From the introductory video: "There is no telemetry and their never will be. Not even an auto-updater". And yet this is one of the most feature-full projects I've ever seen. Brilliant.
Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
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Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
... well, I live in Canada - my understanding is that the maximum lifetime fine for copyright infringement is about $5,000 when files are shared for personal, non-commercial use...
Which sounds like alot, but if we factor in the extended family and cross-media sharing and the number of separate streaming services we all subscribe to across many many years, then this is a "deal"...
OTOH - I don't want to be the first case/person to help determine what precedent will be set if something actually gets taken to the end-state statutory damages..
Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
#83This is amazing, just amazing. I'm sure this fills important use-cases in my personal projects.
Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
#84The author of this tool uploaded a YouTube video demonstrating it a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0 At one point in his demo, he uploads a file but terminates the upload more or less halfway. Then he begins downloading the file - which only progresses to the point it had been uploaded, and subsequently stalls indefinitely. And, finally, he finishes uploading the file (which gracefully resume…
You might like NNCP which was written precisely to support severely constrained or even cut down down networks.
Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 ).
That’s a built-in feature of FTP that doesn’t require server support.
Edit: Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_eXchange_Protocol#Technic...
1. You connect to servers A and B.
2. Tell B to receive a PASV transfer. It replies with the IP address and port it's receiving on.
3. Tell A to send to that address and port.
This is documented in RFC 959, starting with
"In another situation a user might wish to transfer files between two hosts, neither of which is a local host."Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
#86This is the wet dream of every power-user. It has tons of features on top of the file server. And it also seems developed by a 10x (100x?) developer, I mean, just making/editing the video is a work of art and humor. If the author is lurking here, are you doing all by yourself? Do you use any LLM/agent? It really is impressive.
Hey o/
Yup, this is 97% just me hacking away in vscode -- I use pylance and the debugger but have everything else disabled, easier to focus that way. The only time I use any sort of AI/LLM is for translating new strings into Chinese, since it seems decently capable at that :-)
The remaining 2% is friends coming up with new usecases/features, and sometimes finding bugs.
But now that the project got way more attention than I'd anticipated, pullrequests have started appearing, so it doesn't look like those statistics will stay true for much longer! Really cool having more eyes on it spotting the things I overlooked, really enjoying that.
Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Check this out. This was at one point one of the cheapest and smallest Linux computers around. It’s USB powered and this project turns a WiFi device designed to share photos from an SD card over a standalone SSID into a male USB A powered miniature SBC. (Edit: okay it’s two PCBs technically)
https://github.com/Emeryth/openwrt-zsun
https://wiki.hackerspace.pl/projects:zsun-wifi-card-reader
I got them in bulk from China for ~$6 each.
Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
#88Is anyone else have their antivirus alarms go off on visiting this repo's URL?
This made me laugh and now I feel bad. Somehow I didn't expect HN users to be using antivirus software.
When your corporate overlords insist on such things, one runs such things. And then some sites throw alarms.
Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
#89The author of this tool uploaded a YouTube video demonstrating it a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0 At one point in his demo, he uploads a file but terminates the upload more or less halfway. Then he begins downloading the file - which only progresses to the point it had been uploaded, and subsequently stalls indefinitely. And, finally, he finishes uploading the file (which gracefully resume…
It would be even more impressive if he rebooted the server in the meantime.
Re: Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
#90Coincidentally, I started to do media server similar to this 3 days ago.
I just want to serve any folder, then be able to download a file and watch videos with a decent video player.
Now I feel like crap seeing how amazing this project is.