and recently zed) on my linux laptop, but I still tend to do quick prototyping on the phone when i get a bugreport or a sudden idea. That part of the video was recorded at 3am as I just wanted to…

Any reason you prefer zed to codium? I've been using codium with vim bindings for a while and am not really keeping up with the new hotness.

Microsoft has been making it harder to run their proprietary python plugin in vscodium, which I was relying on to provide hints from pyright. That's something I didn't want to deal with, so I just jumped ship.

There are some things I miss from codium, and I still capitulate back when editing files with nonstandard indentation because zed doesn't yet have autodetect for that, and also its git-staging / diff-view isn't as good yet, but aside from those it's a mostly alright experience.

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