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[–] 34 points 2 years ago (4 children)
  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Didn't know about that one. Why, there's no objection in adding more to the collection right here. 😊

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm definitely here for more alternatives as well (and because I haven't yet figured out how to save a post without commenting)

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  • [+] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I can't find anything on that site that talks about how it works. That's disappointing.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Me and a buddy just set up syncthing and use that when we need to do this and don't want in third parties involved. Turn it off when you are done.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I use resilio sync across my work and personal phones and I use it to backup my phones to my nas. No need to turn it on/off, it's accessible only via secret key or shared link and it's encrypted.

    I know sync isn't foss but it's the best one I've found over the years and it just works.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    What's the advantage over syncthing?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    It's a bit more consumer focused, easier for Grandma kind of thing. Syncthing isn't hard, but does have in my opinion a bit more difficult of an initial setup with features like introducers that can make things difficult if configured wrong.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No love for SwissTransfer from Infomaniak. Shame.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    I do:

    • Wormhole.app: for smaller file transfers to people not tech savvy
    • Rsync: if the person is running an SSH server I can connect to
    • Bittorrent: pretty much anything else
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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There's croc which looks very similar to magic-wormhole. Haven't used magic-wormhole so can't compare the two though.

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  • [+] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
    [–] 7 points 2 years ago*

    I'm surprised Magic Wormhole wasn't on here. There's a gnome app for it called Warp and several android apps, all FOSS.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Wormhole ftw

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    I never see toffeeshare mentioned. P2P, encrypted, no size limit. Only problem is you can't send folders, only files, but that's easily solved with tarballs or RARs.

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Anyone have any objections or anything negative to say about snapdrop(dot)net besides maybe anyone on the same network could try to connect to you?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    snapdrop.net seems to go down all the time, I stopped using it a while ago and switched to LocalSend

    neither of them work over the internet though so they don't really fit the article

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    If your swiss, just use swisstransfer.com. it's fast, supports up to 50gb of data, 500 transfers per day (and free!), more than you'll ever need. Although for security, they do say your filles are sent over https, but because they do not promote encryption I suppose they don't support that (although they do support password protected files).

    So yeah, it's usually more than enough for most use cases, although I'd encrypt my files before sending them if they contain sensitive data, but that's rarely the case.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Why isn't syncthing there? Is there something bad with it I'm not aware of amor are they just not aware of it?

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    Interesting to see wormhole mentioned as non open source. The protocol and its CLI tools are, probably the web interface and GUIs are not

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    VPN server and any NAS or other network file share.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    @petsoi
    none of the four
    I only use:
    https://drive.proton.me/
    easy, secured, no need to have a proton account for others, links can be time limited
    #protondrive #proton #teamProton

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  • [–] -5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Soulseek never stopped working.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Secure though? Is it end-to-end encrypted?

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    hahahahahahahahahahahahaha... no.

    but it does allow you to only share your files with a specific other user.

    however, it's explicitly not secure. It's literally from the Kazaa era of file transfer apps.

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