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Re: YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution

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Post by wadim »

martinbaun wrote: post #53
g_p wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

that's superb cool! Can you tell me what this feature is called?

https://docs.syncthing.net/users/untrusted.html

It's a setting you can find in the advanced tab of devices.

Re: YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution

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Post by feross »

theblazehen wrote: post #5
causi wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's unfortunately not FOSS, but I quite like https://wormhole.app/ - It's client side encrypted and P2P when possible

One of the two creators of https://wormhole.app here :)

Now that we’ve shifted our company’s focus to https://socket.dev, I’d love to open source Wormhole. I’m quite proud of the code - I’ve worked on P2P and file transfer systems for so so long that I think this might be some of the best code I’ve worked on.

It’s just a matter of finding the time, but I expect this will be open source eventually.

Re: YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution

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Post by mekster »

tamimio wrote: post #67
hacb wrote: post #60

I'm using LocalSend for local network sharing needs (typically stuff between my laptop and my phone). It works like a charm, and is really easy to use https://github.com/localsend/localsend

I did try a bunch of these peer-peer file sharing, the best ones the worked well are localsend and LANdrop, as I have a screen (basically a custom android tablet) in my car and I needed to send files without the car accessing any wifi, those two worked well. The others I tried that didn’t work well were: Arc, Sharedrop, pairdrop, and snapdrop.

SnapDrop was so buggy that the transfer speed was very slow, sometimes hitting the send button did nothing, and need to open browser on the target machine first and recently somehow it stopped working completely, I figured installing NextCloud client on my Android phone solved it easily to have the file arrive instantly without complications.

Re: YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution

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Post by IshKebab »

kjkjadksj wrote: post #44
causi wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Because the problem doesn’t exist. Non tech folk use stuff like imessage to send things and rarely deal with large files at all beyond images or video. That works fine for them. Tech people use proven existing tooling like rsync or ftp. The only market that exist for this I’d guess is resumeware which explains why these projects are all built then abandoned.

Tech people don't use rsync or FTP because those are terrible solutions. FTP is insecure and requires setting up a server. Rsync requires an account on both machines.

In my experience companies usually end up paying for a service that solves this problem for their employees. Yes really.

Anyway I would suggest using

https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

or RustDesk. RustDesk has a nice GUI and file transfer has a really nice two pane file explorer view but that is obviously not great for transferring files to people you don't fully trust.

Re: YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution

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Post by syeare »

teddyh wrote: post #84

Every time someone invents an actually effective method of person-to-person file transfer, it gets used for piracy and blocked and shunned.

The age of piracy has dawned upon us yet again! WHO wants to be paying $100+ every month to Disney+ Netflix Hulu etc. just to watch 1 or 2 shows on each service?? Who the hell wants to pay for a game that works worse and hurts the customers more than a deDRM'd, cracked version?

POWER TO THE PIRATES

Re: YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution

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Post by EduardoBautista »

syeare wrote: post #86
teddyh wrote: post #84

Every time someone invents an actually effective method of person-to-person file transfer, it gets used for piracy and blocked and shunned.

The age of piracy has dawned upon us yet again! WHO wants to be paying $100+ every month to Disney+ Netflix Hulu etc. just to watch 1 or 2 shows on each service?? Who the hell wants to pay for a game that works worse and hurts the customers more than a deDRM'd, cracked version? POWER TO THE PIRATES

I usually only have one active subscription at a time.

Re: YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution

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Post by paulryanrogers »

syeare wrote: post #86
teddyh wrote: post #84

Every time someone invents an actually effective method of person-to-person file transfer, it gets used for piracy and blocked and shunned.

The age of piracy has dawned upon us yet again! WHO wants to be paying $100+ every month to Disney+ Netflix Hulu etc. just to watch 1 or 2 shows on each service?? Who the hell wants to pay for a game that works worse and hurts the customers more than a deDRM'd, cracked version? POWER TO THE PIRATES

People who don't want to faff about with VPNs, BitTorrent, malware scanning, and the anxiety of never knowing if your gaming machine has been compromised or not.

Re: YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution

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Post by hirako2000 »

NoZebra120vClip wrote: post #77

Obligatory xkcd, of course: https://xkcd.com/949/

Sad reality.

For non sensitive data, ufile.io is the most decent drop app I could find. Been around for a while and am surprised they haven't yet spoiled it with dark patterns, removal of free tier, sold out.

For sensitive data, Google drive. Share.

For very sensitive data, encrypt, ufile.io, or Google drive. decrypt on the other end. Quite a pipeline but note that it paradoxally doesn't require a self hosted drop app.

Ipfs? Still not nearly as simple as via google drive, needs native app app running. Drains phone batteries, requires manual encryption for anything sensitive as file access can't be gated.

Blockchain? Except for tiny blobs, impossible.

a p2p app that use some open KPI for encryption would be great.

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