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I'm not sure I see the point though? For 1-to-1 transfers, Magic Wormhole is the system to beat, and I struggle to imagine how it could be improved. https://g

I'm not sure I see the point though? For 1-to-1 transfers, Magic Wormhole is the system to beat, and I struggle to imagine how it could be improved. https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole

bccdee 5y ago
I really wish magic wormhole worked conveniently on windows without obliging me to install python and pip and such. It's my go-to when sftp isn't an option, but for sftp not to be an option almost always means that one of the computers I'm trying to transfer between is a windows box.
- samatman 5y ago
  That's reasonable, it's a great candidate for a rewrite in Go.
  - throwaway2556 5y ago
    It's already a thing: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william
    - synctext 5y ago
      Wormhole requirement: "the URL of a publicly-available Rendezvous Server" This means its not a self-sovereign system, like Bittorrent, GIT, and Bitcoin. Its no different then a central Napster server, the one that got dragged into court on November 1999. Scientists are still working on creating self-sovereign peer-to-peer systems. Its hard, but we're going to solve it in coming years. Scientific community: "International Workshop series on Distributed Infrastructure for Common Good", https://dicg2020.github.io/ https://dicg2020.github.io/ (disclaimer: involved scientist)
- throwaway2556 5y ago
  Magic Wormhole has a good implementation in Go. It has windows binary. https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william Windows binary: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william/releases/download/v1.0.5/wormhole-william-windows-386.exe https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william/releases/downlo... There's GUI: https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui Android app too: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile The author is on HN as psanford
  - bccdee 5y ago
    oh fantastic! thanks
oblio 5y ago
First time I hear about Magic Whatever™. Any modern download tool needs to be embedded into browsers and mobile OSes for it to have any chance these days. I haven't seen any regular user use a separate download tool or a download manager for a decade or more. Except for BitTorrent clients, but those aren't targeted at 1:1, of course :-)

bccdee 5y ago

I really wish magic wormhole worked conveniently on windows without obliging me to install python and pip and such. It's my go-to when sftp isn't an option, but for sftp not to be an option almost always means that one of the computers I'm trying to transfer between is a windows box.

samatman 5y ago
That's reasonable, it's a great candidate for a rewrite in Go.
- throwaway2556 5y ago
  It's already a thing: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william
  - synctext 5y ago
    Wormhole requirement: "the URL of a publicly-available Rendezvous Server" This means its not a self-sovereign system, like Bittorrent, GIT, and Bitcoin. Its no different then a central Napster server, the one that got dragged into court on November 1999. Scientists are still working on creating self-sovereign peer-to-peer systems. Its hard, but we're going to solve it in coming years. Scientific community: "International Workshop series on Distributed Infrastructure for Common Good", https://dicg2020.github.io/ https://dicg2020.github.io/ (disclaimer: involved scientist)
throwaway2556 5y ago
Magic Wormhole has a good implementation in Go. It has windows binary. https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william Windows binary: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william/releases/download/v1.0.5/wormhole-william-windows-386.exe https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william/releases/downlo... There's GUI: https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui Android app too: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile The author is on HN as psanford
- bccdee 5y ago
  oh fantastic! thanks

oblio 5y ago

First time I hear about Magic Whatever™. Any modern download tool needs to be embedded into browsers and mobile OSes for it to have any chance these days. I haven't seen any regular user use a separate download tool or a download manager for a decade or more. Except for BitTorrent clients, but those aren't targeted at 1:1, of course :-)