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Is there a solution that doesn't require you to type out the tedious URL http://asxmi4q6i7pajg2b.onion/egg-cain http://asxmi4q6i7pajg2b.onion/egg-cain [1] for e

Is there a solution that doesn't require you to type out the tedious URL http://asxmi4q6i7pajg2b.onion/egg-cain http://asxmi4q6i7pajg2b.onion/egg-cain [1] for example, on your computer or your phone (when doing the reverse -- computer to phone) ? Sometimes its not even a file but a block of text that you want quickly transferred from your computer to your phone or vice-versa that shouldnt require the use of a third party service. I'm stunned to learn that there's really no such tool that lets you push URLs / Links / Text / GIFs / Screenshots between devices that you own & have on you. There's QPush which has a Chrome extension and an app but really nothing else close to what I describe. [2] [1] Onionshare - How to Use https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare/wiki https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare/wiki [2] QPush http://qpush.me/en/ http://qpush.me/en/

stefanpie 9y ago
What about Pushbullet. I've been using it for a while it seems to have meet a "good enough" requirement for me.
mirimir 9y ago
Well, if you have reachable public IPs, you can just SCP. Without reachable public IPs, you can setup Tor onions and OnionCat on both devices, and then SCP via OnionCat. Once you put the OnionCat /48 IPv6 in your hosts files, you just use hostnames.
yorwba 9y ago
For block-of-text transfer between computer and phone I use qrencode [1] to encode text on my computer as a QR code, Barcode Scanner [2] on my Android phone to read the text or generate a QR code from text on the phone, and QtQR [3] to scan a code on the phone screen using my laptop webcam. The QR code detection in QtQR is a bit uncomfortable (you need to press a key to confirm, while holding the phone into the camera) and requires me to set my phone screen to maximum brightness, but otherwise it works quite well. It doesn't really solve the problem for large files like images, but I have successfully used it with long HN comments I started on my phone but wanted to finish on my laptop. [1] https://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/ https://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/ There's a Debian package you can just apt-get install [2] https://f-droid.org/packages/com.google.zxing.client.android/ https://f-droid.org/packages/com.google.zxing.client.android... [3] https://launchpad.net/qr-tools https://launchpad.net/qr-tools

stefanpie 9y ago

What about Pushbullet. I've been using it for a while it seems to have meet a "good enough" requirement for me.

mirimir 9y ago

Well, if you have reachable public IPs, you can just SCP. Without reachable public IPs, you can setup Tor onions and OnionCat on both devices, and then SCP via OnionCat. Once you put the OnionCat /48 IPv6 in your hosts files, you just use hostnames.

yorwba 9y ago

For block-of-text transfer between computer and phone I use qrencode [1] to encode text on my computer as a QR code, Barcode Scanner [2] on my Android phone to read the text or generate a QR code from text on the phone, and QtQR [3] to scan a code on the phone screen using my laptop webcam. The QR code detection in QtQR is a bit uncomfortable (you need to press a key to confirm, while holding the phone into the camera) and requires me to set my phone screen to maximum brightness, but otherwise it works quite well. It doesn't really solve the problem for large files like images, but I have successfully used it with long HN comments I started on my phone but wanted to finish on my laptop. [1] https://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/ https://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/ There's a Debian package you can just apt-get install [2] https://f-droid.org/packages/com.google.zxing.client.android/ https://f-droid.org/packages/com.google.zxing.client.android... [3] https://launchpad.net/qr-tools https://launchpad.net/qr-tools