Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

Post by noman-land » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 7:59 PM UTC

leobuskin wrote: post #37

9029 wrote: post #17

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I wonder if cosmopolitan libc[0] could be leveraged to create an actually portable executable™ without a rewrite, looks like someone has figured out compiling python 3.11.4 with it[1] [0] https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan [1] https://ahgamut.github.io/2021/07/13/ape-python/

I have a small/insane project of mine, I wrote a compiler for Python (strict and static subset only) to WebAssembly (bc-to-bc approach, 1:1 CPython compat due to walking internals), than I do wasm2c to sandbox it + pledge and compiling with cosmopolitan into a miniature standalone thing (fast as hell). Just because you have zero dependencies and it's a pure Python and properly typed, lemme try next weekend as PoC. No…

Post by wintermutestwin » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 8:02 PM UTC

MostlyStable wrote: post #34

visil wrote: post #5

Absolutely amazing piece of software, the kind that makes you wish you had a use-case for that. Kudos to devs for taking security seriously, too. By the way, the youtube video showcases this project really well.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but wouldn't this work great (albeit huge overkill) for the extremely common problem of trying to get files from one device to another (especially when one of those devices is a phone)? I see tools that are supposed to do that posted to HN all the time, with the comments usually pointing out one or another problem with any given utility. This seems like it would be pretty great s…

Post by dang » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 8:08 PM UTC

neuroelectron wrote: post #22

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Post by ZeWaka » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 8:19 PM UTC

wintermutestwin wrote: post #63

MostlyStable wrote: post #34

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Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but wouldn't this work great (albeit huge overkill) for the extremely common problem of trying to get files from one device to another (especially when one of those devices is a phone)? I see tools that are supposed to do that posted to HN all the time, with the comments usually pointing out one or another problem with any given utility. This seems like it would be pretty great s…

?? Airdrop works well.

Post by tripdout » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 8:39 PM UTC

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.