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

#91

This 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…

This is great stuff.

The only thing I'd like is some way to run it behind a cgnat. I was on starlink and I'm on an 5g device now.

If there was a way to integrate with Google drive mega Dropbox, githubs etc where I could drop a file list request document one of those services, and your server is pinging that (intermediate) storage service, detects the file listing request or file push request, or file upload request doc, and then does it.

I know each of those is an integration headache but man that would be useful.

Ok so GitHub has a built in markdown editor, so the request docs could be markdown templates. Or maybe static html/js files that generate markdown request docs, and file listing responses can be markdown or more static html docs.

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

#94

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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…

On the spectrum of illegality, things can get a lot more extreme than a bit of copyright infringement.

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

#95

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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…

This is great stuff. The only thing I'd like is some way to run it behind a cgnat. I was on starlink and I'm on an 5g device now. If there was a way to integrate with Google drive mega Dropbox, githubs etc where I could drop a file list request document one of those services, and your server is pinging that (intermediate) storage service, detects the file listing request or file push request, or file upload request d…

Does magic-wormhole work from behind CGNAT?

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

#96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

This is great stuff. The only thing I'd like is some way to run it behind a cgnat. I was on starlink and I'm on an 5g device now. If there was a way to integrate with Google drive mega Dropbox, githubs etc where I could drop a file list request document one of those services, and your server is pinging that (intermediate) storage service, detects the file listing request or file push request, or file upload request d…

Why don't you relay traffic through another node on say AWS or Hetzner using Wireguard?

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

#97

In addition to being an awesome piece of software, their self hosted demo server is the fastest web app I have seen in a long time ... and this is while trending on HN ! Amazing. Now I am wondering, would it be technically possible to build a similar app but based on the syncthing protocol? I really like syncthing but it would be cool to have a version where you could just easily share specific files with peers.

Ohh that would be cool! Love syncthing but I wish the relay and discovery servers would be part of the same/main syncthing binary.

I've also seen quite a few semi-technical youtubers make videos about it but not mentioning that it uses public relay and discovery servers usually by default (but maybe that depends on the distro). It's not a bad thing but something one should know before using it.

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

#99

Besides being useful, this just seems fun as heck after watching the demo video. I'm curious if folks have examples of other similarly fun/whimsical (but still useful!) software. I would submit https://fraidyc.at/ to the list.

I really like this idea; I’ve made crappy versions myself a few times…. Maybe this one will stick.

(For others, it’s a method to follow people across multiple services without being a normal feed. A person who updates only shows up once.)

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

#100

Half techie guy here with basic question. Could I run this on an old android phone sitting on a shelf with a large minisd card in the slot and call it a day?

Yeah, I'm fairly certain you could run it on an android device using termux.

You'll likely need to root the phone to get the OS not to kill the termux process due to idleness though.

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